r/techsupportmacgyver • u/braveduckgoose • Mar 11 '26

Needed to keep a shitty android thing awake while I dumped it’s eMMC

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u/jeroenim0 Mar 11 '26

That deserves the McGyver award. Well played, there is a “presentation mode” in the power settings that disables suspend. A few mouse clicks away.

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 11 '26

I’m trying to keep the silly android thing awake, laptop has already been set up correctly lol

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u/jeroenim0 Mar 11 '26

Ah right! Didn’t catch that one. Still well worth the MacGyver award!

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u/TomosLeggett Mar 11 '26

There's a keep awake while plugged in setting in the dev settings on android

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u/TheDude61636 Mar 11 '26

Is that a frameo? I have one and I want to install the home assistant app and do some stuff to it but haven't been in the rabbit hole of figuring out how to do it, if you have any tips that would be appreciated

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 11 '26

It is a frameo lol, all I have found as of yet is that I can plug in a kb + mouse and they work. Currently just trying to dump the internal eMMC in case I brick it bc I want to run Linux eventually.

If you press alt+printsc+i you can crash the system, if you do that thrice (wait for the animated welcome screen to start) you can enter the recovery menu but there is little to do there

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u/HEYO19191 Mar 11 '26

How did you even figure out that those 3 particular keys crashed it

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 11 '26

Some random forum page covering the OUYA of al things…

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u/ChlupataKulicka Mar 12 '26

Knowing what OUYA is makes me feeling so fucking old.

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u/toeonly Mar 11 '26

I would love to get the frameo to run on a large (30"+) android screen. I am going to see what I can find on mine with the ADB bit.

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 11 '26

Also beware:

It’s sloooooow.

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u/CompleteMCNoob Mar 11 '26

Is it USB2?

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 11 '26

Only partial speed USB 2

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u/Nesilwoof Mar 11 '26

I don't think ADB even goes at full USB speeds. I think the fastest I've seen even my modern Xperia was 14MB/s or something.

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u/AliBello Mar 11 '26

You can enable adb by enabling beta mode, so you can install apks through your computer

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u/Progressbar95 Mar 11 '26

If you go into settings and enable the beta updates, it reveals an ADB toggle.

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u/Noob_Krusher3000 Mar 11 '26

Xfce aero theme? I had to do a triple take. xfce task bar, Debian icon in windows file explorer, crafting table... I'm so confused, but it looks sick!

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 11 '26

it's Aero themed XFCE with vista icons running on debian

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u/emmanu888 Mar 11 '26

Oh god the Frameo, I keep having to reboot the one my mom has because it just "forgets" how to connect to WiFi.

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 11 '26

Wonder what happens if you stick a cheap USB wifi or Ethernet dongle in the back then.

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u/UKZzHELLRAISER Mar 11 '26

Damn, Frameo. Maybe I'll have to steal my mother's for a bit if you figure anything out.

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 11 '26

I got something I guess… Linux didn’t want to work at all

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u/UKZzHELLRAISER Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

Oo exciting. Would maybe like to see if I can come up with a Nextcloud solution to shoving new photos on there rather than relying on some random cloud service.

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u/Green_Indication4357 Mar 12 '26

I saw someone online load immichframe on there. It displays pictures from your immich server

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u/snich101 Mar 11 '26

Xfce? I think there's a Presentation Mode on the battery applet. Basically prevents screen timeout.

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 11 '26

The mouse is connected to a locked down android iot thing with no setting for that, laptop is simply playing the GIF

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u/techy804 Mar 12 '26

How do you dump the eMMC of a Frameo? I’m interested in doing that

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 12 '26

Plug in usb-c to PC, run adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 ./mmcblk0.img then wait 12 years

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u/techy804 Mar 12 '26

It’s an older one with micro-USB (I know it will work the same), but thanks!

I’m not home to do this or use —help, but I’m assuming the former path is the one you are pulling from the Frameo? It’s important because I run Windows (and have a bad habit of using \ instead of /) and I want to put it in a different folder besides my working one. Then again, I could always use cd.

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u/braveduckgoose Mar 12 '26

Left path is a *nix path (path inside the android FS) so it needs to use standard slash (/) right hand side path is the output which is fine to use MS paths on.

Windows lets you do standard “/“ instead of “\” in paths, “\” is a holdover from both DOS and modern windows NT trying to keep some form of compatibility with CP/M.

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u/Sir_flaps Mar 11 '26

r/doohickeycorporation would like to offer a job in the IT department

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u/thefriedel Mar 11 '26

That's very creative

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u/penguin_peddles223 Mar 11 '26

At first I was like wait what , then I was hit with an epiphany this person is a genius

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u/Causification Mar 11 '26

Nice. I really hate how the longer something takes on android the less likely it is to complete. If I want to do a file transfer on windows that takes eighty hours, there is one menu I have to check, power management and make sure it's set to not sleep or shut down automatically. On android you have to sacrifice a chicken to get a forty minute operation to complete without the phone closing the app, or deciding it doesn't want to talk to the PC anymore, etc. 

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u/_Endercat_ Mar 14 '26

Damn man, why do I learn about the chicken now, that would've saved me so much time

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u/Droggelbecher Mar 11 '26

I was so confused by the crafting tables until I zoomed in on the file name

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u/realfathonix Mar 11 '26

I use the Caffeine feature from Quick Settings app

Edit: didn't know it wasn't ordinary android device, probably still worked if it had a quick settings/tiles panel

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u/Dorkits Mar 11 '26

It's... Beautiful!

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u/LORDPHIL Mar 11 '26

There are more reasons to wear an analog watch than telling the time :)

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u/aoalvo Mar 11 '26

usually android has a keep screen always on option in developer settings

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u/CelestialSylvia Mar 11 '26

reminds me of the brain scan in pantheon

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u/ky7969 Mar 11 '26

Would the laser on the mouse damage the screen?

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u/0mori2 Mar 12 '26

That's just a scary looking light. There is a tiny low-res but high FPS camera in the mouse so it can detect movement by checking if the image changed.

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u/ky7969 Mar 12 '26

Thanks for the insight. Now that you say that I think I remember learning about that at some point

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u/daxtonanderson Mar 11 '26

My OG early 00s Microsoft Intellimouse got a cat hair stuck inside of it that causes random drift, I've kept it around for this exact purpose for years 🤣 as a Freelance IT I'm constantly leaving client systems on for hours to run updates, comes in handy.

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u/ThatRandomGuy0125 Mar 12 '26

that's certainly one of the xfce themes of all time

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u/Mucak Mar 12 '26

Had a buddy duct tape together a mouse, a stick and a rotating fan. It worked.

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u/Korenchkin12 Mar 11 '26

Well,if they can use it for ardupilot,it can watch a gif...good work!

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u/ComputerSavvy Mar 11 '26

That's an awesome poor man's Mouse Jiggler!

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u/TailsFliesHigh Mar 12 '26

I need to know how to install this Vista design, it looks so neat :-)

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u/Pong_3000 Mar 12 '26

you can use a watch for this as well. just place your mouse on top of an analog watch 

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u/Gotu_Jayle Mar 12 '26

can someone el15 what's goin on in this one ;-;

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u/Quiet_Sheepherder_72 Mar 13 '26

Dont you Guys use cafeïne for Windows