Message from @porco
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I mean why not just make it this way
The whole point is preventing vendors from unlocking
Put unlock code on website
Get adb key for phone
I honestly see the point although it's kinda gay
Couldn't they just apple their way out of this?
I remember HTC were autistic like that with unlocking bootloader
Apple locks software from remote
But even then it was top 1 day process
@sum reee you are bringing up memories
I still unlocked my HTC Wildfire S
But HTC lost me as consumer
I still can't figure out how to unlock the int version
Also htc killed the support for the software
gf's brother used to work for HTC in software engineering up to two years ago so it was possible to buy dev versions of the phones though him
Last phone I got through him was the A9, then he quit
It was a nice phone but the battery was... miserable
Any major difference between dev and normal?
Just fully unlocked on delivery
S off <:alismirk:230784726615588865>
IIRC you were able to run unsigned code on certain levels were even s-off couldn't
but I never went that deep
Not even bare metal?
I had the blobs to run code on the A9 on bare metal but I am not sure if I am even allowed to distribute them...
I really never went that deep / never tried anything out
I just got it because of his employee discount
And flashed cyanogenmod on it
You could in theory change the whole low level of the system?
There are blobs needed to initialize the hardware, also there's something based on LK that boots at first
a fork of this guy
Whats the first thing that happens when booting a Android phone? (The moment when the power button is pressed)
On the A9: LK and blobs initialize the hardware, then, LK loads the Linux kernel
iirc
not entirely sure
The drivers for the hardware are all preloaded with the kernel?
I don't think they are full fledged drivers
I wonder is there is a gentoo variant like thing for Android phones
Do it yourself from scratch kind of thing
well there's AOSP