Before i got my Pixel 6 Pro, i've been running Custom Roms on everything. The Pixel 6 Pro is probably the first device, i'm actually okay running Stock. It just does what it should. And i'll be honest, the hassle of getting it to work properly (Banking, Netflix, etc) is just too much for my everyday phone...Google really did a number on that one, both positive and negative. I kind of hate it...
Ironically that's one of the only phones that you have the choice of not running stock
I know - which was the reason i got it in the first place.
Not it isn't. Plenty of OEMs let you unlock the bootloader.
That isn't the only factor though. Take OnePlus, for example. You can still unlock their bootloaders, but if you check out XDA you'll see that their hasn't been any custom roms for a OnePlus flagship since the 9 pro because they stopped publishing the MSM tool, so the risk of bricking the phone is too great.
I guess the same thing is happened with samsung after the s10 series. No new roms for the newer ones apart from 1 or 2 oneui based roms.
But in most of OEMs you cannot relock the bootloader with your own key..
I used to turn to custom roms to extend the life of my phone. My first smartphone didn't get an official update after I purchased it for example. The custom roms often made the phone snappier too.
These days I'm on a mid range Samsung phone released almost 4 years ago and it's still getting updates.
Ditto on a Pixel 6 Pro. There were a ton of people with issues when this thing came out, but I was lucky enough to dodge all the issues.
I had none over the last 2 years...which is funny, because i fully expected to have them - and put a custom rom on it. There are just two things that irk me...you can't disable IPv6 and the adaptive charging is still not enough for me personally, i would have liked to have a hard limit...
Google really did a number on that one, both positive and negative. I kind of hate it...
And yet you bought a Pixel and supported them in this.
Before i got my Pixel 6 Pro, i've been running Custom Roms on everything. The Pixel 6 Pro is probably the first device, i'm actually okay running Stock. It just does what it should. And i'll be honest, the hassle of getting it to work properly (Banking, Netflix, etc) is just too much for my everyday phone...Google really did a number on that one, both positive and negative. I kind of hate it...
Ironically that's one of the only phones that you have the choice of not running stock
I know - which was the reason i got it in the first place.
Not it isn't. Plenty of OEMs let you unlock the bootloader.
That isn't the only factor though. Take OnePlus, for example. You can still unlock their bootloaders, but if you check out XDA you'll see that their hasn't been any custom roms for a OnePlus flagship since the 9 pro because they stopped publishing the MSM tool, so the risk of bricking the phone is too great.
I guess the same thing is happened with samsung after the s10 series. No new roms for the newer ones apart from 1 or 2 oneui based roms.
But in most of OEMs you cannot relock the bootloader with your own key..
I used to turn to custom roms to extend the life of my phone. My first smartphone didn't get an official update after I purchased it for example. The custom roms often made the phone snappier too.
These days I'm on a mid range Samsung phone released almost 4 years ago and it's still getting updates.
Ditto on a Pixel 6 Pro. There were a ton of people with issues when this thing came out, but I was lucky enough to dodge all the issues.
I had none over the last 2 years...which is funny, because i fully expected to have them - and put a custom rom on it. There are just two things that irk me...you can't disable IPv6 and the adaptive charging is still not enough for me personally, i would have liked to have a hard limit...
And yet you bought a Pixel and supported them in this.