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iPhones stored for forensic analysis unexpectedly reboot, causing problems for officials
(appleinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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I wouldn't mind having the ability to schedule a reboot on my phone as an extra precaution.
I think graphene does this by default now? Like if you don't unlock it for 24 hours it'll reboot.
Its an aosp feature i believe, but its disabled on many phones. Graphene and calyx have it. With calyx its default off, but you can set it between 1 and 72 hours. Very handy feature.
Graphene is set to reboot after six hours of inactivity, ensuring that it reboots every night after I've gone to bed.
18 hours by default.
I thought it's a standard feature (auto restart at set times). Maybe a samsung thing and not android.
It probably requires root, but I'm sure Tasker can do this.
Really, all phones should have the option to reboot into locked mode on certain conditions like being taken out of network or being unattended for a while.
The interesting thing is if the manufacturer is shipping them that way by default.
Could possibly also look at the motion sensors to see if it is in a pocket moving around or if it was sitting around for a while.
Good idea, but a motivated attacker could put them on one of those rocker tables like they use for mixing blood. It also wouldn't cover the more common scenario of someone stealing it out of your hand.
There is a shortcut action to shut down the phone which you could trigger with an automation, I suppose.
I can put the phone in lockdown by press-holding the power button and select the "lockdown" option. Not bad, but an actual reboot daily at night wouldn't be so bad.
That's not what I mean, I'm talking about the Shortcuts app:
This had never occurred to me before but it’s great, thanks! I expect that alarms don’t run until after first unlock, so 3am wouldn’t be great if I use the phone to wake up but later in the morning should be good.
I believe it should still work, as alarms trigger for me even if my phone updated overnight or I put it on the charger dead before going to sleep, but I'll have to test it
On iOS this is 5 quick presses of the power button, and it vibrates in a unique way to let you know it worked, so can be done in a pocket or just without looking, which is nice. But yeah an auto reboot would be swell.
You can, see my other comment: https://feddit.org/comment/3001525
Thanks, but that’s not rebooting and does not fill the need properly.
I don’t want to shut my phone down regularly, I want to reboot it regularly.
Shutting it down just means my phone is shut down and stays that way until I realize and boot it back up (which could well be hours depending what I’m doing), which is a much worse situation for an absolute homebody such as myself.
As the linked screenshot shows, you have the option to choose between shutting down and rebooting. There is no need to explain the difference to me, I demonstrated that the thing you want to do is possible.
Dont know what lhone you are speaking of, but on Samsung phones, the only thing that this does is disabling biometrics and notifications. Your phone stays in AFU and this does not protect you from law enforcement or other
It protects you from being compelled to provide biometrics to unlock the device. Since the courts have made a distinction between providing a password and biometrics to unlock devices for whatever asinine reason.
Biometrics are what you have and a password is what you know. I can record you and look at you or even grab a part of your body (e.g., for fingerprints) but it's not possible to read your mind.
Samsung has this option.
GrapheneOS has the option for a scheduled reboot if the phone hasn't been unlocked for a configurable amount of time.
GrapheneOS has an option to reboot your phone after being locked for X hours.
Check out GrapheneOS.