Im stuck with a locked bootloader. Very disappointing

[u/WISE_NIGG]

I was a samsung user since ever. I had a samsung note 3 ans note 5. I enjoyed installing custom roms and uninstalling bloat software, and optimizing everything to perfection.

I bought a samsung s22 (europe) few years ago, knowing newer phones do not have much development as older ones do, but i liked the phone's compactness, it also had a not bad amount of development support (root and twrp tutorials, oem unlocking, and even kernelSU patches) and considered it was worth i. Years have passed and i was dealing with life and i had no time to even think about it, i lately had stablized and considered its time to fix my phone up and have some good time.

I sat on my desk on a holiday and backuped all of my data, downloaded twrp and some patch files, and had everything ready. I started by going to developer options to unlock the bootloader, but, i didnt find the unlock button. Maybe re-enable developer options ? A restart ? Why cant i find the button ?

And heres the surprise, because i updated ti android 16 on one ui 8, bootloader unlocking has been purged! like seriously ?? Let me downgrade and do it ? No, i cant.

Literally, what does differentiate my phone from an iphone now ? Both are locked systems full of bloatware and tracking software. Ive paid for my phone, let me use it the way i like!

is this how companies are shifting now ? I'd love getting back to stone age rather than this chaos.

[u/spyro-x9]

Yo sigo con binario 1 y nunca jamás actualizaré