My Phone is currently unlocked...
If I completely flash a new stock or custom rom will it relock again?
Will it ask for unlock code?
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I'll be going on a trip to China soon and I need to unlock my phone. I have tried unlocking my phone with the help of this post, but unfortunately it didn't work out. I read that I need to be using the stock rom for the unlock method to work.
My question is: if I unlocked my phone on the stock ROM and then restored to a backup with Clockworkmod, would my phone still be unlocked?
Also does anyone have a link to good stock based ROM that I can use to unlock my phone?
Any stock based Rom will do it, even the plain rooted stockones. And once it's unlocked, it stays that way until you relock it. Flashing a Rom shouldn't cause you to relock
I have a Galaxy Nexus running the official 4.3 JRW66Y ROM, and I want to flash the same version, still odexed, but rooted without having to unlock the bootloader. I'm not going to flash any custom ROM until a KitKat AOSP is released, so I don't need an unlocked bootloader, but I'd like to have root access. Is it possible?
The reason I don't want to unlock the bootloader is that I simply don't like that padlock icon there, so if I can unlock the bootloader without that padlock showing up as well, then that's fine with me...
Is carrier unlocking (only) bootloader related?
In other words, will a custom rom or a custom recovery interfere with the carrier unlock?
If you want to carrier unlock the phone you must be on the original stock rom (the bootloader can be unlocked). You can't carrier unlock the phone on a custom rom. So no they are not related.
So the advice is to carrier unlock the device first before even unlocking the bootloader and after that proceed with custom roms if you wish.
my bootload is unlocked, i have a custom recovery and a custom rom installed
so you are recommending that i restore stock recovery and stock rom and then unlock it (but i dont need to lock the bootloader)?
To carrier unlock you must return to your stock rom and recovery otherwise it won't work. The bootloader can stay unlocked.
I unlocked mine while using MaximusHD with lyapota kernel and twrp recovery installed and I had no problems at all, maybe you just need a Rom based on sense and NOT aosp, cyanogen mod etc.
Hi Forum,
I am wondering if the bootloader is unlocked in the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini ? I got it from a carrier. I want to install custom ROMS, but I heard that rooting doesn't let you install custom ROM's...that the thing that gets you to install custom ROMS is an unlocked bootloader. So does anybody know if it is unlocked ? And if the bootloader is locked, anybody know how to unlock it ? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The bootloader is not locked.
Just flash the custom recovery (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2364980). Then you can flash any custom ROM in recovery.
Read all about triping KNOX, and if it's OK for you, go ahead.
Is it possible for a S3 to have a locked bootloader with a custom ROM and recovery?
I don't remember ever unlocking the bootloader, yet I have a custom ROM installed; AFAIK, I have to have an unlocked bootloader to flash custom ROMs. Yet when I ran the Synergy IMEI backup script, it skipped the process due to a locked bootloader.
This paradox is hurting my head.
Its not locked