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hexagonwin 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-roll...

They can kill custom roms and force the latest vendor firmware. If they push a shitty update that slows down the phone or something, users have no choice other than buying a new device.

bcraven 7 months ago [–]

The article suggests custom roms can just be updated to be 'newer' than this.

At the moment they're 'older' and would class as a rollback, which this fuse prevents.

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