I recently purchased 2 Asus TF103C stocked with Android 4.4.2 and running on an Intel processor. I'd like to load a custom OS/ ROM to them for work however I have not had any success finding a process that allows me to do so. I have managed to root the tablet successfully but that is the extent of my accomplishment to date. I understand that this is a fairly new device and not much has been uncovered yet to achieve this task. Asus is also hesistant to release an unlocked bootlooder update. If anyone is aware of a process whether through adb or the likes please raise your voice to help the community out on this one.
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I recently purchased 2 Asus TF103C stocked with Android 4.4.2 and running on an Intel processor. I'd like to load a custom OS/ ROM to them for work however I have not had any success finding a process that allows me to do so. I have managed to root the tablet successfully but that is the extent of my accomplishment to date. I understand that this is a fairly new device and not much has been uncovered yet to achieve this task. Asus is also hesistant to release an unlocked bootlooder update. If anyone is aware of a process whether through adb or the likes please raise your voice to help the community out on this one.
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Before following steps bellow mentioned don't forget to install USB and ADB drivers
Also download minimal ADB and Fastboot tools ( for links use google search its easily available)
Configure your compute for fastboot Enable USB debugging on the device.
Connect the device to the computer through USB.
From a terminal on a computer, type the following to boot the device into fastboot mode
$*adb*reboot bootloader
Once the device is in fastboot mode, verify your PC sees the device by typing*
fastboot devices
If you don't see your device serial number, and instead see "<waiting for device>",
fastboot is not configured properly on your machine.
If you see "no permissionsfastboot", try running
fastboot as root.
From the same terminal, type the following command to get info of the bootloader:
fastboot oem-info
To unlock type
fastboot oem unlock
And press enter
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fastboot oem unlock Failed
The-Immortal said:
Before following steps bellow mentioned don't forget to install USB and ADB drivers
Also download minimal ADB and Fastboot tools ( for links use google search its easily available)
Configure your compute for fastboot Enable USB debugging on the device.
Connect the device to the computer through USB.
From a terminal on a computer, type the following to boot the device into fastboot mode
$*adb*reboot bootloader
Once the device is in fastboot mode, verify your PC sees the device by typing*
fastboot devices
If you don't see your device serial number, and instead see "<waiting for device>",
fastboot is not configured properly on your machine.
If you see "no permissionsfastboot", try running
fastboot as root.
From the same terminal, type the following command to get info of the bootloader:
fastboot oem-info
To unlock type
fastboot oem unlock
And press enter
May this will unlock your boot loader in general
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Hello, I tried your command suggestions to unlock the bootloader and they failed. The command 'fastboot oem-info' does not return anything and 'fastboot oem unlock' returns RESULT: FAIL (unkown OEM command) on the tablet and in the cmd window. Thanks for the suggested attempt nonetheless.
Still having this problem
fastboot oem unlock fails on the TF103C and it says RESULT:FAIL(unknown OEM command). It would be great if Asus could release a tf103c_unlock.apk utility like they have for other Asus tablets (for instance the TF701T has tf701_unlock.apk which works).
Asus, please help!
Hi. Has anyone managed to root Ulefone Armor X5?
The phone is based on MediaTek Helio P23 MT6763, 64-bit Processor.
Baseband: MOLY.LR12A.R2.MP.V91.7.P4
Kernel: 4.4.146#2 wed Sep 25 16:10:16 CST 2019
Build Nr: Armor_X5_MH1_EEA_V01
I have installed the drivers uploaded onto Mega by the Ulefone company here:
https://mega.nz/#F!t64QzRxA!SxZFFl3WrgujTaFshrFuKA!03YnGSYa
I have created the patched boot.img by Magisk Manager 7.5.0.
Enabled the OEM Unlock and USB Debugging thru the Developer options.
Thru ADB, successfully reboots to fastboot by "adb reboot bootloader". The PC recognizes it as typing "adb devices" gives the serial number.
And so far that's all.
Typing "fastboot oem unlock" or "fastboot flashing unlock" gives no result on the phone screen. The ADB says: waiting for device.
I am following most of the steps explained here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/root-ulefone-armor-6-tutorial-t3948089
Any advice on what I am doing wrong?
Is it possible to brick it or bootloop by flashing the patched boot.img directly?
Many thanks.
zhekozhekov said:
Hi. Has anyone managed to root Ulefone Armor X5?
The phone is based on MediaTek Helio P23 MT6763, 64-bit Processor.
Baseband: MOLY.LR12A.R2.MP.V91.7.P4
Kernel: 4.4.146#2 wed Sep 25 16:10:16 CST 2019
Build Nr: Armor_X5_MH1_EEA_V01
I have installed the drivers uploaded onto Mega by the Ulefone company here:
https://mega.nz/#F!t64QzRxA!SxZFFl3WrgujTaFshrFuKA!03YnGSYa
I have created the patched boot.img by Magisk Manager 7.5.0.
Enabled the OEM Unlock and USB Debugging thru the Developer options.
Thru ADB, successfully reboots to fastboot by "adb reboot bootloader". The PC recognizes it as typing "adb devices" gives the serial number.
And so far that's all.
Typing "fastboot oem unlock" or "fastboot flashing unlock" gives no result on the phone screen. The ADB says: waiting for device.
I am following most of the steps explained here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/root-ulefone-armor-6-tutorial-t3948089
Any advice on what I am doing wrong?
Is it possible to brick it or bootloop by flashing the patched boot.img directly?
Many thanks.
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If your PC Is not seeing device in fastboot. It may be you need to update your fastboot.exe
In my case there was two possibilities. In Windows 10 I gave myself higher
admin rights clicking right in the folder of my fastboot programm. I tried a little bit, but there is no big thing to get a positive answer writing (before of course I switch on under developer settings usb debugging and gave answer in phone screen) :
fastboot devices
Better and easier is it on Linux, because writing sudo in front of fastboot and ready is it:
sudo fastboot devices
sudo fastboot flashing unlock
or
sudo fastboot flashing unlock_critical
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Hi,
Recently rooted mine Armor X5 (with some pains) so remember mistakes I did and you might be doing.
First, confirm that fastboot sees your device ("fastboot devices") . If you get "waiting for device" then
try different ADB & fastboot installers (e.g. 15 seconds ADB Installer 1.4.3 or ADB installer v1.3
Good luck
waldem88 said:
Hi,
Recently rooted mine Armor X5 (with some pains) so remember mistakes I did and you might be doing.
First, confirm that fastboot sees your device ("fastboot devices") . If you get "waiting for device" then
try different ADB & fastboot installers (e.g. 15 seconds ADB Installer 1.4.3 or ADB installer v1.3
Good luck
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Thanks for the advice. I am still waiting for someone to give detailed instructions of rooting it.
Did you flash and use TWRP or flashed the patched boot.img straight? Cheers.
waldem88 said:
Hi,
Recently rooted mine Armor X5 (with some pains) so remember mistakes I did and you might be doing.
First, confirm that fastboot sees your device ("fastboot devices") . If you get "waiting for device" then
try different ADB & fastboot installers (e.g. 15 seconds ADB Installer 1.4.3 or ADB installer v1.3
Good luck
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just got my phone bro. would you be kind in sharing the method you used to root your armor x5.. thanks.
I have the some problem.
In other device, fastboot are work alright.
I try to edit (repack) Zip Rom with replace boot_verified.img with img from magisk, and instal with SP multi port from official site, its error' on boot.img....
Any idea to verify signature boot_verified.img from magisk.???
Sorry for my bad English..
A Solution
Hi, popping in to say I had the same exact problem. After you enter fastboot through the command "adb reboot bootloader", go into device manager and look for Armor X5, right-click update drivers, and then select search for drivers online. It should automatically update with the adb driver.
( I also found the code at the end of the romprovider tutorial titled "How to create a prerooted patched boot.img with magisk" useful, although fair warning it did wipe my device clean )
My input
I'll say this: There is 2, yes, two fastboot 'modes' in this fone, and is provable thus: adb reboot bootloader - shows a black screen with the tiniest of writing, and...
adb reboot recovery - boots us into (origional) recovery, where we can choose to boot into fastboot, however, when booting into this mode, at the top of the screen we see fastbootd - note the 'd' at the end? fastboot commands work, but dont stick, appear to write succesfully.
So when people say they cant use fastboot commands, this is why!
I got as far as:
adb reboot fastboot
fastboot -i 0x0E8D devices
fastboot -i 0x0E8D flashing unlock <-success - bootloader unlocked, and can be relocked.
fastboot -i 0x0E8D flash boot boot.img <- magisk_patched.img (did not show anything to say it worked)
fastboot -i 0x0E8D flash recovery twrp.img <- twrp (tried all available twrp versions, none worked so far, reckon we need a twrp built for this particular fone)
After reflashing the boot, fone bootlooped.
After flashing recovery, fone bootlooped.
So hopefully someone will chip in, because it's not normal that we can apparently flash anything with bootloader unlocked, but now we cant.. I'll point out my fone is an android 10, probably the reason no other twrp's will work, most likely being made on android 9
I have 30 years programming experience, just getting old and cranky...
Seems my thread starter was moved to god knows where, (bang go donations until I see something worth donating to lol), I AM a developer, who buys toys just to hack them!! So may threads in dev section have ZERO useable information, 'scuse the coment :/
Hi, on my side I am stuck in the same way because I found several versions:
- mt6762
- mt6763
i feel all twrp and magisk are for 6763.
Can you confirm which version you have?
Sorry but I'm stuck months too and I really need to root my phone ;-(
Pachacouti said:
I'll say this: There is 2, yes, two fastboot 'modes' in this fone, and is provable thus: adb reboot bootloader - shows a black screen with the tiniest of writing, and...
adb reboot recovery - boots us into (origional) recovery, where we can choose to boot into fastboot, however, when booting into this mode, at the top of the screen we see fastbootd - note the 'd' at the end? fastboot commands work, but dont stick, appear to write succesfully.
So when people say they cant use fastboot commands, this is why!
I got as far as:
adb reboot fastboot
fastboot -i 0x0E8D devices
fastboot -i 0x0E8D flashing unlock <-success - bootloader unlocked, and can be relocked.
fastboot -i 0x0E8D flash boot boot.img <- magisk_patched.img (did not show anything to say it worked)
fastboot -i 0x0E8D flash recovery twrp.img <- twrp (tried all available twrp versions, none worked so far, reckon we need a twrp built for this particular fone)
After reflashing the boot, fone bootlooped.
After flashing recovery, fone bootlooped.
So hopefully someone will chip in, because it's not normal that we can apparently flash anything with bootloader unlocked, but now we cant.. I'll point out my fone is an android 10, probably the reason no other twrp's will work, most likely being made on android 9
I have 30 years programming experience, just getting old and cranky...
Seems my thread starter was moved to god knows where, (bang go donations until I see something worth donating to lol), I AM a developer, who buys toys just to hack them!! So may threads in dev section have ZERO useable information, 'scuse the coment :/
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error for me too
you are win?
Using win 7 x64,
Phone is on Android 10_Q
Mtk 6765
This is an aarm64, meaning a 64-bit fone, no instructions available so far work, because they are all for android 9, lot's of 'Q' root's, but not for what they call 'A' only boot, which is not the same as A/B partitioning.
All I'm reading now is the same tut's on hundreds of websites giving the same old information... and the fact root is gone. From what I read, My fone is so up to date that I'm where most will be shortly, and with root devs too busy keeping old hat alive... Figure it out: TWRP is actually dead, now. This is why they no longer accept requests here. Twrp cannot be loaded in a dynamic partition setup, (so far) it wont even fastboot boot twrp.img, not happening with ANY twrp. So forget TWRP. Twrp is old hat to my fone.
Magisk, haha, not one version works for true 64bit, (Not implemented yet), and prob never will be, say tata magisk and say tata su, cause we cant write to the deduped ext4 system, root is kinda pointless now, cause if we cant read/write... Overlayfs is the fix I read, in about 5 years...
So its writing custom kernels for the A only tat's the way I read...
Wake up, it's time to experience the cave in to google domination... their AI patc things much quicker than waiting on devs working on what used to work...
Fingers crossed they get round to the new updates instead of concentrating on what works for ONE fone...
Pachacouti said:
Using win 7 x64,
Phone is on Android 10_Q
Mtk 6765
This is an aarm64, meaning a 64-bit fone, no instructions available so far work, because they are all for android 9, lot's of 'Q' root's, but not for what they call 'A' only boot, which is not the same as A/B partitioning.
All I'm reading now is the same tut's on hundreds of websites giving the same old information... and the fact root is gone. From what I read, My fone is so up to date that I'm where most will be shortly, and with root devs too busy keeping old hat alive... Figure it out: TWRP is actually dead, now. This is why they no longer accept requests here. Twrp cannot be loaded in a dynamic partition setup, (so far) it wont even fastboot boot twrp.img, not happening with ANY twrp. So forget TWRP. Twrp is old hat to my fone.
Magisk, haha, not one version works for true 64bit, (Not implemented yet), and prob never will be, say tata magisk and say tata su, cause we cant write to the deduped ext4 system, root is kinda pointless now, cause if we cant read/write... Overlayfs is the fix I read, in about 5 years...
So its writing custom kernels for the A only tat's the way I read...
Wake up, it's time to experience the cave in to google domination... their AI patc things much quicker than waiting on devs working on what used to work...
Fingers crossed they get round to the new updates instead of concentrating on what works for ONE fone...
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Hello, I have the same phone, any news about rooting etc.. ?
Hi,
I got my Armor X5 P22 Mediatek MT6762, Android 10 phone a couple of days ago to replace an ageing Moto G5S. I have unlocked the bootloader on several previous Android phones, but found doing so on this X5 a bit harder.
Assuming you have enabled 'Developer Options' etc on the phone and installed the Mediatek drivers and 'Minimal ADB and Fastboot' on your PC/laptop, I would suggest that once you are in Fastboot mode and have confirmed that Fastboot recognises your device with the command "Fastboot devices", that you next enter the command
Fastboot /?
This will bring up all the Fastboot commands and options installed on your phone. I then used
Fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability which returned an 8 digit number:-
D:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability
...
(bootloader) unlock_ability = 16777216
OKAY [ 0.015s]
finished. total time: 0.015s
I have no idea what the 8 digit number means, as I thought it would return '1' or '0' .
However I then did the following:
D:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flashing unlock
...
FAILED (remote: GetVar Variable Not found)
finished. total time: 6.704s
D:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot reboot
(bootloader) Start unlock flow
rebooting...
On rebooting the phone, a warning appeared on the Home Screen for 5 seconds stating that the bootloader was unlocked, the phone could not be trusted and my warranty was void. The phone was factory reset.
On re-enabling 'Developer Options' and checking the 'OEM unlocking' option the phone confirms that 'Bootloader is already unlocked'
Don't know whether this helps anyone else struggling to unlock their phone.
The 'fastboot flashing unlock' command might be unnecesary.
regards
bjlabuk said:
Hi,
I got my Armor X5 P22 Mediatek MT6762, Android 10 phone a couple of days ago to replace an ageing Moto G5S. I have unlocked the bootloader on several previous Android phones, but found doing so on this X5 a bit harder.
Assuming you have enabled 'Developer Options' etc on the phone and installed the Mediatek drivers and 'Minimal ADB and Fastboot' on your PC/laptop, I would suggest that once you are in Fastboot mode and have confirmed that Fastboot recognises your device with the command "Fastboot devices", that you next enter the command
Fastboot /?
This will bring up all the Fastboot commands and options installed on your phone. I then used
Fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability which returned an 8 digit number:-
D:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability
...
(bootloader) unlock_ability = 16777216
OKAY [ 0.015s]
finished. total time: 0.015s
I have no idea what the 8 digit number means, as I thought it would return '1' or '0' .
However I then did the following:
D:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot flashing unlock
...
FAILED (remote: GetVar Variable Not found)
finished. total time: 6.704s
D:\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>fastboot reboot
(bootloader) Start unlock flow
rebooting...
On rebooting the phone, a warning appeared on the Home Screen for 5 seconds stating that the bootloader was unlocked, the phone could not be trusted and my warranty was void. The phone was factory reset.
On re-enabling 'Developer Options' and checking the 'OEM unlocking' option the phone confirms that 'Bootloader is already unlocked'
Don't know whether this helps anyone else struggling to unlock their phone.
The 'fastboot flashing unlock' command might be unnecesary.
regards
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Hello, could you flash twrp on this phone? I have the same one (mt6762, Android 10) and couldnt find a working twrp Port...
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maxxvd said:
Hello, could you flash twrp on this phone? I have the same one (mt6762, Android 10) and couldnt find a working twrp Port...
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You dont have same fone, you have mt6762, I have mt6765
This worked for me (am using a mac so my terminal lingo may be different)
Device: Ulefone X5 2019
Chipset MT6763
Processor: arm64-v8a, A-only system partition
Reset device
Enable developer options, USB debugging, and OEM unlock, then in terminal, do:
adb device
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flashing unlock_critical
Device is now unlocked and reboots (unlocked warning now appears on reboot screen)
——
Then I installed TWRP & Magisk:
Re-enable developer options, USB debugging, and OEM unlock
To flash the TWRP recovery.img: Copy the TWRP recovery.img into the platform-tools folder, and from that folder, do:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Then once finished, hold down the power and volume up buttons until it shuts down and restarts (restarts in TWRP recovery)
——
• Download the latest Magisk installer file and put it in the ADB (platform-tools) tools folder (or in your device storage)
• Inside TWRP, go to Advanced > ADB Sideload, then do adb sideload Magisk.zip (replace Magisk.zip with the Magisk zip filename )
Swipe the slider to install Magisk
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Hi, just got a brand new Armour x5, bought unlocked. It has Android 10 on it. First, I would like to back up entire phone without installing any apps at all, adb or fastboot commands to do so would be appreciated.
I tapped developer options 7 times, enabled adb, and OEM unlocking. I then adb reboot fastboot after allowing pc to connect, and in fastboot I try:
fastboot oem unlock
and
fastboot flashing unlock
C:\adb>adb devices
List of devices attached
3082SH1001004262 device
C:\adb>adb reboot recovery
C:\adb>fastboot devices
3082SH1001004262 fastboot
C:\adb>fastboot oem unlock
...
FAILED (remote: Command not supported in default implementation)
finished. total time: 0.010s
C:\adb>fastboot flashing unlock
...
FAILED (remote: Unrecognized command flashing unlock)
finished. total time: 0.010s
to no avail, fastboot just looks blackscreen and the tiniest of fonts lol... yes drivers are installed.
So I reboot, and try the Armour 6 tut, but Magisk manager has no option to patch the boot.img I extracted from stock firmware, it also has a distinct lack of advanced settings, most likely due to my not yet having flashed a twrp or magisk-20.4 due to still unable to find out about dm-verity, (is dm-verity different between android 9 + 10?) meaning I wont flash anything that will brick the fone before i even put a sim into it.
Any help appreciated. Google sux.
Edit: Well after 12 or so hours I can honestly say that rooting is all gone downhill, does anyone actually know what they are doing nowadays?
I read all 5 copies of the rooting procedure for this phone, none of which is anywhere near complete, and so very wrong. What might have worked years ago does not work now.
In the Armour x5, when rebooting into fastboot using adb reboot fastboot, we are taken to a black screen with the smallest of txt saying fastboot. This fastboot does not ****in work ('scuse the swearing) so dont tell people to do this, it wont work. Nothing works in this fastboot mode. What you have to do is go into ANOTHER fastboot, by going into what we call recovery, by pressing power and volume up button, then choosing fastboot, ONLY then will fastboot commands kind of work. I say kind of, because most of the fastboot commands do nothing anyway, but at least show some output proving that booting into fastboot from adb is useless now.
For instance, in the pure black screen fastboot, nothing is found in adb or fastboot shell, no 'null' (needing activation), no waiting, just black nothingness. But in the recovery version of fastboot, we see fastbootd at the top of the screen, this is the fastboot that recognises at least partial commands. But none I have actually tried re finding bootloader lock status etc, nada.
I also noticed, I do have shell access when in adb, but not recovery, so if anyone knows how to flash a twrp for android 10 using shell with no root, I'll try it on my not so shiney brand spankin blank fastbootin fone
Hey everyone!
I'm having trouble unlocking the bootloader of my Vivo Y33S. I've tried everything, installed the necessary drivers, and used the Vivo fastboot software, but this annoying 'waiting for device' error keeps popping up. It's like my phone refuses to unlock its boot loader!
If any of you have managed to successfully unlock the bootloader of a Vivo Y33S and dealt with this 'waiting for device' error, I could really use your help. Any tips, alternative drivers, or suggestions to get past this error and unlock the bootloader using the Vivo fastboot software would be awesome!
By the way, my Vivo Y33S is running stock firmware version PD2147GF_EX_A_38.13.0 of that helps.
Thanks a bunch in advance for your support! Your insights and expertise are much appreciated!
Please use mtk client to unlock bootloader to unlock your device.
iVIERMA said:
Hey everyone!
I'm having trouble unlocking the bootloader of my Vivo Y33S. I've tried everything, installed the necessary drivers, and used the Vivo fastboot software, but this annoying 'waiting for device' error keeps popping up. It's like my phone refuses to unlock its boot loader!
If any of you have managed to successfully unlock the bootloader of a Vivo Y33S and dealt with this 'waiting for device' error, I could really use your help. Any tips, alternative drivers, or suggestions to get past this error and unlock the bootloader using the Vivo fastboot software would be awesome!
By the way, my Vivo Y33S is running stock firmware version PD2147GF_EX_A_38.13.0 of that helps.
Thanks a bunch in advance for your support! Your insights and expertise are much appreciated!
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Thank you for your help
i'm sorry, But it does not let me download it, may you Send a link to download it?
Enabling USB Debugging on phone is required so that your PC is able to identify your device in Fastboot Mode.
The typical Windows shell commands sequence is
Code:
adb devices
adb reboot fastboot
fastboot devices
[/coode]
xXx yYy said:
Enabling USB Debugging on phone is required so that your PC is able to identify your device in Fastboot Mode.
The typical Windows shell commands sequence is
Code:
adb devices
adb reboot fastboot
fastboot devices
[/coode]
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I do have USB debugging and OEM unlocking enabled, but the Vivo version of fastboot doesn't detect it, while the normal version does. Unfortunately, I can't use the normal version since it doesn't work with Vivo devices.
Try this
Release v1 · AndroPlus-org/fastboot-vivo
Built with Android 11 source
github.com
xXx yYy said:
Try this
Release v1 · AndroPlus-org/fastboot-vivo
Built with Android 11 source
github.com
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I have tried it, but it still doesn't recognize my device. I have the drivers installed, so I'm not sure what the problem could be.
Is there any other way to unlock the bootloader of the Vivo y33s?
Okay, I have now tried something else and discovered that Vivo Fastboot actually recognizes the device. However, when I execute the command 'fastboot bbk unlock_vivo' or 'fastboot vivo_bsp unlock_vivo', it displays the following error messages:
'FAILED (remote: Unrecognized command bbk unlock_vivo). finished. total time: 0.001s'
'FAILED (remote: Unrecognized command vivo_bsp unlock_vivo). finished. total time: 0.002s