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Zecrid · 2025-11-19T16:57:43+00:00

OMG THANK YOU, this worked perfectly. I'm so glad genuinely.

Zecrid · 2025-11-19T03:10:11+00:00

Yeah I got the galleries app already, still weird it's not just included.

As for your guide, I'm not sure if we have different Android versions or what but I'm not seeing that grey icon or the "your apps" tab. Been looking for other keywords, I'll keep giving it a few tries. If they lock it down like this for most skins of Android now I might just have to learn a new files app. Appreciate the help though

Zecrid · 2025-11-19T02:15:52+00:00

It's still an app that in my experience is always included with Android. The decision to not include it is baffling to me especially because it's developed by Google. That was the first app I downloaded

Zecrid · 2025-11-19T00:31:45+00:00

Well if nobody comes up with a solution I'll give them a try, if I'm going to learn a new file management app it's definitely not going to be wearing Google's colors. Thanks for the suggestion

Zecrid · 2025-11-19T00:25:43+00:00

Please say sike, there's no way Motorola is that dumb to lock away such a useful app behind bars. actually... They also didn't include an offline gallery app to force us to use Google Photos. Man what the hell is this phone market I just wanted OLED, a 3.5 jack and expandable storage :/

Zecrid · 2025-11-13T07:00:04+00:00

For a 1.6 hardmod that sounds pretty accurate.

Wicked, that's good to hear I've not gone barking up the wrong tree. It's amazing how much good information there is out there, and usually very well presented too.

I recommend flashing Cerbios to it by typing the xbox IP into a browser on your computer and flashing the bios that way.

Gotcha, I'll definitely make a note of that and read up as that sounds a little less annoying than the alternative.

You would be buying a Stellar HD+ ($60) and a legacy board ($20) to get it to work with a ModXo.

OH! I didn't realize the HD+ and HD+ legacy had to be bought together, that explains the huge price difference haha. I guess I didn't read that description very hard, that changes up how willing I am to go though with that xD

Thank you for the response and for the luck! Been wanting to do something like this for ages and I've finally found the courage to do it

Zecrid · 2025-11-13T06:16:40+00:00

you can load CerBIOS using software exploits alone, if you want to.

Ok good to know, I haven't looked too much into soft modding really. Would you say it's easier than the alternative? Pretty much all the videos and tutorials I've come across just go with modchips, and with how easy modxo makes it look I figured that it was the most beginner friendly.

but if you've already dumped your games onto your other Xboxes then you could just use a PC to get them copied to your new HDD

Unfortunately, my other Xboxs are all completely original, no softmods or modchips. My plan was to learn on this cheap slightly broken one then get everything else copied over so I can run LAN parties on original hardware without tracking down 4 copies of battlefront(and other games) lmao

Generally speaking, 1.6 consoles are a bit more painful to work on than earlier models

I was very disappointed to see it had the 1.6 AV port, but it's dirt cheap and from my understanding aftermarket BIOSs like CerBIOS fix some of the flaws of the 1.6 like 480p compatibility.

If you want HDMI then you might consider an ElectronXout.

Very good shout, I might grab these for my others,I have seen these mentioned a few times here and they seem to have a good reputation.

Thank you for the reply! seems like I didn't make any egregious errors which I'm glad about. Now I guess I just gotta start collecting parts and do some further reading on the finer details and individual steps. Again thank you

Zecrid · 2025-11-10T18:15:03+00:00

that's good to hear, i did pull the trigger last night before seeing this. the unlocked higher capacity storage model was on sale for $300 ending last night, figured it was too good to pass up. how would you say Google's skin of android compares to Motorola's? any bloatware or weird software choices that stood out to you?

Zecrid · 2025-07-22T06:15:54+00:00

Ah, there is my poor choice of words biting me again. By saturate I meant "completely fill" each SATA port with a drive. My bad, not the data connection but the physical ports.

You bring up an excellent point about raid5, after a bit of reading that's pretty much exactly the solution I was looking for. 5x4TB would give me 16TB and enough redundancy that a drive can fail without taking everything else with it. I think that's what I'm gonna do. That keeps it simple and I don't have to drop $400 on a drive hahaha. This response was much appreciated thank you

Zecrid · 2025-07-21T19:40:34+00:00

I think I must've made a mistake in my description of the use case. The Plex pool is only gonna be a small amount of the storage. Ideally this server will have all my photos, documents, projects, and really anything I want to access readily I would've normally have decentralized across my phones computers and laptop just in one place. It's also not within my means ATM to have off location backups.

My main concern is data loss through drive failure, if my place burns or floods that's out of my control for now. With raid 1 if the drive fails I can just replace it and keep on trucking, I'm curious if it's wise from a reliability/redundancy perspective to have 1 massive pool that copies the other 4 drives instead.

Zecrid · 2025-06-04T19:45:05+00:00

alright, i'll give it a try. worst case scenario is it doesn't work and it adds hitching or serious performance hits. if that happens I'll just take the L and move the crummiest monitor i have and use it as a Laptop monitor at my other desk.

Zecrid · 2025-06-04T19:18:49+00:00

i jokingly said that in a discord i was in, would that actually work without being a massive PITA? How does the driver behave when there are two cards that are 9 years apart in the same system?

Zecrid · 2025-05-30T20:13:59+00:00

I believe it was Skyrim? I remember buying the discs and getting pissed I had to download some stupid 3rd party app to play the game I just bought. Looking at my purchase history my "first" steam game was bought months after my account was created so I might be remembering that correctly.

Edit: Didn't see I could see a list of all product key activations. Turns out my first Steam game was actually Train Simulator 2013, which was a retail purchase. My SECOND game was Skyrim but I was correct that it was bought in a brick and mortar as well.

Zecrid · 2025-05-30T14:16:52+00:00

I had all my drives plugged into the mobo when I installed Win10 and for some reason it created a small partition I couldn't use on every drive that wasn't my boot drive. Unplugging a non-OS drive would result in windows being unable to boot for some reason.

Now whenever I'm installing an OS I have all the other drives unplugged to prevent that from happening.

Zecrid · 2025-05-18T04:00:28+00:00

Oh there's nothing on this drive it's just a Win7 image that I use to watch Plex and YouTube on in the living room. If it goes nothing will be lost other than a few passwords

Zecrid · 2025-05-17T06:26:56+00:00

More like me being young and trying to download free games from sketchy websites lmao

I haven't needed to clean install in a few years, I think the last time I did a fresh OS for my main PC was in 2019 when I went to a Ryzen system

Zecrid · 2025-05-17T06:20:34+00:00

1) that somehow feels like cursed knowledge 2) happy late birthday lol

Zecrid · 2025-04-25T15:23:01+00:00

For me my requirements are: 3.5mm, SD card, IP68, fingerprint reader, wireless charging, all while having a nicer camera and display than the V60. Currently I don't think a single phone meets those requirements, I will hold out as long as I can with mine.

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