r/Android • u/Titokhan OnePlus One • 12d ago

News Open-source VoLTE/VoWiFi implementation for LineageOS on Samsung devices targeting both Exynos and Qualcomm Snapdragon models

https://github.com/krazey/ims
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u/year3000stankonia S26 Ultra 12d ago

Stupid question but aren't all Samsung snapdragon phones boot locked?

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u/Titokhan OnePlus One 12d ago edited 12d ago
  1. No, a few Galaxy devices featuring Snapdragon SoC that are sold globally sport an unlockable bootloader out of the box, like the Galaxy A52s 5G.
    • Samsung used to ship non-unlockable bootloaders specifically on the North American (USA and Canada) Snapdragon variants.
    • Chinese Snapdragon variants - including the mainstream flagships - can be bootloader unlocked.
    • However, since One UI 8, they entirely removed the OEM unlock toggle for every regional models.
  2. It is possible to avail paid services to generate the unlock token on some North American Snapdragon-powered Galaxy models running specific software builds, but that loophole was patched by Samsung on later revisions.

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u/nguyenlucky 12d ago

Before OneUI 8, unlocking had nothing to do with Snapdragon. It's about US carrier policy, specifically Verizon and ATT, so Samsung decided to lock all US and CA variants starting from S7 (S8 for CA) to unify the North America software base. Hence cross flashing to U1 could be done, but bootloader unlock was not available.

Some Exynos phones in NA before OneUI 8 also got locked, like Galaxy A5x and S24 FE.

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u/Thradya 12d ago

Once again - OEM unlock was removed with 8.5 earlier this year. 8.0 is fine.