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SE announcement: Unlocking the boot-loader in the new Xperia smartphones |
Arne Anka
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Thought this deserved an own topic.
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With its new generation of 2011 Xperia™ smartphones, Sony Ericsson will allow advanced developers to unlock the boot loader in a secure and legal way. We will enable this opportunity later this spring, although it will only be possible for certain releases of these phones.
Find out the details after the jump.
Over the few last years, Sony Ericsson has received several requests from the Android™ community to allow advanced developers to unlock the boot loader of their phones. Up to now, the answer has been “No”. The reason is that we haven’t had a secure technical solution in place to support this. Furthermore, the boot loader could not be shared since that would violate important business agreements with many of our partners, such as operator customers and developers who want to protect their apps and games from being ripped from the secure area in the phones.
But we are developing a solution for this. It will be possible to unlock the boot loader for certain releases of our 2011 Xperia™ phones, such as Xperia™ arc, Xperia™ neo, Xperia™ pro and Xperia™ PLAY. But it is important to point out that this will only be possible for certain releases of the phones. Basically, your phone has to fulfill a number of requirements. For example, you can’t unlock the boot loader if you have a SIM lock protected phone.
There are other requirements as well, depending on your market and the original configuration of your phone. The only way to determine if you can unlock the boot loader for your phone is to connect your phone to the Fastboot tool in the Android™ SDK. If your phone can connect to Fastboot, the boot loader can be unlocked. For earlier products such as the Xperia™ X10, we cannot allow the boot loader to be unlocked due to technical and legal reasons.
Also, please note that you may void the warranty of your phone if you unlock the boot loader. See your phone’s warranty statement for details. Additionally, due to the modified phone software, Sony Ericsson’s repair network may not be able to properly test and repair your phone according to our normal procedures. Consequently, if Sony Ericsson does perform a warranty repair, Sony Ericsson may charge you a handling fee for any additional incurred costs due to your modification of the software.
If you unlock the boot loader and then flash a custom unsigned ROM to your phone, the custom unsigned ROM will not have gone through the thorough tests that we run for each phone and software version that we release. Because of that, the custom unsigned ROM might not work properly on your phone. Certain functions may cease to work, and the performance of the device might not be ideal. You might damage your phone permanently. In worst case, it will cause physical injuries or material damage, for example, due to the phone overheating.
Therefore, you should only unlock the boot loader of your phone if you are an advanced developer with good knowledge of the technology and risks involved. We strongly recommend that standard users NOT unlock the boot loader, as it is not needed. We are proud to deliver great phone experiences through our rigorously tested and official software releases.
However, we hope that this is a useful service for advanced developers, and demonstrates that Sony Ericsson is listening to and working with the open developer world. We will provide more details about this service later this spring. Stay tuned for more information…
Karl-Johan Dahlström
Senior Program Architect at Sony Ericsson
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Holy crap. They've turned 180 degrees! They are no longer the Apple of Android, woohoo! 
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Excellent news! my faith in SE has just been restored, they realy are listening to customers, all they need to do now is announce a dual-core based Android hopefuly running on either NVIDIA Tegra2 or TI OMAP4 and not crappy Qualcomm. 1st X10 is getting 2.3 and now this, they realy are listening, i never would have imagined both happening 
Couldnt give a rats-ass about any other manufacturer now.  
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On 2011-03-29 11:50:42, Tsepz_GP wrote:
1st X10 is getting 2.3 and now this, they realy are listening, i never would have imagined both happening
1 st MT, then 2.3 and now this.  
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On 2011-03-29 11:50:42, Tsepz_GP wrote:
all they need to do now is announce a dual-core based Android hopefuly running on either NVIDIA Tegra2 or TI OMAP4 and not crappy Qualcomm. [ This Message was edited by: Tsepz_GP on 2011-03-29 10:53 ]
Things are really starting to roll for them, I think quad-core is more appropriate for their target as market leaders
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Arne
my bad,yep, MT realy is where it all started.
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Indeed, i wonder if the quad-cores are ready for mainstream use though? My next Android simply has to be an SE with boss hardware.
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It definitely will go mainstream, at least that's how  should think. That's exactly how LG and Samsung thinks or there wouldn't have been any dual core mobiles announced at the recent MWC. has to look beyond playing catch up...
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What i mean is at this point are the quad-cores ready to be used by consumers, aren't they still in the early stages of testing?
Would be great to see an SE quad-core droid somd time this year.
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Jesus a Quad core that's what my pc has  Think SE are heading for the top again someday. After these great new Xperia devices giving x10 2.3 now this its all too much to take 
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On 2011-03-29 13:55:00, Bonovox wrote:
Jesus a Quad core that\\\\\\'s what my pc has Think SE are heading for the top again someday. After these great new Xperia devices giving x10 2.3 now this its all too much to take \\n
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lol. hoping to do a samsung no doubt...a.little late, but no doubt welcome by the hundreds of se fans who haven't deserted them for samsung etc. |
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Samsung?? Who??
Phone?? What phone?? |
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the Engadget comments on this and X10 update, people are talking about dropping Samsung and HTC for SE Arc and Play, and American commentors swearing at SE for not shipping any of their new range except CDMA Play to the US.
SE seem to have earned a lot of respect these past few days, this just reinforced it, its going to be an interesting year for them.
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On 2011-03-29 15:06:00, Bonovox wrote:
Samsung?? Who?? \\n
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lol. they are the ones looking down from up on high.. |
c96sthl
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I just kinda have some fishy feeling....could this mean
SE is kinda facing a bottle neck in their software development that they start looking into giving more fans/ developers to contribute.
well it is not a bad thing but in a way its just show they might be trying to get back in shape but the cost to get stronger cannot be using the way they used to implement |
Arne Anka
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On 2011-03-30 07:19:36, c96sthl wrote:
I just kinda have some fishy feeling....could this mean
SE is kinda facing a bottle neck in their software development that they start looking into giving more fans/ developers to contribute.
Considering this only works for unlocked and non-branded phones, I don't see that concern.
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