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Lemmy

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.
You cannot install graphene until it is paid off?

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

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

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