The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is the current flagship chip for premium Android phones. It powers Xiaomi 17 Ultra, OnePlus 15, Galaxy S26 Ultra, and a few others. However, a new Qualcomm GBL exploit is ...

For many Xiaomi fans, using the phone as it comes out of the box is never enough. Some of us want more control. We want to install custom ROMs, root the device, or just explore features hidden under ...

A tool called Xperable has been developed by volunteer developers overseas. I previously used it to unlock the bootloader of ...

Samsung is apparently removing the option to unlock your bootloader from Galaxy devices with its One UI 8 update, at least in places where that was still available. For Galaxy owners in the US, ...

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On a support page, Google details how you can unlock the bootloader on a Googlebook. Google says that a “developer or ...

OnePlus outlines a stricter bootloader unlock policy for ColorOS 16 and newer in a July 24 announcement, expanding on the Deep Testing Program it introduced in late 2025. New post from ColorOS in ...

Whilst Samsung doesn’t allow users to unlock their phone’s bootloader, Xiaomi provides an official tool for this purpose. However, the unlocking process remains unnecessarily complicated, even for ...

Samsung’s One UI 8 update reportedly removes the option to unlock the bootloader on many Galaxy devices. This change impacts advanced users who customize their phones with custom ROMs or root access.

Samsung appears to be disabling bootloader unlocking in One UI 8 on more devices than before. Previously, only US models lacked the OEM Unlock toggle, but the restriction now seems to be spreading to ...