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brown9-2 on Dec 20, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s ...

An engineer on the Android Security Team objects to people claiming they've "rooted the Nexus S" by installing a custom ROM on it when all they've done is taken advantage of a feature named "fastboot_oem_unlock" which allows you to install a custom ROM.

jrockway on Dec 21, 2010 [–]

Actually "fastboot oem unlock" is the command you type into your computer to unlock the phone. "unlock" is the feature name :)

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