The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge incorporate many protections making their bootloaders may remain locked with no alternative can be found. This is what announces the famous XDA Developers forum, nerve center of the custom Android scene.
One of the main strengths of the Android operating system for techies is the possibility unlock the bootloader phones, gain root privileges of our machines and install alternative roms.
This is a proposal all the more tempting than TouchWizz on Samsung Galaxy is a very controversial overlay: although effective for ordinary people, many find it too energy intensive and prefers a more pure Android
Unlocking the bootloader allows to install ROM. AOSP approaching the experience offered by the Nexus Google, making you can have the best of both worlds: a phone built by Samsung, and use and freer inherited customization of open source Android.
Unfortunately, it seems that the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will be a problem in this area, such as discovering the gradually XDA developers looking at new smartphones Korean. They are stranded on a phone full of difficult to circumvent security.
locked bootloader on the Galaxy S7 with Snapdragon 820
Note that these phones are available in two variants . an American powered by a Snapdragon 820, and an international (the one we find in France) with the Exynos 8890 created by Samsung
in both variants, the secure download of Android is activated by default. Although normally to be easily switched off in developers options, no one could flash any ROM since a second audit was that they had to be signed by Samsung or operator to be accepted by phones.
And this verification is to lie with the Qualcomm processor with the secureboot, which for the moment is not circumvented. US variants are all impacted and a solution has not been found yet Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge US may well remain locked for life
With regard. the Exynos version of happily publishing the source code of the kernel of the phones by Samsung have allowed developers to find a way install a custom recovery (TWRP) disabling startup checks, and root method is already available in beta.
Our European versions can therefore have their bootloader unlocked, but in the absence of a major part of the development ROM (developers US / Canada) ago hopefully a real scene created
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