Samsung, with some of its latest updates, is set to remove some core tools from Android’s recovery menu, and it’s unclear why.
Every Android smartphone ships with a recovery menu that includes the abilty to reset the device, wipe the cache, apply updates, and more. That’s a very simplified explanation, but it’s a standard feature, and one that you might be most familiar with when manually sideloading Android updates, such as the beta updates Google releases for Pixels.
In One UI 8.5, though, Samsung is making a change to this.
As first noted by GalaxyClub and spotted by others too, Samsung is removing several options from the Android recovery menu with the latest updates for Galaxy phones. Specifically, the update is removing:
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Apply update from ADB
Apply update from SD card
Wipe cache partition
View recovery logs
Run graphics test
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