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minus-squaremememuseum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day agoSome carriers lock the bootloader until you’ve paid off the phone. Phones produced for sale through Verizon have a permanently locked bootloader.
minus-squareArchr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoFuck Verizon for this exact reason. Never buy from them direct if you can help it.
minus-squaremememuseum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·23 hours agoDidn’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.
minus-squaredependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoWhy 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
Some carriers lock the bootloader until you’ve paid off the phone.
Phones produced for sale through Verizon have a permanently locked bootloader.
Fuck Verizon for this exact reason. Never buy from them direct if you can help it.
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.
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