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Morning all,
I have recently received my CAT S60 and I have to say, I am extremely pleased with the device out of the box. It is solid, extremely well built, battery life is amazing and camera quality is far better than the reviews led me to believe. Call quality is also the best I have ever had on any handset.
Unfortunately, I have never before owned a device without root. I have rooted most of my phones + installed a custom rom within a couple of days of opening the box. Sadly, this time round I've bought a less-popular device which is quite new and there is no existing support.
I am able to do most of the root-requiring functions with this phone (flashlight via button from locked, skip tracks with volume etc) using software workarounds, but I am already butting up against things that are pissing me off because I don't have system access, and I am so used to having it.
I've read horror stories about the lockdown function Qualcomm have applied to the 617 chips, but I now see that some phones with this chip have already been rooted (Motorola) so I am wondering, what are the chances that I will see root or a root exploit for this phone in the near future?
I'm not sure that I would sell the device over not being able to gain root, but it is really really annoying me.
I would be interested too. I couldnt even figure out how to set the s60 to downloadmode (If there is such a mode at all) to flash a custom recovery like twrp. Recoverymode is the usual volume up before poweron.
heinzherbert said:
I would be interested too. I couldnt even figure out how to set the s60 to downloadmode (If there is such a mode at all) to flash a custom recovery like twrp. Recoverymode is the usual volume up before poweron.
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Recovery mode is volume up and power button together for 3 to 4 seconds
There is a switch in developer options to allow bootloader to be unlocked. Maybe this, combined with factory recovery menu will set us free? Flash a modified factory rom with root enabled? The stock ROM is very clean.
bandario said:
There is a switch in developer options to allow bootloader to be unlocked. Maybe this, combined with factory recovery menu will set us free? Flash a modified factory rom with root enabled? The stock ROM is very clean.
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There is an option to unlock bootloader. It's called OEM unlocking
So, flicking this switch should unlock the bootloader???
That gives me a bit of hope for some development on this handset. None of the previous cat phones have seen any real development.
bandario said:
So, flicking this switch should unlock the bootloader???
That gives me a bit of hope for some development on this handset. None of the previous cat phones have seen any real development.
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To be honest flicking that switch does nothing for me. I am unsure how to unlock the bootloader
On S60 bootloader is locked.
No fastboot, but you will be able to select recovery mode.
bump. I'd like to see this phone rooted.
Any progress on this or has anyone tried yet?
My SONY Z1C died on me the other day and I'd need to know if there's at least a chance to root this one.
I'm considering getting the S60 but only if I'm able to root it. An unrooted phone is barely usable to me...
Greetz and thanks in advance,
Unr3aL67
haven't tried rooting mine yet. Not felt the need to yet TBH
Mine is working pretty good without root. Only reason I'd want root honestly is to make backups, and perhaps uninstall a couple apps, but the bloatware is minimal.
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Since the original question was "Is this rootable?" and lately answers have come in the form of "I haven't tried rooting mine" .... which doesn't seem much like an answer at all, to be honest .... I want to join the OP in asking this question. For those of us who have grown accustomed to the freedom and flexibility of having root access to our devices, it would be really nice to know (before making a decision to purchase) whether it is possible to obtain root on the CAT S60.
Does anyone know where to get a zip of the ROM?
After the Arstechnica review this may be my next phone. However, I really require a way to root it so that I can use iptables.
Anyone had any luck?
In response to your query we regret to inform you that we do not offer any assistance or tools to root our devices.
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I tried contacting support about help to root, got the above back. It's a work phone so maybe it's better that I don't mess with it.
If anyone is going to root or make a custom recovery, it'll need to be without any support from the manufacturer. I mostly miss Xposed Framework for adblocking, less frequent notifications and the ability to longpress the back key to enable/disable screen rotation, the ROM itself is 99% "stock" otherwise and I have no complaints on that front.
In response to your query we regret to inform you that we do not offer any assistance or tools to root our devices.
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This is, of course, their right, and buyer beware if you wanted a rootable phone. Still, I can't keep from being annoyed at this attitude; if I'm paying them good money for my devices, I want the freedom to do with it everything that I want, including modifying it and knowingly voiding my warranty, or even breaking it outright, if that's what makes me happy. Especially now that rooting/jailbreaking is a thing. Wanting to keep on controlling and limiting how people are able to use your product after you've sold it to them always sticks in my craw.
I guess I'll be passing on what otherwise looks like a perfect phone for me, unless some shining hero (or heroine) manages to figure out how to root a CAT S60 anyway, despite what the manufacturer might wish.
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This is, of course, their right, and buyer beware if you wanted a rootable phone. Still, I can't keep from being annoyed at this attitude; if I'm paying them good money for my devices, I want the freedom to do with it everything that I want, including modifying it and knowingly voiding my warranty, or even breaking it outright, if that's what makes me happy. Especially now that rooting/jailbreaking is a thing. Wanting to keep on controlling and limiting how people are able to use your product after you've sold it to them always sticks in my craw.
I guess I'll be passing on what otherwise looks like a perfect phone for me, unless some shining hero (or heroine) manages to figure out how to root a CAT S60 anyway, despite what the manufacturer might wish.
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It is indeed a great phone, but the camera is sub-par. The focus takes an age compared to my Z5 Compact. I would wait for the second-generation version unless you critically need FLIR as a feature.
I've done a bit of poking around. I suspect that the bootloader could be unlocked with the commands "adb reboot bootloader" followed by "fastboot oem unlock-go".
I'm not going to do that at this point because without a custom ROM to flash there is no point in me voiding my warranty, but I believe it should be possible with USB debugging enabled, and the bootloader confirmed as unlockable.
I think this is how root will arrive on this device: by way of modifying a flashable ROM and flashing it to the device using QFIL as you would any other Qualcomm device.
The tools are all there in front of us, we just need someone with the knowledge to create that modified rom file....at this point I can't even find a factory rom to flash.
Given the recent speed and quality enhancements made available through the stock camera app, I also suspect that doing this will send us backwards to a much ****tier camera as has been the case with many sony handsets in the past.
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There is a switch in developer options to allow bootloader to be unlocked. Maybe this, combined with factory recovery menu will set us free? Flash a modified factory rom with root enabled? The stock ROM is very clean.
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Chuggers said:
There is an option to unlock bootloader. It's called OEM unlocking
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So, flicking this switch should unlock the bootloader???
That gives me a bit of hope for some development on this handset. None of the previous cat phones have seen any real development.
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That switch is available in a lot of devices and does nothing on a lot of them
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All of the discussions I am seeing are about people trying to root their new Pixel 2 devices. They are worried they won't be able to root due to the Verizon locking and/or lack of images. My question is simple. If I buy a Pixel 2 / XL from google's site, is there anyway I can prevent the phone from being rooted and/or flashed with another (custom or google) bootloader? Can the FRP help me here? I'm just getting ramped on how google's phones work and I want to know if I can prevent evil maid attacks (someone temporarily gets access and loads malicious software on it). If someone has rooted it, is there anyway I would know? Would it have been erased? If I set the OEM unlock to disabled in the developer's options, would that prevent it, or is there a way to disable that in the recovery boot environment? I know the blackberry prevents root and I'm wondering how to achieve similar security with Pixel 2 devices.
Thanks in advance
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All of the discussions I am seeing are about people trying to root their new Pixel 2 devices. They are worried they won't be able to root due to the Verizon locking and/or lack of images. My question is simple. If I buy a Pixel 2 / XL from google's site, is there anyway I can prevent the phone from being rooted and/or flashed with another (custom or google) bootloader? Can the FRP help me here? I'm just getting ramped on how google's phones work and I want to know if I can prevent evil maid attacks (someone temporarily gets access and loads malicious software on it). If someone has rooted it, is there anyway I would know? Would it have been erased? If I set the OEM unlock to disabled in the developer's options, would that prevent it, or is there a way to disable that in the recovery boot environment? I know the blackberry prevents root and I'm wondering how to achieve similar security with Pixel 2 devices.
Thanks in advance
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If you let people spend inordinate amounts of time with your phone, there's not much you can do to prevent someone from rooting your phone... except putting a password on it and not letting people spend inordinate amounts of time with your phone.
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ajrty33 said:
If you let people spend inordinate amounts of time with your phone, there's not much you can do to prevent someone from rooting your phone... except putting a password on it and not letting people spend inordinate amounts of time with your phone.
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Thanks for the answer. However this has not been true for many phones, namely the blackberry, and even some models of the Pixel (verizon). I noticed you mentioned "putting a password on it". Assuming my phone is entirely feature protected (password, encryption, oem unlock disabled...), will this prevent the the standard rooting procedures? I understand exploits may be found, but I'm not considering those seeing as they will be patched. It's the standard rooting procedures I'm concerned about. I don't want rooting my phone (without me knowing) to be an enabled feature (or possible at at all if that is feasible). My only goal here is to stop that.
Thank you
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Thanks for the answer. However this has not been true for many phones, namely the blackberry, and even some models of the Pixel (verizon). I noticed you mentioned "putting a password on it". Assuming my phone is entirely feature protected (password, encryption, oem unlock disabled...), will this prevent the the standard rooting procedures? I understand exploits may be found, but I'm not considering those seeing as they will be patched. It's the standard rooting procedures I'm concerned about. I don't want rooting my phone (without me knowing) to be an enabled feature (or possible at at all if that is feasible). My only goal here is to stop that.
Thank you
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To root you need to have an unlocked bootloader. Unlocking the bootloader requires the OEM unlocking switch to be flipped. Getting to that point requires you to enter your password twice (unlocking the phone and enabling developer options). You also need a computer with a functional fastboot setup. Unlocking the bootloader wipes the phone and all of your personal information with it. After unlocking the bootloader you have to push some files to the phone via adb or with mtp after you have logged back into your phone. Then you have to flash twrp via fastboot and in turn flash magisk. (This is all of the to of my head. You can read the root threads for the exact details.)
The point is your phone can't be rooted without you knowing it.
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To root you need to have an unlocked bootloader. Unlocking the bootloader requires the OEM unlocking switch to be flipped. Getting to that point requires you to enter your password twice (unlocking the phone and enabling developer options). You also need a computer with a functional fastboot setup. Unlocking the bootloader wipes the phone and all of your personal information with it. After unlocking the bootloader you have to push some files to the phone via adb or with mtp after you have logged back into your phone. Then you have to flash twrp via fastboot and in turn flash magisk. (This is all of the to of my head. You can read the root threads for the exact details.)
The point is your phone can't be rooted without you knowing it.
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Excellent. That is what I was looking for. If that is true, this phone meets my security needs.
brainysmurf said:
Excellent. That is what I was looking for. If that is true, this phone meets my security needs.
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You don't need to be rooted for malicious software to be loaded on to your phone. Just stick with installation of apps from the play store and check the reviews/ratings and if something sounds to good to be true then it's probably best to avoid it unless you have valid sources authenticating it.
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You don't need to be rooted for malicious software to be loaded on to your phone. Just stick with installation of apps from the play store and check the reviews/ratings and if something sounds to good to be true then it's probably best to avoid it unless you have valid sources authenticating it.
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right, we already have those principles down. we're just trying to understand how vulnerable we are to specific attacks that are out there, namely the evil maid attacks. our team is extremely conservative on the basics that you are speaking of. we're just filling in the blanks for some more sophisticated attacks that are possible on the pixel, which is a new platform to us.
Thanks
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right, we already have those principles down. we're just trying to understand how vulnerable we are to specific attacks that are out there, namely the evil maid attacks. our team is extremely conservative on the basics that you are speaking of. we're just filling in the blanks for some more sophisticated attacks that are possible on the pixel, which is a new platform to us.
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The workflow that @PiousInquisitor stated is true for, AFAIK, every modern Android device in existence.
brainysmurf said:
right, we already have those principles down. we're just trying to understand how vulnerable we are to specific attacks that are out there, namely the evil maid attacks. our team is extremely conservative on the basics that you are speaking of. we're just filling in the blanks for some more sophisticated attacks that are possible on the pixel, which is a new platform to us.
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So far all the above answers are correct. I'll add a couple more. Evil maid attacks are not being used on phones/android afaik. My understanding is that a computer must be booted with a USB stick while you're not looking, installing software onto your computer/laptop and then hijacking it. So I wouldn't worry about that. Even so, keeping OEM lock in the disabled state in dev options will prevent root on your device. Also do not install unapproved software and if you are that worried you might want a scanning program that will root (no pun intended) out malicious software. I think there are a few out there.
As for FRP, it's a good idea but it can be bypassed. There are people out there that can take a stolen phone and bypass FRP for a fee of around $30. Also searching for FRP bypass will give you some ways as well. So I would not rely on that. Nonetheless they would need to wipe the device to do that and by that time you would have blacklisted the IMEI and rendered the phone useless to the thieves. You and your company seem aware and cautious. I don't think you'll run into any issues with the Pixel 2. You made a good choice.
The device software is rarely the vulnerability, it's the people using the device.
If your threat model is such that the ultimate question is "what can someone do with physical access to the device", you're dealing with zero day exploits that aren't publicly known and all of our feedback is out the window.
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The device software is rarely the vulnerability, it's the people using the device.
If your threat model is such that the ultimate question is "what can someone do with physical access to the device", you're dealing with zero day exploits that aren't publicly known and all of our feedback is out the window.
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The op is gone. Not sure if she was trolling but this thread is over.
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I'm about to go for it and buy a 7 Pro, do we have an MSM Download Tool available yet here on XDA for the 7 Pro? I'm coming from the 6T and that tool is a MUST. Thanks guys!
No not yet. We have the files but its password protected.
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No not yet. We have the files but its password protected.
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Ah thanks! That's how it all started with the 6T, password protected file. It's a matter of time though! Cool! :good:
You'll be waiting for two weeks or more. I set oem lock to "off" in settings, and then did "fastboot oem lock" like an idiot and I literally can't get into my phone at all now. All fastboot commands fail and I can't reboot into recovery either because it just says "your device is corrupt" every single time. I contacted oneplus support multiple times and they told me "we don't have anything available yet to help you, so you can just return it to us." Huge waste of time speaking to all those useless reps and I'm definitely not going to buy another oneplus product again. It's actually ridiculous that they don't just provide those tools upon release, especially when this issue has PERSISTED across all of their devices. I still have the phone for now, so if anyone finds a useful Oneplus rep who actually has the tools, or if someone figures out how to fix this issue, please let me know.
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You'll be waiting for two weeks or more. I set oem lock to "off" in settings, and then did "fastboot oem lock" like an idiot and I literally can't get into my phone at all now. All fastboot commands fail and I can't reboot into recovery either because it just says "your device is corrupt" every single time. I contacted oneplus support multiple times and they told me "we don't have anything available yet to help you, so you can just return it to us." Huge waste of time speaking to all those useless reps and I'm definitely not going to buy another oneplus product again. It's actually ridiculous that they don't just provide those tools upon release, especially when this issue has PERSISTED across all of their devices. I still have the phone for now, so if anyone finds a useful Oneplus rep who actually has the tools, or if someone figures out how to fix this issue, please let me know.
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1. If you do your research before just throwing fastboot commands you would have read that others on here have done the same, so do your homework.
2. If it's ridiculous that they don't just provide those tools upon release, especially when the issue has PERSISTED across all of their devices, then why run fastboot oem lock?
Everyone is always so quick to blame OEMs but not their own poor decision making. Take responsibility for your own actions even if you run them in cmd prompt.
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1. If you do your research before just throwing fastboot commands you would have read that others on here have done the same, so do your homework.
2. If it's ridiculous that they don't just provide those tools upon release, especially when the issue has PERSISTED across all of their devices, then why run fastboot oem lock?
Everyone is always so quick to blame OEMs but not their own poor decision making. Take responsibility for your own actions even if you run them in cmd prompt.
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Thank you for your reply. This is my first time owning a OnePlus device, so I hadn't looked at anything at on any of the community forums about it except how to root it and install magisk.
My last device was a razer phone 2, which had similar steps towards rooting it, and I actually did use "fastboot flashing lock_critical" to re-lock the bootloader after unlocking it, so I assumed that it would be the same for the oneplus, which in hindsight, obviously I was wrong.
But even if that was a minor screw up, I can't access the device at all, and that's what's bugging me. I do frequent backups, so having an option to erase all my data wouldn't be an issue if that was given, but not having that option at all and then bring told by OnePlus that the only option is to return it is absurd. I appreciate your feedback towards what I said, and if you are a OnePlus employee then I'm still standing by what I said and calling all of the 'support' I received useless, as it was just a waste of time and didn't lead to any sort of fix
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Thank you for your reply. This is my first time owning a OnePlus device, so I hadn't looked at anything at on any of the community forums about it except how to root it and install magisk.
My last device was a razer phone 2, which had similar steps towards rooting it, and I actually did use "fastboot flashing lock_critical" to re-lock the bootloader after unlocking it, so I assumed that it would be the same for the oneplus, which in hindsight, obviously I was wrong.
But even if that was a minor screw up, I can't access the device at all, and that's what's bugging me. I do frequent backups, so having an option to erase all my data wouldn't be an issue if that was given, but not having that option at all and then bring told by OnePlus that the only option is to return it is absurd. I appreciate your feedback towards what I said, and if you are a OnePlus employee then I'm still standing by what I said and calling all of the 'support' I received useless, as it was just a waste of time and didn't lead to any sort of fix
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LOL if I was a OP employee I would be helping out with the MSM tool! I cannot tell you the last device I rooted and installed ROMs on as its probably been close to 5 years and I see many things have changed. This is my first OP device since the original OP. I'll have my bin tonight but I am 99% sure I am going to wait for the MSM tool to come out whenever and do the international conversion that way. I hope you get everything sorted out!
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You'll be waiting for two weeks or more. I set oem lock to "off" in settings, and then did "fastboot oem lock" like an idiot and I literally can't get into my phone at all now. All fastboot commands fail and I can't reboot into recovery either because it just says "your device is corrupt" every single time. I contacted oneplus support multiple times and they told me "we don't have anything available yet to help you, so you can just return it to us." Huge waste of time speaking to all those useless reps and I'm definitely not going to buy another oneplus product again. It's actually ridiculous that they don't just provide those tools upon release, especially when this issue has PERSISTED across all of their devices. I still have the phone for now, so if anyone finds a useful Oneplus rep who actually has the tools, or if someone figures out how to fix this issue, please let me know.
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OOF! That's awful! I'm going to buy the 7 pro soon here, and as tempted as I am to root the device and start tampering with it, I'm going to wait until we have an MSM tool here to use. It's a must have.
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Thank you for your reply. This is my first time owning a OnePlus device, so I hadn't looked at anything at on any of the community forums about it except how to root it and install magisk.
My last device was a razer phone 2, which had similar steps towards rooting it, and I actually did use "fastboot flashing lock_critical" to re-lock the bootloader after unlocking it, so I assumed that it would be the same for the oneplus, which in hindsight, obviously I was wrong.
But even if that was a minor screw up, I can't access the device at all, and that's what's bugging me. I do frequent backups, so having an option to erase all my data wouldn't be an issue if that was given, but not having that option at all and then bring told by OnePlus that the only option is to return it is absurd. I appreciate your feedback towards what I said, and if you are a OnePlus employee then I'm still standing by what I said and calling all of the 'support' I received useless, as it was just a waste of time and didn't lead to any sort of fix
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Really? You have been offered a fix! Send your phone on, and you'll have a working phone back weeks before the MSM tool is available. You are responsible, not OnePlus, SMH.
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Anyone figure out the pSswared for the international msm file? Need it to flash my TMobile oneplus 7 pro to international it's getting bad battery life
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Thank you for your reply. This is my first time owning a OnePlus device, so I hadn't looked at anything at on any of the community forums about it except how to root it and install magisk.
My last device was a razer phone 2, which had similar steps towards rooting it, and I actually did use "fastboot flashing lock_critical" to re-lock the bootloader after unlocking it, so I assumed that it would be the same for the oneplus, which in hindsight, obviously I was wrong.
But even if that was a minor screw up, I can't access the device at all, and that's what's bugging me. I do frequent backups, so having an option to erase all my data wouldn't be an issue if that was given, but not having that option at all and then bring told by OnePlus that the only option is to return it is absurd. I appreciate your feedback towards what I said, and if you are a OnePlus employee then I'm still standing by what I said and calling all of the 'support' I received useless, as it was just a waste of time and didn't lead to any sort of fix
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Bashing OP support reps here is uncalled for. A rep can't help you because the method of trying to do what you want wasn't built into the software. Not the reps fault they can''t fix that they didn't build the software. Also OEM unlocking, rooting, flashing ROMs isn't covered by any type of warranty or support. So you better be thankful they are letting you send it in. If you choose to root, mod, or install software it's at your own risk.
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Bashing OP support reps here is uncalled for. A rep can't help you because the method of trying to do what you want wasn't built into the software. Not the reps fault they can''t fix that they didn't build the software. Also OEM unlocking, rooting, flashing ROMs isn't covered by any type of warranty or support. So you better be thankful they are letting you send it in. If you choose to root, mod, or install software it's at your own risk.
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Yeah other people already said the same thing, thanks though!
I just need to get rid of the T-Mobile software. between the non fuctioning OnePlus site and the standard wait time it will be a month possibly before I get the unlock bin
Any new information around?
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Any new information around?
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As far as I know, what we have is for the GM21AA for 9.5.3.
I think I saw one for the T-Mobile variant here as well, just haven't paid much attention there because I have AA model personally.
Not too sure about GM21BA either, someone add info for that here if you want.
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Any new information around?
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https://piunikaweb.com/2019/05/29/how-to-unbrick-oneplus-7-pro-using-msm-download-tool/
Works like a charm, used it myself!
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https://piunikaweb.com/2019/05/29/how-to-unbrick-oneplus-7-pro-using-msm-download-tool/
Works like a charm, used it myself!
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NICE! Appreciate the info!
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NICE! Appreciate the info!
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I thought you had the 7pro already... I'm guessing I seen you on the 6t side
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I thought you had the 7pro already... I'm guessing I seen you on the 6t side
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I do! I have the global model so I tend to focus on stuff here that applies to my model lol I had the 6T for a while but did move over to the 7 Pro.
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I bought a secondhand Sony Xperia XZ Premium recently and it is locked to Vodafone UK which is okay as I can get NUC if I use a vodafone simcard with this device for 30day, but the "bootloader allowed unlock: no" I suspect that it is locked because of Vodafone...but I came across something what wasn't possible before. I opened the developer options in the phone settings menu and there was the OEM Unlock greyed out a week ago I tried on the very first day...but yesterday I decided to try again and it was only pure boredom. And guess what...OEM Unlock toggled and still it is. So now I really have no clue what is going on.
Do you guys think that If I would generate a password on the sony site and try to fastboot oem unlock still wouldn't work properly or simply it would make a soft brick of it, or the other issue with drm and camera and etc.?
So again my question, anybody has any idea what we are looking at right now? anyways this device about 3 years old and I just don't get that if the carriers and also the manufacturer doesn't give a damn about their devices older than 1,5 yrs old, no more software upgrades and nothing in general, why is that hard thing to give the permission to the end user to do whatever they want with their fully paid device.
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why is that hard thing to give the permission to the end user to do whatever they want with their fully paid device.
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Vendors usually prohibit bootloader unlock because they don't want the warranty hassle. "wahhh, I unlocked my phone and now it's broke"
I don’t think the OEM unlock will make any difference, but there is no harm in trying. You’ll just get an error with ADB if you try to unlock it and it’s no possible. It won’t brick your phone.
I've had this Pixel 2 for years now and like it a bit but I still can't root it because of Verizon locking the ability to enable OEM Unlocking. I've tried to unlock via usb and using lock/unlock critical and such. I've tried downgrading and it fails to do so.
Couldn't I just root it without using OEM Unlocking? I'd rather risk a brick than not root it honestly. Or if there is a way to unlock it, it'd be appreciated.
BLUF: no way to unlock right now.
I'm coming back to this phone because I'm trying to put a different OS on it, like lineageOS, since google has given up on updating their products. I've come to the conclusion, at this time, there is no patch/exploit to get around a locked bootloader. No my case is different, I picked this up on google fi and fi support notes the IEMI as being unlocked, but my phone is still locked at the bootloader. I've scanned the fourms, I've searched the google and I think we're not going to be happy right now
Sorry, hopefully someone has a different solution.
TL;DR - read BLUF
FynxSyndct said:
BLUF: no way to unlock right now.
I'm coming back to this phone because I'm trying to put a different OS on it, like lineageOS, since google has given up on updating their products. I've come to the conclusion, at this time, there is no patch/exploit to get around a locked bootloader. No my case is different, I picked this up on google fi and fi support notes the IEMI as being unlocked, but my phone is still locked at the bootloader. I've scanned the fourms, I've searched the google and I think we're not going to be happy right now
Sorry, hopefully someone has a different solution.
TL;DR - read BLUF
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Dang. That's unfortunate. I'll be going for a new phone soon anyways. Thinking ASUS Rog Phone 2/3.
eM-Krow said:
I've had this Pixel 2 for years now and like it a bit but I still can't root it because of Verizon locking the ability to enable OEM Unlocking. I've tried to unlock via usb and using lock/unlock critical and such. I've tried downgrading and it fails to do so.
Couldn't I just root it without using OEM Unlocking? I'd rather risk a brick than not root it honestly. Or if there is a way to unlock it, it'd be appreciated.
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