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Jan

24

2012

ASUS Says Transformer Prime Unlock Tool Will Be Available In February

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by Stacy Bruce
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Well well, what have we hear? Looks like some promising news to me! According to ASUS’ Twitter handle, they are planning to release an official “root tool” (later corrected to “bootloader unlock tool”)  for the Transformer Prime’s locked bootloader sometime in February. Here is the revised tweet: I know we have already heard about this mysterious unlock [...]

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Jan

5

2012

Got Root? The ASUS Transformer Prime Does Now

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by Joe Sirianni
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Fast on the heels of the Asus Transformer Prime announcing its bootloader unlocked tool, the device is now also capable of being rooted.  Thanks to Asus finally listening to the masses, they are making available a new root tool to give you all Superuser access.  And thanks to the viperMod Prime Tool, only available for Windows [...]

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Dec

27

2011

HTC Expands Bootloader Unlock to EVO View 4G and myTouch 4G Slide

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by Stacy Bruce
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  A while back HTC made a promise saying that they would begin to offer the online ability to unlock bootloaders of HTC devices. While they have been slow to increase the number of unlockable devices, HTC is keeping true to their word and has added the EVO View 4G and myTouch 4G Slide to [...]

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Sep

12

2011

DROID Bionic bounty for unlocking bootloader currently at $370 [Courtesy of XDA]

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by Robert Nazarian
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Whether you like the DROID Bionic or not, there is no question that sales should be strong because of the strong marketing push and the lack of a Samsung Galaxy S II (for the moment). It has already been rooted so all we need is the bootloader to be unlocked. Our friends over at XDA [...]

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Aug

30

2011

HTC adds T-Mobile Sensation and others to unlockable bootloader list

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by Robert Nazarian
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Do you have a variation of the HTC Sensation that has not been added to the list of approved devices for the HTCDev bootloader unlocking tool? We have good news for you because HTC has added a few more variations, including the T-Mobile version, as well as Turkey, Arabic, and Bouygues Telecom versions. [via HTCDev]

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Jul

20

2011

HTC Sensation spotted unlocked with S-off [Video]

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by Robert Nazarian
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HTC promised unlocked bootloaders, but the Sensation won’t officially be unlocked until August/September, but who wants to wait? The folks at AlphaRev have been working hard and it looks like they have succeeded. These are the same guys who unlocked the Droid Incredible 2 which is already enjoying custom ROMs. Hopefully a public release will [...]

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Jul

11

2011

HTC will unlock bootloaders for Sensation and EVO 3D by early September

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by Robert Nazarian
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Back in May, HTC announced that they would no longer lock bootloaders, but they could not ship the Sensation or the EVO 3D with the capability. It looks like HTC will officially unlock them staring in August with the global Sensation, followed by the Sensation 4G and the EVO 3D. They are currently in the [...]

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Jun

29

2011

Pattern Lock by location for the Samsung Galaxy S II

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by Jesse Bauer
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Many people are awaiting the full scale Android assault that is the Samsung Galaxy S II launch in North America, and with that comes lots of new developments as well. XDA member terranim has done some research ( a lot of research) on the Pattern lock for the Samsung Galaxy S II, and found it [...]

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Apr

6

2011

New Sony Ericsson Xperia devices getting bootloader unlocked soon

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by Jesse Bauer
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The Sony Ericsson Xperia line of new devices have mostly hit the market, and you know what that usually means for developers…custom ROMs! The only thing is that the bootloader is still locked, which usually is a bit of a wall when it comes to building custom jobs. Sony plans on changing that soon, as [...]

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Mar

29

2011

Sony Ericsson Allowing The Bootloader To Be Unlocked On Xperia Lineup

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by Axl Logan
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Looks like Sony Ericsson is going a route that other manufacturers tend to avoid and occasionally flat out deny access to.  The folks over at SE have announced that they will provide users a legal and secure way to gain full access to the bootloader on all up and coming Xperia devices like the Arc, Pro, Play [...]

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