Months ago, before the 4.3 OTA, I attempted to unlock the bootloader and root my wife's Galaxy SIII on vzw. The phone seemed to be bricked, but I was able to recover it using one of the available unbrick utilities. From that point forward, on boot it displays "Custom ROM", but is not rooted and I cannot boot into recovery at all. To make things worse, my wife accepted the 4.3 OTA before I could warn her not to and it has since upgraded to 4.4.2 OTA. Is there any option to still unlock the bootloader, or are we stuck? Also, if I can't unlock and root the phone, I would like to be able to return it to stock, but nothing so far has worked.
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Recently, I messed up real bad and I accidentally installed the firmware of a Verizon GS3 on a T-Mobile GS3. Now it is a Verizon phone :c I already rooted it so I can replace the firmware with a T-Mobile TouchWiz Stock ROM. All I need is the last step: to unlock the bootloader. Can someone (or anyone) please help me remove it? I am currently mentally constipated by the problem and I just have only a couple steps until I return it back into a T-Mobile Galaxy S3. Now that's the question. Here's the story of how it is what it is right now.
So one day, I was rooting my phone to install CyanogenMod because I wanted something similar to 4.2.1 Jellybean. I did everything except I didn't delete the Dalvhik Cache. So when everything was loaded, I see that my phone cannot open the PlayStore. In my mind, I reflect back a couple minutes in the past just to remember I didn't clear what I needed to. Idiotic me goes off and attempts to erase CyanogenMod 10 and I get stuck in a boot loop. I am in a state in which I call "mental constipation". I then accidentally and foolishly install the Verizon GS3 ROM and BOOM. I am in a worse situation. Fast forward today, I root the phone but as a Verizon Galaxy S3. I am almost done but I need to just unlock the bootloader and I am set to return it back into a T-Mobile GS3. So, can someone please tell me how to unlock the Verizon GS3's bootloader?
tl;dr turned T-Mobile GS3 into a Verizon GS3 and I need to unlock boot loader
Just purchased an HD MAXX from Ebay and the seller said it has a permanently unlocked bootloader and a custom ROM flashed. I'm upgrading from a Bionic that I rooted, installed SafeStrap and tried a few custom ROMs in the slots. I'm going to have the phone flashed over to Page Plus and the person doing the flashing told me it has to be on stock. The seller told me that the bootloader is permanently unlocked. The seller also told me how the bootloader was unlocked and I read something similar here that if it were unlocked at a certain point, or before a certain update was pushed out, it would be permanently unlocked,
I just don't want to screw anything up trying to flash it back to stock. It's running the TWRP custom recovery. I've flashed ROM's before, I've rooted phones before but from what I understand having a Razr with an unlocked bootloader is something special and I wouldn't want to screw that up. Thanks
SkyRocker_58 said:
Just purchased an HD MAXX from Ebay and the seller said it has a permanently unlocked bootloader and a custom ROM flashed. I'm upgrading from a Bionic that I rooted, installed SafeStrap and tried a few custom ROMs in the slots. I'm going to have the phone flashed over to Page Plus and the person doing the flashing told me it has to be on stock. The seller told me that the bootloader is permanently unlocked. The seller also told me how the bootloader was unlocked and I read something similar here that if it were unlocked at a certain point, or before a certain update was pushed out, it would be permanently unlocked,
I just don't want to screw anything up trying to flash it back to stock. It's running the TWRP custom recovery. I've flashed ROM's before, I've rooted phones before but from what I understand having a Razr with an unlocked bootloader is something special and I wouldn't want to screw that up. Thanks
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The seller is correct. May 25 is dday for the ...79 build that locks the boot.
You do not state your build.
Get the latest twrp 2632 for a pocket proof noob recovery but for a successful cm 11 flash you need philz newest & philz 6079 for some flashes that err 7 on the 619 ver.
926 philz only comes in .img. Get recovery tools to load the img from homescreen. Philz is in the orig dev section.
When in doubt backup.
See my 907 stuff for lots similar things/guides that apply to the 926 as well.
SkyRocker_58 said:
Just purchased an HD MAXX from Ebay and the seller said it has a permanently unlocked bootloader and a custom ROM flashed. I'm upgrading from a Bionic that I rooted, installed SafeStrap and tried a few custom ROMs in the slots. I'm going to have the phone flashed over to Page Plus and the person doing the flashing told me it has to be on stock. The seller told me that the bootloader is permanently unlocked. The seller also told me how the bootloader was unlocked and I read something similar here that if it were unlocked at a certain point, or before a certain update was pushed out, it would be permanently unlocked,
I just don't want to screw anything up trying to flash it back to stock. It's running the TWRP custom recovery. I've flashed ROM's before, I've rooted phones before but from what I understand having a Razr with an unlocked bootloader is something special and I wouldn't want to screw that up. Thanks
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as long as you have the drivers installed on your pc all you have to do is grab one of the utilities from the dev forum and flash it back to stock. there is also an option in there to put the stock recovery back on. its all plug and click.
Thanks guys!
Appreciate the replies and info. My main concern was doing something to possibly "re-lock" the bootloader. From what you're saying I shouldn't have any problems, flash it back to stock, flash it to page plus, flash custom recovery, start trying out ROM's lol
Thanks again!
Once the fuse is blown it cannot be "rearmed". But I've heard that there are couple of those in our RAZR. But I don't think vz or moto are interested in making our phones inoperable.
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I can attest to the fact that once you unlock the bootloader, it won't get relocked since it's a physical change (blown e-fuse as others have mentioned).
I have flashed back to a previous stock, took the OTA and the bootloader was still unlocked.
However, never say never and when KitKat comes out for this phone, I will not be quick to install it. I will wait and see what everyone says before I accept it. No way I take an OTA that somehow finds a different way to lock the bootloader.
Hi,
I just got a gs3 a few days ago with verizon and read up about what I could do with it.
I have root with supersu, busybox, terminal emulator and safestrap.
I wanted to flash cm 11 onto it, but with the new OTA Update from Samsung earlier this year I found out it was impossible with Knox and Verizon locking it down.
However, whenever I attempt to run roms flashed using Safestrap such as eclipse the boot sequence goes Press power button -> Vibrate once -> Release power -> Vibrate -> Samsung Galaxy SIII screen -> Safestrap -> Black Screen.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but nothing is working at all, is there a rom I can use? (preferably with an UI similar to that of CyanogenMod's KK) or am I stuck with Samsung's UI and Verizon's bloatware?
I also saw a lot of TW but I don't know what the people in the forums are talking about when they mention this.
Also, forgive my ignorance on the matter of programming and such but, is there a way to unlock the bootloader?
I hear it's encrypted and locked by Verizon. Is it possible to write a new firmware over the Encrypted Verizon one and use that instead?
Thanks for even reading this, A reply would mean a lot to me!
GeneralKwai said:
Hi,
I just got a gs3 a few days ago with verizon and read up about what I could do with it.
I have root with supersu, busybox, terminal emulator and safestrap.
I wanted to flash cm 11 onto it, but with the new OTA Update from Samsung earlier this year I found out it was impossible with Knox and Verizon locking it down.
However, whenever I attempt to run roms flashed using Safestrap such as eclipse the boot sequence goes Press power button -> Vibrate once -> Release power -> Vibrate -> Samsung Galaxy SIII screen -> Safestrap -> Black Screen.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but nothing is working at all, is there a rom I can use? (preferably with an UI similar to that of CyanogenMod's KK) or am I stuck with Samsung's UI and Verizon's bloatware?
I also saw a lot of TW but I don't know what the people in the forums are talking about when they mention this.
Also, forgive my ignorance on the matter of programming and such but, is there a way to unlock the bootloader?
I hear it's encrypted and locked by Verizon. Is it possible to write a new firmware over the Encrypted Verizon one and use that instead?
Thanks for even reading this, A reply would mean a lot to me!
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Its now bootloader locked and no you can't unlock it. Your stuck with a permanent locked bootloader. You can however flash BL(bootloader locked) roms via safestrap
And no you cannot run a new firmware other than the safestrap bootloader locked ones
From my CM11 S3
Have a samsung galaxy s1 i897 'captivate' from at&t phone.
Phone originally bought outright, didn't use for years, now trying to unlock so that a friend can use it.
First updated to the pacrom custom rom with kitkat 4.4 (is this part of the problem??) to test/be sure it would work before reenabling the phone. Got the unlock code from at&t - copied it exactly and it's FAILED now 3 times in a row, afraid to touch it with two left.
Is being under 4.4 part of the problem/does it have to have factory rom?
Asked some samsung people who suggested it may need to flash back to the original factory rom, but even thats not enough, mentioned "triangle" to "set back the clock" to pretend it's never been rooted or run a newer OS. Suggested it should then unlock. But also suggested certain Samsungs of this era were notorious for just not unlocking even with everything perfect which is why I was asking here before using up my last 2 attempts.
Does this all sound right/can only unlock the phone from the original factory ROM and OS version? Once unlocked when I update to PacRom/kitkat 4.4 I assume it stays unlocked or will it create a problem somehow?
If for some reason the last remaining 2 chances bite it, I assume this is what people normally mean by bricked and hopefully there's a recovery process or does locked to at&t forever really mean that?
I have a MetroPCS Samsung Galaxy Core Prime. Yesterday I successfully rooted my new toy and restarted my phone. I then got a "Custom binary is locked by FRP" message and couldn't get in my phone so I Odined the stock firmware and I'm able to use it now. However, I would really like to root my phone. I went into Dev Options and enabled OEM unlock. I want to root but I don't want to get that FRP mess again. Do you guys know how I can root without locking my phone again? Thanks.