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Meh, that requires you to create an account and ask them for permission to unlock. I'd rather take a Nexus or OnePlus where it's a much simpler offline process

• bubblethink 8y ago
  >I'd rather take a Nexus Pixels, the ones bought from the google store (as opposed to retail channels), do allow you to unlock the bootloader, but that is still an implicit network permission check. You cannot get to the oem unlocking screen without turning on wifi, which is basically how it phones home to check if you are allowed to unlock it.
  • nickflood 8y ago
    That is because the phone has theft prevention feature which needs internet connection to know whether the phone was not stolen before allowing the user to bypass the theft check forever with a new rom
    • bubblethink 8y ago
      That could be, but nexus didn't have that. The internet check started with Pixels due to the verizon deal. So the main reason for it seems to be to check if the phone is in the verizon database since all the phones ship with the same ROM.