HONOR India said it will provide bootloader unlock codes to those that visit its service centers. Device owners must bring some documentation before they get their codes. HUAWEI previously announced ...

Buy a Google Pixel or Pixel XL smartphone from the Google Store and all you need to do to unlock the bootloader is allow OEM unlocking in the Developer Options settings, connect to a computer with a ...

It’s been possible to unlock the bootloader and root the latest Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet since January. But up until recently the only known method for doing that involved prying open the tablet’s case ...

Most OEMs are pretty bad about supporting their software in the long run, but Huawei does do a pretty solid job of giving its users options. For a while now, the company has given its customers the ...

Realme 3 Pro and Realme 5 Pro received the Realme UI update last month. The update disabled the usual process of unlocking bootloader, but Realme is to the rescue here as a new way is already ...

Realme X50 Pro launched as the company’s second 5G smartphone in February 2020. It packs all the important features in a value flagship device. The phone has been announced for a number of markets but ...

In its quest to resurrect the Nokia brand, HMD Global has quite faithfully deferred to Google in almost all aspects of its phones' software. The company was among the first to sign up for the Android ...

Some Google Pixel 2 units had their bootloader unlock option disabled, but Google has issued a remote fix to address the issue. The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are among the hottest and most ...

Any grizzled veteran of the aftermarket Android community (well, grizzled, in the sense that said community has been around for less than a decade) knows that users complaining about bootloaders is ...

An XDA Forums user confirms that after unlocking the bootloader, the Z Fold 3’s cameras were completely non-functional: facial recognition, loading the camera app, and trying third-party camera apps ...

Update 5/25/2018 at 9:28 A.M. EST: As mentioned in the article below, we reached out to HUAWEI to get a statement on this bootloader issue. We just got our response, which we’ve reprinted in full ...

There’s a fight going on right now, one that’s been waging for years, over who really controls our smartphones. When you buy a phone, are you just purchasing the right to use it within the constraints ...