How to unlock Android Bootloader using ADB & Fastboot |
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This is a generic method and isn't guaranteed to work on every device. Drop a comment below if you have questions or reach out to us on the following platforms: Website: https://www.hovatek.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hovatek Twitter: https://twitter.com/hovatek Credits Spanish & Portuguese translation by Juan Rios Video Transcript 00:10 In this video tutorial, I'm going to explain how to unlock the bootloader for an Android device 00:16 using your ADB and fastboot 00:18 You need to unlock the bootloader in order to be able to write images via Fastboot or via the bootloader 00:25 Before you can unlock the bootloader, you need to have enabled 00:30 USB debugging and OEM unlocking so you go under Settings 00:35 And you scroll down to About and 00:39 Then scroll down to Build Number. Keep tapping till you see You are now a developer, just keep tapping build number 00:46 All right. I already did that? 00:50 Once you've done that, you go back and should have developer options enabled here 00:55 You should see that here. So you select developer options. 00:59 Now you scroll down here and you enable USB debugging. I already have that enabled. 01:05 You might get a prompt asking you to always allow. Just tick and allow. 01:11 Then you also enable OEM Unlocking. 01:15 Its very important you enable this in order to unlock the bootloader? 01:19 Now, once you have USB Debugging and OEM Unlocking enabled 01:23 make sure you've setup ADB on your PC and then we can return to unlocking the bootloader 01:32 Now, in ADB, you need to test ADB connection by typing adb devices 01:44 and you have a detection. You are going to boot the device into bootloader or fastboot by typing adb reboot-bootloader 01:53 and you tap enter so that's going to boot the device into 02:02 Fastboot and you should see 02:05 a black screen with fastboot written somewhere on the screen. In fastboot, test connection by typing 02:13 fastboot devices 02:16 Now, you want to unlock by typing fastboot. (don't forget that the command might vary) 02:23 fastboot oem unlock 02:25 For some devices, its fastboot flashing unlock , fastboot oem unlock-go or something like that 02:32 but just try this command first and research other commands if this one fails fastboot oem unlock. 02:38 Tap Enter. Now in the screen, you're going to get a prompt asking you to press the volume up 02:43 if you want to unlock or volume down if you want to cancel so I'm going to tap the 02:49 volume 02:51 increase 02:52 button, and then 02:54 wait while the 02:56 bootloader gets unlocked 03:07 So I see unlock pass returning to fastboot . For me to confirm that my bootloader has been unlocked, I type 03:17 fastboot gervar unlocked 03:23 And I see unlocked: Yes, so my bootloader has been unlocked. That's how to unlock the bootloader of an Android device 03:30 using your ADB and fastboot |