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I bought AirPods Pro this year and it has been disappointing compared to the first gen non pro I had previously. Somehow they fall out of my if i adjust my head down. Battery life is good though
I’ve found that aftermarket memory foam eartips work much better than the stock ones for keeping them in my ears.
A commenter on Reddit [1] pointed out that you can access the hearing test feature directly by using a special URL: x-apple-health://HearingAppPlugin.healthplugin/HearingTest I wonder if there’s a similar deep link to be found to enable Hearing Aid mode? 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AirpodsPro/comments/1gftyqo/is_the_...
At some level, this was just the easier approach :)
I'm sure there's something though. Apple changed the URL handler schemes for iOS 18, so a lot of old repos that reference that don't work anymore.
Some Chinese users have discovered a more effective way to bypass geo-locking, even on iPhones (some Apple Health features require approval and can only be enabled on iPhone, not iPad). TLDR, iPhones prioritize external GPS devices over internal ones. All you need is a "fake" lightning or USB-C external GPS device that tells your device where you want it to think it is. Source: https://www.v2ex.com/t/1075937
However, if they did lock it to require an iPhone, the way we would activate would be by using our Faraday cage to spoof GPS inside it, and maybe a spoofed base station.
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Mainly just wanted to say, this is an absolutely fantastic hack and I loved reading about it - thank you for sharing! I guess if I have one question, it would be... what else are you planning to do with your new Faraday cage?
Thank you for reading and the kind words! We're almost looking forward to this loophole being shut down to really make things a tad bit more challenging haha We've got some ideas for the Faraday cage—a whole bunch of networks research and hacking that we can do without messing up live systems! It's also really nice to be able to test a device in isolation, without worrying about whether it's phoning back home in some…
This is a great attitude in the face of a pretty sad 2024 reality: that the manufacturer of a device is expected to intentionally go out of its way to remotely stop users from using the device they bought in the way they want to use it.
> Since WiFi and a microwave operate at the same frequency (2.4GHz), we ran our leaky microwave at full power to block out any persistent network signals in the air. Incidentally, WiFi tries to intentionally avoid this interference. Microwaves output no power during the zero crossing of the AC line that's driving it, and in this interval, there is no signal in the air to jam things. WiFi listens before sending (so as…
It appears that the Hearing Aid feature is actually an equalizer preset that is pushed to the AirPods and will replace your transparency mode. Apple could've just not marketed these as "hearing aids" or used the medical terminology, as every other TWS with parametric EQ and transparency mode can do the same thing, and they wouldn't have the regulatory hawks going after them. They only lose the marketing edge, but per…
Fwiw I refuse to own Apple, I only own AAPL.
Hey! I'm Rithwik, one of the authors of the article, happy to answer questions etc!
It appears that the Hearing Aid feature is actually an equalizer preset that is pushed to the AirPods and will replace your transparency mode. Apple could've just not marketed these as "hearing aids" or used the medical terminology, as every other TWS with parametric EQ and transparency mode can do the same thing, and they wouldn't have the regulatory hawks going after them. They only lose the marketing edge, but per…
I own AAPL for that marketing edge! I bought more AAPL after they announced locking down macOS to prevent third party sourced applications from running, because Apple customers are the kind who'll interpret such news as daddy protecting them and looking out for babies' best interests, which means more money going into the Apple tax to pay AAPL holders! Fwiw I refuse to own Apple, I only own AAPL.
It appears that the Hearing Aid feature is actually an equalizer preset that is pushed to the AirPods and will replace your transparency mode. Apple could've just not marketed these as "hearing aids" or used the medical terminology, as every other TWS with parametric EQ and transparency mode can do the same thing, and they wouldn't have the regulatory hawks going after them. They only lose the marketing edge, but per…
> I'm surprised there hasn't yet been any TWS advertised with open-source firmware Let me introduce you to the PineBuds Pro: https://pine64.com/product/pinebuds-pro-open-firmware-capabl...
Jeez that's not great. Hard to develop on these devices when too many flashes kills them.