Yeah, i just run a very heavily modified android now. Hard to find good phones (with features that i want and need) with enough software support. Couldn’t get lineage os working on my zenfone, it was a horribly buggy experience and I couldn’t get mobile networks working. I needed more reliability and stability, so i manually debloated and stripped almost all telemetry. Rooted this thing and blocked anything that isn’t whitelisted.

Not OP, but when i was running custom ROMs on my main device I carried 2 devices, i had my main phone in my pocket and my secondary in my purse. The secondary ran “Android” so i could use tap pay and the like.

Centuries, the article should have said centuries.

Not sure if trolling or genuinely curious, but it’s Debian.

I seriously hope you mean this as a joke.

Hottest temp I’ve ever been in was over 50. it was painful just walking outside.

Good thing i never updated mine from stock firmware, haven’t had any overheating issues.

Edit: i never use it for anything important, it’s effectively a spare device i use for anything i can’t do on my main device.

The notification light for me was never all that useful, i have unique ringtones for everything but i do agree they are an awesome feature for folks in spaces where their phones need to be quiet

Omg yes, i miss Android phones with keyboards, i had an lg one and that keyboard got so much use that a few buttons died.

Hmmm, that’s deffo a contender for my next device, we’ll see how many years i get out of my zf9 before getting one though lol

Most manufacturers dropped all or most of those features.

Open bootloaders, ir blaster, 3.5mm jack, sd card slot, replaceable batteries. The list goes on.

Oh i didn’t know about that, i bought a zf9 a few years ago, how unfortunate i know they also dropped a bunch of features and crammed a ton of ai garbage on it so i paid it little mind.

Asus is good too

Edit: not any more

Still more than some of the covid era driver exams had… (Cousin in a small town spent less than 15 mins with the proctor)

Another thing worth mentioning if you are trying to do an offline install, some apps have a license verification check that won’t let you run the app unless the account on the device has a valid license for it.

There’s a few apps out there that can copy the apk, however it won’t copy user data, so unless the app you’re backing up has a way to export/import (or if you have root access) you will only be able to copy the app itself. If that is what you need, Link2SD has been quite reliable for me for about a decade for managing and backing up apps so i recommend it.

Freeze the Samsung keyboard app is the route i would take

My dad had a Knoppix boot CD in a case with all the games, of course I messed with it as a curious child, I have no idea how old I was, but it was my first foray into the wonderful world of not Windows.

I learned my lesson the hard way too. After suffering, I bought the cheapest washer and dryer at the local appliance store, it has an end of cycle alarm that was a simple unplug in the back panel.