Customers in South Korea and Europe can now take repairs into their own hands to conveniently and reliably repair even more Galaxy devices.
      • Gunpachi@lemmings.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Last I checked it takes about 360 hours to get permission to unlock the bootloader on a Xiaomi device. Also you have to have your sim card in the phone while requesting the unlock.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          I think it makes sense. Xiaomi had a lot of issues with shady companies importing cheap phones for the Asian market, flashing the xiaomi.eu ROM onto them, and passing the off as official.

          The fact they still allow you to unlock the bootloader in the first place shows they value the freedom to unlock these phones. When they came up with a plan to combat these reflashed phones, they could’ve simply locked down the bootloader entirely. Setting up a whole web service with SIM validation and such isn’t cheap, they spent money on keeping their phones open!

        • HidingCat@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          Well, it’s going to be worse now, with HyperOS devices not getting updates if they unlock their bootloader. I think they’re going to implement some more limits too, like time or device limits. It’s throughly depressing overall.