The screenshots looked beautiful. It was a world away from the bloated interface he was used to. The users in the comments were ecstatic. "Fast as lightning," one user wrote. "Finally, this phone feels new again," said another.
Elias scrambled. He ripped apart his backpack, digging through a tangle of earphones and old receipts. Finally, his fingers brushed the frayed plastic of his charging cable. He plugged it into the wall, then fumbled the micro-USB end (a cursed port he despised) toward the phone.
Recent firmware updates (versions ending in .500+) may permanently lock the bootloader via "fuse-blowing" updates, making future unlocking impossible. Custom ROMs and Recoveries