[GUIDE] How to unlock your bootloader, install TWRP and gain root access
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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?
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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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?
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Check these two posts:
To factory reset phone, should get radio (WiFi) working: https://forum.xda-developers.com/dr...d-turbo-6-0-1-mcg24-251-t3639618/post76416418
And then to properly sunshine root: https://forum.xda-developers.com/dr...d-turbo-6-0-1-mcg24-251-t3639618/post75531045
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.
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..
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..
1.) Remove temproot - fastboot oem config fsg-id " "
2.) Flash trwp then immediately boot into recovery using keys/onscreen menu
2.) Flash trwp then immediately boot into recovery using keys/onscreen menu
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!
Thanks!
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!
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)
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!
I should add that the phone boots regularly after a few seconds of "Warning Bootloader Unlocked... etc" but I haven't been able to flash TWRP on it
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Oh, whatever! The TWRP from the link on the first post here, didn't work (at least not for me), but I used another one from this link
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767143958 which was quoted on this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/dr...ck-droid-turbo-6-0-1-mcg24-251-t3639618/page6 and it worked like a charm
---------- Post added at 11:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:29 PM ----------
Oh, whatever! The TWRP from the link on the first post here, didn't work (at least not for me), but I used another one from this link
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767143958 which was quoted on this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/dr...ck-droid-turbo-6-0-1-mcg24-251-t3639618/page6 and it worked like a charm
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