I want to unlock my Nexus 5. I cannot run any fastboot command however: the device is not detected. What I did:
Plug the phone
Run the following commands
though I appear to be in fastboot mode
# apt-get install fastboot
# fastboot oem unlock
< waiting for device >
Nothing is disaplaye after the last line.
PS: I am using Ubuntu 16.04
You probably don't have USB drivers installed. Download them and install, everything should work now.
Download Galaxy Nexus drivers here
Power on the device
Go to Settings > Developers Options > USB Debugging then enable it.
Connect the device to the computer, drivers should be installed
Open a terminal and check if the phone is detected: adb devices (Windows)
You should get some hex numbers as output
Then reboot to the bootloader: adb reboot-bootloader
Then check if the device is detected in Fastboot: fastboot devices
Finally proceed with the Unlocking process: fastboot oem unlock or fastboot flash unlock if the previous doesn't work.
PS: Seems like you use a Linux system, I'm not familiar with Linux. You should use Linux commands.
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