Is it or do you have to do it the official way with waiting?
There is method to use illegal unlocking method but better waiting from unlocking sites, it takes 2 days for me, just type "for college research".
the way i did it was intalling a custom rom via custom recovery, it can be done using adb fastboot, booting a recovery image instead of installing it.
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Hey guys,
I am trying to prepare my Nexus 9 to receive root (when that happens) and I was wondering if unlocking the bootloader will suffice for the time being? That means it will wipe it once, and I can start using my Nexus 9 without worrying of wiping it in the future.
Then it means as soon as TWRP comes out with a version that supports Nexus 9 I just need to flash that (no need to wipe device) and then flash SuperSU (no wiping either)
Am I missing something here?
You're right but...
Hey ombadboy
I think this will work. Don't forget to enable the oem unlock in the developer settings before. Otherwise your try to unlock will fail. Maybe you shouldn't flash the first versions of twrp, because this will be the first one for Lollipop und encrypted storage. Just boot the image once and flash superSU. So you will still get OTA updates.
After unlocking you should be able to root without losing your data twice.
After a few time and if there are no more OTAs in the near future you can flash a stable TWRP image.
funatkill said:
Hey ombadboy
I think this will work. Don't forget to enable the oem unlock in the developer settings before. Otherwise your try to unlock will fail. Maybe you shouldn't flash the first versions of twrp, because this will be the first one for Lollipop und encrypted storage. Just boot the image once and flash superSU. So you will still get OTA updates.
After unlocking you should be able to root without losing your data twice.
After a few time and if there are no more OTAs in the near future you can flash a stable TWRP image.
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See the guide here. http://www.theandroidsoul.com/unlock-bootloader-nexus-9/
Thanks for the replied guys. Yes, that's exactly what I did; now I have an unlocked bootloader.
So if I understood this well, can I get root without flashing a custom recovery? If so, what's the purpose of flashing one?
ombadboy said:
Thanks for the replied guys. Yes, that's exactly what I did; now I have an unlocked bootloader.
So if I understood this well, can I get root without flashing a custom recovery? If so, what's the purpose of flashing one?
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The purpose of having a custom recovery is to flash custom roms.
Here's some info for root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-9/orig-development/root-t2929118/post56516599
Hogyoku said:
The purpose of having a custom recovery is to flash custom roms.
Here's some info for root
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-9/orig-development/root-t2929118/post56516599
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Recovery allows you to flash anything to device without doing manually with root explorer, adb or fastboot. Can do most anything you can do with recovery with these 3 tools.
I have a Verizon Samsung galaxy S5 G900V in which I am locked out of, im trying to flash CWM recovery to because I am locked out and the stock recovery will not allow me to install any zips or anything that I need to install. When I do try to install anything I get “signature verification failed” and “wrong foot header”. I have tried ABD also but it will only go into Sideloader mode and those commands are limited so I cannot delete the passcode file. A friend told me my variant had a locked bootloader and I need that unlocked before I can flash it but, I can’t unlock It or root it because I don’t have access to the phone. I have really important files on here, stuff that is beyond important. Is there any other way to get into the phone or is there something I can do to flash the CWM recovery?
Thanks, Addison
I'm going to be receiving a new RN3 SD in a couple of days. Since I ordered from Banggood I'm expecting to receive it with a spammed ROM and am planning to flash it immediately via EDL with the latest MIUI 8 stable ROM. Since it might take a while to get unlock permission and to make the unlocker work, I'd like to know if the following method will work to root the phone and install Xposed with a locked boot loader:
1. Boot phone into fastboot.
2. Temporarily boot TWRP recovery via fastboot command..
3. Flash Supersu.zip and Xposed with TWRP.
4. Reboot phone normally.
Since Android Lollipop doesn't use a hash of /system to check for tampering, I was hoping tis would work.
Thanks.
induna said:
I'm going to be receiving a new RN3 SD in a couple of days. Since I ordered from Banggood I'm expecting to receive it with a spammed ROM and am planning to flash it immediately via EDL with the latest MIUI 8 stable ROM. Since it might take a while to get unlock permission and to make the unlocker work, I'd like to know if the following method will work to root the phone and install Xposed with a locked boot loader:
1. Boot phone into fastboot.
2. Temporarily boot TWRP recovery via fastboot command..
3. Flash Supersu.zip and Xposed with TWRP.
4. Reboot phone normally.
Since Android Lollipop doesn't use a hash of /system to check for tampering, I was hoping tis would work.
Thanks.
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You can't flash anything via fastboot on a locked bootloader. Just wait for your permission or you can try Kingsroot for rooting.
harishmenace said:
You can't flash anything via fastboot on a locked bootloader. Just wait for your permission or you can try Kingsroot for rooting.
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Kingroot doesn't work with redmi note 3
( not just kingroot , any root software won't work with Rn3. , only way to root is to flash supersu.zip through recovery after unlocking bootloader )
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You can also create account now while you wait for your phone and apply for unlocking feature now
I've done that and when the phone arrived I already had all ready
I have a Z5C(E5803) that was originally able to unlock the bootloader and let me flash ROMs, specifically the Cyanogen ROM that CTXz has been working on. I ran out of power and got stuck in some kind of nasty bootloop yesterday that prompted me to re-flash boot.img and TWRP.
After I did these things I left it charging for a few hours and it was able to boot into TWRP where I then restored it to a backup of the basic Xperia pre-loaded ROM.
This all worked fine, thought I could boot into TWRP and just flash the Cyanogen zip again. I can get into TWRP just fine but I attempt to flash Cyanogen I get an "ERROR 7"
I have since done several wipes, gotten into the bootloader settings by entering that code in the dialer and have seen that bootloader unlock = no. I distinctly remember bootloder unlocking being allowed the first time I installed CM on my device, what could have caused this?
I was able to use it with fastboot anyway and install CM13 again, maybe this was a bug?
When I tried using oem unlock command with fastboot it said my device was already rooted even though I had just restored from a backup, and then I just proceeded normally from there.
use CM13 official Recovery to FLASH CM13.
also i don't think so twrp3.0.2 is out there for z5c. are you using any other variants Twrp? (YUGA ? )
I have a Mate 10 Pro BLA-L29 C605, that is stuck on 9.0.0.254 and I'm seriously considering paying $40 to Ministry of Solutions for their bootloader unlock service. After unlocking, I would be installing a custom recovery.
I'm not interested in root, and I would like to stick with the official firmware, so I was wondering if, after a bootloader unlock and installation of custom recovery, I would be able to install a firmware downloaded via the Firmware Finder windows application? It's been a long time since I've flashed ROMs via a custom recovery, so excuse my ignorance if the process has changed, but I'm hoping I can simply download a newer official firmware and flash it via recovery.
Thanks for the help.