Question about bootloader

[jipderkman]

Hello everyone,

Im going to install a custom rom on an s4 mini of a friend of mine, it's a european s4 mini gt-I9195 and i've seen several videos regarding the whole process, (bootloader unlocking, installing recovery, flashing rom) but i cant figure out how i unlock the bootloader and if its even locked, cause i cant actually find a tutorial about it and the only ones i find are tutorials to unlock bootloader cause their phones have unlocked bootloaders due to american carriers. Can someone help me?

 

[kornis01]

+1

I am interested also in this topic, my i9195 cant boot with LOS 14.1, stock rom flash and run flawlessly and i wondering about locked bootloader

 

[alnaloty]

there is no botloader unlock, just instal recovery then instal custom rom then gapps

 

[jipderkman]

there is no botloader unlock, just instal recovery then instal custom rom then gapps

Thanks, but yesterday we tried to install the rom and came to the conclusion we jad to install a program called Odin. I installed it and followed the steps of a youtuber but it wouldnt start at the moment I must've clicked 'start'. Also he had a tar.md5 file but i only had a .tar, i dont know if that makes for the problem but in the description he only included a link from an xda tread which had some attached files links but everytime i clicked on tbem i got to the thread again