Hi, is there currently any unofficial way to unlock the bootloader of the Zenphone 6? As far as I have searched, the only option seems to be to use the official Asus tool.
What about relocking the bootloader? I noticed some users on the forum have tried it via an adb command and gotten bricked devices. Is there any real working lock bootloader possibility that allows you to get the fota:s again?
I'm not gonna try to do anything to my phone till I get an answer to those questions.
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Hello!
I bought a Transformer Tf700 the other day and stupid as I was ( It seems ) updated it to JB before unlocking the bootloader and rooting the device.
So I have been searching around the forums, but it seems that there is no way to actually Root a JB device that did not unlock the bootloader in beforehand.
So my question is can I root&unlock the device?
The guides I have read only tells me that I can only root & unlock from ICS and to Downgrade to ICS ( from my understanding ) I need to have the bootloader unlocked... Witch makes this a vicious circle, so from what I have read its not possible to downgrade to ICS with out unlocking bootloader. And I can only unlock the bootloader on ICS.
So does anyone know away that I have missed? Or is it just happy waiting time for me ?
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Zibbr.
You still have to downgrade, but you don't need to be unlocked. Just download the .30 firmware, pop it on an SD and it will notify you to downgrade. Also, the unlock tool still works on JB if you still wish to unlock.
I recently bricked my device and had to do this, so it's certainly possible. I'm not unlocked just yet, but people say the unlock tool does work.
EDIT: I just used the Unlock Tool and can confirm that it works with Jelly Bean just fine...now to hope I don't regret unlocking!
Hey guys, im new to this forums so first of all, hello everybody.
so, i have this xperia l, and im not new to android devices, and i want to flash a kernel and a rom (more specificly, thunderzcap and ios7)
the problem is, i cant unlock my bootloader. In that screen after you type that weird combination of numbers in the dialer it says that i just cant do it (not allowed). I read it somewhere that i need my simlock code and something else, but according to what i know (and i dont want to believe t) this means it is permantly locked.
So anyone here knows how to solve it? I would defenitly love to unlock the bootloader so i can flash a kernel... or im stuck with my phone? i know there are other roms but it isnt the same thing...
Thanks in advance
If it's locked there is no going around it. So answer is no, if it says on the phone that bootloader is locked you can't unlock it. And there are NO roms that work with locked bootloader. For you to be able to flash a ROM on it you must have unlockable bootloader.
Sorry to give you bad news but that is way things are in your case.
Nothing you can do.................for now.
If we can get CWM going on the phone, we can flash packages. From there, if this can be extended to our phone, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2595238 then we can run CM variants on top of stock, and thus there is hope for the locked bootloader people, like myself, hopefully.
Hello everyone!
I've had my m4 for about 5/4 years now and my battery has been getting worse more and more slowly for about 2 months now. Because I want to invoke my guarantee I tried to return the phone to stock rom from Insertcoin, unroot it and lock the bootloader. I flashed the stock rom from this(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2791725) thread and everthing was working fine. After that I went into fastboot and typed the command "fastboot oem lock", because I read so on the internet. Now there seems to be no rom or recovery on my phone anymore and everytime i reboot it just straigth goes into the bootloader. None of the tools I found on google worked so I thought somebody here could help me because I'm almost getting desperate.
I will also include a link to a photo of the bootloader, maybe it's helpful (https://www.dropbox.com/s/0j7830bw6mxjjrv/IMG_20150511_190346.jpg?dl=0).
Also notice that this is one of my first posts in this forum and english isn't my mother tongue.
I would really appreciate a fast but especially useful and relative easily written response.
Thanks!
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. I would unlock the bootloader, fasboot oem unlock, and flash the stock firmware from the link you provided.
fastboot oem unlock error
I tried fastboot oem unlock but it just wrote "[ERR] Command error!!!". I also tried to unlock it via HTCdev again but the sites seems to be down, everytime i select my device and click on Begin Unlock Bootloader it opens this small window and says that the site is unavailable, I also tried it a few different times. Is there no other tool to unlock the bootloader or somehow get my rom started again, because I'm wondering why it's erasing or at least not giving me access to the rom that was perfectly working before anymore after locking the bootloader.
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OK so i found out how to do it with HTCdev. I just had to create an account, log in and do exactly the same as before. I had to give it a few tries, but in the end it worked. Now my question is how I can relock my bootloader without causing the same again? I didn't find anything other than the cmd prompt fastboot oem lock so if maybe somebody could help me.
Thread closed.
I cannot relock asus zenfone5 lite (zc600kl)
At asus homepage, i download app "version unlock tool"
And i install, I ran a program
Then the following message will pop up each the phone booting.
Your device softeare csn't be checked for corruption.
Please lock the bootloader.
So i wish relock my phone, asus zenfone5 lite (zc600kl)
Please let mo know How to relock asus zenfone5 lite (zc600kl)
Thank you. have a nice day.
You unlock bootloader with the official apk, so you cannot relock it, and moreover, like it's explain when you install the official apk for unlocking bootloader, your warranty is now void. I remember it was written when i unlocked bootloader on my zenfone 3 with the official asus apk.
siberflyers said:
You unlock bootloader with the official apk, so you cannot relock it, and moreover, like it's explain when you install the official apk for unlocking bootloader, your warranty is now void. I remember it was written when i unlocked bootloader on my zenfone 3 with the official asus apk.
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Thank you for your reply.
I want to relock my zenfone.
When I boot up the phone, I get the same sentence.
It is not related to the warranty of the phone.
This is Korea, not the place where the asus phone is regularly distributed, but it does not repair the trouble in Korea asus.
Knowing this, I bought the phone.
I just want to keep that sentence no more when the phone boot.
When relocking again, the sentence seems to be rattling and asking questions.
I want to know how to relock.
I am also looking for an original recovry and boot img that fits this phone.
If I can save those files, I think relock is possible.
Or I would like to find a way in this phone that this phrase can be paved.
Thank you.
I will read your writing carefully.
purundl said:
Thank you for your reply.
I want to relock my zenfone.
When I boot up the phone, I get the same sentence.
It is not related to the warranty of the phone.
This is Korea, not the place where the asus phone is regularly distributed, but it does not repair the trouble in Korea asus.
Knowing this, I bought the phone.
I just want to keep that sentence no more when the phone boot.
When relocking again, the sentence seems to be rattling and asking questions.
I want to know how to relock.
I am also looking for an original recovry and boot img that fits this phone.
If I can save those files, I think relock is possible.
Or I would like to find a way in this phone that this phrase can be paved.
Thank you.
I will read your writing carefully.
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You can not get rid of the message, even if you relock the boot loader.
Help unlock bootloader zenfone 5q (x017da)
I don't have a high enough post count to start my own thread, but this is the closest related thread I could find. If I should post this somewhere else, please advise.
I tried the official unlock bootloader apk and I keep getting an error message. It says it is an unknown error message and it may be a network issue. I tried troubleshooting on the zentalk forum. They asked for my Imei number and then told me the servers are fine that I'd be using and I would need to have support perform "Imei checking". Support had no idea what that meant. The zentalk support person suggested I ask for help here as they can not provide any additional assistance.
I've looked and using adb and fastboot I can get my phone into fastboot, but then after echo>key.txt I try:
fastboot oem get_unlock_key key.txt
FAILED (remote: 'unknown command')
fastboot: error: Command failed
My goal with unlocking the bootloader is to try to enable gcam and hopefully improve the camera capabilities.
Does anyone have a suggestion on what steps to unlock the bootloader? I don't believe there is any way to use gcam without unlocking the bootloader first, but I'd there is a way to do that, I'd appreciate some direction.
Thanks.
Okay so I have spent over 2 hours looking to see if anyone has asked this, but cannot find an answer.
I have a Verizon Google Pixel it was on 7.1 when I unlocked the bootloader with DePixel8.
I have to return it and was wondering how do I relock the bootloader? Also do I need to be back on Android 7.1?
I have since unlocked the updated to android 8.0 (or w.e. the current version of Android is out.) while bootloader is unlocked.
(I AM NOT ROOTED NOR HAVE I INSTALLED ANY TYPE OF CUSTOM RECOVERY ONLY APPS FROM PLAY STORE)
Now one last thing. If I relock will I need to use the DePixel8 method again and give the command fastboot oem lock?
Any help is appreciated. And sorry for being such a darn noob. Kinda new to this.
P.S. forgive me if this was asked somewhere and I couldn't find it,
You should be able to run the command in bootloader mode "fastboot flashing lock" and then toggle oem unlocking in settings off if it isnt already.