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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by codethief on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:59AM (#37776695)
Interesting, finally I have an idea of why my phones have always gotten slower over time. Is there a way to measure error rates and/or average storage latency on my (Android) phone somehow?
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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by azzentys on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:27AM (#37778329)
eMMC usually has csd and ext_csd registers that tells information regarding wear level and such. It's easy to access these from Linux, but not sure how we would do it on Android.
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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by starkparker on Thursday October 05, 2023 @12:21PM (#37780561)
You can build/install mmc-utils on the device (even from Google's repo,[1] if outdated) but can't access the storage device paths without root. If you're on a custom ROM, the mmc command might even be part of it.

1: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/mmc-utils...

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