Migration to Linux: iPhone

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Why?

My iPhone 7 is now (Dec. 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 with USB adapter 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
• Outlook & O365 relatives
• …

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…
  • → VLC
  • →
  • →
  • →
  • →
• iWriter Pro…
  • → Nextcloud Notes
  • → Simple Markdown
• Strongbox → KeePassDX
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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

• Transferring music and audiobooks
  • …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…

    • If you're near your PC, you can mount your Phone like mass storage. Make sure, you enable File Access/AndroidCar your on phone's USB preferences.

New Apps

• KDE Connect