• CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And 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.

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          1 year 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 cannot be (usually US versions).

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      1 year ago

      Lol where did you get that from? You can absolutely unlock the bootloader of every Samsung Android phone.

      Edit: detail

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      1 year 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)