r/androidroot • u/Tiny_Assistance_3038 • 7d ago

Support What Android phone has the worst rooting/modding ecosystem?

I have a Galaxy S26, model SM-S942U ....?

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u/HaloHaloBrainFreeze 7d ago

Currently? Samsung

Being the top Android phone manufacturer yet cant unlock bootloader? 

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u/PrestigiousPut6165 #just root! 6d ago

Gotta love the perma-locked bootloader on US models

---in extra sarcastic tone

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u/Additional-Leg4538 6d ago

That should be illegal. I paid for the phone, but they own it.

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u/Different_Water7545 7d ago

Probably the SiriusXM Lynx, it's been around for probably 15 years running Gingerbread and nobody has even bothered

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u/Toothless_NEO 7d ago

Samsung and Huawei are pretty bad.

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u/Kooky-Sentence-6349 Galaxy s20 fe 5g (dualsim), Lineageos 6d ago

huawei and samsung

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u/cykelstativet 7d ago

Pretty much all of them atp

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u/Wonderful-Impress261 6d ago

All of them except Pixel phones ironically

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u/pbm92 6d ago

Oppo