Shawn is a software engineer and a mobile tech degenerate by night. His daily drivers are a Galaxy S7 Edge and an iPhone 6S Plus. In addition to things like stock Android and being carrier-unlocked, ...

Xiaomi Mi 9 is the flagship device of the Chinese smartphone maker. The successor of Mi 8 carries high-end specifications and features. Due to immense popularity, third-party developers have developed ...

The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are considered among the best Android smartphones currently available on the market, sporting high-end specs and features and a stock Android experience. The two ...

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 ...

OnePlus launched the new flagship series – OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro earlier this month carrying high-end specifications. Both the devices are on sale in India, China, the US, and some European ...

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 ...

For folks concerned with bootloaders, make note that the Pixel and Pixel XL from Verizon have had their bootloaders unlocked, thanks to efforts of the Sunshine team and the release of dePixel8. With ...

Following the successful effort to unlock the Verizon Pixel bootloader earlier this week, developers @firewaterdevs @jcase and @therootninja have publicly released a Pixel bootloader unlock tool ...

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There is now a bootloader unlock request form on OnePlus’ official website. Requesting to unlock the bootloader of a OnePlus device would go against the company’s history in a big way. However, it’s ...

The Hisense A9 is an Android phone with a 6.1 inch, 1248 x 824 pixel greyscale E Ink display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor, and support for up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Unlocking the ...