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I haven’t owned an Android phone in a long while; but, back when I did, the phones I liked, the ones with very long battery lives, were not rootable and I could
by t-writescode 5y ago
I haven’t owned an Android phone in a long while; but, back when I did, the phones I liked, the ones with very long battery lives, were not rootable and I couldn’t replace the OS.
Has that changed or can you replace the OS in all phones, now?
- sofixa 5y agoMaybe it depends on the country, but afaik, at least in the EU every phone is rootable. Some manufacturers impose restrictions ( e.g. for Xiaomi you need an account with them and have a maximum number per day of bootloader unlocks, supposedly to fight against third parties mass selling their hardware with extra crap/mal ware), and some app vendors may refuse to work on your rooted phone ( e.g. some banks), but that's it.
- f1refly 5y agoHuaweis have all had locked bootloaders for a while now, this us not an eu thing. Mosz vendors saw it as necessary evil to get the nerds on board I guess, but now with google locking down upstream aosp more and more that becomes less of a concern.