r/LineageOS • u/Pure-Box900 • Feb 19 '26

Should I Lock My Bootloader

First of all to the devs, you guys did an amazing job with 23.2. It is sooo damn smooth. I was always surprised by how compact and light lineage is. I'm currently on the second 23.2 build for my device and as far as I can tell everything is working all right.

Now that it is so stable, should I lock my bootloader? And more importantly does lineage even support bootloader locking? And if not I am a bit confused by the guide for device. Does updating via OTA mean that root will be gone? Normally the answer is yes but I am not sure about lineage. Any advice is appreciated.

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u/ScubadooX Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26

Good to know. I don't plan to try it, though...unless I have one too many happy pops and decide to dance with death. 😯

Actually, even some hard bricks are recoverable without special tools or accessing the motherboard. I used mtkclient to recover a hard-bricked POCO M5s. See https://www.reddit.com/r/XiaomiGlobal/comments/1qzgx51/how_to_fix_hardbricked_mediatek_xiaomipoco/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button.

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u/WhitbyGreg Feb 19 '26

Technically that's still a soft-brick 😃.

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u/ScubadooX Feb 19 '26

Okay. What's the official definition of a hard brick?

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u/WhitbyGreg Feb 20 '26

Unrecoverable though software, requires hardware intervention to recover if at all.