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I just found my first phone ever and decided to start it up. I found out the password and decided to factory reset it since I’m planning on selling it. However, ever since I resetted it, it has been stuck on the same “Installing applications” screen (see image). I tried the volume up+power button+home button tactic and chose factory reset and then boot system, but it won’t budge. Anybody know how to solve this?
I use my Galaxy S6 as dedicated GPS/maps head unit for my bike (Garmin is too expensive).
To get newer maps I had to reflash the rom to some hacked together Lineageos. With Odin/heimdal tool it was basically foolproof.
You can get to bootloader so it will be easy. Worse is bricked phone without access to it.
I was doing the same thing first with a Nexus 5 but quickly discovered that neither the battery nor gps were up for this task. Got a sigma rox 11.1 recently and for 100 bucks this thing is worth it, but it doesn't have maps and only shows a preloaded route instead.
I use it with ROX 4.0, I have full maps in phone and when I see that the pre-planned route is bad I check it on the phone.
With this use it can do 2 - 3 days of riding. But with navigation battery is dead in 3-4 hours.
Still this setup is about 4x cheaper than basic Garmin.
Ah, so no navigation, just maps. Yeah in that case a setup like this is unbeatable for the money. But it can‘t beat the guy I‘ve seen recently with a tablet sized map strapped to his bars.
The sigma has lots of weird quirks that the phone solves. Like you need their app to put routes in it, you need wifi to generate it, sometimes it makes weird spaghetti route...
I just don't want my phone connected to it on multi-day biketour.