What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

  • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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    7 months ago

    I haven’t done it in a while, but it kinda depends on the phone, some were very easy to flash in the earlier days of Android.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, my old Moto Play G4 was a breeze. Wasn’t quite “Press any key to continue” but not much more difficult.

      My OnePlus was a little more work, but that was mostly because of the OP website acting up and refusing to generate my bootloader unlock key. Also had to do things differently since it didn’t have an SD card to hold my install stuff like the Moto Play did.

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        7 months ago

        I had one where you could literally run an app on the phone, no ADB or anything. Can’t remember what phone it was now but it might’ve actually been a Moto Droid

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          7 months ago

          One one hand, that sounds extremely convenient. On the other, I shudder thinking what a malicious app could do with that 😆

          Edit: Unless you’re talking about doing it through TWRP. I had to flash that over fastboot, but once installed to the recovery partition, I could boot into that and install the rest of Lineage and extra packages straight from the SD card. Updating the system was just downloading the new Lineage .zip to the SD card, booting into TWRP, and clicking install.

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            7 months ago

            Exploits go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT!

            No, but I did use TWRP on my Droid 3 I think, and as I recall it was pretty nice.