GPU - Unlocked vs Locked

so I would like to unlock my bootloader and try Project T kernel but I'm kinda confused on the GPU part, it's said unlock not overclock, so what's the difference between locked and unlocked gpu? does unlocking the gpu increases it's performance?

TIA

Help with a locked Note 4

I purchased a T-mobile Note 4 via OfferUp and I didn't check phone properly. Purchasing in a parking lot, I made sure it powered up and checked to make sure it was a Note 4, but guy looked honorable. I KNOW BIG MISTAKE. Got home and found a lens on back camera cracked. And, didn't know to put my T-mobile SIM card in to check before purchasing. Called to change my T-mobile to put on my account and the IMEI# was bad & T-mobile had it locked, T-mobile said that the phone was never paid for and therefor locked. Ordered a Net10 SIM and a months service. When I got Net10 SIM, went to my account to activate. Wouldn't work! Took to a boost store and guy checked and said it wouldn't unlock. Do I have any options or do I loose my 0 and call it a monster learning experience. Its running on 5.0.1 Lollipop!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John
johnwnusz@gmail.com

Failed Marshmallow update/Stock Android (Locked Bootloader & Unrooted) Solution

First time poster, but thought I'd share how I managed to fix my problem, in hope that it helps someone else out.

I recently received the OTA Marshmallow update for my Stock Nexus 9 (unrooted and locked bootloader), but unfortunately it didn't work, and threw me into "bootloop" where it continually tried to apply the update but failed. First off I followed instructions to clear the Cache, which only made the problem worse, as all the tablet would do then was boot into the “swirling colour dots” and do nothing else until eventually the battery died.

After reading several forum posts I discovered that the usual solution is to flash via fastboot, however on a Nexus 9 you need to unlock the bootloader by activating "Enable OEM Unlock" from within Android. As I'm running a 100% Stock Nexus 9 I had never done this, so couldn't flash it.

Eventually though, after having an absolute nightmare trying to get it to work again, I found a working solution! Just use "Apply update from ADB" under Recovery, along with the correct update image!

A lot of what's in the steps below is likely to be known to most of the community, but I’ve tried to keep the steps extra simple so anyone can pick this up.

Steps:

1. Reboot into HBOOT (Hold down Volume Down + Power Button).

2. Press Volume Down to highlight Recovery, then press the Power Button to enter it.

3. Wait until the Google logo goes away, and you should see a picture of an Android laying on it’s back. Hold down the Power Button + Volume Up (very important to hold Power FIRST).

4. On the Recovery page it lists a few details about your version at the top. Note down the 6 character identifier for your device (which is in the format of 3 text characters, 2 numeric, and another text char). For me I was running 5.1.1 before the update, so my identifier was LMY48T.

5. Find the OTA update that upgrades from your current version to the next version. For me I was going from 5.1.1 to 6.0.0 on a Nexus 9, so I searched for LMY48T on Google and found that this was the OTA update needed: https://android.googleapis.com/packa...rom-LMY48T.zip

6. If you don’t have it already, download and install “Minimal ADB and Fastboot”: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2317790 – when it’s installed let it run straight away, and leave the command prompt open you’ll need it in a min.

7. If you don’t have it already, download and unzip the Google USB Driver: https://dl-ssl.google.com//android/r...er_windows.zip

8. Copy the OTA update file you downloaded to the folder that Minimal ADB was installed in (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot\).

9. Back on your device use Volume down to get to “Wipe Cache Partition”, and press the Power Button to activate it. If you want to be really sure this will work you should do a “Wipe data/factory reset” too, but be aware you will definitely lose your data.

10. Use Volume up to go to “Apply update from ADB”, and press the Power Button to enter it.

11. Plug your tablet into your PC (if it’s not already). You’ll need to go to your Device settings on your PC and you should see a new device named the same as your device or possibly just “Android”. Go to the Properties of the device and force the Driver to be the ADB Google driver from the Google USB Drivers that you downloaded earlier. (There’s plenty of other longer tutorials on how to do this if you’re having issues)

12. On your PC, in the Minimal ADB Command Prompt (that you should still have open from earlier) enter “adb sideload {NAMEOFOTAFILE}” e.g. for me this was “adb sideload ab835e17c874202049463ccd916f86fede83199e.signed-volantis-MRA58K-from-LMY48T.zip”.

13. Let it run. It took less than half hour for it to install for me, and I’m now the proud owner of a working Stock Nexus 9 with Marshmallow!

So why does this work but applying the stock images via fastboot doesn’t? As far as I can see it must be due to the “signing” of the files. The regular stock Google fastboot flash images don’t include signature information (as far as I’m aware) so they’re rejected as unsafe by the locked bootloader, whereas when you run the OTA update files through ADB sideloading signatures are on the OTA update files, and your device determines that these are safe to install.

Android Pay Unable To Verify; Stock 6.0, Nonrooted, Bootloader Locked

So I loaded up TWRP and Despair Kernel yesterday and rooted my N6 yesterday. There's not much going on yet as far as I understand because Xposed still isn't ready for Marshmallow and the new OS has a lot of great features I don't feel like I really need root, unless for adblocking. Anyways, so I refreshed back to stock through Fastboot, however now Android Pay states it cannot verify the system as if I was still rooted, which I am not. Has anyone experienced this?
Is it possible that the system partition is still R/W? I looked for a way to wipe the device completely and start back up from scratch, meaning erasing partitions, recreating them, etc. but could not find any information on it. Any help would be great as I have a horrible memory and constantly forget my wallet, so Android pay would do a great deal of good as far as I am concerned. Thanks guys.

Moto X XT1058 ATT Locked Bootloader

Hi is posible to root this device im new here thanx !!!!

The phone is on 5.1 !!!

OnePlus One WiFi issue when phone ISN'T locked

I was on 12.0-YNG1TAS17L I was having some issues with SMS message not sending sometimes plus the stage-fright stuff was vulnerable in this build so I decided to try upgrading to PACMAN rom 5.1 and was receiving an error to execute the updater binary. I finally found the solution to the issue, and that was to update to the latest nightly of CM to upgrade some firmware? Maybe it was radio related? I flashed that and while I was still in recovery I did another wipe followed by a flash of the PACMAN rom, which then worked. After using the PACMAN rom for a few days I was noticing some lockup issues and the WiFi kept dropping while I was using the phone. (Phone wasn't sleeping). I decided that I would just go back to CM and install the latest version. I flashed the latest SNAPSHOT build from 9/1. The WiFi issues are still occurring so it isn't ROM specific. I am thinking that the new firmware that was flashed during the nightly flash that I did caused the problem.

So has anyone else had this problem? If so is there an easy fix? If I flash YNG1TAS17L will it back out the firmware update? Thanks.

locked

after unlocking root can be locked for warranty issues? as? thank you
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Help plz, nexus 6 locked b/l, no recovery, no os?

Hi everybody,
my sister messed with her nexus 6 to update it,
now nexus 6 locked bootlaoder, no recovery, no os, i know that i cant flash any thing using fastboot,
is there any way that allows me to force unlocking the bootlaoder through fastboot or flash an os recovery?

GT-S5300 locked forever? No other way around?

So this phone is from my friend. His GT-S5300 is pattern locked. He forgot the pattern, email and password. I've tried every possible way I could think of to unlock the pattern.. First is going to recovery mode to factory reset the phone but there's one big problem.. The phone's Volume Down button is broken. I can't scroll through the recovery options. Then I thought about using ADB.. Too bad USB Debugging is disabled and yes I can't access the friggin' Developer Options because the phone is still locked. I tried tearing down the case and manually tried to press the Volume Down trigger without the actual button from the external casing.. Unfortunately, the Volume Down trigger is totally broken and it's not working. Yes I also thought about using ODIN but I can't access Download Mode without Volume Down, right? The only way would be my friend remembering his email and password but other than that is there any possible way?? My friend frustratingly can't remember his email and password which is a sucker. Any help would be cool!

modified software locked bootloader !

my phone is htc d820n a51_ul
all i did is root my phone flashed it with custom rom (discovery v1.0)
i wanted to unroot and get back to stock but i had no rom
and i lost my back up of my stock recovery
software status : modified
bootloader : relocked , and i can't unlock it again
radio 01.01.010_u10305041_08.01.41222_2
os-1.29.401.5
i need help getting this phone to it's original state
or may be just get that phone working !!
and i can't afford to send it to htc service centre . plz plz help !

need help Nexus 6 on Bootloop, bootloader locked, unlock oem off, debug usb off

Hello im new here and i need help, my nexus 6 is on a bootloop after i tried to get it back to stock kernel, rom, and recovery mode. ive tried factory reset, and also deleting the cache but nothing, i've tried looking for instructions on how to flash the rom back in the nexus but all of them says to turn on usb debug and to also turn on unlock oem but i cant since its on a bootloop . i took it to att but they said they couldn't do anything and that their is possible aways to unlock bootloader without having to turn on usb debug and unlock oem
can someone please help me thank you in advance

New LG G2 phone - this phone is permanently locked and cannot be unlocked

Well as my unfortunate luck has it, I wanted to upgrade my old Nexus 4 to a LG G2 D801 unit. I bought one new-refurbished off ebay and it just arrived recently.

I tried to put in my WIND mobile sim card and realized the phone is not detecting it. After looking into the issue for the majority of the day, it seems that the phone is hard/sim locked.
I went into the area where one would go to unlock the phone, only to be greeted by this unfortunate message.




Now first thing I did was start searching the interwebz....and I can't seem to find much on this.

I am not sure what I can do. The shipping back to China, well that's out of the question due to the high cost.
I can't use the phone as it's a T-Mobile device.
I can't unlock the phone because it's hard locked.

Is there anything I can do to get it working? Does anybody know how I could possibly reset the counter for this?

Thank you in advance.

Carrier locked questions? Get in here!

I'll start. I always read through threads and usually find my answer, thus I can't post in developer threads yet.

Is Mike's ARHD 43.0 compatible with Sprint? I got through 63 pages before giving up.

Locked bootloader ("Bootloader Unlock Allowed: No")

Hi,

Some of you may recognize this issue, and I apologize if I annoy some people by making this thread, but I'm really running out of options.

I own Xperia Play r800i. It's rooted, but bootloader is locked, preventing me from installing any custom roms. Unfortunately, official unlock is not possible with this phone, as service menu has the infamous "Bootloader Unlock Allowed: No" setting and I have no clue how to get rid of it.

One major problem is the amount of confusion and disinformation running amok in the internet. Depending on where you look for info, you will get answers wildly varied. Some people will say it's possible, some say it's not, some say there's a program that can do it automatically for you, others will say that the whole thing is outright impossible and suggest buying a new phone. Some say Sony can do it, for free, others will send you on your way to mobile operator, who can unlock it for a fee.

I also heard about the "testpoint method", which involves pressing a paperclip on the dots on the inside of your phone and then connect it to the wire or something... and attach it to the battery? Or terminal? I'm a bit confused about this thing. The only guide I found (on XDA) is a bit inprecise and one of the pictures is missing.

While researching, I found a site with a tool that supposedly can unlock Bootloader in this case. It's here: "bootloader-unlock-allowed-no-solution.blogspot.com". People behind it claim that it works with cases like mine. To be honest, something is not right here, and I feel it may be a scam. Of course, internet remains silent about this site.

The questions and answers on this very forum covers this case and suggests contacting member "Alejandrissimo", who can supposedly solve this issue for a fee. I've tried to contact him via email and have yet to receive a sign of life from him. Additionally, his site mentioned in the topic appears to be dead.

Please help me. I'm running out of ideas. I'm prepared to pay if I have to, and the last thing I'd wanna do is to abandon this phone because I can't unlock it. I fell in love with XPlay, but deficit of power and its extremely sluggish and outdated stock rom are a very major issue here.