[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Congratulations on now owning your phone!

On your hotspot question, I believe you mean you want a hotspot working that bypasses your carrier's restrictions? In which case the best way is to install a custom ROM. All the custom ROMs have that feature enabled.

If you are "noobish" as you say, probably best right now to stick with this ROM below, especially if you use/need Verizon:

Computerfreek274_1.0.8 Update Marshmallow 6.0.1 Global,De-bloated,Root,Volte, 5/29/17

It's just debloated, tweaked stock Verizon Marshmallow firmware. It's also the only Quark custom ROM which has VoLTE (on Verizon only) or Wi-fi calling (on Verizon only), because [MENTION=6076132]computerfreek274[/MENTION] just didn't remove whatever makes those features work on Verizon network.

If you are more adventurous, don't use Verizon (and therefore don't need Verizon VoLTE or Verizon Wi-fi calling), here's

a complete list of Nougat ROMs for our Quarks.

They have even more options/features and most have current security patches (like for the Blueborne exploit, which needs September 2017 security patch).

"Quark" is the internal Motorola name for this phone series, like an LG G3, Samsung Galaxy S4, etc. But instead of keeping the same model name across the world, Motorola changed the retail model names of the phone for various countries/carriers -- which was confusing. But it's the SAME phone, with the SAME specs. Sometimes even the same FCC ID and radio bands! Yes, some do have different radio bands -- still it's the "same" phone the way an LG G3 is still an LG G3, whether sold in Germany or U.S.

For instance, the device called the Droid Turbo XT1254 was not exclusive to Verizon in any way; the U.S. Moto Maxx XT1250 is the exact same phone, same hardware, even the exact same FCC ID and radio bands. Verizon pretended it was exclusive by changing the model name to "Droid Turbo". A U.S. Moto Maxx XT1250 will run on Verizon with a Verizon SIM card because it's the exact same device as the Droid Turbo XT1254. ;) The only exclusive feature of the Droid Turbo XT1254 is the locked down bootloader, demanded by Verizon.

All the Nougat custom ROMS all run on ALL the Quarks: Droid Turbo XT1254, Moto Turbo XT1225, Moto Maxx XT1250, Moto Maxx XT1225.

So, that's why we call our phones "Quark" in these forums -- yes, there's two Quark forums -- because that's the simplest way to describe this phone.

Also, if you have further questions in other threads, sometimes it's best to say "Droid Turbo" or "XT1254" (model number) because there was also the Moto Turbo XT1225. If you just say "Turbo", we may ask "WHICH Turbo?" ;) In this thread, of course, it's obvious because the Droid Turbo was the only Quark with the locked-down bootloader which needs Sunshine.

Not sure if this was related to your hotspot question, as TWRP has nothing to do with hotspot, but it's always good to have the latest TWRP installed.

TWRP is great, if only for the "time machine" aspect. "I wish I could go back to when my phone was working well, before I messed it up...." Oh, you can. You just restore the TWRP backup you made! I make a backup several times a week. Occasionally, I am REALLY glad I did so!

IF you are not sure you have the latest TWRP for our Quark phones, go here:

https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=39562

On that page will always be the very latest TWRP with the best features. It's updated much more often than the TWRP website, as it's done by our prolific dev [MENTION=5747496]bhb27[/MENTION]. He's also our official TWRP maintainer, but for reasons too long to list here, the latest TWRP for Quark is never on the official TWRP website.