Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install...
by orbital-decay on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:44PM
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Not anymore, since OneUI 8. And before that, by unlocking the bootloader you were tripping Samsung's e-fuse, permanently marking the hardware as unlocked. That's why nobody ever bothered making custom firmware builds for Samsung devices.
Sideloading doesn't require rooting the device.