A while ago, while the Apps4Flip forums were still active (and I was a very active member on them, I started working on a program called Fliphone Wizard. It’s basically a GUI version of Biden2020prez’s “LG Flip Kosher” batch script that included more phones. I made my famous “Fliphone Package Names” spreadsheet while working on it.
I spent 5 months on it. I started working on it around February of 2023. When the forums closed over the summer, I put the project on hold, and haven’t picked it up since.
Now I’m coming back online to these forums after 3 months away, and I’m very impressed with what’s going on here. I don’t have the type of time I used to have, so I can’t be as active as I was on Apps4Flip, but I’ll make sure to keep on coming back because great things are going on here.
I put a lot of time and effort into this program. I have spreadsheets and notes about what I wanted the program to be. I want to hand it off to somebody else to see what they can do with it.
Since then, I’ve gotten much more involved with ROMs (esspecially all the different TCLs and the Qin F21). This project was intended to be a simple ADB uninstallation, but we all know that that’s far from the ideal solution for uninstalling non-kosher system apps. Now much more exists. Maybe somebody could integrate functionalities from eGate to this program. The possibilities are endless.
My dream (which I’ve had for several years now) is something similar to the program I wrote but for ROMs. Imagine if any user, no matter how tech savvy they are, could go to a website, download a program, select their phone model, and have all the work done in the background. Imagine TAG level filtering for all flip phones, accessible to anybody, and free. With the incredible community here, it seems like that vision is slowly becoming reality.
While I wish I had the time I once had to be able to embark on this endevor myself, I don’t. Baruch Hashem I’m learning in yeshiva and that’s what matters. What I could contribute is the work I put into this program, months of notes on many phones, and years of experiance to make this dream a reality.
I started writing this forum post expecting it to be a quick shtickle about how I want to share this unfinished program with the community here and see if anybody wants to make it an official zach, and I ended up writing a whole drasha on what my dream for the future of the flip phone community is.
Tachlis. Here’s all my 5 months of work. Please check it out and let me know what you think. (I made a release if anybody wants to check it out.) If anybody wants to put some work into this masterpeice (If I may say so myself), feel free. Shkoyach!