i found that many people having trouble on unlocking.
unlocking is not a difficult job but it is not an easy thing too. since the chevron unlocker is so non user friendly, will it be better if we have a ROM which is unlocked by default for our mozart user? thanks
+1 for this. Also it will help many users' errors with no 'zune mode' after accidentally deleted dfrouter/flash new roms by means of packaging the dfrouter apps inside the rom itself. I hope someone like Ansar will help us. Please.
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Hey everybody thanks for looking in I just recently shifted from the t-mobile g2 and my new atrix is arriving in a week and I'm really excited I've been using htc devices since forever and this is my first motorola device so I'm a little new to the .sbf file system and all and the bootloaders..
I'm a rom fiend and i need my fix also i need to sideload apps.. and need to sim unlock my phone as well.. the phone will be running 2.2 and its factory sealed.
What my question is that can someone point to me a noob friendly guide and also what to start of with? ( i mean should i sim unlock first, BL unlock first or root)
Thanks a lot!
Hello and welcome to the Atrix side of android!
Boot Loader unlock http://briefmobile.com/how-to-unlock-the-atrix-4g-bootloader
Once you have that boot-loader nice and unlocked and good to go your are going to need a decent recovery environment.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138541
Then when you have your recovery environment set up and ready its time for a good ROM to top the project off.
When it comes to picking your rom its mostly about your personal choice.
The two that I have been going back and for on are CheeryBlur
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And the Ninja Rom
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If you are just getting started I would strongly recommend going with CherryBlur to start as it gives you everything that you should need from the start.
As for root if you use one of these roms you will have it by default.
hriday26 said:
Hey everybody thanks for looking in I just recently shifted from the t-mobile g2 and my new atrix is arriving in a week and I'm really excited I've been using htc devices since forever and this is my first motorola device so I'm a little new to the .sbf file system and all and the bootloaders..
I'm a rom fiend and i need my fix also i need to sideload apps.. and need to sim unlock my phone as well.. the phone will be running 2.2 and its factory sealed.
What my question is that can someone point to me a noob friendly guide and also what to start of with? ( i mean should i sim unlock first, BL unlock first or root)
Thanks a lot!
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We have a WIKI now! Should be very helpful.
Thanks a lot, both of you'll also for the sim unlock which website would you'll recommend? and also is there some sequence in which I should sim unlock? or in the end is fine?
Hello!
I have recently bought HTC Desire HD, branded with T-Mobile logo on startup and bloatware, but otherwise unlocked (no sim-lock, no network lock), and I did a terrible mistake and updated it from 2.1 I think, to 2.2 and then to 2.3, software number 2.37. Now I want to root it and install custom rom and I realize that it will be much more complicated since I now need to create a goldcard and then downgrade. I read all the threads about downgrading and temp-root and goldcards and I'm asking, if anyone can help me out here by just being online on Skype when I'm doing this, because there will be questions and something can always go wrong and I don't want to wait hours or days for somebody to just tell me "your question has already been answered, use the search option". So if anyone who has already rooted a phone, preferably several times, preferably a branded phone and with 2.37 software, I would greatly appreciate it. I'm not a newbie in computers, also used to work on web design and I'm currently a photographer residing in Tallinn, Estonia, so nice to meet you fellow XDA member who is willing to help me out. I can donate some money, if everything goes well, that is not a problem at all.
rooted and flashed CM7 nightly, thanks to HTC Inspire/DHD Hack Kit V12.3 and fellow friends here on XDA!
Hi guys,
I want to begin by saying that this is not a thread asking for helping unlocking a specific phone. I realize that it's illegal in most countries, and I'm not looking for help in that department.
That being said, my question is regarding the lock mechanism. I've seen on the web that flashing the phone with a different ROM and bootloader won't unlock the phone. If so, the information regarding the network lock can't be inside the flash memory of the phone...
So, where is it kept? How is it able to survive a flash from a custom ROM?
Thanks
I have created a petition to unlock Motorola Bootloaders so we can do what we want with *our* phones.
Sign it here ---> https://www.change.org/p/motorola-unlock-all-motorola-bootloaders
Feel free to share this link with everybody! We together can make locked bootloaders a thing of the past!
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Please don't
FanboyStudios said:
I have created a petition to unlock Motorola Bootloaders so we can do what we want with *our* phones.
Sign it here ---> https://www.change.org/p/motorola-unlock-all-motorola-bootloaders
Feel free to share this link with everybody! We together can make locked bootloaders a thing of the past!
:highfive:
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Don't do this bro, look majority of people don't perform insane tricks on their android devices and if you research a bit deep about booloaders and security it provides you will understand that locked bootloaders are good actually. And when it comes to unlocking of motorola devices their process is really simple, you don't have to fill an application answering chinese questions for why you are unlocking your device, which is the case for Xiaomi.
Why don't you make a petition to motorola for releasing the blank flash file using which people can unbrick their hard bricked moto e?? We together can make "hard bricking" a thing of past! isn't it?
P.S. Are you facing any problem in getting an unlock code from motorola to unlock bootloader of moto e?
DNALogic said:
Don't do this bro, look majority of people don't perform insane tricks on their android devices and if you research a bit deep about booloaders and security it provides you will understand that locked bootloaders are good actually. And when it comes to unlocking of motorola devices their process is really simple, you don't have to fill an application answering chinese questions for why you are unlocking your device, which is the case for Xiaomi.
Why don't you make a petition to motorola for releasing the blank flash file using which people can unbrick their hard bricked moto e?? We together can make "hard bricking" a thing of past! isn't it?
P.S. Are you facing any problem in getting an unlock code from motorola to unlock bootloader of moto e?
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For those that do perform insane tricks on their phones like me, you should be able to unlock the bootloader! Forcing the device to stay locked is not nice! Those that don't do insane tricks don't have much to worry about.
Motorola won't do this anyway.
Why would any company want to increase their hassle?
Bootloaders are locked in order to protect critical system components from modification.
Those who feel like handling the situation has already an "Unlock" option. Isn't it?(except some variants)
That's why "Unlocking" exist. If anyone wants to modify can unlock and modify else it's just locked to protect.
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Motorola won't do this anyway.
Why would any company want to increase their hassle?
Bootloaders are locked in order to protect critical system components from modification.
Those who feel like handling the situation has already an "Unlock" option. Isn't it?(except some variants)
That's why "Unlocking" exist. If anyone wants to modify can unlock and modify else it's just locked to protect.
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I am not petitioning for Motorola to ship devices already unlocked, I just want them to allow the "un-eligible" devices to be unlocked.
DNALogic said:
Don't do this bro, look majority of people don't perform insane tricks on their android devices and if you research a bit deep about booloaders and security it provides you will understand that locked bootloaders are good actually. And when it comes to unlocking of motorola devices their process is really simple, you don't have to fill an application answering chinese questions for why you are unlocking your device, which is the case for Xiaomi.
Why don't you make a petition to motorola for releasing the blank flash file using which people can unbrick their hard bricked moto e?? We together can make "hard bricking" a thing of past! isn't it?
P.S. Are you facing any problem in getting an unlock code from motorola to unlock bootloader of moto e?
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I Agree with you DNALogic, I would too rather sign a petiton for releasing Blank Flash File rather than unlocking Bootloader.
;66097694 said:
I have created a petition to unlock Motorola Bootloaders so we can do what we want with *our* phones.
Sign it here ---> https://www.change.org/p/motorola-unlock-all-motorola-bootloaders
Feel free to share this link with everybody! We together can make locked bootloaders a thing of the past!
:highfive:
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And for you FanboyStudios, If u are not aware there is a very simple procedure you can follow to get your device Bootloader unlocked. There's absolutely no need to make petitions for at least unlocking a bootloader! You can do this on your OWN!
Here's a link to a video guide to help you out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DGlZLWX0vk
(Note: Procedure is lengthy and DO AT YOUR OWN RISK. Just Follow Instructions and you'll be Good to go!)
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Few things to note
FanboyStudios said:
For those that do perform insane tricks on their phones like me, you should be able to unlock the bootloader! Forcing the device to stay locked is not nice! Those that don't do insane tricks don't have much to worry about.
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AlstonGomez said:
I Agree with you DNALogic, I would too rather sign a petiton for releasing Blank Flash File rather than unlocking Bootloader.
And for you FanboyStudios, If u are not aware there is a very simple procedure you can follow to get your device Bootloader unlocked. There's absolutely no need to make petitions for at least unlocking a bootloader! You can do this on your OWN!
Here's a link to a video guide to help you out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DGlZLWX0vk
(Note: Procedure is lengthy and DO AT YOUR OWN RISK. Just Follow Instructions and you'll be Good to go!)
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AlstonGomez you see the guy does "Insane Tricks" Lol
Now Fanboy, if you can do so much of this insane tricks why can't you do just do a single sane trick to unlock your bootloader?
And if you are talking about any motorola device of which unlock is not available then post this petition for that device and that too in forums dedicated to that device itself, In moto e's case it's really easy to get unlock, roms, xposed, kernels and other Insane tricks.
P.S. AlstonGomez & FanboyStudios if you really wanna see the real insane thing then head over to my thread where I have wrote how my moto e commited suicide and how I am not able to bring it to life because of that just one damn flash file, also note I didn't do anything to kill it. And all this happened because I unlocked the bootloader at first place, now if moto e came unlocked then some evil app developer might have exploited the thing which causes to certain death of device and release it over internet leaving most of moto e dead.
#Peace
After doing little digging in , found few things about unlocking bootloader , rooting and flashing some root apps.. but our beloved device seems to be under the shackles of oem. Rooting and installing system apps comes with a price, u cannot update if there is any system updates from oem.
Created this thread hoping that someone can find some way of breaking these shackles. Anyone who knows a way of rooting and installing system apps without breaking system updates from oem, please share your ideas here.. I've been a long time flashaholic and this is what I used to do with my previous phone which is OnePlus one.
Unlock bootloader, root, install few root apps that I like such as viper 4 android. And when there is new ota updates from oem I'll flash stock firmware which will remove root so that I can update the phone with oem ota, after that I'll root again..
This seems to be impossible here.. if someone have some ideas please share..
Ps. If someone feels like this thread is unnecessary pls feel free to do the needful. Thanks.
Found this new nokia flash tool and steps with download links for stock roms.. could someone let me know if this is legit ? I'm pasting the website link here so that people can check that, pls forgive me if it's not allowed
https://raghuvarma331.github.io/Nokia-SDM660-Stock-ROMS/
Tried this myself and found that the fastboot for our device doesn't recognise the bootloader unlocking fastboot commands.. also found in few posts that earlier we were able to unlock bootloader in some old firmware and after that it was disabled by hmd.. I didn't want to go to some old firmware to do this, need to find a way to do this from Android 10. will keep trying to find more and update here.. I think we a need to wait till hmd decides to allow is to unlock bootloader.. meanwhile if someone else found something pls so share here.. thanks.
Arunragav said:
Found this new nokia flash tool and steps with download links for stock roms.. could someone let me know if this is legit ? I'm pasting the website link here so that people can check that, pls forgive me if it's not allowed
https://raghuvarma331.github.io/Nokia-SDM660-Stock-ROMS/
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Definitely legit, he is the main developer for our device.
You are correct on the bootloader.
You need to be on earlier Android 9.0 firmware, I think Ver. 331 (not positive) or earlier. To be able to unlock bootloader. If you can figure a way to downgrade, then you can do it.
That is the current roadblock.
Once you have the bootloader unlocked it will stay unlocked.
You can then accept updates and or flash custom ROMs as you wish.
Can't offer a fix, but hope the information helps.
Now we don't need for downgrading to Android 9. XDA Senior @singhnsk has discovered a way to unlock the bootloader while on Android 10. You can reach him for remote unlock method (paid). It takes only around 15 mins.
Edit: Now the devs has released an unlocking method for Nokia 7.2 & 6.2 which is completely free and can be done by yourself!
Check out the thread here for free unlocking guide!
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Definitely legit, he is the main developer for our device.
You are correct on the bootloader.
You need to be on earlier Android 9.0 firmware, I think Ver. 331 (not positive) or earlier. To be able to unlock bootloader. If you can figure a way to downgrade, then you can do it.
That is the current roadblock.
Once you have the bootloader unlocked it will stay unlocked.
You can then accept updates and or flash custom ROMs as you wish.
Can't offer a fix, but hope the information helps.
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