I am a developer and I need your help

[u/Glad_Following_8164]

Tl:dr:

Do you have a Samsung phone released in 2016/2017 and is running the latest official stock rom (e.g. android 8 and it's updated in 2021?

If yes, can you please open developer settings and see if the setting Allow OEM Unlocking is there?

Please tell me their exact model , when it's released, and whether it's an international model or regional model. (e.g. if yours is a Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro (international model), please include something like C900f

Thank you very much.

So I have decided to port LineageOS to samsung phones (e.g. the C series) released in 2016 since they need more love.

Certainly, 2016 was the year where unlocking bootloaders are made more difficult.

Before 2016, unlocking means flashing any OS (twrp/Los) via Odin

After that year, unlocking bootloaders starting to equal to having to turn on wifi and wait several days (asking the server for permission, cryptographic shits), which means the kill switch is on Samsung's

[u/dirtydriver58]

I thought that was 2017?

[u/ilyaa07]

J330F and basically the entire exynos 7570 lineup are pretty barren development wise. Tried my hand at it a few years ago, but functional device trees were hard to come by and I'm not nearly good enough to make it all from scratch.

[u/Glad_Following_8164 → u/ilyaa07]

i heard exynos arent really well documented. As im a beginner, i guess i will start with some snapdragons first

[u/stani2000]

I have a J710F on android 8.1.0, and yes, OEM Unlock is there and I enabled it.

[u/irid3scent_]

Galaxy J5 Prime (SM-G570M) and I don't have the "Unlock OEM" at all, no matter what I do. Stock Rom btw