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Dang, I wish my grandma was a AOSP contributor. But most phones in the United States sold within the last decade had the bootloaders locked so you can’t instal
by easton 6y ago
Dang, I wish my grandma was a AOSP contributor.
But most phones in the United States sold within the last decade had the bootloaders locked so you can’t install another rom even if you knew how to do it.
- dongvsascript 6y agothis is simply false. very few phones have actually 'locked' bootloaders. as in, can't go into settings and uncheck 'locked' checkbox to unlock it. when they do, you can easily unlock it -usually by simply asking your service provider or the manufacturer. and the ones you can't -yes, you have to hack it with a usb cable and a computer. for like .05% of phones. and google's phones are not ever locked in any way, being the proper comparison, since you're comparing phones to apple. what we have here with the op is trump voter logic, so he can feel better about himself by creating a fake reality where he is king. 'mr trump, i'm saying death as %of population, not tested cases.' - 'well, you can't do that.' i got an old android, i'm gonna put the latest os on it. 'well, you can't do that.' no mr apple. you are the one who can't do that.
- fuzxi 6y agoHN is not for politics, and especially not for political shit-flinging.
- dongvsascript 6y agoah, a random guy who says we can't take a phone dispute and compare it to an existing political dispute. thanks for your on-topic comment, you really improved a conversation about phones. you, literally:"you are taking deaths as a percent of population. you can't do that" i just did. twice.
- fuzxi 6y agoWhat a selfish way of looking at things. The site guidelines [1] exist for a reason, one of those reasons being that most HN users don't open the comments of an article about a few severe Qualcomm CVEs to read comments randomly laced with "orange man bad". [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- shut_up_cunt 6y agoSee username, you weirdo Trump fan.
- dongvsascript 6y agobut they do open them, and see a comparison between trump voter delusions and apple fanboy delusions. making that comparison is not discussing politics. now if you want to pretend trumpers are smart people not made fun of on every corner of popular culture, my comparison would be invalid. this would however mean you yourself are delusional, making the comparison valid. what we don't want to see is endless discussions about the discussion itself. because it's offtopic spam. if you want to discuss how we discuss things, open a separate post about it, and don't do it in a thread about phone cpus.
- limomium 6y agoCould you link me an online resource detailing that process? I've been wanting to put the accumulation of old phones to use.
- dongvsascript 6y agogo to lineageos, click on your phone. this'll get all your old phines the same type of android. it's not what i do -i used a fairly weird build. the generic steps for ine way of doing it: download a recovery program, install it on the phone. pick the android rom you want from the recovery program. click install. it'll reboot your phone and install it. this is the way a gramma can do it. a prefer hooking it up to my laptop with a usb cable and just typing the commands in the android shell. that is the way gramma cannot do it.
- saagarjha 6y agoI take it you are familiar with Samsung Galaxy phones?
- tim-- 6y agoYou can unlock the bootloader on many Galaxy phones by going into Developer Settings and turn on OEM unlocking.
- saagarjha 6y agoUnfortunately, this is not true of most new Galaxy phones sold in the United States.
- dongvsascript 6y agocorrect. and samsung unlocks those for free if you ask them.
- szatkus 6y agoIs it USA thing or something more common? Seems like technical people around me change firmware with no problem. I only heard that some phones have limits, after which you can't reflash a firmware.
- wlesieutre 6y agoZ3 Compact was my personal experience with Android devices, I’ve since bailed back to iPhones: https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/10/02/unlocking-the-bootloader-on-sonys-xperia-z3-and-z3-compact-causes-poor-low-light-camera-performance-thanks-to-drm/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/10/02/unlocking-the-bootl... > When the bootloader is unlocked, the device loses certain DRM security keys. That means you can't purchase content from Sony's storefronts and a few licensed features won't work, but it apparently also means basic features of the phone are negatively affected. A Sony rep has confirmed that some advanced camera algorithms on the new generation of devices like the Z3 and Z3 Compact are protected by DRM. If you unlock the phone, those features stop working. Apparently that causes photos in low-light to be noisier and poorly balanced. > This isn't the first time Sony's bootloader unlock has come with some major drawbacks—unlocking past devices could actually break camera functionality (this was technically a bug). There have always been a few proprietary features that stop working, but the difference in image quality this time is allegedly noticeable. > Update: Sony has updated the text of the bootloader unlock warning on its website to be clear about the camera impact. It reads, "...the removal of DRM security keys may affect advanced camera functionality. For example, noise reduction algorithms might be removed, and performance when taking photos in low-light conditions might be affected."
- fomine3 6y agoIMO, Unlockable but lost some features is somewhat reasonable restriction. Things like if you install Ubuntu you can't use Windows Explorer.