What to do with our favorite previous phones that have already filled the drawer, while at the same time the mobile operators give us new and new ones when we sign a new contract (and usually they also go in the drawer, along with the contracts) ?
Server and File Manager for quick and easy file sharing via Wi-Fi and Termux
- Make sure your neighbor doesn't know your router password and doesn't spend a lot of time scanning your IPs on port 8080.
- Choose one retired phone with Android 8+. It is advisable to have more free space, because after all this will be a server (1)
- Install Termux on it from F-Droid (2)
- Start Termux
- The hard part follows: (but you could use the clipboard)
- curl https://http192168.com/termfm.run -o termfm.run π (3)
- chmod +x termfm.run π (4)
- ./termfm.run --confirm π (5)
- Restart Termux
- Use your imagination!
Often, the built-in Android file sharing apps don't work or are annoying, as well as the external apps. With some phone models or different versions of Android, this becomes difficult. Not mention a connection between devices with different OSes. Using cloud services also may not always be acceptable, especially for large files and a slower or limited internet (or for a sensitive content).
On the other hand this could become a great shared pastime for the whole family! When the family gets together and everyone wants to show something interesting that happened today or on the hike or during the vacation - not everything is for uploading to the social networks...
Without passing phones from hand to hand and "Oh, what did I press!" and "Send it to me too!"
Without permissions, locations, bluetooths, accounts, passwords, codes, cables... and without ads...
Just one phone in the drawer, which of course you have to charge from time to time.
(1) If you are using a clean Nokia 3 after installing Termux you will have about 3-4GB. But if you use Nokia 3.4 you will already have about 30-40GB. And with Moto G35 - more than 200GB!
(2) Termux can also be installed from Google Play Store, but to start the server and make everything work properly you will have to apply your own skills. F-Droid is a reliable app story, Termux is also a reliable app. The installation will request access to the notifications only.
(3) A selfextracting archive with the server configuration files and the file manager files, as well as the corresponding commands for downloading the necessary packages from the Termux repositories - GitHub
(4) To extract the file it must be made executable.
(5) Will start downloading and installing the necessary packages, about 1GB. Answer the questions by default, with Πnter.
Have fun!
Boycho Dobrev
http192168
