• nakal@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Partially off topic, but I won’t buy OnePlus anymore, because they lock down the bootloader.

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      1 year ago

      I’ll similarly stay away from OnePlus as they are basically nothing more than overpriced af “stock-like” clones of Oppo/Vivo at this point.

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        1 year ago

        My 8Pro is the last 1+ I’ll own. Looking longingly at Nothing Phone next year I think, but this phone has been wonky last few days. Keyboards not working, apps not working correctly (and are updated). Could technwbe because I’m still on Android 11, but the 1+ track record for stable Android releases isn’t great either.

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        1 year ago

        In newer versions it’s entirely blocked. I’ve unlocked OnePlus 6 and it was quite easy, because there were no updates for Android 12. On OnePlus 7 it was a different situation I needed to downgrade first to be able to unlock the bootloader. And it only works with vendor tools in a special service mode. These tools are not provided for new phones anymore as far as I know. And I mean, what do you want to downgrade to when Android 12 bootloader stock image is locked.

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          1 year ago

          seems like they opened unlocking ability again, but didn’t release the edl tool

          still, courageous devs have developed a way for lineageos on oneplus 11