Comment on Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA

N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TimboSlice@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Pixel only?

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  • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    yes, and you have to get one that is from google and isn’t from a carrier so you can unlock the bootloader. Carrier versions have locked bootloaders.

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    • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just bought a Pixel 10 from Spectrum with the repeated assurance that the phone would be fully unlocked after it was paid off and had several months of service. I intended to load Graphene OS, but apparently I was fucking lied to yet again by another business that say anything to make a sale.

      I can’t do anything about that now, but I can move to another carrier and make damn sure they don’t ever make another dime off my mobile account.

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      • null@lemmy.nullspace.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They thought you meant carrier-unlocked. That’s what most people care about, being able to switch providers.

        I doubt they even knew what a bootloader is.

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      • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I believe GrapheneOS is not available for the 10 series yet. I’ve been keeping on top of that since I want to change my phone in December, but so far, the last version of Pixel that is known to work with GrapheneOS is the 9 series.

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    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have a Canadian carrier purchased phone. Brand new Pixel 9. 5$ a month. For 24 months.

      It has only ONCE booted to the Google version of Android.

      To flip the toggle to enable OEM unlock.

      I kept WiFi off and hadn’t inserted a SIM so it couldn’t update or do anything else that might have prevented flashing graphene.

      Not sure if that was necessary, but it worked.

      And now I live my life free of google software surveillance.

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      • Yttra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Just so nobody else is confused, Canadian carrier phones legally have to be sold unlocked as of 2017

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    • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Rogers in Canada has pixels that allow unlocking the bootloader (just got a pixel 9, and once I have some time I’m going to try putting a custom build on it).

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      • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Mine went fine. I kept the radios off before using it and fully flashing just in case.

        I read on the grapheme forums that some carrier software might flip a bit or something if it gets downloaded/provisioned.

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  • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In most markets, kind of. There are some others but most aren’t sold in NA other than the Pixel.

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    • TimboSlice@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah okay, thanks

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