Saturday 16 July 2016

Amazon Moto G4 bootloaders can't be unlocked?



I've followed a couple tutorials of that explain how to unlock Motorola's Moto G4 bootloader. This seems to be the "official" one from Motorola:

https://motorola-global-portal.custh...-your-device-b

I copied part of it up to where I get stuck. Here it is:

Put your device in fastboot mode (power off, then press the power and volume down buttons simultaneously).
On your desktop, open a command prompt or terminal, and go to the directory where you installed the Android SDK tools (or make sure fastboot is in your $PATH)
At the prompt, type $ fastboot oem get_unlock_data
The returned string will be used to retrieve your unlock key.

Example: On a Windows Desktop, the returned string format would be $ fastboot oem get_unlock_data
(bootloader) 0A40040192024205#4C4D3556313230
(bootloader) 30373731363031303332323239#BD00
(bootloader) 8A672BA4746C2CE02328A2AC0C39F95
(bootloader) 1A3E5#1F53280002000000000000000
(bootloader) 0000000

****************************************

OK, so I just bought a Moto G4 for 5 on Amazon's prime day. This means that it has ads on the lock screen. I'm OK with that. But I think they also made the locked bootloader unlocakble as 3 times I've gotten this from a Windows machine in ADB mode:

(bootloader) Unlock data:
(bootloader) 3A45210407248602#
(bootloader) 5A59323233433246534C004D6F746F2047200000#
(bootloader) 1095EFAB6000EDC14660539C503A04F7900B9A01#
(bootloader) 9F93C800000000000000000000000000


There should be numbers in that first Bootloader line and then Motorola says:

You're device does not qualify for bootloader unlocking.

Has anybody else had this happen? This is my second time doing this to a Motorola phone and the Moto g2 was a snap! I was hoping to install a custom recovery like TWRP so I could get a nandroid backup while everything is new :(

Marty



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