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Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.caM to Linux Phones@lemmy.caEnglish · 6 months ago

Samsung appears to be locking its boot loaders for everyone with One UI 8

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Samsung appears to be locking its boot loaders for everyone with One UI 8

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Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.caM to Linux Phones@lemmy.caEnglish · 6 months ago
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Samsung has made a change to its Android code in One UI 8 that will stop people from running custom software.
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    I mean, I always thought it was locked and Samsung was always a no-go…

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      Ya my old snapdragon S10 was locked years ago 🤷‍♂️

      Part of why I switched to a pixel with grapheneOS

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