unobomber If QPST is not compatible with the pixel series of smartphones anymore, is there any other tool like QPST, which can be used for these purposes?
unobomber
- Feb 23, 2024
- Joined Feb 20, 2024
The tools you mentioned are for Snapdragon-based devices and Tensor-based Pixels would not be supported. Even if there is a tool (there is none), it would not be something we're going to instruct because the negatives intensely outweigh the positives and it would promote privacy theater behaviour to users who think there is a security or privacy benefit to changing the IMEI - which there isn't any.
You would be better off trying to swap the phone or contacting the carrier it's locked with to attempt to remove it that way.
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akc3n
thanks for your advice but for some reason these commands don't work for me..akc3n adb shell getprop | grep carrier look for ro.carrier iirc
If that doesn't work, grep apn look for ril.attach.apn.
Here's a screenshot
am I doin' something wrong? =)probably I just didn't enter this command correctly
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unobomber a way to unlock OEM and bootloader?
This requires internet access from the Stock OS with Google Play services as part of Factory Reset Protection (FRP) for anti-theft protection. Are you sure you followed the instructions correctly?
On device model variants (SKUs) which support being sold as locked devices by carriers, enabling OEM unlocking requires internet access so that the stock OS can check if the device was sold as locked by a carrier.
Alternatively, you can verify and confirm this by following these steps:
https://akc3n.page/gists/#alternative-method-via-cliunobomber is it even possible to get to know what carrier is my phone connected to
adb shell getprop | grep carrieror look forro.carrierwhen runninggetprogpwithout piping grep (non-linux).If that doesn't work, pipe
grep apnor look forril.attach.apnrunninggetprop.Search on https://android.googlesource.com/device/sample/+/main/etc/apns-full-conf.xml using
CTRL+Fon desktop or if on mobile, useFind in pagefrom the Vanadium menu to locate thecarrierassociated with saidapn.- Edited
Hello!
OEM unlocking is a hard requirement, there's no way around it. Either you ask your carrier to unlock it and hope they pull through with it, or you return it and buy unlocked. I remember someone convinced T-Mobile they were a developer and needed an unlocked device for their work but these success stories are more the exception than the norm, particularly in the US where this problem is most prevalent.
