Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Have an LG smartphone and want to unlock the bootloader so you can install a custom recovery, custom ROM, or other firmware? Now you can do that… maybe. LG’s last few flagship phones have shipped with ...

The LG G5 has been out for a good little while now, and many tinkerers have been wanting to unlock the bootloader so they can mess around with some custom ROMs, kernels and the like. As many of you ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. As a reminder, unlocking the bootloader of your phone allows you the opportunity to do things like flash a ROM ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. We may be just days away from the release of the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon, and I’m sure that many are starting ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Unlocking smartphone bootloaders isn’t as popular as it used to be, but it’s still an option for those who like to tinker with their technology. You can still unlock the Google Pixel 3 bootloader, ...

Motorola has surprisingly launched a new tool which they have designed to help users unlock certain Motorola devices, such as the Photon Q, RAZR developer edition, XOOM (Verizon), and XOOM WiFi. This ...

A couple of weeks ago, HTC announced that they would be releasing their bootloader unlock tool for a number of HTC devices this month. True to their word, HTC has now released the bootloader unlock ...

Xiaomi is among few smartphone manufacturers that really promote third-party development by offering a different set of tools. Xiaomi provides Xiaomi MI Unlock Tool to unlock the bootloader of all the ...