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by vdupras
302 days ago
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The amount of offline documentation required to do so is gargantuan. Try any kind of "repurposing" of any phone -- go for something trivial, not as hard as controlling an automated greenhouse circuit -- and try to do so without the internet -- or let's take the difficulty down a notch, without AI or search engines, wikipedia allowed. The operating system on that phone is likely way too complicated for you to succeed. It's also likely to be locked. |
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I worked at an enormous company that made embedded products. In the entire company, there were maybe ~12 engineers that knew how to boot up the various products. None of them were capable of booting all the devices. There was another team dedicated to preserving the knowledge they had because when one would retire they didn't even bother handing over all the knowledge. Only active product lines were transitioned to another employee. If a product line was brought back for a new contract and the bootloader was not already available, there were a huge number of man hours budgeted for that activity alone.