Sideloading Android apps is here to stay... but Google will make you wait a day before doing it the first time - Liliputing
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Sideloading Android apps is here to stay... but Google will make you wait a day before doing it the first time
    • mememuseum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 个月前

      Some carriers lock the bootloader until you’ve paid off the phone.

      Phones produced for sale through Verizon have a permanently locked bootloader.

      • Archr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 个月前

        Fuck Verizon for this exact reason. Never buy from them direct if you can help it.

        • mememuseum@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 个月前

          Didn’t realize this when switching. Went through a whole kerfuffle to cancel the trade in deal.

          Phone agent sounded perplexed when I wanted to keep my old Pixel 7 Pro lol.

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        1 个月前

        Why is that?

        Would you be able to change the IMEI as I would have thought those were encoded on the hardware chip. If you could it means they couldn’t blacklist the phone if you stopped paying.

        Paying you can spoof it