calebtheythem[m] | hey all! D4 and Photon Q arrived today (huge thanks Wizzup !), the D4 is stuck on the "a sim card is required to operate this device" screen | 00:13 |
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uvos | calebtheythem[m]: tap top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left in that sequence several times | 00:14 |
uvos | also you dont need android at all to install leste | 00:14 |
uvos | also i would recomend just installing los over the motorola android if you plan on using android | 00:15 |
calebtheythem[m] | uvos: definitely switching to Maemo :P | 00:15 |
uvos | then i would just ignore the stock android | 00:16 |
calebtheythem[m] | ah ok cool | 00:16 |
calebtheythem[m] | no need to bootloader unlock!? | 00:17 |
calebtheythem[m] | these old devices sure are nice :D | 00:17 |
uvos | bootloader is locked with no way to unlock | 00:17 |
calebtheythem[m] | oh | 00:17 |
calebtheythem[m] | oof | 00:17 |
uvos | we hijack the boot process by injecting parameters into the cmdline of the android kernel | 00:18 |
uvos | and just boot a totaly different userspace | 00:18 |
calebtheythem[m] | ah i see | 00:18 |
calebtheythem[m] | with the kexecboot stuff? | 00:18 |
calebtheythem[m] | funnn | 00:18 |
calebtheythem[m] | impressed that the default kernel has working kexec XD | 00:18 |
uvos | it dosent | 00:19 |
calebtheythem[m] | oh ... this just gets more and more cursed lol | 00:19 |
uvos | we (or rather the los people) managed to get it to load a custom kexec kernel module via some rather involed shenanigans | 00:20 |
calebtheythem[m] | wow ok | 00:20 |
calebtheythem[m] | that's pretty impressive | 00:20 |
duuude | uvos: could that be done with every locked android phone? | 00:46 |
Wizzup | uvos: awesome will try after breakfst | 01:17 |
uvos | duuude: somehow load hacked kexec? yeah thats the standart method to work around locked bootloaders on lots of devices (altho these days locked bootloaders are somewhat rare) | 09:55 |
Daanct12 | uvos, lies | 09:56 |
uvos | duuude: the method we use to inject kernel parameters? we dident invent it & it was first documented in some LG phone iirc, but its a vunerability not that manny android bootloaders have | 09:57 |
Daanct12 | just buy carrier android phones | 09:57 |
uvos | Daanct12: true, i mean amoung retail devices | 09:57 |
uvos | Daanct12: it used to be that manny companys dident let you unlock even on those | 09:57 |
uvos | eg. motorola | 09:58 |
uvos | thats fairly rare these days (cant think of an example) | 09:58 |
Daanct12 | heh, blackberry also doesn't because s e c u r i t y | 09:58 |
uvos | blackberry dosent produce phones anymore | 09:58 |
Daanct12 | well, before they stop doing that | 09:59 |
Daanct12 | i think vivo also doesn't | 09:59 |
Daanct12 | but those are obscure android devices | 09:59 |
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