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PROJECT Fixes Android NFC bug

It’s been a while since the last nomination here, but heres a worthy contender

Fix for unstable NFC connection on LineageOS (Android 13+)

In the last few months, I have debugged a quite interesting issue concerning Android smartphones running LineageOS and Android version 13+ : The NFC connection to a smartcard (or Apex chip) would just break even though the chip was still computing stuff. I will spare you the gnarly details, in short the NFC driver used by LineageOS starting with Android 13 is the open-source one from the AOSP project, called NfcNci. Before, the (semi) closed source one was used (NQNfcNci), made by NXP and Qualc…