Why are android people so retarded?
Resurrecting Old Phones
Kevin Kelly
Kayden Foster
No one mentioned the Galaxy 5. OP mentioned the Galaxy S5. Pretty big difference, the Galaxy 5 is much older. Pics related.
What the fuck are you talking about? You think the N9 runs Windows Phone?
Oliver Davis
I found an old motorlla X2-01 in the trash. Pic isn't it, but it's the same model. I didn't find a charger but I plugged it into an usb port and it turns out it can charge through its proprietary charger aswell as the usb port. It seems like it's not beat up but it obviously saw heavy use, the screen is perfect but everything else is covered in scratches and the corners of the phone are rounded. The previous owner was smart enough to factory reset the phone, but dumb enough to leave a 2GB microsd in.
What fun things can I do with it? I instantly turned it into a microsd adapter because I don't have one and unlike android phones its "usb mass storage" option actually works. It seems like it supports those oldschool (as far as 10 years ago is oldschool) J2ME phone programs. It has a camera, bluetooth, no wi-fi, it somehow can play among other audio formats apple lossless.
And funnily enough its battery life is a lie, but not in the modern sense. It lasts more than what the phone claims. I've heard people claim it plays music for 7 hours but I left it playing an apple lossless encode of a led zeppelin CD on loop for 9~ hours while I slept and the battery was still at 4 bars.
Evan Lee
Please bully me it's not a motorolla it's a nokia.
Colton Ortiz
Connor Jones
I thought I was in Zig Forums, not /g/.
Brody Smith
There are no RYF certified phones yet but people are painstakingly working on it.
That's a defeatist attitude. Phones play a major role in technology so it must be given attention unless you're a cuck who get off from defeat and think avoiding botnet is a 'powerful' move
the charger isn't proprietary. You could cut up a USB cable and cold solder the charging pin (voltage + and -) since it's also 5V. Their chargers are actually better since you can move around the phone while micro USB charging pin and cables usually get crappy.
there are ROMs that have pic related - is an Orange mobile version of a Nokia phone.
Nokia N900 would be a better find though since you could fit there a linux kernel and a distro.
The first thing I usually do is send a blank.nol (blank image) operator logo via bluetooth so you won't see that telecom operator name on your home screen
You can buy from chinese online stores like ali
Nolan Davis
All phones are inherently a botnet. Even if you manufactured your very own custom phone, by law the phone has to be a botnet. It is impossible to have a phone that isn't a botnet. Now if you want a personal digital assistant that doesn't have any kind of phone facilities, that would be a different matter.
Ethan Martin
Has anyone tried making one out of an Android smartphone? It seems that you only need to remove a modem from the board.
Tyler Richardson
Aren't the modems part of the SOC in some devices though?