Just as the title states...
I have completed the process on the HTCDev site many many times. The process itself works fantastic. Each step responds exactly how they state it should. I submit the token code and get a Bin file. Using fastboot to flash the Bin file results in the phone prompting me to unlock the bootloader. I select yes using the volume up and then hit power. The phone powers off and reboots restoring everything to factory. So it would seem that everything works correctly. I get no error messages during the process. I get nothing but the results that I should be expecting...EXCEPT...
The bootloader remains locked.
I'm beyond frustrated at this point. I've followed every single set of instructions just thinking maybe there's a step missing in one of them. Yet they all perform the same. End result...Bootloader still locked. No idea what is going on. Called HTC Tech Support and they weren't any help at all. Basically they said to leave a comment on the HTCDev site.
Any ideas???
Have you tried flashing anything even though it still says locked? It is a longshot, but there is a chance it is unlocked but just still says locked.
rultin said:
Just as the title states...
I have completed the process on the HTCDev site many many times. The process itself works fantastic. Each step responds exactly how they state it should. I submit the token code and get a Bin file. Using fastboot to flash the Bin file results in the phone prompting me to unlock the bootloader. I select yes using the volume up and then hit power. The phone powers off and reboots restoring everything to factory. So it would seem that everything works correctly. I get no error messages during the process. I get nothing but the results that I should be expecting...EXCEPT...
The bootloader remains locked.
I'm beyond frustrated at this point. I've followed every single set of instructions just thinking maybe there's a step missing in one of them. Yet they all perform the same. End result...Bootloader still locked. No idea what is going on. Called HTC Tech Support and they weren't any help at all. Basically they said to leave a comment on the HTCDev site.
Any ideas???
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Since it's getting wiped anyway, exchange the phone for a new one.
MrSmith317 said:
Since it's getting wiped anyway, exchange the phone for a new one.
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I second that, I had a problem Unlocking my Rezound, I called HTC they said they dont replace phones and to call VZW. I called VZW told them that HTC told me to call for a replacement, they gave me a hard time. I told them as a developer, not being able to unlock my phone is a detrimental to my livelyhood. They sent me a refurb (standard) and I had no problems unlocking it. I posted my saga over in general you can see it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416472
i was trying to follow this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285285) to unlock my sk17i. i'm pretty sure i did the right thing at first, but during "PROCESSING … REMOVE TESTPOINT NOW, THEN PRESS "READY"" part, i removed the USB instead of just the test point.
now the problem is nothing happens anymore after i click Ready (after connecting the test point) when i try to Patch SECMBoot.
i tried the RESTORE but it said 'nothing to restore'
is there any way to solve this? or maybe reset the process i abandoned before?
Well,does your phone still can be turn on?If no,use wotanserver,and try to unlock it again...
yes it can still be turn on. everything is still normal.
i have looked through wotanserver before posting this, but hesitated to use it. can i just unlock my phone using it and without installing their firmwares?
and it said
Beside unlocking removes Invalid SIM Card or SIM network unlock PIN screens and allows you to use your phone with different network SIM card – unlocking is NOT supported by WotanClient software!
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done it.
instead of connecting testpoint to USB (which i did before), i connected test point to ground-negative connector of the battery.
now i have unlocked the device.
but sadly i used wotanserver and my phone is back to stock -_-"
thanks.
@hizperion
just a question sir, why are you trying to unlock bootloader?
if you have done it already thru test point that should be it.
this would allow you to use fastboot on your phone to install custom kernel.
flashing thru wotan would definitely lead to stock since that is what it does...
melander said:
@hizperion
just a question sir, why are you trying to unlock bootloader?
if you have done it already thru test point that should be it.
this would allow you to use fastboot on your phone to install custom kernel.
flashing thru wotan would definitely lead to stock since that is what it does...
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the unlocking thru test point at the first time didn't work, because i plugged the USB out during the process. so it kinda stuck at some point (it seems like its already unlocked, but actually not yet). i tried to flash using fastboot but nothing happened too.
just check service menu.
if it states "bootloader unlocked : yes" then it is already unlocked.
if it states "bootloader unlock allowed :yes" then it is still locked.
melander said:
just check service menu.
if it states "bootloader unlocked : yes" then it is already unlocked.
if it states "bootloader unlock allowed :yes" then it is still locked.
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well in that case, it was still locked
but i couldn't unlocked it anymore by connecting the testpoint to USB
connecting the testpoint to ground of the battery solved it, as mentioned above
So I got my replacement from Sprint after bricking my phone by downgrading from s-off..
Now I tried to brick this one and seems like it turned off before I disconected and now I can't boot it up, and the downgrade tool won't detect it, I get a dim blinking red light.
Also when I try to boot up the phone it boots into the bootloader and it says Locked and under it it says security warning, what do I have to do?
Help please :/
Do I just re-do it?
anyone?
Run the ruu.
Check the sticky on how to get back to stock
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RUU and redo.
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RUU and redo.
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Yeah.
Or wait. Unlock your phone?
The reason it shows security warning is because you probably flashed something then locked your phone. thats what happens to me after locking my phone.
But now why would you try to downgrade after you bricked your phone. haha
iTzLOLtrain said:
Yeah.
Or wait. Unlock your phone?
The reason it shows security warning is because you probably flashed something then locked your phone. thats what happens to me after locking my phone.
But now why would you try to downgrade after you bricked your phone. haha
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Your right but you don't need to unlock it again. Just run the 2.17 ruu exe through the bootloader and when your phone is hooked to the computer check in your device manager menu ( if you have windows) to make sure you have your drivers. It should say My HTC or adb android.
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Your right but you don't need to unlock it again. Just run the 2.17 ruu exe through the bootloader and when your phone is hooked to the computer check in your device manager menu ( if you have windows) to make sure you have your drivers. It should say My HTC or adb android.
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Correct me if I'm wrong. But if he unlocks his phone it should be able to boot up and not show security warning. Also you need to run ruu while your phone is on fasboot USB if not your phone will just reboot
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I got past this already, the problem is phone didn't brick, after 4~ hrs of trying to get it to brick I got it, and everything went smooth after that even revolutionary got done in the first try until..
I got to MeanRom and couldn't receive texts or calls, and I got error code 16
marioca said:
I got past this already, the problem is phone didn't brick, after 4~ hrs of trying to get it to brick I got it, and everything went smooth after that even revolutionary got done in the first try until..
I got to MeanRom and couldn't receive texts or calls, and I got error code 16
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"1. Go to data menu; enter ##3282# on the dialpad.
2. Click on "Edit Mode" on the menu that appears.
3. Enter your MSL # and hit "OK"
4. Choose "Data Profile" from the listed options.
5. Press your menu button on the phone and select "Restore" from the menu that appears. Then hit "OK.
6. Phone should reboot. Once it's back up, wait for it to start hands-free activation. Once this is complete you should be good as new!"
If that doesn't work just call Sprint and tell them you are getting the Error 16 message and they will get you back going. Happened to me months ago after using revolutionary and the phone call took less than 5 minutes.
Edit: If you don't know your MSL number you can get a free app off the Play Store named MSL Reader that will find it for you.
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Correct me if I'm wrong. But if he unlocks his phone it should be able to boot up and not show security warning. Also you need to run ruu while your phone is on fasboot USB if not your phone will just reboot
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Your right, if he unlocks it it will allow him back into his ROM. I was just saying it wasn't nessasary to have to unlock again. When I was unrooting my phone to work on the down grade all I did was lock the phone and run the straight stock ruu 2.17 through the fastboot from my PC and every thing cleared up. You just need the drivers installed minus HTC sync
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I've got a Motorola Atrix 4G on 2.3.6, with 4.5.141
I used this method to unlock my Atrix's bootloader: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1182871.
At first all my files appeared as corrupted and could not be viewed, but they were all there.
Then remembered I had data encryption turned on, now I can't access the backup I made with mybackup app, nor access the internal storage's photos and documents.
I've read somewhere that the Razr would decrypt the data with the PIN, I've set the same passwords, tried enabling and disabling the encryption but had no luck...
I was wondering if there was a way to make the phone decrypt it and restore my backup...
I've found little to no info on this, but I can't be the only one with this problem...
were screwed ( it says unlocked but it actually isnt, i made a thread about this before. After i got my atrix warrantied , they gave me a newer model(piece of ****, excuse my language)that isnt actually unlockable. Does yours have 2 visible lights at the bottom of ur screen in daylight, and does ur screen keep popping up ? mabye im just unlucky
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wasssabi5 said:
were screwed ( it says unlocked but it actually isnt, i made a thread about this before. After i got my atrix warrantied , they gave me a newer model(piece of ****, excuse my language)that isnt actually unlockable. Does yours have 2 visible lights at the bottom of ur screen in daylight, and does ur screen keep popping up ? mabye im just unlucky
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Mine says unlocked, the problem is I made a backup that got encrypted by the system and I fear the key used to encrypt it got deleted, maybe if I search with a data recovery program(I would need the name of the key) so I can replace it and let the system decrypt it like before...
Mine does not have any visible lights at the bottom of the screen, don't think the atrix got them.
Maybe I'll buy an HTC One X and drop this...But I want my data back!
vorith said:
Mine says unlocked, the problem is I made a backup that got encrypted by the system and I fear the key used to encrypt it got deleted, maybe if I search with a data recovery program(I would need the name of the key) so I can replace it and let the system decrypt it like before...
Mine does not have any visible lights at the bottom of the screen, don't think the atrix got them.
Maybe I'll buy an HTC One X and drop this...But I want my data back!
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Factory reset should do it. That's the only way I know to remove encryption.
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Sass86 said:
Factory reset should do it. That's the only way I know to remove encryption.
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Isn't factory reset supposed to delete everything?
I want to decrypt my data, so I can see my photos, documents and backup, does factory reset enables the normal usage of original files?
I need to keep my data intact, so deleting it won't help me get it back.
I've found an interesting information on encryption on Motorla Razr: forums.motorola.com/posts/b027ce4327
But unfortunately it is bad news, and something I hope is not the case in the Atrix...
I've used a data recovery program: Testdisk
And found a lot of files with criptokey extension...If the encryption is based on a key per file, I'll just drop the phone in boiling water, or sell it...
Other thought is that the key is somehow related to the bootloader...It would be good if I could roll back to the original bootloader...Or even use my time machine and stop myself from encrypting my precious data...
I need help on how encryption is implemented on Atrix!
Found an interesting document:
developer.motorola.com/docs/using_the_advanced_encryption_standard_in_android
The problem is that it's app related...
I was wondering, if the Atrix uses the fingerprint to generate the key used to encrypt...
No one knows anything of Atrix's data encryption system?
Maybe it's not AES256...
developer.motorola.com/docs/writing-fingerprint-enabled-apps/
This means that the fingerprint does truly participate in key generation, also that the key will never be the same due to fingerprint images stored will never be the same, meaning that its impossible to re-generate the same key.
Unfortunately this does not talk about location of generated key, nor the name of the key or any useful details about encryption...
Hope is fading away, maybe I should just format everything...Why did I unlock bootloader...Damn app2sd!
vorith said:
Mine says unlocked, the problem is I made a backup that got encrypted by the system and I fear the key used to encrypt it got deleted, maybe if I search with a data recovery program(I would need the name of the key) so I can replace it and let the system decrypt it like before...
Mine does not have any visible lights at the bottom of the screen, don't think the atrix got them.
Maybe I'll buy an HTC One X and drop this...But I want my data back!
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Can you install roms though?mine sits at the dual core screen and some guy told me the newer atrixes were perma locked
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Can you install roms though?mine sits at the dual core screen and some guy told me the newer atrixes were perma locked
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Oh, you must be talking about the "Atrix HD" with encrypted bootloader.
Then you're in the wrong forum, this is about the "Atrix 4G", the first version of the Atrix, which can be unlocked.
The only suggestion I got for you is to try to restore the bootloader, or wait forever till they release a way to unlock it...
www.themorningdump.com/2012/07/11/a...oviding-user-unlock-method-is-motorolas-goal/
I searched the web and unfortunately there's almost no info about restoring the bootloader of the "Atrix HD". Sorry.
vorith said:
Oh, you must be talking about the "Atrix HD" with encrypted bootloader.
Then you're in the wrong forum, this is about the "Atrix 4G", the first version of the Atrix, which can be unlocked.
The only suggestion I got for you is to try to restore the bootloader, or wait forever till they release a way to unlock it...
www.themorningdump.com/2012/07/11/a...oviding-user-unlock-method-is-motorolas-goal/
I searched the web and unfortunately there's almost no info about restoring the bootloader of the "Atrix HD". Sorry.
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I think what he thought was also the atrix 4g,because some guy who send his atrix to the service center, got his atrix locked and cannot unlocked by using existing method...
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bimasakti85 said:
I think what he thought was also the atrix 4g,because some guy who send his atrix to the service center, got his atrix locked and cannot unlocked by using existing method...
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yeah, i sent my atrix in, and got back a NEW atrix, but its locked and its made out of **** materials. I used the cmd looking unlock (petes or something), but the standard wouldnt work, so i used the fix bootloader option and now it says unlocked when i boot it up, but after installing a rom through CWM, it just stays at the boot screen. Is there an alternate unlocking method that you guys can help me with? when i got it back, it has android ver.: 2.3.6, build 4.5.141, and kernel 2.6.32.9
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yeah, i sent my atrix in, and got back a NEW atrix, but its locked and its made out of **** materials. I used the cmd looking unlock (petes or something), but the standard wouldnt work, so i used the fix bootloader option and now it says unlocked when i boot it up, but after installing a rom through CWM, it just stays at the boot screen. Is there an alternate unlocking method that you guys can help me with? when i got it back, it has android ver.: 2.3.6, build 4.5.141, and kernel 2.6.32.9
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Maybe you should try another rom, because if its said unlocked at the boot screen, then your atrix is truly unlocked.
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Notes on the implementation of encryption in Android 3.0 said:
The actual encryption used for the filesystem for first release is 128 AES with CBC and ESSIV:SHA256. The master key is encrypted with 128 bit AES via calls to the openssl library.
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Found this info here:http://source.android.com/tech/encryption/android_crypto_implementation.html
I've tried opening some encrypted files with notepad, and all of them have an interesting header containing almost same parameters...
I still have not found more information about exact Motorola Atrix 4G's encryption...
There have only been a couple of reports of this "new" unlockable bootloader. Given the number of posts we see from people who have not successfully unlocked their bootloader via proven methods and have then unlocked once they have asked for help, I am inclined to believe that there is no new unlockable bootloader, and that there are instead issues with failed unlocks which people are putting down to a new bootloader rather than what could quite possible be just plain old "operator error"! Seems there was an initial few threads on various forums by the same people which has transpired into this theory. I dunno.............but I find it hard to believe that a chosen few are receiving a new bootloader on an old phone model when so many are returning phones daily and receiving repaired phones which are then summarily unlocked again.
CaelanT said:
There have only been a couple of reports of this "new" unlockable bootloader. Given the number of posts we see from people who have not successfully unlocked their bootloader via proven methods and have then unlocked once they have asked for help, I am inclined to believe that there is no new unlockable bootloader, and that there are instead issues with failed unlocks which people are putting down to a new bootloader rather than what could quite possible be just plain old "operator error"! Seems there was an initial few threads on various forums by the same people which has transpired into this theory. I dunno.............but I find it hard to believe that a chosen few are receiving a new bootloader on an old phone model when so many are returning phones daily and receiving repaired phones which are then summarily unlocked again.
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Ummm...Seems wasssabi5's problem was somehow passed as mine...
Here is my problem: All of my Atrix's backup files are ENCRYPTED, including all the photos I've taken and all the documents I've written in it...
It happened because I unlocked the bootloader without knowing that Data Encryption was turned on...
I guess the master key got destroyed and a new one was made...Making it impossible to decrypt the old files...Just like encryption on Blackberry devices
After I tried unlocking my phone's bootloader (which I miserably failed in) I just decided to flash my phone back to its current android version. After that it keeps on having the error "insert sim and reboot phone" and my sd card can't be read also. I tried getting help from a legit technician but then even after all the restarting and whatnot it still didn't work.
Is there any hope for my phone?
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After I tried unlocking my phone's bootloader (which I miserably failed in) I just decided to flash my phone back to its current android version. After that it keeps on having the error "insert sim and reboot phone" and my sd card can't be read also. I tried getting help from a legit technician but then even after all the restarting and whatnot it still didn't work.
Is there any hope for my phone?
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Ughh. Lots of people messing up Bootloaders now adays. Its a big trail-error process unlocking a bootloader. I do believe now you have no choice but to unlock your bootloader to fix your problem. These are the pages i saved on "How to" unlock your bootloader permanently. http://www.modaco.com/topic/346145-how-toguideunlock-x10-bootloader-permanently/ FALLOW THEM EXACTLY OR ELSE YOU WILL COMPLETELY REWEN YOUR PHONE. Be VERY CAREFULL. READ EVERYTHING FIVE TIMES
Just relock your bootloader and unlock it properly.
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The custom kernel links doesn't work anymore