How to Unlock the Bootloader on Your Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL

Root, TWRP, Xposed, Magisk, custom ROMs — before you can have any of these, the first thing you should do is unlock your bootloader. Thankfully, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are some of the most modder-friendly phones out there, so you only need to send a single fastboot command to unlock the bootloader. For the uninitiated, the bootloader is a piece of software on your phone that loads up the core OS — think of it like BIOS for Windows. But by default, the bootloader will only load official firmware files from the device OEM, which means you can't flash custom recovery images like TWRP to... more

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