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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.

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.