OnePlus is reportedly starting to push out Anti-Rollback Protection (ARB) to its devices, restricting firmware downgrades and custom ROMs.

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For years, Android users have knocked iOS for being a "walled garden," with the iPhone locking users into Apple's ecosystem and limiting how far they can stray outside of the company's guidelines.

OnePlus is making a considerable change with its Android 16 update which will require users to fill out an application before having the ability to unlock their bootloader. In a post this week, ...

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Muhammad Qasim is a certified Google IT Support Professional. Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi will no longer be providing official support for unlocking the bootloader on some older devices after it ...

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For a long time, the ability to unlock a phone’s bootloader has been a fundamental part of the Android experience for a certain type of user – the power user. What exactly is a bootloader? Simply put, ...

Samsung is blocking its phones' bootloaders with the upcoming One UI 8 update. A recent report from an XDA Developers contributor says that Samsung has started disabling bootloader unlocking on ...