Buone notizie per gli sviluppatori della comunità Android: Sony ha confermato i rumors che volevano l’intera nuova gamma di smartphone Xperia con bootloader sbloccabile. Ciò vuol dire poter installare custom recovery e rom cucinate molto più facilmente di quanto non si era potuto fare finora sui terminali Xperia di vecchia generazione. Attenzione però, non tutti i nuovi Xperia Arc, Neo, Pro e Play beneficieranno del bootloader sbloccato. I terminali che avranno la sim locked non potranno essere sbloccati. Inoltre è possibile che in certi terminali brandizzati non potrà essere effettuato lo sblocco. Per avere la conferma al 100%, Sony spiega che bisognarà connettere il telefono al tool Fastboot dell’SDK e, se il device dovesse risponde, allora potremo esserere sicuri di avere il bootloader sbloccabile. Di seguito un estratto del comunicato Sony:
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.
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