As the title suggests I want to be able to root my phone but my bootloader says that I cannot unlock it when using service menu to check, my model is the H3113 Pioneer from Vodafone. I have tried looking through threads but can not find anything, when trying to get twrp to do a temp boot it comes up saying that the command is not allowed. I have all the necessary drivers and tools and I am familiar with rooting devices as I have done several in the past.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
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Not sure exactly where to post this as your forums are very American Carrier focused so I just went with model number.
I am just entering the world of rooting Android phones etc. so forgive my noob-osity but am eager to learn after realising this carrier phone really isn't MY phone.
I am wanting to use Chainfire's CF-AutoRoot to get root access on my Australian Vodafone GT-N7105T device however his instructions make very clear that the device will be bricked if I do not unlock the bootloader. I cannot seem to find a method of unlocking the bootloader for this specific device. Can anyone help with this?
Also just in general, some Rooting methods I have read about don't seem to "require" unlocking the bootloader or maybe haven't mentioned that it is part of the process.
Is unlocking the bootloader something that needs to be done ALWAYS when you root? I thought that unlocking the bootloader was only required if you wanted to flash custom ROMs and that having a locked bootloader did not prevent some rooting methods? If that is the case then I'm confused as to why Chainfire's CF-AutoRoot needs an unlocked bootloader as it's purpose is to leave everything stock?
Thanks for your assistance.
Hi guys,
First post on this forum, so I apologize in advance if this is not the right section. I have an Xperia E phone and I'm following a guide I found on the net to install Cyanogenmod in it. In order to do it, I followed the official Sony guide to unlock the bootloader, they sent me the unlock code and I used fastboot to enter the code into the phone. After that, the phone got stuck in a bootloop and I had to use a program called Flashtool in order to flash the original ROM into the phone again.
Now, when I enter *#*#7378423#*#* on the phone's dial pad and go to "Service info > Configuration", I can see the following message:
Code:
Rooting status:
Bootloader unlock: Yes
:
The weird thing is every guide I've read on the net about unlocking Xperia devices claim the above message should be "Bootloader unlocked: Yes", so I'm slightly confused (note the difference between "unlock" in the above message and "unlocked"). I guess it is actually unlocked because I was able to use Sony's Flashtool to flash the original ROM, but some clarification on this would be useful since I'm planning to install Cyanogenmod and I wouldn't like to brick the phone by flashing a custom ROM on an unlocked phone.
Thanks in advance for any help!
I finally was able to install CM11 in the phone, so I guess the bootloader was unlocked after all. Now I'm having a couple of issues, but I'll open a new thread for that, since it's a different problem.
Regards.
So basically, I have a Verizon note 4 with permanent root. I bought it second hand and it came with permanent root, but the problem is that I have no idea if it has an unlocked bootloader or not . It doesn't have any custom recovery on it aswell. But then it gets me to question how the heck did it get a Permanent ROOT without getting an unlocked bootloader. Oh and i also don't get shown a verizon logo when i reboot my device, only a samsung logo. And i live in South Asia btw, and can run a local
sim with 3g on it no problem as well....
Also worth mentioning is that on "About Device" in "Settings", it says SM-910F...but when i go to fastboot mode, it says SM-910V, and when i connect it to computer, it also says verizon model. Anyways, the real problem is finding out if my phone has bootloader or not. (READ BELOW ASWELL)
Any suggestions plez
PS: I tried to put a code in the dialer, something like *#*#7432XXXX*#*# (tried a lot of diff. codes in dialers aswell). PLUS, I also tried finding if i had an unlocked bootloader from adb and fast boot where u put this command in; "fastboot oem device-info" something like that, but I cant get "fastboot devices" to work (it doesn't give any result even with proper usb drivers and while in fastboot menu from phone) :crying: plez halp me....
MajorMcNugget said:
So basically, I have a Verizon note 4 with permanent root. I bought it second hand and it came with permanent root, but the problem is that I have no idea if it has an unlocked bootloader or not . It doesn't have any custom recovery on it aswell. But then it gets me to question how the heck did it get a Permanent ROOT without getting an unlocked bootloader. Oh and i also don't get shown a verizon logo when i reboot my device, only a samsung logo. And i live in South Asia btw, and can run a local
sim with 3g on it no problem as well....
Also worth mentioning is that on "About Device" in "Settings", it says SM-910F...but when i go to fastboot mode, it says SM-910V, and when i connect it to computer, it also says verizon model. Anyways, the real problem is finding out if my phone has bootloader or not. (READ BELOW ASWELL)
Any suggestions plez
PS: I tried to put a code in the dialer, something like *#*#7432XXXX*#*# (tried a lot of diff. codes in dialers aswell). PLUS, I also tried finding if i had an unlocked bootloader from adb and fast boot where u put this command in; "fastboot oem device-info" something like that, but I cant get "fastboot devices" to work (it doesn't give any result even with proper usb drivers and while in fastboot menu from phone) :crying: plez halp me....
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Put it into download mode and see if it says, mode: Developer. If it does your bootloader is unlocked
dhplap said:
Put it into download mode and see if it says, mode: Developer. If it does your bootloader is unlocked
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Well it doesn't say so ... sadly.
Anyways, I'm still wondering how the heck did someone install permanent root without unlocking this Verizon??? Like you have to do temporary root and then you unlock bootloader, and then you do perm root... how does one bypass that?
Im super new to rooting in general, and the guides here have so much information and I don't really get most of it
My LG G4 is Verizon on VS9862BA on Android 6.0.
So I have a lot of questions:
Whats the difference between unlocking the bootloader and rooting
What comes first unlocking the bootloader or rooting
How do I get TWRP on my phone and do I get it first before unlocking the bootloader and rooting
What are KDZ / TOT, ARBS, Salt, QFIL and Bootloader stacks, flashing, fastboot mode, fastboot flash, fastboot boot
(Was looking at steadfasterX unlock guide and I have no clue what any of these things mean)
I have no clue what to do but I'm really interested in rooting, just super confused on everything and trying to be careful
V1ruz_ said:
Im super new to rooting in general, and the guides here have so much information and I don't really get most of it
My LG G4 is Verizon on VS9862BA on Android 6.0.
So I have a lot of questions:
Whats the difference between unlocking the bootloader and rooting
What comes first unlocking the bootloader or rooting
How do I get TWRP on my phone and do I get it first before unlocking the bootloader and rooting
What are KDZ / TOT, ARBS, Salt, QFIL and Bootloader stacks, flashing, fastboot mode, fastboot flash, fastboot boot
(Was looking at steadfasterX unlock guide and I have no clue what any of these things mean)
I have no clue what to do but I'm really interested in rooting, just super confused on everything and trying to be careful
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so rooting the latest FW requires unlocking the bootloader.
unlocking the bootloader allows you to run unsigned code on boot (for an example rooted FW or custom FW)
exclamation for rooting:
so there are different types of user privileges on Android or any Linux. the most important one is root. the root user has full read/write access to the / directory (so pretty much everything ) and can run any command since they have all the privileges. The user you are login to on android does not come with root privileges. so what the term rooting your phone means you have the capability to call an app to run under the root user. (if this helps, its similar to running the sudo command on Linux or for windows granting an app administrator access to run. )
kdzs are the FW files that you flash from download mode. you don't have to touch KDZ / TOT, files at all if you are on the latest FW or when you unlock it since you will have TWRP.
salt is the tool used to unlock the bootloader. if you don't have Linux use FWUL
fastboot mode is a bootloader mode where you can flash files and do other stuff.
you don't have to even mess with bootloader stacks since you are on the latest FW.
hopefully that helps, its kind of hard to answer everything in one shot so if you still need help just quote me.
Hi everyone.
I have honor 8 pro (DUK) which has locked bootloader and yes I know it is not possible (officially) to unlock it. I have read several threads which state that unlocking bootloader is not necessary to root your mobile. Ok that was interesting, so I have searched all alternative methods of rooting which does not require unlocking bootloader, but none of them helped.
Attempts I made:
1. Many guides show to root the device via twrp. Flashing twrp requires unlocking bootloader, so out of options.
2. Tried to flash the twrp image via adb command but i get the message 'Command not allowed'. The obvious reason could be the locked bootloader.
3 Tried with Kingoroot and King root, none of them helped.
4. Magisk is unable to flash the magisk.zip file (I don't know why) and hence unable to use magisk as well.
Any other methods to root my device. Please help me dear developers and members. I don't want any custom ROM, all I need is to root my device.
Thank You.
Following. After Huawei/Honor decided not to provide the bootloader unlocking. I do not think we can and now there is no development for this handset at all.
Yeah and its sad that we are stuck here.