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Google Pixel phones have unlocked bootloaders[0] (see the excellent projects GrapheneOS[1] and Calyx[2]), so if that's something that is important to you (it's
by popchat 3y ago
Google Pixel phones have unlocked bootloaders[0] (see the excellent projects GrapheneOS[1] and Calyx[2]), so if that's something that is important to you (it's good that it is), then you should purchase your next phone with that in mind.
0. usually, but not always. Sometimes you need to install, for example, a T-mobile app for some previously GoogleFi phones in order for the phone to check with T-mobile's servers and get unlocking approved, but the phone can be purchased unlocked directly from Google as well.
1. https://grapheneos.org/ https://grapheneos.org/
2. https://calyxos.org/ https://calyxos.org/ from https://www.calyxinstitute.org/ https://www.calyxinstitute.org/
- p1mrx 3y agoSometimes there is no known way to unlock a Pixel bootloader: https://jacobhall.net/2022/01/29/000177/ https://jacobhall.net/2022/01/29/000177/
- Projectiboga 3y agoGraphene only supports the same time frame as Google, 3 years from launch for the #a series models. Calyx goes about an extra year. I really got hosed by not reading the fine print, I just bought Google 5a, and it runs out of support in a year now, its a 5G phone, I'll have to use Calyx or Lineage OS to go beyond. I wish I had just gotten an LG V50 or V60 and gotten better audio quality and a nicer screen.