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Neat idea actually, for someone who's using a device as a table clock for example so it's power isn't close to being exhausted. Thanks for posting.

I was testing this out the other day and just found out how well this works:

If you don't have a spare PC/laptop or something like an Amazon Fire TV, you could have your phone constantly connected to an outlet(keep in mind this will fucking murder the battery if you do it, so you might wanna take it out of the outlet every once in a while), have the screen displayed on your TV(via either chromecast or just an adapter) and install Kodi (aka XBMC) on it, that way you could have your phone act as a full media center if you set it up correctly(keep in mind the app is small but in the long run all the addons you need to install will take up at least 1GB of space so have some spare). Then, on any other device, such as your new phone, install a Kodi remote app and you're set. ish. You'll still need to set it up but it shouldn't be that hard, you can look up some stuff on the internet about how to get it streaming TV shows and movies, how to do anything with it really.

If you're rooted and ROMmed, start by flashing a Paranoid Android ROM for your device. If that's not available, try to find a lightweight AOSP-based ROM. This is to get away from Samsung's Touchwiz. Better performance and battery this way.

Then on top of that, flash a mini or micro Gapps (Google apps package) instead of a full package. Again, in the interest of performance and battery.

If this device isn't rooted/ROMmed, just do a simple factory reset and disable any apps you can't uninstall.

From there, just install Google Assistant and call it a day. The voice hot-word should work as well as on an actual Google Home, and you could consider buying an external microphone for better dictation accuracy.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapps.serversultimatepro&hl=en_US&gl=US

Are there easy uses for it that a slightly above average android could pull off?

You want to leave the flashlight on for 8 hours straight?

Tasker has flash / torch actions which work on an S21. It's very device specific so you'll have to try it out.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm

If your interested:

This app($10): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.palmerperformance.DashCommand

Plus this($20): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W0SDLRY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_7TR-ybWNQ3SA6

Mount the S3 to your car, create a tasker profile to launch the app when it receives power (or connects to your stereo, etc.) And you get a wireless obd display =D I have this set up in my truck and I love it =)

Btw thanks for the reminder that this sub exists lol

If you root it, you can limit charging by Battery Charge Limit

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slash.batterychargelimit&hl=en&gl=US

Or if you somehow get magisk to work, use Acc

He didn't say anything about not in app store. The app store definitely contains apps that are for rooted phones. For example https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup

I've used IP webcam many times with Tinycam. There is a free version too

Autoroid might be able to do the trick. Reliability probably varies based on your devices hardware but should work pretty well.

If you have a Samsung: you could use the GoodLock app, Routines. It should be much more reliable and as far as I know, it has bluetooth events. If you're not in the few regions that has GoodLock, you can use NiceLock

I used to use Logitech Media Server and Squeeze Player for this. You'll be able to control playback from the phone connected to the speaker, and/or any other Android/iOS device. It also gives you the option to add more players in other rooms, which can be synced up to all play together as one, or play independently.

You can plug a mouse into USB port, using OTG cable, and you can use a Miracast receiver on another phone to mirror the screen contents.

But first you need to set up screen mirroring on your Moto X, and you can't go through system settings without seeing what you are doing.

If you'd have the developer mode enabled, you could use DDMS tool to check the screen contents.

Or some kind of voice assistant enabled.

Have you tried Unified Remote? I'm not quite sure if you can control the Windows Sound Mixer though as I haven't used it in a while.

Batteries are pretty cheap to replace. In most cases I doubt the phone will heat up enough to have an issue like burning up. Obviously this can still happen, but 99% of the time in sure it'll be fine as long as it's indoors in a cool room.

Edit: I believe this is the app

You could leave it on for only a certain amount of hours

You mean the usb hub? https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Extended-MacBook-Surface-Notebook/dp/B07L32B9C2 and this is the y splitter https://www.amazon.de/PremiumCord-USB-Adapterkabel-Buchse-Micro-OTG-Stecker/dp/B07NSQ56J9/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=24BBK138Q5D32&keywords=micro+usb+otg&qid=1667639979&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI0Ljk0IiwicXNhIjoiNC42MSIsInFzcCI6IjQuNjAifQ%3D%3D&spref...

I don’t think anker make ones with micro usb, maybe I can try with something like this https://www.amazon.com/TUSITA-Adaptor-Charging-Adapter-Raspberry/dp/B00LTHBCNM

Also if you try it with your tablet make sure it supports usb otg

Network wide adblocking. Very effective and worth playing with if you have a pi.

https://pi-hole.net/

I'm using it in conjunction with piVPN so that I have systemwide adblock both at home and when out.

https://pivpn.io/

Also ads some protection when using public WiFi hotspots which is nice.

I don't know if you've found a solution that works for you after 5 months. However, here's what I'd suggest as an alternative:

I'd install BubbleUPnP on the Android and set it up as a DLNA server.

In LMS, I'd install the UPnP-DLNA Media Interface plug-in, which enable LMS to access the Android running BubbleUPnP as a server.

Rave can do exactly this, however you're limited to what is available on the app and you would have to stream it, when it sounds like you're looking for something local which makes things harder.

I found this person the same question here, so you can try that one of those solutions, the basic idea is to setup a Miracast server and the devices play from it or you could setup something else like a DLNA server or you might be able to setup some sort of webserver on your RBpi and that plays videos over to your tablets.

I think you're looking for an app called caffeine just look for it in the Playstore. It's a useful app and also works on pc and stuff link here

Rooting the device will allow you to use something like this application to set a charging limit. 80% is a recommended limit for devices that still get unplugged sometimes, but you could set it even lower since you don't need that battery life at all.

If you let any lithium battery to constantly charge to 100% for a very prolonged period of time, it will overcharge and swell. To be honest I've handled plenty of swollen, even extremely swollen lithium batteries and I haven't had a single explosion, but I know with some of those batteries I was really testing my luck. Even if the change for an explodion is small, you shouldn't be risking it, because if you get unlucky it could do a lot of damage to your living space or whoever was nearby.

Here's the app i'm using.

Yes, the phone has to be always plugged, but my phone is rooted and i'm using an app to limit battery charging. It keeps the battery between 50 and 70%.

I don't know how you can do it with an android phone, but there are standalone bluetooth transmitters that do that. https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Transmitter-Receiver-Aisidra-Simultaneously/dp/B09DD33SDD/ This one uses 3.5mm jack, not USB, but there are also others that will use TOSLINK (Optical) and this one seems to present itself as a USB audio card https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Transmitter-Computer-Wireless-Headphones/dp/B07C5J2WWD/

Not sure how technical you are, what equipment you already have, or how much you really want to make this work, but you could use a Synology NAS running Surveillance Station and Synology’s LiveCam mobile app to turn your old android into a security camera, then install HomeBridge on the NAS via Docker and pull the camera feed into HomeBridge, which will then make it accessible in your Home app on iOS.

You don't even have to take it apart, just buy a usb c compatible dongle, so you can attach a screen, a mouse and a keyboard. Apparently it is plug and play, so it helps you in that you don't need the working screen to start projecting to screen.

I don't have this phone, so take me with a grain of salt, but from what I investigated, it was announced as having usb 2.0 but was really 3.0. people have used it successfully with other phones usb c hubs. They also recommend not using a switch usb c hubs.

From my investigation and the specs This one should work. And it should also let you charge it while using an hdmi cable, a keyboard and a mouse.

Please investigate more, but you don't have to take it apart until you want to get rid of its future r/spicypillows

Haven't used fotoo before will check it out.

But I strongly recommend photoclloud frame slideshow
Tons of options from running photos from local gallery, to network share, to Google drive/Dropbox.

Lots of customizablity too

Using in Old Moto E. Android 4.4 and Spotify Music for Android TV 1.6.3

This is it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam&hl=en_US&gl=US

I think it uses MJPEG stream so it's not very efficient on wifi bandwidth, but overall it works great.

I've done this with a few old phones. There's a couple tools you can use, even on a non-rooted phone, to run a Linux environment.

https://userland.tech/download/

Also, grab Aurora Droid. You can install that as a side loaded APK. It's a third party app manager that can pull from open source repos like F Droid, Guardian Project, Kali, etc.

https://auroraoss.com/download/

I have dedicated an old Nexus 5 as a Remote System Monitor.
I'm also on the look out for an old device I can use as a dedicated Touch Portal device

Hi! I can suggest you the Lucid Daydream. It's free (with some limitations) and you can only load local photos. But if you want the paid version, it is a lot more cheap (Lucid cost about 1$ or 2$) than Fotoo (about 20$).

have you tried running armbian on it ? S9xx does support running armbian (armlogic version of debian). I have 4 random chinese tv boxes with s905x, and all run armbian. Just type "armbian + (your chipset name)" on google and start from there

If you want to stick with android, your best bet is

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapps.serversultimate

With no transcoding, plex server for 1 or 2 HD streams is probably fine as long as you're using ethernet for the tv box. Gigabit would be preferable of course.

And yes, your tv box is no match for the original raspberry pi.

Not exactly a Bluetooth connection.

But sound wire should be suitable for ur requirement.

Linkme: sound wire

Edit : this should work https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kattwinkel.android.soundseeder.player

There are two apps, that I personally find have better sound engine than Viper & Poweramp.

Neutron & UAPP

Neutron has a great audio engine which sounds more detailed than Poweramp & most importantly, has PEQ (Parametric EQ) which has the best EQ in any android app imho. Although the app looks horrendous, it's quick to navigate once you get used to the UI.

UAPP is similar to Neutron, in that it has it's own audio engine (sounds better than Poweramp and to my ears sounds identical to Neutron) and has optional in app purchase for PEQ. The main USP of the app is it's ability to connect almost any USB DAC to your phone by bypassing the phone's internal audio engine.

UAPP also can stream audio from Google Music & Tidal but that doesn't concern you, since you'll be only using offline music.

I don't think this is possible just through settings, but I know this can be done with an automation app. I personally use Automate, as it's very user friendly, but I know Tasker is also very popular.

Hey bud!

No problem. I can't exactly recommend an app but I did find one that should work. Give this a try.

Cheers

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skin1980.screenoffkeepplaying

Prolific manufactures the PL2302, an USB-to serial converter which is cheap as chips. You plug it to your phone over USB OTG. It has some unused GPIOs which you can toggle with the app provided by the chip manufacturer. They also provide the source code, so you can write your own app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.com.prolific.pl2303hxdgpio

I've never used it but a quick Google came up with this. All I googled was "android phone as Bluetooth controller" and a few play store apps popped up. I'm sure one of them will work

This one works pretty well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rcreations.WebCamViewerPaid Rocks for viewing them and just about any other brand/app

I prefer AutoGuard to Daily Voyager.

The thing is, if I have a new phone, I'm going to want to use that for my dash cam since I won't want to compromise on video quality.