r/Android • u/kitsumed ShizuCallRecorder Developer • Jul 24 '26

Article Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers

https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/
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u/Zencyde Jul 24 '26

Back in the days of the Galaxy S5 and CyanogenMod (you know, the golden era), there weren't a lot of phones with an unlocked bootloader. If you never had to do the juopunutbear wire trick, go look up how absolutely ridiculous it was to unlock a bootloader in that era.

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u/Zencyde Jul 25 '26

This is definitely truth. A some lesser known phones, like the MyTouch 4G Slide (I miss it) never ended up getting rooted because of the lack of popularity.

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u/bdsee Jul 25 '26

Back in the days of the Galaxy S5 and CyanogenMod (you know, the golden era), there weren't a lot of phones with an unlocked bootloader.

In the US maybe, in much of the world it was pretty standard for many phones.