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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] CatMan8:
Thanks, I did. Also, TheSt33v thanks again for the guide!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] NepoRood:
Good Guide, thanks TheSt33v!

One thing I noticed last night and wanted to point out:

TWRP will install SuperSU for you right at the beginning. After flashing TWRP, reboot the bootloader

with fastboot, select "Recovery" then push Power on the phone to enter the menu.

After swiping right for the "Write Permission", select "Reboot", TWRP will give you another notification that

the phone is not rooted, and asks to install SuperSU. Swipe right again to accept, it installs it and then

boots up the phone.

After it's booted, go to the App Drawer, tap the SuperSU icon, and it'll tell you to install the app manager.

Tap the Play Store option and it'll take you straight to it, tap Update, then Open. Update the binary's by

tapping Normal, and everything is set.

All of the above took about 90 seconds or so after the phone booted, took me longer to type it, lol.

Thanks Again,

Nepo
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
That's true. I didn't use that as my SuperSU install method because I figured that the version of SuperSU bundled with TWRP was probably obsolete, and I wanted to give people the most recent, stable version. But I guess that doesn't matter since it's easily updatable once you boot into the OS. I'm going to keep my guide as-is though. I think it's better if people start to learn how to use TWRP.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] NepoRood:
I wasn't suggesting an alteration, lol, I just wanted to point it out.

For those like me, that read an entire thread before taking action.

Your current guide is great, I went through it without a hitch
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mtor9477:
How to obtain Free WiFi Hotspot?

Hello all, I've recently rooted my Turbo for the main reason to obtain/retain my free WiFi Hotspot I had on a previous device. I can't seem to find a way to do this on my Turbo. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
1. Open up a root browser such as Root Explorer.

2. Navigate to /system and open build.prop

3. Add the following line: net.tethering.noprovisioning=true

4. Reboot your phone.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mbarry55:
[MENTION=5901115]TheSt33v[/MENTION], I feel like this is an obvious question but I can do this to return to stock to sell the device, correct? I am unlocked and just looking for a stock unrooted solution, either via TWRP or RSD or whatever. Either I'm out of it or I missed the back to stock thread. I can just do this right?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
If you want to go back to stock everything, just do section 0 and nothing else. However, this will not re-lock the bootloader. If you re-lock the bootloader, and whoever you sell it to tries to unlock it, he/she will most likely brick the device.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mbarry55:
No i dont plan to relock bl I just want a stock rom or image to flash. Thanks
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mageus:
Is there a single command to flash the system, aside from flashing the individual sparsechunks? I'm on linux, so I need to type the commands in manually.

(Yes, I could convert the batch file to a linux executable, but I'd rather run the commands individually as a sanity check)

Also, are the oem fb_mode_set.clear commands really necessary?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
The only way that I know of to make it into a single command would be to merge the sparsechunks into a single image and flash that single image. This is fairly easy to do using a hex editor and a utility that I found, but the bookmark I made to the method is on my home computer. I'll post it when I get home from work if you still need it.

And no, those commands are not necessary when flashing manually.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
Found it. Here's the post that you want: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2749797&page=5

Read the OP and use the utility to merge sparsechunks 1-10 into one system.img. After that, read post 41 to remove the Motorola header and footer from the merged image. After that, you can flash the merged image in place of the sparsechunks with a simple fastboot flash system system.img.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mageus:
Steve, thanx for the info.

For anyone interested, oem fb_mode_set forces the phone to always reboot into the bootloader. It's a failsafe for installation procedures. oem fb_mode_clear resets this flag.

I figured the sparsechunks had metadata that had to be stripped. Too much bother. I ended up just running the commands manually. Wasn't a big deal, since I used the shell history to copy the commands. Happily running Computerfreek 5.1 unlocked!

Now the long wait for Marshmallow.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
What wait? Droid Turbo owners already have two custom Marshmallow ROMs to choose from.

CM13 and Resurrection Remix, both with Marshmallow.

[Moto MAXX XT1225 / Droid Turbo XT1254][PREVIEW] CyanogenMod 13.0

http://xdaforums.com/moto-maxx/orig-development/moto-maxx-xt1225-droid-turbo-xt1254-t3315912

[ROM][All Quark][6.x.x]Resurrection Remix [WIP]

http://xdaforums.com/moto-maxx/development/rom-resurrection-remix-t3316232

Lots of Droid Turbo owners are running them. ;)

Posted a couple of days ago. They are technically "preview" builds, but even even Droid Turbo users are helping the devs find any bugs.

"Official" builds by the same devs will probably be up in a couple of days.

Now, if you insist on stock Motorola, well that's on you. CM gave us Lollipop before Motorola and now Marshmallow before Motorola. Resurrection Remix has even more tweaks.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Latiken:
I think he means he's waiting for Motorola because he is running CF's ROM.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mageus:
Every CM ROM I've run on any phone has had radio issues. I briefly dropped into the CM 13 thread and saw some data and wifi issues. And no VOLTE?

Basically, wary of non-stock ROMS. If I get time I'll backup my CF install and give CM13 a try.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mng777777:
I've just spent a few days unlocking, flashing and getting my phone dialed the way I hoped it would have been a year ago. I want to thank you for all the help I found in this post and for your work getting us this far! I finally actually enjoy using this phone!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
The Verizon Quark variant (XT1254) is bootloader locked by demand of Verizon. The other Moto Quarks (XT1250, XT1225) are not. For those, you can get free bootloader unlock code from Motorola.

One of them, the U.S. Moto XT1250 is the clone of the Droid Turbo in every way -- same bands, same FCC ID -- except it does NOT have locked down bootloader (and it will even run on Verizon with a Verizon SIM card). Until Sunshine came along, the XT1250 was the "dev" version of the Droid Turbo XT1254. ;)

The other, the "international" XT1225, has more LTE and HSPA bands than the Droid Turbo XT1254. (I still own two of those.)

It's all in the research, before you buy.

Blame Verizon for locking down the bootloader. Thank Sunshine team for providing a solution -- since you did buy this phone.

Sent from my official open market LG US998 V30+
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kr12:
Hello guys,

I bought verizon motorola droid turbo xt1254 running on marshmallow from ebay like 6 months ago. It had some battery issues like dendrite (turning off at 27% etc.) However thats just old history. The problem is when i saw a post on xda saying that xt254 can be upgraded using sunshine. I downloaded it, didnt really do much with it, but once it shut down due to battery being 0%, it stuck in bootloop. Now the background is i had no recovery cwm/twrp installed, the bootloader is locked (as it says Device is LOCKED), and all i can do is flashing files. so right now im in this situation, and tried couple of time flashing some firmwares using fastboot, and all the time i get 2/3 files of the firmware flashed, the rest says this error message:

(bootloader) Invalid signed image (bootloader) Preflash validation failed

So as far as i concern is the fact that due to not having unlocked bootloader, it is not letting me install the "wrong" version of firmware. SO can anyone tell me which firmware should i use, and the link from where i get the perfect firmware i need to download? OR if i am wrong, what i am supposed to do now?

I cant upload picture (??) so this is all the info of my bootloader

Mobile Specs:

BL: moto-apq8084-70.96 )sha-b624508

Baseband: MDM9625_41.51.07.22.04R QUARK-CUST

Serial#: ZX1F24DNVV

CPU: APQ8084 ES1.1

Device is locked. Status COde: 0

ANy kind of help is so much appreciated. Thanks
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
You need to simply follow the instructions for removing initroot to solve the bootloop problem. You don't need to flash anything.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kr12:
How do I remove initroot?? :(
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
Instructions are in the initroot thread. Also, the reason sunshine hung for you is fine you didn't install magisk manager, as the instructions also indicate you must do.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] kr12:
So all I had to do was to press a damn zero in 3 seconds, CJ!!! (if u know what I mean)

I don't know how to finish thanking you!! Thanks a lot, man!!!@<3

---------- Post added at 02:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:18 AM ----------

Sorry for bugging everybody else! the mobile is finally on!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Terrieddie:
Help please

Help please , i have the MCG24.251-5-5 , and i've done all steps from Section 0, but when i execute the Flashall.bat , in the cmd window , after all proces says "Sendig system : Okay - Writing System: Failed" .... then i tun on my phone and it goes to brick .... i really need some help , please :crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Terrieddie:
Help please

Help please , i have the MCG24.251-5-5 , and i've done all steps from Section 0, but when i execute the Flashall.bat , in the cmd window , after all proces says "Sendig system : Okay - Writing System: Failed" .... then i tun on my phone and it goes to brick .... i really need some help , please
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
If you have -5-5, you should not have performed section 0. "If it says MCG24.251-5-5, you need to take an extra step to unlock your bootloader. I'll explain later. For now, just skip to section 1 of this guide." Section 0 is for flashing MCG24.251-5, which is an older firmware version that cannot be flashed over your newer version on a locked bootloader. You will need to repair your phone by reflashing MCG24.251-5-5. You can find that here: https://xdaforums.com/droid-turbo/development/fxz-official-stock-firmware-6-0-1-mcg24-t3569334

Once you've unbricked your phone, come back to this guide and continue from section 1.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GISJason420:
I'm in the process of doing this however would this let me successfully install TWRP afterwards as it wouldn't in the first place when it was still fairly a new stock rom on MCG24.251-5-5... Followed everything to the T had issues getting into TWRP and couldn't get back into stock unless running the rooting process from fastboot first.... I wonder if I would fare better results updating to the latest via ota? Sunshine did unlock the bootloader tho, just haven't had much luck getting TWRP running just the constant boot loop and unlocked bootloader warning, any input would be greatly appreciated so I can flash away and tinker with other roms. Attached is my device info.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
Once you are unlocked you need to remove the temproot per the temproot thread to get rid of the bootloops. Then you can flash twrp, etc.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
To get rid of the bootloader unlock warning, you need to flash a replacement bootloader graphic.

Any of these will get rid of the bootloader warning. Choice or ADB or TWRP flashable replacement graphics.

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=72047838&postcount=86

But first get rid of your temp root and install TWRP. That's more important.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GISJason420:
Finished all right before I went off to work! Thanks y'all for the awesome help and work on this site! It's now running nogurt ;)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
If your bootloader is unlocked, you can do whatever you want. If you want to downgrade to -5 and upgrade to -5-5 via OTA, knock yourself out. Did you enter the command described in section 1 step 9 exactly? The root method causes boot loops, and only performing this step will stop them no matter what you flash.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] GISJason420:
Awesome that's great to know! I've always tried to avoid downgrading cause that usually bricks **** left and right but ha as long ya got a good recovery and unlocked bootloader all is solid! I'm so glad they got this root method the last Droid Turbo I had was updated too far! I wasn't uninstalling cause that guide said not to while another user just said uninstall it and be able to flash TWRP. I believe I skipped that part cause the guide said not to uninstall, or was that another guide? I've been reading too many guides and thinking too hard lately SMH I could get past the boot loop into system just fine by rerunning the rooting app from a laptop and still couldn't flash TWRP even tho Sunshine had already unlocked the bootloader? Cause of that rooting exploit right? After I uninstalled I could flash TWRP just fine.That boot unlocked logo is annoying af I'm so ready to replace it :) I'd love the original Droid animation tho that'd be hard to find I betcha Thanks again!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
Not as hard as you might think. https://xdaforums.com/droid-turbo/themes-apps/stock-droid-turbo-boot-animation-sounds-t3268310

Nevermind. I thought you said original Droid Turbo. Yeah, I'm not sure where to get the OG Droid animation.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
I have a lot of that in my thread. Boot logos, boot animations, including original.

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3455341

See posts #2-#5.

Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] newbe1droidx:
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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Heider_AMPA:
Root and unlock bootloader

Hi,

First, excuse me because my english isn't very good. I'm Colombian.

However, i have a question...please help me with tolerance.

My phone is a Droid Turbo XT1254 (I would not be here if not so).

Version Android 6.0.1 --> I updated through "Software Update Assistant" of Verizon. Through OTA always showed error [24.81.5.en.US]. From 5.1 SU4TL-44 (Sunshine didn't can work despite of have SU4TL-44)

Finally i have in this moment --->Number of compilation [MCG24.251-5-5] with version of configuration [I15.MOT.XT1254.0] (just in case)

Patch of security of Android [1-jan-2017]

Version of band base [MDM9625_41.51.07.22.04R QUARK_CUST]

Version of system [24.91.5.quark_verizon.verizon.en.US]

Ok, the question is if this procedure will work in my case.

Thank you for your time and knowledge
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Heider_AMPA:
Bootloop [Fasboot]

Hi,

I again

I tried make Section 1- Step 8 and all good

but, the phone reboot enter into fastboot, i tried with the command fastboot oem config fsg-id "" from Minimal ADB and Fastboot and did'nt solve.

I didn´t enter in panic, however, i made wipe of cache and Wipe data/Factory Reset and nothing

the phone it stays the same, start in fastboot

.

help me please...

Appears in the screen Console[NULL]:null
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
fastboot oem config fsg-id " "

Note the space in between the quotes.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rangapsr:
Is there any possibility that sunshine will be free for our device? I understand that the developer has put in a lot of effort and hence monetized the app. But for older devices like us, can this be done for free. I bought my turbo for 100$ at ebay. If I could pitch-in an extra 25$ I would have taken galaxy S6. At least for older devices can sunshine be made free?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] mrkhigh:
It never has been yet...
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Exynos (not Snapdragon) Galaxy S6? Otherwise you still have bootloader lock, wouldn't you? (I don't remember which year Samsung started locking down all the U.S. Snapdragon variants.)

Also Quark still has much bigger battery than Galaxy S6. Quark has slightly bigger Samsung AMOLED display than Galaxy S6. Same amount of RAM. Both have Qi wireless charging. So, it's not clear the early 2015 Galaxy S6 is superior to the late 2014 cutting edge Quark. I sold a 2015 LG G4 I won in a contest to buy another Quark, even though the G4 had a slightly faster Snapdragon. The complete Quark feature set was better.

I hate to say this, but you should have come to XDA to research before you bought, and factored the $25 Sunshine into the purchase price?

Sent via open market LG US998 V30/V30+
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rangapsr:
It was a s6 active. I preferred that because of slightly better camera and water resistance.(with kids around).

Yes it was my bad that I didn't check the threads properly. I have had moto defy, atrix hd, G3 and within days I had them unlocked and used to try all the available roms. When I decided for droid turbo, I checked xda and saw that root is possible and custom roms are available. But didn't read the threads fully to find out it is via a paid app. My point is, at least for older devices (more than 3 years) it can be made free, to help the users who get them via swappa or refurbished ones.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Bumping this up because for some reason people keep posting in the OTHER thread that doesn't have the actual detailed instructions to unlock the Droid Turbo bootloader, install TWRP and root. Then they keep asking how to do it, when this thread is clearly visible. I don't understand. So, now it's at the top.

NO, there's no other way to unlock the 2014 Verizon Droid Turbo Bootloader except by using the paid Sunshine app. Please stop asking. Without Sunshine you would have NO way to unlock the bootloader, just like the owners of the 2015 Verizon Droid Turbo 2 (Kinzie) cannot unlock their bootloaders. With Sunshine you CAN unlock your bootloader, install TWRP and have permanent root -- plus access to all

the custom ROMs

.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mrpookie:
*****BUMP*****
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] drtweakllc:
Need a bit of help please. I have the Droid Turbo and rooted it 2 years ago with Sunshine and use BHB27's Oreo ROM, phone still works awesome. So I got this phone for my son. Went to root it, been a while since I did mine so I found this thread and tried following the directions. It has the MCG24.251-5-5 Build Number. Phone had Marshmallow 6.0.1, tried using Sunshine with the auto#initroot trick, it didn't work. The thread with the auto#initroot said I needed Magisk, so I tried to install it and when the img wrote to the phone it bricked my phone. After trying MANY things I finally got a stock Verizon Marshmallow ROM installed using RSDLite. The ROM I have installed is QUARK_VERIZON_6.0.1_MCG24.251-5-5_cid2_subsidy-DEFAULT_CFC.xml, at first it would only start to boot and show the android logo and vibrate, if I went into bootloader mode and used the auto#initroot file it would boot. But then I have no wi-fi and cannot enable wi-fi (the phone has no SIM card yet, was waiting to install Oreo before I got service on it). So since I cannot enable wi-fi I cannot get Sunshine to work. At least that's why I think Sunshine is not working. So now I can use the auto#initroot trick, boot the phone and when I run Sunshine the app starts and stays blank.

Is there anything you can think of that I can do? How can I get wireless working? Can I install a different Verizon ROM? It's getting frustrating, been working on this for 2 days. When I rooted my phone it was straightforward and I had no issues.

Thanks for any advice.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Maybe ask the Sunshine team for help on their website? You open a support ticket.

Problem also is auto#initroot changed from when we first started having to use it for Droid Turbo. Now it's been developed by the dev to be a "permanent" temporary root system, whereas in the beginning it was a novelty (root until reboot) -- which let Sunshine have more privileges to unlock the bootloader so you could get actual permanent root with TWRP.

Back then, you used auto#initroot just for temp root and did NOT use Magisk whatsoever UNTIL AFTER Droid Turbo bootloader unlock with Sunshine. Because Magisk interfered with Sunshine. Now, I don't know if that's the problem here or if things have changed in the last several months since I've been paying attention to the LG V30 forums. Sorry I don't have a complete answer but

1) ask the Sunshine team

2) try without Magisk?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Mrpookie:
Check these two posts:

To factory reset phone, should get radio (WiFi) working: https://xdaforums.com/droid-turbo/g...d-turbo-6-0-1-mcg24-251-t3639618/post76416418

And then to properly sunshine root: https://xdaforums.com/droid-turbo/g...d-turbo-6-0-1-mcg24-251-t3639618/post75531045
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] drtweakllc:
Thanks, I got it all straight. I was able to install a factory ROM via RSDLite (FYI, only version 6.24 work with Windows 10), then able to root with Sunshine. Something else that needs to be changed in the original post about rooting this device, you have to use the old version of Magisk that this post links to, I tried the latest version and that is when all the problems occurred. Thanks again for your help.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Touseef Khalid:
i follow the guide but MCG24.251-5 not flashed.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] rhcreed:
getting stuck in a bootloop after step 11, never see twrp load. have to get into bootloader and use initroot to reboot to get it out of the loop. stock droid turbo, used sunshine successfully, did a data wipe in fastboot, no joy..

Tried twrp flash from fastboot and app, both say successful, but bootloops upon attempting to boot into recovery.

Any suggestions about how to get into twrp?

thx..
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
1.) Remove temproot - fastboot oem config fsg-id " "

2.) Flash trwp then immediately boot into recovery using keys/onscreen menu
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] athoti:
Hi! After Section 2, step 10, I get a message in cmd: error: cannot load 'TWRP.img': No such file or directory. What am I doing wrong? I have downloaded TWRP file, renamed it and place it in C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot. If I reboot, I get a dead little greeny saying "no command"

Thanks!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
try fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img.img

--beaups
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] athoti:
Oh my! How dumb I was! Ok, I renamed it to TWRP and it goes through, but then when I select Recovery Mode and press Power Button it only shows for a split second the message "Warning Bootloader Unlocked... etc" and goes back to Fastboot info.

Any help really appreciated! Thanks beaups!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
Are you sure you flashed the correct TWRP? Did you remove the temproot? fastboot oem config fsg-id " "

(that's quote space quote at the end of the command)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] athoti:
The TWRP I downloaded from the link provided in the instructions, first post of this thread. If remove the temproot you mean using auto#initroot and selecting 0 within 3 seconds I did that. I also entered fastboot oem config fsg-id " " and next flashed the TWRP. I do get some messages "not found" but in the end "sending recovery" and "writing recovery" is OKAY and finished.

I still didn't have success with Recovery Mode and flashing TWRP. Thanks!