I know i could leave it stock, but i wanted to remove features it will not need, and have something that can use bluetooth speaker to play music, and i dont have to worry about it being stolen or damaged.

Streaming is not an option for me, first because i oft work either underground or in places with so bad reception that the battery goes down fast.

Shelling out 400€ for FiiO would be nice, but then i would not leave my shiny fiio lying around on construction sites. I would use my fiio m5, but for some reason it stopped seeing bluetooth devices and cannot pair at all ( updated to the latest possible fw, nothing helps )

Any other ideas ?

  • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I don’t think you’d need a custom ROM. You could just factory reset it and only install apps that’s you’d use for music. I can’t remember if you can remove bloatware unrooted, but you could set up a clean home screen and ignore all the unnecessary apps.

    Alternatively, I picked up an old FiiO X3 from 2016 for like $100. The battery is way better and the audio quality is fantastic. It’s nice having a dedicated device that I can navigate in my pocket, and I dig the iPod Classic vibe.

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      I did this for my previous phone. Used as an mp3 player, remote control, and a media streaming device. You can use the Android developer mode to disable a lot of unnecessary bloatware.

      I use Musicolet for mp3s. Have about 10000 songs on my phone

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    You should be able to use adbshell with shizuku (both in f-droid) to remove whatever you won’t use. I doubt there’s any custom Roms that’ll help here though. If you’re willing to root the phone then you can probably find some way to get what you want.

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    If you have any music on your computer, an old clickwheel iPod is the way to go

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    I have the same idea on my mind for a while but seeing how messy the Android space is (mix of gamers and tinkerers), how heavy it is to compile a ROM (250Gb of data), knowing how shity vendor shares - if any - drivers… I feel that it would be better to throw away (in a recycle park of course) that ie: samsung s4 an buy a basic music player.

    it’s sad that it is so difficult to build a minimal ROM for an obsolete but still powerful smartphone.

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    Well what phone is it? There are tons of music playing programs on f-droid. Why not just run one? I’ve been using Vanilla Music. I don’t like it that much, but don’t feel like derping around trying more and more of them. Vanilla is better than some others that I tried.

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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t it just work as-is? Upload your songs or use Spotify pro to download what you want locally and then just dance away.