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Joe Maring / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google broke the Pixel IMS app that enabled VoLTE/VoWiFi on unsupported carriers, but the developer has already released a new workaround.
- Google’s October update patched a loophole that the app exploited, specifically blocking the “shell” user from calling a restricted internal API.
- The new fix bypasses this restriction by “laundering” the API call through another component, so the system doesn’t detect it coming from shell.
Back in early 2023, a…
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