[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] djmouse:
I.havent posted in eons, anyway I got away from att months ago after they charged me 700 dollars actually more then that in overages from accidentally going over our shared plan.Long story I went to Best buy bought an unlocked s8plus,geek squad protection all that shat.Used a carrier called H20.First s8plus broke dropped about 8 inches off ledge screen done.went into Best buy no problem paid 200 deductable gave me bran new phone.Get a call next day from Best buy asking what my understanding of what happened and if I still had protection.I told him yes I can replace 3 times a year as long as I pay deductable.WRONG since the phone was so new they had no refurbished phones (not my fault)so getting a new one full filled the whole protection plan,so theyade me come back in and pay another 40 dollars to get back protection instead of the 199.The whole thing was rediculous.Any way month later I noticed a black pixel on side of curved glass and a hairline break in the digitizer all inside the phone no broken glass took it to Best buy,was told to contact Sammy ,did that was told on the phone to send it in won't be charged anything,cool they sent box I sent phone in,mind you I have no phone now not even a back up.Werk goes by nothing I finally call,they say we sent an email saying if you want it fixed it's going to be 249 dollars we never heard back.Told her I spoke with so an so and was promised no charge,nope can't do it blah blah bs.So I said send it back.They sent me back my broken phone after 2 weeks.So down side of purchasing a unlocked phone outright I guess.Still have it but screen is so bad can't use it I can replace it for 200 at Best buy with dedictable.SO I decided to see what verizion could do.i was eligible for the buy one get one pixle 2 xl so I took it gave one to my wife.Im running substratum on it,even the navigation gesture app you need to run adb shell for.Ive opted in an out of the andriod p beta a few times,i love the phone id,love to root and iay try a few things I'm not by any means a Dev. But I've done some things and found ways around.But even without root it's still one of the best phones out, obviously if you have the option to get an unlocked one do that,but don't not buy one just because you can't root it.Theres so many mods and apks out you can do pretty much anything and your not risking security.All of the verizion apps can be uninstalled witch there were only two ,messages for verizion,amdy verizion app.And they guy at the store powered them on and off with cards in there,I told him I'd set them up at home but after reading threw all these forums he did that probably so I didn't take the Sim out and activate with just wifi,I've done factory resets tooken Sim out set up still oem greyed out,but when Sim is in and I factory reset I see it and it says activating verizion only when Sim is in,I only tried it once without Sim card in skipping threw to get a greyed out oem,but I can't remember if I setup my Google account when I did that,I'm gonna try a few things I was able to grant permission threw adb shell to WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS for the navigation gesture app.so I'll report back if I get anywhere.heres some shots of themeing witch was one main reason I used to root.Sorry for the long post lol.