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Considering this is all about Android adopting a very similar feature, it doesn’t sound like “Apple being Apple”…
It's Apple being a trailblazer and leading the industry. Sometimes that lead is in a bad direction.
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
#132They 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?
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#133It'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…
It's good to be able to disable this option: I use old Android phones as servers and don't want them to reboot every 3 days.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's Apple being a trailblazer and leading the industry. Sometimes that lead is in a bad direction.
The rest of the industry are adults and can be responsible for their own decisions though.
For obvious reasons those ads are long gone...
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#135If this is true, then the new update will save a lot of battery for those phones that are sitting idle.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#136I found that this saves a lot of battery. My old Motorola G5G is now sitting idle, and I had to charge it every 4-5 days. I found that if the phone is restarted and NOT unlocked , it will stay charged for more than 10 days. My best guess is that a screen unlock is required to start many of the OS-level services, which takes up all the battery. If this is true, then the new update will save a lot of battery for those…
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#137I found that this saves a lot of battery. My old Motorola G5G is now sitting idle, and I had to charge it every 4-5 days. I found that if the phone is restarted and NOT unlocked , it will stay charged for more than 10 days. My best guess is that a screen unlock is required to start many of the OS-level services, which takes up all the battery. If this is true, then the new update will save a lot of battery for those…
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
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It's good to be able to disable this option: I use old Android phones as servers and don't want them to reboot every 3 days.
https://xkcd.com/1172/ Don't think old Androids will get this update.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's good to be able to disable this option: I use old Android phones as servers and don't want them to reboot every 3 days.
https://xkcd.com/1172/ Don't think old Androids will get this update.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#140How is this going to work with SIM cards that need a PIN? I'll be just unreachable until I notice the reboot?
Some time later, you need to do something on the phone, you unlock it, the app starts up, and a flood of messages pours in. Wow, some of those would've been really useful to receive in a timely fashion! Whoops!