Comment by heavyset_go
4 months ago
Even phones from Motorola require you to literally ask permission to unlock your bootloader via a form on their website, which they then unlock remotely or you enter some generated code.
Other manufacturers do the same, where you have to wait a period of like 45 days before being able to unlock, and then have to ask permission on their website to unlock your bootloader.
And good lock unlocking anything over 5 years old because the updated website doesn't support what you've got. Been there, it sucks.
To be fair, for "anything over 5 years old" you can probably find a privilege escalation exploit.
Do tell me when you find one for unlocking the bootloader of an LG G6, been looking for one for a few years now :)
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the question is not "being able to", the question is "being able to with a reasonable effort".
wandering the web to find an exploit is way beyond my spare time.
That might get you root but not a bootloader unlock.
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iiuc that is because malicious actors were buying phones in bulk, flashing them with backdoored/malicious operating systems, then re-selling them to people.