They tried to stop "illegally imported devices" from working, but basically killed/bricked all devices that were sold privately as well as all international phones that were e.g. used by tourists or visa workers. But now the cat is out of the bag, Samsung having a remote administrative toolkit implemented on all of its Galaxy devices (at least). Samsung was not the only vendor that did this, Motorola and ZTE did that, too.
Note that this happened to two parties:
- all people that bought a device outside of Mexico, using it inside of Mexico
- all people that bought a device in Mexico, using it abroad (in the reddit thread case it was a person currently being in Germany)
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/16pgliq/samsung_bl...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln4rsxWq3WM
[2] https://www.silicon.co.uk/mobility/smartphones/mexico-orders...
[3] https://linustechtips.com/topic/1537307-android-phones-disab...
They tried to stop "illegally imported devices" from working, but basically killed/bricked all devices that were sold privately as well as all international phones that were e.g. used by tourists or visa workers. But now the cat is out of the bag, Samsung having a remote administrative toolkit implemented on all of its Galaxy devices (at least). Samsung was not the only vendor that did this, Motorola and ZTE did that, too.
Note that this happened to two parties:
- all people that bought a device outside of Mexico, using it inside of Mexico
- all people that bought a device in Mexico, using it abroad (in the reddit thread case it was a person currently being in Germany)