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The title of the article is misleading. The author says the phone cannot be bootloader unlocked without first connecting to the Internet. Once they have connect
by plorg 3y ago
The title of the article is misleading. The author says the phone cannot be bootloader unlocked without first connecting to the Internet. Once they have connected they are able to unlock the bootloader.
- croes 3y ago[flagged]
- jffry 3y agoThe very next text in the article after what you quoted (following the image) is: > I consider this a customer-hostile practice. I should not have to connect a piece of hardware to the Internet, even once, to use all of its features. If I hadn’t connected the Pixel 7 Pro to the Internet, then “OEM unlocking” would have stayed greyed out, thus I would not have been able to unlock the bootloader, thus I would not have been able to install GrapheneOS The author then describes connecting the phone to a networking sandbox and monitoring its traffic, all the way through where they were eventually able to unlock it after giving it internet access.
- stavros 3y agoHave you read that part? > If I hadn’t connected the Pixel 7 Pro to the Internet, then “OEM unlocking” would have stayed greyed out, thus I would not have been able to unlock the bootloader, thus I would not have been able to install GrapheneOS.
- sowbug 3y ago> Have you read that part? > >Google sold it to me with “OEM unlocking” greyed out. > So no unlocking even with internet access. Reading the whole article reveals that the option is enabled after providing internet access.
- croes 3y agoOverread that, my bad.
- jkaplowitz 3y agoPossibly misleading indeed, but not wrong: the state that the phone is in at the moment ownership of the phone changes from Google to the customer has bootloader unlocking disabled.
- sundvor 3y agoI didn't find it misleading at all. In my mind, it implied that there's a solution - albeit not an ideal one.
- quadrangle 3y agoThe title is precisely correct, but it is easy to infer wrongly "and you can't enable it".
- Johnny555 3y agoWhich is what makes it misleading.
- p1mrx 3y agoThe title actually is accurate for the Pixel 2. There are a bunch of those that nobody ever figured out how to unlock: https://jacobhall.net/2022/01/29/000177/ https://jacobhall.net/2022/01/29/000177/ https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/14920605/google-refurbished-pixel-2-is-always-defective-bootloader-unlock https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/14920605/google...
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoI understood the title, but only because I already knew that Pixel phones were able to have their bootloaders unlocked, so I assumed there was some kind of bar that had to be jumped. Support for LineageOS is a key issue for me in the purchase of a phone, so Pixels are desirable as a known quantity. I'm not too bothered about having to "do the thing" because so many other phone brands / models either can't be unlocked easily or aren't supported by LineageOS. Other comments about Pocophone F1 being compatible with PostmarketOS puts that on my watch list.