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Almost all device run on the initial android release (QPR0), and never shipped any of quarterly updates. Even less so using _main_ as a baseline so that point is moot. With android…

> AIUI updates are less stringent and burdensome than initial certification That's true having dealt with some of it, nonetheless I haven't found that much of a difference due to h…

I don't think that's a fair comparison. OEMs have quite a lot of extra steps before releasing any build to the public. They have to pass xTS, the set of test suites required before…

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It isn't cell networks, no one ever on that side ever blocked Android forks. It's the implementation that OEMs used to support VoLTE isn't compatible with AOSP APIs. If it wasn't f…

As Lineage is concerned I found that a while ago and made https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_packages_mo... But no one bothered to test, and I had no way to verify so…

What stops you from uploading a fix? Now that I know about the issue I can do it myself, but... Regardless let me tell you that: AOSP fixed it for Android V!

Not entirely sure what configuration you're looking for, but the one supported in Android can be found here https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/B... https://…

Thanks for digging it up. Sometimes I can't comprehend how people come up with that stuff when it was already publicly explained how/why it happened :/

Pressure from Google? I myself removed that feature because the effort to have it was more of an hassle than anything else.

There's many of us :)

Android APIs are stable and an app will keep working until Google decides to bump the min SDK version in Android itself. The APIs a Google app uses are the same as any other app. U…

Supported => Supported by Google yes. I think you misread my comment, or I wasn't clear enough, I work on AOSP daily so I know very well what's in there :)

A lot of people still don't see how the operating system as a whole is open source, not having properly supported open source apps is not the best, but while we can make apps and/o…

You'll hear that it's been happening since years, and while a lot of us tried to upstream some of our enhancements/changes hardly any of them got accepted ( or anyone is actively w…

Their plan is to remove them altogether. Still those apps have not been maintained in years, that's the normal course of action for apps in AOSP.

Yep, everything you said is correct. The AMSS has control of the hardware, but there's different components, each implementing different functionality, they may be able to talk wit…

You have to manually strip the QCOM additions in the vendor side. It's just a matter of removing files, but I wouldn't expect to do it without some knowledge how the whole thing wo…

This operating system, know as firmware running in the DSP. That's the only sane way to have a working device that needs to handle signals. It's not hidden in any way, and the kern…

The download is done from the Android side. It's a privileged app ( a service in Android lang ) that once fetched sends the data to the modem, where GPS is actively implemented, an…

Leaving aside the opt-in/opt-out possibility. You can remove the services that download the extra GPS data, nothing stops you from doing that, aside making GPS unusable :)

Indeed, everyone works in its own way. Most on this scene started because people had obscene support by some OEM, so just for personal interest. But after a while you see the whole…

I've been doing CyanogenMod for years, and since become a director at LineageOS. I've never heard anything akin to " malicious organization/project that's involved in spreading mis…