What can't I do with a locked bootloader?? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4

Curious if I should wait to root until I can unlock the bootloader. Can I flash anything?

no flashing possible on locked bootloader

Blackwolf10 said:
no flashing possible on locked bootloader
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Not entirely correct. The bootloader is locked but there is a bypass. We have the ability to root, install TWRP and flash ROMs once they become available

mikebuck69 said:
Not entirely correct. The bootloader is locked but there is a bypass. We have the ability to root, install TWRP and flash ROMs once they become available
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which is simply by unlocking the bootloader

Would I be able to flash this....which is not a rom?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040163

Blackwolf10 said:
which is simply by unlocking the bootloader
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djrbliss has a way to bypass the bootloader, which is not the same as unlocking it, although that may come eventually. For our purposes it is essentially the same thing but it adds additional steps for developers creating roms/kernels etc.
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good write up on how it works. I certainly don't pretend to understand it fully at this point, but the point is he has discovered a security flaw (it's what he does) and exploited it.
http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/05/exploiting-samsung-galaxy-s4-secure-boot.html

mikebuck69 said:
djrbliss has a way to bypass the bootloader, which is not the same as unlocking it, although that may come eventually. For our purposes it is essentially the same thing but it adds additional steps for developers creating roms/kernels etc.
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good write up on how it works. I certainly don't pretend to understand it fully at this point, but the point is he has discovered a security flaw (it's what he does) and exploited it.
http://blog.azimuthsecurity.com/2013/05/exploiting-samsung-galaxy-s4-secure-boot.html
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I thought Dan had unlocked the bootloader and was just waiting to release it.
Never mind, I just read Dan's threads.

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[Q] rooting the amaze

So far I have tried every method iI can thank of rooting this phone and noe seem to work. I have done, SuperOneClick, revolutionary, unrevoke, rageagainstthemachine, gingerbreak z4root fr3vo and nothing has worked. Anyone know of any other programs to try get root
None of those that you mentioned work's with 2.3.4 Sense 3.0 , we're going to see if the bootloader's unlocked / locked first & i think it's locked it's not even letting me get into recovery mode it just show's a picture .
It is locked but you can unlock it using htcdev site
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crackeyes said:
It is locked but you can unlock it using htcdev site
Sent from my HTC PG09410 using XDA App
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Give me a link to unlock my bootloader & i would be glad to create / help with root & check this out while your doing that .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1289119
create a account and just follow the instructions
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
It does not show that it is supported but it worked on my device
This will allow you to flash a custom recover (which we do not have yet) I beleive it does ot give true s-off (flasing radios and what not)
crackeyes said:
create a account and just follow the instructions
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
It does not show that it is supported but it worked on my device
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Mhm , i might need you to teamview me , i tryed that & it didn't work .
PM me and I can assit. After doing the unlocking it pretty much FDR so make sure you have everything backed up
crackeyes said:
PM me and I can assit. After doing the unlocking it pretty much FDR so make sure you have everything backed up
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What do you mean ? I just want to unlock it , that way once we get root & recovery or once my bootloader's unlocked i could work on root & a ROM
after it is unlocked it Factory Data Resets the device. In other words just like you pulled it out of the box
When they track phone's they track the MIUI , they don't track the phone , only the MIUI which is on the phone .
crackeyes said:
after it is unlocked it Factory Data Resets the device. In other words just like you pulled it out of the box
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Just wait. Revolutionary will unlock the bootloader as soon as phone is out. No point officially voiding the warranty when there will be an unofficial way.
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Gold Card?
I don't have this device I was just bored and browsing around, but I'm hearing something about a gold card method?? Not sure if this is any good for you guys but maybe look in to it and it can be used and or modded to work for you guys....
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I read through this extremely quick so if it is of no use then my apologies.. Just wanted to help some fellow Androidians out lol..
Link: http://android.modaco.com/topic/305672-creating-a-goldcard/
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That one was for the GoldCard, there is some instructions around for a ton of HTC devices, some real old and some pretty new. You guys should look in to it and maybe try to work something out!
Undeadk9 said:
No point officially voiding the warranty when there will be an unofficial way.
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I doubt that unlocking will void the warranty. The HTC warranty on the MyTouch 4G only covers physical problems, which are still covered no matter what ROM is installed. I suspect HTC has a pretty similar warranty on all their phones.

[Q] Possible to Root after taking OTA Update?

I recently had a 4g LTE tower put in near my house. It's amazing.
I no longer want to pay $75 a month for DSL internet that is 6mbs Download /1Mbs Upload, especially considering my phone now gets 20Mbs/5Mbs
So I have the OTA update (mistake).
What can I do to get Wifi Tether to work without subscription?
What can I do to possibly unlock my phone?
I would gladly donate to anyone that could help. You would be saving me a lot of money. Money which would be heading your way for what ever shenanigans you can muster.
Thanks
StarvinNick said:
I recently had a 4g LTE tower put in near my house. It's amazing.
I no longer want to pay $75 a month for DSL internet that is 6mbs Download /1Mbs Upload, especially considering my phone now gets 20Mbs/5Mbs
So I have the OTA update (mistake).
What can I do to get Wifi Tether to work without subscription?
What can I do to possibly unlock my phone?
I would gladly donate to anyone that could help. You would be saving me a lot of money. Money which would be heading your way for what ever shenanigans you can muster.
Thanks
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If you had supercid with 1's or 2's prior to the update yes it is possible. Otherwise I think you can still get s-off if you ruu back to the 1.0.0 version. Just unlocking the bootloader is def possible as I did it myself. Search the threads to find out how to unlock , if I find it I will post the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011243
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canemaxx said:
If you had supercid with 1's or 2's prior to the update yes it is possible. Otherwise I think you can still get s-off if you ruu back to the 1.0.0 version. Just unlocking the bootloader is def possible as I did it myself. Search the threads to find out how to unlock , if I find it I will post the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011243
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Once to unlock you can obtain root and use wifi tether
canemaxx said:
If you had supercid with 1's or 2's prior to the update yes it is possible. Otherwise I think you can still get s-off if you ruu back to the 1.0.0 version. Just unlocking the bootloader is def possible as I did it myself. Search the threads to find out how to unlock , if I find it I will post the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011243
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Once to unlock you can obtain root and use wifi tether
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You cannot RUU backwards, without s-off.
You cannot s-off without unlock.
You cannot unlock without superCID.
You cannot get superCID if you're on the OTA.
trickster2369 said:
You cannot RUU backwards, without s-off.
You cannot s-off without unlock.
You cannot unlock without superCID.
You cannot get superCID if you're on the OTA.
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My fault on the ruu but I had supercid before I took the ota and was able to s-off
canemaxx said:
My fault on the ruu but I had supercid before I took the ota and was able to s-off
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The reason you can't do anything on the ota is because you can't supercid on it. Everything else requires supercid. Ao if you have taken the ota and didn't do supercid beforehand then you are sol.
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Relock the Bootloader

Hey guys,
do you know whether it is possible to "relock" the bootloader on the Desire X. I recently got my phone and want to flash a custom Rom but it would be awesome to know I'm not loosing my warranty whith unlocking the bootloader on HTCdev.
thank you in advice
You will lose your warranty. You can only change back the status to "Relocked", so far there's no way to return it to "Locked".
thank you for your fast answer. There is no way to install a custom rom with a locked bootloader, isn't it?
CZECHer said:
Hey guys,
do you know whether it is possible to "relock" the bootloader on the Desire X. I recently got my phone and want to flash a custom Rom but it would be awesome to know I'm not loosing my warranty whith unlocking the bootloader on HTCdev.
thank you in advice
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Read the following before you proceed.
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
Your phone will only have limited warranty once you unlock bootloader.
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CZECHer said:
thank you for your fast answer. There is no way to install a custom rom with a locked bootloader, isn't it?
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No
Thank you for your help. I'm pretty shure I will unlock my device but not yet..
Do you know how to temp root the Desire X running Android 4.0.4 for uninstalling some annoying stock apps? Some time ago I used an app called "Visionary+" but i don't think this will work anymore..
CZECHer said:
Thank you for your help. I'm pretty shure I will unlock my device but not yet..
Do you know how to temp root the Desire X running Android 4.0.4 for uninstalling some annoying stock apps? Some time ago I used an app called "Visionary+" but i don't think this will work anymore..
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Don't know about temp root, but you can always disable most of the system bloatwares.
Navigate to Settings > Apps > All
Choose the app you want to disable
You will find an option to disable it.
Disabling some system apps might lead to boot loops..
Regards,
navmad
Thank you once again. I didn't mention you can disable stock apps^^

Razr maxx bootloader unlock

Dan Rosenberg has posted qualcomm snapdragon processor bootloader unlock method
Thank my friend Rajan Mehta for information
http://vulnfactory.org/blog/2013/04/08/motorola-bootloader-unlocking/
kshah said:
Dan Rosenberg has posted qualcomm snapdragon processor bootloader unlock method
http://vulnfactory.org/blog/2013/04/08/motorola-bootloader-unlocking/
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RAZR and RAZR MAXX HD only.
Oh sorry.
Here's a link to a bootloader unlocker by the same guy for RAZR and RAZR MAXX (XT 912)
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/6924-root-achieved-for-jb-ota-razrmaxx-xt912/
59eagle said:
Here's a link to a bootloader unlocker by the same guy for RAZR and RAZR MAXX (XT 912)
http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/6924-root-achieved-for-jb-ota-razrmaxx-xt912/
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That is root, not bootloader unlock.
This thread needs to have its bootloader locked!
Sent from my DROID RAZR using xda premium
We have Kexec...-why would we need a bootloader unlock? Moto should stuff its locked bootloader in its throat...
But KeXec doesn't give us the ability to flash CWM on an unrooted Phone. This makes rooting a lot easier :thumbup:
Gesendet von meinem XT890 mit Tapatalk 2
i have xt910 ...
maarawoe said:
We have Kexec...-why would we need a bootloader unlock? Moto should stuff its locked bootloader in its throat...
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The biggest reason to unlock the bootloader is to have the ability to revert your system to a version which the user took a special liking too.
I'm sure some would appreciate the ability to go back to gingerbread or ICS.
Have an look @ the RazR i Forum and you'll see how funny it is to downgrade your OS with an unlocked Bootloader, if you don't know how to do it.
Lucky Me i switch between ICS and JB without issues, but i know how to do it. Most people just started RSD and ended up with an hard bricked Device. We warned them again and again, in every OS related Thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2218273
so no boot loader unlock then?
BADDINOROX99 said:
so no boot loader unlock then?
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No
Sent from my DROID RAZR using xda premium
Hmm...I would say a unlocked bootloader would be nice but also provides some more risks to "usual" users. It's much easier to hardbrick your device with an unlocked bootloader, so a locked bootloader safes us from hradbricking our devices in some ways.
In fact we have Kexec which allows us to boot custom kernels - of course we cannot flash anything we want to partitions but in theory with a custom kernel we can create kind of virtual partitions for use with modified baseband...not sure here... but Custom kernels really provide lots of features - besides of the above mentioned things we can really do a lot of things with a kernel
dtrail1 said:
Hmm...I would say a unlocked bootloader would be nice but also provides some more risks to "usual" users. It's much easier to hardbrick your device with an unlocked bootloader, so a locked bootloader safes us from hradbricking our devices in some ways.
In fact we have Kexec which allows us to boot custom kernels - of course we cannot flash anything we want to partitions but in theory with a custom kernel we can create kind of virtual partitions for use with modified baseband...not sure here... but Custom kernels really provide lots of features - besides of the above mentioned things we can really do a lot of things with a kernel
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I didnt know that
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I just found your custom kernel... I did flash your BSE 0.4 and just saw where you released 0.4.1.... Do I just flash right over the previous kernel
BOSS__DAWG said:
I didnt know that
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I just found your custom kernel... I did flash your BSE 0.4 and just saw where you released 0.4.1.... Do I just flash right over the previous kernel
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yeah but make sure your on an aosp ROM liquid, cm,aokp,Pac ect

[BOOTLOADER] Unlock Status

Please post updates in this thread as to whether you were able to unlock your HTC One today. Include the time (EST).
This is a centralized thread that can help us know whether/when the htcdev.com bootloader unlock goes down.
Unlocked mine 4/18/13 @ 1:30am EST.
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Unlocked via htcdev.com 3/18 9:00pm EST
Rooted using HTC One (M7) All-In-One Toolkit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2183942
I used TWRP and everything is working great.
Toaster Strudels said:
Please post updates in this thread as to whether you were able to unlock your HTC One today. Include the time (EST).
This is a centralized thread that can help us know whether/when the htcdev.com bootloader unlock goes down.
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It would be great if folks could also add:
1) Did they do the OTA update prior to unlock?
2) Did they figure out a way to keep the apps that disappear after unlock?
Unlocked at 12pm eastern without the ota
How do you unlock ? Just got my phone from AT&T ,
Is this Unlock as in sim - unlock ?
Newbie here , sorry if I am wrong.
dlup902 said:
Unlocked at 12pm eastern without the ota
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swapna81 said:
How do you unlock ? Just got my phone from AT&T ,
Is this Unlock as in sim - unlock ?
Newbie here , sorry if I am wrong.
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It's a bootloader unlock, so you can root, and eventually put custom Roms on there.
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
I assume you choose all other supported models, and begin the process.
Unlocked via HTCDev @ 1:20 pm EST
Unlocked at 2:15CST 4/18/13
HTCdev.com (All other supported devices)
[Tutorial] Root, Unlock, Recovery and flashing a Custom ROM
Makes it easy, especially for me a first time HTC user.
Unlocked at 2:30 pm april 18th
Just unlocked at 1:30pm EDT on April 19, 2013
Unlocked 1:41 PM HTCdev
gunnyman said:
Unlocked 1:41 PM HTCdev
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You got one? haha couldn't help yourself?
joshuadjohnson22 said:
You got one? haha couldn't help yourself?
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Yeah I can work some Magic on craigs list
I had $200 cash in reserve for August when this phone comes out. Someone wanted to buy my LGOG
sold it for $325
so now I have the One and my upgrade still intact.
gunnyman said:
Yeah I can work some Magic on craigs list
I had $200 cash in reserve for August when this phone comes out. Someone wanted to buy my LGOG
sold it for $325
so now I have the One and my upgrade still intact.
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Nice good work. So what are you going to flash first? I know I will go for Trick Droid
joshuadjohnson22 said:
Nice good work. So what are you going to flash first? I know I will go for Trick Droid
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going to run stock rooted for a bit. Assuming I can get recovery to take
kind of struggling with that now
just unlocked mine 1:18 here in chicago
Just unlocked my AT&T version...2:19 eastern time.
Thank heavens!
Was able to unlock no problem. Literally 5 minutes at 10:50ish this morning. NYC
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gunnyman said:
going to run stock rooted for a bit. Assuming I can get recovery to take
kind of struggling with that now
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Gunny me and you are everywhere lol. I got my recovery to stick by just rebooting into bootloader until it said tampered. Took about 15 tries. Fastboot off.
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Fidelio_o said:
Was able to unlock no problem. Literally 5 minutes at 10:50ish this morning. NYC
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Gunny me and you are everywhere lol. I got my recovery to stick by just rebooting into bootloader until it said tampered. Took about 15 tries. Fastboot off.
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It's old home week.
So thrilled to see so many former Evita owners here.
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gunnyman said:
It's old home week.
So thrilled to see so many former Evita owners here.
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Oh and I finally got it to take.
TWRP installed, device rooted, titanium backup restored.
OTG works! I'm shocked.
backing up stock rooted to a flash drive now.

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