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adb shell cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/serial_number
Requires adb: https://developer.android.com/tools/adbWould changes to external closed-source binary files change the kernel image itself? There are kernel modules in that commit but it looks to me like they all come directly from here: https://developers.google.com/android/drivers
Google does provide detailed instructions for downloading all sources for the kernel, and I didn't see any changes since 2023 to any source files: https://source.android.com/docs/setup/
Thanks for the extra places to look. I'll check them out.
I'm not hoping to argue, only to learn. This isn't my area of expertise.
I do have an idea about what it's checking to determine if a battery is affected, but I don't have enough data yet to know if it's just a coincidence.
But apparently sunfish-kernel only contains binaries.
Given there's an update to Image.lz4, that seems there's an update to the kernel. I also compared the binary to the previous version and found some new strings possibly related to battery charging profile.
Next I checked out the source using Google's documentation but the latest commit is here: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/refs/heads/and...
But maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
Can I submit a GPL request to Google to get the kernel source?
I'm planning on replacing the battery in my 4a and making it last as long as I can. It's still a great phone.
Unihertz also just launched a 5" phone but I'm not sure how good it would be; I'm sure the camera won't be great: https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max
- https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii
- https://github.com/actualbudget/actual-server
I'd be curious what some other options are.
My only complaint is no equivalent of Send to Kindle for Kobo, so I always have to plug the device in if I want to copy an EPUB to it.
But that was years ago and I'd be curious to see how they look now. An option to toggle the y axis scale could be interesting. Thanks for the feedback!
Xfce is a nice alternative to GNOME 3 that reminds me a lot of GNOME 2.