Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

Re:Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday c... by ilt on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:33PM (#42122339)

I live in India and I have been using hearing aid feature since at least March when I bought Airpods Pro. Only that it wasn’t called as such earlier. It uses the audiogram I had provided it which it used to create a customized equalizer for my hearing disability. I am sure they must have improved upon the capability in new OS versions but functionally it has been present for a while now.

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Re:Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday c... by _rs on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @10:04PM (#42122484)

I suppose the difference is 1st party support for creating the audiogram, plus the clearance from the US gov to market it the way they want as OTC hearing aids

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Re:Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday c... by lathiat on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @12:04AM (#42123068)

It also applied the same profile to both ears, which matters for some. My hearing loss is highly asymmetric.

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Re:Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday c... by ilt on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:09AM (#42123864)

Does it still do that? I understand it had problems with asymetric hearing loss earlier.

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Re:Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday c... by lathiat on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @07:27PM (#42131790)

Still did it on 18.0. It just averaged the two ears into a single profile.

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