Voyager is a good Lemmy app that’s worth a look 👍

That’s helpful, thanks :)

It was nothing to do with the phone. I tried to find one for my father to use for his computer, as he only used the internet now and then, but the SIM only plans had data restrictions on tethering.

They started off as unlimited pay as you go with prices charged by the megabyte then gigabyte, then once high data plans came in, they started to get restricted.

As I said, it’s been changing, but as far as I know, there are still plans with tethering restrictions.

I don’t think it would ever fly in Europe.

It does, or at least did. I’m in the UK, and it used to be fairly common. Over the last few years, maybe the last decade, more and more providers used the lack of tethering restrictions as an advertised feature to show that they were better than the competition.

Now that we’ve left the EU though, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the restrictions come back. We’ve already lost free EU roaming on a lot of tariffs.

Yeah, that would be my luck. I’m going to dig through the specs and try to find the difference, and go from there.

Unfortunately it doesn’t clear anything up. It’s a m2007j17g, and some sites label it with the 5G, while some label it without. Xiaomi UK doesn’t have any results for the model number, and lists both versions. The specs are pretty vague for both, saying things like one supports lpddr4 vs lpddr5

I’ll look into it, thanks :)

https://m.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_10t_lite_5g-10480.php

That’s how it was advertised at the time. It may officially be the Mi 10t Lite, and the 5G was added to show the capabilities, but I don’t know for sure.

I don’t think every update would come with an updated version of every system app that would automatically get installed.

I think we’re on the same page, but looking at it from different angles.

I’ve uninstalled updates and disabled the apps, but a system update restores them. I would imagine that disabling them with ADB would end up with the same result. Removing them with root should, in theory at least, remove them completely.

If I get more than five minutes to myself this weekend, I’ll try the ADB method and see what happens 👍

Thanks for replying :)

This works because applications truly aren’t fully uninstalled from your device. They are just being uninstalled for the current user

This is what I mean by hiding them. It’s essentially just removing the shortcuts. Can’t they still be restored by an update this way?

As far as updates go, a machine like this might have less problems than a PC. Because it’s a fixed set of devices, MS and Lenovo can test any updates before they’re released, and iron out any bugs.

Whether they actually test them is another question though…

A foldable flip phone would be much better than most of the book type foldables that seem to be the trend :)