I’m looking to build a small entertainment device for use in my offgrid place. I’d like to use it for reading, music and movies. I’d like for it to have low power needs. And for it to carry a varied library.

How would you build such a thing?

My initial idea is to repurpose an android phone, install VLC, and an SD card with pirated video transcoded to 720p, ebooks and mp3s.

Does it make sense to maximize battery life by jailbreaking the phone and disabling background services?

Thanks for your input

  • iii@mander.xyzOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’ll happily spend the time to figure out how to flash a custom ROM if the juice is worth the squeeze :)

    If its going to be a purely offline device then you can just flash a custom ROM and see a decent amount of savings

    What savings are you referring to?

    • Kng@feddit.rocksEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Savings in battery. It’s mostly just from not running google play in the background. If you then go on to root that custom ROM you might be able to use some specific root tweaks. I suspect the savings for a custom ROM to be 10% or less. Airplane mode and battery saver will help a decent amount which is available on stock.