My customized Hisense A5 : ereader

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

An e-ink phone is an interesting idea! I’m guessing the battery life is great.

[-] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There's one called the Light phone and the battery life is below average. The screen is definitely a hog but cell radios can just as easily chew through the battery.

[-] angelsomething@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

That looks dope. Can you tell us more about the overall experience?

[+] live_long_prosper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] 520@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Highly phone dependent. Some phones have an official process, others have hacks, many others have fuck all.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's why they were asking if it was an easy process for this specific device.

[-] 520@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The instructions are not official, but there are some good community ones https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/hisense-a5-pro-cc-how-to-root-unlock-bootloader.4109021/post-88755703

Bit of warning though, they're using a variant of the A5, not a base A5. The CVE and exploit code in the link should still work (if not patched) but the image files will certainly not, and will fuck up your device if you try to flash images made for a different device, even a variant.

[-] Leax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

So cool ! If you could share a video on how it feels to use lemmy on that, that's be great!

[+] 520@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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[-] astromd@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Very cool. Does it have any kind of night or dark mode?

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Browsing Lemmy from one of these devices is something that I never thought about.

[-] lightsecond@lemmy.fedireads.com 1 points 1 year ago

TIL that e-ink display smartphones exist.

[-] anarchyinc@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@lightsecond @flamingod https://goodereader.com/blog/ has covered a lot of these! Heck they cover everything. Well worth a subscribe to their YouTube channel or rss of their blog.

[-] lightsecond@lemmy.fedireads.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check them out.

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