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Similarly, another developer from XDA Developers launched a service to allow users to unlock the bootloaders of Samsung Galaxy S20 and Samsung Galaxy S21 Phones. Huawei announced plans to allow users to unlock the bootloader of the Mate 30 series, but later retracted that. [21] Huawei has stopped providing bootloader unlock codes since 2018. [22]
The term, Subsidy Password, is used by Motorola and other handset manufacturers to refer to the 8-digit code (or 16-digit code for phones such as the Motorola K1) unlock code necessary to remove the operator lock (also known as subsidy lock) from cell phones.
After the PUK code is entered, the PIN must be reset. If the wrong PUK is entered ten times in a row, the SIM card will become permanently blocked and unrecoverable, requiring a replacement. Mobile phone users are therefore advised by most providers to keep their PUK written down in a safe place separate from the device.
The code itself, being open source, was forked around December 2016 under the new name LineageOS and efforts began to resume development as a community project. [ 15 ] On January 22, 2017, the first official builds of LineageOS versions 14.1 and 13.0 became available, following the official announcement in a blog post. [ 17 ]
This is a list of free and open-source software packages (), computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]
In early 2018 Huawei released a new flagship phone, the Huawei P20 Pro, one of the first triple camera lens setups with Leica optics. [117] In late 2018, Samsung released a new mid-range smartphone, the Galaxy A9 (2018) with the world's first quad camera setup. The Nokia 9 PureView was released in 2019 featuring a penta-lens camera system. [118]
EulerOS is a commercial Linux distribution developed by Huawei based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux [2] to provide an operating system for server and cloud environments. [3] [4] Its open-source community version is known as openEuler; the source code of openEuler was released by Huawei at Gitee in 2020.
In December 2016, the CyanogenMod developer group forked and re-branded the CyanogenMod code into a new project named LineageOS, which is built on top of CyanogenMod versions 13 and 14.1 [71] and uses the name LineageOS for subsequent releases. [72] This project is supported by the community-operated LineageOS Project. [73]