Google confirms: Unlocking your phone's bootloader breaks local Gemini features

Planning to unlock the bootloader on your Android handset? Think twice, if you plan on having access to on-device Gemini Nano.
Gizmochina

Xiaomi to make unlocking bootloader even harder

Xiaomi‘s wide variety of devices have resulted in lots of interest from developers and users together. Following the release of many different Xiaomi devices priced at any budget, developers have ...
Android

Samsung's One UI 8 Reportedly Kills Unlocking Bootloader

Samsung’s One UI 8 update reportedly removes the option to unlock the bootloader on many Galaxy devices. This change impacts advanced users who customize their phones with custom ROMs or root access.
Android

Xiaomi tightens bootloader unlocking restrictions on HyperOS

Xiaomi just introduced strict restrictions to unlocking the bootloader on its HyperOS-running phones, citing security and data protection. While MIUI devices offer some amount of flexibility in this ...
Ars Technica

Asus to unlock Transformer Prime's bootloader, issue Android 4 update

It is interesting that Google videos is requiring the bootloader to be locked? Sounds odd to me... That being said, the asus device is a great tablet... That's just stupid. So Asus should be ...
Android Authority

Samsung may be killing bootloader unlocking on all phones with One UI 8

Samsung appears to be disabling bootloader unlocking in One UI 8 on more devices than before. Previously, only US models lacked the OEM Unlock toggle, but the restriction now seems to be spreading to ...