Motorola will unlock your bootloader

[mrpickem]

Finally

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/08/1...otloader-freedom-has-come-at-last/#more-79694

 

[wiesman2613]

It has been a LONG time since I unlocked my bootloader.. But isn't it really easy to unlock it on our xoom?

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[alex94kumar]

fastboot oem unlock

 

[casperi]

One would think. I'm about to go down this road and have unrooted and rommed many phones. However I have spent over 2 hours reading thread after thread here trying to fig out how to do it on a vzw ics stocked Xoom and I keep seeing , this tool is no longer supported, this way might work but this doesn't you could brick etc. I have never been more confused in my life. All I want is a nice Rom that I can use saxixs with so I can play deadtrigger with my ps3 controler on and when I'm not, a Rom that smokes the stock Rom. One would think that would be easy. Unlock,flash cwm,backup,wipe,flash superuser,flash Rom. Let sit for 10 mins reboot done.

If your know where to point me plz for the love of the gods do. Cause its not in the stickies. Otherwise looks like moto is the plan.

Thx.
Casperi.

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[runandhide05]

for a xoom all u need to do in unclock it, ( which will wipe all data )
by connecting the tablet to pc, ( have fastboot and adb installed on pc these you can get when u install adnroid sdk )
with device in fastboot mode

fastboot oem unlock

then follow the onscreen steps.
this zip is for something else( fastboot script for xybaord) but contains the files u need ( adb and fastboot.exe)
open cmd prompt and cd to where ever u extract this to and to the code above.
once thats complete you can then doenload a rom and a recovery and flash away,
might i suggest this recovery here twrp and this rom EOS jellybean

as too wiesman2613 and alex94kumar i think the OP was reffering to moto unlocking boot loaders for xoom2 xybaords and others.

 

[casperi]

Thx!! Do you know if JB is saxis compatible?

Casperi


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[ezekionokia]

Good job Motorola for enabling device unlock for a device which was easy to unlock in the first place.
Really, you are great )

 

[LexLuger82]

Good job Motorola for enabling device unlock for a device which was easy to unlock in the first place.
Really, you are great )

Lmao

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[matt4321]

When I read the article a few days back, I was like wtf, they already allow us to unlock it. It's a totally pointless tool. Well for us anyway. It has potentially for other motorola devices. I do hope this goes the way HTC did with bootloader unlocking

 

[cmeyal]

what about the XOOM2??

 

[parkentosh]

Wow.. this is a weird tool!

It promises to unlock:

Photon Q
RAZR developer edition
XOOM – Verizon
XOOM WiFi

As i can see, i'll unlock 2 GED devices (hahaha), a developer edition of a phone (that should have been unlocked in factory). I suppose that this tool is useful for only Photon Q users (and RAZR dev. ed. too). But the two GED devices are unlockable by fastboot. Even my MZ601 that is not on the list is unlocked with fastboot.

This would be vary good news for XOOM2 or Xyboard users if those devices would be supported aswell.
Right now it seems like thumbs down for motorola (maybe new devices will be added to the list but seems unlikely)

If motorola keeps doing s*it like this then my next tablet will not be a motorola (an unlockable bootloader with tegra3 would be nice but i guess that is just dreaming).

 

[arrtoodeetoo]

It looks like a PR stunt to me.

They know they get hated on by VZW customers for locking their devices, so they're playing a mind game saying " Hey look! :cyclops: We're unlocking Verizon devices FIRST! You like us now?" expecting VZW people to be like " Ehrmagerd! Ernlercked Bertlerders!!"

People who have these devices and want to unlock them probably already know it's as easy as "fastboot oem unlock." This tool is useless.

 

[matt4321]

The tool is rubbish at the moment. But give it a little bit of time. I'm hoping (just like everyone else here) that this'll turn out like HTCdev

 

[fostina1]

will this finally let me use an otg host cable to read thumbdrives without rooting?

 

[marcio_roberto]

Great news!

 

[Cubanluke88]

Wow.. this is a weird tool!

It promises to unlock:

Photon Q
RAZR developer edition
XOOM – Verizon
XOOM WiFi

As i can see, i'll unlock 2 GED devices (hahaha), a developer edition of a phone (that should have been unlocked in factory). I suppose that this tool is useful for only Photon Q users (and RAZR dev. ed. too). But the two GED devices are unlockable by fastboot. Even my MZ601 that is not on the list is unlocked with fastboot.

This would be vary good news for XOOM2 or Xyboard users if those devices would be supported aswell.
Right now it seems like thumbs down for motorola (maybe new devices will be added to the list but seems unlikely)

If motorola keeps doing s*it like this then my next tablet will not be a motorola (an unlockable bootloader with tegra3 would be nice but i guess that is just dreaming).

There's only one GED in that list.

I don't see older Motorola devices being unlocked any time soon. Future ones yes, old ones, I doubt it.

In reality, if you care about updates/support and you want an Android device, the OEM is irrelevant. What matters is if its a GED or Nexus.

 

[parkentosh]

There's only one GED in that list.

I don't see older Motorola devices being unlocked any time soon. Future ones yes, old ones, I doubt it.

In reality, if you care about updates/support and you want an Android device, the OEM is irrelevant. What matters is if its a GED or Nexus.

Both, the mz604 and the mz600/602 are GED. Google makes the software for both of them. Mz604 just gets new firmware faster because VZW wants to test for a couple of months before releasing it to the public.

 

[Cubanluke88]

Both, the mz604 and the mz600/602 are GED. Google makes the software for both of them. Mz604 just gets new firmware faster because VZW wants to test for a couple of months before releasing it to the public.

If its not released from Google, its not a GED. Same goes for Nexus.