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Samsung Galaxy S III Neo

Phone · Samsung
Partial Bootloader unlock + custom ROM
Difficulty
Moderate
Brick risk
Medium
Legal risk
Low

Not stock root. Needs an unlocked bootloader and a custom ROM.

US carrier Samsung Snapdragon models (AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile/Sprint/US Cellular) are typically bootloader-locked and cannot be unlocked.

How-to

How to

Unlock the bootloader and install custom firmware (postmarketOS and Ubuntu Touch). postmarketOS status: testing.

Follow the specialist sources linked on this page. If this path is a jailbreak, unlock, or flash, the specialist wiki is the how-to — we do not copy those steps here.

Notes

Ubuntu Touch and postmarketOS builds for this device are based on LineageOS device trees.

postmarketOS builds for this device are based on LineageOS kernel source.