Lol where did you get that from? You can absolutely unlock every Samsung Android phone.
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CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 5 months agoAnd you can’t unlock their boot loaders. You must suffer their changes to Android, their assistant, their UI, their spyware, and bloatware. You don’t own the device.
ricdeh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 months ago
IIRC Samsung doesn’t allow OEM unlock on snapdragon devices sold in US.
CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not in the US
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Neither on Apple devices though? There aren’t many exploits to “jailbreak” Android phones.
penquin@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Oh man, don’t get me started on that.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
You can’t unlock the bootloader on specifically USA Samsung devices, for reference.
answersplease77@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You can root/jailbreak both apple and samsung, but that would massively downgrade the phone security and make it vulurnable to hackers. So that must be avoided if you have bank apps, creditcards, or important and sensitive data on phone (who doesn’t)
ilmagico@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m writing this from a samsung with unlocked bootloader.
Adanisi@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Same here.
CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well, congratulations, hacker.
ilmagico@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe I should’ve specified that it was unlocked via the official “OEM Unlock” switch provided by Samsung. Yes, there are Samsung phones that can be unlocked, though you’re right, many cannoy (usually US versions).