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Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by MisterFrog@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?

Edit 2: I bought my Pixel 6 phone outright, directly from Google's Australian store. I have no creditors.

Were the courts not enough control for creditors? Since when are they allowed to lock you out of your purchased property without a court order?

I don't even live in the US, so what the actual fuck?

Edit 1: You can check it's installed (~~stock~~ Pixel 6 android 14) Settings > Apps > All Apps > three dot menu, Show system > search "DeviceLockController".

I highly recommend getting NetGuard, you can enable pro features via their website if you have the APK for as low as 0.10€, but donate more, because it's amazing. You can also purchase via Google Play store.

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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 8 months ago (3 children)

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.devicelockcontroller

If you're using Shelter, then in addition to that command, replace --user 0 with --user 10

You don't need root to do this. You can also uninstall other bloatware using this same method.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Hero, I just have to get around to doing it 😅 (I will, but grumble, grumble this is why most people don't bother battling for privacy)

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I tried this on a Pixel 7 and am getting:

panther:/ $ pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.devicelockcontroller

Failure [DELETE_FAILED_INTERNAL_ERROR]

I also tried disable and got:

Cannot disable a protected package: com.google.android.devicelockcontroller

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ah. I guess you have to have root, then.

[–] _tezz@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

New to this depth of phone administration, where are you entering this command? Is there a developer CLI I should be looking for or is this done with a third party app or something?

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Look up "adb" or "Android platform tools" on your favorite search engine. It's something you do on your PC with your phone plugged in.

[–] _tezz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right on, thank you!

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

You could also give Shizuku a try! Connects to android's adb bridge over WiFi, right from your phone! From there you can use something like termux to shell straight into your phone!