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Samsung appears to be locking its boot loaders for everyone with One UI 8 (mobilesyrup.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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[–] Trihilis@ani.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Samsung bootloader is locked by default. They're talking about it being unable to unlock it.

So basically its impossible to install any custom firmware on it meaning you are stuck with Samsung's own crappy rom.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago

There aren't any good custom roms for Samsung phones anyway, so i guess samsung might as well lock down at least their version of android.