The Moto G4 Plus is a recently released device from Motorola. Moto G4 Plus sports a 5.5-inch FHD IPS display with 1080p resolution and a pixel density of 401PPI. Moto G4 Plus is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor coupled with Adreno 405 GPU and 2/3GB RAM. The phone packs with a 16/32GB of internal storage that can be extended to 128GB via a microSD card. The phone comes with 16 MP rear camera with dual LED flash and 5 MP front camera and has 3000 mAh battery. The Moto G4 Plus runs on a latest Android 6.1 Marshmallow. Additionally, the phone has hidden LED light that we can use as notification light after root Moto G4 Plus. Along with the powerful specifications we can add extras by root Moto G4 Plus but for that, first we need to unlock bootloader of Moto G4 Plus.

To install a custom ROM or root your phone, first you have to unlock bootloader of Motorola  Moto G4 Plus. When we unlock Moto G4 bootloader, we can root and install a custom recovery on our phone.

Note:

• Unlocking your device invalid your phone warranty, and you won’t claim it back.
• It will erase all your phone data, so we advise you first to take a complete backup of your phone and then proceed.
• Make sure that your phone has at least 50-60% charged to prevent the accidental shutdown in-between the process.

How to unlock bootloader of Moto G4 Plus:

STEP 1:Enable USB debugging from setting>developer option>. To enable Developer Options, go to About phone and tap the Build Number 7 times.

STEP 2:Install the ADB and fastboot driver for windows or ADB and Fastboot for Mac and then restart if you already installed the driver then skip this step.
STEP 3:After installation of the driver, you can see a folder named ADB in your installation directory. Enter into the folder and you find four files including ADB and fastboot.exe.

STEP 4:Now press and hold ‘shift’ key and right-clicked anywhere in the folder and select ‘Open command window here’

STEP 5:Now connect your device to PC and enter into the fastboot mode. To enter in fastboot mode of Moto G4 Plus, type the below command in command prompt.

    adb reboot bootloader

STEP 6:In the command window, type the following command.

fastboot oem get_unlock_data

STEP 7:The above command will return a string. Now copy the code in notepad and delete all the blank space so that you will get a single line string.

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STEP 8:Now head over to the Motorola’s unlock the boot loader site and create a free account or Sign in Google+.

STEP 9:Now Paste the above String (Unlock Code) in the bottom of the Moto site (step 6) and click on Can my device be unlocked? You also need to accept terms and condition on this page by clicking I Accept.

STEP 10:The unlock key will be sent to your E-Mail ID, which you used to register at Motorola site.
STEP 11:Now copy the Unlock Key and execute the following command.

fastboot oem unlock UNLOCK_KEY

STEP 12:The above command will Unlock Bootloader of Moto G4 Plus.

STEP 13:Now Reboot done successfully