Remember the original Quest headset that Meta (then Oculus) trumpeted back in 2019? Meta seems to hope you don’t, since the company officially stopped supporting the wireless VR headset in 2023 to ...

The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. Like the Google Nexus series, the Google Pixel smartphones are among the easiest devices to unlock the bootloader, root, ...

To be clear, this does NOT work on the Google Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL. Attempting this on those devices could cause major issues up-to-and-including bricking the phone. Don’t try it! That’s it! You now ...

Unlocking the bootloader is the first step to unlocking the true potential of your Android smartphone. A bootloader is a small program that places the operating system on to your devices' memory. Some ...

Lilbits: Asahi Linux on Apple M3, bootloader unlock for the Fire Max 11, and Acer and Lenovo's unusual new laptops ...

Ryne was ostensibly a senior editor at Android Police, working at the site from 2017-2022. But really, he is just some verbose dude who digs on tech, loves Android, and hates anticompetitive practices ...

All the recently launched Xiaomi devices come with HyperOS, a more refined version of MIUI. However, unlocking the bootloader does make sense in some instances. For example, with an unlocked ...

A low-end Android purchase landed me at the XDA forums in 2011, trying to get the most out of it with the help of custom ROMs. After helping the community as a Recognized Contributor and a Forum ...