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Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/android@lemdro.id
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Samsung is removing several options from the Android recovery menu with the latest updates for Galaxy phones. Specifically, the update is removing:

Apply update from ADB
Apply update from SD card
Wipe cache partition
View recovery logs
Run graphics test
Run locale test
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[–] 55 points 8 months ago (4 children)

This era is such a pointless attack against the smallest niche of users. I honestly don't get it. How much are a few techie hobbyists costing Google/Samsung's gargantuan bottom lines? They are stepping over dollars to chase after pennies.

Just let people who want to modify their phones. It's already prohibitively hard that no one who doesn't have the know-how is installing their own apps outside the stores.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago

    They want no competition. They want consumers to have devices, that are necessary for them to have in the modern world, that are locked down and under control of corporate or state entities. It's surveillance capitalism combined with police states

    It's the cyberpunk future

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    As a hobbyist if I can't side load my necessary apps to make my phone functional, then I have a non-functional device. And if my device is non-functional then there is no point in having one.

    I'll legitimately just go back to a flip phone or have no phone. And there's no fucking way I'm touching a iPhone.

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