ASUS Transformer Prime Has Locked Bootloader

Filed under Development by Kenneth Pennington on January 1, 2012 at 11:30 PM

ASUS Transformer Prime Locked Bootloader

Turns out that much-awaited for ASUS Transformer Prime may not be the answer to every geek’s tablet dreams. The quad-core Tegra 3-powered tablet actually has a 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard lock on its bootloader that will prevent meddling from Android developers. With a locked bootloader, the ability to achieve true custom ROMs with modified kernels will be severely hindered. Recently, HTC provided an online solution for users to unlock smartphone bootloaders for devices released in 2011. Unless ASUS comes out with a similar tool, Transformer Prime developers will be left with no custom kernels.

Does this lower your chances of purchasing one of these bad boys? Tell us in the comments!

Source // XDA-Developers

Radek Davidek

definitely
Someone

Just cancelled my amazon’s order (two of them), stupid ASUS!
http://briefmobile.com Kenneth Pennington

:( Very disappointing. Thanks for commenting!
Trae

No chance I would buy one now.
Mostlyharmlessnj

I was going to get one, but after dealing with Motorola’s, NO WAY
Pat

Yes. Keeping my T1. Thanks for posting this.
Anonymous

This just broke the deal for me. I was lucky at the Atrix got unlocked, even if by accident, and i’m not going with another lock.
Gabe Stover

I have one on preorder from Amazon still. Will keep it until the end of the return window. If Asus doesn’t unlock the bootloader, it’ll going back to Amazon.

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