Accordingly, HTC will launch a special Web tool, which can unlock the bootloader. Therefore, users need a valid e-mail address and register your HTC smartphone with a computer to connect to which the Android software development kit (SDK) is available
This is from an identification code that is entered into the web tool be. Thus one again obtains an activation code which is then in the Smartphone must be entered in order to free it from the Boot Loader Lock.
HTC indicates that the user in Registration must certify as part of the activation of parts of the Warranty claims to dispense. New HTC devices will continue to locked bootloader come on the market and only later abled.
HTC wants the web tool yet in this month . publish For starters, be available to the worldwide version of the Dual-core smartphones HTC Sensation can unlock. Then should Updates are not available in Germany for the sensational HTC 4G T-Mobile and the HTC EVO 3D from the U.S. provider Sprint to follow. For which models HTC will offer after a boot loader unlock is not yet known.
HTC CEO Peter Chou had announced in late May, the Bootloader of HTC smartphones will no longer lock. This followed a corresponding online petition preceded that found about 7,000 supporters. HTC preventing the boot loader lock, like other manufacturers, that Importing users alternative versions of the operating system, as is available for example with Android in the form of cyanogen mods. A open boot loader is in older Android smartphones but often the only Ability to upgrade to a current version of the mobile operating system.