Managing to checkmark all the required prerequisites without burning a hole in your pockets, these devices are giving tough competition to the likes of Realme and Redmi. Along the same lines, these devices are also slowly but surely catching up in custom development as well. However, before you get your hands over these tweaks, you need to unlock the bootloader on your Umidigi device. And in this guide, we will help you with just that. So without any further ado, let’s get started.
Benefits and Risks of Unlocked Bootloader on Umidigi Devices
Once you unlock the device’s bootloader, you will be able to flash Custom ROMs as well as custom recoveries like TWRP. Along the same lines, you could gain administrative privileges by rooting your Umidigi device via Magisk. This in turn will make it possible to flash a plethora of mods. These include the likes of Magisk Modules, Xposed Framework, Substratum Theme, Viper4Android. However, these tweaks do come in with a few risks as well. To begin with, the unlocking process will wipe off all the data from your device and could void the warranty as well. Likewise, Widevine L1 will be degraded to L3 which would result in the inability to stream Netflix in HD. Moreover, Safetynet will also be tripped which will make it quite difficult to run banking apps. If that’s all well and good, then let’s start off with the steps to unlock the bootloader on your Umidigi device.
How to Unlock Bootloader on Umidigi Devices
The below instructions are listed under separate sections for ease of understanding. Make sure to follow in the exact same sequence as mentioned. Droidwin and its members wouldn’t be held responsible in case of a thermonuclear war, your alarm doesn’t wake you up, or if anything happens to your device and data by performing the below steps.
STEP 1: Install Android SDK
First and foremost, you will have to install the Android SDK Platform Tools on your PC. This is the official ADB and Fastboot binary provided by Google and is the only recommended one. So download it and then extract it to any convenient location on your PC. Doing so will give you the platform-tools folder, which will be used throughout this guide.
STEP 2: Enable USB Debugging and OEM Unlocking on Umidigi
Next up, you will also have to enable USB Debugging and OEM Unlocking on your device. The former will make your device recognizable by the PC in ADB mode. This will then allow you to boot your device to Fastboot Mode. On the other hand, OEM Unlocking is required to carry out the bootloader unlocking process.
So head over to Settings > About Phone > Tap on Build Number 7 times > Go back to Settings > System > Advanced > Developer Options > Enable USB Debugging and OEM Unlocking.
STEP 3: Boot Umidigi to Fastboot Mode
STEP 4: Unlock Bootloader of Umidigi Devices
So with this, we conclude the guide on you could unlock the bootloader on your Umidigi device. If you have any queries, do let us know in the comments section below. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest. Read Next: How to Root Umidigi Devices via Magisk Patched Boot.img. On some Umidigi devices, the fastboot flashing unlock might not work. If that is the case with your device as well, then you should execute the following command instead of the above one:
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