If i send my phone to tmobile for the screen to be replace do you think they will try to unroot my phone and apply patch stopping me from gaining root again
There is no patch (yet) to prevent you from unlocking bootloader again and rooting.
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Phone: Live with walkman
For a while i have wanted to unlock my bootloader but i cant.
I have found a thread where you can unlock your phone using the test point method.
Using this tutorial - HERE
I have some questions
Can i use this method if unlocking the bootloader is not allowed?
Is there such thing as bricking? If i do it wrong will it brick my phone?
Will it effect my INSURANCE (not warranty)?
I have no experience over unlocking via test point method, so I am unable to help with it.
There is no such thing as bricking, although you can get your phone bricked, if you try to update your phone firmware over the air(3G or WiFi), while having unlocked bootloader.
But don't worry about that, chance to make it completely bricked is quite low, if you know, what you are doing.
About the insurance, check your contract details, can't help with that.
Jhawsh said:
Phone: Live with walkman
For a while i have wanted to unlock my bootloader but i cant.
I have found a thread where you can unlock your phone using the test point method.
Using this tutorial - HERE
I have some questions
Can i use this method if unlocking the bootloader is not allowed?
Is there such thing as bricking? If i do it wrong will it brick my phone?
Will it effect my INSURANCE (not warranty)?
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About the bootloader:
The s1tool method might work even if the phone is branded but if you want to unlock the boot loader to flash custom kernels and roms you will need to enter to fast boot mode which is disabled in all the branded phones that I know of, you can try to enter the phone in fastboot mode turning it of and connecting the USB cable to the PC and the phone holding down the volume up key, if the notification led turn on blue then you can flash custom kernels and rooms once the bootloader is unlocked if not then you will need to pay to unlock it if that is what you want.
About the brick and the insurance the answer was given in the previous post.
Cheers!!
If i get unlocked will it also allow me to unlock the bootloader?
After some searching.
If your phone has SIM-lock(locked to a specific network), you cannot unlock the bootloader. The only way currently is to pay some money and it will remove SIM-lock and unlock bootloader also.
Can't remember the provider exactly.
I updated my Xperia S to the latest version and I decided to try out the new feature-unlocking via face recognition. The problem arose at the beginning of the code, which I gave as an alternative way to unlock did not work. After a few hoursthe application responsible for face recognition also stopped working. And there was a really big problem: I can not in any way unlock the screen, because the code does not work, so I can not hook up the phone to the computer completely, because it requires unlocking the screen. Do you know what I can do now to be able to fully use the phone? Any entry in Safe Mode of FastBoot Mode did not work. Flashtool does not recognize the phone.
Hold volume up and power button to shut it down? Then re flash
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do you have unlocked Bootloader? if not you can use the Update Service and reinstal the firmware and everything should be OK ( whit the risk of losing ur data and apps) just like a brand new phone, you mention that you have the lastest firmware so the Update Service will tell u that you already have it, just ignore it and choose to update anyway.
if yout bootloader is unlocked you can relock it and then use the Update Service.
hope to help you
for relocking BL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1527159
On phones I've had in the past, when I officially unlock the bootloader, it shows some warning or boot image saying that the bootloader has been unlocked every time I boot the phone.
Does the AT&T HTC One do this? I ask because I'm concerned about buying one, unlocking it, and then needing to return/exchange it.
If you unlock the bootloader and it does show the boot image or warning, can you make it go away by simply relocking the bootloader?
Hi,
I am in fatal situation, where I set temporarily random pattern for lock screen and now I cannot unlock the phone.
The device is Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo, with android 6.0. I cannot factory reset it at all cost.
I tried everything but I have found one solution that I am unable to test, because of errors. Here are my questions:
1. Can I unlock the phone using aromafm? I do not have custom recovery, so there is a message about unsigned zip. I even signed it using sign-app but there is another error about "whole file verification" or something similar and it doesn't start.
2. Can I install custom recovery without unlocking my phone? Do I have to root my phone? If yes, can I root it without unlocking?
3. Debug is disabled, but if I could enable it somehow, then it could work. Is there any method? Like bypass lock screen and turn it on, or anything else...
4. Unlocking phone is as simple as removing one file from the device (gestures.key). But I am unable to do it. Let's say I have access to the phone files, but I cannot delete this file, because of SecurityException. If I root my phone, will I magically gain the permission?
5. Samsung find device is sadly not configured. Can I configure it without unlocking the device?
Thank you for your support.
Regards.
This is the first Huawei device I own and I was wondering, what are the consequences of unlocking the bootloader?
Would DRM be lost forever like in Sony Xperia phones?
And if they are lost, does any software on stock Huawei android OS stop working?
Please give as much detail as possible in your answers since I do not want to mess up my new phone.
Unlocking the bootloader permits you to modify entirely the system.
However it comes up that he puts you an annoying message saying that "this device cannot be trusted" EVERYTIME you restart your phone.
Even when you go to your stock or TWRP recovery, it always says this.
When you're rooted and you decide to relock your bootloader, it'll tell that your device is modified so it failed verification... so it's another message in your face !
You'll lose warranty it seems, you'll lose all your data, and DRM might be deleted too (due to the "factory reset lowlevel")
But there are no losses in functionality like on Sony devices. So in general, if you know what you're doing you won't run up against any problems.