The frustrating part about this is that it's getting more difficult to flash ROMs onto most phones, not easier. For instance, all Samsung Galaxy flagships since the S6 have a locked bootloader. If you have the US-based Snapdragon models, it's nearly impossible to unlock them and load custom ROMs.

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And if you somehow do, Samsung caps your battery at 80% or so. There are notable exceptions. The OnePlus phones are easy to flash, as are Sony Experia models. But for the average person just looking to get a few more years out of their device, the OEMs have made it very clear how much they resent you keeping your phone beyond the two year mark. Shablon psd voditeljskih prav. > With Android being the concrete pillar of stable OSes that it is, I would blame them for building a phone that can explode because of a software flaw. Obviously they didn't build a phone that can blow up on purpose, and you don't actually have to have a real chance of it happening for other models for your legal department to tell you to cover your ass really, really well. It's not like these batteries haven't exploded in other contexts as well.

Li-Ion batteries have been known to explode for a long time now. The problem with Samsung's phones was a defect that caused it to be far more likely. Also, the difference between software and hardware is much more fuzzy these days when talking about firmware.

Some chips (what you might consider hardware) in the phone have their own little operating systems embedded and running in them. A safe bet is to buy whatever device google sells from the google store. All the nexus and pixel devices sold directly by google have unlockable bootloaders. Recently, google has made things worse by selling ones that can't be unlocked through carriers.

From a security standpoint, google's devices are also the only ones that let you verify a third party firmware with your own keys etc. At least that's one of the reasons cited by copperheadOS. I don't think other manufacturers have that feature, even if they allow unlocking the bootloader.

Said differently: > I had both an HTC One M7 and an M9, and while yes, unlocks are easy, that is only true if you buy directly from HTC. OTOH, if you wanted to use them on Verizon's network, you needed a Verizon-branded phone So if you buy a HTC phone, it's easy to unluck? And if you buy a Verizon phone, it's hard to unlock? How can you blame HTC for the shortcomings on a defective phone you bought from Verizon?

That's like me blaming Lenovo for problems I have with the MacBooks and OSX at work. It just makes no sense. Firstly, I didn't blame HTC, I blamed Verizon, hence 'So where the OEM's allowed flexibility, the carriers swooped in to fill that void.' Secondly, throwing the issue of 'blame' aside and trying to imply that the planned obsolescence phone is somehow the fault of the consumer, you need to consider that until very recently, you had to buy a specific hardware variant of the phone if you wanted your phone to work on Sprint or Verizon, because of the CDMA networks. It wasn't a matter of being a 'Verizon-branded' phone.

If you wanted to use the phone on Verizon at all, you had to buy the Verizon-specific version (even through HTC directly), and if so, the bootloader was locked. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to switch carriers if your current carrier is an ass, because they might be the only one servicing your area. So if you're on Verizon and you want a smartphone, there was a time when that meant you were likely bootloader-locked.