Moving into IG reel farms for OFM

pinonji said:

But when you use cloud phones, aren’t you always limited to 3 or 4 accounts per phone?
And I reckon you’re using something like Geelark for your cloud phones?

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iCr4kTw3k said:

You can have a very few phones, and multiple profiles so you can have a setup for pretty cheap.
I'm effectively using Geelark, yes

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pinonji said:

Hey everyone,

I run an OFM agency and I'm moving my marketing into IG reel farms. So far I've been reposting/spoofing viral clips across 3 accounts on 3 separate devices run by 3 VAs, and results are all over the place — same clip did ~20k views on one account, 9k and 5k on the others. I want to do this properly and scale, so I'm starting with 1 device to learn before adding more.

I bought a Pixel 7 and planned to run it on GrapheneOS for the isolation / anti-linking benefits. But the more I read, the more it looks like there's no proper management tool that plays nice with Graphene for warm-up, scheduling, posting, etc. I've seen stuff like Onimator, Laixi and similar floating around.

A few things I'm trying to figure out, would love input from people who actually run farms:

1. Does IG detect when the phone is being managed/automated through one of these tools (Onimator, Laixi, etc.)? What's the realistic ban exposure?

2. On Graphene specifically — is the right move one user profile per account (instead of app cloning) + a dedicated proxy per profile? Or is Graphene just the wrong base for this and I'd be better off on stock Android with a proper management tool?

3. Starting from 1 device and scaling: how do you actually make a single phone look unique per IG account? What's the realistic ceiling of accounts per physical device before they get linked?

4. The warm-up process — can it be automated reliably, or is that exactly the part that gets you flagged and should stay manual/human?

Not looking to be spoon-fed, just trying not to burn money and devices on the wrong setup before I scale. Any pointers, tool recs, or "don't do that" warnings appreciated

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pinonji said:

But when you use cloud phones, aren’t you always limited to 3 or 4 accounts per phone?
And I reckon you’re using something like Geelark for your cloud phones?

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Mark_Veteran said:

No one is talking about the baseband telemetry. IG doesn’t just look at proxies and user profiles. It reads cellular network metadata (MCC, MNC and IMSI). If you have 3 profiles running on different proxies but all them pull the exact same carrier cell-tower ID and blank IMSI data from a single physical device, the cluster gets shadowbanned. Hard limit is 2 accounts per physical IMEI.

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virchual said:

In that case how people are running phone farms with 100s of phones?



What the concept behind getting accounts setup in a big farm is probably not plugging 100stock mobilephones into an outlet. It's about creating a custom Android ROMs, to trick each phone's unique device IDs and run each of them through a 4g rotating proxy dongle (essentially a giant proxy server, making each phone seem like it has its own internet connection, data baseband etc.) This is because any raw accounts made through a home router/Wi-Fi or using just 1 router would result in a instant ban of the account.

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milion said:

Iif you're going ghos, forget those. stock android with a legit scheduler is probably easier. one profile per account is overkill, just use app cloning and a solid proxy setup per device. realistically, you're looking at maybe 10-15 accounts per phone max before they link, and warm-up needs some human touch, don't automate that.

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pinonji said:

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iCr4kTw3k said:

You can have a very few phones, and multiple profiles so you can have a setup for pretty cheap.
I'm effectively using Geelark, yes

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CarlosTheGaucho said:

Hi there,

I'm having a license for IG automation, and set up a test Android phone. Planning to do more later this year.
My close contact runs a solution for mobile farms, so I'll try to pass some of what I know or tested:

1. Does IG detect when the phone is being managed/automated through one of these tools (Onimator, Laixi, etc.)? What's the realistic ban exposure?

-- not an easy question, I know one can run multiple instances of Instagram (using an IG cloner) each of which runs through a dedicated proxy given my particular setup.

2. On Graphene specifically — is the right move one user profile per account (instead of app cloning) + a dedicated proxy per profile? Or is Graphene just the wrong base for this and I'd be better off on stock Android with a proper management tool?

-- using an Android phone, that is connected to a dedicated PC for testing the setup

3. Starting from 1 device and scaling: how do you actually make a single phone look unique per IG account? What's the realistic ceiling of accounts per physical device before they get linked?

-- depends on the solution, the solution I have in place allows for multiple IG clones on 1 device, all controlled from a PC with the phone farm controlling software (needs to be USB connected)

-- The recommendation is to have up to 6 clones on one Android device, which means that each would get 4 hours of management a day.

4. The warm-up process — can it be automated reliably, or is that exactly the part that gets you flagged and should stay manual/human?

-- while they tell me it can be automated , me myself would do the starting phase manually, just to be sure.

If you were interested in insights directly from someone, who created an actual software and setup to manage Android mobile farms - hit me up and I can introduce you.

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