Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
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Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#2This is a Google Play Services update. For GrapheneOS users without GApps wondering: A similar feature is already built-in:
https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#3It's not great news for my old phone used for wifi at our guesthouse (let's a few security cams and our smart lock get online)
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#4It's not great news for my old phone used for wifi at our guesthouse (let's a few security cams and our smart lock get online)
You should be able to switch this off, if you notice it being enabled, so (now you know about it) it should be a one-time downtime.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#5This is a Google Play Services update. For GrapheneOS users without GApps wondering: A similar feature is already built-in: https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot
Heh, my first thought was “Don't they do this already?”, but apparently GrapheneOS was ahead of the curve there. Nice.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#6Isn't this stupid?
Why not flush something properly in the RAM instead to wipe the "cached" secrets?
A full restart feels like an overkill.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#7They stole the idea from GrapheneOS and shipped a barely half-baked version with hardcoded time. GrapheneOS has configurable time for it since years
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#8This is a Google Play Services update. For GrapheneOS users without GApps wondering: A similar feature is already built-in: https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot
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Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#9Isn't this stupid? Why not flush something properly in the RAM instead to wipe the "cached" secrets? A full restart feels like an overkill.
The system is provably fully encrypted after a restart.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#10Isn't this stupid? Why not flush something properly in the RAM instead to wipe the "cached" secrets? A full restart feels like an overkill.
It’s not just the RAM. Android devices and iOS devices are not that secure after first unlock (AFU).
https://blogs.dsu.edu/digforce/2023/08/23/bfu-and-afu-lock-s...