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[Stefano Biella <sbiella@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/05/2015 11:34, John McAleely wrote:
> 
> I will note this from personal experience: Meizu ship many devices
> (initially depending on the market) with bootloaders that do not allow
> reflashing to Ubuntu or any other OS (even new versions of Android). The
> actions of importers and distributors make it impractical to clearly
> state 'in this market, Android versions of the MX4 can be reflashed'. As
> such, I personally would not purchase an Android MX4 unless I had a
> clear understanding with the vendor that I could return it if it is
> unflashable. Note that the vendor may have a hard time knowing this
> about their stock.
> 
> I currently believe that Ubuntu versions of Meizu phones will have
> unlocked bootloaders in all markets.
> 

be carefull, I've purchased a MX4 from official european/italian site
http://www.meizu.it/ the 25 febbruary 2015, shipped from Italy with 2
years european warranty and with international version of FlymeOS, now
4.2.8.21 but... the bootloader is locked:

$ fastboot devices
75HACKSZTG7L	fastboot
$ sudo fastboot oem unlock
...
FAILED (remote: unknown command)
finished. total time: 0.014s

it seems that it do not recognise the fastboot "oem" commands... may be
there are other way to do that, not yet documented, but for the moment
you can't install anything!