Kind of a stupid question but is it still being worked on? Or will we ever get to see a bootloader unlock for phones that aren't officially supported?
NotAbdShahid said:
Kind of a stupid question but is it still being worked on? Or will we ever get to see a bootloader unlock for phones that aren't officially supported?
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Probably not...
LG fd us on this phone with MM. I am NEVER buying LG again. I took a risk after waiting 10 years from my last one with epic battery issues thinking, hey it's 2016 (got it a week before MM came to the H812 so I was unaware of permanent locked BL on MM) surly the LG batteries are better and its removable so if not no problem. Well F that, LG is a PoS company that does not want the world to contribute to bettering our digital lives so good bye!
NotAbdShahid said:
Kind of a stupid question but is it still being worked on? Or will we ever get to see a bootloader unlock for phones that aren't officially supported?
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The people that could unlock it either arent talking about it or theyve done the smart thing and moved on. Now i have seen some devices get unlocked or offic or unoffic. A year 2 years even 3 years later finnaly someone figures it out but i kinda know a thing or 2 about the encryption used on the bootloader partitions. And theyre bassicly uncrackable with 64bit encryptio
I think one of the best things that we all love about android is ability to change your phone and add what you want via root. My question is this, if the future of android is to lock all bootloaders, why should we stay with android and not get an I phone? If I can't get viper4android I'm not sure if I'm gonna stay with android. What are your thoughts?
chronos7 said:
I think one of the best things that we all love about android is ability to change your phone and add what you want via root. My question is this, if the future of android is to lock all bootloaders, why should we stay with android and not get an I phone? If I can't get viper4android I'm not sure if I'm gonna stay with android. What are your thoughts?
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if v4a is all you want for android then get iphone h8r
BaconSeeds said:
if v4a is all you want for android then get iphone h8r
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A h8r wouldn't have android for the last 6 years...smh
There are only 2 types of Android customizers, people who can customize without root and bad customizers
If u really like a locked down device get an iphone. Last jailbreak took 11 months to get. Stock icons sucks on ios. At least u have options with android without root.
chronos7 said:
I think one of the best things that we all love about android is ability to change your phone and add what you want via root. My question is this, if the future of android is to lock all bootloaders, why should we stay with android and not get an I phone? If I can't get viper4android I'm not sure if I'm gonna stay with android. What are your thoughts?
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Because an iPhone is more locked down than an Android. It would be really dumb to downgrade to iOS just because your Android has a locked bootloader... That's just like replacing your gaming PC with a cheap Android tablet just because you don't like the new Ubuntu update.
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chronos7 said:
I think one of the best things that we all love about android is ability to change your phone and add what you want via root. My question is this, if the future of android is to lock all bootloaders, why should we stay with android and not get an I phone? If I can't get viper4android I'm not sure if I'm gonna stay with android. What are your thoughts?
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Where did you see that the bootloader is locked?
So far, only the VZW carrier version is confirmed to be locked.
cmason37 said:
Because an iPhone is more locked down than an Android. It would be really dumb to downgrade to iOS just because your Android has a locked bootloader... That's just like replacing your gaming PC with a cheap Android tablet just because you don't like the new Ubuntu update.
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Everyone that has a iPhone isn't dumb. It's not about which OS is the best because they both have their plus and minus. The thing is that android is starting to lock their phones down just like Apple. The options that we all love about android are starting to fade (bootloader, removable battery, sd card). So if this keeps going on, android will be very similar to Apple, which is something none of us want.
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Where did you see that the bootloader is locked?
So far, only the VZW carrier version is confirmed to be locked.
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We won't know until someone gets the phone in their hands. Verizon is definitely locked, but phones bought from Google may not be locked.
chronos7 said:
Everyone that has a iPhone isn't dumb. It's not about which OS is the best because they both have their plus and minus. The thing is that android is starting to lock their phones down just like Apple. The options that we all love about android are starting to fade (bootloader, removable battery, sd card). So if this keeps going on, android will be very similar to Apple, which is something none of us want.
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I didn't *say* anything about the intelligence of Apple users, nor did I really talk crap about iOS. All I said was switching to an OS which is *even more* locked down, just because the bootloader is locked, is a dumb decision. Like, you're angry that Android is locked down, so in retaliation you switch to something more locked down. Really??
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I didn't *say* anything about the intelligence of Apple users, nor did I really talk crap about iOS. All I said was switching to an OS which is *even more* locked down, just because the bootloader is locked, is a dumb decision. Like, you're angry that Android is locked down, so in retaliation you switch to something more locked down. Really??
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If they're both locked down more people will move to whichever OS they like because they are becoming more and more similar. You're dumd if you think that's not going to happen for whatever reason that a person chooses is best for them, and not what you think is the best decision. Wow!!!
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If they're both locked down more people will move to whichever OS they like because they are becoming more and more similar. You're dumd if you think that's not going to happen for whatever reason that a person chooses is best for them, and not what you think is the best decision. Wow!!!
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I don't understand the broken grammar in the second sentence.
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cmason37 said:
I don't understand the broken grammar in the second sentence.
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Lol, you probably wouldn't. Go and troll somewhere else.
chronos7 said:
Lol, you probably wouldn't. Go and troll somewhere else.
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Lol how was I trolling? Don't get angry at me cause you don't know how to speak proper English.
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Folks, cut it out. This conversion can't be constructive and inflammatory at the same time. Please be respectful and let's have a mature discussion about this.
That being said, I thought I saw someone who said they got in touch with a Google rep who said the bootloader will unlocked, at least from the Play Store. Take it with a grain of salt, since not all manufacturers' reps know the difference between a bootloader and carrier locks, but this is Google we're talking about.
Now I'm not the most savy on bootloaders, more just an open source dev. But the nexus 6 I got from a verizon store had a locked boot loader. The nexus 6p I had for a short time had a locked boot loader. But they were unlocked fairly easily. From what I have always seem every phone had a locked boot loader that requires it to be unlocked to allow access and write to protected partitions. But the issue that I know is when in gets encrypted is when the issue arises. Without getting the verizon models in hand by a dev, we don't currently know if it is encrypted yet, or has this already been discovered? I highly doubt any verizon rep on the phone or on a chat will know the answer to that question. I believe the htc 10 on verizon has an encrypted bootloader, but it also had the htc bootloader, I assume the pixel is going to have the google boot loader. I just personally wanted to clarify it for my self if my understanding is correct, from someone who has a better grasp on this.
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I'm really hoping it's unlocked because I want this phone, but the note 7 has got me weary.
chronos7 said:
We won't know until someone gets the phone in their hands. Verizon is definitely locked, but phones bought from Google may not be locked.
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This Youtube unboxing shows an unlocked bootloader.
anarchos said:
This Youtube unboxing shows an unlocked bootloader.
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The fact that this guy has the phone already makes me think he's unique. Possibly a developer that 1) already unlocked it and just put everything back in just to do an unboxing video or 2) it came that way to him since he is or may be a developer or reviewer.
Either way it's promising that it can be unlocked. All the Nexus phones came locked but were easily unlocked. The Verizon one worries me, but I imagine if it's the exact same model as the Google store version, it shouldn't be hard to get it unlocked by 3rd party means. I'm just waiting on full confirmation before I make my purchase.
Thanks for the video.
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pimpmaneaton said:
Now I'm not the most savy on bootloaders, more just an open source dev. But the nexus 6 I got from a verizon store had a locked boot loader. The nexus 6p I had for a short time had a locked boot loader. But they were unlocked fairly easily. From what I have always seem every phone had a locked boot loader that requires it to be unlocked to allow access and write to protected partitions. But the issue that I know is when in gets encrypted is when the issue arises. Without getting the verizon models in hand by a dev, we don't currently know if it is encrypted yet, or has this already been discovered? I highly doubt any verizon rep on the phone or on a chat will know the answer to that question. I believe the htc 10 on verizon has an encrypted bootloader, but it also had the htc bootloader, I assume the pixel is going to have the google boot loader. I just personally wanted to clarify it for my self if my understanding is correct, from someone who has a better grasp on this.
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Don't even bother calling Verizon to ask. They will emphatically say "yes it absolutely comes unlocked!" In reality they are referring to the carrier lock, not bootloader. They have no clue on bootloaders.
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I'm curious how FunkeyHuawei can do this? did they find a way to generate the codes needed to unlock the bootloader based on the IMEI ?
Below they claim on Twitter that their methods now work for Mate 20, I'm also curious if all of this official BL unlock ban and unofficial unlock method are killing the ROM development? It seems so based on the limited amount of ROMs available for the Mate 10.
I'm only asking for some info here, not trying to prove points or sway opinions, I loved my nexus 6P
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Anyone with a pre-release unit who wants to try is welcome. Contact us for details.
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I think you need to pay for that - which means Rip Huawei for us. There is no way to pay for something like bootloader unlock... it's not Apple with broken MIUI
Klanac89 said:
I think you need to pay for that - which means Rip Huawei for us. There is no way to pay for something like bootloader unlock... it's not Apple with broken MIUI
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I disagree. We had the same thing with HTC and getting s-off. And people - including me - payed for it, cause it was worth it. I'm not sure, though whether it's worth 55 bucks
Yeah but you and the other which pay for that are the 1%. HTC is almost dead...
here is the price
lets just say i wont pay that for a unlocked bootloader
Is it money back guarantee?
Meh, pay $41 more to get the unlock code. I wonder if this service belongs to Huawei as well.
I know the situation with Huawei and bootloader unlocking has been back and forth a little bit... with my searching, I'm not 100% sure where the situation stands.
I've been looking for a giant screen device with minimal bezels, one that works on AT&T (for the most part anyways), and the rest of the specs are nice too, so this phone seems almost perfect.
Except I absolutely require the ability to root.
Does anyone know if the Huawei Mate 20 X will be able to unlock the bootloader? Any announcement or news related to it?
I heard the unlock section in the developer options is greyed out in the UK variants.
jackfrost7 said:
I know the situation with Huawei and bootloader unlocking has been back and forth a little bit... with my searching, I'm not 100% sure where the situation stands.
I've been looking for a giant screen device with minimal bezels, one that works on AT&T (for the most part anyways), and the rest of the specs are nice too, so this phone seems almost perfect.
Except I absolutely require the ability to root.
Does anyone know if the Huawei Mate 20 X will be able to unlock the bootloader? Any announcement or news related to it?
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Honor note 10 was released 2 monhs ago when bootloader unlock was already closed. Right now i am writing from unlocked and rooted note 10. goto honor note 10 section to check options. paid options will soon figure out ways to get unlock key.
What about options such as:
https://www.dc-unlocker.com/
https://funkyhuawei.club/
bark1234 said:
Honor note 10 was released 2 monhs ago when bootloader unlock was already closed. Right now i am writing from unlocked and rooted note 10. goto honor note 10 section to check options. paid options will soon figure out ways to get unlock key.
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Can you tell me im detail how that works. Why is it closed. Im new to Huawei and very interested in mate 20 X, but needed working twrp and root. Does one need to pay to rooted phone.
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FunkyHuawei can get the bootloader unlock codes. We just need to figure out why the option is grey'd out.
Once we can enable that, BL can be unlocked.
Anyone,
please help me unlock bootloader on huawei matepad pro 10.8.
Huawei stopped providing bootloader unlock codes in 2018. Some (probably) leaked codes were sold by third parties until early 2019, but those have been stopped. There is no known method to defeat bootloader locking without the manufacturer provided unlock code, so Huawei have effectively shut down custom ROM development. What a sad waste of great hardware engineering.
lazycow said:
Huawei stopped providing bootloader unlock codes in 2018. Some (probably) leaked codes were sold by third parties until early 2019, but those have been stopped. There is no known method to defeat bootloader locking without the manufacturer provided unlock code, so Huawei have effectively shut down custom ROM development. What a sad waste of great hardware engineering.
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totally agree with you, the hardware is so good, and if only they let the devs to use it, they would have a community like xiaomi.eu carrying their tab and phones for free, doing better than would do google himself.
But they choose to lock, and nobody care about these very good tab.
Has anyone found a way to bypass?
https://gearallnews.com/how-to-install-lineage-os-17-gsi-for-huawei-matepad-pro-android-10/
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Has anyone found a way to bypass?
https://gearallnews.com/how-to-install-lineage-os-17-gsi-for-huawei-matepad-pro-android-10/
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Clickbait site. Just fake news.
Dragon Kumera said:
Has anyone found a way to bypass?
https://gearallnews.com/how-to-install-lineage-os-17-gsi-for-huawei-matepad-pro-android-10/
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Fake. Actually there is no known way, how to unlock bootloader, make downgrade, etc... I read something about big data leak from one devs site and Huawei bootloader codes was in leaked data, so I hope somebody find a way.
That stinks its fake but least on the other hand my samsung galaxy tab s7+ is a beast! and allows bootloader unlock and custom os