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Fingerprint on this device is disabled after i unlocked bootloader, I tried complete wiping the device multiple times as i thought this was my own fault since i had setup the device prior to unlocking bootloader. No dice.
I thought maybe that a wipe would clear the fingerprint cache or something and make it work.
After locking the bootloader the reader starts working again.
Was this supposed to be the expected behaviour?
I refuse to believe that they would completely disable it system wide instead of just preventing payments etc like normal.
As a side note, transferring user data from an old phone is also broken by bootloader unlock, errors out with "something went wrong" when hitting the copy button to start the transfer.
Just as another side note, the system partition cannot be erased with fastboot either, access denied error even with unlocked bootloader. I figured this out while trying to get my fingerprint reader working. I tried multiple commands and also mfastboot instead of android sdk fastboot
Good news BL is unlockable, bad news FP scanner gets disabled. How about unlocking the BL, rooting the phone with Magisk, and then relocking the BL? Will this work? I haven't got the phone yet, it's arriving next week. Thanks for sharing your findings.
I haven't had a chance to try that. This phone is now my daily driver and I'm working for the next few days so I won't be able to get around to trying until then. I'm sure it wouldn't work though because I believe the device wouldn't boot after the bootloader was modified since locking the bootloader after installing magisk would probably not work.
Might actually brick the device https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/help/relock-bootloader-flash-magisk-t3840071/
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Might actually brick the device https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-5t/help/relock-bootloader-flash-magisk-t3840071/
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Certainly looks too risky
Hey, that's weird. I unlocked BL, flashed magisk and my fingerpring works flawlessly.
Hi all, can someone point me in the right direction/guide for unlocking BL and rooting my Motorola One Zoom (Retail US) I appreciate your feedback ??? really looking to get Viper4Android and some other rooted app goodies on my device. Thanks!
Jaysmith696 said:
Hi all, can someone point me in the right direction/guide for unlocking BL and rooting my Motorola One Zoom (Retail US) I appreciate your feedback ??? really looking to get Viper4Android and some other rooted app goodies on my device. Thanks!
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Hey, I'm gonna prepare a guide for BL unlocking, magisk and xposed for our device. Should be available in 4-5 hours from now.
rafikowy said:
Hey, I'm gonna prepare a guide for BL unlocking, magisk and xposed for our device. Should be available in 4-5 hours from now.
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You're the best! Thank you so much
Jaysmith696 said:
You're the best! Thank you so much
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Sorry but unfortunately I won't be able to prepare instructions tonight. Too busy before holidays. Will be back on 25th of Sep. But what can I say is that procedures to "unlock bootloader", "magisk" and "xposed" are very common for many devices (including moto one zoom) and can be easily found in the internet.
btw: PPH29.59-34 software update has just arrived (I live in Poland).
rafikowy said:
I unlocked BL, flashed magisk and my fingerpring works flawlessly
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Model №? FW Version?
OP, did you try Magisk?
I did not have a chance to try magisk as I was only testing unlocking to see if anything broke. And whenever I couldn't set it up with fingerprint I relocked and wanted to wait to see if others have the same issue. I'm on this fw https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmwar...ubsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip
Hi - I was on Motorola website and didn't see anything listed for device bootloader unlock for Motorola One Zoom, how were you guys able to do this?
You need to create a Motorola account but the pages are located here
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-a
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-b
Jaysmith696 said:
Hi - I was on Motorola website and didn't see anything listed for device bootloader unlock for Motorola One Zoom, how were you guys able to do this?
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You need to create a Motorola account but the pages are located here
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-a
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/standalone/bootloader/unlock-your-device-b
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Thanks darkdaemon, I was able to unlock Bootloader and root with Magisk, the only thing my Fingerprint lock method no longer enabled, I can't use pin, pattern or password, so my device has no way to screen lock ?
I'm just happy it's rooted, if there's a way to fix this I hope someone can shed some light ?
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Thanks darkdaemon, I was able to unlock Bootloader and root with Magisk, the only thing my Fingerprint lock method no longer enabled, I can't use pin, pattern or password, so my device has no way to screen lock
I'm just happy it's rooted, if there's a way to fix this I hope someone can shed some light
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I'm having the exact same issue after unlocking bootloader. I didn't modify anything at all and still my phone's lock function is completely disabled. Only way I could fix it was going back to stock and re locking bootloader. I'm currently without root or any modifications because of this. I'm also waiting on a fix
Have unlocked the BL straight upon receiving the device and FP scanner is working no problem. I didn't register any fingerprints (or set up any screenlock) prior to unlocking. My Build is PPH29-59-29, SW channel retgb.
This may be where my issue is. I had setup the phone and registered my fingerprints prior to the unlock. Im guessing that they are being stored somewhere that I cannot wipe such as /system or inside an enclave chip etc. Because the only partition I couldn't manually use an erase command for was /system as I was getting access denied error. I may get around to trying the Lenovo phone tool and/or removing fingerprints first to see what happens. I just need to find the time to mess with it.
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Have unlocked the BL straight upon receiving the device and FP scanner is working no problem. I didn't register any fingerprints (or set up any screenlock) prior to unlocking. My Build is PPH29-59-29, SW channel retgb.
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I don't know why you've got figerprint and everybody's not. I don't have one either. This is also a problem with phones from other manufacturers.
Would you mind seeing who the fingerprint scanner manufacturer is?
I have Goodix.
Maybe it depends. Or maybe the system will shutdown it after unlocking the bootloader.
I've read all over the place about not being possible to unlock the bootloader when it says no. That's fine. I assume I can still root it, using a specialist tool. I'll look into that bit spearately.
My question is, if I can root it, delete everything I don't want and make it as stock as possile without installing a custom rom, then just block Google Play Services ever using the internet with a firewall, will it work and give me the privacy I want from Android? I don't want to go back to Apple, or buy another device, so any help much appreciated.
If it's now possible to bypass the unlock bootloader allowed: no, even better!
TIA.
No way so no.
Unless you find a hack.
When you decide to buy a phone it is good to read about it beforehand , xda forum can give you all the details you want , but the most important thing is not to buy a phone as soon as it appears, it is good to spend some time so you can collect all the data about it
Hi all,
I am trying to relock the bootloader on 3T, with no success. I want to do it because of too many apps nagging me or not working with unlocked bootloader
here's what I did to unlock in the past and relock:
unlocking:
- enable dev options, enable oem unlocking & usb debugging
- flashed TWRP & fastboot oem unlock from command line (don't remember which I did first)
- got my phone wiped which was an an unexpected surprise!
- bootloader unlocked, the fist of those lovely warning screens telling me so
- tried to root without success, so no custom ROMs for me
- lived with it like this for a while, too many apps telling me they won't work, decided to relock
- got latest stock ROM, flashed it via TWRP, wiped, tried to fastboot oem lock ==> success reported by CLI, BUT device still unlocked
- flashed just the 3t recovery img, wiped, fastboot oem lock ==> success reported by CLI, BUT device still unlocked
- tried the qualcomm unbrick tool after installing the recommended drivers, can't have it see my device maybe because it's not bricked or maybe some other reason, I don't know. it doesn't show up in the app. Will uninstall and reactivate driver signature checks soon unless someone explains me how to make the bloody phone show up ...
So at this moment I have a many times-wiped phone with latest 9.0.4 stock ROM whose bootloader won't lock back. I am quite at a loss. I haven't tried any magisk or similat, SuperSU at the time told me I am not rooted.
I am tearing out the few hairs I have left. Any help for this poor family man so that he may not be allowed to walk in darkness? (quote from Uninvited). Thanks
Why don't you use Magisk hide to hide root/unlock status to those apps instead of loosing root/adaway and more?
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Why don't you use Magisk hide to hide root/unlock status to those apps instead of loosing root/adaway and more?
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I have never investigated Magisk, I think I installed it at the tima but there was some problem with it so I uninstalled it and didn't think much more about it. The problem is, my phone is not rooted (even though I tried it failed, I unlocked the bootloader to root it in the first place but was not successful), only OEM unblocked. So, so to say, I'm stuck in the worst of the possible worlds except for a bricked device. unlocked with no apparent way to relock it, and not rooted.
I feel like my phone is in some strange state where the normal procedures do not work. If I could at least figure out what's wrong with the rooting, I could go the full way AND then, in case use Magisk. but at the moment I feel like there is a need to put the phone in a known definite state whichever it is and work from there. I'd be happy to revert to stock and locked and then redo everything when needed in the future.
How could I troubleshoot further or get to such a "known state"? many thanks
The thing you did wrong was using the outdated SuperSU method of rooting which is not supported anymore. You should just flash the latest Magisk zip of their github page and then you will have root with the possibility of hiding it for bank apps and others.
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v20.4/Magisk-v20.4.zip
pitrus- said:
The thing you did wrong was using the outdated SuperSU method of rooting which is not supported anymore. You should just flash the latest Magisk zip of their github page and then you will have root with the possibility of hiding it for bank apps and others.
https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/releases/download/v20.4/Magisk-v20.4.zip
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Thanks pitrus, I'll have a look at it tomorrow and will update with what happened
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Thanks pitrus, I'll have a look at it tomorrow and will update with what happened
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Hi, update. I installed Magisk but, seeing that it had a way to put the phone in EDL mode, instead of going full root I decided to go the other way around and try to make my phone as stock as possible and reserve the experiments to an unit other than my primary. So I used the Qualcomm "unbrick" tool, and was able to flash the OxygenOS version that came with it - a rather old Android 6 whose networking (wifi, mobile...) wasn't working. But an adb sideload of the latest version after having put the phone in recovery mode allowed me to restore the networking and to update to the last supported version.
Magisk made the difference in getting me out of the spot. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Hi everyone. I have been lurking the forums a lot - there is a lot of useful info on mobile platforms here, more than anywhere else on the internet. I apologize in advance for a long post, but I feel like the only people who can answer my question are here on these forums. I am a graduate student at a university and my research project is on mobile SOC (System on Chip) architectures. As such, I want to grab an Android phone and evaluate its hardware performance using tools like simpleperf, which is a tool available from Android (it is their version of linux perf tool, which reads hardware counters directly from CPU's PMU (Performance monitoring unit)). Counters I am talking about are things like: cache misses, branch mispredictions, etc....
I was able to use the tool on my Pixel 5 after rooting it, but this is my personal phone and has older SOC (and I can not write to the file system, so I am using simpleperf by just displaying results in terminal), and my academic advisor told me that we can go ahead with the project and buy a new phone (with latest Snapdragon 888 SOC). I have in front of me Samsung S21 Ultra, but I am in Canada, so I have US version, and this phone can not be unlocked and/or rooted from what I understand, so we will be returning it and looking for another device (why claim you participate in open source when you lock your phone shut and prevent any development on it?)
As such, I am looking to buy Xiaomi Mi 11, root it, and use it to collect hardware counters. I live in Canada and so I would imagine I need to order the international version. So my questions to the esteemed members of this community are:
1. Am I right in assuming that Xiaomi Mi 11 can be rooted, so that I have root permissions on the underlying linux when I run adb shell and then su root. On my rooted Pixel 5 I have that.
2. Can the file system be mounted in RW mode? simpleperf can dump files with evaluation results and this requires writable file system.
3. If file system is not writable, is there a writable directory? For example, Samsung S21 has a directory /sd_card, to which I was able to write files. Is there something similar on Xiaomi Mi 11?
4. In general, are Xiaomi devices developer friendly? Do they have a bunch of special things installed like Odin on Samsung, or is it closer to Pixel devices by google, which are developer friendly?
Thank you very much!
Pavel.
Hey there. Sorry for not having all the answers for you but as no body wrote nothing yet I can just tell you that yes you can unlock bootloader and root your phone which should give you possible all the rights you need I hope
You can unlock developer options and there you can tweak some stuff. I am not developer but I do like to tweak
I think you should go ahead and buy mi 11 and research here what you can do with the device.
Note that you need to wait 168h to unlock the bootloader after applying for unlock.
Good Luck !
Thank you very much for response! Could you elaborate a little bit about 168h wait please? Is that 168 hours?
I also forgot to ask: is it possible to lock the bootloader after unlock and root?
Yes 168 hours that is 7 days of looong waiting.
It is but only on the rom that device came with. stock rom. If you change rom and want to lock it you might brick device (lock) but than again you can unlock it and fix it by yourself easily ,
I saw other user saying that he flashed global on orange rom and lock bootloader. but I think it is the same based rom so in his case it was possible.
I see. Thank you. 7 day wait is ok. I guess what I am trying to ask is whether I will be able to return device to original specifications?
Aha , yes I think there should not be problems. You just need to flash stock rom with lock all.bat command.
I advise you to research here and on the net how to properly unlock and other stuff while you wait for the device and unlock. there are steps to follow to have successful unlock and flash and other .
I see. Thank you very much!
Hey there,
So I need to know all the necessary steps to properly install Andronix and Termux (F-Droid) by unlocking the bootloader. Do you know where I can find all the information about that for Galaxy s10?
Depends on WHICH S10 you have. Snapdragon CPU versions cannot really be unlocked. Exynos can. This forum is full of threads on how to do the Exynos, of course... I have a Snapdragon so I haven't spent much time learning it...
Ok thanks I have a snapdragon also so I guess I will do something else
I hear you - I have Snapdragon too, so I gave up ROM and rooting on this phone. Honestly, I don't miss it. I used to ROM and root all my previous phones, but I don't see the need to do that anymore.
I want to ssh my network from my phone using a vpn to access my router so I can wake on lan my server
You should be able to do that without root from the phone - ssh doesn't require root to run, and it's just a secure terminal. You can get an app to do that (I see plenty on the play store). As for VPN, again, you don't need root on the phone to do that - I have used OVPN many times from my phone without issue (and without root).
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You should be able to do that without root from the phone - ssh doesn't require root to run, and it's just a secure terminal. You can get an app to do that (I see plenty on the play store). As for VPN, again, you don't need root on the phone to do that - I have used OVPN many times from my phone without issue (and without root).
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Ok thanks
Why is everybody so convinced that rooting will only be possible with an unlocked bootloader? if there were to be a kernel exploit which would gain us access to the block devices i would say it's possible to downgrade the bootloader or anything which is accessible by block devices like the recovery partition. Am i missing something here?
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Why is everybody so convinced that rooting will only be possible with an unlocked bootloader? if there were to be a kernel exploit which would gain us access to the block devices i would say it's possible to downgrade the bootloader or anything which is accessible by block devices like the recovery partition. Am i missing something here?
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If you have a solution to root a galaxy s10 snapdragon cpu I will read your comments on it. But I think I believe that is because of the articles in the internet are only mentioning that I need to unlock the bootloader.
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If you have a solution to root a galaxy s10 snapdragon cpu I will read your comments on it. But I think I believe that is because of the articles in the internet are only mentioning that I need to unlock the bootloader.
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Yes, everybody is so convinced that you need to unlock the bootloader and i wonder why.... we don't need odin to flash, afaik as we can find a kernel exploit which would gain us root access we could set properties to enable the oem unlock option.... making it available and usable could be a different case..... some requirements need to be met. If we could access block devices we should be able to install magisk and root the device.
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If you have a solution to root a galaxy s10 snapdragon cpu I will read your comments on it. But I think I believe that is because of the articles in the internet are only mentioning that I need to unlock the bootloader.
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I think i'm getting somewhere, don't know for sure... at first i was only able to flash CSC and now i'm able to flash every slot.... do you have the same results in odin?
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I think i'm getting somewhere, don't know for sure... at first i was only able to flash CSC and now i'm able to flash every slot.... do you have the same results in odin?
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I cant do tests on my galaxy s10 but I will on a Moto z2
we are so ****ed with the cellphones
Yeah, I need one too! I got a Galaxy S10 Plus Snapdragon. It's it's been 2 years since I have it and I can't find nobody that can teach me how to root it!!!
Because it cannot be rooted. US carriers have made that happen, and the manufacturers have had to keep doing it.
Many have tried, and on older BLs it can be done, but once you update you are stuck on a newer BL and cannot downgrade. If you root with the older BL, you cannot upgrade the BL either, because that will relock it.
If someone comes up with a way to do it, I'm all ears, as are many others... but with higher level crypto being implemented for this protection (ie, you need to know the crypto key!), it likely won't happen.
I have an idea but i don't know if it's possible, i tried but it seems corepatch isn't working.
I see a lot of topics about what's needed to unlock the bootloader, but if i look in the source code what is required to unlock the bootloader there's a lot of ro. properties which we can't set because we are not root.
As LSPatch can now communicate with Shizuku and gain system level access we might be able to disable system app verification (platform certificate, by extending CorePatch or maybe someone can write a signature verification disabler for lsposed). Then create an app which doesn't check for all these properties and initiates an OEM unlock and install it as system user./