I have a couple Android phones with little resell value and I’m wondering what I could do with them on my spare time.
Not sure if this is the right sub to ask but figured it could be a good start to see if anyone here has done anything with phones.
You can glue them together for double phones.
Glue the edges together and make your own Surface Duo.
Ive seen people building whole houses from empty bottles. He could do the same with those phones. He would end up with true “smarthome”
You can use it as a security camera on the cheap.
SyncThing backup storage.
If its not crazy old you could get a super cheap nvmo service and toss it in your car/emergency bag with a spare battery pack and cable
I don’t know if it’s still viable but few years back I used to use my old Android phone/phablet as extra monitor for my pc to monitor stats with Spacedesk. It runs on wifi and gives you the ability to add multi devices as monitors so potentially you can make all your old phones into many monitors for your pc as long as they are all on the same network.
Leave one in the car, for emergencies
If you do this, keep a cable and charger handy. An old unused phone battery will drain.
Line them up using a stiff support and take 3d photo’s.
I have an old LG phone, placed horizontally that I rest on a phone stand and use as my bedside alarm clock
Home assistant + fully kiosk browser
(Or root + termux + docker)
Maybe as a central display for your home assistant? As a dashboard or switch panel
Write an AI bot to do Hinge swiping for you
Something I was looking at the other day: you can use them as Streamdecks. (StReam, not Steam.) Basically they become external keyboards, each key being assigned to a function such as start a program, select a tool or whatever, with a graphic to suit.
Elgato (who make the Streamdeck) make an Android app to use a phone as a deck, and there are several other such apps.
A lot of great ideas in this thread. Sadly, I don’t have any spare phones that don’t have a broken screen which is usually how they meet their demise. Just curious, how much of a concern is it to have the phone plugged in and charging all the time. A little bit worried about an exploding lithium ion battery.
That’s my concern but I also know that most modern phones have battery monitoring software that stops the battery from charging once it reaches 100%
Use it as a photo frame/ album
You could also have a look at r/androidafterlife