The locking happens at two levels: the bootloader (i.e. whether the fastboot protocol is enabled or disabled) and the keys used during recovery (i.e. whether recovery recognizes secret keys or known "test" keys).
Replacing both of those with locked versions would lock you out of your phone. The bootloader that the ADP1 ships with prevents you from updating the bootloader for that specific reason. You'll be at risk if you flash your device with a build that looks close enough to a "locked" consumer build, as that could later cause an automatic update to overwrite your build, and if that update replaces both your bootloader and your recovery keys you'll be stuck. If you flash it with a build that looks close enough to an unlocked build, the worst that an automatic update is likely to do would be to update you to a newer version of a similarly unlocked build, but there's of course no guarantee. Of course, you understand that working with builds from unknown sources instead of official builds carries an additional level of risk. JBQ On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:46 AM, vendor.net <vendor....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have ADP1 and want to flash it with the holiday version, because > waiting the official ADP 1.1 is an unofficial waste of time. > My question is can I lock my phone if I flash it with a software > version which is for locked phones? And how the hardware unlock works? > I know that one of the difference of G1 and ADP1 is that ADP1 is > hardware unlocked and you can install anything, but how does this > work? Is there a chance to lock my phone with some software flash? > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. Please don't contact me directly. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
