• m-p{3}
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    11813 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      6813 days ago

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

      • @pHr34kY
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        2713 days ago

        18 hours by default.

      • @[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.

        • @[email protected]
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          513 days ago

          Graphene is set to reboot after six hours of inactivity, ensuring that it reboots every night after I’ve gone to bed.

    • @[email protected]
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      1113 days 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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        313 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        113 days 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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          Good idea, but a motivated attacker could put them on one of those rocker tables like they use for mixing blood. It also wouldn’t cover the more common scenario of someone stealing it out of your hand.

    • @[email protected]
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      913 days 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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        613 days 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            113 days ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              213 days ago

              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

        • @Kbobabob
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          313 days ago

          Samsung has this option.

          • @CrazyLikeGollum
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            813 days ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          213 days 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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            213 days 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.

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              Biometrics are what you have and a password is what you know. I can record you and look at you or even grab a part of your body (e.g., for fingerprints) but it’s not possible to read your mind.

    • @kopasz7
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      713 days ago

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

    • Anteater7369
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      613 days ago

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

  • @NeoNachtwaechter
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    6913 days 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.

        • @Zron
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          213 days ago

          A remote command from some random phone to reboot does sound like the a wonderful vector for malware, though

  • @[email protected]
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    4713 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        813 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        613 days 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    813 days 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?

  • @[email protected]
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    613 days ago

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

  • @RangerJosie
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    312 days ago

    Ha.

    This is the only good thing about Apple products. Yes, the only one.