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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myrmepropagandist 3d ago

@fabio

This is why phones are not real computers. You can't write a program and put it on your phone. Unless you make a server and make it a website. And now my husband will want me to make him a website for all his programs.

And I will make it since I need it for my horrible iphone.

I would love a linux phone, but I wonder if that will ever be workable. I have this goofy work app and I bet it won't run on that. And what about wireless payment?

Anyway this sucks.

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Fabio Manganiello 3d ago

@futurebird I think all it takes is a decent virtualization layer. I use GrapheneOS and I can get most if not all of my Android apps to work, all while sandboxing Google Play Services the way I want. If PostmarketOS, Sailfish, UBPorts or anything else could manage to get the same sandboxing model to work in something that resembles Waydroid and it’s reasonably efficient and stable, I’d probably be ready to make the jump.

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Adam Dalliance

@fabio @futurebird Yeah, at least one of the linux phones has an android emulator or container to run android apps.

But of course many android apps these days depend on Play services anyway and banking apps deliberately fail if they think they're in a weird or rooted machine.