My pixel 7 is shitting the bed and I am considering upgrading and just installing graphene immediately on the new phone as part of my degoogling journey.
Is there anything I need to know about this? I work in IT, so I’m tech savvy. This is my first time installing graphene, however.
I’d be upgrading to a pixel 10 probably.
My carrier is verizon
I buy used/refurbished phones a generation or so out-of-date, and recently upgraded from a Pixel 7 to a Pixel 8. Amazon sells “unlocked” phones, but does not distinguish between carrier-unlocked and OEM (bootloader)-unlocked. Whatever phone you get, you’ll want to immediately do the “enabling OEM unlocking” step (enable Developer Options and make sure that “OEM unlocking” exists as an option and isn’t grayed out) before the return period expires.
It took me two tries to get an actually-unlockable phone this time around, and I’ve still got the unsuitable one sitting here on my desk waiting to get packed and shipped back to Amazon.
Also, I’ve been actually screwed by it a year or so ago, when I got a Pixel 7 for my dad, with the idea of preserving the option to install something like GrapheneOS or LineageOS at a later date. When that later date came (after the return window had closed), we discovered that his “unlocked” phone wasn’t actually OEM-unlockable and now he’s stuck on the stock ROM.
Same story here OP Im currently stuck with an oem locked device think ill just buy a used one from ebay this time that someone already did the hard part on. This was an expensive fuck up I cant do again.