I have an 8 years old OnePlus 5 running Lineage OS 22.2 as a secondary phone alongside my iPhone. Yesterday the phone froze, turned off and refused to go past the Lineage loading screen — where it froze and some weird colourful squares in a single line appeared before turning off. I tried factory resetting it as well from recovery but no success. Today morning I turned it on again and it booted w/o any issues. I think the UFS might have started to show its age — which was used heavily with heavy games, RAW photos, Lightroom processing, continuously running KDEConnect, Syncthing, multiple factory resets and multiple custom ROM installs.
So I was thinking to dedicate it to do something else like an Immich slideshow display, a clock, a controller or something like that. Is there any lighter than LineageOS custom ROM which can allow me to do something like that?
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I had some old Samsung phone as a ip camera. The battery swelled up and broke the screen after 1 month.
Seems too risky to keep it plugged then ig as other person in the comments seems to have had a similar issue. Maybe will just use it as an extremely dumb secondary phone.
Saw a post earlier on Mastodon where someone repurposed an old phone into a Home Assistant display/controller?
They hadn’t used a full dashboard, though. It was just about checking and controlling their cat’s feeding system. 😅
I did this with a Blackberry a while ago, but it destroyed the battery after a year unfortunately.
Might be fine if the charging could be stopped and resumed at a lower point. Maybe even a dumb solution like one of those holiday light timers to only charge for a couple hours a day would work. Damn, I should have done that.
I use an old pixel with calyxos as my bedside clock. It sits on a charging stand plugged into a smart plug which only turns on between 14:00 and 21:00 every day. Seems to be working well.
Ah see if only I had your genius those years back. I do still have that Blackberry, maybe I’ll get a new battery and set it up again.
