The measure was found bytwo senior members at XDA Developers, a software development community centered around Android devices.
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This means facial recognition is made unavailable and third-party camera apps wont work either.
A bootloader is software that loads into the memory of a gear and comes standard in most operating systems.
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Rooting is done at the users own risk.
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Samsung already makes it difficult to have root access thanks to its Knox security framework.
Trying to gain root access trips security flags on this framework, which can permanently disable Samsung Pay.
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Such a bypass has yet to be discovered.
