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If you can get your hands on a service remote it will allow you to access a menu to disable that and a bunch more (a lot of the OLED burnin prevention features you can’t normally fully disable)


If you have a phone with a IR blaster (mostly older LG phones) you have download an android app that with act as an LG service remote


You can do it with a rpi, ir diode and resistor even. The tool for sending and receiving ir commands is called lirc


Huawei and Xiaomi phones have IR blasters as well. I always try to buy phones that have those, because A) "i lost the remote" and B) "shut off every TV at the store" is hilarious.

The first device i had that had this was a Palm, and it wasn't like "here's a remote control" it was "this 1 button will cycle every known TV IR code for the power button." Someone eventually released an actual IR blaster app for Palms, though.


Some old Samsungs have it as well, such as the Galaxy S5.


This sorta thing? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390856037063 or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363604565328 I don't have an IR blastable phone.




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