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Re:Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru O... by WirelessGigabit on Sunday October 22, 2023 @07:40PM (#37980066)
I did not know this.

Now knowing this, could we (theoretically) update the firmware of an iPhone 3G so it works on a 4G network?

Re:Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru O... by londons_explore on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:08AM (#37982135)
Yes. But beware that doing so is probably multiple man-years worth of effort.
Re:Tell HN: 3G sunsetting is remotely killing every Subaru O... by dublin on Monday October 23, 2023 @12:13PM (#37987768)
Probably not. In general, this sort of thing is buried in the often unchangeable microcode of an RF ASIC. (Which makes sense, after all, the vendor is selling an RF modem for a specific band/modulation capability - they don't expect it to change, certainly not after they've built/configured it.)

If that's the case (as is common), then there is really nothing to update, short of scraping off that chip or module and replacing the hardware.