Hi, I'm just about to root root my N5. I had already 2 htc phones and i rooted them without problems. But now I'd like to know whether there is something I have to pay attention about more than on other phone or is the Nexus 5 in general a "easy to root" phone which doesn't brick often? And I'd also like to know whether the warranty restores when gettin the phone back to stock?
Nothing is harder to brick than a Nexus.
There is a flash counter that can be reset if you need to warranty the device.
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Nexus is easy-street to root compared so other devices. Very hard to brick it unless you load a rom that is not compatible, obviously.
When you go back to stock you can re-lock the bootloader and as the above guy said reset the flash counter.
Hope this helps.
estallings15 said:
Nothing is harder to brick than a Nexus.
There is a flash counter that can be reset if you need to warranty the device.
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mistahseller said:
Nexus is easy-street to root compared so other devices. Very hard to brick it unless you load a rom that is not compatible, obviously.
When you go back to stock you can re-lock the bootloader and as the above guy said reset the flash counter.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks Guys for the quick replies! Helps me a lot! Do you know whether the bootloader status shows "locked" or "relocked" then ?
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Thanks Guys for the quick replies! Helps me a lot! Do you know whether the bootloader status shows "locked" or "relocked" then ?
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There is an image of a padlock on the splash screen and also the lock status is listed in the bootloader. They change when you lock or unlock it. It's a simple fastboot command. This isn't an HTC. This is a Nexus. Whole different ball of wax.
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There is an image of a padlock on the splash screen and also the lock status is listed in the bootloader. They change when you lock or unlock it. It's a simple fastboot command. This isn't an HTC. This is a Nexus. Whole different ball of wax.
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So they won't recognize if I did already unlocked it ?
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So they won't recognize if I did already unlocked it ?
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Reset the tamper flag and relock and no one will know the difference. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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Reset the tamper flag and relock and no one will know the difference. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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Ok thank you, I'm gonna root it now
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Reset the tamper flag and relock and no one will know the difference. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47156064
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What he said.
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after unlocking make sure to boot the phone fully once before attempting to install a custom recovery or whatever.
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after unlocking make sure to boot the phone fully once before attempting to install a custom recovery or whatever.
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and also to restart the bootloader, I remember I had something go awry when I loaded twrp but it was being goofy before I could go into it and that is the solution
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this may be a dumb question but after unlocking the bootloader will i still be able to return this to bestbuy? The tablet isn't bricked or anything and runs fine. If i return to stock and relock the bootloader will i have a hard time trying to return it?
Thanks
If done right, you shouldn't.
And by done right , you mean returning to stock and relocking the bootloader right?
Basically.
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If done right, you shouldn't.
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I wouldn't think that they would have a way to even know that the bootloader was unlocked. Do you think they even check? The only way I can even think would be to run fastboot reboot bootloader.
personally I don't think they check. But you should always rather be safe than sorry.
thanks guys
I dropped my phone last night and broke the screen and can no longer see anything. I know I can restore with Odin but how can I re-lock the bootloader without being able to see the screen?
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I dropped my phone last night and broke the screen and can no longer see anything. I know I can restore with Odin but how can I re-lock the bootloader without being able to see the screen?
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restoring the completely stock odin file should relock the bootloader as well.
Thanks!
no it dont lock the bootloader you have to push the stock aboot.img via adb since you cant see your screen, then power off and odin back to stock. on a side note i doubt they will even check to see if your bootloader is unlocked.
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restoring the completely stock odin file should relock the bootloader as well.
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That does not re-lock yor bootloader. You have to use ez-unlock to relock it then flash stock image
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no it dont lock the bootloader you have to push the stock aboot.img via adb since you cant see your screen, then power off and odin back to stock. on a side note i doubt they will even check to see if your bootloader is unlocked.
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Thanks but where can i find the stock aboot.img? I looked through your all in one guide but couldnt find anything about adb the stock boot or the file.
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Thanks but where can i find the stock aboot.img? I looked through your all in one guide but couldnt find anything about adb the stock boot or the file.
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pull the stock aboot.img from the ez-unlock app with file manager or something equivalent and put it on the root of your sd card. i forget the command to push with adb, but there is some info around here on it. ill check around and see if i can find it.
when you open link click on old info!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30274259&postcount=1
Why even restore to stock. Insurance does not care if its rooted and unlocked nor will Samsung if your sending it in for repairs.
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Why even restore to stock. Insurance does not care if its rooted and unlocked nor will Samsung if your sending it in for repairs.
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True. Just trying to cover my ass just in case.
Run it over with your car.
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Actually I'm pretty sure you will be in "locked" status just from doing Odin with a full factory image. Its exactly how I relock. It flashes the new boot.img and if you use the ez-unlock app afterwards, it shows as locked. Imagine it as still having unlock capabilities with aboot, but still being in locked status. For all intensive purposes, you're locked.
Don't worry about it, your not claiming warranty. In this instance it does not matter at all. Your having the hardware itself being repaired at a cost to you, or your making an insurance claim on a physically damaged device. Either way there is no software related issues that your claiming therefore root is completely irrelevant.
And remember, rooting is not illegal, it just voids your warranty if you screw something up software related.
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Actually I'm pretty sure you will be in "locked" status just from doing Odin with a full factory image. Its exactly how I relock. It flashes the new boot.img and if you use the ez-unlock app afterwards, it shows as locked. Imagine it as still having unlock capabilities with aboot, but still being in locked status. For all intensive purposes, you're locked.
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i thought this at one time but its not true...going back to stock does replace boot.img(kernel), but not the aboot.img(bootloader). you have to lock with the ez-unlock app or push the secure aboot.img via terminal or adb.
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i thought this at one time but its not true...going back to stock does replace boot.img(kernel), but not the aboot.img(bootloader). you have to lock with the ez-unlock app or push the secure aboot.img via terminal or adb.
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drioidstyle is 100% correct guys and gals.... I have performed tests on 3 different S3's to confirm.... Follow his instructions in that thread.... Edit: It is Brian Gove's thread in this same forum...
Next time just say you dropped it in a lake or the ocean. That way you have nothing to return and you have a extra battery
Hello experts,
My wife's HTC one S has suddenly started behaving strange. It keeps rebooting itself endlessly, which i have learned here is called bootloop. I did the volume + power button trick and reached the HBOOT screen. There it gives me options like Recovery, Factory reset, Sim lock, Image CRC and Show barcode.
What does the recovery option do? I desperately need to pull out the pics and contacts out of this phone. I am afraid to click on the Recovery option without knowing what it will do?
Any help from anyone here?
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Hello experts,
My wife's HTC one S has suddenly started behaving strange. It keeps rebooting itself endlessly, which i have learned here is called bootloop. I did the volume + power button trick and reached the HBOOT screen. There it gives me options like Recovery, Factory reset, Sim lock, Image CRC and Show barcode.
What does the recovery option do? I desperately need to pull out the pics and contacts out of this phone. I am afraid to click on the Recovery option without knowing what it will do?
Any help from anyone here?
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What does it say at the top? Locked or unlocked?
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khan.orak said:
What does it say at the top? Locked or unlocked?
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It says "LOCKED"
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Soumya
soumya_agr said:
It says "LOCKED"
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Soumya
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You'll need to unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery and pull out pics by mounting the SD card partition.
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You'll need to unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery and pull out pics by mounting the SD card partition.
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Hi Orak,
Thanks. However, I am not that good into these techniques. Do you know where I can get the steps to do this? Further, my phone is still in warranty. Will any of these steps affect my warranty?
Regards
Soumya
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Hi Orak,
Thanks. However, I am not that good into these techniques. Do you know where I can get the steps to do this? Further, my phone is still in warranty. Will any of these steps affect my warranty?
Regards
Soumya
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You can use hasoon's All in One Tool.
Yes, unlocking bootloader will void your warranty.
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You can use hasoon's All in One Tool.
Yes, unlocking bootloader will void your warranty.
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Ok. I think I will prefer to continue with the warranty. So looks like I will have to do a factory reset. Btw, what is that recovery option expected to do without unlocking the bootloader? Any idea?
Thanks
Soumya
Yeah. It has factory reset, OTA update options. When you select recovery, you'll see a phone with red triangle, press volume up + power at once to enter recovery.
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How to root Nexus 5 without unlocking bootloader?
mini_wan said:
How to root Nexus 5 without unlocking bootloader?
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theres no way yet, it cant be done as of now. you can unlock it, get root, then relock it easy enough.
simms22 said:
theres no way yet, it cant be done as of now. you can unlock it, get root, then relock it easy enough.
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Unlock bootloader will earse my all data
simms22 said:
theres no way yet, it cant be done as of now. you can unlock it, get root, then relock it easy enough.
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I not want lost my data:crying:
mini_wan said:
Unlock bootloader will earse my all data
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mini_wan said:
I not want lost my data:crying:
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thats understandable. thats why i do it right away. backup and save whatever you can onto your computer.
Haha the first thing I did when I got my nexus 5 was unlock bootloader and root to avoid this!
Sorry to gloat
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Haha the first thing I did when I got my nexus 5 was unlock bootloader and root to avoid this!
Sorry to gloat
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i got mine and never did power it on into the os once while unrooted. booted to bootloader very first thing, unlocked, flashed, then powered it in to the os the first time with custom rom/kernel
adb backup was implemented for this exact purpose, though it seems to have mixed results for people. you could try it
As others say learn about your phone. ADB commands save it.
The number of stupid tool kits on the nexus 5 is out of hand. No wonder pple can't do anything. They buy a phone unlock it and flash the wrong thing and cry. Tough learn!
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I'm RMA my nexus so I tried to flash stock thru wugfresh kit but it gets stuck and won't do it . so I remember I did a back up as soon as I rooted my phone so I restored that . I unrooted thru the superuser app its self , I went thru advance options on the root kit and flashed stock recovery and then relocked my phone.
My question is if that's enough to send it back? Will they be able to tell I rooted ? After I relocked it it said it reset the flag as well so I guess that's good .
The reason I use tool kits because its easier and I'm nervous to try it without a tool kit.
Thanks
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Not sure why it would t let me edit...
Also can I use my back up that I did with the new phone that's coming in?
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If you're on stock rom, kernel, recovery with a locked bootloader and "false" tamper flag, you're good to go!
Can't help you out with the toolkit problem as I don't use them and I feel it does more bad then good! :silly: You yourself aren't able to make out what part went wrong with wug's toolkit whereas if you have downloaded the stock factory images and did it manually, we could help you out with the error on that particular step!
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Not sure why it would t let me edit...
Also can I use my back up that I did with the new phone that's coming in?
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Yes, you can but make sure you don't restore the EFS.. If you do. Then your new phone is SCREWED! That's why I never recommend anyone restoring backups of different phones!
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If you're on stock rom, kernel, recovery with a locked bootloader and "false" tamper flag, you're good to go!
Can't help you out with the toolkit problem as I don't use them and I feel it does more bad then good! :silly: You yourself aren't able to make out what part went wrong with wug's toolkit whereas if you have downloaded the stock factory images and did it manually, we could help you out with the error on that particular step!
Yes, you can but make sure you don't restore the EFS.. If you do. Then your new phone is SCREWED! That's why I never recommend anyone restoring backups of different phones!
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I went I to recovery and it's the little android with the triangle so I'm sure that's stock correct ? And here's a pic of the phone info ,im thinking its stock also
OK I'll won't restore it just to be sure. Thanks for the help .
And yes it said something about resetting tamper flag when I relocked boot loader and now it won't show a lock when I boot up so its locked now.
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I went I to recovery and it's the little android with the triangle so I'm sure that's stock correct ? And here's a pic of the phone info ,im thinking its stock also
OK I'll won't restore it just to be sure. Thanks for the help .
And yes it said something about resetting tamper flag when I relocked boot loader and now it won't show a lock when I boot up so its locked now.
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Yes, everything looks peachy!
If you're not sure whether the tamper flag is reset or not.. Head over to bootloader and use this command : fastboot oem device-info
If the tamper flag is set to "true" then you haven't reset it correctly. If it's "false" then it's all good!
BTW, why are you RMA'ing the device?
vin4yak said:
Yes, everything looks peachy!
If you're not sure whether the tamper flag is reset or not.. Head over to bootloader and use this command : fastboot oem device-info
If the tamper flag is set to "true" then you haven't reset it correctly. If it's "false" then it's all good!
BTW, why are you RMA'ing the device?
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OK I'll try that. I can do that thru the tool kit ?
Dead pixel . not a Hugh deal but still kind of annoying I'm getting tired of looking at it for the past 2 months lol
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g2uzer said:
OK I'll try that. I can do that thru the tool kit ?
Dead pixel . not a Hugh deal but still kind of annoying I'm getting tired of looking at it for the past 2 months lol
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Hey bro in the near future try not to use tookits for toying around for with these phones!! "Nexus" It's a lot easier to figure things out the fastboot way and cmds. As the other user stated they do more harm than good:silly: Good luck with ur RMA:good:
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Hey bro in the near future try not to use tookits for toying around for with these phones!! "Nexus" It's a lot easier to figure things out the fastboot way and cmds. As the other user stated they do more harm than good:silly: Good luck with ur RMA:good:
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Yeah I need to learn how to do it that way. I'm more of a visual learner so I have to look up a video on how to do it. I have read it but still nervous of trying it
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Yeah I need to learn how to do it that way. I'm more of a visual learner so I have to look up a video on how to do it. I have read it but still nervous of trying it
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Trust me when you learn this way it's a lot fun.. And in the process you come to know a lot about your phone:good: It's fun flashing things! But you need to know what your flashing and what it's doing on your phone..
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Yeah I need to learn how to do it that way. I'm more of a visual learner so I have to look up a video on how to do it. I have read it but still nervous of trying it
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And plus you feel like a hacker when doing it
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So I tried to factory soft reset but for some reason it wouldn't , I tried hard resetting and it just froze , now its just I'm a bootloop , I'm able yo get in to boot loader but since my device is locked already can I still reflash stock? I tried unlocking boot loader but the computer won't recognize the phone , its saying o need to check developers option which I can't .. Any help?
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This are the errors I'm getting and it just gets stuck on this screen. I'm able to reboot in to recovery but that's about it
Finally it let me edit...
Well never mind peeps I figured it out. Thanks
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