Huawei has been selling a somewhat popular line of mid-range phones under its Honor sub-brand for the past few years. And while they tend to offer decent specs at a decent price, there’s been another selling point for some folks: Honor has offered an official method for unlocking the bootloader and partnered with xda-developers to encourage […]
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Windows Phone Internals 2.2 can unlock all Lumia phones (root, custom ROMs, and more)
Comments Off on Windows Phone Internals 2.2 can unlock all Lumia phones (root, custom ROMs, and more)Microsoft may have pretty much given up on Windows Phone, but if you’ve got a Lumia smartphone running Windows Phone software there’s a new tool that you can use to unlock the bootloader and flash custom firmware. About two years after releasing a version of Windows Phone Internals that could unlock some Lumia devices running […]
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Canada requires all new smartphones to be carrier unlocked (starting in December)
Buy a smartphone from a wireless carrier in the United States, and there’s a pretty good chance that it’ll be locked to that carrier, making it difficult to switch from Verizon to AT&T, for example, while keeping the same phone. The situation is pretty much the same in Canada… for now. But starting in December, […]
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Yep, the Google Pixel phones have unlockable bootloaders*
Google may be done selling Nexus smartphones, but that doesn’t mean the company’s new Pixel phones don’t have some of the same developer-friendly features. Wondering whether the Google Pixel and Pixel XL would have unlockable bootloaders, Dallas Thomas from Android Wonder HowTo reached out to Google for comment. The short answer? Yep. The longer answer: […]
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ZTE offers official bootloader unlock for Axon 7, Axon Pro smartphones
The ZTE Axon line of smartphones offer high-end specs at upper mid-range prices: the new ZTE Axon 7 smartphone sells for $400, and you can pick up last year’s Axon Pro for $350. But what if you want a bit more control over your phone than ZTE gives you out of the box? Now the […]
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Unlock the Asus Zenfone 2 bootloader (unofficially)
The Asus Zenfone 2 is a smartphone with a fast processor, a good display, and a reasonable price tag: for $199 you can get a model with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, or you can pay $299 for a model with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. While I was pretty impressed […]
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LG releases bootloader unlock tool (for only one phone so far)
Have an LG smartphone and want to unlock the bootloader so you can install a custom recovery, custom ROM, or other firmware? Now you can do that… maybe. LG’s last few flagship phones have shipped with locked bootloaders, and while there have been unofficial tools for getting around that, LG didn’t officially support unlocking your […]
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Major US carriers let you unlock your phones, don’t always make it easy
There’s good news and bad news for folks in the US looking to unlock their smartphones so they can be used with a different wireless carrier. The good news is that earlier this month all the major US wireless carriers (and a few less well-known operators) started allowing customers to unlock their phones, in accordance […]
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Now you can unlock the bootloader on Kindle Fire HDX tablets
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX tablets have 7 inch or 8.9 inch displays, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processors, 2GB of RAM, and Amazon’s custom version of Google Android, called Fire OS. Hackers have been finding ways to replace Fire OS with custom firmware for a while, but up until recently that process has involved a tool called […]
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T-Mobile releases a Device Unlock app (for one phone… so far)
T-Mobile has released an app that lets you unlock your GSM phone so it can be used on other networks. All you need to do is download the Device Unlock app from the Google Play Store and choose from the permanent unlock or temporary unlock option (which can come in handy for international travelers). The closest […]