[Droid Turbo 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChazzMatt:
Bounties don't really work. People forget to pay. For the Verizon Droid Turbo XT1254 (Quark) what worked was Sunshine -- which was a $25 paid app. It was a Snapdragon 805-specific exploit which allowed you to unlock the bootloader, allowed TWRP recovery and root. Made people put their money where their mouth was! And guess what? People complained, said they wanted a FREE solution. I wonder how many people who PROMISED bounties of up to $500 actually bought Sunshine?

But devs had invested time money (bricked Droid Turbos) into developing the bootloader unlock which appeared in November 2015, about a year after the Quark was released. If you REALLY wanted root, that was the solution and made your device much more valuable.

(Verizon was the ONLY carrier who sold the Quark to force Motorola to lock down the bootloader. The XT1254 Droid Turbo was locked down. XT1225 Moto Turbo/Moto Maxx and the XT1250 U.S. Moto Maxx was easily unlocked via FREE code from Motorola. The other carriers don't care and Verizon shouldn't either.)

Still, in spite of Sunshine being available to unlock the XT1254 a bunch of owners procrastinated, and SIX MONTHS LATER (May 2016), Verizon released an OTA "security update" which blocked that bootloader exploit. And guess what? People who never paid for the Sunshine bootloader unlock RUSHED to install this Verizon update and their phones are forever locked down. Then, they got angry.

They did the EXACT opposite of what they should have done:

Unlock bootloader as soon as possible.

View any Verizon updates with suspicion!

Even though one of the Sunshine dev started a thread WARNING people not to install this update if their bootloaders were not unlocked yet.

[PSA] DT Android SU4TL-49 5.1 + Updates patch SunShine Unlock, Unlock b4 updating

http://xdaforums.com/droid-turbo/general/psa-droid-turbo-android-6-0-update-t3379894

Now, people are demanding Sunshine devs find ANOTHER exploit to unlock their bootloaders.

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Still, enough people bought Sunshine that there are lots of ROMs available for the Droid Turbo -- all Marshmallow:

Bliss,

AOKP

Mokee AOSP

official CM13

Resurrection Remix

plus a 5th ROM which is labelled

"unofficial CM 13"

, basically a hybrid of CM13 with some features of RR.

Along with a

custom kernel (BHB27)

and

official TWRP recovery

.

People who unlocked their Droid Turbo XT1254 with Sunshine during the six months before the May 2016 OTA are all happy. Now some with locked down bootloaders are selling their post-OTA update Droid Turbos and are buying pre-update Droid Turbos on eBay and Swappa... so they can finally use Sunshine! ;)

But they can also buy the Moto XT1250 -- another Quark which is the EXACT same device as the Droid Turbo XT1254. It's the "dev" version of the Droid Turbo XT1254. ;) Same specs, same radio bands, SAME FCC ID. Easily unlocked bootloader for free via code from Motorola. The XT1254 Droid Turbo was NOT exclusive to Verizon, no matter Verizon's PR lies. No even exclusive in the U.S.! The same device was sold by at least a dozen regional CMDA/LTE carriers as the U.S. Moto Maxx XT1250. Yes, actual carriers, not MVNOs. Carriers with their own towers and spectrum. The XT1250 runs on Verizon with a Verizon SIM card, just like a non-Verizon Moto Nexus 6. Bootloader easily unlocked, easily rooted.

See more here if you want to know more about the Droid Turbo XT1254 CLONE:

Moto XT1250 for the win

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67859149&postcount=14

In my opinion, the 2015 Kinzie was not a real improvement over the 2014 Quark. Problematic Snapdragon 810 vs Snapdragon 805, smaller battery in the Kinzie than Quark (3750 mAh vs 3900 mAh), dimmer display than Quark (due to the silly plastic thingy gimmick). If Motorola had added rear camera OIS or stereo speakers -- like the Moto Nexus 6 had -- THAT would have been an improvement! Instead they made the battery smaller and the display dimmer. :rolleyes: Droid Turbo 2 owners who really want custom ROMs, custom kernel and all that stuff should sell their phones and get a Quark.