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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

The official process was a pain anyway, as it required sending personal identification data to China. Anyone that wants a custom ROM on their phone should be looking elsewhere, although I don't know of any brand that makes that process easy anymore

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, Pixel still unlocks freely.

[–] MrPoopbutt 8 points 1 month ago

Assuming you dont get the phone through your carrier

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Pixel devices are trivially easy to unlock

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OnePlus phones have green lines on screen and damaging motherboard issues.

[–] daellat 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heard about this too I believe this was mostly an issue in India because of their slightly different models?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Seems like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've had the OnePlus 6 and the OnePlus Nord N200 and I've not seen those things occur but thanks for the information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those are prehistoric phones in no way relevant to this discussion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The nord n200 is 2021

[–] TonyOstrich 3 points 1 month ago

My Fairphone 5 was easy to unlock.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Agreed, the official process was a massive pain and borderline non functional.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

So far I couldn't unlock the bootloader because whenever I add a number it tells me to try again tomorrow