• @chiliedogg
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    11 month ago

    Verizon will let you transfer the phone to a different carrier after like 3 months of owning the phone.

    • @[email protected]
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      130 days ago

      Carrier unlock and bootloader unlock are very different things. All my 60x motorola Z phones can use any carrier Well, they could if I hadn’t replaced the antenna with a dummy resistor but that’s beside the point. The point is I cannot have administrative access to my phone and that means I cannot change something I really really need to change on them to make them useful for my purpose.

      Essentially, I cannot “sudo” on these phones and that’s making them very difficult to use.

      • @chiliedogg
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        130 days ago

        When you change carriers, they unlock it.

        When I moved from Verizon to ATT on my phone, all the Verizon crap disappeared as soon as Verizon released the device. ATT then pushed an OTA that put all their bullshit a day or so later of course, but there was a window they’re when I probably could’ve gotten more access.

        • @[email protected]
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          127 days ago

          It’s carrier unlocked, but not bootloader unlocked, which what is needed for admin level access and removing the bloat