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• mememuseum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some carriers lock the bootloader until you’ve paid off the phone.

  Phones produced for sale through Verizon have a permanently locked bootloader.

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  • Archr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck Verizon for this exact reason. Never buy from them direct if you can help it.

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    • mememuseum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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• h4arts@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  xfinity locks the bootloader until you get your phone paid off and you call them to get it unlocked

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