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Move Motorola to Avoid, due to older phones being ineligible for unlocks. (#32)
* moto: add note about old phones being ineligible

* Move Moto to Avoid
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README.md Move Motorola to Avoid, due to older phones being ineligible for unlocks. (#32) 2024-10-18 22:20:32 +07:00

Motorola/Lenovo

  • Verdict: Avoid!

To start off, to unlock your bootloader you have to submit a request on their website, which is pretty bad on its own (wink Huawei). But how do you know if your device is unlockable? Well...

  • This page says that "Most of our latest devices support our bootloader unlock program."
  • This page says only "Photon Q 4G LTE, DROID RAZR M(Developer Edition), DROID RAZR HD(Developer Edition CDMA-LTE), MOTOROLA RAZR HD (Rest of World -UMTS/LTE), MOTOROLA RAZR HD (Rogers Canada - UMTS/LTE) and MOTOROLA RAZR i are supported by the Bootloader Unlock site."
  • And from this conversation turistu had with their support: "most of our E devices doesn't support bootloader unlock program. Please see below a list of devices that support the bootloader unlock program : g100, g51 , g71 , g200 , g52 , g82 , g42 , g62 , g32"
  • This forum post says that once a device passes a certain age (the age not being specified), the device becomes ineligible.
  • There's also an unofficial way with CID to check if your device can be unlocked, check here: xdaforums.com

Moto used confusion! It seems pretty effective...

Motorola also requires the phone to have a stable internet connection for at least a week for the bootloader to be unlocked, this is not mentioned anywhere on the unlock website but has been confirmed by posts on the Motorola development forum.


Additional info provided by Ivy / Lost-Entrepreneur439.
CID info provided by FPSensor.
Authored by melontini.