Comment on Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones
Eagle0110@lemmy.world 4 days agoEven the non-carrier variants in the US, misleadingly called “International variants” despite of being regional to the US, have locked bootloader.
neblem@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yuck, TIL.
Eagle0110@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yuck indeed.
People tried many ways to get around it, back when I was still using an US variant Samsung Note 9, people went as far as using a leaked engineering/preproduction ROM, which can be flashed using Samsung’s official tool because it does have the correct key for the locked bootloader to accept, being built and compiled by Samsung, and because it’s an engineering ROM it would give you root and everything despite of the bootloader still being locked.
But it was only meant for preproduction for a reason, it is very VERY unstable and not exactly usable for a daily driver lol
So happy I am leaving all that BS from Samsung behind with my current Sony Xperia 1 VI which is bootloader-unlocked and rooted and deeply modded and truly my own device lol