Re:Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?
by tiberious726 on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:35AM
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To do anything else would be snakeoil at best: no open source project can support the radio firmware
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Re:Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?
by allarm on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:36PM
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Is it technically possible to write an open source firmware for the existing wireless chips?
Re:Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?
by all2 on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:53PM
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Technically, yes. The big hangup is that spec sheets for these chips are often hidden behind NDAs, so devs are left reverse engineering existing firmwares. This extra barrier to entry hobbles further development for many phones.
Re:Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?
by mschuster91 on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:57PM
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Not really, modem firmware even for wifi and BT is pretty much tied down "thanks" to regulations, you won't get far without an exploit bypassing the signature verification. Governments are apparently very afraid of people modifying their chipsets to be more powerful in range than allowed.
Re:Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?
by whelp_24 on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:57PM
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Could you link me some of those regulations or a article on it. I am curious
Re:Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware?
by tiberious726 on Sunday July 02, 2023 @11:21AM
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https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A... basically, they use the firmware to enforce compliance with the regs on different regions. If you can load your own firmware, you could make the device no longer compliant.