• Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    As far as I know they only accept Pixel devices because they are the only devices on the market that allow locking the bootloader after installation and also because of the Titan coprocessor which greatly increases system security

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      10 months ago

      Why would I want to lock the bootloader? I like having freedom 9f OS, I don’t want to replace one OS I’m locked into with a different, albeit more privacy friendly one. Most laptops have unlocked bootloaders.

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      10 months ago

      because they are the only devices on the market that allow locking the bootloader after installation

      AFAIK on Xiaomi Mi A2 lite if I flash back the stock fastboot ROM (I had it do it once because I crippled the partition images (this phone is A/B partition device)) it locks your bootloader and you have to unlock it again. I don’t know if this applyes to MIUI/Hyper OS phones too, because Mi A2 Lite uses near to stock Android.