HTC to Unlock Bootloaders on Future Android Phones
Wonder how warranties will come into play now
This is huge. Motorola has the death grip on their devices and here HTC does this....i'm just wondering how they're gonna change their policies regarding the warranty on their products. Definitely gonna turn more heads with this
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Stupid qustion for you. Does having an unlocked bootloader make rooting easier?
Thw evil controlling ass carriers probably won't allow this.
Thw evil controlling ass carriers probably won't allow this.
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Jayshmay said:
Stupid qustion for you. Does having an unlocked bootloader make rooting easier?
Thw evil controlling ass carriers probably won't allow this.
Jay,
If the bootloader is locked, you cannot root. If you cannot root, you cannot burn a custom ROM like Bionix or CM7.
The carriers are open to an unlocked bootloader because if you send in a device on warrant replacement and they discover you have a rooted that will violate your warranty.
Thankfully SuperOneClick offers a one-click unroot if anything happens to your device.
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Not true, exactly. A locked bootloader does NOT prevent root access (Droid X for example). It prevents installing a custom recovery image, as well as custom kernels. Cyanogenmod runs on the Droid X, so locked bootloader definitely does not preclude custom ROMs.
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The only reason the license says anything about voiding the warranty is because the devlopers are trying to cover their asses, they are worried that if someone roots their phone, and something goes wrong, they will blame the developers.
Realistically, there is no way modifications to the software can possibly harm the hardware, and most warranty claims are due to malfunctioning hardware.
If you need to file a warranty claim, it is generally easy to restore to factory defaults (and if it should turn out that the problem is related to the root, then restoring factory defaults will fix it anyway, making the warranty claim moot).
Realistically, there is no way modifications to the software can possibly harm the hardware, and most warranty claims are due to malfunctioning hardware.
If you need to file a warranty claim, it is generally easy to restore to factory defaults (and if it should turn out that the problem is related to the root, then restoring factory defaults will fix it anyway, making the warranty claim moot).
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T Bone said:
Realistically, there is no way modifications to the software can possibly harm the hardware
so over clocking your phone can't damage the hardware?
....well, that's news to me.
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My best guess will be that they will have a huge disclaimer that says that any irreparable damage done to the device because of rooting, flashing custom ROMs, over/underclocking the processor, etc. will completely void the warranty. It is easy to do all that stuff if you know what you're doing, but it's just as easy to brick the device if you screw things up if you aren't experienced with Linux based code.
As long as HTC makes it clear they aren't responsible for anything bad that happens when someone utilizes the bootloader, they shouldn't have to change their warranty at all.
As long as HTC makes it clear they aren't responsible for anything bad that happens when someone utilizes the bootloader, they shouldn't have to change their warranty at all.
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