The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. For those of you who are unaware, the bootloader is the code that's responsible for initiating the operating system and ...

Chinese technology giant Huawei and its sub-brand Honor have been slowly garnering more respect among the Android enthusiast community in the past year. With timely software updates, commitments to ...

In July, Huawei announced that it will no longer users to unlock the bootloaders of its devices. Before then, the company had for several years allowed users to unlock the bootloaders of their phones.

Huawei has announced that it will stop providing bootloader unlock codes for its future devices. The confirmation follows an issue Huawei/Honor handset owners were experiencing earlier this month in ...

HONOR is now offering a limited number of bootloader unlock codes via the XDA forum. The HUAWEI sub-brand requires applicants to be a member of the forum to qualify for a code. The codes only apply to ...

Most OEMs are pretty bad about supporting their software in the long run, but Huawei does do a pretty solid job of giving its users options. For a while now, the company has given its customers the ...

Huawei has quietly announced that it's discontinuing its bootloader unlock code application service. For every product launched after today, May 24, this will not be available at all. For products ...

Update 5/25/2018 at 9:28 A.M. EST: As mentioned in the article below, we reached out to HUAWEI to get a statement on this bootloader issue. We just got our response, which we’ve reprinted in full ...