[Droid Turbo 2 General] ChazzMatt:
Bootloader unlock NOT possible with Droid Turbo 2. Verizon demands the bootloader stay locked down. Whereas the sibling Kinzie, the Moto X Force has easily unlocked bootloader with free code given by Motorola.

With Verizon phones you need an exploit that will work, to unlock their bootloaders.

Unless you absolutely need Verizon network, best to stay away from buying Verizon phones UNLESS you KNOW there's a bootloader unlock exploit -- like Sunshine. Even then, with exploits, it often depends on the version of firmware the phone has, whether the exploit works or not.

Just last week (July 2017) Sunshine unlocked the most recent version of Droid Turbo (Quark) firmware (released March 2017). So, for Droid Turbo users who had updated via OTA to most recent firmware (new owners buying used phones who don't know any better), they weren't able to unlock their bootloaders until now. Whereas if they had stayed on the firmware their phone came with, they could have unlocked immediately. But now Sunshine does work on all Droid Turbo (Quark) Verizon firmware from July 2015 until present day. That doesn't help you, owning a Droid Turbo 2 (Kinzie, the successor to Quark), but just telling you how this stuff works. Even when there's an exploit for Verizon phones, it's often a cat-and-mouse game between devs and Verizon as Verizon will immediately release a "security" update to block the exploit.

What you sure describing is for non-Verizon Motorola phones, where Motorola gladly gives a free bootloader unlock code. He asked for Droid Turbo 2.

With Verizon phones, they demand the bootloader stay locked on all their phones. Verizon even locked the bootloaders their Verizon-branded Google Pixel phones. (However you can buy Google Pixel straight from Google Play Store and it will work on Verizon, and have unlocked bootloader.) Verizon are control freaks who demand the bootloader stay locked down.

With Verizon phones, you have to wait for an exploit for bootloader unlock. For instance the Droid Turbo XT1254 (Quark) was unlocked by Sunshine team a year after release. Ever since then Verizon keeps releasing Security Updates to block the exploit, but Sunshine team finds a way around them. Just last week (July 2017) they found a way to unlock the March 2017 "security update".

Whereas, the Droid Turbo 2 (Kinzie) has never been bootloader unlocked. Unless you specifically need Verizon network, best to stay away from locked down Verizon phones.

The sibling Kinzie to the Droid Turbo 2, the Moto X Force, of course has easily unlocked bootloader. Since the phones are identical in specs (except for radio bands), they both share the same forum.

IF the Droid Turbo 2 bootloader is ever unlocked, then Droid Turbo 2 owners can share in all the dev goodies.

This is what happened with the Droid Turbo XT1254 (code name Quark). That bootloader was also locked, but the sibling Quark phones (Moto Turbo XT1225, U.S. Moto Maxx XT1250, "international" Moto Maxx XT1225) all had easily unlocked bootloaders. They had dev work from almost the beginning. CM12, CM12.1, CM13... and now even custom Nougat ROMs.

All the Quark phones all shared the same forum, but Droid Turbo owners got upset seeing all the dev work they couldn't have. They DEMANDED to XDA mods that the forums be split. Ironically, then LESS THAN TWO MONTHS LATER, Sunshine team found an exploit to unlock the Droid Turbo bootloader!

Suddenly all the Droid Turbo users wanted all that Quark dev work. :rolleyes: Official TWRP, custom ROMs, kernels... So, they had to go over to the Moto Maxx forum to get them! (Whereas if the forum hadn't been split, it would be right there!) To this day, it's still sort of a mess. There's TWO Quark forums -- and while all the Quark custom ROMS are completely compatible with all models, some are posted in the Droid Turbo forum but most are in the Moto Maxx forum (because that's where all the dev work was previously posted).

It's mostly the Droid Turbo owners who are hurt by this forum split, as many express surprise there's a TON of ROMs and even a custom kernel they didn't know about which work with their phone. As used Droid Turbos are sold on the re-sale markets worldwide, you get a lot of "newbies" who don't know the development history. They don't understand there's TWO XDA forums for them to get ROMs and kernels from.

This is why the Kinzie (Droid Turbo 2/Moto X Force) forum was never split, to prevent that kind of confusion. The mods here hoped the Droid Turbo 2 bootloader would be unlocked via exploit like the original Droid Turbo was.