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If I want to take the phone back to stock, what do I have to do to get the OTA? The phone said unlocked even before we started rooting it. Do these phones come unlocked (sprint 4g)?

loveubuntu said:
If I want to take the phone back to stock, what do I have to do to get the OTA? The phone said unlocked even before we started rooting it. Do these phones come unlocked (sprint 4g)?
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What I did was install a stock nandroid through recovery, then relocked my bootloader. Your phone must have been previously rooted, because the phone's do not ship in that state. To re lock your boot loader just boot your phone into the bootloader, start the command prompt on your pc, and then type fastboot oem lock.

Thanks. to go factory condition though, I have to unroot first and then fastboot oem unlock, correct?
You maybe right, if that is how easy to unlock-lock, I may have unlocked it by fastboot oem locked and not remembered (it was late). This is a friends phone and I'm not used to having phones unlocked this easily.

You can leave the boot loader unlocked and still receive ota updates.
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loveubuntu said:
If I want to take the phone back to stock, what do I have to do to get the OTA? The phone said unlocked even before we started rooting it. Do these phones come unlocked (sprint 4g)?
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Yeah, OTA updating should have nothing do with whether your bootloader is locked or not

Rooting and unlocking the bootloader will not affect the ota, what will is custom system apps like non stock gmail, or a changed build prop (common from market enabler)
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[Q] How Do I Unlock a Tampered Bootloader

I have an AT&T 3.18 one x. The bootloader is showing as TAMPERED. I am able to successfully get superCID and get the unlock_code.bin from htcdev. I can successfully use that and the phone warns me, blah blah, and then resets everything and boots into a wiped android.
The problem is that when I reboot into the bootloader again it still says TAMPERED LOCKED. I am unable to load an custom recoveries.
Everything I read says I can unlock the BL without htcdev, but it requires root. But the way to acquire root is with an unlocked bootloader! rock-->me<--hard place.
Any advice on what to try next? I've never had this much trouble rooting/romming before, I've lost my touch apparently.

Sounds like its unlocked but the locked field I your bootloader is spoofed.. Did you buy this phone used?
If im wrong then it just means you need to keep trying thr unlock bin file over andover until it unlocks. Do a hard reset by holding thepower button until the phone shuts off between tries. Eventually it will unlock

Yes, bought it used.
I tried flashing recovery downloaded from cm install wiki and got "signature invalid".
The only way I can get into the BL is using adb or holding volume down while restarting from os.
I've done it twice, will try more.
The supercid is only the temp one meant for using htcdev. Do I need to redo that each time before applying the unlock code bin?

germancarsrock said:
Yes, bought it used.
I tried flashing recovery downloaded from cm install wiki and got "signature invalid".
The only way I can get into the BL is using adb or holding volume down while restarting from os.
I've done it twice, will try more.
The supercid is only the temp one meant for using htcdev. Do I need to redo that each time before applying the unlock code bin?
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No you should not need to. Your bootloader is definitely still locked. Keep trying! It was probably relocked. It may take many tries before it unlocks. Ive relocked my bootloader a few times in the past for testing purposes

Success! Thanks for the encouragement!
Only took two more attempts. First tried turning off "reboot faster" option in the power settings menu before I did the restart-while-holding-volume-down. But that didn't work.
Then tried the hold-power-for-10-seconds like you suggested and it worked that time. Now I am TAMPERED UNLOCKED S-OFF and running cm10.

Can't Relock Bootloader

Hey guys,
So i went to walmart a couple days ago and bought the virgin mobile Moto G. The first thing i did when i got home was root it. Turns out that the phone i got does not work for my plan. so i need to return it, and i'd like to make it completely stock for warranty reasons. The only problem is that i can't get the bootloader to relock. I've tried using the Windroid universal android tool and have followed this guide with the correct files for my phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646415. Everything Went fine, phone is completely stock..but the bootloader still says its unlocked. Could anyone help me with this?
Thanks!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/general/wip-unlock-bootloader-moto-g-2nd-gen-t2875728
Scroll to the bottom of the post and you will find how to lock it again.

@eddie298 - Once Bootloader has been unlocked, it's permanent. Fastboot screen will always state unlocked, even if you do so-called 'OEM relocking' - Fastboot command:
fastboot oem lock​

HTC U11 Stuck after firmware flash

Hello everyone,
I recently got an htc u11, my first android phone, to kind of play around with and see what I could do. I was messing around with rooting it and unlocking the bootloader etc. Then I started to play around with the firmware. Basically I got the sunshine app and flashed some firmware and now when ever it boots up it says the phone is encrypted and that if you enter the wrong password it will reset all the user data. After resetting all the user data the same screen keeps coming up.
The problem is now I can't flash the stock firmware back because the s-off from sunshine is temporary and now of course it is back on. The bootloader is relocked and it cannot boot into recovery.
Any help or advice would be appreciated
Thanks for reading

Phone just crashed. Could it be because of an unlocked bootloader ?

I opened up the developer options on my Moto G Stylus and went under OEM Unlocking and selected the allow the bootloader to be unlocked option. That was either last week or a few weeks ago because I wanted to root it and put a custom rom on it. I didn't rooted it yet because I'm not sure what roms are good, I only had cyanogin mod roms on my other phones and I'm not sure which rom is the safest and best to use so I still use the stock rom. I turned on Pandora to play music before I went to sleep. When I woke up my phone was in some kind of recovery mode and said something like the operating system failed to boot. Two options were available, 1- to try booting again, and 2-factory reset the phone which would erase all data. I selected 1, and my phone booted up. Could this be because the bootloader is unlocked? Does having the bootloader unlocked leave it suspectable to being hacked? Could my phone have been hacked?

Switching OEM Unlocking is not enough to unlock, you then must on motorola unlock webpage paste code from your phone and, wait for unlock code in email, via fastboot with this unlock code doing finaly real umlocking...

k3dar7 said:
Switching OEM Unlocking is not enough to unlock, you then must on motorola unlock webpage paste code from your phone and, wait for unlock code in email, via fastboot with this unlock code doing finaly real umlocking...
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Would selecting the bootloader option to be unlocked in the developer options make my phone more vulnerable to be hacked?

A few hours later my phone did the same thing and went into recovery mode saying that my phone could not load the OS and might be infected or something. I had the same options to either try to load the OS again or factory data reset the phone. How could this happen?
I factory data reset my phone this time. I just hope I don't have some kind of malware.

Mine was hacked like this. Changed stuff so it won't boot back to original. Got into system files and remote control my phone. Is there a way to get back to original without computer? It's useless now