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Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)
submitted 6 months ago by VITecNet to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I remember this feature, and I wish it was a standard Android feature. It sounds like it would be trivial to implement and could be completely optional.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if tasker could do it... πŸ€”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think applications can reboot the phone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Technically they can.....but it requires root which within the context of this conversation yeah, you're right, lol