It is interesting how fast hackers work. It has just been a day since the since Google Nexus S hit the Best Buy’s shelves in US and its bootloader has already been unlocked. For those who don’t know, unlocking the bootloader allows you to go into custom recovery mode so you can install custom ROMs like Cyanogen Mod etc.
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I am sure all of you android fans have already bought one of these. Here is how you unlock the bootloader:
1. Shutdown the phone
2. Hold down volume up + power
3. Now you are in the standard recovery mode
4. Assuming you have 2.3 SDK installed with fastboot (Google around for that info..), now on terminal/windows or Windows cmd depending on OS type “fastboot devices” to check your device can be seem via USB
5. Assuming you device is seen via fastboot devices, now type “fastboot oem unlock”
6. Accept … and new bootloader is unlocked…
