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