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 ...

The Galaxy Z Fold 3’s cameras don’t work after unlocking its bootloader. Samsung’s foldable warns users of this side-effect before actually unlocking the device. It wouldn’t be the first time camera ...

An XDA Forums user confirms that after unlocking the bootloader, the Z Fold 3’s cameras were completely non-functional: facial recognition, loading the camera app, and trying third-party camera apps ...

Mobile phone giant Samsung has decided to kill off the bootloader on its operating system and prevent those who love to tinker with their phone from getting their fix. While most Samsung Galaxy owners ...

The AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 ships with a locked bootloader, but that doesn’t look like it will stop users from freeing the Galaxy S4 and running custom ROMs on it. Dan Rosenberg, a well known Android ...

Although Verizon is known for its hard-to-break bootloader on its devices, talented minds of the Android development community are simply good enough to find other ways to get it unlocked. That got ...

Samsung’s newly released $1,800 Galaxy XR headset includes support for bootloader unlocking. Unlike competitors like Meta Quest or Apple Vision Pro, this makes the Galaxy XR uniquely accessible for ...

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Early adopters of the Galaxy Z Fold 3 have found that Samsung is intentionally disabling the foldable phone’s cameras when the bootloader is unlocked. There are a number of reasons why you may want to ...