Mastodawn

#Samsung devices from today can no longer install custom ROMs.

Odin is gone and the Download Mode is also gone, which makes life hard also for repair services that want to restore a device.

This is your daily reminder that #Android is a liability, and major hardware manufacturers who ship Google’s version of Android are a liability too.

We need to get Linux phones to work, and we need manufacturers who are aligned with our principles.

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-disables-odin-removes-download-mode-3648469/

Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users

Samsung has released a controversial update that disables a tool widely relied upon by power users and service centers.

Android Authority

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Jorongo Ringo 3d ago

@fabio question: Why not say android/iphones, equally bad no?

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Fabio Manganiello

@joroingo well iPhones have been bad from day 1.

Android at least found for most of the time a way to strike a balance.

But I knew that it was just a matter of time before the enshittification faction in Google managed to get the upper hand.

It’s just appalling how unprepared we’ve all come to this day, with age verification APIs, external APK limitations and broken download/recovery modes perhaps all coming within this year, and the Linux phones ecosystem still struggling to get together something usable after two decades.