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Has Meta ever provided Qualcomm EDL files for recovery?

1•nar001•1h ago
I thought I'd ask here, considering people here might be more knowledgeable about it. Quest VR headsets for example are notoriously lacking in recovery options. They also have an EDL mode, specifically 9008, baked in the Qualcomm SoC, but as you need a specific "Firehose" file to set it up, and Meta never provided it, many people who end up with botched updates or issues with their headsets, and can only boot in this mode seem SoL.

Would anybody here have info on what to do about it? A lot of these are out of warranty, or even completely unsupported like the Quest 1, so Meta themselves wouldn't even service them anymore. Thanks!

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/04/28/locked-stocked-and-losing-budget-ai-vendor-lock-i...
1•instagraham•1m ago•0 comments

AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities

https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/
1•rmoff•2m ago•0 comments

'No one has done this in the wild': study observes AI replicate itself

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/07/no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observe...
1•richardatlarge•3m ago•0 comments

How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device

https://zknill.io/posts/everyone-said-sse-token-streaming-was-easy/
1•zknill•7m ago•0 comments

The Story of VaccinateCA

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-story-of-vaccinateca/
1•ot•9m ago•0 comments

Doodle: Compositional 2D Graphics

https://www.creativescala.org/doodle/
1•noelwelsh•10m ago•0 comments

The User Is Visibly Frustrated

https://pscanf.com/s/354/
2•francesco__b•11m ago•0 comments

Prompt Screener – Catches biased prompts before you send them to AI

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/prompt-screener/hdooilgdenkeeccfomlkkenhmelobcjm
1•jahaanshah•13m ago•0 comments

Odin, Wikipedia and Engagement Farming

https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/
2•baranul•14m ago•0 comments

Francesca Albanese on the untapped power of international law

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/culture-current/francesca-albanese-untapped-power-international...
1•skibz•17m ago•0 comments

Removing fsync from our local storage engine

https://fractalbits.com/blog/remove-fsync/
5•zzsheng•22m ago•2 comments

Tired of "Move to left and decrease border radius"? Try Browser-Mutation

https://github.com/JosPMSilva/Browser-mutation
2•JosPMSilva•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Degraded GPT-5.5 Quality?

1•ramon156•29m ago•0 comments

K8s-Container_escape_audit Version 3

https://github.com/liamromanis101/K8s-container_escape_audit
1•lromanis•35m ago•1 comments

Grok TTS: X's Latest TTS Model Sets a New Baseline

https://techstackups.com/articles/grok-tts-xai-text-to-speech-model/
1•ritzaco•38m ago•0 comments

Silicon oscillators solve problems in seconds using semiconductors

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-silicon-oscillators-problems-thousands-years.html
1•01-_-•39m ago•0 comments

U.S. and China Pursue Guardrails to Stop AI Rivalry from Spiraling into Crisis

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/u-s-and-china-pursue-guardrails-to-stop-ai-rivalry-from-spiraling...
1•01-_-•41m ago•0 comments

HomeDesignsAI

https://homedesigns.ai
2•bellamoon544•45m ago•0 comments

Progressively Improving a Ball of Mud

https://afilina.com/improving-ball-of-mud
2•luu•47m ago•0 comments

The best ideas come from the arena

https://www.reproof.app/blog/amex-history
1•maguay•49m ago•0 comments

ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math

https://firethering.com/zaya1-8b-open-source-math-coding-model/
2•steveharing1•51m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Does a vetted marketplace improve hiring?

1•Sam6late•51m ago•0 comments

Subquadratic claims to have fixes attention scaling with 12M context window

https://twitter.com/alex_whedon/status/2051663268704636937
1•jiwidi•55m ago•0 comments

Who edited the date stamp of this post

https://xcancel.com/iamasoothsayer/status/1535494638391664641?s=46%0A
2•razodactyl•1h ago•0 comments

The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics(1944)

https://www.ditext.com/tarski/tarski.html
2•nill0•1h ago•0 comments

My first post scored 1. Karpathy's autoresearch idea helped me repost

https://github.com/meller/laneconductor
3•meller_a•1h ago•0 comments

Has Meta ever provided Qualcomm EDL files for recovery?

1•nar001•1h ago•0 comments

Mapping Project Complexity with AI

https://www.maiobarbero.dev/articles/project-complexity-ai-skills/
1•maiobarbero•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Production-Ready MERN Job Board Template

https://auditjobs.up.railway.app/
1•hlymrk•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crypto Cards – 136 debit/credit cards, MIT-licensed list

https://github.com/mbtrilla/awesome-crypto-cards
1•mbtrilla•1h ago•0 comments