Lock / Unlock Bootloader


RFontes

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Hi all,

I'm a user of MIUI for a year more or less, and found in this forum many resolutions for my issues with miui roms. But, i always wanted to know the major differences between a phone with a locked or unlocked bootloader, and what we can do or not, positive and negative effects (if exists).
I didn't found a thread talking about it (if there is i apologize), and i think it could be very helpful for some of us.
If someone could post here all of the knowledge about it, i appreciate and thank you in advance.
 
Only difference in real life is with unlocked you can install 3rd party recoverys like TWRP which is needed for custom ROMs like xiaomi.eu rom.
 
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Only difference in real life is with unlocked you can install 3rd party recoverys like TWRP which is needed for custom ROMs like xiaomi.eu rom.
Yes, i have twrp on my mi4c, but when connecting to the pc and run adb, it says "unlocked bootloader - false", and i upgrade every week with developer rom. Is it really locked?