How to Unlock Bootloader on Realme X2

The year of 2019 was quite great for the Oppo’s sub-brand Realme as the company has launched some of its best-in-class upper mid-range segment smartphones and Realme X2 is one of them. While Realme has released security patch updates to its most of the devices which is a good sign. The device was launched in September 2019 with Android 9 Pie (ColorOS 6) and comes with a locked bootloader. Now, you can Unlock Bootloader on Realme X2 by following the guide below.

The Realme X2 (RMX1992) offers pretty good hardware specifications and runs on Oppo’s ColorOS skin. However, some of the users may not like this skin due to the lack of optimization or plenty of missing features. So, if you’re an advanced Realme X2 user and want to unlock the device bootloader to perform custom firmware flashing, rooting, or installing custom recovery, then this article is for you only. Take a full backup at first before performing this as the bootloader unlock method will delete device data.

It’s also worth mentioning that due to security reasons, all the smartphone OEMs provide its devices with a locked bootloader so that the user can stick to the stock ROM and stock UI for better user experience for a longer period of time. But if you’ve made up your mind to move to another aftermarket firmware or flashing any mod file or rooting, you should know that it will void the device warranty. Alternatively, you can always re-lock the device bootloader also. So, don’t worry.

Realme X2: Device Overview

The handset came with a 6.4-inches Super AMOLED display with 1080×2340 pixels resolution, protected with the Corning Gorilla Glass 5. It’s powered by Snapdragon 730G SoC, paired with Adreno 618 GPU, 6GB/8GB RAM, 64GB/128GB/256GB of internal storage option. The device packs a quad rear camera setup of 64MP (wide, f/1.8) + 8MP (ultrawide, f/2.3) + 2MP (dedicated macro camera, f/2.4) + 2MP depth sensor (f/2.4) lens with PDAF, HDR, Panorama, an LED flash, etc.

On the front side, it has a 32MP selfie camera (wide, f/2.0) with HDR mode, and more. It features a 3.5mm audio jack, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (dual-band), Bluetooth 5, GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, NFC, FM Radio, USB Type-C port, etc. It sports a 4,000mAh battery with 30W fast charging support. While the device has an in-display fingerprint sensor, an accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity, compass sensor.

What is Unlock Bootloader?

A Bootloader is a code that runs when we turn on our device. This code initializes some hardware and then loads the kernel and ramdisk, and gets the boot process going. So this process is known as Bootloader. The same concept applies to all the technical stuff such as laptops, PC, Smartphones and any such device. Every Android OEM manufacturers lock the bootloader even though it is an Open Source. So if you want to try any CUSTOM ROM, it is impossible to load the CUSTOM ROM without the Unlock Bootloader. So Manufacturer made a policy of making the smartphone with Unlocked Bootloader will void the warranty. They want you to stick with the Stock ROM. Unlock Bootloader allows you to Root your Android smartphone, Flash TWRP and Custom ROM in a simple easy method.