She found a forum post from 2021, buried seven pages deep on XDA Developers. The user "sgrosu99" had posted a cryptic message: "PotatoNV. That's all I'm saying. Good luck."

But Maya had a cheap soldering iron, a Raspberry Pi, and a grudge.

She stripped a piece of wire, touched one end to TP32, the other to the metal shielding around the camera. Then, with her third hand (actually her teeth holding the wire, but who's counting), she plugged the USB cable into her laptop.

: Go to Settings > About Phone and tap "Build Number" 7 times. Enable OEM Unlocking

: DC-Unlocker, Ministry of Solutions, and Global Unlocking Solutions.

Unlocking the bootloader triggers a mandatory factory reset, erasing all personal data.