One time key stored on the company's own database?

that's apparently how they do it

Reminds me of carkeys

Can't xiaomi make a say onetimeuse key

Because the key is for a certain phone/account combination

And you just have to register on the website

If your key is used it will be shown

Or you know

And that key would be included in the box

how does your adb then check if you are unlocking that said phone?

Xiaomi developer account

you are only allowed to unlock 1 phone / 30 days

Wat

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>

Also certain signature checks were disabled

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