Showing posts with label bootloaders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bootloaders. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 July 2016

Question about bootloaders



Hey, I'm thinking about getting this phone, but could use some clarification. Could I in some way achieve unlocked bootloaders starting with the latest version? As in, if I were to buy the phone now, would I have any chance of being locked out of installing a custom recovery and rom? I'm coming from a galaxy s4 and am kind of paranoid because of how the bootloaders are impossible to unlock past a certain firmware.
Thanks in advance, sorry if it's a dumb question



Monday, 18 July 2016

Locked Bootloaders future?



Does the future of an unlocked bootloader look promising for the Verizon s7 edge ? What is fact and what is myth?



Saturday, 16 July 2016

Amazon Moto G4 bootloaders can't be unlocked?



I've followed a couple tutorials of that explain how to unlock Motorola's Moto G4 bootloader. This seems to be the "official" one from Motorola:

https://motorola-global-portal.custh...-your-device-b

I copied part of it up to where I get stuck. Here it is:

Put your device in fastboot mode (power off, then press the power and volume down buttons simultaneously).
On your desktop, open a command prompt or terminal, and go to the directory where you installed the Android SDK tools (or make sure fastboot is in your $PATH)
At the prompt, type $ fastboot oem get_unlock_data
The returned string will be used to retrieve your unlock key.

Example: On a Windows Desktop, the returned string format would be $ fastboot oem get_unlock_data
(bootloader) 0A40040192024205#4C4D3556313230
(bootloader) 30373731363031303332323239#BD00
(bootloader) 8A672BA4746C2CE02328A2AC0C39F95
(bootloader) 1A3E5#1F53280002000000000000000
(bootloader) 0000000

****************************************

OK, so I just bought a Moto G4 for 5 on Amazon's prime day. This means that it has ads on the lock screen. I'm OK with that. But I think they also made the locked bootloader unlocakble as 3 times I've gotten this from a Windows machine in ADB mode:

(bootloader) Unlock data:
(bootloader) 3A45210407248602#
(bootloader) 5A59323233433246534C004D6F746F2047200000#
(bootloader) 1095EFAB6000EDC14660539C503A04F7900B9A01#
(bootloader) 9F93C800000000000000000000000000


There should be numbers in that first Bootloader line and then Motorola says:

You're device does not qualify for bootloader unlocking.

Has anybody else had this happen? This is my second time doing this to a Motorola phone and the Moto g2 was a snap! I was hoping to install a custom recovery like TWRP so I could get a nandroid backup while everything is new :(

Marty



Thursday, 30 June 2016

Unlocked bootloaders



Samsung has shipped USA with unlocked bootloaders. We have hope. Hopefully Samsung will let us unlock.

http://m.gsmarena.com/newscomm-19136.php

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