violencequalsbad

This is utterly pathetic. Once my account is unlocked I will be closing this account.

How do I install fdroid? I have followed the guide here

But step 7 doesn't seem to result in fdroid existing on the device. It looks like it is successfully installing.

Here is my incredibly frustrating experience so far.

I buy a google pixel 3 off amazon. Allegedly factory new and unlocked. It arrives and the OEM unlock option is greyed out. I follow every guide online to try and find a way around this. Nothing works. It apparently isn't "really" factory unlocked.

I post in asking for help. Post gets deleted for mentioning an unsupported device.

So I return the phone to the amazon seller and buy an earlier model of the google pixel that IS officially supported just so that I might be able to ask for help in this subreddit. The phone arrives 2 weeks later, along with the same problem. OEM unlock is greyed out and nothing I try works.

I ask for help in the sub, the post never gets approved by a mod. 3 days later a mod messages me saying "sorry we didn't notice your post. it's approved now but no one will see it because it's too old. maybe post it again." But I have already sent the phone back by then assuming that it is not really unlocked once again.

I decide that this is what I must do: buy a phone that is actually on the supported devices list FROM THE MANUFACTURER.

Now: This is no small task. Almost every single device on that list is no longer in production by the relevant company. The venn diagram would barely overlap between what they currently produce and what is old enough to be officially supported by lineage.

Google no longer manufacture the older pixels, and if I buy them from third parties they are never really unlocked.

Anyway, I go into a thread on the sub about what phones are the most easy to install Lineage on to - OnePlus 5t pro is recommended over and over again. I buy one - again though - no longer manufactured by OnePlus, so I buy it third party through amazon.

I wait an entire month (!) for the phone to arrive. It doesn't, so I request a refund. It is granted, along with a message blaming coronavirus for the "delay". (This phone may arrive some day I guess though I have yet to see it.)

So then I think - "Ok, surely this shouldn't be as difficult as all this, lots of people have done this in the past."

I finally find a phone I want that is officially supported that I can buy from the manufacturer: the motorola Moto g7.

This is exciting - I have used motorolas in the past and had really good experiences with them.

I order it, it comes 2 weeks later. I do the following:

Turn on phone - skip through all the steps - settings - about phone - bottom option 7 times - developer mode enabled - go in to developer options.........oem unlocking = STILL GREYED OUT.

I phone up motorola, they say they do not support what I am trying to do, and that I have invalidated the warranty on the phone by even trying.

So there we are. A useless, overzealously modded subreddit where I can't get any help, and a sense of extreme frustration trying to get a phone that isn't me carrying around google with me everywhere I go.

If anyone can give me a practical solution to having a phone with an opensource OS on it where I can install f-droid I would be seriously grateful.

Yours, hair-tearing-outly:

V

Here is my incredibly frustrating experience so far.

I buy a google pixel 3 off amazon. Allegedly factory new and unlocked. It arrives and the OEM unlock thing is greyed out. I follow every guide online to try and find a way around this. Nothing works. It apparently isn't "really" factory unlocked.

I post in asking for help. Post gets deleted for mentioning an unsupported device.

So I return the phone to the amazon seller and buy an earlier model of the google pixel that IS officially supported just so that I might be able to ask for help in that subreddit. The phone arrives 2 weeks later, along with the same problem. OEM unlock is greyed out and nothing I try works.

I ask for help in the sub, the post never gets approved by a mod. 3 days later a mod messages me saying "sorry we didn't notice your post. it's approved now but no one will see it because it's too old. maybe post it again."

Whatever, I return phone number two because I assume that it is still somehow not really unlocked.

I decide that this is what I must do: buy a phone that is actually on the supported devices list FROM THE MANUFACTURER.

Now: This is no small task. Almost every single device on that list is no longer in production by the relevant company. The venn diagram would barely overlap between what they currently produce and what is old enough to be officially supported by lineage.

Anyway, I go into a thread on the sub about what phones are the most easy to install Lineage on to - OnePlus 5t is recommended over and over again. I buy one - again though - no loner manufactured by OnePlus, so I buy it third party through amazon.

I wait an entire month (!) for the phone to arrive. Then when it doesn't, I request a refund. I get it, along with a message blaming coronavirus for the "delay". (This phone may arrive some day I guess?).

So then I think - "Ok, surely this shouldn't be as difficult as all this, lots of people have done this in the past".

I finally find a phone I want that is officially supported that I can buy from the manufacturer: the motorola Moto g7.

I order it, it comes 2 weeks later. I do the following:

Turn on phone - skip through all the steps - settings - tap about phone 7 times - go in to developer options.........OEM UNLOCKING = STILL GREYED OUT.

I phone up motorola, they say they do not support what I am trying to do, and I have invalidated the warranty on the phone by even trying.

So there we are. A useless, overzealously modded subreddit where I can't get any help, and a sense of extreme frustration trying to get a phone that isn't me carrying around google with me everywhere I go.

If anyone can give me a practical solution to having a phone with an opensource OS on it where I can install f-droid I would be seriously grateful.

Yours, hair-tearing-outly:

V

OEM unlocking option is greyed out. This is my 4th phone running in to this problem.

What am I doing wrong?

Enable developer options, go to oem? It's always greyed out.