At this point, bricking a smartphone by flashing dodgy ROMs is a rite of passage.
Edit: at least it was before everyone started bootlocking like assholes…
You can unlock the bootloader of almost any phone in the EU.
Now, there will be literally no custom firmware for it, but its still possible.
Well, that would be nice, but it’s still not all of them. Unfortunately, I own a Zenfone 10 as my main driver, and Asus have not released the unlock tools they promised since Zenfone 9. And, afaik, this is applicable to a lot of the top producers, with a few exceptions.
I can’t wait for the new regulations to properly settle in, hopefully we’ll start seeing full unlocks with the upcoming generations…
Amen
Not sure if this is joke or not because that warning about xiaome service center in India is absolutely true.
God it’s so horrendous. I thought Micromax customer service was terrible but then Xiaomi arrived…
Say, how come this? I’ve installed Linux-based OSs onto laptops without much care in the world, yet I feel like trying a custom ROM on Android requires me to check for ROM compatibiliy with my device and brings risk of bricking
So to provide further context, PCs have tables that can be checked to see what hardware is located where. Phones don’t have this, and if you try to query the wrong component or the right component at the wrong address, you can crash the whole device.
PCs were this way too, before PnP/PCI/ACPI tech showed up.
Loading Linux on a Pentium with a bunch of ISA cards was NOT a guaranteed win.
I think i’ve read something about (pseudo-)RISC architectures not allowing universal drivers for whole families, each must exactly match to the hardware.
Need to make that in an HD picture for my lock screen
I remember bricking my Xiaomi as it were yesterday. Flashed the firmware for a Poco F4 on a Poco F1 because I was too dumb to read.
I looked for a fix a long time, the final solution was to throw it into the fucking trash. . .
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Of course I recycled it
Or – hear me out – restore shit yourself via
edlwhat Xiaomi service center could do?
Sell you a new motherboard?
The SoC on the motherboard has a special EDL mode
This is kinda like the SoC’s pre-bootloader, which loads the bootloader and can be used to flash a new bootloader
EDL mode is locked behind vendor specific certs/keys, so it’s unaccessible to the device owner
“could”, or “would”?
Chat is this real?
No
That’s a joke, right?
All of this is nonsense
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Well, it’s most self repairable, not most durable and resistant. So time to repair 😂
most self-repairable phone in the world
You bricked a Fairphone 3?
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This is not reality
