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FYI: Android 5.0 Introduces “Enable OEM Unlock” Option in Developer Options

Kellen November 4, 2014 68

If you buy one of the new Nexus devices - the Nexus 9 or Nexus 6 - and plan to unlock its bootloader upon first boot, so that you can get to tinkering, understand that you may have to enable the "OEM unlock" command that would typically be used to accomplish...

Galaxy Note 4 Developer Edition Now Available for $699

Kellen October 29, 2014 80

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Developer Edition for Verizon that we first told you about last week is now available for purchase. For $699, you can own Samsung's latest oversized device and have the opportunity to unlock its bootloader. In case you were wondering,...

A Verizon Galaxy Note 4 Developer Edition is Coming Soon

Kellen October 22, 2014 241

Motorola may have disappointed many of you when it decided against making a developer edition of the brand new Moto X (2nd gen) for Verizon, but Samsung is giving it us in the form of the Galaxy Note 4. That's right, a Galaxy Note 4 Developer Edition that will...

LG G3 “Bump” Gives You Fully Working TWRP Recovery on All Variants

Kellen October 10, 2014 66

If you own an LG G3 - we are talking any variant - and are into custom recoveries, ROMs, that sort of thing, then you should probably have already installed Bump. Created by Team Codefire, Bump allows you to boot into a full TWRP custom recovery and flash ROMs...

Unlocking Xperia Z3 Compact Bootloader Worsens Low-Light Camera Performance, May Affect Other Apps

Kyle October 2, 2014 127

The message from most smartphone manufacturers seems abundantly clear - bootloaders are better locked. Even OEMs which ship so-called developer devices seem to do all that they can to dissuade the average user from flashing unauthorized firmware, whether by...

SunShine Bootloader Unlock Tool Released for Moto X, DROID Family

Kellen September 22, 2014 158

TeamAndIRC released their SunShine bootloader unlock for the original Moto X and the DROID family from last year (MAXX, ULTRA, and Mini), this afternoon. The unlock tool comes in the form of an .apk that is sideloaded onto your Motorola device of choice. Once...

Dan Rosenberg Unlocks Moto X Bootloader, Says Almost All Snapdragon Devices are Vulnerable (Updated)

Kellen August 7, 2014 97

The Blackhat 2014 conference is taking place this week in Las Vegas, a conference which Dan Rosenberg, the man responsible for exposing numerous security exploits on Android devices, is speaking at. You may recall his previous work that unlocked the bootloader...

Thanks to New Root Method, Bootloaders on RAZR HD and RAZR M can be Unlocked Again

Kellen June 16, 2014 63

Thanks to this weekend's new root exploit/method/pile-of-awesomeness from geohot, we are hearing from a number of readers who own older Motorola phones (like the RAZR HD and RAZR M), that once rooted using towelroot, the previous bootloader unlock tool from...