After the release of the Snapdragon 8 gen1, manufacturers in the Android camp at home and abroad have begun to create publicity.
But if you calculate according to the intensity, the domestic fight is undoubtedly the most fierce, a few days ago Xiaomi and Lenovo Motorola were in a fight for the "real start".
On the one hand, let's first say that we are going to launch the new Snapdragon 8 mobile platform.
On the other hand, it was not to give in, and when it came out, it shouted that "having goods is the real first.".
Of course, this is not the first time that Xiaomi and Lenovo have openly aligned.
After the release of the Snapdragon 855 that year, Lenovo quietly grabbed the first launch of the Snapdragon 855, but unfortunately the lack of stockpiling led to serious shortages.
So Xiaomi is not willing to show weakness, saying that we are the real starters, and we will fight without saying a word.
It's really at this moment, just like that...
However, the more serious the domestic manufacturer's internal roll, the more lonely the back of a manufacturer appears.
It was once the hegemon of the mobile phone industry, with thousands of necessary patents for 5G, and its market share is second only to Huawei's Samsung.
But now that the mobile phone business has withered away, Hua Tuo is difficult to treat.
That's right, it's Noky... No, it's the LG we're all familiar with.
Presumably, the small partners have seen a message some time ago, that is, LG officially announced its withdrawal from the smart phone business.
As for the reason, it is also easy to understand, LG's mobile phone business has been in a state of white burning money in the past few years, all relying on the money subsidies earned by other departments.
However, LG mobile phones that have struggled several times are still no better in the mobile phone market, and they are naturally no longer willing to throw money toss.
Because of this, LG has not sent news related to mobile phones for several months, and even the system is too lazy to update the open card.
It wasn't until the other day that Xiao Lei saw a new message about LG mobile phones from the XDA forum.
But well... It's not a good thing to say, but it says that LG will turn off bootloader unlocking service on December 31.
Some small partners may not know what Bootloader is, nor do they know what impact it has on ordinary users.
Today we will talk about this matter.
Unable to unlock BootLoader's LG, it is no longer the king of foreign garbage
Although BootLoader is a very inconspicuous word in the eyes of most users.
But it has an impact on Android phones even more than any third-party tool.
Let's put it this way, after unlocking BootLoader on an Android phone, it can make various modifications to the underlying layer.
For example, brushing into some third-party systems, we can often see someone brushing MIUI or Flyme for LG mobile phones to get a better localized system experience.
Or get ROOT permission, break through the preset restrictions of the manufacturer, and change the bottom layer of the system according to your own needs.
Operations such as processor overclocking and deleting temperature control are the most common operations of Cool Ann's machine guys.
The purpose is to squeeze out the ultimate performance of the Snapdragon 855, after all, as a foreign garbage, LG's system scheduling is indeed too conservative.
Seeing this, everyone should have experienced the benefits of unlocking BootLoader, which is equivalent to mastering the phone in their own hands and playing how they want.
Some friends may ask, then I usually don't like to toss ah, what is the point of unlocking the phone to see?
Indeed, if the mobile phone can live a stable life, as a user, it will generally not be idle to unlock the brush machine.
However, in order to stabilize the system or accelerate the iteration of mobile phones, mobile phone manufacturers often negatively optimize mobile phones.
The most classic is the Apple speed-down door, when Guo Zige deliberately reduced the system performance of the old iPhone, so that the user's mobile phone is more and more card.
In the end, this matter was really too big, and Apple said that it would do its best to solve the problem.
This is no longer a matter of making money, and there is even a taste of grabbing money...
Profit-seeking behavior aside, manufacturers sometimes limit mobile phone performance for the sake of system stability.
Like this year's Android side of the flagship processor is relatively large, some manufacturers deliberately pushed a performance release more conservative system update to reduce heat.
The performance release of the factory version is completely different from that of the later version.
So engaged, usually used is indeed not so hot, but a game directly exposed, the king of glory 60 frames can not be stable, which makes the majority of e-sports geniuses how to score?
At this time, if you can unlock BootLoader, all the above problems can be solved.
Manufacturer lock temperature control, then I will manually solve, the manufacturer deliberately negative optimization system, then I directly brush the native system, breaking through all manufacturer restrictions.
OK, let's talk about this, let's go back to the topic of LG turning off BootLoader unlock.
This wave of operations affects not only the problem of not being able to do the machine at will, but also the advantage of losing the bootLoader unlock, and the service life of LG mobile phones will even be shortened a lot.
This involves the issue of system updates, although LG has promised to provide system updates after shutting down the mobile phone business.
But if you think about it, the ones that can still get the update are definitely some flagship models, and maybe in a few years it will be completely stopped.
At this time, the third-party system maintainer has become a lifesaver for LG mobile phone users.
Third-party ROMs like LineageOS and Magic Fun are well-known and easy to use, not only following the Android version update, but also the system experience is not worse than the native.
But there is a prerequisite for flashing these systems, that is, you must unlock BootLoader.
But LG mobile phone on December 31 to take back this permission, which is not only bad news for LG mobile phone nail households, the impact on second-hand foreign garbage is also quite large.
After all, most of the machine guys buy foreign garbage, that is, the LG that can't even unlock BootLoader is obviously no longer the "strongest foreign garbage".
Unlocking BootLoader is not happy with the vendor
The many benefits of unlocking BootLoader should be almost understood by everyone.
However, according to the experience obtained by Xiaolei for many years, mobile phone manufacturers are not willing to provide users with BootLoader unlocking services.
Let's start with the four major domestic "machine emperors" Huami OV.
Xiao Lei still remembers that Huawei provided BootLoader unlock many years ago, but in 18 years, Huawei stopped unlocking support for new products.
However, Huawei's strategy also leaves a "small loophole", that is, the unlock code of the same model supports multiple unlocks.
So, even if the official stops the unlocking service, there are many third-party unlocking tools on the market that can unlock BootLoader on the phone.
However, it is also limited to the early machine, and the new machine launched in the later period does not even have an unlock code, and it is as strong as the XDA big guy cannot be cracked.
As for Xiaomi, which was born for fever, due to the genes of geeks and machines, Xiaomi is the most open one among domestic manufacturers in terms of BootLoader unlocking strategy.
If you want to unlock the machine, you only need to log in to the account and wait for 14 days, and then go to the official website to download the unlock tool to unlock it.
However, in the past few years, Xiaomi's unlocking strategy has become more and more conservative, and it used to be unlimited and arbitrary unlocking.
Now that the world has changed, an account can only be unlocked twice a year, which is completely insufficient for machine madness.
Oppo and vivo, almost do not give the opportunity to unlock, even if you can unlock is a complicated step.
So everyone can see that those cool friends who like to engage in machines are basically one millet per capita.
It is not to say how easy Xiaomi is to use, at least it is more open in unlocking permissions, and it can toss the machine.
Why are manufacturers becoming more and more conservative about the BootLoader unlocking strategy?
First of all, this involves the profitability of manufacturers, now almost all domestic systems have Internet advertising, if the user unlocks and brushes the native system, the manufacturer will have one less advertising cost.
Make money, don't be humble.
The second reason, in fact, Xiao Lei also mentioned above, if the user will engage in the machine, unlocking BootLoader can extend the life of the phone.
Everyone goes to Ku'an's [Xiaomi 6] partition to see it, although the official has long stopped the system, there are still many gods in the system of transplantation, adaptation and optimization.
835 performance can still play, coupled with a good optimized system, users for a few more years will not be a problem.
But correspondingly, the longer the user does the nail household, the more uncomfortable the manufacturer's heart will be, after all, people still have to make money to sell mobile phone hardware.
The last reason, of course, is that the manufacturer is for security reasons.
Vendors have been stressing that after unlocking BootLoader, the system can no longer receive Android patch updates, which is a great threat to the user's security.
This is indeed true, but domestic manufacturers are actually not active in the follow-up of Android patches, and whether they can be pushed on time is a problem.
Therefore, Xiao Lei plainly believes that behind the unlocking of the mobile phone, it has little to do with the so-called security.
At last
In the BootLoader unlock, LG has always been open, as long as the user needs, you can go to the corresponding official website at any time to apply for unlocking.
But after the mobile phone business was shut down, LG resolutely closed the unlock channel, which is indeed a bit of a complete mess...
After all, LG can't be unaware that there are a lot of "foreign garbage" in its own home that is very popular, and if you keep the unlock channel, you can make a comeback during the holidays, and you can also have a small number of user groups.
But now this wave of operations, LG seems to be telling us: "I really don't understand the mobile phone piece, goodbye."
On the contrary, next door Microsoft is very witty, don't look at the WP mobile phone grave grass two meters high, in fact, the built-in app store can still download software.
This phone is not used by anyone, why does Microsoft still maintain this app store that is rare?
You taste, you taste.