You did not eat leaded solder balls. Did you? Wait. Is that the secret to immortality?

Don't eat or touch or inhale. Treat as hazardous waste.

Basically wear gloves and mask. Dispose of in the special bin at you local garbage dump.

I'll just flex myself out of that

Copy that! Looking up recommended temps for my solder, the iron model and work type.

...then, we might have a problem 🤖

I’m not a professional solderer or anything but I had a training course by a bunch of people who do it to a very high level, like they spend all day pulling off and examining chips on boards, etc. They said that you don’t normally need flux, you just need to apply hear properly with the iron. During the whole course the only time they used flux was when they were re-soldering a chip.

I think they are trying to tell you not to eat it. I ate a few leaded solder balls before and I'm still here though, so there's that.

All people that use flux will die eventually. You have been warned!

Most solder is lead-based. At over 900 degrees Fahrenheit, lead fumes are breathable. Lead poisoning is bad news.

Use the correct heat setting and make sure you work in a well-ventilated area or use a respirator.

the first symbol is letting you know the warnings only apply if you’re Iron Man

That sucks. I'm just spitballing here, but is it perhaps possible to reboot the phone into recovery mode with its designated key combination and from there access an ADB shell? Which should work regardless of whether dev ops are on or not, because it's outside the OS. For instance, on my Samsung S23 with One UI 7, the recovery screen looks like this:

From there, I could blindly click myself into the apply update from ADB menu, upon which this screen/shell opens:

If you then (or prior to, I don't know) connect to a computer, maybe you could send other commands to it than the sideload one. Maybe, just MAYBE, you could "dump" the contents of the phone with a pull or the likes.

Again, I have no idea. And, unfortunately and fortunately, since the userspace data is encrypted as per Before First Unlock, you wouldn't be able to access it unencrypted.

I think I got it going. At least just on a test channel. I think it's more that I want to know how I could organize all 4 parts (b, bg, t, tg) to put into a playout and not duplicate. Ie. some channels will have certain blocks that could be used elsewhere.

I won't have time anytime soon to mess with it more but thanks for at least prompting me to look into it more. I do think I'd like at least a couple channels on a defined schedule like old school TV. Reminds me I should donate to this project- I use it a lot more nowadays.

Haha, fair enough! :) It is labyrinthine. I’m not sure how I got it working, and I still don’t know how it works (I don’t know what I have).

I’m happy to share what I have if there’s a section you’d like to see. Though I imagine it’s the relationships between the parts that we’re both missing.

At this point I might ask you for directions, ha. I am only maybe today getting around to messing with it more. I think a redesign could make it easier (and I'm not sure why it has so many things- blocks, block groups, templates, template groups, etc.) Very customizable I suppose but a bit tough to get going.

Glad to see you got it mostly going though.

Thank you very much

Anker 5-port to USB C, it’s got two USB A, two USB C, and HDMI. Works for flash drives and keyboards and mice well enough.

Good luck!

Options look to be very limited for this phone. The USB-C port is 2.0, allowing for things like flash drives, but not hubs and no video out. I’m assuming your *.eu instance means you are based in Europe. Looks like a replacement screen can be had for ~€20-30. If the data is that important, if you can get the phone disassembled enough to plug in the new screen, you could get the data off of it that way. If you feel confident, you could get the mobile working again. Beware that aftermarket screens may be more fragile than OEM.

Thank you, that is still valuable data. What kind of hub do you have? Considering i have a OnePlus, not a Samsung, this might just work.

OnePlus 6

Thanks, will try (although I'd rather have a USB-C, as A is already in short supply on my laptop)

Oneplus, have to ask for the model

Well a hub would allow me to connect a mouse and display right? Sadly they don't have a google account, i believe. Yeah, i might try a display, but those are more expensive and less useful than a hub.

Thanks again, I've given that a try. Two minutes before my show is scheduled, I heard the disks spinning up, but nothing showed at the m3u link http://localhost:8409/iptv/channels.m3u

I didn't make a new playout, but I did refresh it. I'll try with a new playout and if that doesn't work I'll just wait until yourself or someone else figures it out.

Part of the problem is definitely settings not being properly saved at times, but at this stage I think I can rule that out.

Edit: oh, the episode at 7:30 played and startled me 😄

Now I just need to get this to happen on the correct days.

You want to blindly enable file transfer protocol with a keyboard, is that it? Sounds tricky.

You would get an OTG cable (USB-C male to USB-A female). Then you get any normal USB hub and connect it with the OTG cable.

Make and model?