i wrote it in a comment threat on this post. i repost it this way, welp
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Doesn’t matter how easy it is when step zero is “spend $500+ on a new phone because you’re currently using a Samsung or other device with a locked bootloader”
Remember, even cheaper phones (that actually work with your carrier) get marked up. Taxes, shipping, accessories like a case. Being able to afford a new device is nice and Lineage/Graphene make a good case for which new device you should buy, but someone’s five year old phone still works.
Doesn’t matter how easy it is when step zero is “spend $500+ on a new phone because you’re currently using a Samsung or other device with a locked bootloader”
Misleading statement: OnePlus Nord N30 5G (a.k.a. Nord CE 3 Lite 5G) costs 300$ in OnePlus’ official store, and supports Lineage. And the price gets lower when buying second-hand phones (e.g. Pixel 6/7 series, Motorolas, Nothing Phone 1, older OnePlus)
Remember, even cheaper phones (that actually work with your carrier) get marked up. Taxes, shipping, accessories like a case. Being able to afford a new device is nice and Lineage/Graphene make a good case for which new device you should buy, but someone’s five year old phone still works.
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Having to fiddle with carriers is an US-exclusive problem, so I can’t voice an opinion.
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Someone’s five year old phone should work with, maybe not Lineage, but maybe another custom ROM. Most of them are based of Lineage, anyway.
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Xiaomi smartphones are cheap, but the waiting period is horrible (two weeks now), saying this from my Xiaomi Redmi Note 9s on LineageOS with microg. (I’m actually on my computer right now)
Were you able to unlock It? It seems it’s getting more and more complicated (I own a Xiaomi phone, too, a Poco F6)
Yeah, it needs an xiaomi account with unlocking privileges (I have one from 2018, so this step was already done) and a Windows partition with the xiaomi bootloader unlocker (the official one, updated to the last version), then putting a SIM card into the phone, putting the same account on the phone, going to the bootloader unlocker, checking all the boxes and then just waiting for the time it says on the unlocker to unlock the phone, with the SIM card and not changing the account on the phone.
I just added a Windows 10 IoT LTSC partition to do that :/, then deleted it afterwards.
Did you have to try many times before getting it done? I always kept being replied I have to try again because the credits for that day had ended :(
Credits? I didn’t need any credits, I used this, from the official website. I just checked on the fastboot screen (using this program) once in a while for getting the time to unlock the bootloader.
Can you explain a little more?
Sorry I meant quota. Here’s a link explaining it better: https://xdaforums.com/t/unlocking-bootloader-poco-f6-pro.4675388/
On your xiaomi account? I never saw that quota thing, is this for the account to have unlocking privileges?
