I recently bought samsung galaxy grand I9082.I'm INDIAN user and I think it is not locked by carrier in INDIA.
So I would like to ask that,
Whether SAMSUNG galaxy grand duos I9082 has bootloader locked or unlocked?
How to check the status of bootloader whether it is locked or not?
THANKS
First of all BL and UBL stuffs are in Sony devices not in Samsung. You have to simply flash CWM and then flash root zip to get root access
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shibliaftab said:
I recently bought samsung galaxy grand I9082.I'm INDIAN user and I think it is not locked by carrier in INDIA.
So I would like to ask that,
Whether SAMSUNG galaxy grand duos I9082 has bootloader locked or unlocked?
How to check the status of bootloader whether it is locked or not?
THANKS
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Bootloader locked not only in Sony devices, it's there in HTC, Nokia lumia windows phone, and Intel cpu based platforms....
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Want to flash custom ROM
Razor! said:
First of all BL and UBL stuffs are in Sony devices not in Samsung. You have to simply flash CWM and then flash root zip to get root access
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Thanks for the response.
I have rooted device with CWM recovery installed, Now should I proceed to flash the custom ROM or anything more is required prior to flash the custom ROM?
shibliaftab said:
Thanks for the response.
I have rooted device with CWM recovery installed, Now should I proceed to flash the custom ROM or anything more is required prior to flash the custom ROM?
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Yeah now flash custom ROM
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rejocie001 said:
Bootloader locked not only in Sony devices, it's there in HTC, Nokia lumia windows phone, and Intel cpu based platforms....
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Forgot Motorola
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Hey guys, big time reader, not so much of a poster, since I read a TON. I will start with background...
Galaky S2 custom kernel Cyg/nightly rom/rooted
Galaky S2 Skyrocket rooted
Acer Iconia A500 32gb rooted/custom kernel/rom
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10 rooted
So I know my way around. My questions are all relted to my Xperia AT&T ION LT28at (already rooted)
after reading many MANY pages on unlocking the bootloader, I am lost.
I went to the official Sony site and input mu Mime code minus the last digit, and I got an unlock code via email.
Here is my problems, i do not have an off brand sim card and when I try to use other guides with the ericson flasher program, i follow the steps.
1. Power down phone
2. Hold down volume - button while plugging in usb to pc
3. Hold down the fastboot button while plugging in usb to pc....this is the problem....
step3 wont work. the sony code site says the fastboot button is volume +, other sites say its volume + AND Power. No matter what I try, its not working at all. once it connected for a split second and showed the window with the mime (sp?) number greyed out with nothing there and a row below for my unlock key, but the phone disconnected.
So here are my questions....
1. What is the exact procedure to enter fast boot mode on Sony Xperia Ion LT28at as soon as I am done with step 2? Buttons to press, power down etc.
2. I really just want Cynogen (sp) mod rom, do I absolutely NEED an unlocked boot loader for this?
3. I want to enable "Portable WiFi Hotspot" so I can surf with my tablet. Is an unlocked bootloader REQUIRED for this?
4. I am lov9ng that the cynogen mod allows me to add more rows of icons to the home screen, which is one of my main reason for wanting a new rom, I guess this is part of question 2. Is an unlocked bootloader required?
5. Can anyone link me to a nice tutorial for these two things? Installing roms/list of roms on a locked bootloader xperia ion lt28at? As well as one for if I get this thing unlocked.
6. Finally I could really use a good explaination, be it video or baby step by baby step to get this phone into fastboot.
And while I am here, instead of making 4 more threads in 4 areas....
Is there an official (or unofficial) version of Jellybean for....
Galaxy S2 i777
Galaxy S2 Skyrocket i797 (i think)
Acer Iconia a500 32gb
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 10.1?
thanks in advance and I am very sorry for the dumb questions, I guess we all get stumpped sometimes. Afterall I did root 2 other phones and tablets with new roms and kernels.
thank you!
You have a LT28at.....you can not enter fastboot as the LT28at does not allow unlocked bootloader. You don't need another brand sim that is only for sim unlocking not bootloader unlocking.
to answer your questions:
1. you can't since it does not allow unlocked bootloader
2. yes cyanogen requires a custom kernel which you can only flash if you have an unlocked bootloader.
3. Flash the LT28i generic firmware and you can use tethering/wifi hotspot without issue. (just manually put in your apns)
4. See #2 or use a different launcher such as ADW or one of the many others.
5. Just look for the locked bootloader supported rom you want - instructions for installing it "should" be in its first post
6. See #1
Spectre51 said:
You have a LT28at.....you can not enter fastboot as the LT28at does not allow unlocked bootloader. You don't need another brand sim that is only for sim unlocking not bootloader unlocking.
to answer your questions:
1. you can't since it does not allow unlocked bootloader
2. yes cyanogen requires a custom kernel which you can only flash if you have an unlocked bootloader.
3. Flash the LT28i generic firmware and you can use tethering/wifi hotspot without issue. (just manually put in your apns)
4. See #2 or use a different launcher such as ADW or one of the many others.
5. Just look for the locked bootloader supported rom you want - instructions for installing it "should" be in its first post
6. See #1
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In your opinion, do you think that this bootloader would get unlocked? I wanna know before I buy. the same was said about the x10 by Sony but it was unlocked soon after.
brenty108 said:
In your opinion, do you think that this bootloader would get unlocked? I wanna know before I buy. the same was said about the x10 by Sony but it was unlocked soon after.
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No idea.
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This help me out also , my bootloader is also lock and cant be unlock , so i hope some day it will be able to get jelly bean .
stupid question
Spectre51 said:
You have a LT28at.....you can not enter fastboot as the LT28at does not allow unlocked bootloader. You don't need another brand sim that is only for sim unlocking not bootloader unlocking.
to answer your questions:
1. you can't since it does not allow unlocked bootloader
2. yes cyanogen requires a custom kernel which you can only flash if you have an unlocked bootloader.
3. Flash the LT28i generic firmware and you can use tethering/wifi hotspot without issue. (just manually put in your apns)
4. See #2 or use a different launcher such as ADW or one of the many others.
5. Just look for the locked bootloader supported rom you want - instructions for installing it "should" be in its first post
6. See #1
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how do you flash the LT28i firmware onto the LT28at? I have been looking for a post or thread with the instructions, but so far I have been unable to find anything... please help. I am rooted and was able to install a recovery program on my ion but I have yet to use it and I want to know if I can flash the generic LT28i firmware from there...
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how do you flash the LT28i firmware onto the LT28at? I have been looking for a post or thread with the instructions, but so far I have been unable to find anything... please help. I am rooted and was able to install a recovery program on my ion but I have yet to use it and I want to know if I can flash the generic LT28i firmware from there...
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Look at the stock firmware downloads thread. It has a guide for using flashtool which is what you use to flash the firmware. Or since you installed a recovery (cwm I presume) you can use one of the prerooted stock firmware. That thread is in the dev section.
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Spectre51 said:
Look at the stock firmware downloads thread. It has a guide for using flashtool which is what you use to flash the firmware. Or since you installed a recovery (cwm I presume) you can use one of the prerooted stock firmware. That thread is in the dev section.
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after i flash that would i be able to unlock bootloader, or does that depend on something else? i would like to install the PA rom that ganeshbiyer posted in an other post.
luwaldo said:
after i flash that would i be able to unlock bootloader, or does that depend on something else? i would like to install the PA rom that ganeshbiyer posted in an other post.
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You can't unlock the bootloader of the LT28at at all.
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Yea sucks about the boot loader deal. I am thinking about selling mine and find a Red H model of the Ion. PA on a Ion would be great and may still be kind of possible. I was recently running The Nexus rom for locked boot which was very smooth. In that thread it talks about per app dpi being possible with the xtheme that is installed. I have not tried it so cant say how well it would work. Xtheme also allows cm themes to be ported as well. Sure it would not be PA but it seems you could close with a bit of work.
Spectre51 said:
Look at the stock firmware downloads thread. It has a guide for using flashtool which is what you use to flash the firmware. Or since you installed a recovery (cwm I presume) you can use one of the prerooted stock firmware. That thread is in the dev section.
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hello there sorry to bother you with this question can we flash a diferent series rom like lt28h lt28i on our lt28 at? locked bootloader since we never get jb i want o update but this treats make me dizzi theres no info at all how to flash on lt28at locked bootloader been looking for a tutorial how to flash but no luck do we have to flash a kernel after flashing different roms or do somenthing else can you help me explainig how to flash please?
nabelar82 said:
hello there sorry to bother you with this question can we flash a diferent series rom like lt28h lt28i on our lt28 at? locked bootloader since we never get jb i want o update but this treats make me dizzi theres no info at all how to flash on lt28at locked bootloader been looking for a tutorial how to flash but no luck do we have to flash a kernel after flashing different roms or do somenthing else can you help me explainig how to flash please?
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You use flash tool to flash any of the stock firmwares. Or you can root and I stall a recovery to flash a tom based off stock kernel.
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Spectre51 said:
You use flash tool to flash any of the stock firmwares. Or you can root and I stall a recovery to flash a tom based off stock kernel.
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hey thank you for reply fast now I know what to do any rom that you can recommend me?
Sorry been out of the ion ROM loop for a while so I don't know what to suggest. I used stock anyway when I had the ion.
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LT28at
I am aware of that LT28at's boot loader cannot be unlocked
still from reading some threads i came to know that still i can install miui3
also i can also update it to jelly bean mine on is ics - pardon me if my information is wrong
except this 2 is there any possibility with locked boot loader ?
after such long time is there any discovery of unlocking bootloader or other methods to flash rom ?
thank you
i tried to install room in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1979829
but flashtool still tell me you need rooted device
i rooted my arc s & i cannt flash boot.img
somar-b said:
i tried to install room in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1979829
but flashtool still tell me you need rooted device
i rooted my arc s & i cannt flash boot.img
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Is your boatloader unlocked?
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The "root" in flashtool refers to the bootloader. In this case if yout bootloader is "not rooted" then that means you have a locked bootloader. Unlock your bootloader if you want to flash custom kernels.
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thanx
i need android sdk to unlock boot loader
i cannt download it from google site in our country
anyboady can upload android sdk to me ???
Could someone kindly point me in the right direction to TWRP installation for the LT28h ion with locked bootloader?
There isnt one avaliable at all, i dont think its posible
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dunno if it works on locked but try goomanager
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Envious_Data said:
There isnt one avaliable at all, i dont think its posible
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Okay thanks.
dad2dj said:
Could someone kindly point me in the right direction to TWRP installation for the LT28h ion with locked bootloader?
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don't know if I should start a new topic or not since this is a few months old thread but I'm looking for a guide to install TWRP on Xperia ION with locked bootloader as well...
I know this is possible because I have a locked bootloader and TWRP on my Xperia ION right now...
I got the TWRP when I install CM10 for locked bootloaders by @MrGezz
I am on Slimbean rom now and I noticed that I retained TWRP even though I flashed a new rom... don't know if TWRP is baked on that rom or TWRP doesn't get erased even when flashing a new rom...
Anyway I want a guide to install TWRP because I want to try and compare the camera quality on an official stock rom and CM based rom, because I noticed that pictures taken from my camera started to get a little blurry and out of focus ever since I flashed a CM based rom.
And I think installing an official stock rom will remove TWRP on my phone...
dad2dj said:
Could someone kindly point me in the right direction to TWRP installation for the LT28h ion with locked bootloader?
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You can install TWRP by Unlocking the Boot loader. But if you dont want to Unlock the Boot loader then you cannot install TWRP alone in a Locked Boot loader, But
There is another way. You can install Both CWM and TWRP together.
Try this CWM-TWRP Xperia ION Dual Recovery for locked/unlocked bootloaders
Follow the Instructions.
intoxic8 said:
don't know if I should start a new topic or not since this is a few months old thread but I'm looking for a guide to install TWRP on Xperia ION with locked bootloader as well...
I know this is possible because I have a locked bootloader and TWRP on my Xperia ION right now...
I got the TWRP when I install CM10 for locked bootloaders by @MrGezz
I am on Slimbean rom now and I noticed that I retained TWRP even though I flashed a new rom... don't know if TWRP is baked on that rom or TWRP doesn't get erased even when flashing a new rom...
Anyway I want a guide to install TWRP because I want to try and compare the camera quality on an official stock rom and CM based rom, because I noticed that pictures taken from my camera started to get a little blurry and out of focus ever since I flashed a CM based rom.
And I think installing an official stock rom will remove TWRP on my phone...
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Captain Droid said:
You can install TWRP by Unlocking the Boot loader. But if you dont want to Unlock the Boot loader then you cannot install TWRP alone in a Locked Boot loader, But
There is another way. You can install Both CWM and TWRP together.
Try this CWM-TWRP Xperia ION Dual Recovery for locked/unlocked bootloaders
Follow the Instructions.
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Yes, you will have TWRP and CWM on your locked bootloader Xperia ION. Just as Captain Droid said, follow the instructions.
Hey Guys,
New of the forum here. For the past few days, I have been trying to install a custom rom on my Xperia S which I bought in Hong Kong about 2 years ago. I also had it updated to JB .96 version.
I read the forums as much as I could and firstly tried to root the phone. I couldn't determine if I had a locked or unlocked bootloader. I used this rooting guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2417672
by doomlord
and then I moved on to installing a recovery which was also following doomlords guide :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2308493&highlight=adb+server
After having done this, I wanted to install PureSlim KitKat on my Xperia S which I found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606528&highlight=flash
But once I got into the recovery of CWM and selected to install the zip file, after installation it says that it will reboot device but it doesn't. I tried to manually start the phone but it couldn't start up. I can only get it to go into flashmode and thus I ended up flashing a ftf which I found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2422053
Afterwards, I am back to square one and I repeated the steps to reroot the device and then I installed recovery again and then tried another rom, this time I tried LeopardRom which also resulted in the same problem of not booting.
I also use Galaxy S2 and have custom rom on that but I didn't expect it to be that much different for xperia S. I am willing to follow steps to resolve the issue here.
-Jazi
you cant install that rom because is for unlocked bootloader and you have locked bootloader, you need unlock the bootloader and install a kitkat kernel. When you finish this you can install this rom
Not all of the bootloaders can be unlock. My bootloader can't be unlock so I use a rom that doesn't need unlocked bootloader. The rom is existenz v1.35
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optic-XPERIA said:
you cant install that rom because is for unlocked bootloader and you have locked bootloader, you need unlock the bootloader and install a kitkat kernel. When you finish this you can install this rom
Not all of the bootloaders can be unlock. My bootloader can't be unlock so I use a rom that doesn't need unlocked bootloader. The rom is existenz v1.35
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i have the same problem, i have locked bootloader and i want flash kitkat, can you give me some advise or a link on how to do it? i`ve just bricked my phone twice...
hi I am planning to buy g3 .. There are several Carrier phone here like
sprint
at&t
verizon
etc
which one i should but .. i want to unlock bootloader / recovery / custom rom for my daily driver ?
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You can buy from any carrier you want. You don't need to unlock your bootloader with the g3
fadyrox said:
hi I am planning to buy g3 .. There are several Carrier phone here like
sprint
at&t
verizon
etc
which one i should but .. i want to unlock bootloader / recovery / custom rom for my daily driver ?
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The G3 has an exploit called bump! which fools the phone into thinking it is receiving genuine LG images(i think that's how it goes), so there is no need to unlock the bootloader. Our custom ROMs come signed already, so just flash like you normally would.
& FWIW the vs985(verizon) comes carrier unlocked out of the box so any sim should work...you just need to manually set up the APN for data.
Thanks for your reply
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That means i can purchase any carrier & i dont need to unlock bootloader .. right ?????????
i would just need to flash recovery & then just flash rom right ????
Please reply !
fadyrox said:
That means i can purchase any carrier & i dont need to unlock bootloader .. right ?????????
i would just need to flash recovery & then just flash rom right ????
Please reply !
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You need to root first, but yes, that's the idea
myclarity said:
You need to root first, but yes, that's the idea
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what do you mean by root .
if bootloader in unlocked then just we need to install custom recovery to flash custom rom right ?
fadyrox said:
what do you mean by root .
if bootloader in unlocked then just we need to install custom recovery to flash custom rom right ?
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First you'll root your phone.
Then, you'll install autorec so you can have a custom recovery.
Then you can flash any rom you like that's compatible with your phone model.
fadyrox said:
hi I am planning to buy g3 .. There are several Carrier phone here like
sprint
at&t
verizon
etc
which one i should but .. i want to unlock bootloader / recovery / custom rom for my daily driver ?
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Go with T-Mobile
Their LTE 2nd fastest to Verizon and more development options than the other carriers