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[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheDubsteppingNinja:
Are you certain that you have a Droid Turbo (xt1254) and not any other quark? All of them look the same and have the same specs except for the network bands. Some sellers might put on a back cover with the droid and verizon logo. The Droid Turbo has mainly U.S bands, it would be odd to see one in India....

If you have something other than a Droid Turbo, go to the Moto Maxx forum and flash a completely new rom if you haven't tried doing a factory reset. If you actually have a Droid Turbo then factory reset and clear the system cache, that's pretty much all you can do until a bootloader unlock method is out for the latest firmware.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Clear caches? Factory re-set?

Re-flash latest firmware via ADB?

Something is screwed up.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
I have seen some Droid Turbo. XT1254 phones show up in India on the second hand market. Because it's the 32GB versions are less expensive than the 64GB-only XT1225, even used. (I know 64GB Droid Turbo exists, but very few people bought them. Whereas there's a flood of the 32GB on the re-sale market.)

But yes India's official Quark version was the Moto Turbo XT1225, as they don't need CDMA bands but could use the extra LTE and HSPA bands the XT1225 offers over the XT1254/XT1250.

But good point, he could be confusing the Moto Turbo (XT1225) with the Moto Droid Turbo (XT1254).

Go into "About Phone". Tell us the MODEL NAME, and the FIRMWARE VERSION you are seeing, please.

If you know how to take a screenshot that would be helpful to post here.

By the way, there aren't really any more "new" Droid Turbos. They are either used or refurbished. It's entirely possible, the re-seller who refurbished it screwed up installing the firmware.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] drtweak:
[MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION] sent and email
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] donsleeq:
please is it possible to get root with kingroot and then flash twrp via flashify?

would that be possible
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Claps1775:
I have not heard good things about kingroot. All I know use sunshine. They are very helpful. Kingroot is like creeping Charlie. Your at all out war to get rid of it.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] donsleeq:
i really really dont have $25 to pay for sunshine code.. not that i dont like to support developers..i actually do.. but i really dont have the money.. this is the first phone i have actually bought with my hard earned money for an amount equivalent to $84 in my country.. and im just coming to find out i need to pay for root.. i have rooted and flashed alot of phones with custom roms, for myself and others .. and i never come across bootloader unlock that i had to pay for.. so after trying hard to get this money in about 3months.. finding out i had to pay for root and be able to flash just killed me.. that is why im looking for a way to do it without sunshine code please help ... :(:(:(:(
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
You won't be able to get permanent root until you unlock the bootloader. Blame Verizon. The other Quark phones -- XT1250 (exact clone of the XT1254), and the XT1225 -- have free bootloader unlock from Motorola.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Liger878:
Ignore
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] SWEVEX:
I have latest firmware with locked bootloader :(
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] biRonic:
I need assistance with getting TWRP installed.

I successfully used this same process before on my other Turbo. So, I know it works.

However, on this one, I'm getting stuck.

Sunshine unlocked it just fine.

However, once I get to the process for installing TWRP, it doesn't work.

I follow the steps, run the flash command, and I get this...

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

(bootloader) has-slot:recovery: not found

target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes

sending 'recovery' (12824 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.461s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.340s]

finished. total time: 0.833s

Then, when I send the reboot command, that works, but when I try to get into recovery, it's still stock recovery. :/

Can somebody help me troubleshoot this?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Here's the problem. You are probably rebooting the phone BEFORE locking in the TWRP installation. This negates your TWRP installation.

AFTER TWRP installation, you have to confirm the TWRP recovery/lock it in by booting to TWRP recovery FIRST from the bootloader screen, BEFORE rebooting the phone. While in TWRP, you also want to allow write access...

Post-installation, while still on the bootloader screen, use the volume buttons to arrow up through the menu to "recovery", use the power button to choose "recovery", boot to TWRP custom recovery. THEN, from TWRP custom recovery GUI you can reboot the phone and TWRP will stick.

BUT, if you "install" TWRP from bootloader screen and then immediately reboot the phone (without actually booting to TWRP first), you will not have TWRP recovery. You will still have stock recovery.

The instructions are in the OP:

SEE? After TWRP installation, you have to boot to TWRP first before rebooting your phone.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] biRonic:
Wow! Thanks, bud!!!

Ya...for some reason, even though this is the thread I followed before, this time, I followed instructions that included the direction to run the command 'fastboot reboot' immediately after running the flash command.

I tried it again by doing what you said, and it (of course) worked.

So, thanks a lot for saving me from my own stupidity. lol

:)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] biRonic:
One more question...

First, I have successfully completed this entire process (unlocked via Sunshine, installed TWRP via Fastboot, and rooted via TWRP).

Now, I want to do a factory data reset in order to sell this phone to somebody, and make sure all of my stuff is gone, and there are no lingering aspects that relate to me (or whatever).

So, can I do a FDR without losing root?

If not, can I do a FDR, and then just reroot the same way I just did via TWRP?

If not, is there another way?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] sd_shadow:
Factory reset doesn't change the /system,

Root files are in /system

Other than supersu app maybe in /data

But if that is the case, just reinstall supersu from play store
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] biRonic:
Thanks!

That's the refresher I needed. :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] LenAsh:
Thread cleaned.

This is not the place to debate when something (that the community finds invaluable) is ready or not. Nor is it the place to become somewhat unpleasant when things don't go entirely your way or happen in an instant.

Those people (whomever they are) who dedicate their own time for the benefit of others don't deserve, need or desire having demands made of them.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
All of you are in luck. Just released:

From [MENTION=2376614]jcase[/MENTION]:

[Root && Unlock] Droid Turbo 6.0.1 mcg24.251-5-5

https://xdaforums.com/droid-turbo/general/root-unlock-droid-turbo-6-0-1-mcg24-251-t3639618
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] KARIM9377:
[MENTION=3250376]ChazzMatt[/MENTION] thanks
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Claps1775:
Thank you.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] TheSt33v:
Guide updated for people on -5-5. Hopefully I got the instructions right. If someone sees something wrong, please let me know.

Also, -SuperSU -obsolete safetynet kernel patch +Magisk.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] jyazzie110:
:svetius:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] :
please tell me any other method of unlocking bootloader .

.

sunshine requires 25$ donation which i cannot pay in any way
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Do you mean you don't want to pay or you don't know how to pay? There's alternate ways of paying -- Paypal, Amazon gift card, Western Union money transfer (those exist in many, many countries).

Whereas if you just don't want to pay, sorry there's no other way to unlock the Verizon locked-down bootloader.

You have to factor Sunshine in when you buy a Verizon phone like this. Everyone knows Verizon locks down their bootloaders. You easily could have bought a non-Verizon Motorola phone -- even a "Quark" phone exactly like this, with easily unlocked bootloader. Quark =

Moto XT1254 (Droid Turbo),

Moto XT1250 (U.S. Moto Maxx),

Moto XT2225 (Moto Turbo, "international" Moto Maxx).

Motorola gives free unlock code to all those, EXCEPT for the Droid Turbo because Verizon demands the bootloader stay locked down. I own THREE of the Moto XT1225. Very easy to unlock. ;)

All the Quarks have the exact same specs, except for radio bands or internal storage (either 32GB/64GB). Only Verizon's XT1254 has the locked down bootloader. U.S. Moto Maxx XT1250 even has the exact same radio bands (including LTE band 13 used by Verizon, as well as CDMA bands). The XT1254 (Droid Turbo) and XT1250 (U.S. Moto Maxx) are exact clones of each other, with even the same FCC ID. Those two different model numbers only exists because Verizon wanted to pretend they had an "exclusive", but they never did. The XT1254 is really just a U.S. Moto Maxx XT1250, and the only thing exclusive about it is the locked down bootloader. The XT1225 ("international" Moto Maxx, but also sold under "Moto Turbo" name in India) has a slightly different mix of LTE bands (not LTE 13), but more LTE bands (LTE 5 and 17), plus even more HSPA bands than the U.S. models, but no CDMA.

So, if you insist on buying a phone like the Verizon Moto XT1254 (Droid Turbo), you have to say the REAL price is price + $25. Why do you think the phone was as cheap as it was? It's not the real final price.

The exploit Sunshine uses has been publicly discussed. If you know coding, you can build your own version of "Sunshine". But no other devs have done that out of respect for the Sunshine team. Without them, there would be no method of unlocking this bootloader. They not only unlocked it in November 2015, but have also kept up with the cat-and-mouse game with Verizon to KEEP it unlocked after all the bogus "security updates" Verizon has released over the past 1.5 years to stop Sunshine from working. :rolleyes: Sunshine has stayed in the game, so they deserve their due.

Other than that, all I can tell you is you have to research phones here on XDA before you buy them. What I just told you has been said over and over and over. You would have learned everything in 5 minutes of reading or even if you had asked this question here before you bought the phone.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] :
i dont need unlocked bootloader for installing custom recovery .

i am on MCG24.251-5-5 firmware version . I tried every single method of flashing stock firmware .

I firstly downloaded the kitkat version but then i heard i cannot downgrade to kitkat without unlocked bootloader .

Then i downloaded the MCG24.251-4 marshmallow but i still cannot flash it on locked bootloader .

Do you think i will be able to flash the exact MCG24.251-5-5 firmware on locked bootloader with RSDlite , mfastboot or any other method ???

Actually i haved played with my Droid and it bootloops sometimes . I just want to reflash a stock firmware .
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
So you do not want to permanently root or install TWRP custom recovery?

What do you want unlocked bootloader for then? :confused: Just to downgrade firmware? Wow, that's waste of an unlocked bootloader! I mean, yeah, you can downgrade firmware, but you might as well also root and have TWRP recovery (with at least one good saved backup). You can also flash modules to improve audio or even

update to latest Motorola camera

(which Motorola is only giving to phones getting official Nougat -- but thanks to XDA we can also have it). But you need root and TWRP.

MCG24.251-5-5 (which you have) is the latest, most recent stock firmware from March 2017. You aren't making any sense. You were already on the latest firmware, so why do you need to reflash stock firmware? OK, you sort of say you have messed up your phone trying to do stuff you shouldn't have done.

That's right, you can NOT downgrade to any lower firmware without unlocked bootloader. That's true for any Motorola phone. If you have messed up your phone trying to flash lower versions of firmware with a locked bootloader, yes you can use RSDLite or mfastboot to re-flash MCG24.251-5-5. Just make sure it IS MCG24.251-5-5 --, because the previous version of firmware to MCG24.251-5-5 was MCG24.251-5 (without the extra -5 on the end). Very easy to confuse the two if you are in a hurry.

If you ever do unlock the bootloader and wish to downgrade, you still can't just flash the other version of firmware. You have to omit "gpt.bin" from the flash commands, otherwise you will bootloop.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] :
Thanks Man :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] :
Current Version:-

Version To Download:-

This Will Work For Me ???
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Yes.

you can also download from here:

[FXZ] Official Stock Firmware 6.0.1 MCG24.251-5-5

https://xdaforums.com/droid-turbo/development/fxz-official-stock-firmware-6-0-1-mcg24-t3569334
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] :
Thanks .

I Will Flash It After Two Days Because I Am Of Out Of Home City Now .

Just Downloaded It With 4G Internet In 10 Minutes :p
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] LifeAsADroid:
Great write up, thanks for this.

Quick question (probably a stupid one) - after bootloader unlocked and TWRP installed, am I able to flash SuperSU instead of MagiskManager to gain root access if I wanted to go that route? I've had issues with MagiskManager in the past and would rather steer clear for now on a new (to me) phone.

Thanks! :good:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] :
You can flash SuperSU on an unlocked bootLoader . I have not unlocked my own droid turbo bootloader but i know that SuperSU can be flashed on any phone with unlocked bootloader . It sometimes show boot verification error if bootloader is locked and you flash it through bumped recovery (which is not available for motorola :( ) .
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Yes, but with Motorola Marshmallow you must FIRST flash a specific version of SuperSu for initial root and reboot. THEN, after that you can update to most recent stable version.

If you try to flash with most recent stable version SuperSu first, you will bootloop.

Here you go. Use the SuperSu attached to this post below. There's also a download link if you wish to download straight from Chainfire:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=70522598&postcount=521
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] MrGreenDisciple:
Step 2 Bootloop not stopping

I unlocked my phone using sunshine and it worked, afterwords my phone booted and showed the "Warning Bootloader Unlocked" banner, so i was set... except... when i load in fast boot and upload the TWRP file, once i select recovery mode it returns to the bootloop and continues to just show the prompt "Warning Bootloader Unlocked" over and over. Got any special commands or suggetions?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
You're saying this happened before you even installed TWRP?

How many of these steps below did you complete? Did you actually see the success message that TWRP was installed? I hate to quote this much of the OP, but there has to be a step or two you missed.

If I was betting -- and I may be completely wrong -- you didn't enable viewing Windows extensions, accidentally re-named your TWRP as TWRP.img.img (because you didn't see the .img extension already there, as you probably still have Windows extensions hidden).

So, TWRP didn't actually install, since you didn't flash the correct file name you had on your computer (TWRP.img.img). Possibly then you ignored the error message saying TWRP didn't install, and then tried to boot into TWRP recovery (which wasn't installed) and got the boot loop.

Again, I may be wrong, but look through these steps again. If TWRP was actually installed you wouldn't be getting a bootloop trying to go from bootloader screen to recovery screen.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] biRonic:
I know this is a stupid question (or...well...it shows that I'm stupid), but if you're willing to be gentle ( :LOL: )...

Does Magisk have to stay installed in order for the device to stay rooted?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
No, you can flash SuperSu for root. But for Motorola Marshmallow, you have to first flash a specific older version of SuperSu for initial root, before updating to the latest version. The version you need was attached to several posts in this thread, and previously was mentioned in the instructions.

Just search for SuperSu in this thread, and look for posts with my user name.

Magisk is just needed to hide root, for people who use apps that don't like you actually owning your own phone. There is also a systemless SuperSu which I think can work with Magisk... But since Magisk can hide root and also root, the OP removed all mention of SuperSu from the instructions since Magisk is an all-in-one solution to root/hide root. (His choice, which is his right. I am not criticizing that.)

Personally, I don't use those apps that don't like root, and I use SuperSu and don't bother to hide root -- which just means I actually own my phone.

Root = being admin of your Android device.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] biRonic:
Thank you.

So, are you saying that I will need to unroot first, and then use TWRP to re-root with SuperSU (like I've done before on another earlier Turbo)?

p.s. By the way, it appears that was your 6,000th post. Congrats!! :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Probably. But I've never had to remove Magisk, so not sure. I do know when you flash SuperSu on stock Motorola Marshmallow you have to

first use the older SuperSu version found in this post.

(If you don't, you will bootloop.) After flashing that in TWRP, reboot successfully, confirm root.

Then, go back into TWRP and you can flash a newer version you have downloaded. Or SuperSu should automatically update to newer version.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] biRonic:
Great news...

I followed the instructions for uninstalling Magisk (for cases where something goes wrong, etc). That went just fine.

I then rebooted to verify root was gone.

Then I installed the version of SuperSU that you pointed me to, and that went fine.

Rebooted, and verified root.

Then updated SuperSU from within the OS, and it prompted to update the binary, etc, and it's all good to go.

Thank you! :)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ndiisandy:
I cancel sunshine because didnt have paypal to purchase them and then the phone reboot. My phone bootloop after that. How can i fix this problem dude ?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
There's many other ways to pay besides PayPal.

You probably still have that temp root thing running? You have to cancel that or you will bootloop every reboot. It's only supposed to be temp root to then let Sunshine unlock the bootloader.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] SNSoomro:
Hi guys everyone help me, my Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo I want install TWRP in my device I am trying to fastboot mode, minimal ADB and fastboot mode and mfastboot mode properly installed but I am go to recovery pressing volume up and power button, but I always go to Android stock recovery..... My device details are below

BOARD APQ8084

BOOTLOADER 0x7096

BRAND motorola

CPU_ABI armeabi-v7a

CPU_ABI2	armeabi

DEVICE quark

DISPLAY MCG24.251-5-5

FINGERPRINT motorola/quark_verizon/quark:6.0.1/MCG24.251-5-5/5:user/release-keys

HARDWARE qcom

HOST ilclbld33

ID	MCG24.251-5-5

MANUFACTURER motorola

MODEL XT1254

PRODUCT quark_verizon

USER hudsoncm

CODENAME REL

INCREMENTAL	5

RELEASE	6.0.1

SDK_INT	23

RADIO :confused:	MDM9625_41.51.07.22.04R QUARK_CUST :confused:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Probably #2 or #3, but let's confirm #1 first...

1) You've unlocked the bootloader with Sunshine? You no longer have locked bootloader? You can't install TWRP until you unlock the bootloader.

2) When installing TWRP from bootloader screen, do NOT reboot the phone. You have to immediately go from bootloader screen to recovery, using the volume button selection to boot into TWRP. If you reboot the phone after installing TWRP, without first booting into TWRP (from the same bootloader screen), it cancels your TWRP installation.

3) Are you getting any error messages when installing TWRP? Like it can't be found? If so, then you have not enabled viewing Windows extensions, so you have accidentally re-named your TWRP package as TWRP.img.img (but you can't see that second ".img" and you are not actually installing TWRP correctly. The TWRP package already has .img on the end just like all PDF files have .pdf on the end. But stupid Microsoft Windows policy hides "known extensions" so you don't see .exe, .jpg, .pdf., .img extensions. If you re-named your TWRP as TWRP.img, then you possibly REALLY re-name it TWRP. img. img and when you flashed TWRP.img, it can't be found and you are getting an error message?

___________

If none of this works, then re-read the instructions in this guide OR read the instructions

in this other guide.

It's also for Quark phones -- but just not the Droid Turbo bootloader unlock with Sunshine. However, if you've already unlocked the bootloader, after that everything else (especially TWRP installation) is the same. It's just written in a different style, so maybe something you are overlooking will jump out at you if you read it in a different way. Start with Section 2, Installing TWRP.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] SNSoomro:
Thanks dear for your help,

01) I am confirmed showing extension setting on in folder option.,

2) a while I am in Installing TWRP then showing error of ( failure of remote extra)
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
You didn't answer my #1 question... ;)

Yes or No, you've unlocked your bootloader with Sunshine? What is the bootloader status code on the bootloader screen?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] CCaseXX:
Droid XT1254 here (droid turbo). When going into sunshine and after payment I get a message saying "sunshine has detected this device has become unstable, this is not a problem restart your phone and run Sunshine again".

Everything else up to this point is picture perfect. I dont understand why when I get to this point it is hiccuping....

Why am I getting this message and how to I get around it????
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] beaups:
If you get that error more than once, you probably have mismatched firmware. Flash a FULL firmware package with mfastboot or rsd lite.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] CCaseXX:
When you say firmware mismatch do you mean that this method is not used for the build # "MCG24.251 -5-5"?

Forgive me I am a little new to the new phone rooting process. I love my turbo and want to unlock it to its full potential!!!:cowboy:

Also do you mind letting me know how to do the flash process you speak of? Again thanks for the quick reply!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] sd_shadow:
flashing is described in post #1
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] CCaseXX:
That post didn't help at all m8.....

Let me be more specific....

1) Where do I get the IMG beaups mentioned in his post?

2) How to I go about using mfastboot or rsd lite to flash said image.

3) Why do I need to do any of this if I have said mentioned Droid Turbo 6.0.1 mcg24.251-5-5???

Sorry if I was unclear....:good:
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] sd_shadow:
link to correct firmware is in post #1

simplest directions for flashing is in post #1

but if you want links to other methods see

Moto Drivers, Firmware, RSD Lite, and other Unbricking Tools

It's not uncommon for ota updates to cause mismatched firmware

flashing full firmware with fastboot.exe or RSD Lite is the fix
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] dwh2o13:
Quick question. Is RSDLite functional on Windows 10?