You waited and waited and finally got a Nexus S. Given the history of other phones you figured it would be a week or so before you could unlock the Nexus S, and another week before you could root it.

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 ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. As a reminder, unlocking the bootloader of your phone allows you the opportunity to do things like flash a ROM ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

The problem was that some people who bought the Pixel 2 directly from Google said the OEM unlocking option within settings was grayed out. This was a bit weird to see, since that option is usually ...

With Google's genuine Android smartphone 'Pixel' series, you can easily unlock the bootloader from the setting screen and install another OS. However, you need to be connected to the internet and ...

One UI 8 might silently kill off bootloader unlocks on Galaxy phones, even outside the U.S. The "OEM Unlocking" toggle in developer settings is apparently nowhere to be found on Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 ...