Although I have never owned a Snapdragon variant (only Exynos), I could understand the frustration of not having complete control over the device you paid for and own. A few even denied buying any Samsung devices in the future just for the sole reason of not having the ability to unlock the bootloader.Īnd I would like to agree. Here’s a little thread on the official Samsung community where several users/enthusiasts expressed their concerns. Well, this surely implies that a lot of Samsung’s customers out there are looking for the means to modify their phone’s software. Over the years, the community members at the XDA-Developer forums have also held bounties to get the bootloader unlocked on their Snapdragon Galaxy devices. Whatever the reason might be, I think Samsung should have found a proper way to comply with carrier demands while still encouraging and supporting the custom development base. Samsung could have supported custom development better So they stuck with one hardware unit and made the differences in the software front. Yes, but then it would also mean that Samsung would need to manufacturer another set of units with a different on-chip primary bootloader, which certainly adds to the manufacturing costs. “ What about the unlocked versions of the phones then? There are no carriers involved“, you might ask. And if not all of them, then at least the majority. And why is this? Because the mobile carriers in the US demand so.
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