Not sure if this is joke or not because that warning about xiaome service center in India is absolutely true.
God it’s so horrendous. I thought Micromax customer service was terrible but then Xiaomi arrived…
Need to make that in an HD picture for my lock screen
At this point, bricking a smartphone by flashing dodgy ROMs is a rite of passage.
Edit: at least it was before everyone started bootlocking like assholes…
Say, how come this? I’ve installed Linux-based OSs onto laptops without much care in the world, yet I feel like trying a custom ROM on Android requires me to check for ROM compatibiliy with my device and brings risk of bricking
The pc ecosystem is modular by design. The kernel will figure out itself the available hardware, moreover there are only two major CPU manufacturers (in the pc space of course), which means you have only two platforms to support.
Mobile phones instead are not modular, they use SoC. While most common socs are from Qualcomm and mediatek, there are a lot more smaller manufacturers. Plus, even if most often they use the same reference design for compute cores, the rest of the soc is often custom and wildly different from others. All of this to say that the kernel needs to already know exactly how the specific soc of the device works, instead of figuring it out on the fly. Which is why you need to check compatibility.
The brick thing instead is because the bootloaders in these devices are usually very locked down, so sometimes you need to replace the bootloader with a more open one, with all the risks that this entails
I remember bricking my Xiaomi as it were yesterday. Flashed the firmware for a Poco F4 on a Poco F1 because I was too dumb to read.
I looked for a fix a long time, the final solution was to throw it into the fucking trash. . .
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Of course I recycled it
By two times, my « most self-repairable phone in the world » was bricked. This is so awful.
Chat is this real?
That’s a joke, right?
No this is Patrik
what Xiaomi service center could do?
The SoC on the motherboard has a special EDL mode
This is kinda like the SoC’s pre-bootloader, which loads the bootloader and can be used to flash a new bootloader
EDL mode is locked behind vendor specific certs/keys, so it’s unaccessible to the device owner
Sell you a new motherboard?
“could”, or “would”?
