• CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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    6 months 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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          6 months 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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      6 months ago

      I’m going out on a limb here and guessing that Samsung is shipping two wildly different software packages to americans and europeans because none of what you stated is a problem on my end (aside maybe spyware)

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        6 months ago

        Yes, and up to not long ago, also completely different hardware (exynos vs snapdragon). US samsung devices usually cannot be bootloader unlocked. Rest of the world usually can. No idea why.

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          6 months ago

          Maybe like apple, it promised to give your data to the US government and you can probably bypass that if you unlock your bootloader. It is one thing to bend to goverment pressure but it is a whole another level of fucked up shit to take away any means of escaping from it looks at apple and samsung

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      6 months ago

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

      Edit: detail

    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      Neither on Apple devices though? There aren’t many exploits to “jailbreak” Android phones.