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Cake day: July 15th, 2025

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  • But you mentioned the colour correction is set to grey scale, isn’t that exactly what you want from reading mode?

    I honestly don’t know. Maybe? I’d need to try with another Android 14 phone (which I don’t have handy right now) to see.

    When I took a screenshot on the Minimal and emailed it to myself (to view on my laptop), the screenshot was in color.

    On my OP3 on Lineage 16/Android 9, with “Reading mode” enabled, the screenshot was in black and white.

    A number of things could be different, but that’s all I’ve been able to test at present.

    It’s also possible to set your display to grey scale in the settings for “modes” so you could create your own mode there called reading mode and change the display settings for that custom mode.

    Either I don’t have that option or it’s buried under a different name/menu path.




  • Good questions!

    Sadly, I cannot answer either of them. I would assume the battery is replaceable with some effort, and I have no idea about the screen. Considering these are currently pre-order devices releasing in small production-runs, I would imagine sourcing replacement parts would be taking it apart and searching Ali for the part numbers. That said, “where there’s a will, there’s a way”.

    I have not attempted disassembly, but there are two very tiny torx screws on either side of the USB-C port. My assumption is that removing those allows the casing to slide apart. Perhaps when I’m feeling brave enough, I may take a peek inside and document my journey with some photos.

    There also doesn’t appear to be an iFixit teardown yet, and a cursory internet search didn’t reveal any galleries of the juicy innards :(










  • I’ve thought about doing this in my basement rec room to make it feel more “open”. Plan is to take a couple spare flat screens I’m not using, build a wood window frame around them, and put some curtains over them to further sell the effect.

    Just haven’t figured out a way to drive them besides sticking a raspberry pi on each one. That would also let me make them “real” windows if I want to feed in the camera views from outside.