How would I turn an old android phone into a music streaming server (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I have an old android xiaomi phone with 128 GB of storage that I want to use as a music streaming server that I can access from my current phone and computer.

I want to know if this is possible and if it is, can it be done without rooting?

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago

Constant plugin isn't actually the problem. When the battery's in good condition, they can stay plugged in and it only charges when it hits 99%, it stops again at 100. But as the battery gets older, the cells degrade and the resistance gets higher. They can start trying to push to 100% when it can no longer get here. At that point, they're supposed to be some smart software to determine that you can no longer charge to that level and reduce the capacity that tries to charge to. But if you never discharge fully and recharge that software often doesn't work.

The best solution for the condition is to use software that makes the phone stop charging it 80%. It takes the battery a very, very long time to lose 20% of its capacity if you don't hit the overcharging over temperature issues.

Having the battery stop at 50% or 80% the battery will probably outlast the hardware.

[-] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Is there such software

[-] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

To properly do this the phone has to support it at hardware level. Pixel and iPhone have this feature but don't know about yours. There are apps like battery guru which will alert you, but you have to manually unplug at that point.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Late-ish model samsung too

[-] bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Is there such software

There is an app but is also requires a dongle: https://chargie.org/

[-] lemonuri@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

There is also bcl on fdroid, requires no dongle but root access, as it just changes some lines in a config file on the root partition.

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