Xfinity Mobile Customers: 64GB Google Pixel 4 XL Xfinity Smartphone Expired

I have LG G8 thinQ that I purchased a few months ago. The LG phone is far better than the Google Pixel 4 XL that my colleague is using. The LG has much better screen and better user experience. The audio is better in the LG G8 thinQ phone. It will be a much better choice than the Google pixel.

You need to use the phone on Xfinity for 60 days before requesting unlock.

Any link /clue would be helpful. I have Xfinity 4 xl for 6 months and can't find a way to unlock it. I'm Not xfinity customer

If you want to unlock the bootloader there are many tutorials how to do it. I am not sure of the rules here so I am not going to link, but I found out how via a google search. Although, if you want to unlock the bootloaded why would you go with a pixel. Better phones to unlock the bootloader than a pixel

Very tempted but can't rationalize spending $400 just for Android 10 when I have a 3 year old s8+.

Would love it if someone could talk me into it....

Also, what is sot?

Is camera better than 4a or 5?

FOR ANYBODY WONDERING ABOUT BOOTLOADER UNLOCKING THE PIXEL 4 / 4XL: If it is SIM locked, it is bootloader locked. The SIM unlocking works similar to Apple, where the IMEI is essentially sent to Google and "whitelisted", and once the phone contacts Google servers and gets the signal that the phone is now authorized to be SIM unlocked, it becomes SIM unlocked.

And the reason this is important to know is because the SIM unlock essentially controls the ability to bootloader unlock (IMPORTANT: WITH THE EXCEPTION OF UNITS SOLD/LOCKED BY VERIZON). Once the phone is SIM unlocked, the developer option to allow OEM unlocking becomes un-greyed out. Basically, the SIM lock status toggles the OEM unlocking option. There is a VERY small (and I believe to this day, without picture proof) number of people claiming they were able to bootloader unlock their Verizon sold Pixel 4/4XL phones successfully. But know there was also a fiasco several months back around release where it appeared a batch of these phones sold to a different carrier were sent phones that were locked to Verizon (or something like that, maybe the other way around). I don't remember if this was by a shipping accident, or system problem with IMEI provisioning. But maybe this could have had something to do with it if true.

My only concerning regarding the Xfinity Mobile variant is that XMo is an MVNO off of Verizon. I'm not sure if that means their P4 variants will also be locked out of bootloader unlocking, even after SIM unlocking. I would be really curious to know though. I couldn't find any information about it unfortunately. I ended up buying a factory unlocked Pixel 4 XL and switched to XMo from AT&T back in March 2020, best decision ever. And all advanced calling features still work btw. I was an AT&T customer for over 20 years. Screw AT&T and Verizon for essentially blocking their customers from advanced features when using their own damn phones they want to use and have full control over them. Seems like T-Mobile is the only one left that doesn't care about bootloader unlocking. Smh.

edit/PS: this was back in March. Not sure if future firmware updates could possibly change the OEM unlock option toggle behavior. Do your own research before assuming anything. And I want to reiterate again, the fact that Xfinity Mobile is an MVNO off of Verizon - the one carrier known to prevent bootloader unlocking on this phone - makes me wary too, Good luck everyone, keep on moddin'.

Excellent post. If the Xfinity mobile Pixel 4 remains bootloader LOCKED even after SIM unlock, then the phone is potentially worthless IMO.

The main thing in a Pixel is the ability to unlock the bootloader and do whatever you want. BUYER BEWARE.

Worthless to you maybe. 99% of users do not root their phones.

It's far from a huge deal to have a locked bootloader anymore.