Asus has announced plans to unlock the bootloader on its Eee Pad Transformer Prime and bring Android 4 to the device by January 12. After facing customer scrutiny Monday for locking and encrypting ...

The Asus Transformer Prime will be getting Ice Cream Sandwich on 12 January, with an unlocked bootloader en route. Asus Transformer Prime gets Android 4.0, unlocked bootloader - CNET X ...

The Nexus 5 is a Nexus. Of course I'm sure you figured that out. But what that means is that the device was meant to be easily hackable. This also means ...

With HyperOS, Xiaomi will now allow users to unlock the bootloader on their Android phones. This, however, isn’t really a change, as Xiaomi has required users to apply to unlock their bootloader ...

ASUS took to its Facebook page on Tuesday to ease tensions from an increasing number of customers unhappy with the locked bootloader on the quad-core … ...

While one group of Android phone makers is swinging towards locking their hardware down, Sony Ericsson is resolutely headed in the other direction. The Swedo-Japanese consortium has just announced ...

First off, the bootloader isn't part of Android, it's what lets the device boot into Android. Device manufacturers generally want you to stick to the version of Android they preloaded on the device.

If you want to flash Android 13 onto your Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, or Pixel 6A, you won’t be able to flash back to Android 12 later because of a bootloader update.