The Verizon Droid Turbo Android 5.1 Lollipop update is now rolling out. If you haven’t received the update notification notification yet, you might want to check into your phone’s Settings » About phone » Software updates. OR just grab the OTA update from the download link here and manually install it from your phone’s recovery.

Note: If you care about root access, know that updating your Droid Turbo to Android 5.1 Lollipop will break root access. And its root availability is uncertain at the moment. Also, you won’t be able to downgrade back to KitKat once updated to Android 5.1 Lollipop.

Download Droid Turbo Android 5.1 Lollipop OTA Update
How to Manually Install Android 5.1 OTA update on Droid Turbo
  1. Download and transfer the Android 5.1 OTA update’s .zip file from the link above to your Droid Turbo.
  2. Boot your Droid Turbo into recovery mode:
    1. Power off your phone.
    2. Hold “Volume Down + Power” for at-least 3 seconds and then release the buttons. You’ll boot into bootloader mode.
    3. Now Use Volume down key to highlight “Recovery” on the bootloader menu, and then press Volume Up key to select and boot into recovery mode.
      └ If you’re on stock recovery, you might see an Android with “no command” written on screen. Press and hold “Power button” and then hit the “Volume Up” key to see the stock Android 3e recovery.
  3. Select “apply update from sdcard” from the recovery menu. And then select the OTA update zip file that we transferred to your device earlier and flash it.
    └ On stock recovery, use Volume Up and Down to navigate between options and Power button to select an option.
  4. Reboot your phone.

That’s it. Your Droid Turbo should boot with Android 5.1 Lollipop now. Cheers!

Root? For information rooting Droid Turbo on 5.1, follow the link below:

[icon name=”link” class=”” unprefixed_class=””] Verizon Droid Turbo Android 5.1 Root Status