Hi,
I have recently bought a Pixel 8 Pro on a French platform (rakuten) from a vendor I guessed was importing the device from wherever, but I did not expect it to be OEM locked.
The interest that made me buy the device is concentrated into two features, the first being the 7 year long support for updates and patches ; the other being that Pixel phones are fine to being degoogled, and that I could install GrapheneOS that ensures the same standards of security while implementing a confidentiality and anonymity policy utterly foreign to the well-known scraping Google corporation.
After discussing my issue of OEM unlock being greyed out - even after connecting to the internet, inserting a French SIM card, factory reset the phone - I was able to find out that my phone had ยซ apnlib ยป app installed which I discovered was proper to Verizon phones. As during my researches I found out too about Verizonโs policy - I did not even know what your company was as a European - of a mixed double ignorance-unwillingness stance regarding bootloader unlocking, I am just here to try, even if it is vain, to find a path of getting my bootloader unlocked, since I have not any link to the American network nor Verizon.
Thanks
It is time for Verizon to make a script of some kind available to OEM unlock your phone. Verizon, you can't sell devices, claiming that they are Pixels, when you've intentionally stripped out core functionality. Let alone when you don't even mention that they're defective in your marketing materials... Make the script.
Do you need the device carrier unlocked from Verizon so you can use it in France? Or the bootloader unlocked so you can install a custom ROM? Those are two completely different things. Verizon does not and will not help you unlock the bootloader.
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