Migration to Linux: iPhone

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Why?

My iPhone 7 is now (2023) several years old, battery is bad, updates won't be available for much longer, and the display size is no longer compatible with my 48 years old eyes…

How?

I purchased a Google Pixel 8 and I tried to migrate all the apps and services to the new device…

• Automatic Transfer of Apps and Data is, besides of copied music, rubbish

Apps, that are identically available and working just fine

• Floccus
• Home Assistant
• Signal
• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Ingress
• Pokemon Go
• Amazon
• eBay
• …

In general, you can assume commercial apps are just fine (somehow sad)

Apps, that needed to be replaced

• BookPlayer → Smart AudioBook Player (Note: If Audiobooks from internal storage don't show up - rename m4b to m4a…)
• FreeOTP → Google Authenticator
• Music →
• (Markdown Editor) →
  • Nextcloud Notes
  • Simple Markdown
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Apps, that caused me headaches

• NextCloud App…
  • …was syncing very slow. Maybe because of this:

    "{"reqId":"a2Itxu5TKuo32QDKfL5h","level":1,"time":"2023-12-03T08:58:08+00:00","remoteAddr":"2003:ed:f07:f900:b102:5bd3:1a45:ad88","user":"--","app":"no app in context","method":"POST","url":"/nextcloud/index.php/login","message":"IP address throttled because it reached the attempts limit in the last 30 minutes [action: login, delay: 400, ip: 2003:ed:f07:f900:b102:5bd3:1a45:ad88]","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; Pixel 8 Build/UD1A.231105.004; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/119.0.6045.164 Mobile Safari/537.36","version":"25.0.13.2","data":[],"id":"656c444b622c3"}"

    Admin --> Security --> Brute-force IP whitelist

    sudo -u www-data php occ security:bruteforce:reset 2003:ed:f07:f900:b102:5bd3:1a45:ad88

    Generally: Wait for Download/Sync. It takes a while and there is no progress shown, but it will work in the end

  • …how to transfer Audiobooks to internal storage
    • With Nextcloud
      1. Go to settings, make sure you choose /data/user/0/com.nextcloud.client/files as this will allow you to open the files in other Apps
      2. Use the kebap-menu for Download (Sync)
      3. Use Export (This will copy it to Internal Storage/Download)
      4. Use the Files-App to move it to Internal Storage/Audiobooks
      5. If it's .m4b, rename it to .mp3 or .m4a - it will then show up in Smart Audiobook Player

      Hint: If it's a whole folder of mp3s, do zip them. Extracting does not need a special app, Android will do that for you if you tap in Files…

  • Other?

New Apps

• KDE Connect