[Samsung Galaxy A34] PayinIndiAzzTech:
Thanks for asking. Allow me a breakdown of whats most likely is going on inside smartphone biz.

On recent (<Feb 2023 )Firmwares onwards the bootloader is being constantly patched by samsung, This is why Treble-compliant GSIs don't boot rather only device specific Custom ROMs boot which is totally at the mercy of a developer who might be interested in developing for a specific samsung device. Unfortunately, the developers aren't taking much interest in mid-range & high-end samsung devices for fear of being targeted by OEMs so they mostly develop for popular budget samsungs which might not irk the OEMs a lot. In the below Image the network was broken but when I restored the EFS partition and reflashed latest OOS, even with a sim card the bootloader shows unlocked (under Dev Options) but is not fully unlocked (OEM LOCK ON in Download Mode-> which acts as bootloader in samsung phones) because it is patched. The same issue is repeating on my Galaxy A71 4G variant, though the device is 3 years old but the latest android 13 Stock OS bootloader is patched and Binary(BIT) is fused to 10. So again another wait for 2-3 years before some developer has mercy to take interest in this device (highly unlikely for older devices as their TWRP & ROM devs have long hung up their boots for older devices) because old Custom ROMs, GSI will no longer boot because BL is patched. So samsung is upgrading the old device Firmwares then locking the bootloader while falsely showing that the BL is unlocked while the customer is unable to roll back; so in other words- PLANNED OBSOLETION AT ITS GRANDEST FORM. ;)

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The Business-Schools aren't producing fools you know, samsungs case possibly gives an a rough idea of the South Asian electronics market sales strategy scene too & also south asian political scene probably. Just by merely observing samsungs strategy with respect to older samsung devices one can understand whats going on inside samsung HQ business minds most likely.

So this is what I think samsung is doing- Samsung is obviously collaborating with google. Google obviously gets its share from samsung but samsung obviously won't just want to make money on electronic smartphones (approx $30-40 Bil out of approx $230 Bil of total samsung revenues is from smartphones) so it wants to push samsung services + favored third party apps inside the phone to make more money. So, how does samsung achieve that? By keeping Samsung Services Apps as NON-REMOVABLE SYSTEM APPS & 3rd-party apps as REMOVABLE APPS. But what about china? so what about the South Asian political angle? How does samsung help SK in keeping those NK & Chinese missiles at bay? By giving away a chunk of its smartphone market share to China & obviously china would then give a share to NK (its little bro) too. So how much does samsung give away? LOYALTY- Its obvious that samsung wouldn't want its LOYAL customers to drift away to chinese devices (because its loyal customer base most likely uses Samsung Services & Samsung promoted 3rd-party apps), so what percentage of customers can samsung afford to drift away towards chinese devices? Simple check on the net reveals approx 30% phones were rooted back in 2014. So in 2023, maybe 40%? I guess probabaly 30% of samsung smartphones might be rooted. Doesn't samsung know that? Obviously it knows how many samsung bootloaders are unlocked, so what does samsung do about those DISLOYAL customers who decided to unlock bootloaders? BOOM! Almost no TWRP developers anymore in 2023 ONLY PORTERS (PORTED ROM Devs) ON EVERY SAMSUNG THREAD LOL..so now you see whats the connection between Samsung and Developers? The connection is obviously GOOGLE! Yes, so samsung contacts its daddy google to do something about ROOTERS? And what does google do? Google puts all those developers who dared to make TWRPs & other mods on the Blacklist & forces them to operate out of TGram with occassional ghost appearences on xda. In the meanwhile Samsung contacts Chinese OEMs and tells them to allow Fastboot Mode on their phones, so now those 30% Disloyal Rooters have been pushed to chinese devices & and that helps to keep chinese & NK missiles away from SK at least for some time (profit-sharing & market-sharing going on between them).

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Then Google & Samsung silently work on something like a Pro-Online-Payments-Only-Smartphones (POPOS) AND Planned Obsoletion Project (POP), what are those? POPOS makes the customers pay all their bills using smartphones ONLY so that their banks are virtually inside their smartphones (so rooting would seem more damgerous to the smartphone users) while POP is when any leftover older rooted &/OR OEM-unlocked device dares to upgrade to the latest samsung bootloader then POP goes into action! Under POP, the Bootloaders are PATCHED to not allow even a mosquito sized unwanted code in (regardless of how much treachery caused to their customers! but no prob bcoz they were ROOTED DISLOYAL CUSTOMERS anyway!).

With the stray non-google-developers & non-OEM-developers (Aka Freelancers) taken care of by google & samsung now the market has almost no or very little developers willing to work on samsung mid-range & high-end smartphones on decent forums like xda & others. As a part of POP, a tight vigilence is kept on freelance developers daring to step in as a savior in shining armor offering their coding expertise for rooting openly, how? Using BOTS & pro-google & pro-OEM developers clans, thats how (ALL THIS WITH MONEY PAID BY ME YOU & OTHER UNSUSPECTING CUSTOMERS FOR MORE THAN A DECADE)

All this while China OEMs were nicely chomping on the generous 30% ROOTED DISLOYAL SAMSUNG CUSTOMER BASE offered to them by none other than SAMSUNG & Google to be happy and NOT fire any missiles on SK around South China Sea. Oh! I forgot to mention that Samsung & Google also might have agreed to pay China more $MilBil to share all the Pilfered Data from chinese devices sold outside the red-corridor(minus chinese data ofcourse) back to Analytics HQ!

If you feel a headache or slight dizzyness after reading this then pls have a pill and catch some sleep coz you'll need to wake up tomorrow and work for any of these thieves anyway whether in full awareness or willingness.

Thanks for a listen.:alien: