I have a L700 and it's refusing to let me re-lock the bootloader. It shows that it locks, but if I restart fastboot it shows unlocked again. if I restart the phone, it shows that it's unlocked. i've tried to flash a new build using ODIN and Fastboot but it still is acting up. Also, if i flash CWM and restart the phone, TWPR shows up which is currently on the phone. It's like updates aren't actually working!!!
Any ideas?
(It won't let me update my bootloader/radio's or recovery which is why I want to relock it, I think that might solve something)
Thanks,
Why do you need to relock your bootloader?
It's pretty much pointless.
electro` said:
Why do you need to relock your bootloader?
It's pretty much pointless.
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I believe it will fix my issue. I feel as if I can lock it then unlock it, i'll be able to flash what I need. Since it's pointless, can you explain why my bootloader and radio's won't update?
This is going to be really stupid but did you do the command prompt relock bootloader in fastboot?
This seems kind of unusual.
Did you reflash the bootloader or anything else?
If not, try that.
electro` said:
This is going to be really stupid but did you do the command prompt relock bootloader in fastboot?
This seems kind of unusual.
Did you reflash the bootloader or anything else?
If not, try that.
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I did relock the bootloader as stated in the OP. It goes back to unlocked with a restart or bootloader restart which shouldn't happen. I know it seems unusual. I've flashed everything (system, recovery, radio, bootloader) to no avail.
This might be a really stupid question but you say you have a L700???
What's that? These are the Google Galaxy Nexus forums.
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bk201doesntexist said:
This might be a really stupid question but you say you have a L700???
What's that? These are the Google Galaxy Nexus forums.
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http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SPH-L700ZKASPR
Sprint GNex
bk201doesntexist said:
This might be a really stupid question but you say you have a L700???
What's that? These are the Google Galaxy Nexus forums.
Sent from my Nexus
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Way to be an anus and look like an idiot doing it. I've read other threads with the same issue, I think it's a hardware issue and I'm just out a phone.
Thanks anyway.
Sooppex said:
Way to be an anus and look like an idiot doing it. I've read other threads with the same issue, I think it's a hardware issue and I'm just out a phone.
Thanks anyway.
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He was trying to help you.
No need to be a **** about it.
You could try the Nexus Root Toolkit by WugFresh. I think that has a bootloader relocking facility in it.
http://goo.im/devs/WugFresh/NexusRootToolkit
Edit: Whoops, sorry, didn't fully read the thread, my bad
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I heard about Wallet not working if you unlock bootloader without logging in or something? Is that true? Is there anything I should do before I unlock my bootloader, root, and install custom roms?
Thanks.
fredryk said:
I heard about Wallet not working if you unlock bootloader without logging in or something? Is that true? Is there anything I should do before I unlock my bootloader, root, and install custom roms?
Thanks.
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Back up your sdcard to your computer, as unlocking will wipe that. As far as the Google Wallet question, I am not sure. I've never had an issue with it.
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I heard about Wallet not working if you unlock bootloader without logging in or something? Is that true?
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Is that true?
No it's not true.
Is there anything I should do before I unlock my bootloader, root, and install custom roms?
Thanks.
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If you've been using your phone before your unlock the bootloader, then back up your "/mnt/sdcard" because it will be wiped when you unlock bootloader.
You must reset Google Wallet from within the apps settings. Open the app and go to settings>reset wallet. This MUST be done before you do a factory reset, unlock the bootloader, or flash a ROM otherwise you run the risk of breaking the NFC secure element for wallet.
So If I have had my Nexus for an entire day and I don't care if I lose anything, since there is nothing but a few apps I can get again, I can just go for it?
Should I wait until my Verizon Nexus upgrades itself to 4.0.4??
Big Cam said:
So If I have had my Nexus for an entire day and I don't care if I lose anything, since there is nothing but a few apps I can get again, I can just go for it?
Should I wait until my Verizon Nexus upgrades itself to 4.0.4??
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That's totally up to you. I personally ran mine stock for a month to make sure I didn't have any hardware issues. I'm in the process of backing up my SDcard right now so I can unlock and root.
Big Cam said:
So If I have had my Nexus for an entire day and I don't care if I lose anything, since there is nothing but a few apps I can get again, I can just go for it?
Should I wait until my Verizon Nexus upgrades itself to 4.0.4??
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Just unlock it now so you don't have to worry about backing up your sdcard later when you do unlock later.
You'll still get the OTA if your boot loader is unlocked.
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Juggernaut79 said:
That's totally up to you. I personally ran mine stock for a month to make sure I didn't have any hardware issues. I'm in the process of backing up my SDcard right now so I can unlock and root.
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I know I'm going to jinx myself, but I love my screen, no gray scale issues at least that I can see, which is all that matters.
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Just unlock it now so you don't have to worry about backing up your sdcard later when you do unlock later.
You'll still get the OTA if your boot loader is unlocked.
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Great, thank you very much!
All I want to be able to do is install and use Titanium Backup. Can this be done without the whole bootloader unlock / install CWM recovery / Flash SU method?
This is for a GSM GN from the Google Play store.
No. Not that know of exploits like that don't work anymore. But you can just unlock, flash a recovery, flash superuser. Then flash the stock recovery and relock the boot loader.
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the only way you can do that is if you're on 4.0.2, but i would bet you are on 4.0.4
ÜBER™ said:
No. Not that know of exploits like that don't work anymore. But you can just unlock, flash a recovery, flash superuser. Then flash the stock recovery and relock the boot loader.
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Just 'fastboot boot cwm.img', flash "su.zip", reboot, done.
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No. Not that know of exploits like that don't work anymore. But you can just unlock, flash a recovery, flash superuser. Then flash the stock recovery and relock the boot loader.
Sent from my sprint galaxy nexus
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Wouldn't recommend relocking the bootloader. He'll just have to wipe again next time he needs to unlock.
martonikaj said:
Wouldn't recommend relocking the bootloader. He'll just have to wipe again next time he needs to unlock.
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I would NOT recommend it either.
However, if he feels like he really has to re-lock, we now have a method that can unlock the bootloader without wiping, assuming you have root of course. (But if you ever lose root... you are screwed!
EDIT: I didn't realize that the OP had a Play Store device. Although I don't have one, the Play Store devices are said to NOT wipe when the bootloader is unlocked.
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I would NOT recommend it either.
However, if he feels like he really has to re-lock, we now have a method that can unlock the bootloader without wiping, assuming you have root of course. (But if you ever lose root... you are screwed!
EDIT: I didn't realize that the OP had a Play Store device. Although I don't have one, the Play Store devices are said to NOT wipe when the bootloader is unlocked.
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Thanks for the info. And just an FYI, my Play Store device does wipe data when I unlock the bootloader. Not a huge deal, but it does reset it to factory state.
dmarmstr said:
Thanks for the info. And just an FYI, my Play Store device does wipe data when I unlock the bootloader. Not a huge deal, but it does reset it to factory state.
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some people have said it didnt wipe when they unlocked the bootloader when they got theirs from the playstore.
i always assume its going to wipe everything.
I had no idea that unlocking the bootloader would wipe everything, but I knew I had to unlock it first in order to root it so I could backup all my apps with Titanium Backup, so guess what happened..
The thing is, if I hadn't done that, I would have waited for the official Jelly Bean from Samsung for quite a while, for my yakjuxw variant...
Pfff. Everything about this whole affair with ROMs, rooting, backing up, seems so weird and counter-intuitive to me. I just don't understand it!
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Pfff. Everything about this whole affair with ROMs, rooting, backing up, seems so weird and counter-intuitive to me. I just don't understand it!
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That just means you haven't done enough reading. It is actually quite simple and logical once you read and understand how things work.
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I would NOT recommend it either.
However, if he feels like he really has to re-lock, we now have a method that can unlock the bootloader without wiping, assuming you have root of course. (But if you ever lose root... you are screwed!
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I just dont like seeing the opened lock icon below the google logo when the phone boots up, But i just want root, and the stock recovery for future ota
So Rooting it and re-locking the bootloader doesn't limit the root functionality right?
and is there a possibility of having root + CWM + Locked bootloader ?
will CWM work that way ?
Plus whats the procedure to unlock bootloader without wiping device if your device has root + locked bootloader?
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So Rooting it and re-locking the bootloader doesn't limit the root functionality right?
and is there a possibility of having root + CWM + Locked bootloader ?
will CWM work that way ?
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No.
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chandradithya said:
I just dont like seeing the opened lock icon below the google logo when the phone boots up
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Seriously? How often do you see the boot screen?
chandradithya said:
So Rooting it and re-locking the bootloader doesn't limit the root functionality right?
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No.
chandradithya said:
and is there a possibility of having root + CWM + Locked bootloader ?
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Yes.
chandradithya said:
will CWM work that way ?
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Yes.
chandradithya said:
Plus whats the procedure to unlock bootloader without wiping device if your device has root + locked bootloader?
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Use segv11's app. It is linked in the "Unlock bootldr w/o wipe" link in my signature.
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I just dont like seeing the opened lock icon below the google logo when the phone boots up, But i just want root, and the stock recovery for future ota
There is a app to change those splash screen images. (logo me) My kids didn't like seeing the lock either. Used app to change lock icon to black image.
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Just FYI
I have a Google Play GN and my phone did NOT wipe upon unlocking the bootloader
jerrycycle said:
chandradithya said:
I just dont like seeing the opened lock icon below the google logo when the phone boots up, But i just want root, and the stock recovery for future ota
There is a app to change those splash screen images. (logo me) My kids didn't like seeing the lock either. Used app to change lock icon to black image.
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Man, I just don't get how that is that big of a deal.. I think the unlock logo at the bottom is actually cool. My friend said one of his friends didn't want to root his Nexus 7 because he didn't like the unlock symbol on the boot up screen too... I was soo confused. How can it bother you that much?
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No issue for me personally. I change the splash logo on all my oem devices with my personnel symbol. Kids device their name in place of the Google.
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Seriously? How often do you see the boot screen?
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Well my previous phone was an android which was never updated officially after eclair. Running Cm7 ports kinda lagged the phone which was pretty noticeable after 24 hours or so,
So i used to reboot it everyday to clear memory. and yeah, I guess old habits die hard and i just love the jellybean boot up animation, so no reason not to reboot it, and thanks a lot for your replies
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jerrycycle said:
There is a app to change those splash screen images. (logo me) My kids didn't like seeing the lock either. Used app to change lock icon to black image.
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Cool Ill give it a try soon.
gregs1213 said:
Man, I just don't get how that is that big of a deal.. I think the unlock logo at the bottom is actually cool. My friend said one of his friends didn't want to root his Nexus 7 because he didn't like the unlock symbol on the boot up screen too... I was soo confused. How can it bother you that much?
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Yeah, i felt it was cool too for the first 3 months of having the Gnex but recently, Every friends non-google device i see (specifically the s2 or the s3) has the triangle on the splash screen, When they see my phone start up without the unlock symbol, they're all like "whoa dude, you still haven't modded your phone?"
then i'll go like "Nah, Why should i do that when i have the purest android ever and there's no need to mod this fast beast"
Long story cut short, i just wanna show off how awesome pure android is
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does brinking only happen when you install a unsupported rom. all i wanna do is unlock the boot loader and root my gnex but dont want it to brink as im doing it i dont wanna install custom roms i just wanna be able to use apps that need root . i tryed the root with out unlock method it dont work for me. thanks
If you're not doing anything there isn't really any way you could possibly mess up your phone. Just read the directions.
No, you won't brick your phone unlocking and rooting it. Just follow directions.
android.4.0 said:
does brinking only happen when you install a unsupported rom. all i wanna do is unlock the boot loader and root my gnex but dont want it to brink as im doing it i dont wanna install custom roms i just wanna be able to use apps that need root . i tryed the root with out unlock method it dont work for me. thanks
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Read, read, read and fully understand what you are about to do. Also study up on how to fully restore your device before proceeding. It is tempting, but the more you read, the more confident you will feel when you run into an issue. Trust me, you will have issues. We all had them when we started messing with our devices.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1892807
You can flash whatever you want that isn't a bootloader from another phone (or corrupt -- check those MD5s) you will never brick, even if it is a ROM for another phone.
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Type fastboot erase boot ........ you'll brick it quick lol.
Otherwise like someone said above if you flashed the wrong boot loader, although I think it checks it I'm not sure, or maybe a corrupted one then yeah your baked. But otherwise you pretty much can't break it
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altimax98 said:
Type fastboot erase boot ........ you'll brick it quick lol.
Otherwise like someone said above if you flashed the wrong boot loader, although I think it checks it I'm not sure, or maybe a corrupted one then yeah your baked. But otherwise you pretty much can't break it
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'fastboot erase boot' erases kernel, not bootloader. Try erasing it. The device will boot up to fastboot mode, directly.
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bk201doesntexist said:
'fastboot erase boot' erases kernel, not bootloader. Try erasing it. The device will boot up to fastboot mode, directly.
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He is trying to say booloader, someone on he N7 forum pulled it off.
Beamed from my Grouper.
Mach3.2 said:
He is trying to say booloader, someone on he N7 forum pulled it off.
Beamed from my Grouper.
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this is the maguro/toro/toroplus forums.
even so, even erasing bootloader, it should be possible to recover it through omapflash. i don't think erasing the bootloader can be called a brick. if you erased it, it means you can write it again. corrupting emmc would be what i call a brick.
and on grouper, it will probably will be possible to use nvflash, if it's not available right now.
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this is the maguro/toro/toroplus forums.
even so, even erasing bootloader, it should be possible to recover it through omapflash. i don't think erasing the bootloader can be called a brick. if you erased it, it means you can write it again. corrupting emmc would be what i call a brick.
and on grouper, it will probably will be possible to use nvflash, if it's not available right now.
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Well, I guess no one sane is going to try fastboot erase bootloader.
Will the next nexus have a longer screen?
Mach3.2 said:
Well, I guess no one sane is going to try fastboot erase bootloader.
Will the next nexus have a longer screen?
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Shhh, we do not speak that phrase!
My current ROM:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1892807
For the nexus it really really really hard to brick this phone and if you do it might not be a brick it might be more of a hardware fail then anything . Lol I have messed up some serious software upgrade and flashes and it never bricked
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My son wanted to root his brand new phone. i have rooted 8 phones from different phones before with success..... but this time i f***d up...
Accedently installed this on his phone.
http://wccftech.com/flash-and-root-nexus-5-on-android-6-0-1-mmb29k/
executed flash-all.bat and it flashed the bootloader.
For the wrong phone...
It should have been this one..
http://wccftech.com/flash-and-root-nexus-5x-android-6-0-1/
Missed the X......
Now the phone will not even boot any more at all....cant enter bootloader.......does not power up at all.!!!
Jesus...what have i done.......
It here any chance at all to fix this somehow?
Hello and thank you for using Q/A,
because you can't enter bootloader, you can't do anything. You can try to send the phone to Google. Say: It didn't boot after OTA Update.
Kind regards
Trafalgar Square
Yeah it's most likely a paperweight. Try sending it to Google. Flashing the wrong firmware destroys a phone as you probably already know
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hopesrequiem said:
Yeah it's most likely a paperweight. Try sending it to Google. Flashing the wrong firmware destroys a phone as you probably already know
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I am totally aware of that....
but somehow one must be able to flash the bootloader from scratch....
Normally via special software etc.
That´s what i was hoping for....
Only thing I know to use is a riff box to jtag it. Not sure if they have one for 5x.
crowhater said:
I am totally aware of that....
but somehow one must be able to flash the bootloader from scratch....
Normally via special software etc.
That´s what i was hoping for....
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Your use of the period seems rather condescending. And no, you as the end user cannot fix that. You did one of the few things that is unrecoverable unless you manage to get the bootloader to accept adb commands somehow.
crowhater said:
I am totally aware of that....
but somehow one must be able to flash the bootloader from scratch....
Normally via special software etc.
That´s what i was hoping for....
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Didn't you say the phone won't turn on? The above scenario is not possible.
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bobby janow said:
Didn't you say the phone won't turn on? The above scenario is not possible.
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Well. the bootloader is flashed into the phone from the beginning aswell during manufacturing. I work with electronics and software and i know there is always a way to reflash the bootloader. All the electronics comes in the beginning with no software at all, one only needs the proper software/hardware. Most probably by jtag....or if they have some other special tool for snapdragon 808.
Stupid of me not to see that the version i flashed was not for nexus 5X...and only for nexus 5
sight...
Good luck. Will Google not rma it?
[SOLVED] I followed this thread to get everything updated and make sure I was all stock, and then went to bootloader and ran fastboot flashing lock to relock the bootloader. Everything working great now.
I'm trading my Verizon Pixel XL for a normal Pixel, and need to relock the bootloader first. I haven't installed a custom kernal or ROMs or anything, so can I just lock via fastboot safely?
I don't want to do something that will brick it!
I'm aware this is stupid and I'd rather just leave it, but dude is sketched out by warning on startup and won't trade till it's gone :/
Thanks!
[Edit] it should maybe be noted that I haven't installed any updates since rooting, and I'm not sure if those are important first or not?
burnface said:
[SOLVED] I followed this thread to get everything updated and make sure I was all stock, and then went to bootloader and ran fastboot flashing lock to relock the bootloader. Everything working great now.
I'm trading my Verizon Pixel XL for a normal Pixel, and need to relock the bootloader first. I haven't installed a custom kernal or ROMs or anything, so can I just lock via fastboot safely?
I don't want to do something that will brick it!
I'm aware this is stupid and I'd rather just leave it, but dude is sketched out by warning on startup and won't trade till it's gone :/
Thanks!
[Edit] it should maybe be noted that I haven't installed any updates since rooting, and I'm not sure if those are important first or not?
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Hey man, do you remember which FW built were you on ? NDE63X ?
andrep182 said:
Hey man, do you remember which FW built were you on ? NDE63X ?
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Yes if you are stock you can safely lock the bootloader.
run
fastboot flashing lock
phone will factory reset and appear frozen on that screen 30seconds or so.
milan187 said:
Yes if you are stock you can safely lock the bootloader.
run
fastboot flashing lock
phone will factory reset and appear frozen on that screen 30seconds or so.
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Cool man, thanks!
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Hey man, do you remember which FW built were you on ? NDE63X ?
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Damn. I honestly don't remember... I didn't do enough with that phone for anything specific to stick out.. Sorry!
burnface said:
Damn. I honestly don't remember... I didn't do enough with that phone for anything specific to stick out.. Sorry!
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It's all good man. My heart was pounding as I about to hit 'yes' for locking my bootloader. Did the deed and all is well =) Thanks!