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Even phones from Motorola require you to literally ask permission to unlock your bootloader via a form on their website, which they then unlock remotely or you
by heavyset_go 1y ago
Even phones from Motorola require you to literally ask permission to unlock your bootloader via a form on their website, which they then unlock remotely or you enter some generated code.
Other manufacturers do the same, where you have to wait a period of like 45 days before being able to unlock, and then have to ask permission on their website to unlock your bootloader.
- munchlax 1y agoAnd good lock unlocking anything over 5 years old because the updated website doesn't support what you've got. Been there, it sucks.
- codedokode 1y agoTo be fair, for "anything over 5 years old" you can probably find a privilege escalation exploit.
- wiz21c 1y agothe question is not "being able to", the question is "being able to with a reasonable effort". wandering the web to find an exploit is way beyond my spare time.
- VagabundoP 1y agoThat might get you root but not a bootloader unlock.
- kube-system 1y agoThere are privilege escalation CVEs in bootloader code too. I remember unlocking some very early locked bootloaders this way in the early days of android.
- VagabundoP 1y agoSo much rarer now. Its getting more and more locked down unfortunately.
- kube-system 1y agoA lack of security vulnerabilities isn't really a matter of being "locked down" but rather "not broken"
- ycombinatrix 1y agoMany of them are actually not bootloader locked. iiuc the OG Verizon Pixel has an unlockable bootloader, but the operating system doesn't let you unlock it, meaning root access should allow unlocking the bootloader. some devices have a legitimately locked bootloader, which means you're SOL.
- NekkoDroid 1y agoDo tell me when you find one for unlocking the bootloader of an LG G6, been looking for one for a few years now :)
- BenjiWiebe 1y agoA 1st gen Verizon Moto X bootloader unlock would be nice as well.
- ycombinatrix 1y agoiiuc that is because malicious actors were buying phones in bulk, flashing them with backdoored/malicious operating systems, then re-selling them to people.