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Cake day: Sep 23, 2025

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Would have definitely tried it, but today it completely died. Won’t even turn on. Replacing the motherboard would be very expensive for a phone this old if the parts are even available. Will do a teardown tonight as last rites just to have a look at the insides, reassemble and then give it to an e-waste processing foundation.


Seems too risky to keep it plugged then ig as other person in the comments seems to have had a similar issue. Maybe will just use it as an extremely dumb secondary phone.


Dedicate a single task to old phone
Edit: This is the stage where LineageOS logo appears. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0e74c833-457d-43ca-9016-56cccbf42709.jpeg) I have an 8 years old OnePlus 5 running Lineage OS 22.2 as a secondary phone alongside my iPhone. Yesterday the phone froze, turned off and refused to go past the Lineage loading screen — where it froze and some weird colourful squares in a single line appeared before turning off. I tried factory resetting it as well from recovery but no success. Today morning I turned it on again and it booted w/o any issues. I think the UFS might have started to show its age — which was used heavily with heavy games, RAW photos, Lightroom processing, continuously running KDEConnect, Syncthing, multiple factory resets and multiple custom ROM installs. So I was thinking to dedicate it to do something else like an Immich slideshow display, a clock, a controller or something like that. Is there any lighter than LineageOS custom ROM which can allow me to do something like that?
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