I recently bought an LG V50 from an overstock warehouse. The phone is brand new and was in sealed box with all the retail contents. The problem is it is operating on Android Pie. The bootloader instruction for this phone requires Android 10. When I tried to flash it with the "engineering abl" to access the fastboot mode, the screen just stayed at LG logo.
So the question is how to get this phone to upgrade to Android 10. And hence do the bootloader unlock on the way to rooting it? I don't have a Sprint/T-Mobile account and plan to use it for music listening only. When I tried to activate it on T-Mobile site, the site tells me that the phone is incompatible and can't be activated.
So I am stuck with the Android Pie that is stopping me from unlocking the bootloader. Any insights?
Many thanks.
Solved it.
Mind sharing how you solved it for anyone coming by with the same problem?
I had to resort to Octopus LG to unlock the bootloader. From there things were easy to root the phone.
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Hi guys, I'd really appreciate your help so I can get OEM unlock back on my Samsung S8+ dual sim SM-G955FD here in Canada. I'm on Android 8.0.0.
I've tried many of the methods described on this forum and elsewhere without luck. I've even left my phone charging for over a week, with and without a sim. Also no luck.
My guess is that since the model of my phone is not a model imported into Canada by Samsung, and since I understand Samsung unlocks the OEM security feature by sending a signal, Samsung won't send that OEM unlock signal to an unofficial phone.
This mess started when I unsuccessfully tried to root my phone. I must have made a mistake, so I figured the best way to try again would be to reinstall a stock image. Instead of the original Android 7 I installed Android 8 (which also changed the "Samsung Experience" version from 8 to 9). The phone now happily works, but no OEM unlock and so I cannot root.
Please help me get OEM unlock back on my phone.
Thanks so much
D, stuck in Toronto
Did you succeed
the same for me more oem unlock
When I received it it was already on Oreo version bootloader v3 and updated to v5
in v3 oreo oem unlock is turn on
update v5 7 day wait
i have message erasing recovery without admin to odin
Hi guys i hope you can help me.
I'm from Mexico. Some months ago i received as a gift an AT&T Unlocked N950U device. Yesterday i updated my device to Android 9 N950U1 XAA unlocked version with no problems except for the device asking for an unlock code. I tried to get an unlock code from the official site but it says the device is reported as lost or stolen???? (I believe it was a device some people sold and then they went to at&t and said the device was stolen to get a new one).
Now. I was thinking 3 options:
1.- Try to get the code with some credits from an unlock box.
2.- Buy the premium code from some ebay reseller.
3.- Try to go back to oreo but bootloader was uploaded to bit 6 so...
PS: I don't know how it was possible for an unlocked device to lock again after flashing a diferent software version. I firstly tried to update the official way but since i'm on mexico and an at&t sim card is not installed on the device an update is never found. Also i didn't find any Pie update for at&t to flash with odin.
Ps2: The glass is broken and the screen only works if you set brightness above 70-75% so if i flash anything the update wizard is a pain in the ass(because screen is totally black) i could pass thanks to Talkback.
What you think? What is the best i can do now? Screen replacement is not an option at this moment...
Hi, so I had converted my T-Mobile OP7 to the international version. I then contacted T-Mobile and got my phone unlocked. After that I updated my OP7 to Android 10 open beta yet somehow my phone became networked locked. I tried everything from trying to use the T-Mobile unlock app again to resetting the entire phone. Still no dice. Will I have to downgrade or are there any solutions to this? Thanks in advance
dizzyd1998 said:
Hi, so I had converted my T-Mobile OP7 to the international version. I then contacted T-Mobile and got my phone unlocked. After that I updated my OP7 to Android 10 open beta yet somehow my phone became networked locked. I tried everything from trying to use the T-Mobile unlock app again to resetting the entire phone. Still no dice. Will I have to downgrade or are there any solutions to this? Thanks in advance
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Well you have to downgrade in the first place to use the T-Mobile unlock app, if it isn't unlocking your phone that's because the line is locked.
Try and download device unlock for pixel only from the playstore and see if that works.
flash back to Tmobile ROM and unlock via the Tmobile unlock app. thats what i had too do
Hi guys! Having some weird issues getting custom roms to flash on my 8T. I purchased the TMobile variant as it was the only one in stock, and I planned to use it with a TMobile mnvo. It's the KB2007 model. I purchased it outright, and went to unlock the bootloader - this was not possible as the device was locked. I reached out to TMobile on Twitter, gave them my phone number, IMEI and told them my story. They said it would take 2-5 business days for the unlock team to look at the request as I wasnt a direct TMobile customer. A few days later, I went into the android settings app, and attempted to permanently unlock the device and it unlocked. I rebooted and was able to toggle the developer setting to allow OEM unlocking, yay! Since that point, I've ran the kebabt -> kebab EU firmware MSM tool to convert the device to the EU firmware (as I've heard it's more stable, I'm US based though)
However, after that I've gone to replace oxygen os with Lineage, and I'm getting errors from fastboot about the device still being locked. Any ideas where to go from here?
You probably need to unlock your bootloader?
fastboot flashing unlock
AlmightyGrapefruit said:
Hi guys! Having some weird issues getting custom roms to flash on my 8T. I purchased the TMobile variant as it was the only one in stock, and I planned to use it with a TMobile mnvo. It's the KB2007 model. I purchased it outright, and went to unlock the bootloader - this was not possible as the device was locked. I reached out to TMobile on Twitter, gave them my phone number, IMEI and told them my story. They said it would take 2-5 business days for the unlock team to look at the request as I wasnt a direct TMobile customer. A few days later, I went into the android settings app, and attempted to permanently unlock the device and it unlocked. I rebooted and was able to toggle the developer setting to allow OEM unlocking, yay! Since that point, I've ran the kebabt -> kebab EU firmware MSM tool to convert the device to the EU firmware (as I've heard it's more stable, I'm US based though)
However, after that I've gone to replace oxygen os with Lineage, and I'm getting errors from fastboot about the device still being locked. Any ideas where to go from here?
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You will get fastboot errors about unlocking critical partitions if you try to flash partitions other than boot, recovery and a few others while you're in bootloader mode.
For the rest you must be in fastbootd mode.
Chances are you need the unlock token from OnePlus themselves it takes a week
Hi guys. So i bought a motorola g pure, xt2163-4 pvt1 with universal software. About 1 year ago from facebook. Phone looked new and it was "factory unlocked" However last night i had an android 12 update, wich i did, but now after the update, my network is locked. And the built in unlock tool at about phone-device unlock, wont seem to work, i get (SERVER COMMUNICATION ERROR CODE=200 MSG=SERVER_NO_CONTENT).
Isaw a couple of fixes on google, however they are for diferent divices and old, i was wondering if anyone here has a solution for this problem. I really apreciate the help. Thanks for reading.
I have the same issue but I don't have an unlocking app or was unlocked via server. Worked fine for months until after the Android 12 update.
ok so ima post a soultion that worked for me. My phone was unlocked via global unlocked, is just a gues, why? well last night i was about to unlock it with global unlock, downloaded the software, hoocked my phone, place my phone in fassboot, conected my pphone to the app, just to chekit it, i did not had any credits to use that unlock option, after reboot, phone was unlocked againg. so you might wanna give it a try. i even wipe the phone to see if the unlocked was ok after factory reset, and it was. so hope this works for someone else.