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Excuse my ignorance, what prevents a savvy user from flashing it with a different OS?

• k__ 11y ago
  locked bootloaders. got a Xoom 2ME here. decent hardware, but I never got a new OS on it
• gcb0 11y ago
  almost no Android phone allows custom os! understands this. all Samsung phones can only be flashed because someone leaked a internal tool. and still, there must be a huge community effort to get the kernel and drives for each model. now keep in mind that this huge community effort doesn't exist even for for-developers v phones, such was the case with the moto x dev edition. with phones like fire, it's practically non existent! Android devices are not open by any means. they just have a lovely stubborn community.
• jay_kyburz 11y ago
  I savy user probably values their time more than its worth. Spend a little more and you don't have to.
• gknoy 11y ago
  As @deng mentioned above, the Amazon tablets have historically had locked bootloaders -- they won't load custom ROMs. The XDA guys seem to believe it's unlikely you'll ever be able to load Cyanogen on one of them.
  • chimeracoder 11y ago
    > The XDA guys seem to believe it's unlikely you'll ever be able to load Cyanogen on one of them. The first-generation Fire tablets definitely support Cyanogenmod, though it was a bit awkward to get around the bootloader lock at first. Are the newer ones not supported?