← Back to context Comment by mitxela 2 days ago Why would China allow the domestic sale of a device that could run GrapheneOS? 7 comments mitxela Reply ysnp 1 day ago Historically, some very large Android OEMs based in China and selling in China also provided bootloader unlocking support in their devices including Xiaomi https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame... and Oppo https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...It doesn't have anything directly to do with GrapheneOS, and would have enabled custom OS support of any Android distribution. mitxela 1 day ago Xiaomi claims to provide unlocking, but doesn't actually. I don't know about Oppo. palata 1 day ago Why not? mitxela 1 day ago Because it's a totalitarian state that does not tolerate dissent? It's the same reason North Korea requires all devices to be bootloader locked to RedStarOS, but weaker. palata 17 hours ago So you're saying that running AOSP is fine, but running GrapheneOS is not? Huawei used to run Android, I don't think it was blocked... 2 replies →
ysnp 1 day ago Historically, some very large Android OEMs based in China and selling in China also provided bootloader unlocking support in their devices including Xiaomi https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame... and Oppo https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...It doesn't have anything directly to do with GrapheneOS, and would have enabled custom OS support of any Android distribution. mitxela 1 day ago Xiaomi claims to provide unlocking, but doesn't actually. I don't know about Oppo.
palata 1 day ago Why not? mitxela 1 day ago Because it's a totalitarian state that does not tolerate dissent? It's the same reason North Korea requires all devices to be bootloader locked to RedStarOS, but weaker. palata 17 hours ago So you're saying that running AOSP is fine, but running GrapheneOS is not? Huawei used to run Android, I don't think it was blocked... 2 replies →
mitxela 1 day ago Because it's a totalitarian state that does not tolerate dissent? It's the same reason North Korea requires all devices to be bootloader locked to RedStarOS, but weaker. palata 17 hours ago So you're saying that running AOSP is fine, but running GrapheneOS is not? Huawei used to run Android, I don't think it was blocked... 2 replies →
palata 17 hours ago So you're saying that running AOSP is fine, but running GrapheneOS is not? Huawei used to run Android, I don't think it was blocked... 2 replies →
Historically, some very large Android OEMs based in China and selling in China also provided bootloader unlocking support in their devices including Xiaomi https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame... and Oppo https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...
It doesn't have anything directly to do with GrapheneOS, and would have enabled custom OS support of any Android distribution.
Xiaomi claims to provide unlocking, but doesn't actually. I don't know about Oppo.
Why not?
Because it's a totalitarian state that does not tolerate dissent? It's the same reason North Korea requires all devices to be bootloader locked to RedStarOS, but weaker.
So you're saying that running AOSP is fine, but running GrapheneOS is not? Huawei used to run Android, I don't think it was blocked...
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