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Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Meta XR headsets are very cheap for the performance they give. Unfortunately they require a Meta account and one can assume as much data as legally possibly is sent back to the advertising company.

For years now, since the Quest 1, those Android devices have not been rooted except for some specific version number of the Quest 2.

This recent work https://github.com/FreeXR/eureka_panther-adreno-gpu-exploit-1 makes the latest headset with a rather recent update (but NOT the very last ones, so be cautious!) rootable.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

Actually, those steps are the ones necessary to recover from a hard brick (re: the device is unusable because you did something you shouldn't have as root).

I get that; the whole reason I want to root it is to FAFO tho. So I'll wait until the worst I could do is need to factory reset it. lol

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