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A rant about OEM lazieness as it pertains to Proprietary Files

Ever wondered why x device slowed down after an upgrade to the newest android version? Or why y doesn't work on a source built ROM? A BIG part of the issue is OEM's laziness. The bigger part however, is proprietary binaries. Quite often, proprietary binaries are not updated for feature inclusion, or improvements, and are only updated for the purpose of making the hardware WORK, not WORK WELL. They often go out of their way to actually update the HAL's/RIL's/Proprietary Blobs. A great example of this is the RIL. The RIL (Radio Interface Layer) is updated EXTREMELY infrequently. Android's RIL interface is versioned. The current AOSP revision of it is 11. Now, the ril-daemon (Android component that communicates with the RIL) allegedly supports any RIL revision 6=<. A great example of these components not being updated is in the Nexus S (crespo). It was upgrade to JellyBean, which natively includes RIL version 7. Instead of updating it to get all the perk