New Huawei OTA will make phones with Magisk (root) not boot, even the ones that are already rooted

[jsjones008]

6 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Looks like I’m crossing Huawei off the list of whenever I get my first Android phone. 

Might want to cross off Samsung as well. If your Samsung phone has been rooted and you need warranty repair, they'll deny you even if you pay for a protection plan.

[goodtofufriday]

5 hours ago, ScratchCat said:

Do you have evidence for that? It would fully believe this given the authorities dedication to the Golden Shield (Great Firewall) project and their behaviour in the north west.

 

Ideally a third party security company would have to verify these claims.

Australia has blocked hauwei from building 5g networks in the country because of that new law.

[Drak3]

17 minutes ago, jsjones008 said:

Might want to cross off Samsung as well. If your Samsung phone has been rooted and you need warranty repair, they'll deny you even if you pay for a protection plan.

That's because you modified it to do things it's not intended to do.

[jsjones008]

Just now, Drak3 said:

That's because you modified it to do things it's not intended to do.

I'm aware. And I have an unrooted Note8 because I have no need for rooting my phone. But, if someone is interested in rooting their phone, then they might want to avoid those from companies that have policies in place preventing that in some way.

[xAcid9]

If i rooted my Mate 10 the first thing i do is install LineageOS, why stick on EMUI? https://openkirin.net/download/

[suicidalfranco]

2 hours ago, xAcid9 said:

If i rooted my Mate 10 the first thing i do is install LineageOS, why stick on EMUI? https://openkirin.net/download/

Too bad they no longer give unlock codes, so your SoL if you go out and buy a mate today

[Bouzoo]

4 hours ago, Drak3 said:

That's because you modified it to do things it's not intended to do.

It is still weird they would refuse if you want to pay. I know for a fact that some other companies and official repair shops would do it. 

[D13H4RD]

Wasn't too long ago where Huawei phones were among the best for rooting and custom firmware thanks to Treble.

 

They're legitimately worse than Samsung at this point when it comes to that. At least the Exynos models can load AOSP (and they even release kernel sources now) but they'll deny warranty if it's tampered. 

 

Still better than a phone that's a brick 

 

If you want custom development, the Google phones alongside OnePlus and a few others are still your best bets 

[vorticalbox]

11 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

I was about to show how little I use Android. Normally I would have said, why did you root the device......then I remembered that 3rd party versions of Android are usually, really bad. 

 

 

Yup on the s8 you can't remap the Bixby button or change the default camera.

[Quadriplegic]

And I wanted to get Honor 10...

Oh well, I guess that leaves Sony on the list

[D13H4RD]

32 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

Yup on the s8 you can't remap the Bixby button or change the default camera.

There's an app which allows you to remap the Bixby button 

[Bouzoo]

36 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

Yup on the s8 you can't remap the Bixby button or change the default camera.

Look up on XDA. Both Bixby and Bixby 2.0 are remapable. With a 3rd party app ofc. 

[JoostinOnline]

It really depends if it was intentional on their part.

[GoldenLag]

1 hour ago, Quadriplegic said:

And I wanted to get Honor 10...

Oh well, I guess that leaves Sony on the list

Nokia is back in the game, take a look at them instead. their devices are really nice, (if you ignore the Nokia 8 sirocco)

[Quadriplegic]

4 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Nokia is back in the game, take a look at them instead. their devices are really nice, (if you ignore the Nokia 8 sirocco)

7.1+ Androind One is tempting, but it's more like a brick than actual mobile device

[GoldenLag]

1 minute ago, Quadriplegic said:

7.1+ Androind One is tempting, but it's more like a brick than actual mobile device

what do you mean by brick? they seem very sleek though using the 16:9 aspect ration makes it a bit square

[asus killer]

the good thing with android is that there is so much to choose from that there will always be at least some company doing the right thing, if nothing else because it sells. 

[Bouzoo]

25 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

It really depends if it was intentional on their part.

It is. Huawei has had shitty practices all over the place. Furthermore, there was a talk that the devs from XDA would approach Huawei to convince them to be more open to the community. Enter, this. 

An existing update on P9 already scans your device for root. And if the creator of Magisk got the info that the existing update will do that... well, quite an unfortunate bug to predict.

[Quadriplegic]

6 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

what do you mean by brick? they seem very sleek though using the 16:9 aspect ration makes it a bit square

It's just too big.

I don't need big screen if it makes phone hard to use with single hand. Hence why I am looking at smaller devices. Honor 10 is quite big, but still more or less OK, but bigger devices, like 7.1+ or 1+ 5T are simply too big

[GoldenLag]

4 minutes ago, Quadriplegic said:

It's just too big.

I don't need big screen if it makes phone hard to use with single hand. Hence why I am looking at smaller devices. Honor 10 is quite big, but still more or less OK, but bigger devices, like 7.1+ or 1+ 5T are simply too big

take a look at the Nokia 6.1 or maybe the 6 plus. the 6 plus is a bit larger than the 6 and cutting it close to 6 inches. it is hard to get a smaller phone without steping down a pricetier or two from flagship

[Sousuke]

15 hours ago, thegreengamers said:

What's the point of doing something like this? Are they just trying to pull an Apple and become less consumer-friendly at this point?

Probably to ensure that their services are used instead of others. 

14 hours ago, rcmaehl said:

A lot devices don't get more than one android update and 2-3 minor updates. Even more don't get a major update. And a notable amount of devices don't get updates at all. The community has made up for lazy companies that don't care about user security and only their own money by porting updates to rooted devices using ROMs like LineageOS. I'm running Android Oreo on my S5 currently and will likely be getting Android Pie within a few months. This can't be said for any S5 that wasn't rooted.

Something thats not a real issue for iPhone users as they still support phones years in the past. If Android could remedy this then this would be the last hurdle to make Android the superior OS. As Android itself is a fantastic OS, just this one thing annoys me.

[vorticalbox]

2 hours ago, Bouzoo said:

Look up on XDA. Both Bixby and Bixby 2.0 are remapable. With a 3rd party app ofc. 

That was my point. 

[jagdtigger]

11 hours ago, jsjones008 said:

Might want to cross off Samsung as well. If your Samsung phone has been rooted and you need warranty repair, they'll deny you even if you pay for a protection plan.

Which is illegal, both USA and EU:

https://www.xda-developers.com/xda-external-link/rooting-cannot-legally-void-your-warranty/

 

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1998801

[TopHatProductions115]

I think I may just sell my Nexus 6P...

[CTR640]

Ok, Huawei has been blacklisted for me. I rooted my Huawei phone and liked Huawei but this dirty tactic makes me put this shit on blacklist.

Good job, Huawei.