Hey all, I was randomly helping someone quickly navigate everything n a Samsung Android when the most disturbing, somewhat unsettling, as yet undecided how weird, what is this?! I thought I'd be quick about it and have it speak the letters as we were yapping and the first attempt failed, I'm lost for words. This makes no sense at the best of times https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10lW9-7N7eJ0DwU0NVarV... - anyone? Any, whatsoever fleeting idea what's remotely going on here?
I've always liked XServer-XSDL in the past, i think these are the latest sources\bins? https://sourceforge.net/projects/libsdl-android/files/apk/XS...
it's been a while since i messed around with it, but the sources on github have a infinite link loop if i remember correctly.
Interesting. I was sitting here chillig and wondering if i had included a/some god mode, i certainly had a tab in a browser at some point and some code highlighted, thanks!
So I have been scouring Microsoft documentation recently and found some interesting bits to go along with the 'recently' news cycle first line in that script. However I'm not sufficient in PowerShell and learning as i go. It would be interesting to know what this script does to different editions. I'm about to give it a rest.
I agree with the posts above, though I will add that sandboxing apps like Insular work around some apps misbehaving when rooted where things like even Magisk hide fall short. I would unlock the bootloader, write TWRP to recovery and go that route somehow (rsync or something? I'm envisioning maybe plugging your phones to a usb ethernet adapter here, I don't know if it's even possible to WiFi or network from TWRP though so .tar.xz?).
Devices are a bit more complicated then they were just a few years ago, a cryptographic salt is stored somewhere, and the trim area (TA) plays a role, so you would run into trouble simply writing (dd) the /data partition to your second phone, but all you really need to do is keep the /data partition and /sdcard synced. Surely a script leveraging the features of TWRP seems like it should just work though?
That's actually how I got started with Android, running a full Debian off an ext4 partition of which I had to compile the module, I went the route of 'setprop ctl.stop zygote and media' and ran on the FB, it ran surprisingly well, a slight bug in the MSM FB driver with color formatting though that I found and fixed. ( I think it was my first post on XDA actually, https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/howto-install-gnu-linux-o... ) pictures are now gone but I have the web server archived somewhere so maybe one day. But i got to use and maintain a lot of my Linux knowhow I'd not really maintained because of life, 12 years later and I'm still messing with Android phones. New and old. On f-droid there is AnLinux (Run Linux On Android Without Root Access)
https://f-droid.org/packages/exa.lnx.a/ that straps around Termux, and using xsdl-xserver (sourceforge) you have a pretty decent desktop, using a usb/hdmi/vga adapter and all is well.