Short people are still people and can be CEOs of game company.

Pixel 6 is one such a device that does this. I replied with a link to a different comment, but not reproducing here to avoid the perception of spamming links.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-security-measures-make-android-13-for-the-pixel-6-a-one-way-update/

I’d recommend you consider if you actually need to re-lock the boot loader. It’s a great way to turn a device into a brick. There are a few apps that don’t work with an unlocked boot loader but most will be fine. My bank for example is really annoying and complains. There is a risk that if you try to lock the boot loader after a downgrade your device may simply not start anymore and you’ll lose access to be able to flash or unlock the boot loader again.

It’s not supposed to get stuck like that, but I’m telling you from personal experience that not all vendors are great about handling this situation. Most people never attempt to install third-party firmware, and you’re not really supposed to be able to downgrade.

Good luck!

Generally speaking this is not reversible. Many phones specifically blow fuses in the device to make sure that attempts to downgrade will fail for security reasons. They don’t want someone stealing the phone and somehow tricking it into downgrading in order to extract its content using a security vulnerability that existed in an earlier version.

With that said, if you can get your hands on the ROM Or at least one of the version you require, you could unlock the device and flash whatever you want. You may not be able to re-lock the boot loader however for the aforementioned reason. If you can that would be a device-specific thing.

It looks like older stock firmwares are available online by unofficial sources. You can decide if you trust those enough to attempt to downgrade.

Reference: https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-bootloader-unlock-for-moto-g-stylus-5g-2023.4620535/

Lovely! I’ll be happy to upload pages and pages, whole books full of AI generated garbage.

It’s very sad. We’re going lose a lot of great employees with tons of experience. This is going to cost to taxpayers in the form of poor services and contractors down the road filling in for more money and with less experience.

These buffoons understand very little, and neither do they understand the value of hard work and what it’s like needing to earn a living. This grandstanding is reckless.

It saddens me when hard-working employees are punished for bad leadership.

I don’t understand the naming convention. It’s not clear to me which is supposed to be the new console, as someone who is not thoroughly informed on the matter, and I think that is a marketing mistake.

More devices need replaceable batteries. My phone where that thing is glued in the device and can rip the screen apart trying to remove it? That’s unacceptable. Just make the battery a proper maintenance item.

I’ve played each game and they are all awesome.

It’s for the best. The series deserves better than live service.

It’s the built-in PDF reader as part of the browser. I’m not aware that it has any name.

This did not work on my iPhone. Instead there’s just an empty white box in the upper left-hand corner of the page.

It was just amazing to hang out and focus on playing a game deeply for 24 straight hours with my two closest friends. Can’t recall otherwise being so pleased with how I spent my time.

24 hour Civ 5 marathon with beer and the boys in my college days.

My friend is a connoisseur, and he says both the quantity and quality has been declining this year.

I would expect it to show up as some kind of USB device on Linux, but alas. I’m starting to think she might be dead because I found a few cases like yours in the HP support forums where they concluded there must be hardware problem.

There might be a way to restore firmware from here:

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Tablets-and-Mobile-Devices-Ready-Only/Need-the-Firmware-file-for-HP-7-1800-Tablet/m-p/6972946

But aside from that, I think I’m out of further ideas.

One online source suggests holding power and vol up will get off that logo screen. I’m not sure though.

Interesting. Do you have it plugged into something that might be putting it in some kind of file transfer mode? I think this logo is different from the usual vendor logo. I also wonder if maybe this is your recovery mode and it doesn’t offer a GUI. This doesn’t seem to match screenshots that I can find online regarding the recovery mode of this tablet.

We could also try to talk to it over USB via fastboot, but that might be hairy and may still not lead anywhere.

Thanks for the info. It looks like user might have a shot at recovering the device but I don’t see how they’d get data recovery from this position.

Recovery sounds promising! Let’s see what happens.

I don’t claim to be an expert by any means but it’s better than a logo screen.

Unfortunately, file recovery is unlikely. Most systems today have locked bootloaders and encryption by default for userdata. If you can’t get into the main OS, the data is typically lost.

With that said, you mentioned this is older hardware. Have you tried booting it with different combinations of power + volume buttons held to see if you can reach a bootloader menu?

It was hardly worth the old price.

I’m not sure about this app especially, but I hate that my bank personally has so many restrictions on the app usage but I can also just use a web browser on God knows what with who knows what extensions installed and they’re all like sure, come on in!

I don’t know the answer to your question but I’m curious about your use case.

EA? Don’t play!

Yep, probably not. I’d prefer AI so much to our CEOs.

Long live Gaben.

Maybe he can pass it to an AI configured to uphold his ideals from beyond the grave?

I wonder how it feels putting all this work into these protections only for your game to get cracked anyway.

It’s almost like this strategy doesn’t actually work.

I think the key is that you have access to markets. The markets can determine the price rather than it being set to some desired value. Whether that’s a used market, or PC where you have the option of multiple stores and sometimes buying direct from the developer.

There can be a pretty significant price discrepancy between digital and physical copies.

Hilarious. I love it. Literal string memory scanning and not considering the implications of everything happening in the application.

It’s like when you have a simple blog that for some bizarre reason is a single page JavaScript web app.

What exactly is the surveillance part of this article? So far it seemed like a normal application developer conference deal but the page reloaded and now I only get paywall. I found myself feeling rather unsurprised.

Who would believe that a business as big as Apple wouldn’t comply with law enforcement requests in the first place? Of course they would when technically possible. They’re in the business of making money first, not defending you.

Using AI we can turn out garbage faster than ever!

Please don’t do this to me. The whole point of a console is convenience, and it’s not like you had to test for multiple platforms. You control the hardware.

Paywall?

That’s true, but I would like to see improvements driven along the consumer segment also. AI rendering is a nice software addition but I could easily see it becoming a distraction from hardware improvements.

Consumers generally can’t just throw more money at a problem in the way that professional and business can.