Asus Promises Transformer Prime ICS fill in, Unlocked Bootloader
Asus A32-N61 announced Tuesday with the aim of it yearn for start rolling banned the machine 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" fill in to its Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet on Jan. 12—and let loose a bootloader unlocking tool.
The Ice Cream Sandwich fill in yearn for be present delivered via a firmware over-the-air fill in preliminary subsequently Thursday, Asus A32-N61 assumed on its Facebook call.
One more fill in, version 8.8.3.33, yearn for in addition develop the focus of the camera, the grace of the impress experience, and the APK capabilities clothed in machine marketplace, Asus assumed.
A complaint amid the modding cooperative spirit, however, is the sheltered bootloader on the Transformer Prime. To the same degree single user clothed in the XDA Developers forum illustrious, "Asus has Encrypted the bootloader on the prime with a 128 smidgen Encryption [which is] basically unfeasible to crack!" Tech enthusiasts poverty bootloader access in favor of a variety of reasons, but the powerful quad-core, 1.4-GHz workstation on the Transformer Prime makes tolerant access to this tablet all the additional appealing.
Asus assumed in our day it opted to lock the bootloader "due to content providers' requirement in favor of DRM client policy to be present to the same degree secure to the same degree promising."
"Asus A32-N61 ropes Google DRM clothed in order to provide users with a climax quality capture on tape rental experience," the company continued. "Also, based on our experience, users who opt to cause their policy attempt infringement the organism completely."
With the aim of being assumed, Asus acknowledged with the aim of near is demand in favor of an unlocked bootloader, so Asus is at present "developing an unlock tool in favor of with the aim of cooperative spirit."
The company did not provide a timetable in favor of as soon as the unlocking tool yearn for be present made to be had, but illustrious with the aim of folks who take gain of it yearn for void their warranty and lose access to Google's capture on tape rentals "because the device yearn for be present rebuff longer protected by security apparatus."
