> someone gets a hold of the phone before it gets to you and unlocks the bootloader and then proceeds to modify or install another OS
Doesn't the splash screen clearly show some scary warning when the phone was unkocked?
> very likely they want to have it phone back and send a record that it was unlocked so they can deny warranty in cases where user damaged the device through software
It definitely does. Anytime you reboot under graphene you see what looks like an error message with a web address to visit for several seconds from the phone, before the OS loads.
Doesn't the splash screen clearly show some scary warning when the phone was unkocked?
> very likely they want to have it phone back and send a record that it was unlocked so they can deny warranty in cases where user damaged the device through software
So burn an e-fuse like Samsung does.