From June 20: EU gives smartphones a label and a guaranteed update time
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From June 20, manufacturers of smartphones and tablets in the EU must include a label with clear information on repairability and update times.
  • notfromhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Even just providing specifications and some documentation about the devices, someone might write a new driver. Reverse engineering is hard, having something to go off of means they can probably extend support from an existing driver fairly easily.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      5 days ago

      The biggest issue is probably the MediaTek chipsets. Unlike Qualcomm, they don’t provide the source code.

      I only went with MTK based device for manual band selection. It can be done with root, but the only app for it I could find is network signal guru, and I am not sure about how trustworthy it is to give root access to.