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- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 38•7 months ago
so off doesnt mean off anymore. got it.
- qwertyqwertyqwerty ( @qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one ) English38•7 months ago
“Off”
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English24•7 months ago
If I can find it when it’s “off”, who else can?
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) English6•7 months ago
Same people who can find it when it’s “on”, I suppose.
- cmgvd3lw ( @cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ) English18•7 months ago
So the question is how to completely turn off an android device?
- u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) ( @user224@lemmy.sdf.org ) English11•7 months ago
Take out the battery.
Oh…
- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English18•7 months ago
Having removable batteries is going to be very important for BS like this.
- HejMedDig ( @HejMedDig@feddit.dk ) English4•7 months ago
Or Faraday pouches
- Soulfire The Wolf ( @soulfirethewolf@wetdry.world ) 9•7 months ago
Honestly, I’m shocked it took this long for Android to actually get something like this. Given how long iPhone has had it. Then again, this is also Google. So you can’t really expect copying to happen quickly, if at all.
- soulfirethewolf ( @soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id ) English7•7 months ago
Pretty nice.
Side note though, do people here actually read the articles here? It’s pretty obvious this would be a part of FMD. iPhone has already been doing this for years
- ladfrombrad 🇬🇧 ( @ladfrombrad@lemdro.id ) English9•7 months ago
I think from some of the comments they’re concerned that it won’t be a toggleable flag, that at any point, some spooky man from Google or some 3 letter agency can enable and/or override.
At any time. Which is a very fair point?
However, swings and roundabouts from my end likes the idea of being able to recover lost/stolen hardware so I’d like to hear others voices on it.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English6•7 months ago
Fun fact off doesn’t mean off on modern Android. When you plug in your device and see a battery percentage that means there is software running on the device
- skuzz ( @skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ) English10•7 months ago
That’s the bootloader. It boots when power is connected. It’s limited in functionality.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English1•7 months ago
Actually I don’t believe it is. That part of the system is part of the OS image. I believe its how google tracks the Pixel 8
- skuzz ( @skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ) English3•7 months ago
I know how it is. Used to work on phone chipsets. That being said, I have no idea how pixel 8 is doing this, but likely the Bluetooth chipset has a mode it can go into to behave like AirTags and just pulse out a BTLE beacon occasionally with both the main OS and sub-OSes turned off and power just being trickled to VCC on the BT chip.
Edit: apologies, didn’t mean to sound so curt. Tl;dr: I know how bootloaders run to allow battery charge while off, not sure how pixel 8 is doing their magic-to-be but have a good theory.
- JackGreenEarth ( @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) English6•7 months ago
Glad I don’t have a Pixel 8.
- soulfirethewolf ( @soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id ) English4•7 months ago
I’m pretty sure you would be able to opt out of this. Just like the rest of Find My Device.
- lolcatnip ( @lolcatnip@reddthat.com ) English2•7 months ago
Man, people in the group really hate Android. Did y’all subscribe just to complain about how it’s stealing your precious bodily fluids?