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Genuinely curious, but why desolder the Ethernet port? If you don't want it to connect to the network just don't plug a cable in right?
by PrivateButts 3y ago
Genuinely curious, but why desolder the Ethernet port? If you don't want it to connect to the network just don't plug a cable in right?
- l33t7332273 3y agoMy guess is that GP may have been curious if the TV would react poorly to not having being able to phone home via any method, including ethernet.
- bhaney 3y agoI don't think the TV can electrically tell the difference between the ethernet port being soldered in or not. Removing the wireless NIC was the only thing I was concerned might cause some broken behaviors.
- bhaney 3y agoI mentioned it in another comment, but it's to prevent the case where the TV might be connected with an ethernet cable in the future by someone other than me, giving it an opportunity to upload any collected historical data it might have. I'm not actually very worried about that happening, but I already had the thing splayed open so I figured I might as well just gut anything I could get an iron to and didn't plan to use.
- SoftTalker 3y agoHopefully it never has a genuine bug that requires a firmware update.
- bhaney 3y agoI can always solder the port back on if I really need to
- defrost 3y agoThey (Android based Smart TV's) often have USB ports and various means of installing your own sideloading software | dropping back to command shell as admin, etc. While firmware updates can be applied that way, here's hoping for a future OpenTV OS with all the desired features and none of the bolt on merchant wares.