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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

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post #17
post #7

They stole the idea from GrapheneOS and shipped a barely half-baked version with hardcoded time. GrapheneOS has configurable time for it since years

Can you set the time to one minute?

Why would you want it to auto-reboot after one minute?

The minimum on GrapheneOS is 10 min and the maximum is 72 hours. It can also be disabled.

Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

#22
post #7

They stole the idea from GrapheneOS and shipped a barely half-baked version with hardcoded time. GrapheneOS has configurable time for it since years

I would guess the more likely inspiration would be Apple recently adding this to iOS, if GrapheneOS had it for years and they didn’t add it...

Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

#23
post #17
post #7

They stole the idea from GrapheneOS and shipped a barely half-baked version with hardcoded time. GrapheneOS has configurable time for it since years

Can you set the time to one minute?

Not against it, but I'm genuinely curious what the use case would be for that?

Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

#24
post #18

Wait, why is this presented as a good thing? Why would I want my phone to auto reboot without my intervention? Never mind that it’ll never make three days on a single charge even if I don’t touch it.

Just be glad it’s not windows, which does it every 3 hours.

Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

#25
post #18

Wait, why is this presented as a good thing? Why would I want my phone to auto reboot without my intervention? Never mind that it’ll never make three days on a single charge even if I don’t touch it.

For when it's sitting in an evidence baggy in the police station connected to a charger waiting for forensics

Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

#26

I just want software that will do nothing user-observable without me explicitly asking it to. No pop-ups, no suggestions, no automatic anything. I don't know if it'll take a fancy buzzword or what. Unobtrusive software? Silent Software?

Not shit software

Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

#28
post #18

Wait, why is this presented as a good thing? Why would I want my phone to auto reboot without my intervention? Never mind that it’ll never make three days on a single charge even if I don’t touch it.

It’s pretty well spelled out in the article…

The BFU state is more secure than AFU.

Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

#29
post #17
post #7

They stole the idea from GrapheneOS and shipped a barely half-baked version with hardcoded time. GrapheneOS has configurable time for it since years

Can you set the time to one minute?

No, that is unrealistic. Please stop trolling

Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

#30
post #18

Wait, why is this presented as a good thing? Why would I want my phone to auto reboot without my intervention? Never mind that it’ll never make three days on a single charge even if I don’t touch it.

It's very clearly explained in the article.
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