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SophiaSPARKLZ
Honored Guest
5 days ago

Allow Unlocking Of Bootloader

i bought my quest 3, let me do what i want with it. this also limits our ability to repair our own devices and even more so by blocking the disabling the com.oculus.updater. so your happy pushing out faulty updates (which the oculus team have admitted doing) with no way to go back if things screw up, then wait for weeks to get it fixed, wasting time, money and energy transporting the headset back and forth via delivery when in reality all that couldve been done was allow bootloader unlocking and restoring the device to factory default settings. its honestly insulting to me as someone whos worked on devices for years, to see practices like this still in place and not being able to repair the device i bought. i want to come back in 10-20 years and actually be able to use it or have the tools at my disposal to fix it if needed. i cannot for the life of me reccomend these devices to any of my customers until this has been rectified. ive advised them to go with samsung or wait until the valve deckard is released. this also will be my final headset from meta if this cant get resolved

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  • Maccyb123's avatar
    Maccyb123
    Superstar
    4 days ago

    Very understandable SophiaSPARKLZ . I remember unlocking my older Exynos Samsung Notes to have some fun with them, though never the new one in case I did something fatal. 😆.  The sad reality is that most people don't care about this and aren't bothered about it one way or the other. Meta might be worried about an avalanche of users who messed up their headsets accidentally which is extremely easy to do. I've seen even expert people bricking their unlocked phones and tablets. And they will void their warranty too. It's true that official faulty updates happen but at least Meta are required to fix those. I'm not disagreeing with you. Just looking at the possible pitfalls.