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[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
It was three that sent me the email about the ombudsmen

who I phoned and was useless, told me to go back to three lol

Im under the impression the sim lock and bootloader are connected. Three says I can have the network unlock key after 30 days of the contract but I have to pay £15 for it

after kicking off the price dropped to £10 >>>>>>>>>>>> so ill kick off some more :p

there's a .000000000000001% chance the network unlock key will affect the bootloader status.

This is war! I will beat this lol. I've only just begun ;)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] bragaboom:
Sorry but not. my phone was sim locked, unlocked it and bootloader is still unlock allowed no

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[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] mirhl:
If you sim unlock your phone

Please

Take a TA dump (via flashtool) after and before the unlocking
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
of-course :good:

We should all be uploading them here

and asking people with unlocked bootloaders to do the same

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oooooow way to crush my dreams man:crying:
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] bragaboom:
Also dumping the Ta means nothing, since the developer quit the task some time ago. but this has been already discussed a lot of times :)

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[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
Correction

since >>> A <<< developer quit the task some time ago
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
My lt30p TA

unlock boot loader key is: AB1826257D846FA3

untouched ta file attached
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
These guys unlocked my last 2 phones (U20i & R800i)

http://www.fastgsm.com/en/sony-mobile/xperia-t/network-unlock

But I assume their still working on the T :good:
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
Please do not confuse SIM unlock and bootloader unlock.

They are different things.

Yes, it is true that it tends to be branded phones that are locked to a carrier that not unloockable, and that sim free phones have an unlockable bootloader but if you unlock the bootloader you are still sim locked, and if you ask the carrier to set you sim free and they do, your bootloader will still be unlockable if it was before.

People on here have verified that they have sim locked phones that have an unlocked bootloader and vice versa.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
I did say ".000000000000001% chance the network unlock key will affect the bootloader status."

The reason i thought that was coz when fastgsm unlocked my xperia play both the sim and boot-loader where unlocked at the same time

But thanks for the information

I suppose no hope is better than false hope lol
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] mirhl:
understanding how sim unlock works could lead to unforeseen consequences :p

who knows..
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
Ok, if you think so... But they are not related
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] lee480:
I don't whether you're trolling or not, but based on the transcript, you shouldn't really be at XDA. Your lack of fundamental knowledge on why there's differences in the amount of RAM and camera resolutions leaves a lot impression (negative) on you.

No matter what is the brand out there (Samsung including), some RAM will be reserved for system consumption.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
Lee I don't like to admit it but your right I wasn't trolling I was complaining like a little beach. thinking it might get me somewhere but when i think about it cant say that's worked for me since i was 3 lol

I don't care about ram, storage, or point 2 pixels. (i didn't know about the system reserve)

Im just really annoyed about this dam boot-loader. i just want to drop cyanogenmod on here

have the phone look and work as i want it to

and go about my day

But i cant. and i cant bare the fact that im paying for it
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] immerblind:
Hi, i just would search for a fake reason to turn the phone back to three. fake a bad signal strenght....fake a bad daily usage....then go to your three company and tell them you want give it back? isnt it possible there in great britain? the companies on your island dont know the word goodwill?

you start the phone one time and they not take it back? :eek::confused:

thats a bad service, and it shows the customer, they dont need you. so....? i think about the bootloader, you should argue with three? but i also understand your stubborn questions with sony or three, i would do the same. companies dont give you anything for free, so why you should.

by the way in great britain only locked bootloaders possible? how many mobile companies you have? cannot buy a phone without a contract, without a mobile company sim card? Just pure product, not possible?

if cannot buy in great britain, we have a big europe, where you can get easily product of your taste (unlocked bootloader allowed etc.), isnt it?;)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
Vodafone supply all sony phones with a bootloader that can be unlocked in the UK.

I have had 3 xperia T's from Vodafone for myself and family members. All are on contract and all have their bootloader unlocked.

If you are in the UK and want an unlocked bootloader, goto vodafone
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] cartmenicus:
Awesome man!:D we are making huge progress and its only been a day T and TL users I think I see some hope for our devices :p

Sent from my LT30p
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] KieMarshall:
i think its fairly simple... everyone who ones a T absolutely loves the phone... but with the release of the Z the Devs have moved to that... if they were to unlock it on the Z it might work for the T but we cannot be sure?!
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] bioan:
Forgive me if I am wrong, but Xperia T does have an unlocked bootloader. You can unlock it via Sony website.

You want to unlock it on a different way?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] KieMarshall:
You are not mistaken. Sony does allow the bootloader to be unlocked. BUT that is devices enough were bought SIM free, if you bought from a carrier on a contract or otherwise son has shipped the phones without unlockable bootloaders due to contractual obligations with the carrier,

Simply the hope is that someone can reverse engineer the differences between the locked and unlocked bootlloaders to allow us to flip between so we can unlock using Sony's tool.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
also, an unnoficial unlock will be better as warrenty and DRM keys will (may) not be lost...
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] kxf41:
I will gladly donate £10 if someone can figure out a way i can unlock my bootloader when unlock status says :no

Its so frustrating i am stuck in a 24 month contract with o2 and i cannot try out custom roms like i used to with my old galaxy s
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
You can flash stock based custom roms. There are plenty in the dev section
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] kxf41:
I've tried all the locked bootloader roms and they are all very good but I would love to use roms like cm10 etc on my T but I cannot
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] TiMiN8R:
I'll chip in with € 10. My bootloader is unlockable, just haven't yet. But I want to back you guys with the non-unlockable bl for the sake of community spirit :D
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] cartmenicus:
Wow awesome but some bad news both fxp and codewoekx said no :/ so we need to find other willing devs :D

Sent from my LT30p
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] matt4321:
Adam outler?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] cartmenicus:
I messaged him but no reply going to ask the_laser

Sent from my LT30p
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] dully79:
What's the total?

We could probably buy a device and send it to someone to figure out a way, then send the remainder of the cash when proof is provided. You can get them cheap here.

I wonder if chainfire would be interested.:confused: He's a very talented dude!

Anyway Macsqueezy, i noticed you haven't pledged yet.;)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] cartmenicus:
Yes I will be pledging 10$ :)

Also buying the device isn't a bad idea! Those phones are really cheap!!! Ill try and contact chainfire later

Sent from my LT30p
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] AndroidHoneyComb:
Make sure the phone is bootloader locked ( buy the phone that says Orange ) because Orange carrier locks bootloaders. i think.

We should ask him
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] matt4321:
They do, I have one :(
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] AndroidHoneyComb:
We should tell Chainfire are story
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] cartmenicus:
I will try and contact him tommrow

Sent from my LT30p
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] lunarjetman1:
Hello all,

I spoke to bin4ry about this when I had an unlockable phone, this was something he came up with -

"Aha, easy i understood how it works.

you dont have the ROOTING and the RCK_H value.

This is how rooting works.

You enter the IMEI number to Sony Website, now website calc's your unlockcode, this unlockcode is generated from IMEI and gets written to TA (there is a area where the unlockcode is written to when the phone is unlocked).

This area seems to get compared against the RCK_H (unsalted SHA-256 hash), if not matches -> no unlock

if matches -> unlocked

So you would need to generate this RCK_H and this seems quite hard.

i found this:

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1196932

maybe you speak to ashergrey if he figured something out."

Not sure if it will help, seems very tricky.

Cheers,

Lunar.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] waynekirby:
I'll throw £10 in
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] mirhl:
[MENTION=5421530]Throbin Wood[/MENTION]

instead of complaining about all but bl

try to contact three, make present that sony has officially said that it's three's fault

and if they still don't surrend, claim that, legally speaking, they MUST give you all the device's feature

and menace them of a lawsuit
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
Lol, that wont work. They are well within their rights to protect their own patents on software they add to the handset by locking the bootloader.

There is nothing that can be done by going down this root. Its either by a SIM free phone (i.e. not locked to a certain carrier and it comes straight from Sony so will be able to be unlocked) then sticking in your carriers SIM card, or going to a carrier that do not lock it (Vodafone)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] huzi_a:
I think I'm giving up with the Xperia T. I didn't give up with my bricked Desire, or my Desire S which needed downgrading, or my Desire HD, or my Wii, or my S i9000, or even my HTC HD7, but this is just killing me. When my first paycheck comes through I think I'm gonna try to get a 16GB Nexus 4 or similar. If a workaround is found before then, I'll keep the T, but if not, sorry, it's a great phone but I wouldn't have joined XDA 3 years ago to stick with a locked bootloader. Not blaming anyone... except O2 UK and maybe Sony. Especially since the T in both the O2 stores and in Carphone Warehouse are unlockable.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] PR0XIDIAN:
I'm offering 15$ to add to the list. I want this thing cracked WIIIDE open.

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OMG. I work in tech support and I hate people like this guy. You think this poor tech support representative knows the answers to these questions? She is probably paid like 8$ an hour to chat online and help people with their phones. The engineers are the ones who know the answers to these questions. Its your fault for not researching if that carrier would let you unlock your bootloader. Not to mention that almost all phones have less usable storage than is advertised.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Knucklessg1:
Anyone know if the Z1 will help at all to unlock the T/Z?

-Sony Xperia Z
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Galcactus:
Well assuming the fact that it will launch with a different android version there *may* be slight differences in the bootloader related files, however if it is going to be a newer device, ergo more patches and software fixes or security exploits. It stands to reason that older software is less secure. So overall I'd say that no, it won't be particularly useful, with the exception of bringing in a few more pledges of frustrated customers. But that's just my thinking...
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] huzi_a:
IF and only if a method is found and I haven't given in and bought a Nexus 4 by the time my paycheck comes, then I will pledge £15 (GBP).

Gave in and bought a Note 2. Sorry guys but you're on your own now. This has gone on too long :mad:
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
Disk manufacturers use 1GB = 10003, while most operating systems* use 1GB = 10243. This means a 16GB disk will show up as 14.2GB..

My Xperia T has 12.82GB total space

awwww I love people like you xxx .!.. -.-
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] mirhl:
I think you never understood what system, boot and cache partitions are
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
I sent fast GSM my ta file. and linked them to this post, they emailed me back a few days ago :good:

And this appeared today

http://www.fastgsm.com/en/sony-mobile/xperia-t/unlock-codes/network-unlock

It dosnt mention bootloader but it dose show that they are working on it.

Iv asked them to clarify waiting on a reply now

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I cant see boot and cache partitions using 1.38gb when my entire rom was

500mb and some of that spills into the "used available space"

I aint cache-in elephants ffs

Its possible that three has put software on my phone that can disable/locate it if i don't pay the bill.

If that is the case (and they gave me the option) I would have just payed for the phone upfront and got a contract sim.

(more than happy with the unlimited internet (and its speed) calls and text package)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] mirhl:
It doesnt matter. Partition table is always the same. Carelessly of what you have installed

System partition is usually 1g.. And rounding here and there.. We arrive to 16g
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
My xperia x10 mp (u20i) had 128MB total internal memory

System partition is usually 1gb? lol can you explain this to me? i'm blond

If your talking about the total total space in "device memory"? that's 1.97gb and was included 12.82gb I mentioned
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] mirhl:
Your x10 had system partition PLUS your 128mb data partition

Use "fdisk" to find out the real partition table of your device
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Mad Marty:
Sim (un)locking has absolutely nothing, zip, nada, zero to do with bootloader (un)locking, which has been mentioned probably tens of thousands of times already in this thread and forum.

Please read and learn about these matters before you post, now you just come across as someone who really doesn't understand the basics of it and is just trolling customer services.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] matt4321:
wait wait wait, are you saying that if I sim unlock my device then the bootloader status will change?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] huzi_a:
That's exactly what he is NOT saying xD
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
They already had a network unlock service

"Manufacturer unlock codes" appeared above the "network unlock" recently

I was wondering how it was different and thought it might be of interest.

I have already agreed that I took the wrong approach

Please read and learn about these matters before you post, now you just come across as... And for the record

Customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase. Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction – that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation. The perception of success of such interactions will be dependent on employees who can adjust themselves to the personality of the guest. Customer service plays an important role in an organization's ability to generate income and revenue. A customer service experience can change the entire perception a customer has of the organization.

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I have tried but its dosnt work for me.

Also nothing shows in windows device-management

The T dosnt mount as I would expect

and on linux usb isnt recognized at all.... not even for file transfer

so nothing shows in gparted or kpartitionmanager

I keep encountering restrictions and limitations that iv not had with previous xperias

thumbnail previews don't work & and moving certain file types gives this warning

(sure I can just tick the box but this is part of it)

Theres no undo delete option / recycle bin (not a major issue if you know that.. but I sometimes delete items to copy and paste others with a single "box selection" then "undo delete" to restore the items I didn't want to copy... just my lazy way of doing things but it wasn't fun finding out I was unable to restore the items I had just deleted lol)

Im thinking this has something to do with the customized xmls or possibly the Mtp extension apk but i havnt looked yet

(xmls on the sdcard/storage cannot be modified but they can in /etc)
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] RpRAUC:
ill put in $20 if some one is able to get this done.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] king960:
Refreshing mine 10$
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] mirhl:
just use terminal emulator, or via adb shell and type

df
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
Naaa I cant be bothered iv had enough of this:(

Iv replaced the digitizer on my old Xperia play and I have it in front of me with my Xperia Thwart

so lets compare the two

I have hacked the hell out of the play as the bootloader is unlocked and its running on gingerbread

both phones have the exact same user apps installed

The Thwart gives an antutu benchmark score of roughly 10,000 higher than the play :good:

But when I run the most recourse thirsty apps I can find (modern combat 4 & fpse) I don't notice a difference in performance

The screen is nicer to touch on the Thwart but it dosnt look as clear or crisp as the play

(its hard to explain the Thwart has poor contrast and dosnt show dark colors as well ill post a photo later)

screen size is only slightly smaller on the play if you ignore the onscreen buttons

Iv remapped the buttons to launch the torch, sat nat & calculator with a long press on the play :good:

both cpus are clocked at 1.5ghz but the Thwart is a duel core

Play has less ram but only uses 138.2mb on idle

Thwart has more ram but is using 349.78mb on idel (even tho I have removed over 100 pre installed apks)

My desktop dosnt even use that much :eek:?

Im using android assistant to get this information and did a "quickboost" on both first

Start up times: play 1:20 <<-->> Thwart 1:28 (disabled boot animation on play)

Im not being bias..... im keeping it as fair as possible so I can decide which phone ill be keeping

The only thing the Thwart can do that the play cant is usb-otg (I don't care for NFC or other pointless features) I have a C10_32gb sd card so storage isn't really an issue and in all honesty its just as easy to connect the play to my laptop as it is to connect a hardrive to the Thwart

Battery.......... I can get 3 days out of the play using it the way I want to. When that runs out I can swap the battery for the spare I keep in my wallet.

Doing the same things on the Thwart I get 5 hours MAX even if I set the brightness to min

it takes about an hour to fully charge the play. I don't know how long it takes to charge the Thwart I either get impatient and unplug it before its fully charged or fall asleep

The camera on the Thwart is far superior :good: it really is a good camera

jellybean hasn't impressed me... it dosnt even look nice... I fail to see any improvements at all (yea maybe a benchmark says its better but in my hands it makes no odds)

(lol battery just died on the Thwart as im typing this. plays still on 92%)

Its a real shame..... I liked the Thwart but I cant use it to its full potential because three has hard locked the bootloader. I had to flash oranges software just to get it to stop overheating. The battery's the deal breaker..... maybe I could have improved it if it wasn't for the bootloader.

Farewell to my LT30p-take

ill be using the play until I can get my hands on an sk17i or an mk16i
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
I got bored when you mentioned benchmark....they are meaningless results and I stopped reading and replied with this message.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Galcactus:
Well thank you for that enlightening and thrilling review which has helped further this cause immensely(!)

Would it be worthwhile posting something in the cross-device (the dedicated Sony) forum here on XDA in case more people see it and pledge?
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] gregbradley:
No, the cross device forum is not for that
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
well if you had carried on reading you would have found that we have the same opinion
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Knucklessg1:
If there was an actual development in cracking the Bootloaders, could it be posted in the cross device forums?

-Sony Xperia Z
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
Galcactus what you said there has been rolling around in my head preventing me from sleeping:eek:

help further this cause immensely.... more people see it and pledge

help further this cause immensely.... more people see it and pledge

help further this cause immensely.... more people see it and pledge

help further this cause immensely.... more people see it and pledge

Iv also been thinking about the right way to tackle this

I has a plan :D >>>>>>>>> https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/stop-locking-unlock-our-bootloaders

as of September 3, 2013, there have been 1 billion Android devices activated. How many voices do you think it will take to be heard?

I'm hoping you guys could take a quick look and let me know if iv made any errors or if I can change it for the better

before I spread it all over the internet.

I'm thinking of making some user-bars and sending the link to you-tubers

I HAVE SEEN THIS WORK I used to play a game called runescape a while back they updated and changed the entire game

the people that had been playing for a long time (Including me) didn't like the new updates

This http://www.change.org/petitions/jagex-games-studios-add-pre-eoc-game-servers-back-into-runescape spread all over youtube

got 45,031 supporters and jagex (the game developers) then made an official vote and released new servers with the old version of the game.
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Throbin Wood:
I face a chicken egg problem lol

I cant put a link to the second user-bar in the text file I uploaded and then link to it

its just blown my mind lol

for some reason the code code dosnt show code it shows the image

[url=https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/stop-locking-unlock-our-bootloaders][IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img841/6471/d84b.png[/IMG][/url]
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] DowntownJeffBrown:
Signed :thumbup:

>^.^< Sent from meow HTC One
[Sony Xperia T, TL, TX, V] Galcactus:
That petition is a great idea, however if I were you, I'd also make a device specific one because this current one is calling on all of the networks (well, O2 and a few others are missing, but...) and that allows them all to think "I'll let the other ones do it". A device specific one places more pressure on Sony too, so that they can then pressure the network providers! Also, this way we need a lot more voices to be heard than if it were specific. But good idea nonetheless!