HIGHLIGHTS A step by step guide to help you unlock your Android's phone bootloader and install a Recovery.

Unlocking the Pixel 3 bootloader With your phone’s settings correctly configured and the USB mode set for File Transfer, it’s time to unlock the bootloader.

If you want to unlock your phone’s bootloader, then you’re in great luck–we have a step-by-step guide on how to unlock the Galaxy Nexus’ bootloader.

The bootloader has to be unlocked first to flash or root your device. Hereâ s how you can check if the bootloader on your phone is locked or not.

Okay, so we know most people don’t have the Nexus 4, except for a few lucky Android blogs. But thanks to the folks at Android Central, we now know how to unlock the bootloader for the Nexus 4.

Experts recently discovered a workaround to unlock the bootloader of a Verizon Google Pixel 2. Sadly, the process does not work on the larger Pixel 2 XL from the same carrier.