How to turn old mobile phones into treasures

Nowadays, mobile phones are replaced too quickly. Old mobile phones are gradually being phased out due to outdated systems or hardware. So, what do you do with those old phones? Throw it away? Sell ??it as a second-hand phone? Leave it to your parents? Or will it sit in a drawer and gather dust?

I believe that after using a mobile phone for so long, I will develop feelings for it, and I still can’t bear to throw it away. If you sell it as a second-hand mobile phone, you need to pay attention to cleaning up your personal information, but cleaning up your personal information is not just about "resetting to factory settings". If the cleaning is not done properly, personal privacy can easily be leaked accidentally. Leave it to your parents? Parents may not necessarily think highly of it, and the performance of today’s thousand-yuan phones is also very powerful, which can completely beat your old mobile phone that is stuck.

This article will teach you how to save your old mobile phone that is lying at the bottom of the box. Transform it into a useful small appliance or accessory in your life, allowing it to continue to shine.

1. Clock

Make an old mobile phone at home into a clock ornament. It will be very beautiful when placed on the bedroom or office desk. It does not take up space and is eye-catching. It can provide you with a busy work. The most secure guarantee.

You only need to search for a desktop clock (or similar software) in the app store that comes with your phone, and simply set it up, and it will be a desktop clock. At the same time, in addition to displaying the time, this type of software can also set alarm clocks, sleep timers, and sleep-aid music. More conveniently, you can double-click the screen or shake the device to turn on the flashlight. Overall, the functions are quite complete.

If your mobile phone supports voice wake-up, you can add "Hey Siri" and "Xiao Ai Classmate" in bed, and ask about the time, weather, and news while in bed. It is so convenient.

2. WiFi Amplifier

Because my router is in the living room, when it reaches my bedroom, the WiFi signal is not that strong. Sometimes when I am watching the video card, at this time, I will open the hotspot on my phone and use the data to watch the video. It's cool, but it's the flow that makes my heart ache. . .

Later I discovered that when setting up a mobile hotspot, I can turn on the WLAN sharing function, which forwards the WiFi signal of the mobile phone, which is equivalent to the wireless bridge function of the router. In this case, you can put your old mobile phone in the middle of the living room and bedroom, let the mobile phone receive the WiFi signal, and then amplify and transmit it. After the mobile phone transfer was completed, the signal in the bedroom was indeed much better.

However, not all mobile phones have this function. If your old mobile phone happens to have this function, and you are troubled by signal blind spots at home, you might as well try to modify the old mobile phone, set After that, just find a place where you can charge it~

3. Infrared remote control

There are various remote controls for household appliances, which can be piled on the table. Sometimes It looks like a headache. If you have an old cell phone that emits infrared rays, you can turn it into a universal remote control to easily control your appliances. Such as air conditioners, refrigerators, TVs, etc.

Nowadays, almost all Xiaomi and Redmi products are equipped with the ancestral infrared remote control as standard. The idle remote control can solve the urgent problems of household appliances.

4. Car Navigation

It is estimated that car manufacturers never imagined that the biggest opponent of car navigation is actually mobile phones.

Currently, many people have not installed GPS in their cars, and even if it is equipped with navigation, the annual cost is not a small amount.

At this time, an old mobile phone can perfectly solve this problem.

When driving, navigation and mobile phones are essential. The performance of using an old mobile phone as a navigator is much higher than that of navigators on the market: the reason is that mainstream navigation software maps such as AutoNavi, Baidu, and Tencent are characterized by good performance, guaranteed technology updates, and fast geographic data updates. Moreover, the display resolution is high and the output mode can be speakers, headphones and Bluetooth, which fully meets the needs of driving.

What is even more commendable is that a mobile phone can be used as a navigation instrument and as a car recorder at the same time! If we make a comprehensive comparison of the performance of mobile phones and car navigators, it can be said that the development of mobile navigator functions has ended the development of car navigation. The golden age of ritual.

5. Radio

Old people at home generally like old objects like radios. The style of radio is different from that of TV. Making a radio out of an old mobile phone is a good choice.

At the touch of a finger, you can easily listen to Himalaya Radio's high-quality content resources, including radio broadcasts, news, music, novels, cross talk, storytelling, jokes, online radio, popular private radio, etc.