Some Android recovery menu tools and options are being removed in the latest Samsung Galaxy updates, but the reason is unclear.

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
  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • eli@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • hornedfiend@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Not defending Samsung, not by a long shot, but isn’t referring to the ability to sideload in recovery (roms)?

        It doesn’t seem to affect normal sideloading for apps. Still very shitty move regardless.

    • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      I guess that’s part of the problem. It’s easy to encroach on these things when there’s effectively no pushback.