Please tell me what nowadays isn't cheap chinese cr*p, difference is most of the time only in casing.fate6 wrote:You do know they are all cheap chinese tat right? even your precious "original" one
The fact remains that brick code was placed and even if its been removed it still was there
Those clones were doing 1 thing: changing name/logo shown in their software and claiming it as their own (I somehow remember community reaction to those CFWs which were completely same as ProCFW but renamed). Iirc the brick code got activated only if the hash of launcher wasn't equal to some calculation being done later in the bootchain and even that one was activated randomly, not always. They had made some safety measures so if the hash of the launcher wasn't the same comparing to the preconfigured one (file broke during transfer etc.) it would not start booting at all. That part of launcher got deleted by those clones in order to launch their modified one.
Why should they provide support to those ones who didn't even buy their product? If you want to have their software to run properly, you should also have their device which is the one they are making it for (like if I wanted iOS to run on my old Symbian s60v3 Nokia). I've read about some legit Gateways bricking consoles but most of the time it turned out that the launcher was modified (region-free patch) thus making the hash different and activating the brick code.
Something like this also used to happen with Matrix Infinity clones, modified FW to show their logo instead of original one (sometimes not even that) and completely cut functionality of the original one, for example if you tried to change something in settings or update FW the chip would render unusable because it did lack some vital parts like programmable EEPROM and I don't know what else. Some of them were making Matrix devices to look unreliable as they were labeled as one even if they were some cheap clone. Try to find the real Matrix Infinity modchip nowadays and try to find a really cheap clone of it, you'll see which one will show faster (like the ones with FW 1.99 even if the last original one was 1.93).
My take on that is somehow like this: It's their software, they can do whatever they want to do with it, no matter if their approach is moral or not.
If you are buying illegal accessories then it's only your failure if something goes wrong as you should not buy them in the first place.
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