Worked a charm. Next time, noone had bothered to hide notes as they didn't want to spend time helping some random sod out.
Solidarity is dead.
(You could, of course, try to counter this by having the entire class install the same cheat - but that would be unlikely to succeed...)
Of course, I’d probably not be in as much trouble as whatever poor sod got stuck with my HP.
Problem solved. Except if you happened to prefer RPN; I had a HP-48 which I had bought prior to the edict naming The One True Calculator - the day I enrolled at university, I started using it again, only to be met with a similar edict in my second term, naming the Ti-89 the only kosher graphing calculator.
Since I graduated, the HP-48 has been in daily use.
One time before a calc test I dropped my graphing calculator. The battery door popped off and the batteries popped out. The unit was otherwise unharmed... but my cheat sheet in the notes app was gone!
I nearly crapped my pants.
Luckily though... as most cheaters know... to make a decent cheat sheet you actually have to comprehend the material first. Half the time you wind up not even using your cheat sheet. Luckily for me that was the case. I still did well on the test.
There was definitely something about miniaturizing notes that reinforced learning
The attention to detail really got to me however over time - the normal reset message was in lower case, but all the custom programs could print was in UPPER case. I was always "its sooo obvious - they'll find me out", when I saw RESET, but nobody ever clocked.
I never did use these notes or solvers in an exam - once I knew I had them, I would remember them anyway.
Oddly enough in a computer science class we had an old professor. He accused me of cheating. He was right. However, he physically inspected my calculator like under the cover and where batteries are lol but did not check the programs. He apologized. I did well on the test.