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Open what? The screen? 90% of what makes the phone a phone is Qualcomm IP and there’s no planet on which they’re going to allow release of their proprietary bi

by tw04 6y ago

Open what? The screen? 90% of what makes the phone a phone is Qualcomm IP and there’s no planet on which they’re going to allow release of their proprietary bits.

noxer 6y ago
It probably more about cam drivers and such stuff that prevents a news OSes from being useful on older devices. Essentially they could make it possible for independent devs to create updates for they phones for quite some time.
- tw04 6y ago
  >It probably more about cam drivers So Sony's IP (who also will not open source it), because LG doesn't make a cellphone camera sensor that I'm aware of. A quick perusal of some of the most popular models shows almost entirely IMX (Sony) sensors.
  - noxer 6y ago
    They most likely wrote "the camera app" for it and could open source that which would allow someone to port it to a newer version of android.
Brian_K_White 6y ago
I'd be happy with nothing more than a bootloader unlock. They don't have to give me a line of proprietary code. It would be nice of course, but that just makes things easier. Releasing code is merely the difference between easy and difficult. A locked bootloader is the difference between possible and not-possible. (I have a Sprint V20 which is not rootable. There have been brief windows of rootability in the past due to exploits and hacks, which were subsequently closed.) Why would anyone even want a crappy old V20? Removable sd card. Removable battery. Headphone jack. The only thing I don't like is the placement of the power button. That is truly ridiculous and agrevating. Oh and the lcd actually kinda blows. It has a weird form of burn-in that comes & goes and always shows things that were recently on the screen, not really like normal permanent burn-in that builds up over time on a crt or oled. It's a known issue with the model. I digress but if I'm going to say why it matters to be able to root this old phone by pointing out it's unique and desirable features, I felt the pretty significant negative should be noted anywhere the positive is.

by tw04 6y ago

Open what? The screen? 90% of what makes the phone a phone is Qualcomm IP and there’s no planet on which they’re going to allow release of their proprietary bits.

noxer 6y ago

It probably more about cam drivers and such stuff that prevents a news OSes from being useful on older devices. Essentially they could make it possible for independent devs to create updates for they phones for quite some time.

tw04 6y ago
>It probably more about cam drivers So Sony's IP (who also will not open source it), because LG doesn't make a cellphone camera sensor that I'm aware of. A quick perusal of some of the most popular models shows almost entirely IMX (Sony) sensors.
- noxer 6y ago
  They most likely wrote "the camera app" for it and could open source that which would allow someone to port it to a newer version of android.

Brian_K_White 6y ago

I'd be happy with nothing more than a bootloader unlock. They don't have to give me a line of proprietary code. It would be nice of course, but that just makes things easier. Releasing code is merely the difference between easy and difficult. A locked bootloader is the difference between possible and not-possible. (I have a Sprint V20 which is not rootable. There have been brief windows of rootability in the past due to exploits and hacks, which were subsequently closed.) Why would anyone even want a crappy old V20? Removable sd card. Removable battery. Headphone jack. The only thing I don't like is the placement of the power button. That is truly ridiculous and agrevating. Oh and the lcd actually kinda blows. It has a weird form of burn-in that comes & goes and always shows things that were recently on the screen, not really like normal permanent burn-in that builds up over time on a crt or oled. It's a known issue with the model. I digress but if I'm going to say why it matters to be able to root this old phone by pointing out it's unique and desirable features, I felt the pretty significant negative should be noted anywhere the positive is.