• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

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

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        5 months 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.

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          5 months 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.