Oem-locked — Cid 0x0032

For Motorola and HTC devices with CID 0x0032, there is a physical hardware method. You must boot the phone into EDL (Emergency Download Mode) by shorting two pins on the motherboard or using a deep-flash cable. Once in EDL, a Java Card (a special smart card reader) or a Medusa Pro Box can write a patched CID partition changing 0x0032 to 0x0000. Cost: $80–$150 USD. Risk: Bricking the device is common.

To defeat the error, you must first understand its anatomy. The message contains three distinct pieces of information.

To understand 0x0032, we first need to understand the architecture. oem-locked cid 0x0032

Qualcomm chipsets (SoCs) utilize a complex boot process chain. At the very root of this chain is the PBL (Primary Bootloader). The PBL is responsible for initializing the hardware and loading the next stage of the boot process.

To ensure security, the PBL needs to know if the software it is loading is trusted. This is managed through Secure Boot and involves a set of keys and certificates burned into the device hardware during manufacturing (eFuse). For Motorola and HTC devices with CID 0x0032,

A CID (Certificate ID) is essentially an identifier for the type of certificate chain the device is expecting. It tells the chipset which authority signed the bootloader images. In a simplified view:

Technically, if you have a signed Qualmerak Firehose programmer for your exact device, you can use QFIL or edl.py to dump and rewrite the CID partition. You would change 0x0032 to 0x0000 (retail). Cost: $80–$150 USD

While public documentation is scarce, 0x0032 is widely recognized in the security research community as a marker for a High-Security Production Configuration.

Unlike older devices where the bootloader might be "locked" but the underlying security policies were softer, CID 0x0032 typically indicates that the device is running with strict QSEE (Qualcomm Secure Execution Environment) policies and, crucially, the Root of Trust is immutable.

In many older Qualcomm bootloaders, there was a distinction between a user-lock (fastboot oem lock) and a security state. However, 0x0032 usually implies that the hardware fuses have been blown to permanently enable Secure Boot. This means: