Members of the XDA Developers community have found an unpleasant surprise in the new Galaxy Z Fold 3 smartphones from Samsung. As it turned out, upon obtaining root rights and access to the bootloader of the Galaxy Z Fold 3, the user will be deprived of the opportunity to use the smartphone’s cameras.
Samsung devices use the Knox security system, which will void the gadget’s warranty; as well as disable the Samsung Pay payment service if the bootloader is unlocked. And if it was possible to put up with these disadvantages; then non-working cameras are a completely different level of compromise; which the owner of the Galaxy Z Fold 3 will have to make; if he wants to get full access to the device.
As XDA Developers points out, in the process of unlocking the bootloader, a warning is displayed on the last screen that this operation will disable the cameras. After booting the device with the unlocked bootloader, the standard camera application stops working like all other camera-related functions.
Non-working cameras also mean that the user will no longer be able to unlock the device using facial recognition technology. In addition, other applications and functions that use any of the smartphone cameras, including third-party applications for shooting, stop working. They will shut down, give errors, or just start with a dark screen.
Relocking the bootloader restores the cameras to work, which indicates the software nature of the protection. XDA Developers suggests that with root rights, you can try to detect and change the parameters that the bootloader sends to the OS and thus avoid blocking the camera. However, enthusiasts have not yet come to a solution to this problem.
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