Moto G4 Plus Root Guide for XT1641 / XT1642 / XT1643: Moto G4 Unlock Bootloader Guide

This will guide will help you to root XT1641 / XT1642 / XT1643 variants of the Moto G4 Plus. Before we proceed, let us have a look at the requirements.

Moto G4 Plus Root

First, let us unlock Moto G4 Plus bootloader

1- Register

Head to Motorola website and register your E-Mail ID. Open Setting on your device and go to About Phone. Next, tap 7 times on Build Number and get the Developer Options unlocked. Head back to Main Settings Menu and go to Developer Options and switch the ‘Allow OEM Unlock’ option.

2- Getting Unique ID for each device

Reboot to Bootloader (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 mfastboot is in your $PATH) At the prompt, type

$ mfastboot oem get_unlock_data

You will get something like this:

On a Windows Desktop, the returned string format would be

$ fastboot oem get_unlock_data
 (bootloader) 0240540162024205#4C4D3556313230
 (bootloader) 30373as313630330df332323239#BD00
 (bootloader) 8A672BA4746C2CE0a328A2AC0C39F95
 (bootloader) 1A3E5#1F53280002000000000000000
 (bootloader) 0000000

On a Mac OS Desktop, the returned string format would be

 INFO0A40040192024205#4C4D3556313230
 INFO30373731363031303332323239#BD00
 INFO8A672BA4746C2CE02328A2AC0C39F95
 INFO1A3E5#1F53280002000000000000000
 INFO0000000

Paste together the 5 lines of output into one continuous string without (bootloader) or ‘INFO’ or white spaces. Your string needs to look like this:

0240540162024205#4C4D355631323030373as313630330df332323239#BD008A672BA4746C2CE0a328A2AC0C39F951A3E5#1F532800020000000000000000000000

3- Unlocking the device

Check if your device can be unlocked by pasting this string in the specific field on the Motorola website, and clicking “Can my device be unlocked?” NOTE: If your device is unlockable, a “REQUEST UNLOCK KEY” button will now appear at the bottom of that page. Click on it and wait for the unique code to be sent to your mail. After you got the code type the following :

mfastboot oem unlock

and wait your device to reboot.

Root Moto G4 Plus using these instructions

1. Make sure you unlocked bootloader using instructions given above and have installed moto g4 plus twrp.
2. Download SuperSU and copy it into internal SD card.
3. Connect your phone with PC
4. Open Boot-loader on Phone. Extract Root-motog4-athena.zip and run ROOT.bat (it will flash custom boot.img)
5. Now Flash Supersu.zip From TWRP recovery.

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Download Moto G4 Plus TWRP custom recovery

Download Moto G4 Plus TWRP custom recovery to start flashing custom ROMs onto your android phone. After that, you will be able to do much more than that custom ROMs too such as flashing all sorts of hacks to extend the functionality of the device and one of that is ability to overclock and underclock Moto G4 Plus.

moto g4 plus twrp

This is the latest v3 TWRP for the Moto G4 Plus and brings additional functionality that was not available in v2.x versions of TWRP.

Installation instructions:

1) Download the latest version from here on your device (direct link)
2) Reboot to TWRP
3) Hit Install and tap the “Images…” button in the lower right
4) Browse to the location of the TWRP image on your device and select it
5) Select recovery from the partition list and swipe to flash