here is the link of the other thread . i tried it on note 10+ 5g too . i can unlock my cousin's phone with face unlock . i remove the face unlock on my phone just because of my cousins can unlock it . we not even looks same
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s10-plus/how-to/galaxy-s10-recognition-hack-t4004345 check my thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuCwoeofx9o
Face unlock in android phones isn't secure and it's not something new.
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here is the link of the other thread . i tried it on note 10+ 5g too . i can unlock my cousin's phone with face unlock . i remove the face unlock on my phone just because of my cousins can unlock it . we not even looks same
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s10-plus/how-to/galaxy-s10-recognition-hack-t4004345 check my thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuCwoeofx9o
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You shouldn't have made another thread to talk about the same issue.
To be honest Samsung has clearly said this method of unlock is less secure. That is, anyone who looks like you (doesn't matter if you don't think they do) can unlock the phone. It's also reported on the internet that Samsung has said face unlock is primarily a way to expedite access to the phone. In other words it's a convinience feature. Here's one link to an article on the subject.
https://www.techradar.com/news/sams...rprint-scanner-not-face-unlock-to-stay-secure
Basically this isn't face ID, the phone cannot perform 3D mapping of your face... The note 10+ has a 2D front facing camera that takes a 2D image of your face and compares it with the 2D images of whoever's face it sees when someone tries to unlock it.
You can try a few things and see if it helps. Try removing your face from your phone and re-register again... But this time make sure that your doing it in a brighter place (with more ambient lighting) and try again. Registering in poor lighting can cause accuracy issues. Facial hair, glasses, and etc can also cause accuracy issues.. so you might run into problems no matter what you do.
Also turn off Faster Recognition, you have it enabled on the phone. While it will increase the speed of facial recognition it comes at the price of reduced security/accuracy of said recognition.
For me I don't like face unlock on android. Only Huawei Mate 20 Pro has 3D face recognation as Apple iPhone's. Fingerprint works perfect on my note. I gave to arround many prople in work to unlock my phone and result was unsucessful for other people. So I trust fingerprint. I want Samsung add killswitch as on iPhones. If you have stolen iPhone you are 100% out of luck to bypass icloud. Why Samsung can't make like this, independent from Android self. Integrate own secure killswitch. Sure on rooted phone you can put some software which gonna work even after flash firmware. But I don't want to root phone.
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samsung: its not secure , we've told u this
pakistani: hacckermann
Who really cares.. Honestly.. It's been said a million times its not secure, so if you use it.. Oh well.. For Samsung, they should have stuck with the iris scanners.. But they are idiot's when it comes to"keeping" good tech on their devices..
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I recently had a theory that may have been tested before. While it isn't likely you'd let someone record your face blinking, it still made me wonder. I took a 6 second clip of myself blinking several times and played it in front of my face unlock screen and VOILÀ! My phone unlocked. Like I said it isn't likely, but possible.
I just wanted to share my findings with you guys and gals.
EDIT: I also thought it might be somewhat relevant to mention I recorded my face using the 3.2 MP camera on an old Samsung Moment.
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Face unlock is not supposed to be secure (no one else can access your phone) but convenient (just look at your phone to unlock rather than punching in a PIN or pattern). It's been long accepted to be less secure than traditional protected lockscreens.
Pattern and PIN unlock is also not 100% secure because someone can peer over your shoulder when you type it.
Jokes aside, if it comes down to video recording the front of your face to gain access to your phone for an unlock method that isn't suppose to be a secure option anyways, then it's pretty darn good I'd say.
yep. If you are really worried about security you'll probably encrypt your device and then I don't think face unlock will even be an option.
My brother (not a twin) was able to unlock my phone with his face so it is definitely not secure..
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Who said it was supposed to be secure? It's just for showing it off to your friends and as the other guy said for convenience.
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I just contacted live chat support. Even though we should be able to get unlock codes from Huawei for +/- 30 days according to the official announcement they told me, they were told that Huawei no longer gives unlock codes.
Support confirmed that the official announcement is incorrect and that they were not going to deliver the promise of 60 days from the announcement date.
Just because they have a lot of customer complaints when people unlock bootloaders..
This is just getting more and more ridiculous.
I love my P20 but this is my last time with Huawei.
Will be trying contacting support again, maybe UK this time and pretend I'm from UK.
Will try with the website although it constantly gives me 'form out of date' type of message and im forced to reload the page before I'm even able to type my login.
So you contacted support? I got my key last week from the website emui.huawei.com
I never thought i should contact support when there is website way to do it.
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So you contacted support? I got my key last week from the website emui.huawei.com
I never thought i should contact support when there is website way to do it.
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Yes because the website didn't work for me. Luckily it did today and now I have my code safe and secure.
But support should give you the code, they just got told not to do it anymore, before the deadline of closing the service..
It's funny that people unlock bootloaders, **** up or install ROMs and then complain to Huawei.
And it's funny Huawei just shut down the service cuz they can't be arsed to say that it's the user's fault.
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It's funny that people unlock bootloaders, **** up or install ROMs and then complain to Huawei.
And it's funny Huawei just shut down the service cuz they can't be arsed to say that it's the user's fault.
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In my opinion too many people were using custom roms. Now by making it impossible to flash to another rom they have the full userbase complaining and testing only their own rom.
Makes us beta testers for MUIU. That's what is behind this imho.
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In my opinion too many people were using custom roms. Now by making it impossible to flash to another rom they have the full userbase complaining and testing only their own rom.
Makes us beta testers for MUIU. That's what is behind this imho.
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From what I have seen on XDA, many unexperienced users tried to flash random updates, OTAs, whatever and messed up big time.
But, Huawei also has a very crappy recovery system. On LG or Samsung, one could never brick the system. On Samsung you always could get out with ODIN. Only issue you could ever face is losing the "efs partition", which you could backup simply beforehand anyway. Other than that, there was no risk of a brick ever. Same for LG, there is no way a KDZ won't flash on a stuck phone.
But to lock up completely from a random OTA file or whatever? Shame on you Huawei.
And hell, if it sucks this much, just charge users like 10-20$ to reflash their devices. Like come on. They send and bring them back. How long does it take to reflash a device in service, with a factory reflash tool? 10 minutes?
Seriously, Huawei has been a huge disappointment for me so far.
- Bought a P10 Plus. Broke after 1 year. It's been in repair for 5 times, never been completely repaired. Now it's still in the center again, total repair time is over 1 month now.
- Bought a Mate 10 Pro so I could use Treble and custom roms. Turns out I have a 50% chance of bricking my device every time I try to flash anything on it.
Great devices Huawei.
Next time I will just go Xiaomi, or Samsung. Who knows. OnePlus looks tempting but their warranty sucks just as much, and the battery is horrid on OP as well.
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From what I have seen on XDA, many unexperienced users tried to flash random updates, OTAs, whatever and messed up big time.
But, Huawei also has a very crappy recovery system. On LG or Samsung, one could never brick the system. On Samsung you always could get out with ODIN. Only issue you could ever face is losing the "efs partition", which you could backup simply beforehand anyway. Other than that, there was no risk of a brick ever. Same for LG, there is no way a KDZ won't flash on a stuck phone.
But to lock up completely from a random OTA file or whatever? Shame on you Huawei.
And hell, if it sucks this much, just charge users like 10-20$ to reflash their devices. Like come on. They send and bring them back. How long does it take to reflash a device in service, with a factory reflash tool? 10 minutes?
Seriously, Huawei has been a huge disappointment for me so far.
- Bought a P10 Plus. Broke after 1 year. It's been in repair for 5 times, never been completely repaired. Now it's still in the center again, total repair time is over 1 month now.
- Bought a Mate 10 Pro so I could use Treble and custom roms. Turns out I have a 50% chance of bricking my device every time I try to flash anything on it.
Great devices Huawei.
Next time I will just go Xiaomi, or Samsung. Who knows. OnePlus looks tempting but their warranty sucks just as much, and the battery is horrid on OP as well.
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I mostly agree with you. I am coming from a Samsung Galaxy and a Nexus5x which were both unbrickable, especially the Nexus5x. On the P20 once unlocked I was unable to get into bootloader mode again. Luckily adb is able to reboot into bootloader mode from where I relocked my device (which also doesn't work as it should, as described on the Nexus Factory page) with the ALL IN ONE TOOL. Because I haven't figured out a safe way to root the P20. I don't get why the manufacturers change bootloader and recovery, can't they just leave it alone an take it from 8.1 stock. From the experience with my Nexus I thought rooting will be very easy, Android is basically unbreakable and that's all I need. Guess I was wrong.
> Great devices Huawei.
I actually think it is a nice device, if you like the MUIUIU thing which is ok for me for now, and don't want to go through all Custom ROMs, it's just fine IF you get your unlock code in time. And someone points me to safe rooting procedure, everything was so easy on the nexus and now this.
I just tried on https://emui.huawei.com (click on "Unlock" and login with your ID) and was given the code for my P20 phone. It was easy, you just need to fill in the form and you get it immediately. I am not planning on using it for now, but wanted to have it just in case.
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I just contacted live chat support. Even though we should be able to get unlock codes from Huawei for +/- 30 days according to the official announcement they told me, they were told that Huawei no longer gives unlock codes.
Support confirmed that the official announcement is incorrect and that they were not going to deliver the promise of 60 days from the announcement date.
Just because they have a lot of customer complaints when people unlock bootloaders..
This is just getting more and more ridiculous.
I love my P20 but this is my last time with Huawei.
Will be trying contacting support again, maybe UK this time and pretend I'm from UK.
Will try with the website although it constantly gives me 'form out of date' type of message and im forced to reload the page before I'm even able to type my login.
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I think Huawei don't send unlock key for specific EMLs probably those who related to the Chinese region, I have P20 EML-AL00 and also failed to get the unlock key.
Already followed all forum suggestions to get the key from Huawei: access EMUI from the Chinese link, fill any of my IMEIs & contact support ...
Huawei site returns the error message "If you have any questions about the unlock code application, please contact us." so I assume they stopped unlocking phones from the Chinese region.
BTW, I switched from OnePlus to Huawei because the camera quality, but if this issue won't solve soon I'll return the device to the store and get a different device which is of course not Huawei (and never order Huawei phone again...)
Any ideas how to unlock the bootloader without Huawei help?!?
Ok, as suspected Huawei won't provide a unlock key to Chaines region phones. Below Huawei support message I received.
Sending back my phone to the store... :crying:
Dear Customer,
Thank you for contacting HUAWEI Hong Kong！
Regarding to your inquiry about the bootloader unlock code issue,we feel sorry to inform you that currently we do not have boot-loader unlock service for Hong Kong HUAWEI genuine products. Hence, we feel very sorry that have no information how to assist you for that.
We are sorry for any inconvenience to you again.
Have a nice day!
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I'm getting the moisture popup all the time....
I've read and confirmed that the oldBatteryWaterConnector value is returning True when the error happens and False when I can charge normally....
I know the risks of forcing if, but is there a way to force it always be False or something like that?
Or a way to disable the sensor, or anything... It's maddening and I'm positive the port is not obstructed nor wet.... I never get near water with the phone...
It's a oversensitive sensor and there should be a way to disable.....
Please, an idea that do not involve "Dry it" 50 times a day or reboot it all the time I want to get fast charging working again [which works every time without complaints of moisture btw]
SM-A720F, HadesRom v6, MagiskRooted
Thanks in advance
This problem is bugging a lot of people like you and me. I am also still waiting for some genius mind to come up with a fix or work around.
I'll contribute $50 to a bounty to someone who can disable this. It is obviously a software limitation, especially since they programmed in a bypass to allow charging by restarting and plugging in the cable upon the splash screen. I hope someone finds a software bypass.
scarletwahoo said:
I'll contribute $50 to a bounty to someone who can disable this. It is obviously a software limitation, especially since they programmed in a bypass to allow charging by restarting and plugging in the cable upon the splash screen. I hope someone finds a software bypass.
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I don't think there is a dedicated sensor. I am guessing that power is fed into one more contacts and it detects when there is slight voltage coming back in another contact. So it should be pretty simple if someone knew where to look for the code.
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I don't think there is a dedicated sensor. I am guessing that power is fed into one more contacts and it detects when there is slight voltage coming back in another contact. So it should be pretty simple if someone knew where to look for the code.
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Running into more Samsung issues. They put restrictions onto WiFi tethering with the latest on the go update. I have the international Exynos version, so the bootloader is unlocked and I can downgrade until I find a suitable replacement.. I predicted Samsung will turn into Apple; this is the last Samsung phone I will purchase and I will shoot it in the plinking range. It's sad, just like Apple, they had superb hardware, but some of the most restrictive software.
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Running into more Samsung issues. They put restrictions onto WiFi tethering with the latest on the go update. I have the international Exynos version, so the bootloader is unlocked and I can downgrade until I find a suitable replacement.. I predicted Samsung will turn into Apple; this is the last Samsung phone I will purchase and I will shoot it in the plinking range. It's sad, just like Apple, they had superb hardware, but some of the most restrictive software.
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You are sure that isn't the carrier restricting tethering?
Hello all
Can anyone tell me why Xiaomi keep moving the 'time period' for unlocking the BOOTLOADER on the Mi Max 3 ?
Initially I was told onscreen (PC Mi software) to try again in 360 hours. So I waited for the 360 hours and now it is saying onscreen, unable to unlock , try again in another 4 days time......
The phone is VERIFIED onscreen , my Mi Account is well established and verified.
Has anyone else experienced this ?
Will the BOOTLOADER ever unlock ?
I am becoming less interested in the Xiaomi brand as every day goes by. At least with a Samsung product there is no waiting nor external company control.
I am curious to know if Xiaomi are collecting personal data or info when you connect your device to their PC software to unlock the device.
Seems like Xiaomi like to control what the end user can and can't do with their products.
Thanks for reading :good:
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Hello all
Can anyone tell me why Xiaomi keep moving the 'time period' for unlocking the BOOTLOADER on the Mi Max 3 ?
Initially I was told onscreen (PC Mi software) to try again in 360 hours. So I waited for the 360 hours and now it is saying onscreen, unable to unlock , try again in another 4 days time......
The phone is VERIFIED onscreen , my Mi Account is well established and verified.
Has anyone else experienced this ?
Will the BOOTLOADER ever unlock ?
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I've just read this message in a different thread here that seems related to your problem. How much have you been using the device while waiting for it go get unlocked?
RE Zacki06
Thanks for the link. As for using the phone i.e making calls or texting. I haven't really used it that way. I've installed a few apps on it. Surfed the web occasionally.
I don't want to use or customise it because when the bootloader gets unlocked it wipes the device like in a fresh format.
It seems like yet another bizzare, controlling twist from the Xiaomi manufacturers if they demand the user to use the device. Before allowing the bootloader to be unlocked.
It also seems suspiscious that Xiaomi are keeping tabs on the owner i.e knowing if they are using the device or not. Personally I don't like being spied on when I invest in buying a product.
I am swaying more and more to stay with a Samsung product if Xiaomi keep dangling a carrot then pulling it away at the last minute.
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RE Zacki06
Thanks for the link. As for using the phone i.e making calls or texting. I haven't really used it that way. I've installed a few apps on it. Surfed the web occasionally.
I don't want to use or customise it because when the bootloader gets unlocked it wipes the device like in a fresh format.
It seems like yet another bizzare, controlling twist from the Xiaomi manufacturers if they demand the user to use the device. Before allowing the bootloader to be unlocked.
It also seems suspiscious that Xiaomi are keeping tabs on the owner i.e knowing if they are using the device or not. Personally I don't like being spied on when I invest in buying a product.
I am swaying more and more to stay with a Samsung product if Xiaomi keep dangling a carrot then pulling it away at the last minute.
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So as mentioned here this might have to do with the fact that xiaomi wants to prevent chinese vendors to sell their stuff elswere.
But of course I agree that this level of "spying" is absolutely not ok and actually reminds me a bit of windows 10...^^
Thank goodness I'll be switching to the xiaomi.eu rom after unlocking, so this stuff is just for a while.
I mean, it does make some sense from their point of view as a company, but it's still annoying for the average customer.
Chinese vendors or any other seller, will sell any products where ever they can to make money, so it's naive of any big company like Samsung or Xiaomi to think they can sell their products to a selective audience. And prohibit the sales to an unwanted group or country.
Places like eBay are littered with these devices with cheap shipping worldwide.
From a buyers point of view who has trusted and bought a product doesn't expect to be spied upon or had barriers put in place to stop customising a device. It's similar to Apple and they way they control the end user on what they can and can't do with their products.
Tech companies aren't doing themselves any favours by behaving the way they do. It forces customers to look for a better product elsewhere.
Where is the Xiaomi.EU rom found ?
Personally for me if the device cannot be unlocked then I will be getting rid of it asap.
Regards :good:
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Chinese vendors or any other seller, will sell any products where ever they can to make money, so it's naive of any big company like Samsung or Xiaomi to think they can sell their products to a selective audience. And prohibit the sales to an unwanted group or country.
Regards :good:
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The point is to miminise the risk for the seller to unlock and flash own shady firmwares on the phone before selling.
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Where is the Xiaomi.EU rom found ?
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You can find the stable version of the rom here: Link
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Personally for me if the device cannot be unlocked then I will be getting rid of it asap.
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Well I'm quite certain that it can be unlocked but it's rather surprising to me that it is so difficult But yeah, if I can't unlock mine (that hasn't even been shipped since I ordered it almost a week ago ) then I'll probably also have to think what to do with it.
Zacki06 , yes others have unlocked their Xiaomi bootloader. However the process is not as straight forward as rooting or unlocking a Samsung bootloader.
If your not aware you have to register for an Mi account, verify it. Use that login to be able to use the unlocking PC software and at the same time register and verify your Mi account / phone number on the Xiaomi device you have bought . Boot into fastboot mode and connect to the Mi servers who verify your device and that is when the time duration kicks in. Either 360 hours or 720 hours message will appear.
As in my experience I am having to use the device for yet another 4 days before I may or may not be allowed to have the bootloader to be unlocked.
All I want to do is root the device. No bootloader unlock, no root!
dannejanne , As for sellers selling Xiaomi devices with flakey firmware already on them, that is quite widespread on eBay and similar for sales places. And if these sellers have registered that particular handset with their details registered to that device for them to have had the bootloader unlocked. Then you or anyone who has bought that device. The new owner will / could have problems when trying to use that device or register it. There are lots of instances when the Xiaomi device can become Mi cloud blocked ( just like Apple icloud) . :good:
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Zacki06 , yes others have unlocked their Xiaomi bootloader. However the process is not as straight forward as rooting or unlocking a Samsung bootloader.
If your not aware you have to register for an Mi account, verify it. Use that login to be able to use the unlocking PC software and at the same time register and verify your Mi account / phone number on the Xiaomi device you have bought . Boot into fastboot mode and connect to the Mi servers who verify your device and that is when the time duration kicks in. Either 360 hours or 720 hours message will appear.
As in my experience I am having to use the device for yet another 4 days before I may or may not be allowed to have the bootloader to be unlocked.
All I want to do is root the device. No bootloader unlock, no root!
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I am fully aware of the process, I asked a ton of questions before buying this phone because I was not sure at first if it was worth the wait. Turns out I still didn't learn everything but I still bought it because it is an amazing phone (screen size, battery, etc.). And I'm not new to android It has just been a while since I flashed a custom rom on a decvice, my Honor 5x is running stock at the moment so I was not familiar with all the recent changes that have happened.
I still hope you will try and keep the phone. And as a personal note, I never had a good hand with samsung phones (no problem with tablets). I can't stand AMOLED screens and my experiance shows, that they also don't like me. So all my phones except for the only samsung phone I had for only a week until it broke had an LCD or another kind of screen, but never an amoled
Cheers
A good result at last
After more messages of wait, wait, wait.
Today, finally, at last the job is done !! :good:
I don't know what information Xiaomi have extracted from my handset in order for their servers to allow 'unlock'.
But for anyone else in the same 'waiting position', there is light at the end of the tunnel! :victory:
tsam19 said:
After more messages of wait, wait, wait.
Today, finally, at last the job is done !! :good:
I don't know what information Xiaomi have extracted from my handset in order for their servers to allow 'unlock'.
But for anyone else in the same 'waiting position', there is light at the end of the tunnel! :victory:
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Good news, congratulations
So I received my replacement on Google pixel 3 XL from Verizon just the other day. I was working on it tonight and I went in there to unlock developer options and while I was in there I noticed that the OEM unlocked was not greyed out I hit the check mark in it lit up. Does this mean I can unlock the bootloader and now root my phone tell me this is not a dream... How is this even possible ? I was in the middle of updating it to Android 12 when I saw this of course I stopped the update in case that puts a stop to the OEM unlock... See attached picture.
I just realized that I haven't put my SIM card in it yet and it didn't come with one in it either. Could that have something to do with it.. If memory serves something to do with a SIM card was the workaround on the pixel 1 to get the bootloader unlocked..
Hey if I just discovered the workaround do I get the bounty for root ? What's it up to on the pixel 3 ?
I haven't had Root since my Nexus 6. I don't even know where to begin can someone point me in the right direction do we still have trwp. Is that still the way to go ? It's like I'll have to go all the way back to the beginning again I said I haven't had Roots since my Nexus 6 and Marshmello. Is Viper still around ? I'm not going to let myself get excited though I know there's going to be a catch there's always a catch right ? Someone tell me how to find out if this is real or not please I beg of you..
Chirp chirp chirp ?? I understand why no one's answering me ? Is this a subject that's been discussed or no one believes me or am I just stupid ?
It's been eight months, but did you ever unlock the device?
I hate to beat a dead horse but I'm about to try. I figure o e night this week I will give it a go and yes I can still toggle the oem unlock switch in developer options.. I can't be the only one this has happened to... I'm gonna wish myself luck here. ummmm LUCK !!!