Lets Get NEX's Source code
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Why do they care what we do with the phone . Idiots.
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They cannot say why they care so much about stability. I was told there is no way to install the Indian ROM on the Mainland China phone... Even though they are the exact phone. I truly believe the support staff have no clue what they're talking about because their scripts don't have answers to real questions.
There is such thing as firmware: code embedded into the hardware. The only way hardware works is because there's code telling it what to do; This is called Firmware. When you install an operating system on a computer(CPU), it does this because there's code embedded into the processor telling it where the location and language agreement(protocol) are located. So, if the original program(firmware) is molested by a foreign app, then it will say NO-WAY!
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But we should be able to overwrite/flash the global ROM firmware on to the Chinese Mainland Nex S.
Global sounds like it's available for the whole-wide-world. China sounds like it's for China only.
Global hardware should have less restrictions when installing ROMs. It all comes down to hardware being able to understand the app or ROM. If the hardware can't read it because it was written for a specific language, then it's not going to work. Imagine you approaching a person who doesn't speak your language. How far will you get when trying to converse with this person.
Global hardware should have less restrictions when installing ROMs. It all comes down to hardware being able to understand the app or ROM. If the hardware can't read it because it was written for a specific language, then it's not going to work. Imagine you approaching a person who doesn't speak your language. How far will you get when trying to converse with this person.
I think you guys are missing the point. To my understanding the hardware for the Mainland China version and the India (with global ROM) are exactly the same. The software is whats different... the China software has stuff specifically for the Chinese market (specifically Jovi, the stock Launcher, and how everything is connected to the vivo cloud). The India ROM is supposed to allow for more customization (Google Assistant instead of Jovi and the ability to change the launcher). If the hardware was different they would have assigned a different code name/model number... however, they are both "PD1805." If you look at other Chinese mobile phones, they launch with China ROM and sometimes will have a Global ROM released down the road...
Global version cannot be updated on Chinese version, how about updating Chinese version on global? Is it possible?
You have no idea what you are talking about. The hardware is the exact same and I know as I own both versions of the phone and have been modding Android since I was 9. It is completely possible to flash global rom on on Chinese variant but vivo restricts it, unlike xiaomi, I can flash Chinese rom on my eu mix 2 and vice versa
Good to know. This was already clarified in this same post.
Vivo, Oppo, OnePlus are all a subsidiary BBK Electronics Corporation. Only OnePlus allows for bootloader unlocking and releases kernel sources. As it is a part of their market strategy. Oppo before 2016 used to the same but they changed their market strategy to become "China's Apple" and locked down all bootloaders and stopped kernel sources releases.
Vivo, Oppo have a poor history of complying with open source licenses and they are constantly in violation with the General Public License v2 (GPLv2) by failing to release kernel source code for their devices.
The only possible way to get kernel sources would be the official way.
A: Report the Violation
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html
See "Reporting Violation"
B: Start a petition in change.org
C: Get their attention by getting their Violation and your petition known on Android News Platform's. It might put pressure on them as it is "bad PR".
Vivo, Oppo have a poor history of complying with open source licenses and they are constantly in violation with the General Public License v2 (GPLv2) by failing to release kernel source code for their devices.
The only possible way to get kernel sources would be the official way.
A: Report the Violation
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html
See "Reporting Violation"
B: Start a petition in change.org
C: Get their attention by getting their Violation and your petition known on Android News Platform's. It might put pressure on them as it is "bad PR".
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