I have a Moto X (2013) with Android 4.4.4 and read here that the I cant root because of the locked bootloader and it seemed I cant unlock it too.
On the Motorola webpage (here) where I can request the unlock code for the bootloader I got this message:
"Your device does not qualify for bootloader unlocking"
I tried submitting the form with the string many times. It failed every time. I restarted the browser, cleared the cache etc until I tried again (probably for the 40th time) and finally a button to request the unlock code showed up. I clicked on it and got some network error being shown that the page cannot be displayed. I then copied the link the browser was trying to open, which looked like this:
(I have no idea if its a good or bad practice to post information which can identify my particular phone, So I have changed the numbers a little for the purpose of this thread)
This is how my original string looked like:
2E45000111111111#1111117363011304D1111005811313031 31000000#4AA31B911E16D2EC12A111121C16CB1111FED4E4# 6A5B46010E0001000000000000000000
I copied this link and in the next hour tried to open it a couple of times. It did not work until the 5th or 6th time when I got to the page which said I should now have received an email with the unlock code (Please note that on the Motorola website I was logged in with a Motorola ID account). Unlock code worked perfectly and I now have the bootloader unlocked (And the phone restored to its defaults, so make sure you BACKUP before unlocking the bootloader!).
I don't know why it worked. My impression is that the webpage where you request the unlock code is just working differently at different times. Why else did I get the code when I was first told that my device could not have it?
Hope this helps somebody in the future.
On the Motorola webpage (here) where I can request the unlock code for the bootloader I got this message:
"Your device does not qualify for bootloader unlocking"
I tried submitting the form with the string many times. It failed every time. I restarted the browser, cleared the cache etc until I tried again (probably for the 40th time) and finally a button to request the unlock code showed up. I clicked on it and got some network error being shown that the page cannot be displayed. I then copied the link the browser was trying to open, which looked like this:
(I have no idea if its a good or bad practice to post information which can identify my particular phone, So I have changed the numbers a little for the purpose of this thread)
HTML Code:
http://ift.tt/1Ll19gs 2E45000111111111#1111117363011304D1111005811313031 31000000#4AA31B911E16D2EC12A111121C16CB1111FED4E4# 6A5B46010E0001000000000000000000
I copied this link and in the next hour tried to open it a couple of times. It did not work until the 5th or 6th time when I got to the page which said I should now have received an email with the unlock code (Please note that on the Motorola website I was logged in with a Motorola ID account). Unlock code worked perfectly and I now have the bootloader unlocked (And the phone restored to its defaults, so make sure you BACKUP before unlocking the bootloader!).
I don't know why it worked. My impression is that the webpage where you request the unlock code is just working differently at different times. Why else did I get the code when I was first told that my device could not have it?
Hope this helps somebody in the future.
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