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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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Except that on most phone you can already reboot the device if you long-press some button, can't you?

You can always turn it off and on, AFAIK.

Long Press power while pressing volume down works on all Android devices I've used to date.

And that's ignoring the fact that disconnecting power, waiting a few days and then reconnecting it will inevitably let you cold boot it, too (which this would be an equivalent to - as far as I understood it)

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

#122

It'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)

I used to do something similar for the security cams at my desert property.

Picked up a gl.inet x300b off ebay and never looked back.

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

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This is super annoying on newer iOS for device that I use purely for development. Before it was possible just keep iPhone unlocked indefenitely, but now it reboots and boom I have to use TouchID again. This is again Apple being Apple making things harder without option to disable it even when development mode is on. Has anyone found a way to bypass it?

Do you think it's possible to jiggle it ala mouse jigglers and USB jigglers?

Problem is not user activity - it just needs PIN, TouchID or FaceID. Even if you logged to device via iPhone Mirroring it's still gonna reboot, get locked after 72 hours and for me personally it breaks iPhone Mirroring half of the time too.

One physical option to bypass it on iPhone SE is to actually physically activate PIN entry and then use Voice Control command to enter the pin since it works even before first unlock. Though this is basically compromises pin and device encryption. But it's cheap since there are plenty of $2 devices that can simulate touchscreen clicks.

I just want some easier option that works and not require agent 007 setup to just run a buld of my AI-generated crap via Xcode.

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

#124

It's good to have an option like that, even being a default, but there definitively need a switch to disable that if it is your own will. It's not even necessarily that good enough against cops, because in a lot of shitty countries, even some pretending to be democratics, not disclosing or at least inputting your password might be a crime severely punished. If I'm not wrong, there was a guy that had to stay years in…

> in a lot of shitty countries, even some pretending to be democratics, not disclosing or at least inputting your password might be a crime severely punished. If I'm not wrong, there was a guy that had to stay years in jail until he would comply with the judge order to unlock his device.

This sounds a lot like the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 in the United Kingdom, where several people have been prosecuted and imprisoned for failing to provide encryption keys.

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

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post #123

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Do you think it's possible to jiggle it ala mouse jigglers and USB jigglers?

Problem is not user activity - it just needs PIN, TouchID or FaceID. Even if you logged to device via iPhone Mirroring it's still gonna reboot, get locked after 72 hours and for me personally it breaks iPhone Mirroring half of the time too. One physical option to bypass it on iPhone SE is to actually physically activate PIN entry and then use Voice Control command to enter the pin since it works even before first unl…

Issue is, you kinda have a agent 007, sort of setup with the advanced data protection thing. I think you need an appropriate solution.

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

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post #43

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> I have to use TouchID again. Don’t set it up with a passcode in the first place?

Unfortunately I use Advanced Data Protection on my Apple account so I kind a need that passcode. And moving to having completely different Apple account for development is PITA.

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

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post #123

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Problem is not user activity - it just needs PIN, TouchID or FaceID. Even if you logged to device via iPhone Mirroring it's still gonna reboot, get locked after 72 hours and for me personally it breaks iPhone Mirroring half of the time too. One physical option to bypass it on iPhone SE is to actually physically activate PIN entry and then use Voice Control command to enter the pin since it works even before first unl…

Issue is, you kinda have a agent 007, sort of setup with the advanced data protection thing. I think you need an appropriate solution.

But all I want is "Please dont reboot my phone! Very please!" setting in options.

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

#130

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?

This is a terrible idea for an internet connected device.
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