• Petter1@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    Aren’t iPhones switching from AFU to BFU if you don’t unlock them long enough anyway? Or is BFU not the same state as entered if lock and volume down button are pressed for some time?

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    9 hours ago

    That would be super cool if that was a feature instead of a bug because anything that makes law enforcement’s job harder is worth praising and doing properly.

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        4 hours ago

        It would be nice if this feature did not disable immediately if you turned it off and would require like say 48 hours and two more reboot cycles. That way if a cop took your phone from you and had it and went into the settings and turned the feature off it still wouldn’t work.

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        5 hours ago

        I just heard this like yesterday or today and so that’s absolutely amazing. I don’t think lineage has it though, which is sad. Although it is less useful on lineage since you can’t re-lock boot loaders.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, seems like a reboot every 24 hours you’re not unlocked would be extremely useful

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    15 hours ago

    Hardly ever have I seen an article so full of “could be”, “alledgedly”, “supposed”, “likely”, and “probably”.

    It may be because I have stopped reading about UFO’s after the age of 15.

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      12 hours ago

      Because they have no actual proof of it, and direct evidence against it. They talk about phones communicating with each other to restart… yet a phone inside a faraday box restarted.

      It’s almost certainly just a software bug in iOS which is why it’s inconsistent.

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        It’s also the most unlikely explanation of all, that phones brought in communicated with the ones in custody to reboot them. Even if it was a security feature to reboot phones under certain conditions, which is very likely TBH graphene OS does this, the best implementation isn’t going to be relying on other phones randomly passing near by, it’s going to be self-managed by the phone that reboots.

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    18 hours ago

    I wouldn’t mind having the ability to schedule a reboot on my phone as an extra precaution.

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      12 hours ago

      I thought it’s a standard feature (auto restart at set times). Maybe a samsung thing and not android.

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      17 hours ago

      It probably requires root, but I’m sure Tasker can do this.

      Really, all phones should have the option to reboot into locked mode on certain conditions like being taken out of network or being unattended for a while.

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        12 hours ago

        The interesting thing is if the manufacturer is shipping them that way by default.

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        16 hours ago

        Could possibly also look at the motion sensors to see if it is in a pocket moving around or if it was sitting around for a while.

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      18 hours ago

      There is a shortcut action to shut down the phone which you could trigger with an automation, I suppose.

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        17 hours ago

        I can put the phone in lockdown by press-holding the power button and select the “lockdown” option. Not bad, but an actual reboot daily at night wouldn’t be so bad.

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            This had never occurred to me before but it’s great, thanks! I expect that alarms don’t run until after first unlock, so 3am wouldn’t be great if I use the phone to wake up but later in the morning should be good.

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              I believe it should still work, as alarms trigger for me even if my phone updated overnight or I put it on the charger dead before going to sleep, but I’ll have to test it

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            17 hours ago

            GrapheneOS has the option for a scheduled reboot if the phone hasn’t been unlocked for a configurable amount of time.