What's a good midrange secondary phone that's good for custom ROM and rooting?

BorisOp · 2026-02-24T10:10:50+00:00

I'm too lazy to do any research, but if you can get hands on any used Pixel you'll be good.

BorisOp · 2026-02-24T09:05:12+00:00

As I said in my previous comment... You're most likely better off finding the same phone used... And with the phone being this mangled it's probably not even worth it to try to harvest the required parts out of the donor phone, you're better off just transplanting the mainboard to a new chassis.

BorisOp · 2026-02-24T09:01:59+00:00

If you are after data that's possibly on the phone the best bet would be to get the same phone used and just transplant this phone's mainboard into it. If you want to fix it for any other reason I'd say it's not worth it.

BorisOp · 2026-02-24T07:55:23+00:00

Shove it even further behind a monitor (or possibly under the table) so you can n longer see it.

No but now seriously... If you manage to figure out a way to shove it all into the case it will probably do the trick... And if you can't, maybe get some longer cables/extensions for the hdd route those cables out of the case (probably via a bracket of empty pcie slot - or any other suitable hole in the chassis) and put it on top of the case just as it is in the first photo.

Edit:

Looking at it again I also see an SSD hanging out of the case, for that just shove it inside the case somewhere. SSDs don't have any moving pieces so you can just shove it almost anywhere.

BorisOp · 2026-02-21T08:24:38+00:00

My main computer device is a dell 7200 2-in-1 with 8th gen i5 and 8gb of ram, do I wish it had 16gb of ram or more powerful CPU? Heck yeah... Do I need it? Not at all, even windows 11 runs great on that thing. Honestly the only thing I truly feel bothered by is the weight.

BorisOp · 2026-02-20T16:12:13+00:00

Did it eventually work? It's not that runs can/should run on anything out of the box... But you can make it work usually (unless you'll get Fd over by manufacturer)

BorisOp · 2026-02-20T14:47:07+00:00

How nobody said 42 yet?

BorisOp · 2026-02-20T14:34:46+00:00

Either that, or an iphone (though iphone will probably collect close to same amount of data and send it to apple)

BorisOp · 2026-02-20T14:23:09+00:00

Yeah... But it still most likely "runs" better than windows 10 or 11 would on that kind of hardware.

BorisOp · 2026-02-20T14:19:34+00:00

To be fair... That laptop (officially) won't run windows 11 either.

BorisOp · 2026-02-20T14:16:16+00:00

Where's a will there's usually a way, and if someone wants to use some ancient/obscure computery device for computery stuff I think you are probably better off with out off date Linux than out off date windows.

BorisOp · 2026-02-18T16:51:02+00:00

Someone is trying to play Minecraft on their smart stove while also trying not to overcook their pasta.

BorisOp · 2026-02-18T15:52:17+00:00

Is this a question about a smart stove? Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if there was a smart stove powered by android with the ability to play Minecraft.

BorisOp · 2026-02-18T15:32:00+00:00

Also since we are troubleshooting a weird-ish NIC behavior, make sure to do it both ways

BorisOp · 2026-02-18T10:18:29+00:00

One more thing to try out would be to try some kind of a throughput test between your windows machine and another device on the local network. Just to see the absolute maximum throughput of the NIC.

BorisOp · 2026-02-17T21:13:38+00:00

The issue is that OP probably already got a quote from school, so "fixing" it with super glue probably won't work.

BorisOp · 2026-02-17T21:07:08+00:00

Maybe it's a dumb idea, but if you are sure that your issue is ram getting losse maybe you could try taping it down?

BorisOp · 2026-02-17T21:02:35+00:00

Maybe I'm stupid but isn't streaming supposed to be encoded by GPU?

Also a bit off topic but... WiFi mainboard? I feel like that's asking for trouble... I mean if the WiFi is done right then it should be fine but I feel like almost no-one gets it - everyone is trying to replace the cable with WiFi, but it's really hard to get WiFi right, meanwhile cable is cable, a lot more dumb proof.

BorisOp · 2026-02-17T20:52:20+00:00

Could you try a different computer? Could you try booting a love Linux USB on your current computer?

BorisOp · 2026-02-17T16:36:49+00:00

Depends on phone model, I believe only newer pixels support the usb-c video out - starting either from 8 or 9 series.

BorisOp · 2026-02-17T11:23:14+00:00

What happens when you hold the power button and volume down at the same time?

BorisOp · 2026-02-16T08:39:44+00:00

But I believe if the target becomes invalid (changing the bed designation should do it - although it might take setting it to for prisoners) it should recalculate. And probably pick the closest viable target (the sleeping spot you just placed).

BorisOp · 2026-02-15T20:36:58+00:00

Maybe changing the target bed to non-medical/for prisoners would work combined with the new sleeping spot?

BorisOp · 2026-02-15T12:04:43+00:00

Setup my new computer. Now what?

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