Apparently, rooting can kill you, according to Nokia. Just fucking read the last bullet here, they really said this.

I mean, that's not wrong. Fudging around e.g. with the battery charging software might cause a fire, and of course Nokia doesn't want to be held liable.

Yeah, pretty much "don't use our detergent powder in your tumble dryer, you fucking idiot"

It covering their ass in case some dumb fuck who doesn't know what they're doing manages to screw up that badly

@Fast-Nop Please don't let battery charging under software control of the OS be a thing. That should be a dedicated circuit/processor. Is this why Samsung batteries caught fire a few years back?

@Demolishun that'd be my guess

@Stuxnet Especially given that there are countries where morons would love to sue gravity when they stumble over their own feet.

@Demolishun A circuitry will still be configurable because that just makes sense. For example, you may only have 500mA available if you plug into a USB2 socket.

Or choosing a compromise between charging speed and battery longevity. You don't want to nail that in silicon because then you'd have to make new chips every time, which is dang expensive.

@Fast-Nop Self protection via temperature (or other sensors) should be in the silicon. I get the charging rate and yes that makes sense.

@Fast-Nop would agree with @Demolishun: there should be protection on-battery anyways or it's easier for them to Note 7.

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I think they refer to the possibility you fuck up the emergency call functionality.

@Demolishun Sure, but li ion batteries are quite unstable if treated badly. By the time the temperature sensor even registers the increased temperature, you already might have a battery meltdown going on. That goes also for too much discharge.

If all other defences are removed, the sensor has to take the sole responsibility, and all it takes is a broken sensor. No redundancy in the protection mechanisms anymore.

It's exactly because people think "oh but there's a sensor, so it can't go wrong" that this is dangerous.

I've been a rooted user since 2011. Whenever I buy a phone, the first thing I do is root. Never had any issue because of root. Instead, I could do so many things that nobody around me could do. I enjoyed my rooted experience. I'd never wanna go back to unrooted state.

@Demolishun even laptops allow software to control batt charging. It's been a thing for quite a long time now

@Fast-Nop Wow! The fuckery in modern products extends to the hardware too:

https://pcworld.com/article/236875/...

I sincerely hope hardware manufacturers of phones and laptops take note. Imagine malware that detects it is in air plane mode and causes a phone or laptop to catch fire... This is shameful.

I think it means higher risk of being hacked especially if you install root modules....

Unless you read the source code for all modules you install, one could be a virus and basically takeover the system and maybe send yr passwords and stuff to some hacker's server