According to tipster Ice Universe, Samsung has disabled Odin, a proprietary firmware flashing tool typically used to install stock firmware, install custom ROMs, and restore devices. It also appears that Samsung has removed “Download Mode,” which acts as a gateway for Odin. This change appears to have been made in the latest One UI 8.5 firmware and currently affects the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and recently launched Galaxy S26 series.
You’re thinking of the Verizon s5. That version of Knox still hasn’t been broken
No, I’m standing by my original statement about the S4. I’m not going to gainsay you about the S5 — you may be right about that. But the conversations I heard were definitely around the S4. The person who replied after you said that it would trip a fuse, and that’s what I remember. They contradict me as well to a point, but the bit about Knox tripping a fuse that software could check is definitely something I remember about the S4.
My knowledge of the S5 has nothing to do with Knox (I was on iPhone at that point) and everything to do with the port. People give Apple shit for Lightning, and some of them are even aware that Apple was on the USB committee. They were — and when they saw the USB-B cable/connector that the USB committee designed for USB 3, they said hell no. One nice thing about USB-B (micro B, I mean) was that you could plug a USB micro-A cable into the port on one side and it would still work, albeit at USB 2 data and charging speeds. It was an ugly port, and it wasn’t symmetrical, and Apple wanted a real improvement over 30-pin, so they went to Intel and co-developed Lightning with them. So for the iPhone 5s (or base 5?) and onward, iPhones had a symmetrical charging port, which the USB committee followed with USB-C. A lot of Android guys didn’t wanna touch the Galaxy S5/Note 4 on account of the weird new port. Then you had the Galaxy S6/Note 5 that didn’t use that one Qualcomm chip because it had overheating issues, so they used Exynos across the line, and they also experimented with no removable storage (which they would do with either the S20 or S21 and then it became standard).