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Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

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Re: Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

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Post by hgoel »

HDBaseT wrote: post #8
zbowling wrote: post #6

The blog post with the details on our update today which is a bit more complete than Boz's video: https://developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/build-apps-for-port...

Wow, this feels weird. It reads like "hey guys, we don't care about this product anymore. Although you can continue to support it using AI because we're too lazy" Respect to Meta for unlocking ADB though.

This really sounds like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" type of comment.

Re: Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

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Post by itissid »

gregwebs wrote: post #7

Is this the same Portal device that they disabled every feature on other than Messenger and WhatsApp calls that I can now only use as a bluetooth speaker?

Yep and the speaker is not half bad! It has good hardware. Its a shame they could not spin it off to anyone else(not for lack of trying) before they were "forced" to kill it because, basically, meta's stock was at 90$ at the end of 2022 and everyone was just spewing a derivative of the statement: "Focus on extremely short term profitability else your(heavily) stock compensated employees will all leave."

Re: Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

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Post by chrisweekly »

_fzslm wrote: post #14

Nice. I have a 3rd gen Echo Show 8 that's collecting dust and I direly wish I could sideload an actually useful UI onto it, but there aren't any methods of doing so yet. Can't wait until Mythos is public so I can set it on pwning the damn thing.

ha! that's the first such take on mythos I've seen

Re: Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

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Post by whycome »

nar001 wrote: post #9

Interesting, does that mean we might get root support on the old unsupported Quest devices too? The Q1 is already discontinued and no more updates yet still locked down, and they did something similar for the Ofulus go, providing a rooted boot image for it Next would be recovery tools too, so they're not paperweights

What’s this about the go? What are the options for that device?

Re: Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

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Post by Ecko123 »

_fzslm wrote: post #14

Nice. I have a 3rd gen Echo Show 8 that's collecting dust and I direly wish I could sideload an actually useful UI onto it, but there aren't any methods of doing so yet. Can't wait until Mythos is public so I can set it on pwning the damn thing.

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Re: Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]

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Post by someperson »

jenders wrote: post #5
HDBaseT wrote: post #3

Apparently a message prompting users that they can enable 'adb' on their devices by navigating to "Settings > Debug > ADB Enabled" has existed for over a month although majority have been unsuccessful due to the Setting not existing! [0] [1] [0] - https://x.com/PiunikaWeb/status/2053803917910376584 [1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/FacebookPortal/comments/1t55mee/unl...

I’m very interested to see if this develops until a full bootloader unlock. Picked up CIB hardware on eBay for $70. A general purpose Linux kiosk for this price is a no brainer.

Yep Meta Portal is very very nice industrial design
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