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GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!
”There has been overwhelmingly customer feedback that people want access to open bootloaders on HTC phones. I want you to know that we’ve listened. Today, I’m confirming we will no longer be locking the bootloaders on our devices. Thanks for your passion, support and patience,” Peter Chou, CEO of HTC
Thanks to everyone who has signed this!!!!!!
New Update posted on Facebook !!
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150305151453084
What is the point of this?
The idea of this is to convince htc to unlock the bootloaders and disable the NAND protection on their phones
Why should I support this?
Unlocking the bootloader and disabling the NAND protection will allow users to keep their phones up to date using custom roms such as CM7. Take the htc wildfire for example. In december 2010, HTC released a 2.2 update for the wildfire. However, hidden in this update was a new bootloader which could not (and still can not as of the 9th may 2011) be modified. It is unlikely that HTC will release another update for this phone, meaning that users are going to be stuck on this rom. The reason? So HTC can sell new phones. However what this is doing is putting users off buying HTC’s devices since rival companies have announced that the users can easily unlock the bootloaders on their devices.
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Company Response
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Peter Chou, CEO of HTC
https://www.facebook.com/HTC/posts/10150307320018084
7605 signatures
Locked Bootloaders of HTC = Very Least sales of HTC
Please unlock bootloaders of all phone to increase sale of ur smartphones as well as to increase the interest to buy HTC for your customers...
Unlocking the bootloader will help.
I fully support this move.
India
compared wildfire with bootloader 0.8x and 1x and 1x was less apps loaded but still i had 20mb free space though i installed all apps on SD and 0.8x loader wildfire had mixed sd and in phone memory installed and funny still had 85mb free internal memory ..
dont understand why htc made locked new bootloader and made phone heavier.
please open it up
...remember microsot...
Dear HTC UNLOCK OUR WILDFIRES
Motorola hat bei seinen neuen geräten zukünftlich auch kein Bootloader!
Wenn das nächste HTC 3D Handy auch verschlüsselt sein sollte wird mein nächstes Handy ganz bestimmt kein HTC mehr. Dann kauf ich wohl ein Samsung oder Motorola!
UNLOCK !!!!!
I'm Desire HD (Ace) user and would buy me the Sensation if its released but if the bootloader is locked I buy the Galaxy S II!!!
so UNLOCK!
SGS2 all the way, thanks to its open source code on its ROM and open bootloader. Here I come! :D
Another signature...
htc wildfire 2.2.1
Don't drop to their level.
If you are unlock your bootloaders, I'll be happy to buy from you again and again. If not, however, I will be forced to look elsewhere.
HTC built its reputation on being mod-able. This could be very damaging for their sales.
Former G1 owner, currently G2 owner with 5 HTC Android phones in my immediate family (all running custom ROMs)
I will not purchase any phone with a locked bootloader that I can't customize to /my/ needs.
I have been a happy customer with you since the T-Mobile G1(First Android Phone). You make quality devices, but when you lock your phones your not gaining anything but mad customers. I will be switching to another manufacturer(as well as many others) until this is resolved. Please HTC I do not want to have to settle for Samsung, LG, or worst Motorola(rumored). They have all embraced the unlocked bootloaders.
Sincerely,
Espiridion
It will only cause user to swing to other brand. :(
I'm paying for the hardware, I should be able to do whatever I want to it.
htc will lose me, my family, and my friends as customers if they continue this practice.
If we seemed outspoken when we were thrilled with your devices, just remember bad news reaches an even larger audience. We love HTC products but this decision forces our hand... we will have to go elsewhere in response.
I don't want to leave, please don't make me.
Your Supporter,
Xxsteven69xX@gmail.com
If my phone would receive a locked bootloader, my opinion about HTC would change instantly. At the moment I have no reason to install a custom rom, but I am 100% sure that the day will come.
Other manufacturers are doing so already, you'll lose brand loyalty quickly if you don't respond.
so unlock it or offer a way to do it (like Sony Ericsson)
...especially if I've bought the phone and it's **my** phone, not HTC's...
HTC FAIL! - Sony/Samsung are leading the way!
your software is fine. sense is passable. but it becomes worthless if you dont let me own the device i PAID GOOD MONEY FOR.
i like your hardware, but dont make it become worthless to me.
I only recently rooted my phone and was amazed at what extra functionality it gives.
Come on HTC, show your android customers a bit of love :)
Think more to develop a solution for a worst case scenario to bring a bricked phone to life again than to think about solutions where your money givers get more and more angry.
Android is meant to be fun but if I can't play under the covers I'm not interested.
Come on HTC do the right thing, after all you are making a huge profit so give something back.
....unlock
I used to never buy motorola for the same reason and now HTC is playing the same anti-consumer game.
Congrats HTC, you just lost me to Samsung.
if there werent custom roms for ANDROID, then it wouldnt be as big.
HTC makes good phones but they need to remove bootloader etc.
So a locked smartphone for me is absolutely useless. (Think of the newest Android bugs and the sluggish response from the manufacturers...)
I thought my next one will be a Sensation... as it seems, I was wrong.
It's a shame HTC!
you pay you decide
Si quitan esta posibilidad, ya buscare otra marca que la permita, en mi proximo telefono
I, for example, i'm gonna buy another company's terminal because rom changing is possible...
Be inteligent!
Custom roms are great and add to an already good HTC rom.
HTC разблокируйте наш огонек, а то не как не получу над ним полный контроль.
But, next Phone is going to be Samsung.
Let me change the bootloader.
But ended up with Galaxy S2 instead of Sensation because of the bootloader.
HTC Desire owner
withaou root, it's almost as bad as iPhone :(
for a free Android!
HTC needs to unlock their bootloaders for this to be possible
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/29/sony-ericsson-will-let-you-unlock-bootloader-on-new-xperia-andro/
HTC Legend Owner that will be shopping Sony Android next time....
I want to be able to do whatever *I* want with *my* device : customize it, hack it, ... Afterall, it's *my* device, is is not ?
So I don't know why a company can prevent me from doing ANYTHING I want with it !
You'll too!
So please, let us change our mind and buy an HTC with an unlocked bootloader !
Cyanogenmod, MIUI are very great in your phones ;)
Avoid all HTC Product if they fail to unlock.
Please continue letting your users do what they want on their phones, you won't loose money and everyone will be happy !
C'est que du bonus.
Vive Android
Or you will loose customers...
Cordialement
Stef(Nice,Côte d'azur,France)
Not iOS or WP7 !
Then, my future HTC should give me the same freedom and long life ...
Dont lock bootloaders, please... i dont want to buy a samsung :/
Merci
So please change your mind
et pourtant j'ai eu :
htc diamond (win6.1)
htc dream
htc magic
htc hero x2
htc desire
htc nexus one
htc desire hd x2
et bien un client de perdu
HTC, une des meilleurs marques qui n'ai jamais existé. Mais désormais, ils sont en train de s'endormir s'ils continuent de garder cette mentalité. Svp, redeenez ce que vous étiez !
After all we buy it, we need to be able to do whatever we want with it :)
Happy user of a HTC Desire I am seriously thinking to buy another brand for my next device.
Merci de déverrouiller le bootloaders !
envisage d'acheter le HTC Sensation seulement s'il est déverrouiller.
Htc why have youre change your politics about alternative rom. sony erricson has change his policy. Why not you?
qu'elle dommage!!
HTC you go for a fatal error.
please, please let me have cm7 on htc sensation!!!
I AM READY TO QUIT HTC FOR APPLE
sous androïd et certainement le dernier
sous cette marque,ci celui-ci ne fait pas le nécessaire pour déverrouiller le bootloader.
NEED UNLOCKING !
Par contre pour nos renouvellements de smartphone et future tablette, votre nouvelle politique est pour nous gênante.
Réfléchissez y
i don't want to choose another phone ...
if you don't want to support your phone let us do that, people can improve your phone for free.
SO please note that htcsense.com doesn't work ...
Please,
Por favor,
Allow users to do want they want !
Merci d'avance !
This has brought misfortune to Nokia, and WindowsMobile.
And Apple did not have as much success as Android, which is very open.
Mais si les prochains htc sont verrouillés, pas sûr que je reparte avec marque.
I will go to other brands for my next phones and/or tablet with unlocked boootloaders.
Unlock my Desire S (SAGA) !
Build quality and liberty choose my custom ROM. IF HTC is not customisable, y change for Samsung, or other is free.
HTC je ne comprends pas votre politique.
i want S-OFF back ................
Mais pourquoi voulez vous perdre votre capital de sympathie ?
Sans Bootloader accessible, HTC n'est pas mieux que les autres marques ...
And Also Vive la france !
Débloquez le boot loader, s'il vous plait !
Peut-être un futur client, qui sait ?
I love HTC, but with a bootloader unlocked.
Unlock the bootloader., please !
Potential customer. Who knows ?
Thanks in advance.
Don't ever forget from where came your success these 2 last years ;)
Congrats htc. U have lost me. And im glad that i made 500 + people aware of it.
But when the phone isn't supported anymore, why not allow to unlock it?
Boot-loader Bloqué = Téléphone mort né
or no buying....
Monde cruel.
Goodbye htc. Hello lg and zte
EstebanTet, from Spain.
It's good for you, HTC!
And your slogan HTC tottally yours fuck it false slogan change it to Limited yours pigs.
I am disappointed in you. My first smartphone was an HTC Excalibur, and since then all my phones have been HTC. If you don't unlock the bootloader then never again shall I purchase an HTC device.
--> what a stupid idea !
With locked bootloader, i will change for another brand of phone !!!
No More HTC for me as it not Simply mine










