• @NeoNachtwaechter
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    295 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.

    • @halcyoncmdr
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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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.

  • m-p{3}
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    648 hours ago

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

    • @kopasz7
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      22 hours ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      327 hours ago

      I think graphene does this by default now? Like if you don’t unlock it for 24 hours it’ll reboot.

      • @[email protected]
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        Its an aosp feature i believe, but its disabled on many phones. Graphene and calyx have it. With calyx its default off, but you can set it between 1 and 72 hours. Very handy feature.

      • @pHr34kY
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        125 hours ago

        18 hours by default.

    • @[email protected]
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      97 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.

      • @solrize
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        32 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        15 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      88 hours ago

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

      • m-p{3}
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        57 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.

        • Apathy Tree
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          45 hours ago

          On iOS this is 5 quick presses of the power button, and it vibrates in a unique way to let you know it worked, so can be done in a pocket or just without looking, which is nice. But yeah an auto reboot would be swell.

        • @[email protected]
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          14 hours ago

          Dont know what lhone you are speaking of, but on Samsung phones, the only thing that this does is disabling biometrics and notifications. Your phone stays in AFU and this does not protect you from law enforcement or other

          • @halcyoncmdr
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            12 hours ago

            It protects you from being compelled to provide biometrics to unlock the device. Since the courts have made a distinction between providing a password and biometrics to unlock devices for whatever asinine reason.

        • @Kbobabob
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          27 hours ago

          Samsung has this option.

          • @CrazyLikeGollum
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            67 hours ago

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

    • Anteater7369
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      47 hours ago

      GrapheneOS has an option to reboot your phone after being locked for X hours.

  • @[email protected]
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    14 hours ago

    My phone rebooted occasionally on iOS18 and this was mentioned as fixed in 18.1 release notes so this story sounds plausible.