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Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices

https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/
51•jenders•1h ago

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pm90•1h ago
can anyone paste a copy for those without meta accounts
jenders•57m ago
wfm without a meta account but here is the direct link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1561665975384013
HDBaseT•58m ago
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...

jenders•54m ago
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.
zbowling•48m ago
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...
HDBaseT•37m ago
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.

zbowling•22m ago
The post just explains along with the new ADB access, you can now also build your own hacks or port existing apps to run on your Portal using newly published AI skills (originally built for Meta Quest/Horizon OS) that document the technical specifics about the device and certain limitations that an agent then can use to build something quickly.
hgoel•19m ago
This really sounds like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" type of comment.
gregwebs•43m ago
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?
itissid•17m ago
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."
nar001•24m ago
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

_fzslm•5m ago
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.

Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices

https://fb.watch/HxPu0fSyeH/
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