What does unlocking the boot loader do?

[chrispher86]

I'm new to rooting. Recently I unlocked the boot loader, rooted and flashed a custom rom on my nexus. I guess I really just wanna know what unlocking the boot loader does and does it affect how the network identifies your phone.

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[Greg C]

What Is Bootloader And How To Unlock Bootloader On Android Phones [Complete Guide]

I'm new to rooting. Recently I unlocked the boot loader, rooted and flashed a custom rom on my nexus. I guess I really just wanna know what unlocking the boot loader does and does it affect how the network identifies your phone.

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[chrispher86]

That helps a lot. But just to clarify, unlocking the bootloader has no affect on the way the network identifies or sends and receives information to and from my phone, right?

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[pazzo02]

Unlocking the bootloader will not affect the identity of the phone, but flashing a custom ROM may, depending on the ROM. And that may cause issues with Google Play, but rarely affects how it operates on the network.

 

[chrispher86]

The reason I ask is because I'm on the T-Mobile prepaid plan. $30 a month for 100 min, unlimited text and 5gb of data. I rooted and flashed carbon rom. Before I flashed the custom rom, I was able to reset my data back to zero every time I changed the webguard settings through mytmobile. I rarely use WiFi because I don't have access to it. I was using about 20-30gb of data a month. Ever since I flashed custom rom, I can't reset my data now. It'll be ok if T-Mobile figured out what I was doing but if its just the custom rom then I'll just go back to stock.

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