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That’s possible on very few phones these days. Only a handful of OEMs still ship phones that can be bootloader unlocked at all (at least in the US), and even se
by klardotsh 1y ago
That’s possible on very few phones these days. Only a handful of OEMs still ship phones that can be bootloader unlocked at all (at least in the US), and even several of THOSE require phoning home to the OEM to get an IMEI-dependent unlock key to pass to fastboot.
Source: 7 years of running deGoogled Android phones and 11 years of running ROM’d Android phones before recently moving to iOS and giving up.
- Semaphor 1y agoNot in the US, so might be one of those pesky regulations we have over here.
- sifar 1y agoCurious, have run GrapheneOS on pixels ? They don't have this issue, though it might change now.
- netdevphoenix 1y agoGiven that Google itself is the manufacturer of Pixel devices, I wouldn't hold my breath on them allowing you to keep this ability forever
- klardotsh 1y agoTwo of my deGoogled Android phones were Pixels (4a and 7a) and one was a Nexus (6p). I know them well, though I never ran Graphene on them. Pretty sure I read Google was no longer going to publish device tree sources for Pixel phones, which will make ROM development for them significantly harder, whether or not the bootloader is open.
- Semaphor 1y agoJust found this [0] in another thread. Some few allow no unlocks, most allow them under certain circumstances. Some few without a waiting period or additional sacrifices. So not as great as I thought, but also not as bad as you made it seem ;) [0]: https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame/ https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...