• h4arts@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 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.

      • mememuseum@lemmy.world
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        4 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
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          29 minutes ago

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

        • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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          3 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