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[Q] dont know if i have to unlock bootloader first

i recently switched to teamwin and i was wondering do i still have to use ez unlock to unlock the bootloader???i was using cwm with ez unlock and ez recovery..i go through goo manager and hit reboot recovery from there it goes into teamwin,do i have to use ez unlock first then go into goo manager?? please let me know..thanks..

You only need to unlock the boot loader once. As long as you didn't specifically lock the boot loader or flash back to the stock image then you still have an unlocked boot loader.

thank you for the reply
dag1337 said:
You only need to unlock the boot loader once. As long as you didn't specifically lock the boot loader or flash back to the stock image then you still have an unlocked boot loader.
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thanks man i appreciate ur time for answering my question..

Soft-Bricked

When i did the OTA update, the device is bootlooping. Unfortunately i dont have an unlocked bootloader and have no way of unlocking it as the phone needs to restart to unlock the bootloader. It still stays locked after go to fastboot mode again. I have the stock image from google but have no way of flashing it. Is there anyway to unlock the bootloader without having to restart?

The bootloader relocks itself after reboot? If it does, the emmc is defective and cannot be repaired by reflashing a stock rom or custom rom.

[Completed] Moto G 3rd Gen bricked or not bricked???

Hi,
My phone went into a boot loop.
I can access the fastboot menu but the device is locked, I obviously now cannot enter developer options to unlock it
When means I can't unlock the bootloader, and without unlocking the bootloader I can't reflash the device. Bit of a loop of death
Any suggestions or is it a door wedge?

JOEBOUK said:
Hi,
My phone went into a boot loop.
I can access the fastboot menu but the device is locked, I obviously now cannot enter developer options to unlock it
When means I can't unlock the bootloader, and without unlocking the bootloader I can't reflash the device. Bit of a loop of death
Any suggestions or is it a door wedge?
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Hello and welcome to XDA-developers!
You can follow this guide to flash stock firmware through fastboot. If you have any doudts just report!

Tethered Magisk Root + BaseBand + V4A .

Hi Guys!!
I tried my rooting adventures again and found some more facts that can help community to attain stable root.
Whats available--
1. Magisk root.
2. TWRP.
3. V4A
4. Baseband.
Whats not available -
Untethered root with baseband and the ability to get into phone if not having a laptop/pc.
Now some facts-
1. Bootloader is one hell of a thing in this model.
If we unlock it, it would re-lock itself on proper reboot.​To keep it unlocked, you need to hard reset the device by pressing power button for 10 seconds.​The fun part is - if you boot with unlocked bootloader, it wont allow you to access baseband, and if you try to boot with locked bootloader, dm-verity will come into place and will lock you out.​Even more funnier part is, on booting TWRP from bootloader, the bootloader will first unlock itself,boot twrp and then lock it self.(this is the part which helps us to attain tethered root with baseband.)​
After many trials, i was able to get a boot image which had Magisk/Insecure adbd/V4A/Non-Encrypted Data partition/no dm verity on system partition.
Now , to get tethered + working baseband root,follow these steps-
First Time Steps.
1.Boot into fastboot mode.
2.fastboot boot twrp.img
3. wipe data partition.
4.reboot to bootloader.
5.fastboot flash boot magisk-boot.img
6.fastboot boot magisk-boot.img
7.enjoy.
When rebooting (for baseband)-
1. Boot into fastboot
2.fastboot boot magisk-boot.img
When rebooting (without baseband)-
1. Boot into fastboot
2.fastboot oem unlock
3. Hard reset by keeping power button pressed.
4. enjoy.
P.S. After every reboot done with baseband enabled, your bootloader will get locked and wont boot into the OS, until and unless, you either unlock the bootloader again / boot into magisk-boot.img from fastboot.
Working on fixing this issue.Will keep posted

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Download links soon.

Link please?

OEM unlock issue

Is it possible to unlock bootloader without enabling oem unlock in developer options. ( phone is stuck in bootloop).
I can access recovery mode and fastboot.

mayowa_olu said:
Is it possible to unlock bootloader without enabling oem unlock in developer options. ( phone is stuck in bootloop).
I can access recovery mode and fastboot.
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No mate, you will need to get OEM unlock enabled to flash anything other than a factory ota update. Search pixel bootloop and hopefully you'll find a solution to your issue.
Good luck

mayowa_olu said:
Is it possible to unlock bootloader without enabling oem unlock in developer options. ( phone is stuck in bootloop).
I can access recovery mode and fastboot.
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If you haven't tried it at all then first try to do a factory reset from recovery. If that doesn't work and if you're on stock and have stock recovery. Download ota: https://developers.google.com/android/ota and see if you can push it to phone using fastboot if you can't access storage of course. And then apply update in recovery. You should be able to boot then.