Motorola says Lock-in bootloader for operator requirements

Flying Elephant Network (Weidering/Wen) today, flying like the network on Motorola mobile phone lock bootloader, causing some users of the problem of independent firmware upgrade asked the company's senior director of the marketing department Tang Zhijie, he said that Motorola in the end product lock bootloader reason more lies in operator requirements. Motorola's Android phone has been locked into bootloader, it is reported. In fact, Bootloader is a small program that runs before the operating system kernel runs.　　Through this small program, we can initialize the hardware device, the mapping of memory space, so that the system's hardware and software environment to a suitable state, so that the final call to the operating system kernel to prepare the correct environment. Since Motorola's firmware upgrades are slower than Google's Android updates, it is also difficult to get the Android version upgrade from third parties because of the locking bootloader.　　To this end, many Motorola mobile phone depth users want Motorola open bootloader, to meet individual upgrade needs. According to the reporter statistics, the domestic MIUI ROM, support the number of HTC Models 5, support the number of Samsung models 3, and Motorola's model number of only 2, and one of the latest added support for mobile phones.　　And in foreign famous third party ROM team CyanogenMod HTC support model number reached 16, and Samsung for two, Motorola only for the old droid model. In the near future, HTC CEO Peter Chou responded with Facebook's formal bootloader lock-in: "There's a lot of feedback from users telling us that we need to open the HTC phone bootloaders, and I think I heard your voice, I now promise that we will never lock bootloader in our HTC terminals, thank you for your enthusiasm, support and patience! "Earlier, Sony Ericsson began to provide users with their next mobile phone bootloader special unlock program.　　Samsung also said the future will be canceled mobile phone bootloader lock, but also invited the CyanogenMod team to make its next model ROM. On the issue of Motorola Lock-in Bootloader indirectly caused the inconvenience of user upgrades, Tang Zhijie, senior director of product marketing at Motorola Mobile technology China, said he had a problem with locking bootloader　　The reason for Motorola's cell phone lockout bootloader is that telecoms operators are demanding that Motorola will consider unlocking bootloader if the operator does not have specific requirements, and that there are already bootloader Xoom tablets being sold abroad. According to reporters understand that Motorola in the United States with Verzion, at&t have launched a variety of andRoid smartphone. Domestic aspects will also be launched with mobile TD dual-core smartphone, and China Telecom also recently launched a dual-core dual-network mobile phone XT882.