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Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (7 children)

GrapheneOS has a convenient auto-reboot feature

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait...the NSA did something good. WTF.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Coming from the 9000 series, I am wondering what do you like about the 5700 series HAL?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember my old phone had the option to auto reboot and I had it set to like 3am but now I don't see that option on newer phones. My previous phone didn't even have a reboot option I had to shut it down and power it back up

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For Samsung phones. Go to Settings -> Device Care -> Under Performance you will see Auto Optimization -> At the bottom of the page you will see Auto Restart -> Restart on Schedule -> Done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would alarms work after a restart if I don't unlock ot first?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tested this and they do still work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome thank you for your testing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For iOS they do; I would assume for Android they will as well. It would be pretty bad if an automatic update stopped you from waking up in the morning…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've noticed my phone doesn't initialize anything until I unlock it then it takes a while for it to boot up and all that but also I haven't seen it reboot on its own, it usually gives you a prompt