[Verizon] Video: How to Unlock the Bootloader on the Galaxy Nexus [Verizon]

[trophynuts]

Video: How to Unlock the Bootloader on the Galaxy Nexus [Verizon] – Droid Life


Cheers to Droid_Life for throwing this together.

 

[trophynuts]

bump

 

[vespadaddy]

The link to the Sammy drivers doesn't list any drivers though, just 2 links for the manual.

Edit: I guess I should have clicked the 'software' tab. D'oh!

 

[ssick92]

So, I was having issues getting the drivers to work, but I used a fix in another thread by using the naked Samsung ADB driver.

After I got it to work, I followed your video to the letter. When you booted up your phone and it bootlooped, so did mine. I waited a few minutes then unplugged, and had to pull the battery. When I tried to turn it back on, I am now in another bootloop that doesn't go past the Google screen with the Unlock at the bottom.

Oh god, first brick?

 

[CBJAGK]

I am bootlooping as well

 

[ssick92]

I was able to install Koush's GSM CWM. I am going to try to wipe data/cache/dalvik and see if I still loop. If so, I feel like I need to flash the Verizon Stock Image, but I'm not sure how...

EDIT: Yup, still looping

 

[WormDoes]

I'm having trouble navigating to platform tools in command prompt. Yes, I'm a wicked noob with adb and such Can anyone help a brotha out?

LOL - didn't realize holding shift allows you to open a cmd anywhere. Yay for learning something new

 

[Buckeye Boy]

I need help here. Just got the phone and want to unlock and root but having hard time with some of these unlocking bootloader instructions.... I DON'T WANT TO BRICK MY NEW PHONE GUYS....HELP PLEASE...VIDEOS. . ?
HONE

 

[ssick92]

Read the stickies: Here is a video that Trophy posted up

http://androidforums.com/galaxy-nex...w-unlock-bootloader-galaxy-nexus-verizon.html

And if you really don't know what you're doing, then just don't do anything yet. There will be much easier methods later on, and you can't even really flash anything yet since we dont have a working recovery.

 

[esmith818]

Anyone know if steps 11.1 and 11.2 are necessary for the Nexus?

 

[ssick92]

Trophy, I might put a little hint somewhere to NOT pull the battery during the loop after unlock but to just unplug it from the computer. Seems as though it is getting a lot of people into a bootloop for something so simple as waiting a few more minutes.

 

[WormDoes]

If you're looping after unlocking - DO NOT PULL BATTERY!!!

Let it do its thing. It took me over 5 minutes to finally boot.

It's going to take some time, after all, it is fully wiping the device.

Make sure you don't panic, we have system images, there's nothing you can't come back from. It's wonderful having a safety net

 

[s1ck s0n]

Anyone know if steps 11.1 and 11.2 are necessary for the Nexus?

Worked fine for me without them. I followed the steps and watched the video and this worked perfect for me. I did pull my battery after bootlooping, but it was only after the phone had resarted once then looped again.

 

[vespadaddy]

If you're looping after unlocking - DO NOT PULL BATTERY!!!

Let it do its thing. It took me over 5 minutes to finally boot.

It's going to take some time, after all, it is fully wiping the device.

Make sure you don't panic, we have system images, there's nothing you can't come back from. It's wonderful having a safety net

Ugh. Wish I had seen this earlier. How do I use the system image to fix my soft bricked, boot looping GNEx?

 

[halon]

Ugh. Earlier this morning when I opened a command window at the C prompt I had android-sdk-windows....

After typing in the two commands to unlock all I got was waiting for device.

I messed around some more and now when I open a command windo it doesn't say android-sdk-windows....

This should be so easy and it just isn't going right

 

[Needz_Android]

do i have to unlock the bootloader before rooting?

 

[trophynuts]

do i have to unlock the bootloader before rooting?

yes

 

[halon]

I deleted everything to unlock. I think. Going to start over.

 

[tsargent347]

Ok ive seen the video on droid life at how to unlock the bootloader but its talking about sdk and adb need to be setup first. ive never messed with adb or sdk so can anyone help me out with this? id like to get this thing unlocked. also, is there a way to relock it incase if it need to be taken back to verizon?

Dont know how to use the cmd command on my computer either but would like to know how

 

[nj02vette]

You should follow the instructions here:

http://androidforums.com/galaxy-nex...-root-samsung-galaxy-nexus-6.html#post3660456

You'll also need to get the files listed in the OP of that thread.
To start a command window (in windows) hit start, then type "cmd"

To use directory commands to move around, use this:

http://androidforums.com/galaxy-nex...-root-samsung-galaxy-nexus-7.html#post3665461

Any questions, let me know.

I'll probably merge this thread with others.

 

[friguy3]

I "installed" the SDK (my fastbook was in the platform-tools, not tools, but all the 3 important programs are there), i can get into the bootloader but when i type fastboot oem unlock, the command prompt says waiting for phone and nothing happens. I have noticed that when he says in the video the after opening bootloader the samsung driver updates or something and mine doesnt. any ideas? guess Ill start all over...*sigh

 

[AntimonyER]

For some reason I get a device driver failure and when I investigate, it shows the MTP device is unplugged. Can anyone help about why this is occuring? Thanks.

edit: this happens after I do adb reboot bootloader command. phone reboots to bootloader, but I get a device driver installation failure on my PC, and it will just go to waiting for device in the command prompt after I do fastboot oem unlock command.

 

[ajdroidx]

I HATE windows
Really really do.

I went to samsung, downloaded the drivers (already had them) installed. Rebooted my PC. Plug in the nexus and windows runs live update for the drivers.

It installs the drivers, so I load up ADB, run the command "adb devices" which should return a string of numbers and instead nothing is returned.

What the!?
EDIT: Note to self, enable USB debugging. Shesh.

EDIT 2:

Got it working... sort of. Now it just says waiting for device after issuing the fastboot oem unlock command

Windows told me my driver malfunctioned

 

[ajdroidx]

Windows 7: "Making the easy stuff, hard"

Still get waiting for device in adb. first time it bricked

 

[Kwake]

I had gotten stuck there myself a few times. What worked for me was after i typed 'adb reboot bootloader' and the phone rebooted into the bootloader i opened up my device manager saw the yellow indicator on Android 1.0. I then right-clicked to update driver and browsed the computer and chose the latest Samsung ADB Interface version.

EDIT: then i typed the 'fastboot oem unlock' command after the driver updated.