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Past 14 day mark to return Phone and am now seemingly stuck with it
On June 16th I went to the tmobile store in Heath Ohio and got a new phone, a Pixel 8a to replace my One+ 9 as its end of updates life arrived. I settled on a Pixel 8a. After a few days of using it...
Pixel devices usually do not come bloated or with ads. Is there an app on this device potentially causing the issue? You do not need to root a device to gain access to most of it's restricted settings. Personally, as someone who used to always root my devices back in the earlier days of Android. It is not necessary to do so in today's world and doing so can cause a lot of banking and other secure apps to not work, which further takes you down the rabbithole of trying to hide root from those apps.
If you are unhappy with the device currently. I would suggest requesting a peanent SIM unlock on it and once that is done. You can choose to sell the device to get yourself something you would prefer or you can look at installing a custom fiware and OS, like Graphene, to give you a bloatfree and privacy focused version of Android that is based on stoc k alAndroid and has excellent support.
