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Samsung and Other Manufacturers Disable Phones Bought on Gray Markets: A Consumer Nightmare (nomadscrolls.net)
submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. Buy Samsung for cheap in a poor country
  2. flash it with lineageOS or eOS
  3. ???
  4. Profit
[–] tsuica@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only downside to this is that banking apps won't work anymore. Some of them won't work without GMS, or with a custom ROM, or if Knox is triggered (Smasnug), or even if the bootloader is unlocked.

Unfortunately, more and more banks are deprecating their web apps in favor of mobile apps, 'cause who doesn't have a smartphone?.

Otherwise, I'd switch back to LOS in a heartbeat.

[–] jose1324@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Basically every banking app in my country works fine with custom rom. It even works without safetynet and with root. Hell I fucking had more issues with the MCDONALDS app that blocked me

[–] tsuica@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh man, I wish that we could have that here. One app from one of the bigger banks here, straight up refuses to run if you didn't download it from the Play Store (like Aurora).

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I am lucky enough to be able to avoid the GSM only banks and choose banks that do work on degoogled phones. Honestly, thanks to the ongoing trade-war between China and the US, degoogled phones will become more common and force banks to cater to those people. I'm not worried.