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Thursday Poll: Bigger Deal – Unlockable Bootloader or Current Version of Android?

Kellen January 19, 2012 195

In our never ending quest to understand the most important things to you when it comes to Android, we have a simple this or that poll to end the night with. If you had the choice of having an unlockable bootloader or the newest version of Android before anyone...

DROID Incredible Added to HTC’s Bootloader Unlock List

Kellen January 16, 2012 107

Doin' big things. After giving the Incredible 2, Rezound and Thunderbolt access to their bootloader unlocking tool, HTC has gone way back in time, giving the original Incredible the same access. That's right, a device pre-DROID X and DROID 2 now has an...

Lucky Motorola RAZR Owner Notices That His Bootloader is Unlocked, Devs Get to Work on It (Updated)

Kellen January 11, 2012 77

A fortunate owner of a Motorola RAZR (not the the DROID version) jumped into fastboot to find that his device's bootloader was showing as being "unlocked." He claims that he has not unlocked the phone himself and would also not offer many other details as to...

It’s 2012 and Motorola Still Hasn’t Announced Official Plans to Unlock Any Bootloaders, We Look Back at the Year of Unlocking

Kellen January 5, 2012 135

For those of you that hang out on Twitter or in any of the Android forums, you probably saw a movement that started up within the last couple of days after both Asus and HTC came forward with bootloader unlocking solutions. It's called "Operation: Make...

Asus Taiwan Says Bootloader Unlock Tool is Coming, Ice Cream Sandwich Available January 12 (Updated: US Asus Confirms)

Kellen January 3, 2012 60

While we sit here tapping our fingers in anticipation of an official Transformer Prime bootloader statement from Asus U.S.A., we may have an idea as to what they plan to say thanks to their Taiwan Facebook page. Thanks to a translation by Bing (hah!), we come...

Asus U.S. Prepares Statement on Bootloader-gate 2012, Asus Italy Tells Us Why It’s Locked?

Kellen January 3, 2012 100

The outcry over the Transformer Prime and its locked bootloader was clearly heard by Asus this weekend. On their U.S. Facebook page they have released a brief statement, which basically just tells you all to "relax" while they prepare an official statement...

Transformer Prime Bootloader is Locked, Asus’ Social Networks Mobbed

Kellen January 2, 2012 144

Yesterday not only marked the beginning of 2012, but it also marked the beginning of a new campaign by the Transformer Prime community against Asus. And why would they do that to the darling Android tablet maker of the world? Because they went ahead and locked...

HTC Thunderbolt and Incredible 2 Receive the Bootloader Unlock Treatment From HTCDev.com

Kellen December 30, 2011 100

HTC, after announcing that all of their phones released after September of this year would have unlockable bootloaders, has updated their dev site to reflect that statement. Oh but wait, they went even deeper than that and even included the Thunderbolt and...