And secondly what even is with the mods renaming the thread into this nondescript title “Phone (2) - International Use” , It’s like its deliberately meant to mask the issue regarding Indian variants not activating after a factory reset, to masquerade as a mere query about “International Use” when in reality it’s a complaint regarding core phone functionality, i.e. why a phone is actually called a phone in the first place, when it’s actually about everyone in this thread unfortunate enough to reset while abroad ending up with a 600 USD glorified brick.
I’d like to give the mods the benefit of the doubt when it comes to that in terms of motive but the cynic in me says otherwise.