Hi Guys,
First time poster!
My father has been given an SE ARC as a gift from a friend. The handset is not unlocked. Im thinking about sticking a ROM on there so i can get the latest version of Android for him.
If i ROM the handset will this remove the need to have an unlocking code?
Thanks
Darren
You have to get access to the phone proper before you install any ROM. These include some settings on your phone to allow various steps you need to root and install a custom ROM
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gaslaw said:
You have to get access to the phone proper before you install any ROM. These include some settings on your phone to allow various steps you need to root and install a custom ROM
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I can get into the phone by using the SIM card it came with, the only time i get issues is when i use a SIM from a network provider.
dazanteney4 said:
If i ROM the handset will this remove the need to have an unlocking code?
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No. Read the first link in my sig, then ask any questions there or post them here.
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Hello!
When I bought my Desire, I asked the seller to root it and to flash it with another rom for me.
Then I read something about a goldcard. Since the original rom was from Orange (French provider) and the previous owner had it unlocked (officially or not I don't know ), will I ever have to use a goldcard? As I don't have a goldcard, what can go wrong?
Thanks!
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k-e-n-2 said:
Hello!
When I bought my Desire, I asked the seller to root it and to flash it with another rom for me.
Then I read something about a goldcard. Since the original rom was from Orange (French provider) and the previous owner had it unlocked (officially or not I don't know ), will I ever have to use a goldcard? As I don't have a goldcard, what can go wrong?
Thanks!
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Goldcard is a tool which is required when you try to flash stock ROM. There are a myriad of reasons why you might need to do that in the future.
Here is the method I used:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-easily-create-gold-card-for-htc-desire-without-hex-editing/
k-e-n-2 said:
Hello!
When I bought my Desire, I asked the seller to root it and to flash it with another rom for me.
Then I read something about a goldcard. Since the original rom was from Orange (French provider) and the previous owner had it unlocked (officially or not I don't know ), will I ever have to use a goldcard? As I don't have a goldcard, what can go wrong?
Thanks!
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If you do not have a goldcard you could be unable to flash an ruu. You need to do this, if you want to set your phone completely back to stock. You need to this, when you want to "delete signs" of root, s-off and installed custom roms. So that when you sent your phone back to your provider/seller, you can assert a warranty claim, although you lost it with rooting (and so on) your phone.
Ohhh shh**tt!!
@stringer7: thanks for the link.
I have a backup of the original ROM. Can't I just reflash it to restore the phone back @stock? Can I still make a goldcard?
Thanks for your help!
As far as i know, you can make a goldcard at any time. It's just important to have one.
You shouldn't need a Goldcard- but it's completely optional and beneficial in some ways
Well I plan to give my Desire to my Mom and buy another phone, I don't want her to experience any rom related bug so I'll turn it back to official rom...
Can I simply reflash the backed up official rom? Will I lose Root and/or S-Off?
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k-e-n-2 said:
Well I plan to give my Desire to my Mom and buy another phone, I don't want her to experience any rom related bug so I'll turn it back to official rom...
Can I simply reflash the backed up official rom? Will I lose Root and/or S-Off?
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Yes you would then lose root and s-off.
You could reflash your backup - but if it's a nandroid backup, that would have been done after you rooted wouldn't it, so you would get rooted official rom.
So best thing is find the ruu for your device and carrier, create goldcard and run the ruu? You will find tutorials on XDA for this!
Ok thank you very much for your answers
k-e-n-2 said:
Ok thank you very much for your answers
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Press the thanks button.
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If a phone got officialy unlocked (= desimlocked), is it still branded?
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k-e-n-2 said:
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If a phone got officialy unlocked (= desimlocked), is it still branded?
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Rooting a phone does not take the branding off it, flashing a Rom with no branding does that... For example, my phone provider is virgin mobile, when i rooted it I still had virgins logos and apps on my phone... When i flashed a custom Rom, I didn't
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Rageypeep said:
Rooting a phone does not take the branding off it, flashing a Rom with no branding does that... For example, my phone provider is virgin mobile, when i rooted it I still had virgins logos and apps on my phone... When i flashed a custom Rom, I didn't
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Agree.
10chars.
Yesterday I rooted my r800at by downgrading the firmware then super one click. Now I have been trying to get custom Rom on my phone and I can't find anything. I would like ics but can't find one. I have a locked bootloader do I need to unlock it to do it. If I do does it cost money I dont want to pay but if I have to I will. Can someone help.
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Gunner1716 said:
Yesterday I rooted my r800at by downgrading the firmware then super one click. Now I have been trying to get custom Rom on my phone and I can't find anything. I would like ics but can't find one. I have a locked bootloader do I need to unlock it to do it. If I do does it cost money I dont want to pay but if I have to I will. Can someone help.
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As i know, u will need to unlock bootloader if want to install ics cusrom, but if u wanna try i suggest gin2ics which now developing to gin2jellybean, as i remember, hope it wasnt wrong, u can install it locked bootloader or maybe u can search for any on the developing forum
Regards from Lucian
Xperia Play with True Ancestor Rom modded myself..
Locked Bootloader
Gunner1716 said:
Yesterday I rooted my r800at by downgrading the firmware then super one click. Now I have been trying to get custom Rom on my phone and I can't find anything. I would like ics but can't find one. I have a locked bootloader do I need to unlock it to do it. If I do does it cost money I dont want to pay but if I have to I will. Can someone help.
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You need to unlock bootloader if you want to flash a real ICS-rom. You can do this on Sony's homepage. http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/
Simply follow the instructions given on Sony's page or search in the development section for unlocking bootloader.
Then you can choose a ICS rom, for example CM9 or this one (but there are much more, simply look in the development section an try some different roms ) and flash it.
Sry my English isn't that good.
Hi,
I am trying to unlock the bootloader (and flash a new ROM) of my T-Mobile UK branded Xperia Arc. I followed the instructions on the (very helpful) guides on the forum and sony's dev website; the guide says that I need to pay to have it unlocked? and the dev site says I cannot get it unlocked because:
In your phone, tap Service info > Configuration > Rooting Status. If Bootloader unlock allowed says Yes, then you can continue with the next step. If it says No, or if the status is missing, your device cannot be unlocked.
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And the "rooting status" option is missing. :/
So, how can I unlock the bootloader and flash a new ROM?
Many thanks in advance
kanay2000 said:
Hi,
I am trying to unlock the bootloader (and flash a new ROM) of my T-Mobile UK branded Xperia Arc. I followed the instructions on the (very helpful) guides on the forum and sony's dev website; the guide says that I need to pay to have it unlocked? and the dev site says I cannot get it unlocked because:
And the "rooting status" option is missing. :/
So, how can I unlock the bootloader and flash a new ROM?
Many thanks in advance
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Only possible via paid method.
Someguyfromhell said:
Only possible via paid method.
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The links are broken on the guides. What are the paid methods?
Contact alejandrissimo for that
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Mine says : Yes, then i continued. Then i put my IMEI, However, IMEI given by my phone is 15 digits, so i decided not to include the first digit which is zero (0). I proceed with that very easy and helpful instructions very carefully. Done. Then, i tried booting in fastboot using flashtool and selected the custom kernel ArcKnight, but still getting error message that 'YOU NEED TO HAVE A ROOTED PHONE' when in fact my phone is rooted with Busybox 1.8.1. What have i done wrong? Please help.
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whiskey_1388 said:
Mine says : Yes, then i continued. Then i put my IMEI, However, IMEI given by my phone is 15 digits, so i decided not to include the first digit which is zero (0). I proceed with that very easy and helpful instructions very carefully. Done. Then, i tried booting in fastboot using flashtool and selected the custom kernel ArcKnight, but still getting error message that 'YOU NEED TO HAVE A ROOTED PHONE' when in fact my phone is rooted with Busybox 1.8.1. What have i done wrong? Please help.
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You don't need root to install custom kernel. You need to unlock bootloader.
You got Branded and/or SIM-locked device? Then you can do it only via paid method.
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Mine says : Yes, then i continued. Then i put my IMEI, However, IMEI given by my phone is 15 digits, so i decided not to include the first digit which is zero (0). I proceed with that very easy and helpful instructions very carefully. Done. Then, i tried booting in fastboot using flashtool and selected the custom kernel ArcKnight, but still getting error message that 'YOU NEED TO HAVE A ROOTED PHONE' when in fact my phone is rooted with Busybox 1.8.1. What have i done wrong? Please help.
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If it says yes doesn't mean it is unlocked and you can flash kernels you need to unlock it you can do it free and of imei last no. Should be erased to get 14 digit imei. Go to fast boot mode and unlock it and then flash kernels
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Hi. So, I have a SONY XPERIA S with bootloader locked. I recieved a mail from SONY with the unlock bootloader key. The next step should be to download the SDK. But since the SDK is almost 500 MB in size and I have a slow connection, and a limited data plan I cannot download the SDK. My question is : Is there another easy way to to this? To unlock my bootloader?
i'm not sure if this help, but just trying to help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42407269
Perfect
Alin Theron
Any advantage of unlocking?
This is general section, pls post question on Q&A section... Tq
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The advantage is that with unlocked bootloader I can make root
AlinTheron said:
The advantage is that with unlocked bootloader I can make root
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Mmm, did you know that you can 'root' with locked bootloader also?... the real advantage is that you can use custom kernels
I tried, not working.
Any ideas on how to root with locked bootloader?
AlinTheron said:
Any ideas on how to root with locked bootloader?
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Yes.
AlinTheron said:
I tried, not working.
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Would you mind sharing more feedback of what you have already tried for rooting?? and which steps are you failing at? so we can help you out :cyclops:
I've tried a zip package from doomlord
i'm using XAS, base on .200 ROM, all i do to root was this.
1. UL BL
2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2309117
3. place this SuperSU-1.25-Busybox-1.20.2-UPDATE.zip file from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=42005929&postcount=3 onto internal storage
4. flash SuperSU-1.25-Busybox-1.20.2-UPDATE.zip in recovery
that's what i did on both XAS
I'll try it right now
Done. SOLVED
Now it works just fine.
SOLVED
How to get the key from Sony?
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http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/instructions
Hi I'm wondering if I have to unlock my bootloader on my bell Xperia zl to re-flash bell stock Rom it's running a custom Rom right now and sim unlocked I have the SIM unlock code I can enter again if need be I don't want it rooted I want to receive ota updates if I don't need to unlock the bootloader where can I find the files and I have no computer so im gonna have to do it directly from the phone if possible also there is no recovery on this phone that I can see anyways please someone let me know if I can do this or not
Thanks.
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daveywantstoroot said:
Hi I'm wondering if I have to unlock my bootloader on my bell Xperia zl to re-flash bell stock Rom it's running a custom Rom right now and sim unlocked I have the SIM unlock code I can enter again if need be I don't want it rooted I want to receive ota updates if I don't need to unlock the bootloader where can I find the files and I have no computer so im gonna have to do it directly from the phone if possible also there is no recovery on this phone that I can see anyways please someone let me know if I can do this or not
Thanks.
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There is most likely a custom recovery on the phone - either CWM or TWRP, as that is most likely how the custom rom was installed.
to set it back to stock you will need to use a computer and flash the FTF files for the stock Bell rom. This will also set the recovery back to stock as well. It should be available on the stock rom thread for download and I think you should be able to find instructions on how to revert to stock somewhere in the forums.
You do NOT need to unlock the bootloader to do this, but you do need a PC.
P.S. You mention you don't want to root...but your name indicates otherwise....
That is an old user name lol from when I had my atrix 4g thanks for your help I just don't like this Rom I have so I wanna revert back thanks again
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daveywantstoroot said:
That is an old user name lol from when I had my atrix 4g thanks for your help I just don't like this Rom I have so I wanna revert back thanks again
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Have you tried this rom? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385313
Its the one I'm currently using, and I can highly recommend it
That does look like a nice Rom but until I can get access to a computer I'm assuming these roms are useless to me right now I'm using RomAur v9 right now and I can when I get to a computer flash that Rom you recommended without unlocking bootloader? And thanks for the tip I do appreciate all the help
daveywantstoroot said:
That does look like a nice Rom but until I can get access to a computer I'm assuming these roms are useless to me right now I'm using RomAur v9 right now and I can when I get to a computer flash that Rom you recommended without unlocking bootloader? And thanks for the tip I do appreciate all the help
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no need to unlock the bootloader - I can't even unlock it on my phone.
make sure you follow the instructions in the thread for installing!
good luck!