Dedicate a single task to old phone
Edit: This is the stage where LineageOS logo appears.
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?
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.
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.
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. 😅
to prevent batter swelling, ACCA should be used. (charge limit to 40% and drain between 30~40 works for me)
I think your phone's motherboard is dead tho. Considering the screen glitching it's probably cold solder joint in gpu/soc or something, unlikely to be ufs.
Would have definitely tried it, but today it completely died. Won't even turn on. Replacing the motherboard would be very expensive for a phone this old if the parts are even available. Will do a teardown tonight as last rites just to have a look at the insides, reassemble and then give it to an e-waste processing foundation.
try heating up the board, use aluminum foil and steam iron. might fix cold solder joint, tho it may occur again.