Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android used to be synonymous with freedom. If you didn’t like your phone’s interface or bloatware, you could simply install a custom ROM — the colloquial term for a forked version of the Android operating system. But that golden era is quickly disappearing, as yet another major Android fork has run into troubles. CalyxOS, a …
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Custom ROMs have declined in popularity in recent years. The modding community now primarily focuses on adding a new lease of life to older devices, instead of releasing custom ROMs for new flagship phones. The first step to root or mod any phone requires unlocking its bootloader, a step that many companies have made unnecessarily complex in recent years. Samsung …
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While the vast majority of Samsung Galaxy device owners don’t tinker with the software on their phones, there’s a community of Android enthusiasts that love rooting devices, unlocking the bootloader to run custom ROMs and kernels. That has so far been possible on Samsung devices outside the United States. However, new evidence has surfaced that reveals One UI 8 has …
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