[Google Pixel 4 Questions & Answers] dvdram:
Hello,

please excuse me if some of the following statements seem a bit strange or even offensive. But be assured: there's no offense meant! I've been using the P4 for some days now and I there are just a few things I really don't understand and I'd be thankful if someone could explain them to me. Some questions might sound silly, but please forgive me, I am not an expert, neither on Android, nor on the hardware!

1.

To be able to install LOS at all, the bootloader had to be unlocked. What about afterwards: could the BL be closed again, to get rid of that nasty message at startup, warning about data integrity?

2.

I really miss the notification LED from previous phones I used to own. The elders of the universe might know why Google decided not to include a simple and cheap LED in their latest models, but it is beyond me. I know that there's this feature called "always on display", showing the clock, the battery status and notifications about messages and stuff. But that feature surely uses more power than a simple LED. And the information on the screen doesn't seem to move, so I fear that this will damage the screen on the long run. So, my questions about this feature are:

a) Shouldn't the information on this screen at least be moved from time to time to prevent screen damage?

b) Shouldn't there be an option to show this information only when the device is not inside a pocket? Showing these notifications inside a pocket or a bag doesn't make much sense, does it? ;)

3.

There's an option "tap to activate". That is a nice feature, but I'd very much prefer this to be "double tap to activate" (optional), because a double tap is much more unlikely to happen than a simple touch. It is nearly impossible to get the phone out of a car mount or a pocket without accidentally touching the screen, thus activating the phone. One might say that this is not a big deal, but I would say that this unnecessary activation will waste unnecessary battery power.

4.

Google play store forces me to install a lot of apps that are said to be of great importance and that I can neither deselect nor remove from my P4, and that I have never seen on my previous phones running LOS:

- carrier service

- device personalization service

- exchange service

- pixel ambient services

- accessibility tools

- (the app) google

Why am I told I need these apps on my LOS driven phone? Why can't I deselect them?

When I choose LOS to be the operating system on my phone for the first time, I did this because I wanted to avoid Google as much as possible. Most of all, I don't want Google to collect all my data, I don't want them to be able to autofill any credentials or other information, I don't want them to have access to my bank account via Google Pay. Frankly, those ideas scare me! The Play Store is the only GAPP I would like to have on my phone, in order to be able to buy other apps. But, for example: what is "carrier service" needed for? Of course I do have a vage idea about what it is needed for, but why wasn't I forced to install it on my previous phones? Why is it coming as a separate app now? Are the developers not allowed to include it in LOS any longer? Did Google change the rules (again)?

What about the other apps?

I simply don't understand the need for these apps to be forced onto phone that I would like to have de-googled. Is it some dependencies of the MindTheGapps package, that OpenGapps, which I used to install on previous phones, did not have?

If so, would the need for these apps vanish if I reinstalled LOS and use OpenGapps instead of MTG?

Thanks in advance for any hints, help and explaining!