Feels great having full control over my device, i removed all the OEM and google trackers/telemetry/spyware and replaced OEM apps with FOSS ones (SMS/phone/file manager). as soon as my device gets official lineageOS support i plan on installing that.

I had to pay a person on the XDA fourms $150 to do it, and voided my warrenty in the process, but i think it was worth it.

Anyone else here with rooted devices or running custom ROMs?

  • RussianEngineer [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    its the galaxy S21 U.S/Canada model. normally the bootloader is permanantly locked, but there was a way around it, basically you pay some guy and give them your DID number, they go through their own source (probably some employee in a samsung server farm) and return a few hours later with a patched Odin executable and a file to flash in the AP slot. when flashed, the devices bootloader is permanently unlocked as long as a specific file isnt overwritten. it worked and when i ran into issues they where very helpful and it all worked in the end so im not complaining