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just read a technical guide on rooting a nokia 800 tough phone that said "its easy, should take 20 minutes", and reading the multi-paragraph guide, was like... this looks like a black diamond to me, but ok if you say so
this was definitely a black diamond, but also a very very good guide. I followed it step by step and it worked
someday I hope to meet someone who can explain to me in more detail how this actually works...
@notplants woah this phone looks legit! interested in yer impressions after you've used it for a while :>
@cblgh I've been using it for about 2 weeks now, and I really like it. with whatsapp and maps I'm very much able to do the stuff I need.
in particular, I've been loving that I can leave audio messages. so even though it has t9, I almost never use it, and mostly just use audio (I know people have mixed feelings about this, but I see the appeal now)
I also found the industrial case kind of weird at first but it grew on me
two annoying issues:
- its supposed to be able to do calls with whatsapp, but thats not working
- one day, it randomly went into a buggy mode where I could send but not receive whatsapp messages. this was a big headache. I could only fix it by setting up whatsapp on another phone, then re-registering whatsapp again on the nokia phone
my suspicion is that both of these issues might be something about whatsapp protocol continuing to update, while nokia operating system and kai os client doesn't update as much
@cblgh I also of course wish that it could run signal and matrix and telegram instead of whatsapp. still somewhat curious about bridging, but that seemed complicated to set up
I feel pretty excited about trying to set up gerdaOs (bananahackers.net) on it, if the guide I linked to goes well...and trying some other apps on it
would love to be able to work on my own apps for it too, and have a simple privacy-respecting OS for it, in some future where that was possible
@notplants so you successfully rooted your dumbphone?
@liaizon yup have access to the dumphone mainframe now