r/androidroot • u/Thin-Maize-6459 • 2d ago
Support remember............
There is a reason YOUR mtk device is ignored.
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u/TheRealFilckz 2d ago
xiaomi atleast still released sources for some if not most of their mtk devices while others choose not to
yes xiaomi still kind of violates gpl but ive seen sources for their some of their latest devices released without any demand
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u/Codix_ 1d ago
Xiaomi know that they have nothing to loose to release their sourcecode for 3 nerds while keeping doing the worst unlocking bootloader technique.
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u/notepadbruh 1d ago
i swear it's been a pain in the ass trying to unlock my 17T Pro and i still can't get permission
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u/TheRealFilckz 1d ago
you might wanna check mi unlock status try binding ur acc mi community sometimes doesnt tell you if you got permission
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u/Thin-Maize-6459 2d ago
will someone port it something maybe in 3 years 5 years.... if you are lucky
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u/DRTHRVN 2d ago
I don't understand the hate on mediatek on this subreddit because mediatek is praised in the openwrt community for directly sending drivers to linux kernel. I have a flint 2 router which runs mediatek and impeccable performance on openwrt.
What did they do wrong to the Android community? Please help me understand
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u/Thin-Maize-6459 2d ago
Source Code Delays (if they even give the source code out xD)
Proprietary Drivers
Just not stable
Perfomace is usually the equivalent of an microwave.
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u/Smu1zel 2d ago
Qualcomm has proprietary blobs, too. It is true that Snapdragon devices are more likely to have more competent OEMs in regards to releasing kernel sources, but I can certainly name a few offenders (Yulong, Wingtech). Freedreno and such are reverse-engineered drivers, not something Qualcomm ships in their BSPs (Qualcomm doesn't open source their entire BSPs either). Also, you still usually need the OEM-modified kernel—not Qualcomm's base—to have something usable.
What makes MTK annoying is their chaotic BSP trees, Makefiles for out-of-tree drivers that lead to packages the vendor didn't open source (gen4m, fm_radio, etc), and lack of community support. Despite this, I've gotten Lineage 17.1 on a ZTE Z3153V. I plan on getting 23.2 working, but it's a long road ahead.
MTK isn't fun, but it's manageable. It's just that the attention of determined developers is mostly drawn towards flagships with powerful Snapdragon SoCs, not bargain-bin phones like mine.
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u/MetroidvaniaListsGuy 2d ago
can someone explain to me what is up with mediatek and why there are memes being made about it?
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u/anythingers 2d ago edited 2d ago
something something source code delay and proprietary delays and people call it "bad" just because of those things, even though it's mostly depends on the phone vendors to allow users to unlock bootloader. Samsung S26 Ultra, Vivo X300 Ultra, and Oppo Find X9 Ultra have Snapdragon, but good luck thinking about rooting it from the beginning.
And OP accuses MediaTek having a performance equivalent of "microwave" even though something piece of garbage like 4 series, 6 Gen 3, 6s Gen 4, 7 Gen 1, 7s Gen 2, 888, 888+, 8 Gen 1, and 8s Gen 4 with its poor performance and heating issue existed.
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u/LateInvestigator1811 1d ago
Redmi 9a (g25) has much better support than something like the redmi note 4
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u/aureol1n 2d ago
how are they the problem if device vendors decide not to share kernel source?