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[International / GSM] Help please! Tried everything, can't get it to unlock..

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hapyface07

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I tried and so far download the SDK tools

and using fastboot to unlock the phone unsuccessfully. I cannot get the phone to unlock so I can proceed to the next step. I have downloaded the Samsung USB driver that was required for it to communicate, but when I ran Fastboot devices, no devices were found.


When I plug in the USB cable, it does recognized the phone via ADB connection, it's just when the phone is in the bootloader/fastboot mode, the ADB connection goes away so no device is recognize. I have looked at the device manager and see that the Android driver goes away in the bootloader/fastboot mode, and it pops up and unrecognizable driver-device manager wants an Android 1.0 driver, which I thought found the driver for it on the internet. But when I tried to install that driver, Windows 7 cannot find it.



I have Googled many websites to help root the Nexus, some recommend download the PDANET. Tried that, can't connect.. Bottomline is I cannot get it to unlock so I can use the fastboot oem unlock command in the command prompt since it cannot recognize/communicate with my Nexus. I think that is my exact problem but I'm out of ideas now... if I can get my phone to unlock, I can easily root it..


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
Thank you all for all the advices, I finally have my Nexus unlock now. Next problem, I cannot get the phone to root using Superboot. The phone hangs in the downloading file stage. Maybe a dumb question, but do I need the internet connected/running while the phone is in bootloader mode so it can download the superuser files? or the files is already in the Superboot Release 3? Thanks.
 
Thank you all for all the advices, I finally have my Nexus unlock now. Next problem, I cannot get the phone to root using Superboot. The phone hangs in the downloading file stage. Maybe a dumb question, but do I need the internet connected/running while the phone is in bootloader mode so it can download the superuser files? or the files is already in the Superboot Release 3? Thanks.
 
hapyface07 said:
Thank you all for all the advices, I finally have my Nexus unlock now. Next problem, I cannot get the phone to root using Superboot. The phone hangs in the downloading file stage. Maybe a dumb question, but do I need the internet connected/running while the phone is in bootloader mode so it can download the superuser files? or the files is already in the Superboot Release 3? Thanks.
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umm....you might want to slow down a little before you make things worse based on your questions above. Not that I am a genius with this stuff either but go here and try using Superboot Method (courtesy of Paul O'Brien of MoDaCo) about midway down the first post. make sure you read the whole thing before doing it and understand it. Once you load your phone into fastboot all you have to do is run the .bat file he provides and it does everything for you. Most likely your phone will reboot and hang at the google load screen (if you have the LTE version). Just leave it a few mins then do a battery pull and you will be rooted.

Goodluck.

edit: based on your previous posts you successfully unlocked your bootloader so I am assuming you have adb working properly and recognizing the device while in fastboot mode.
 
Finally my phone is rooted! I understand the instructions and the logic on how to root the Gnex, and I did follow it precisely. I was using EasyTether, and even though EasyTether was NOT connected via USB cable, it somehow prevented my Gnex from from the Superboot process. When I click on the install-superboot-windows to activate the rooting process, the phone just indicate- download some file number, or sometime it will indicate boot=ok, and the screen would just do nothing, staying in the bootloader mode. The screen would not go black with the Google logo. So therefore, it wouldn't root even though my usb cable was communicating between my pc and cell phone... So I thought of every possible scenario I could think of what went wrong and I came to a conclusion that my Easytether was causing the problem. I remove the Easytether app, and activate the Superboot again and wholla! the phone accepted the command and it instantly black with the Google logo. And sure enough it froze just as everyone here said, so I had to remove the battery after a few minutes, and when I turn my phone back on, superuser icon was there and my phone was rooted! Obviously even though Easytether was not connected, it somehow interfere with the usb cable communication. It took me forever to figure that caused the problem.. but thanks everyone for their suggestions anyway...
 
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