Time for a mobile phone upgrade
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
damn it man... just leave stock android interface!
So much this!
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@notverypunny said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Man, I loved my GS5, although I think our version here in Canada had a better CPU and processing stack than the US market one (G900W here). Mind you I was running Cyanomod and then LineageOS so none of that touchwiz garbage
LOL - then you really didn't have a S5 - you had a Frankenstein.
I swapped out ROMs back in that day and age as well, usually with good results. Now days - I really don't care.
The only reason to swap a ROM out now aside from just because you can... is to squeeze a bit of improved performance out of a phone that's a year or two old. It's usually met with mixed results... but there's not much it can do about a bad battery.
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@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@notverypunny said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Man, I loved my GS5, although I think our version here in Canada had a better CPU and processing stack than the US market one (G900W here). Mind you I was running Cyanomod and then LineageOS so none of that touchwiz garbage
LOL - then you really didn't have a S5 - you had a Frankenstein.
I swapped out ROMs back in that day and age as well, usually with good results. Now days - I really don't care.
The only reason to swap a ROM out now aside from just because you can... is to squeeze a bit of improved performance out of a phone that's a year or two old. It's usually met with mixed results... but there's not much it can do about a bad battery.
I was really wondering why so many ROM mods seemed to have died off. I frankly lost interest. Modding my phone along with the risk of bricking it just fizzed out for me.
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I was really wondering why so many ROM mods seemed to have died off. I frankly lost interest. Modding my phone along with the risk of bricking it just fizzed out for me
I think that the real question was... why was it ever popular
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I was really wondering why so many ROM mods seemed to have died off. I frankly lost interest. Modding my phone along with the risk of bricking it just fizzed out for me
I think that the real question was... why was it ever popular
It's all about tinkering, which is something I never enjoyed. I just want a working phone.That's just it - the phones back then didn't work, at least not well. So it took tinkering to make them work well/better than the crap they were shipping. So I'm guessing that's the answer.
Since the GS6, the phones have been better, less issues, so less need to ROM them.
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Yeah, I haven't seen too many newer devices supported with 3rd party ROMs.
The only reason I flashed our devices 3rd party was to get something closer to "stock" android and to keep getting security updates after the manufacturer discontinued support.
My GS5 was still getting security updates and running a Pie based ROM via Lineage until gravity + parking lot gravel = dead screen.
The SO's ZenFone2 isn't getting updates from anyone anymore, but Lineage gave about 2 years more updates than stock Asus... trying to convince her that a Pixel3 would be a good idea.
My Nexus 7 (2012) wifi got an AOSP build just in May.... not useful for much except low end videos for the kids in the car, or as an alarm clock
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I just want a working phone.
That’s why I stick with iPhone. Everything I do simply works.
Google is not serious about making clean android devices. And I’ve not seen a vendor yet that both updates and has a clean android setup.
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I tried a Samsung a couple years ago after being a long time iPhone user. The battery life was horrible and the "volume warning" whenever you had anything plugged into the headphone jack drove me nuts. I took it back within the 15 day return window and went back to the iPhone. I too feel that it does everything I have ever needed it to do.
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@brandon220 said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I tried a Samsung a couple years ago after being a long time iPhone user. The battery life was horrible and the "volume warning" whenever you had anything plugged into the headphone jack drove me nuts. I took it back within the 15 day return window and went back to the iPhone. I too feel that it does everything I have ever needed it to do.
Yeah, the volume warning is insane. It has no purpose and just makes the phone hard to use while driving.... which should be illegal. The Samsung is good enough that I can tell Android has improved to the point that I want to use it, but is bad enough to never buy from them again.
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@JaredBusch said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Google is not serious about making clean android devices. And I’ve not seen a vendor yet that both updates and has a clean android setup.
I keep hearing that OnePlus is the place for that.
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@JaredBusch said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I just want a working phone.
That’s why I stick with iPhone. Everything I do simply works.
Google is not serious about making clean android devices. And I’ve not seen a vendor yet that both updates and has a clean android setup.
Even Google phones? sure they aren't pure Android, but pretty damned close.
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@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
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@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
What is special in the Note line? Bigger size, stylus? As a non-Note user, I'm not really very aware of it.
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@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
That's about it for the note line, yes. They made some custom apps to use with the stylus, but they're all things available from the Play Store already.
I still like my Sony Experia AX2 Ultra. The silly name is the only really bad thing about it so far. Had it for around 6 months now. Huge display, good performance, camera is solid but not great. $250
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
What is special in the Note line? Bigger size, stylus? As a non-Note user, I'm not really very aware of it.
If you want to check out an older model, I think I've got a Note 5 sitting around.
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
What is special in the Note line? Bigger size, stylus? As a non-Note user, I'm not really very aware of it.
For me, it's the stylus and how well it's been done. I love not having to carrying around a notebook (the pencil and paper kind) with me. I can doodle and not kill trees, lol.
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@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
What is special in the Note line? Bigger size, stylus? As a non-Note user, I'm not really very aware of it.
For me, it's the stylus and how well it's been done. I love not having to carrying around a notebook (the pencil and paper kind) with me. I can doodle and not kill trees, lol.
The Stylus types that you can by, I haven't found any that work near as good as the Note's S-Pen does.
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I'm giving IPhone a shot. heard great things and after a while of playing and trying, I went with an Iphone XR ..
