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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

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Well, Pixel still unlocks freely.

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Assuming you dont get the phone through your carrier

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can we use Google Wallet to tap pay with an unlocked bootloader?

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I do with my Pixel 7 Pro. You need Magisk + Play Integrity Fix by Chiteroman at the moment.

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Pixel devices are trivially easy to unlock

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Pixel or OnePlus

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

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

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

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although I don’t know of any brand that makes that process easy anymore

https://github.com/melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame#ℹ️-safe-for-now-trollface

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

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My Fairphone 5 was easy to unlock.

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

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