This 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.
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
#252This 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
#253Mine randomly reboots semi-periodically already, even when it hasn't been shown as having downloaded an update. That said, I think this is a fairly good idea, although with the encryption stuff they do, this will cause people who rarely use their phones to miss calls and alarms.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#254This 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
That’s weird. I wouldn’t expect Play Services to handle a system function like rebooting unrelated to any Google services.
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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.
Completely agree, I don't want this to disrupt the Bop Spotter https://walzr.com/bop-spotter
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#258Not bad. If I could make a feature request it would be something like, After 3 days of being idle: - [ ] Reboot - [ ] Power Off - [X] WIPE triple opt-in Maybe there is a custom phone OS for this that makes the phone act more ephemeral and network boot off my self hosted iPXE/immich server? A dumb smart phone so to speak. An ephemeral diskless phone.
I think it should be doable _technically_, but I think getting the mobile radios working before the OS boots would be challenging.
Re: Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
#259This 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
Samsung has also had this feature for ages.