Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by 1una » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 1:43 AM UTC

Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8
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Re: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by stavros » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 7:33 AM UTC

More devices we no longer own and that are bound to become trash in a few years, and for what reason? So companies can make more profits?

Re: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by inoperable » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 7:57 AM UTC

And fuck you over with data mining everything all the time without you having any means to cut it out

Re: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by sn0n » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 9:31 AM UTC

dont worry, samsung knows only 300 people will actually care.

As for me, I already swore off Samdung for their whole Samsung account bs and apps they bundle and won't let me remove (or disable).

Re: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by crinkly » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 9:38 AM UTC

sn0n wrote: post #4

dont worry, samsung knows only 300 people will actually care. As for me, I already swore off Samdung for their whole Samsung account bs and apps they bundle and won't let me remove (or disable).

Yep. Everyone I know who bought a Samsung anything (TV/Phone/Washer/Dryer) last time said it's their last Samsung product. Samsung sure know how to piss off customers.

Re: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by baq » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 9:44 AM UTC

stavros wrote: post #2

More devices we no longer own and that are bound to become trash in a few years, and for what reason? So companies can make more profits?

They should be economically incentivized to pick up their trash.

Re: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by saidinesh5 » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 9:59 AM UTC

Pixel stopped providing device trees, kernel history,

Samsung has been doing this for a while now.

Which are the devices/vendors that still allow / encourage this?

Even Graphene OS reported that they're in talks with some vendor... Have there been any updates towards that?

The main reason i used to root devices are:

* Get longer support/OS updates than what the vendor provided

* System level adblock using adaway

* Titanium backup

These days firefox/brave browser gets me half way through adblocking and i lost interest in the ad filled apps..

Syncing gets me good level of syncing for backup on my NAS etc .

Re: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by jjbinx007 » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 10:05 AM UTC

stavros wrote: post #2

More devices we no longer own and that are bound to become trash in a few years, and for what reason? So companies can make more profits?

I decided to part with my Huawei Mate 20 X after about 7 years of ownership not because it was a bad phone - on the contrary, it has a nice big screen, decent enough camera, is still plenty fast enough etc - but because the OS hadn't received any updates in a long time.

Rather than see it go to landfill I donated it to a friend who's happy to use it but what an absolute waste.

Bought a Pixel purely because they are committed to updating their phones for a long time.

Re: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by guerrilla » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 10:09 AM UTC

Exactly. This is why I won't buy from these companies even when conditions look good. It'll be bait and switch every sigle time. Fairphone all the way.

Re: Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8

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Post by altairprime » Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 10:16 AM UTC

Given the timing, it’s likely related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705240