Kind of new to this whole thing. I have a Shield Android TV Pro and unlocked the bootloader and rooted. I then installed the 1.8 custom rom. This is when I realized I was on the 2.1 firmware which caused a green screen for video. I reflashed the 1.3 recovery image back to stock and would like to reinstall the 1.8 rom. By restoring back to 1.3, does this re-lock the bootloader or is it still unlocked? Any help would be appreciated.
Still Unlocked
thekid22681 said:
Kind of new to this whole thing. I have a Shield Android TV Pro and unlocked the bootloader and rooted. I then installed the 1.8 custom rom. This is when I realized I was on the 2.1 firmware which caused a green screen for video. I reflashed the 1.3 recovery image back to stock and would like to reinstall the 1.8 rom. By restoring back to 1.3, does this re-lock the bootloader or is it still unlocked? Any help would be appreciated.
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It's still unlocked, by going back to the 1.3 stock ROM image will not re-lock your Shield TV Console. You can even test it, if you like to by running this command "fastboot oem unlock" !
Thank you very much. I appreciate the advice.
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I was previously on 2.3.4 with CherryBlur, but i downgraded back to 1.8.3 (Froyo) through SBF.
When i boot up it no longer says "Unlocked", but i read around and i believe my Phone still has an unlocked bootloader. (Quick Question: How do i get it back to say "Unlocked" without losing any data?)
Now I installed ROM Manager from the Market, and Installed CWM, because i think i lost CWM when i downgraded.
Question: Am i ready to download and install Roms now. Also when i click Download Roms in the Rom Manager i get an error getting list.
theres a cmd in the unlock thread that let you know if youre still unlocked. and i dont know of any rom that are downloadable from there yet.
primeboss said:
I was previously on 2.3.4 with CherryBlur, but i downgraded back to 1.8.3 (Froyo) through SBF.
When i boot up it no longer says "Unlocked", but i read around and i believe my Phone still has an unlocked bootloader. (Quick Question: How do i get it back to say "Unlocked" without losing any data?)
Now I installed ROM Manager from the Market, and Installed CWM, because i think i lost CWM when i downgraded.
Question: Am i ready to download and install Roms now. Also when i click Download Roms in the Rom Manager i get an error getting list.
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reflash the pudding for your device and fastboot oem unlock again
joe ferreira said:
reflash the pudding for your device and fastboot oem unlock again
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all you have to do is reflash the pudding. i've done it multiple times. if you try to fastboot oem unlock again it'll say already unlocked. reflashing the pudding restores the prestigious Unlock text at boot
Ive rooted my Atrix 4G to 2.3.4 and everything worked fine but i wanted to install a custom rom.Everything was going great until i realized it need to be unlocked first
I want to restore it to stock. I dont know how to restore it. Any help guys? I've rooted and did alot of things with my HTC Aria but its nothing like the atrix. PLEASE HELP!
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Tenfar's CWM
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Grey Blur
jach11 said:
Ive rooted my Atrix 4G to 2.3.4 and everything worked fine but i wanted to install a custom rom.Everything was going great until i realized it need to be unlocked first
I want to restore it to stock. I dont know how to restore it. Any help guys? I've rooted and did alot of things with my HTC Aria but its nothing like the atrix. PLEASE HELP!
I installed
Tenfar's CWM
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Grey Blur
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Grey Blur... how old is that. Wasn't that for froyo and not gingerbread...
Ok, 2 things, well 3 things actually...
1) Did you actually try to flash a ROM and/or is your phone stuck in a bootloop? If not, and you just want to return to stock, you can flash the 4.5.91 (Android 2.3.4) sbf file. This will fully return you to stock, no root, no cwm, no nothing but stock. Or if your just trying to wipe the theme you installed, try a factory reset.
2) If you did try to flash a ROM and are stuck somewhere... you can still flash the correct sbf file, or you can go ahead an unlock your bootloader.
3) Do not use Tenfar's recovery. Use Rom Racer's or ROM Manager... but you need to unlock your bootloader first.
Swiftks said:
Grey Blur... how old is that. Wasn't that for froyo and not gingerbread...
Ok, 2 things, well 3 things actually...
1) Did you actually try to flash a ROM and/or is your phone stuck in a bootloop? If not, and you just want to return to stock, you can flash the 4.5.91 (Android 2.3.4) sbf file. This will fully return you to stock, no root, no cwm, no nothing but stock. Or if your just trying to wipe the theme you installed, try a factory reset.
2) If you did try to flash a ROM and are stuck somewhere... you can still flash the correct sbf file, or you can go ahead an unlock your bootloader.
3) Do not use Tenfar's recovery. Use Rom Racer's or ROM Manager... but you need to unlock your bootloader first.
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You are able to flash Tenfar's without unlocking your phone, it's also required to flash Greyblur. I've done it before aswell, I installed Gingerblur without unlocking my phone. Very dangerous yea I know. So do what Swift said, unlock your phone or flash ONLY a 4.5.91 SBF onto it.
P.S. Yea Gingerblur/Greyblur is froyo!
My N7 has bricked and using toolkit 4.0, i have flashed factory stock rom.
And when it opened using cwm i flashed a custom kernel.
Then when i opened i checked and realized that the root is lost, i tried to unlock it, but it didn't work as it already seems to be unrooted.
Then i flashed custom recovery and locked the device again.
But my custom kernel is still there and visible in settings.
So might that cause any problems?
Thanks.
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My N7 has bricked and using toolkit 4.0, i have flashed factory stock rom.
And when it opened using cwm i flashed a custom kernel.
Then when i opened i checked and realized that the root is lost, i tried to unlock it, but it didn't work as it already seems to be unrooted.
Then i flashed custom recovery and locked the device again.
But my custom kernel is still there and visible in settings.
So might that cause any problems?
Thanks.
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When you flash a stock rom, it will get unrooted but the bootloader will still be unlocked. Just try rooting again. And I think the kernel won't cause any problems, but I also think that the kernel won't do much because the device is unrooted.
Leonhan said:
When you flash a stock rom, it will get unrooted but the bootloader will still be unlocked. Just try rooting again. And I think the kernel won't cause any problems, but I also think that the kernel won't do much because the device is unrooted.
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After flashing the stock rom, I also locked the bootloader as well, and the kernel seems to work, at least that's what the quadrant benchmark results show.
What's happening is that the phone boots normally (Moto logo, then pops up the SS splash) but once on the SS splash I can't actually click either of the buttons (boot, recovery). The phone works completely fine as far I can tell once it gets into the OS (CM10 beta) but I can't access SS to get back into my stock ROM at this point.
What I want to do is get the bootloader unlocked using the method that was recently released but I don't want to accidentally brick or something awful like that in the process. The stock ROM is currently 4.1.2 (VZW OTA update, with root) but I have no access to it.
I might be being overly paranoid here but after bricking a couple different things (phone, psp, etc) trying to do things like this in the past I always like to make sure I'm not doing something really stupid before I do it.
If I were to flash back this ROM using fast boot, it would basically go back to what it was out of the box correct? No SS, all my apps etc gone.
Correct, if you flash that through RSD it will return the phone back to stock. You should check out Matt's utility 1.20. It will return you to stock, allow you to re-root, unlock your bootloader, and install a custom recovery. All are options in Utility 1.20.
RikRong said:
Correct, if you flash that through RSD it will return the phone back to stock. You should check out Matt's utility 1.20. It will return you to stock, allow you to re-root, unlock your bootloader, and install a custom recovery. All are options in Utility 1.20.
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Thanks for the info, didn't know about Matt's Util but looks like it does everything I wanted to get done.
I like swapping between new ROM's, and I've been on Android N since the first preview. But now I'm interested in trying out Paranoid.
The bootloader is unlocked and I have just reflashed TWRP. But it asked for a password in the start which I got passed where I wiped everything on it. But whenever I try to boot into any rom (not just Paranoid) it's just stuck on the Google logo. Why so?
Will I need to downgrade my bootloader to the version from Marshmallow or am I missing something?
I'll give the default answer to any ROM issues you ever have on a Nexus device. Reflash the FULL stock factory image and see if it fixes it.
andreglud said:
I like swapping between new ROM's, and I've been on Android N since the first preview. But now I'm interested in trying out Paranoid.
The bootloader is unlocked and I have just reflashed TWRP. But it asked for a password in the start which I got passed where I wiped everything on it. But whenever I try to boot into any rom (not just Paranoid) it's just stuck on the Google logo. Why so?
Will I need to downgrade my bootloader to the version from Marshmallow or am I missing something?
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Basic Android Mod 101- BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!!! Always do a backup, Nandroid b/ups are best. With Nexus device's you can unroot, and Flash the entire Google stock image. Brand new again.
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andreglud said:
I like swapping between new ROM's, and I've been on Android N since the first preview. But now I'm interested in trying out Paranoid.
The bootloader is unlocked and I have just reflashed TWRP. But it asked for a password in the start which I got passed where I wiped everything on it. But whenever I try to boot into any rom (not just Paranoid) it's just stuck on the Google logo. Why so?
Will I need to downgrade my bootloader to the version from Marshmallow or am I missing something?
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Yeah that won't work since the vendors are different. There's a thread already about downgrading from N to Marshmallow..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/help/trying-to-manually-downgrade-android-n-t3391373
It is all about the boot.img image.
if you flashed a rooted rom, flash the modified boot.img that allows root ( you can find it for each version here http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/stock-modified-boot-img-regular-root-t3306684 )
if you flashed a non rooted stock rom, flash the stock boot.img ( you can extract it from the stock image file
that's it
andreglud said:
I like swapping between new ROM's, and I've been on Android N since the first preview. But now I'm interested in trying out Paranoid.
The bootloader is unlocked and I have just reflashed TWRP. But it asked for a password in the start which I got passed where I wiped everything on it. But whenever I try to boot into any rom (not just Paranoid) it's just stuck on the Google logo. Why so?
Will I need to downgrade my bootloader to the version from Marshmallow or am I missing something?
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Just flash the correct vendor image for Marshmallow.