{"id":2755,"date":"2011-08-16T21:21:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2011-08-16T21:21:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:21:05","slug":"htc-bootloader-unlocking-process-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/htc-bootloader-unlocking-process-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"HTC Bootloader Unlocking Process Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a heads up for those of you out there with HTC handsets with locked bootloaders &#8211; starting with the HTC Sensation you now have the opportunity to unlock the bootloader in order to load custom ROMs!<\/p>\n<p>However, there are a couple of things to note:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Unlocking the bootloader of your phone does not remove the SIM lock put in place by your carrier (so you can&#8217;t go using SIMs from other carriers),<\/li>\n<li>HTC advises that not all claims made under warranty that occur as a result of unlocking the bootloader are covered.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>This point seems very contentious to me as they provide a worst case example of the handset overheating as a result of the bootloader being unlocked. If other manufacturers can cover the handset with unlocked bootloaders with stock ROMs then HTC can do it too (it&#8217;s just a matter of time before this is tested out).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Personally, it looks like someone gave the HTC legal department too much red cordial and lollies. I can understand that there are limitations in what can be covered in given circumstances but I reckon there is more latitude in this situation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you want to check out how the unlock process works <a title=\"Preview Unlock Process | HTC Dev\" href=\"http:\/\/htcdev.com\/bootloader\/preview_unlock_process\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and to read more about the conditions around unlocking your bootloader (and which HTC devices will support the process) then <a title=\"Unlock Bootloader | HTC Dev\" href=\"http:\/\/htcdev.com\/bootloader\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a heads up for those of you out there with HTC handsets with locked bootloaders &#8211; starting with the HTC Sensation you now have the opportunity to unlock the bootloader in order to load custom ROMs! However, there are a couple of things to note: Unlocking the bootloader of your phone does not remove &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/htc-bootloader-unlocking-process-kicks-off\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,151,18],"tags":[355,890,2268,468,1628],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","tag-android","tag-bootloader","tag-google","tag-htc","tag-roms","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}