Total Noob Question - OEM Greyed Out, Need OEM unlocked asap Pixel 3

[Nadia927]

Hello there and thank you for your patience, I had previously considered myself smart until yesterday. You see I'm new to all this, just a bb, but I find it fascinating.
So I sold my phone pixel 3 to someone who want to have lineageOS on google Fi and wants to make sure the OEM is unlocked. Phone has sim card slot
Not knowing anything I looked it up completed the steps to get developer options, OEM greyed out, ok so I proceed to look up articles and videos, finally found what seems to be a legit solution here

https://forum.xda-developers.com/pi...izon-pixel-t3796030/post83674835#post83674835

after downloading more software than I needed and making several attempts to access the adb command prompt on my macbook pro, I decided to borrow my friends pc to try and do it
Downloaded https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools platform tools, unzipped, shift right click in folder, no command window option
I decided to after following the instructions on the phone, just hit the up volume key and power to turn it on, it says "no command" I'm guessing because I dont have the window up and cant seem to figure out how to get it up
Now I'm. back on my macbook pro and I'd like someone to please help me, preferably on macOS but I'll take any help I can and go back to my friends broken pc if I have to (touch screen broken and keyboard doesnt work, I got a keyboard, but the broken touch screen goes crazy and it's really frustrating.
Anyway sincere gratitude to anyone who can help me as I am desperate

Update: went back to pc unzipped platform tools, shift right clicked and there was an option for powershell window, however it did not recognize any adb commands :/

 

[dcarvil]

Hello there and thank you for your patience, I had previously considered myself smart until yesterday. You see I'm new to all this, just a bb, but I find it fascinating.
So I sold my phone pixel 3 to someone who want to have lineageOS on google Fi and wants to make sure the OEM is unlocked. Phone has sim card slot
Not knowing anything I looked it up completed the steps to get developer options, OEM greyed out, ok so I proceed to look up articles and videos, finally found what seems to be a legit solution here

https://forum.xda-developers.com/pi...izon-pixel-t3796030/post83674835#post83674835

after downloading more software than I needed and making several attempts to access the adb command prompt on my macbook pro, I decided to borrow my friends pc to try and do it
Downloaded https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools platform tools, unzipped, shift right click in folder, no command window option
I decided to after following the instructions on the phone, just hit the up volume key and power to turn it on, it says "no command" I'm guessing because I dont have the window up and cant seem to figure out how to get it up
Now I'm. back on my macbook pro and I'd like someone to please help me, preferably on macOS but I'll take any help I can and go back to my friends broken pc if I have to (touch screen broken and keyboard doesnt work, I got a keyboard, but the broken touch screen goes crazy and it's really frustrating.
Anyway sincere gratitude to anyone who can help me as I am desperate

Update: went back to pc unzipped platform tools, shift right clicked and there was an option for powershell window, however it did not recognize any adb commands :/

I know nothing about macbooks, but according to this article you have to change some system settings to open a terminal window.

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/op...nal-window-specific-folder-windows-mac-linux/

Can you open a terminal window in any folder? If so, just do a cd command to the platform-tools directory.

Regarding your powershell window, it sounds like you are not in the platform-tools directory. Do a dir command. Do you see the adb file? If so, try ./adb. If not, do a cd to the platform-tools directory.

Do you have a Verizon branded phone? If so, you probably cannot unlock the bootloader. The link you pointed to is for a Pixel, not a Pixel 3.

 

[TonikJDK]

If your OEM button is grayed out you are done, you can't unlock that phone.