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Why don't cell phones have BIOS? (self.technology)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by obbeel to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Why, instead of safely entering a BIOS setup, does the cell phone brick when installing the Custom ROM wrongly? Wouldn't this protection be better for users? I mean, this could be done through ADB.

Also, do you think it's possible that this way of doing things will come to the computer, with ARM hoping to gain a good share of the market and all?

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Think of installing a custom ROM on a phone like installing a custom BIOS ROM on PC, both are actually not damaging to the device if they fail but require specialized equipment to recover.

Also, some phones and motherboards support special low level recovery modes when a rom fails to boot, but it's usually not easy or documented.