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Motorola Moto G5 Plus

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Partial Bootloader unlock + custom ROM

Difficulty

Moderate

Brick risk

Medium

Legal risk

Low

Not stock root. Needs an unlocked bootloader and a custom ROM.

Some carrier Motorola units are excluded from Motorola's official bootloader unlock program.

How-to

How to

Unlock the bootloader and install custom firmware (postmarketOS and TWRP). postmarketOS status: testing.

Follow the specialist sources linked on this page. If this path is a jailbreak, unlock, or flash, the specialist wiki is the how-to — we do not copy those steps here.

Notes

TWRP and postmarketOS builds for this device are based on LineageOS device trees.

pmOS uses independent kernel (mainline or msm8953-mainline).

SourcesNot yet verified

https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/tree/master/device/testing/device-motorola-potter gitlab.com
https://twrp.me/motorola/motorolamotog5plus.html twrp.me

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Motorola Moto G5 Plus

How-to

How to

Notes

SourcesNot yet verified

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