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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by meowfly on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:37PM (#25094447)
I've read this is a very easy way to brick your phone because the bootloader will check if the signature matches the one from the OEM.
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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by nucleardog on Saturday November 14, 2020 @07:36PM (#25096989)
Been a few years since I was playing with this stuff, but can you not still just unlock the phone with fastboot? Has something changed that it’s actually bricked or is this the modern sense of the word bricked (mildly inconvenient and maybe some data loss)?
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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by 29083011397778 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:12AM (#25098739)
Last I tried it (albeit a few years ago), it was a soft-brick; I.E., mildly inconvenient with a brief "Oh shit!" moment.
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