Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority
TL;DR
- A leak claims that Pixel 10 phones (except the 10a) are set to receive a bootloader update that’ll prevent downgrading to older Android versions.
- The change relies on Android’s Anti-rollback (ARB) protection.
- Once the update is introduced, recovering from issues in some cases might require sideloading a full OTA image to avoid bricking.
Google may be preparing to tighten software downgrade protections on the Pixel 10 series.
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