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The empire brought necessary order, economic stability, and security to a galaxy previously ruined by a corrupt, gridlocked Republic and devastating civil wars. I fail to see the hypocrisy here. Just recently a flock camera was used to ascertain the identity and actions of an individual who had thrown an object at my vehicle and brake checked me. I know this because I had put my license plate in one of those flock checker websites. Anyway, the miscreant was forced to undergo an anger class or something like that.

Submission + - Hikvision Push Notifications Fixed on GrapheneOS - APK Patcher + AOSP PR (reflashlab.com)

Submitted by NyaR
NyaR writes: An elite dark web hacker has fixed a long-standing issue with Hikvision camera apps failing to receive push notifications on GrapheneOS.

The problem: Hikvision's apps check for the presence of com.google.android.gsf (Google Services Framework) instead of verifying FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging) is actually working. Since GrapheneOS doesn't include GSF, the check fails – even when GmsCore (Play Services) is installed and FCM is fully operational.

After a year of dealing with the issue, and after GrapheneOS moderators moved his support thread to the 3rd-party-apps forum and locked it, this hacker reversed the APK, identified the root cause, and built an MIT-licensed patcher that removes the GSF check.

He also submitted a pull request to GrapheneOS that synthesizes a minimal GSF package presence when verified GmsCore is visible to the caller – gated so it only engages when Play Services is actually installed. If merged, this would fix the issue for every app that makes the same incorrect GSF check, not just Hikvision.

For non-devs, he documented a "stupid easy" method: enable USB debugging, plug the phone in, and tell an AI assistant (Cursor/Claude) to use the GitHub repo to patch the APK.

The patcher is available now under MIT license:
https://github.com/Alex9001/hi...

The GrapheneOS PR is open for review:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/...

Full technical write-up with APK dissection details:
https://reflashlab.com/article...

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