How to Unlock Acer Liquid E600 if You Forgot PIN Password or Screen Lock

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How to Unlock Acer Liquid E600 if You Forgot PIN Password or Screen Lock

Some weeks ago, a friend of the University of Colorado_Boulder made me a phone and asked “How to unlock Acer Liquid E600 ?”. Many Acer Liquid E600 users wish to unlock their phones in order to use them with local SIM cards while traveling, or on domestic carriers that don’t offer an Android phone for sale.
Learn unlock your Acer Liquid E600:

If you wish to unlock your Acer Liquid E600 immediately, purchase an unlock code online. You’ll need your IMEI number, which you can find by going to Settings > About Phone > Status.

Turn off your Android device and remove the back cover and battery. Look for the SIM card, and remove the one that’s currently in your phone. Set it aside. Insert the new SIM card and replace the battery and back cover. Turn your phone back on.

When the phone boots up, it will display a screen asking for an unlock code for the new SIM. Enter the unlock code when prompted. Your Acer Liquid E600 is now unlocked.

If you cannot unlock or access the content of the Acer Liquid E600 then the best thing to do is a hard reset. A hard reset will perform the factory data reset on the device without having to navigate or access the phones settings. A hard reset also sets the phone back to its factory settings and the phone will be like it was when it was brand new.

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How to flash a custom recovery (like CWM or TWRP) on Android

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If you have decided to take a trip to the land of custom ROMs and Android hacking in general, you’d need to take one first step - flash (install) a custom recovery. In this article, we explain what exactly is a ‘custom recovery’, how you install it, and what are some popular solutions.

Let’s start with the fact that every phone ships with stock recovery software. Stock recoveries vary slightly between phone makers, but they are identical in their essence - they allow you to manually flash official updates and clear your phone’s cache. Sounds limited? It is, and that’s why custom recoveries exist.

Custom recoveries that we’ll flash here replace the limited stock ones, adding all sorts of functionality to your phone. Flashing a custom recovery is often a key part of the rooting process, but that is not its only use. Here is a short summary of all that you can do with a custom recovery:


Create and restore a backup image - A backup image makes a copy of all your phone settings, application and app data. Such a backup copy is crucial if your hacking experiments fail - in such cases, you can use the created backup image to restore your phone to a fully functional earlier state without losing any data.

Flash custom ROMs - custom ROMs can completely overhaul the looks and functionality of an Android smartphone, and usually they are the main reason for first flashing a custom recovery.
Important: You have to unlock the bootloader on your phone before flashing a custom recovery! Here’show to do it on Motorola phones.


How to flash a custom recovery


Now that you know what a custom recovery is and what it does, it’s time to go through some popular names of recovery software. ClockworkMod (shortened to CWM) and Team Win’s Recovery Project (commonly referred to as TWRP) are the two most popular solutions, and while the two differ slightly, they both have the essential features you need.

Pre-requisites:

USB drivers for your phone must be installed on a computer. You can grab them from the official website of the company that made the phone. Get the latest:Samsung Android USB drivers here
HTC Android USB drivers (included in HTC Sync) here
LG Android USB drivers here (go to “Software updates” > Select your phone > Click on “Install USB Drivers”)
Sony Android USB drivers here
Motorola Android USB drivers (included in Motorola Device Manager) here


Android SDK must be installed on your computer. You can download from the official Android developer portal.


Download the latest version of either CWM or TWRP (we prefer CWM, but both work equally well). For CWM go to this website, find your device, and download the image for it:Download CWM here
For TWRP go to this website, click on “Get TWRP for your device” and type you device's name to download the image for it:
Download TWRP here

Your phone must be connected to your computer via USB. If you get stuck at some point in the tutorial, a common fix is to try disconnecting the phone and re-connecting it again.



How to flash a custom recovery (like CWM or TWRP) on Android








1. Enable USB debugging on your Android device. Connect your phone to a computer via USB.

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Note: You can use this how-to tutorial guide to install custom recovery on phones like the Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note 2, HTC One (M8), LG G3, LG G2, Moto X, Moto G, Sony Xperia Z2, Xperia Z1, etc.

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How to unlock the bootloader on Motorola phones (Moto X, Moto G)

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Unlocking the bootloader is the first step in a journey to the land of custom ROMs, rooting, mods, and all other Android hackery, but for a newbie, it might also be a scary undertaking. In this article, we’ll explain in simple terms what’s a bootloader, and guide you through the surprisingly easy process of unlocking the bootloader of Motorola device like the Moto X and Moto G.

First, let’s clear up all confusion around the term ‘bootloader’. Bootloader has a very literal meaning - it’s the piece of code that’s executed before even the operating system loads. The function of the bootloader is basically to instruct the device how to load the OS. To do so, it has to communicate directly with the processor and motherboard (which are different for virtually every phone), so all in all, the bootloader is a very phone- and platform-specific piece of code. That is why it differs on, say, a Motorola and a Samsung phone. Some manufacturers decide to lock the bootloader on their phones as a way to ensure that no one can change their custom Android user interfaces. Luckily, Motorola has gone the more developer-friendly way, and the company itself provides a bootloader unlock, making the whole process extremely easy.

Why would you want to unlock the bootloader, though? Installing a custom ROM is one reason, but an unlocked bootloader is also often required for getting root access to the system.

If you have already made up your mind about unlocking the bootloader, we can get started with the unlocking process now. This guide applies for the Motorola Moto X and Moto G.

First, here are the pre-requisites for it all to work:

BACK UP YOUR PHONE FIRST!!!The phone’s battery must be charged to at least 80%.
USB debugging must be “ON”.
Motorola USB drivers must be installed on a computer, you can grab them from here.
Android SDK must be installed on your computer.

Warning: Unlocking your phone’s bootloader voids its warranty. It also completely wipes (formats) your Android phone’s internal memory including applications, contacts, images and so on.
1. Connect your phone to your computer via a USB cable. You have to enable USB debugging mode on your smartphone. To do so, simply navigate to Settings > About Phone > scroll to the bottom > tap Build number seven (7) times. You'll get a short pop-up in the lower area of your display saying that you're now a developer.






2. Go back and now access the Developer options menu, check ‘USB debugging’ and click OK on the prompt.






3. Now, it’s time to open Command Prompt (terminal) and get serious. Don’t worry, all you’d need to do is copy and paste some code in it, it's not hard at all. To open the terminal in Windows 7 hit the ‘Windows’ key, type ‘cmd’, and hit Enter; in Windows 8, you’d need to navigate to the new Modern UI home panel, and just type in ‘cmd’ there.

Once you open the terminal, you need to change the folder to Platform Tools in the Android SDK. Typically, it looks something like this, but you have to find the exact path where you installed the Android SDK on your computer:
C:/Android SDK/adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20131030/sdk/platform-tools/

To change the folder you just copy the above path (as it is on your computer) and put ‘cd’ in front of it, so the whole command would look like so:
cd C:/Android SDK/adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20131030/sdk/platform-tools/






4. Now, you are ready to start putting in the first commands that control your phone. In the command line type in the following:

adb devices

Hit ‘Enter’, and you should see the following:
List of devices attached
TA8900F923 device

The code will differ for different devices, so just make sure that something along these lines appears in the list of devices.

Next, type in:
adb reboot bootloader

This will make the phone reboot in bootloader mode. You’d need to wait a short while and see the bootloader menu.

Next, type the following in the terminal:
fastboot oem get_unlock_data

This will return you a unique string of code spread across five lines. It should look something like this:
(bootloader) 3A95720615784488#5441383833304C
(bootloader) 47325600585431303332000000#361D
(bootloader) 7293361E178D7D591294131B57789CA
(bootloader) 86EC4#C39412020F000000000000000
(bootloader) 0000000
OKAY [ 0.164s]
finished. total time: 0.164s






Congratulations, you have completed the first important part - this is your unique phone identifier. Now, you need to copy just the numbers appearing after ‘(bootloader)’, and that’s a bit tricky in the Windows Command Prompt. First, right click anywhere in the Terminal, select Mark, and mark the whole block of text. Then, hit enter. This will put all this copied text in the clipboard. Now, in an app like Notepad, simply paste the copied text and delete everything except for the numbers. Combine all numbers together so that they appear as a single string like so:

3A95720615784488#5441383833304C47325600585431303332000000#361D7293361E178D7D591294131B57789CA86EC4#C39412020F0000000000000000000000

5. Copy this super-long string and head straight to Motorola’s official website, sign and skip right to step 6.






Paste the already copied super-long string and click on the “Can my device be unlocked?” button. Make sure you have removed all blank spaces from the copied string, and you should get a green light to get your bootloader unlocked.

Accept the user agreements, and head to your email, where Motorola has sent you the final instructions.

6. FINAL INSTRUCTIONS: Copy the 20-character key that Motorola sent you via email. Then, in the terminal (make sure your phone is still connected to your computer via USB), type:

fastboot devices
To check that your phone is listed, and next:






fastboot oem unlock UNIQUE_KEY
Where instead of 'UNIQUE_KEY' you type in your own 20-character key that Motorola sent you via email.

7. Congrats! If you have entered all info correctly, your phone should be rebooting by itself, showing you the image you see on the right. And yes, now you have your bootloader unlocked!

It was a bit tedious, but not hard, was it? Let us know if this worked out for you and how the whole process went in the comments section below.



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