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Custom Recovery has finally made its way to the LG G5. Now before you get too excited this is currently only available for the international variant H850. The international variant is the only version of the device that has an official bootloader unlock method from LG. The other variants are...

If you were looking for a good reason to buy an LG G5 I may have found one for you! The LG G5 is now supported by LG's Official Bootloader Unlock tool! For now this is only available for the European H850 variant. You will need to obtain your device's ID and use it to unlock the bootloader on...

Normally to unlock the bootloader of a Xiaomi phone you would need to first register your phone with Xiaomi then wait 2-3 weeks for the unlock code. Developer "wolkenjaeger" ran into an issue with his device and did not have time to wait for the code so he figured out how to unlocke the...

Yesterday we learned that all US Snapdragon 820 variants of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge were bootloader locked. The bootloaders are locked with in a way in which they need an OEM key to be unlocked. This is pretty frustrating for power users who bought the phones with hopes they would be able to...

In case you missed it all US variants of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge have locked bootloaders. This is a huge blow for those of us with high hopes of running AOSP on a Snapdragon processor. It was several years ago that CyanogenMod announced that they would not officially support phones with Exynos...

One of the top reasons for me to purchase the Nexus 6P was the fact that I could buy it directly from Huawei and use it on any carrier that I wanted. This also meant my carrier, Verizon, couldn't add any of their own bloatware to the device! According to the FCC filings the Galaxy S7 will ship...

The $200 super budget phone from Huawei has just gotten a bit better. I reviewed this phone a few days ago. So far out of all the phones I have used in this price range the Honor 5X is my favorite. Obviously it cuts a few corners to get to $200 like no OIS, no nfc, and last gen wifi radios, but...

Earlier today I published my full review of the Honor 5X. Considering the price point this is one of the best phones your $200 can buy hands down. The one major problem I had with the device is the Emotion UI skin overlay. It is super heavy and just tends to bog things down. One way you can fix...

The Huawei Mate 8 can now be rooted! In order to root the Mate 8 you will need an unlocked bootloader. There are a few ways to go about this. The legit OEM method requires you to Make a Huawei ID and stay logged in for 14 days before being able to unlock the bootloader through their developer...

Having an unlocked bootloader means that you have full control of your phone's software. You can flash mods, custom roms, and root your device with ease if your bootloader is unlocked. So far Xiaomi phones have has unlocked bootloaders. This has led to some devices showing up on customer's doors...

In an unprecedented move Verizon is allowing Moto X 2nd Gen phones to be bootloader unlocked via the traditional method. You can now head on over to the Motorola developer site and it will generate a proper bootloader unlock code. I am still not sure if Verizon had any say in this matter, or if...

The Huawei Mate 8 was shown off at CES the other day. It basically looks like a Nexus 6P with a janky Android overlay. Huawei's EMUI is not my favorite with its heavy theming and lack of an app drawer. It can quickly become a mess depending on how many apps you have installed on your phone. If...

The HTC One A9 seems to have been quite the flop. It is HTC's mid tier offering for late 2015. It looks eerily similar to the iPhone 6s, however HTC will swear to you that Apple stole design ques from them when designing the iPhone 6. That is neither here nor there. One great thing about the A9...

If you want to Rom or root your device the best phone for you is a phone that is easily bootloader unlockable. Once you have your bootloader unlocked you can install a custom recovery which allows you to flash supersu.zip to root. You can also flash roms and make complete nandroid backups with a...

TheRootNinja team including Beaups and Jcase decided to give us a tasty treat on Thanksgiving day. They released the first ever Bootloader Unlock method for the Droid Turbo. This will pave the way for all kinds of Roms and mods on that device. One of the main reasons these vulnerabilities are...

Unlocking the Bootloader on most phones is normally pretty simple. It simply requires that you boot the phone into fastboot and then run the "oem unlock" command. That won't work with the Zuk Z1. The reason for this is that the device does not show up as a fastboot device. You have to specifiy...

First off I would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Hopefully yours was as joy filled as mine. Nothing beats great food and time with friends and family! As I was sitting on the couch about to fall asleep from the Tryptophan I saw in my twitter feed a little teaser pic that P3droid...

Why buy the HTC One A9? If you were an early adopter you were able to preorder it at $399 which one could argue is too much for a phone with these specs. Maybe you just loved the design of the phone which is reminiscent of the iPhone 6 (don't tell an HTC fan boy this they will chop your head off...

Bootloader unlocking veterans probably did the same thing I did when they first got their Nexus 6P. Of course the first thing I wanted to do was get that bootloader unlocked and get TWRP installed. I plugged my 6P into my PC and proceeded to boot the phone into fastboot mode so I could unlock...

If you decided to skip the Galaxy S6 in favor of holding on to your Verizon Galaxy S5 you made a good choice! It took several months just to get the Verizon Galaxy S5 rooted. The Galaxy S5 community pulled their resources together pledging over $20,000 for a root method. Not long after the...