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h4arts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
still just not gonna update my phone for a while until they’ve for sure have allowed side loading. Got my pixel because it’s just a nice phone, and i can put graphene on it when it’s paid off. Half of my apps are all from f-droid, too.
freddo@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
You cannot install graphene until it is paid off?
mememuseum@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Some carriers lock the bootloader until you’ve paid off the phone.
Phones produced for sale through Verizon have a permanently locked bootloader.
Archr@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Fuck Verizon for this exact reason. Never buy from them direct if you can help it.
mememuseum@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Didn’t realize this when switching. Went through a whole kerfuffle to cancel the trade in deal.
Phone agent sounded perplexed when I wanted to keep my old Pixel 7 Pro lol.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Why is that?
Would you be able to change the IMEI as I would have thought those were encoded on the hardware chip. If you could it means they couldn’t blacklist the phone if you stopped paying.
Paying you can spoof it
h4arts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
xfinity locks the bootloader until you get your phone paid off and you call them to get it unlocked