Hello!
I recently bought the 8" M5 without realising the hoops I'd have to jump through to unlock the bootloader.
After getting lucky and being able to downgrade to FW163 I have successfully unlocked the bootloader and I've been running a treble rom. Yesterday I wanted to try out an OpenKirin rom, so I flashed the stock EMUI 8 firmware in order to then flash the OpenKirin rom.
After flashing stock I realised my bootloader was relocked - not a big issue as I still had the unlock code and I was still on FW163.
My question is - if I upgrade to EMUI 9 ota will this relock my bootloader the same as manually flashing 163 did, and if so, will I still be able to unlock on higher FW versions since I already have the unlock code? As far as I'm aware the issue we were faced with was actually obtaining the unlock code after official support ended, so in theory now that I have the code I should be able to unlock on any firmware, right?
Thanks!
jrush4 said:
Hello!
I recently bought the 8" M5 without realising the hoops I'd have to jump through to unlock the bootloader.
After getting lucky and being able to downgrade to FW163 I have successfully unlocked the bootloader and I've been running a treble rom. Yesterday I wanted to try out an OpenKirin rom, so I flashed the stock EMUI 8 firmware in order to then flash the OpenKirin rom.
After flashing stock I realised my bootloader was relocked - not a big issue as I still had the unlock code and I was still on FW163.
My question is - if I upgrade to EMUI 9 ota will this relock my bootloader the same as manually flashing 163 did, and if so, will I still be able to unlock on higher FW versions since I already have the unlock code? As far as I'm aware the issue we were faced with was actually obtaining the unlock code after official support ended, so in theory now that I have the code I should be able to unlock on any firmware, right?
Thanks!
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Theoritically said, yes, because the xloader have those kind of hexes that stay the same even after updating the firmware and the xloader and as additional info, I'm now on Omnirom for EMUI 9 vendor from Openkirin team and I can download the EMUI from eRecovery without getting my bootloader locked
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Hi everyone, i have already unlocked the bootloader by unofficial method.(its snapdragon version) but today got permissions from xiaomi to unlock it.
So, i want to unlock it by official method. How can i do it???because it is already unlocked
flash the MIUI ROM and it will again lock the bootloader. Then you can go with official unlock
Is it not necessary to replace emmc files in image folder?
I got my kenzo yesterday and was surprised because it's already unlocked. My problem now is how to flash TWRP, since there is 2 methods which involves a bootloader unlocked via the official/unofficial method. I don't want to install official MIUI because it will re-lock the BL, plus what I want is a AOSP/CM based custom ROM. Please help!
**I got this Note 3 from an online retailer. They said their supplier is the one who unlocked the device. The retailer doesn't know if it is unlocked officially or by the unofficial method.
Hello,
is there someone who managed to officially unlock his or hers "kate" device with Marshmallow. I was using LineageOS with official BL unlock, but done on LP, and after 03/05 LOS update, my phone stopped booting LineageOS. I tried installing the latest firmware and the phone's bootloader relocked. Since then I've been trying every possible version of MIUI with the hope that I'll be able to associate my device with my account and officially unlock, but no luck so far. That happened a month ago.
Is there some way to unlock the device officially and if so, how? I even put chinese dev rom from kenzo, just replaced the NON-HLOS from a kate so I have a working modem and WiFi. No luck too.
I'm willing to unofficially unlock, as long as I know that I can use the latest LineageOS.
Any help is welcome. Thanks.
I have never had any luck with the official unlock on my Kate.
In case you haven't seen it try this guide to unofficially "unlock" https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-note-3/how-to/kate-guide-install-lineage-os-locked-t3546154
All you have to do is replace recovery.img in a MIUI Fastboot IMG with TWRP and flash through MiFlash.
So I Just bought the Honor 5x month ago, I wasn't really interested into downloading a rom, so I left it as it is running the stock rom 6.0.1 and the time havr finially came and I decided to install a rom, while doing my research to install the rom, I found out that Honor ships it with locked bootloader and it's not available to unlock the bootloader via the official website anymore, so any solution to unlock the bootloader?
DC-uncloker is the answere...do same research on how it work
Hi,
I am a first time Xiaomi user and just got the Mi 10 Global version. I tried manually installing the official global MI 10 Miui 12 ROM, but the update failed as it couldn't be verified. Please take a look at the screenshots..
I can't update it via fastboot neither, as my bootloader is locked and Xiaomi wants me to wait for 168 hours (7 days!) to try again.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Don't update the **** miui 12
MaTiCeK- said:
Hi,
I am a first time Xiaomi user and just got the Mi 10 Global version. I tried manually installing the official global MI 10 Miui 12 ROM, but the update failed as it couldn't be verified. Please take a look at the screenshots..
I can't update it via fastboot neither, as my bootloader is locked and Xiaomi wants me to wait for 168 hours (7 days!) to try again.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Because it is a Vodafone branding. You have to wait till Vodafone release the update.
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So the VF at the end of MIUI version number means Vodafone?
If that's the case I might as well go and unlock my bootloader, flash the unbranded global rom and relock the bootloader.
Do I loose anything by unlocking and relocking the bootloader? I had Samsung phones before, where unlocking the bootloader would trip Knox and invalidate your warranty.
MaTiCeK- said:
So the VF at the end of MIUI version number means Vodafone?
If that's the case I might as well go and unlock my bootloader, flash the unbranded global rom and relock the bootloader.
Do I loose anything by unlocking and relocking the bootloader? I had Samsung phones before, where unlocking the bootloader would trip Knox and invalidate your warranty.
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Yes VF is Vodafone branding. If you unlock bootloader you will loose your data. So make a backup.
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So in the end I flashed it with Xiomi Tool V2 and I didn't need to unlock the bootloader.