Hey guys I have a Mytouch that i got from Google and I want to know if its unlocked..how can i tell?
thankyou
harsaphes said:
Hey guys I have a Mytouch that i got from Google and I want to know if its unlocked..how can i tell?
thankyou
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terminal... su to root....
I have no idea what that means.
harsaphes said:
I have no idea what that means.
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Doesn't matter it will only tell you if you have root and not if the phone is unlocked. Two different things, what exactly are you looking for are you wanting to use it out of your country? That's what unlocking will do for you.
Clinton
Move it.
This isn't exactly where this should be posted. I'm not being a prick; I'm just sick of what's been happening more often than none since the release of the MyTouch. This section of the overall thread is flooded with "GENERAL" questions.
And for the record, the phrase "unlocked" doesn't necessarily apply to our ANDROID-based OS devices. ROOTED would be a more appropriate term because it's functioning on what is more likely to be LINUX as opposed to, say - SOME APPLE INC. bull****!
Excuse my French fellas.
If by "unlocked" the OP really didn't mean being rooted, the quickest way to check is to put in a SIM card from another carrier. No?
vickiediablos said:
If by "unlocked" the OP really didn't mean being rooted, the quickest way to check is to put in a SIM card from another carrier. No?
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Sure, sure.
Indeed. Specify next time guy.
Test it as she has stated here. Toss in another SIM card from a GSM provider.
That's about the only way to validate the "unlocked" nature of the phone.
harsaphes said:
Hey guys I have a Mytouch that i got from Google and I want to know if its unlocked..how can i tell?
thankyou
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Well it doesnt really get any more specific than that, now does it?...And yes, just thought to myself this morning why not put a different sim card in the phone to see if it works.
harsaphes said:
Well it doesnt really get any more specific than that, now does it?...And yes, just thought to myself this morning why not put a different sim card in the phone to see if it works.
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This is a new development segment?? Wrong forum...
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Hello all! I'm new here and I recently became an owner of the Tmobile MDA. My problem is I try to upload that new ROM on to my MDA but instead of restarting after the completion of the update, it continues to show the 3 colored screen. I need help because I have no clue what's going on with this phone right now. Can someone help me fix this! Thanks
Browse the wiki! Everything's in there and your question has been asked thousands of times!
Quiyaro said:
Browse the wiki! Everything's in there and your question has been asked thousands of times!
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where is that?
jaajayi said:
where is that?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=277975
ok, i had looked at it earlier and there's some things that I don't understand. I just called Tmobile to see if they could do a master reset and that was no luck. so my phone is totally screwed right now and i really need help....
Did you read any of the upgrading stickies? If you didn't understand what to do, why did you proceed?
Re-read the upgrading stickies, then grab the T-Mobile carrier ROM, get into the bootloader, and reflash the carrier ROM. Just so you know, T-Mobile will not help you if you tried upgrading to WM6. You are on your own as far as they're concerned.
ok so how do i flash to my phone
This will be the only freebie I give you. After this, it's up to you to actually do some research.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298613
After reading that and doing some basic research on this and and upgrading board, if you can't figure out how to flash your phone back to the original carrier ROM you need to find someone who can and pay them to fix it.
kegobeer said:
Did you read any of the upgrading stickies?
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jaajayi said:
ok so how do i flash to my phone
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jeezus tap dancing christ
did you read ANY of the stickies, ever single question you asked is in one
Do I need one of those "vanilla" developer phones if I'm to install a custom ROM on my Note 3? As far as I know, nope. You can root any Android phone.
I'm fairly sure that I can ClockWorkMod + install custom ROM on a phone I purchase in a shop. But I just want to make sure .
Thank you in advance .
You are joking, right ?
If not, yes.
Sent from my N9005
axonn said:
Do I need one of those "vanilla" developer phones if I'm to install a custom ROM on my Note 3? As far as I know, nope. You can root any Android phone.
I'm fairly sure that I can ClockWorkMod + install custom ROM on a phone I purchase in a shop. But I just want to make sure .
Thank you in advance .
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You need to READ a lot!!! Really, you will surely make something wrong...READ!
dragoncius said:
You need to READ a lot!!! Really, you will surely make something wrong...READ!
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Although my question seemed that of a noob, I can assure you I am not. My first rooted phone was HTC Tytn2 which I rooted using Duty's ROM's which I found here back in 2008. So no worries . Now I have a rooted SG2. I know all the procedures, safety steps and so on.
The reason I asked such a dumb question was that I had a 1% uncertainty regarding this, which I was unwilling to risk on.
As far as I know, the so-called dev-phones are simply loaded with a vanilla version of Android, no Samsung bloatware.
Anyway, thank you guys for calming my fears .
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Although my question seemed that of a noob, I can assure you I am not. My first rooted phone was HTC Tytn2 which I rooted using Duty's ROM's which I found here back in 2008. So no worries . Now I have a rooted SG2. I know all the procedures, safety steps and so on.
The reason I asked such a dumb question was that I had a 1% uncertainty regarding this, which I was unwilling to risk on.
As far as I know, the so-called dev-phones are simply loaded with a vanilla version of Android, no Samsung bloatware.
Anyway, thank you guys for calming my fears .
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There´s only one Google Edition phone in Samsung, the S4. Still, you can get a "normal" S4 and still flash it like crazy.
dragoncius said:
There´s only one Google Edition phone in Samsung, the S4. Still, you can get a "normal" S4 and still flash it like crazy.
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Flash it like crazy. I like the sound of that! *grin*
Hello, I'm a little new the website but I've lurked around before. I've run out of ideas and don't want to break anything. I've recently temp rooted my HTC One M8 and would like to unlock the bootloader and S-Off so I may load a custom rom. I've done this once before on an older android device but with this one I simply cannot do it. Can anyone provide a tutorial on how I should go about this? I understand firewater no longer exists and I dont really want to pay for sunshine unless I have to. Also, my phone is running 4.4.4
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Hello, I'm a little new the website but I've lurked around before. I've run out of ideas and don't want to break anything. I've recently temp rooted my HTC One M8 and would like to unlock the bootloader and S-Off so I may load a custom rom. I've done this once before on an older android device but with this one I simply cannot do it. Can anyone provide a tutorial on how I should go about this? I understand firewater no longer exists and I dont really want to pay for sunshine unless I have to. Also, my phone is running 4.4.4
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You don't have a choice, its the only method. If you don't want to pay $25 then you stay stock.
That was a little harsh @sjpritch25
Morbid Fable said:
That was a little harsh @sjpritch25
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Its true though
I didn't mean to be harsh. That wasn't my intent, I apologize if it came out that way. Just wanted to be honest.
sjpritch25 said:
I didn't mean to be harsh. That wasn't my intent, I apologize if it came out that way. Just wanted to be honest.
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Its all good I understand, me and my friend bought our phones around the same period of time and are looking to root it, while I want to support sunshine I refuse to pay 25$ for something I can just wait for.
I understand, but what's to say root will come without sunshine?
sjpritch25 said:
I understand, but what's to say root will come without sunshine?
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Not likely to happen
Hi i was just wondering if anyone knows if an unlocked bootloader and custom recovery for custom roms will ever be possible on the LG G4 AT&T model?
Ummm...
You must be new. Do you not know about AT&T?
Ha! Just kidding.
But no. Most likely gonna be locked forever.
Unless you know something we don't...
snap-your-toes said:
You must be new. Do you not know about AT&T?
Ha! Just kidding.
But no. Most likely gonna be locked forever.
Unless you know something we don't...
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Wish i would of known that before i got this phone ?. I would be so happy if someone gets the bootloader unlocked soon
The odds are greater that the moon is in fact made of cheese.
Hello XDA Forums,
I'm having trouble rooting my S6, I'm a blockhead and can't seem to figure out whats going on. Any help, tips, or comments?
My carrier is AT&T.
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diorxx said:
Hello XDA Forums,
I'm having trouble rooting my S6, I'm a blockhead and can't seem to figure out whats going on. Any help, tips, or comments?
My carrier is AT&T.
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Can't access the links as it's not letting me copy them on my phone on the xda app. What android version are you on?
sofir786 said:
Can't access the links as it's not letting me copy them on my phone on the xda app. What android version are you on?
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Android version: 7.0
Model number: SAMSUNG-SM-G920A
Right okay cool thanks for that. I have bad news for you, because your phone has a locked bootloader it cannot be rooted at this point until an exploit is found. I even had a look over in the At&T s6 forums and there's not much going on. Sorry mate.
sofir786 said:
Right okay cool thanks for that. I have bad news for you, because your phone has a locked bootloader it cannot be rooted at this point until an exploit is found. I even had a look over in the At&T s6 forums and there's not much going on. Sorry mate.
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That sucks but thanks for the straightforward answer. But there's really 0 options for me at this point? Not even downgrading or flashing? (Just some terms I've picked up, don't exactly know what those mean)
diorxx said:
That sucks but thanks for the straightforward answer. But there's really 0 options for me at this point? Not even downgrading or flashing? (Just some terms I've picked up, don't exactly know what those mean)
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Unfortunately not, downgrading is when going from one version to the previous, due to how samsung setup their bootloader, trying to say go from nougat to Marshmallow is not possible so you will always remain on nougat. Flashing is commonly done via a recovery and a piece of software called odin, every phone has a recovery but most root things need you to have a custom recovery like twrp this can only be achieved via having root, odin is used to flash stock Samsung firmwares. Hope that helps a bit. For the time being my advice to you is to keep looking at the s6 at&t forums from time to time, at some point they may come out with a root exploit that works.