How to unlock essential phone bootloader
[HOW TO] Unlock Essential Phone Bootloader
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hey what's going on everyone
Chris back with another video and if you
own an essential phone this guide is for
you today we're gonna be going over how
to unlock the bootloader for the
essential phone this is gonna be
important if you want to flash t WRP
recovery if you want to install the
custom ROM if you want to flash a an
essential system image in case let's say
you're the install didn't go right or
you just don't want to wait for a an OTA
to come through this is what you're in
need to do so first we have to go down
to settings go to about phone and then
go down to build number and then tap on
this multiple times until you get to
notification that you are now a
developer I already am go back and then
we're going to go to developer options
and then we need to make sure that the
OEM unlocking tick box is turned on and
the next we need to go down to USB
debugging and make sure that is turned
on also now what we need to go ahead and
do is go over to our computer and we
need to make sure that your ADB fastboot
is set up it on your computer the
interface I've always used the minimal
ADB fastboot I'll leave the link where
you can download this I've used this for
many many years and haven't had any
issues so now what we go ahead and do is
go over to our computer and then when we
open our ADB fastboot interface by a
holding down shift right click open
command window here we're going to go
ahead and type in ADB devices and then
the prompt should be coming up on your
phone to basically allow access for your
computer to interact with the phone
through ADB so go ahead and click on the
little check box to allow always and
then click on OK and here we can see
that the ADB is interacting with the
phone successfully so now what we need
to do is go ahead and reboot into the
fastboot and for bootloader and we'll be
able to unlock the bootloader at that
point so go ahead and type in ADB reboot
bootloader the phone will then reboot
into fastboot mode and we can see here
the device state is currently locked and
we want that to say unlocked so the
command here what we'll need to do is
make sure that the phone is actually
being recognized in fastboot will type
in fastboot devices and we can see here
it just stopped being recognized the
next command in order to unlock the
bootloader is first before we do that
this will wipe your phone this is gonna
wipe all of your user data so backed up
your phone before you do this just to
make sure you can always restore any
backed up information onto your phone
after we do this the next command is
going to be fastboot flashing unlock now
it's usually fastboot OEM unlock but for
some reason its fastboot flashing unlock
and we can see here it says finished
it's showing okay now it's giving us a
warning basically basically do you want
to unlock the bootloader you're going to
use your volume up or down to navigate
unlocked bootloader it may void your
warranty and you're gonna want to go
ahead and press the power button to
select and this warning is going to come
up every time your phone reboots
basically saying that the bootloader is
unlocked and things like that which is
normal now it's going through and
erasing the phone because of that
unlocking met that we have done see now
you can always press the power key to
pause the boot it's gonna continue
booting up anyway so no need to worry
there so that is how you unlock the
bootloader of the essential phone very
easy painless and you're gonna be all
ready once a custom recovery comes out
one system images come out for the
essential phone you're already one step
ahead of the
and you won't have to worry about
dealing with that when the time comes
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