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A safe bet is to buy whatever device google sells from the google store. All the nexus and pixel devices sold directly by google have unlockable bootloaders. Re
by bubblethink 9y ago
A safe bet is to buy whatever device google sells from the google store. All the nexus and pixel devices sold directly by google have unlockable bootloaders. Recently, google has made things worse by selling ones that can't be unlocked through carriers. From a security standpoint, google's devices are also the only ones that let you verify a third party firmware with your own keys etc. At least that's one of the reasons cited by copperheadOS. I don't think other manufacturers have that feature, even if they allow unlocking the bootloader.
- greenhouse_gas 9y agoPixel isn't that simple to mod. https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7gu5ht/lineageos_for_pixel_2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7gu5ht/lineage...
- bubblethink 9y agoThat is a different issue. That's probably because of the A/B system that Pixels use. Lineage hasn't implemented that for the original Pixel either. That is not a limitation to modding per se. The real limitations to porting software, once you get beyond the bootloader, are always blobs, free drivers, kernel updates etc. At least with Pixels, they use treble. So you should be able to build AOSP with their provided blobs without too much trouble.
- JeremyNT 9y agoThis is not always true, sadly. Google devices sold through Verizon do have locked bootloaders.