• 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.

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        30 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