It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:
The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.
With Android you can just flash a custom ROM. Phones from the last 5 years even have treble support, meaning you can flash a generic ROM on any phone.
Not if you need to use apps that require Safetynet
there are workarounds , gpay works great on AOSP rom
It does until it doesn’t. Joy to one morning discover I can’t pay for my bus ticket, while I’m already on the bus.
Stuff doesn’t just stop working on its own
Magisk and Safetynet do.
no they dont if you dont update the related components…
Yes because Google totally can’t change Safetynet on their end… which is what happened last time I ran a custom ROM, in November 2021.
Yeah no for sure you updated something. Google can’t remotely install stuff unless you let them.
These days is working fine
I’ve been running rooted Android phones for more than 10 years now and have been using Google pay for about 4 of those years. Never had that happen. That seems very much like something you screwed up.
I’ve been running rooted Android phones for more than 10 years now and have been using Google pay for about 4 of those years. Never had that happen. That seems very much like something you screwed up.
You are free to think so, but it’s hard to screw up something that worked for months and without any configuration changes breaks itself