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Kurzstreckenflug
Ich bin mir nicht 100% sicher wo das gerade ist, aber es könnte im Landeanflug auf Schiphol entstanden sein.
#Flugzeug #KLM #Tragfläche #Luftbild #SmartphonePhotography #Nexus6P -
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Poste e Telegrafi
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A while ago I installed #LineageOS 17 on my #Nexus6P [Otherwise known as the #Archer model] and it was saved from E-waste.
Now the battery only lasts minutes rather than hours.
I'm sure if I could put a new battery in this phone it would live on.Anyone ever changed the battery on one of these things! Is that doable d'ya think?
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CW: Dramatic rescue of a boot-looping Google Nexus 6P (long)
About six years ago, a friend gave me a review sample Nexus 6P that I lost to the boot loop of death only a couple of months later, caused by a known CPU core overheat issue. I finally resurrected the damn thing. This is my story.
The biggest challenge - the one that's eluded me for six-odd years, in fact - was getting it to stop boot looping long enough to get into the OS and unlock developer mode.
Things that didn't work:
- freezing it
- leaving it running on an ice pack
- heating its CPU from the outside with a heat gun set to 300 degrees Celcius
I also didn't realise at the time that the phone couldn't charge properly when looping or while in the bootloader - battery issues are another key failure point in this phone, the first Huawei-made Nexus, which honestly had some teething problems.
However, I did think that the battery might have lost condition in storage due to its distressed red led flashes.
So I connected it to a wildly overpowered USB-C charger - specifically, the Steam Deck's 45W charger - as this has helped with other flaky batteries - and left it connected for a couple of hours while I went and baked a cake.
It did help, but not quite for the reason I expected - it somehow squeezed 3% of charge into the battery and in the process also heated the phone.
Not expecting anything at all, I picked it up and tried powering it on... success! Android booted. It had clearly got hot enough while charging to freak out and trigger low-performance mode.
Connected to my PC via a USB-C cable, I kept it alive long enough to hammer on the the build number in the phone's settings to unlock the Developer Mode menus, and then unlock the bootloader, confirm that it wasn't OEM locked and turn on USB debugging.
From there, this tutorial is solid, and includes working links to a modified boot image that disables the two big cores that are the most frequent cause of boot loops in this model:
https://www.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p-bootloop-fix/NB: don't flash TWRP unless you want to have to learn a whole new skillset. It's not required to just make the phone work, and is in fact counterproductive.
The phone is staying on Android version 7.2.1 for the forseeable, and it's honestly a significantly nicer OS than Android 13.
Anyway, Small Owlbear gets an excessively nice device for games/photography/family messaging (I had to trick the parental controls into letting me install Element there), and I get to finally remove Android from my own phone.
Further useful information and resources:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/36821/dark-magic-what-caused-googles-nexus-6p-death-loop-and-how-to-fix-it-with-a-hairdryer
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-unlock-root-flash-for-nexus-6p.3206928/
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-fix-for-nexus-6p-bootloop-of-death-8-22-android-o-working.3640279/ -
CW: Dramatic rescue of a boot-looping Google Nexus 6P (long)
About six years ago, a friend gave me a review sample Nexus 6P that I lost to the boot loop of death only a couple of months later, caused by a known CPU core overheat issue. I finally resurrected the damn thing. This is my story.
The biggest challenge - the one that's eluded me for six-odd years, in fact - was getting it to stop boot looping long enough to get into the OS and unlock developer mode.
Things that didn't work:
- freezing it
- leaving it running on an ice pack
- heating its CPU from the outside with a heat gun set to 300 degrees Celcius
I also didn't realise at the time that the phone couldn't charge properly when looping or while in the bootloader - battery issues are another key failure point in this phone, the first Huawei-made Nexus, which honestly had some teething problems.
However, I did think that the battery might have lost condition in storage due to its distressed red led flashes.
So I connected it to a wildly overpowered USB-C charger - specifically, the Steam Deck's 45W charger - as this has helped with other flaky batteries - and left it connected for a couple of hours while I went and baked a cake.
It did help, but not quite for the reason I expected - it somehow squeezed 3% of charge into the battery and in the process also heated the phone.
Not expecting anything at all, I picked it up and tried powering it on... success! Android booted. It had clearly got hot enough while charging to freak out and trigger low-performance mode.
Connected to my PC via a USB-C cable, I kept it alive long enough to hammer on the the build number in the phone's settings to unlock the Developer Mode menus, and then unlock the bootloader, confirm that it wasn't OEM locked and turn on USB debugging.
From there, this tutorial is solid, and includes working links to a modified boot image that disables the two big cores that are the most frequent cause of boot loops in this model:
https://www.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p-bootloop-fix/NB: don't flash TWRP unless you want to have to learn a whole new skillset. It's not required to just make the phone work, and is in fact counterproductive.
The phone is staying on Android version 7.2.1 for the forseeable, and it's honestly a significantly nicer OS than Android 13.
Anyway, Small Owlbear gets an excessively nice device for games/photography/family messaging (I had to trick the parental controls into letting me install Element there), and I get to finally remove Android from my own phone.
Further useful information and resources:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/36821/dark-magic-what-caused-googles-nexus-6p-death-loop-and-how-to-fix-it-with-a-hairdryer
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-unlock-root-flash-for-nexus-6p.3206928/
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-fix-for-nexus-6p-bootloop-of-death-8-22-android-o-working.3640279/ -
It was #NewPhoneDay for me this weekend 😁
Decided to go with the #Pixel7Pro since I've been using #GrapheneOS on my #Pixel5 for a while
I'm really happy with the new design they introduced with the Pixel 6.. brings me back to 2016 when my daily driver was the #Nexus6P.. they've gone full circle
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Plan: alternatives #OS auf ein #Android Phone aufspielen um #googlefrei unterwegs zu sein.
Es stellen sich mir folgende Fragn:
• kann ich es riskieren, das mit einem recht neuen #RedmiNote11ProPlus5G zu machen? Dafür käme dann nur #LineageOS in Frage? Wie hoch ist die Chance, dass ich das dabei bricke?
•Hätte alternativ auch nix dagegen, mir ein #Nexus5 #Nexus6p #XperiaZ3Compact oder #GalaxyS7 dafür zuzulegen. Mit einem dieser Geräte kämen auch andere OS in Frage?
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Longevity is the reason I jumped from #android to #iphone. I was a steadfast #nexus6p user for the longest time. I bought a refurbished nexus from a friend who also had one. The battery started dying around two years in and then Google pushed an update. My friend’s phone started to die first then mine a few weeks later. I couldn’t even have GMaps open for more than 5 minutes before the phone would off itself.
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