who here has an older phone but still see no reason to upgrade at all ?
>note 2 here
it just TWERKS
>>51528470
Hardly an old phone is it
Old phone would be a Nokia 3310 or something
4s here, running ios7, recently replaced battery but was only 20$. Other than that its still mint looking and does what i want
Wouldn't really call it old, but Nexus 4 here.
I see no performance reasons to upgrade, but it has started rebooting randomly about once or twice a day.
>tfw galaxy s5 running pure 4.4.4 is futureproof
>amazing battery life
>barely gets warm under heavy load
>9/10 dac
>great screen
>water resistant
>easy to repair
>micro sd
S3 Neo, wish I had lollipop, or even marshmallow, but custom roms will fix it ;_;
Not that old but still, the LG G2 is fucking awesome.
Running 5.1.1 and CM13 is in the works.
>>51528541
Buy an anker battery and you have a God phone
>>51528565
Was on the G2 until this summer where almost exactly 2 years after I got it, the top 1/3rd of the screen simply stopped detecting touches. It started getting a bit weird, then it kept getting worse and worse over the next few days until it just got to the point where I couldnt use my phone without getting frustrated as fuck and pissed off.
Ended up buying the Note5 two weeks later on launch day.
>>51528541
>>barely gets warm under heavy load
LOL this shit is just an overclocked snapdragon out of the factory.
it is hot as balls when under heavy load
I've only owned one phone my entire life and that's the iPhone 4 I found on the sidewalk on the first day of 2013. I've been using it ever since and its worked fine but everyone has bigger, shinier phones than me and now I want an upgrade. Unfortunately I know literally nothing about phones so now I'm too scared to buy another in case it's shittier than my iphone and I'm too poor to just get the latest one so i guess I'll be using my 4 until it breaks.
>>51528565
>>51528470
Time of LG2 and Note II was basically the best time to buy a new phone. Next generations only got marginally better when compared to these phones.
>>51528541
My brother of similar color.
I'm in the same boat myself. I underclock the CPU and get 2 days of replacable battery life, and have a 128Gb mSD. This also has delicious water proof USB 3.0, bright 1080p screen for a proper balance of nice definition without wasting performance on placebo, 4.4.4 for stability and proper dark menu themes, and the camera meets my needs of "yep, it takes non-shitty pictures/video". I keep this phone in a case just to ensure that it lasts for as obnoxiously long as I'd like it too.
The only change I still should do is root to delete some samsung/google bloat, but it's already hidden away and I've just been too lazy/comfy to mess with it.
>>51528590
Thanks for the Xmas idea Anon.
>>51528470
Note II master race reporting.
>>51528654
have you ever used one?
The s5 barely pulls any watts under load, the iphone 6 pulled more watts than it
>>51528686
>Time of LG2 and Note II was basically the best time to buy a new phone. Next generations only got marginally better when compared to these phones.
The G2 is a generation newer than the Note2.
Note2 came out sep. 2012
G2 came out Aug. 2013
Though I agree both have aged well.
>>51528470
Note 2 on CM12.1 master race. Not changing until this shit breaks down, so maybe 5 years more
Moto G 1st gen running 5.1.1 AOSP
Nexus 5 here (2013) .
I have an Xperia T running CM 12.1
40 britshekels
>>51528470
>have old phone
>looking to buy new one
>most are $500+
>aside from higher numbers they appear to give me almost no benefit
>literally just a waste of money
i don't know why ie ven try
>>51530443
how long you wager the amoled screen would could last? I'm almost on a full 3 yrs on my note 2 since dec 2012
>>51531063
I dunno man, no signs of burn-in on mine. Color seems the same from when I bought it Q1 2013
Moto G (second gen) still in mint condition after a year. I probably wont upgrade until next Christmas.
Moto X girar first gen. Love the screen
>xperia play
Seen as I don't need a new phone, I'd sooner get an NVidia shield or something, I just buy phones for my normie relatives.
Nexus 4
Still has active community development.
>>51531548
Still on stock GB?
>>51530969
Not that old, I'd still consider it recent.
>>51528470
Sony xperia S here.
Want a new phone, but money keeps getting in the way. I understand why they're expensive, but god the Note 5 and S6Edge are nice.
That said, everything I need to use my phone for, it does brilliantly. Though it's still on gingerbread, so keeping track of data usage is an issue (didn't update because ICS is buggy and jelly bean was too heavy for a S3 chip).
So to answer your question, I do get the upgrade itch, but at the end of the day, I'd rather keep my money and continue to use what I already have
iPhone 5S
Just werks. Might get a 7 for that screen space though. Kind of conflicted honestly. I want a huge screen but I love how tiny my phone is.
>>51531565
No. I just had to customise and OC like a cool hacker too.
>>51531595
I was on Kitkat on my Xperia Mini Pro before I let go of it. How is JB slow on your Xperia S?
Was in love with my G2. Still have it but I switched over to the S6 Edge Plus.
>>51531624
Nice. I always wanted that phone. If it was at least dual core + 1gb RAM I would have bought it.
>>51528470
htc one m8. i won't upgrade it until it becomes unusable. it's probably going to be the battery that forces me to do it.
Does a Moto G 2nd gen count since it has the same specs as a 1st gen?
>>51528470
I wish my note 2 still worked its the Verizon version so I couldn't root and the screen was peeling away. Other than that I loved the phone
>>51528679
Get the S6 edge. It's the shiniest, most "look at me" phone out there.
Got a 15€ dumbphone like five years ago.
Still works, has nice uptime and I can call or text people. Why would I need a Smarphone?
>>51531651
I rooted and unlocked the bootloader within the first month of launch also on verizon tho
>>51531627
It was slow on my 2013 Nexus 7, so I figured that an even older chip and 1 gb of RAM would simply suffocate it.
Oh well, it
>just werks
>>51528679
You have the internet, do some research
>>51528604
I know that fuckin feel, i have the same problem with my Verizon G2, and where i am is a pain in the ass to find the digitizer
>>51531647
>25/03/2014
Older...as is old...but moreso
Is 2GB of RAM on android enough for light multitasking like using firefox + shuttle?
>>51531689
My Xperia Mini Pro with 512mb ram and an SD S2 chugged along merrily with KK
>>51531768
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't kit Kat improve performance by a lot? You also have to remember that this is Sonys ROM, not stock (I don't like stock).
Of course, you had to root to get kk on there as well. How's the camera now?
>>51531663
So you don't look like a broke rapist when getting a grills number
>>51531762
Yes, I use Chrome (which uses more RAM than FF) while playing music all the time and I have no problems with 1GB of RAM. With 2 you'll be fine.
Still running a iPhone 4s on IOS 8. It works. I can't complain.
Is anyone still working on ROMs for the Galaxy S4? I've been on SlimKat for some time on mine, but it has a few issues, and I don't wanna go back to fucking TouchJizz.
Samsung Galaxy avant here, does everything I want it to do, last me all day, great phone for only about $100. Only thing I don't like is the cameras but their sufficient and I wouldn't expect much more from it at this price point.
htc one m8
2 bad battery is a pain 2 replace, will prob upgrade when it starts to go
idgaf bout no purple camera
>>51531927
From what I've seen, Hyperdrive seems like the best debloated touchwizz ROM out there, though I myself haven't installed a ROM before.
[spoiler]I have root but unlocked bootloader, am I safe installing?[/spoiler]
LG Optimus G here, battery is starting to shit itself, other than that being stuck on 4.1.2 of the first iteration of Optimus UI sucks dick unless you use another launcher, but my ZF2 is in the mail and can't wait to upgrade and get off Sprint
>>51531663
Drug dealers everyone. Know them, Spot them and Report them.
Samsung Galaxy S3
First smartphone, so i'm attached to it. Always interested in buying the latest model on the market but I don't see the point... Better battery life? Bought a 10$ oem battery and just switch IF I don't get through the day.
moto g checking in
>>51528470
Thinking of ditching my five month old Passport for a Priv, please talk me out of it.
>>51532940
You get native support for apps, so yeah, I'd do it.
>>51531687
I did also but that phone broke and the one I got as a replacement already had 4.4.2 and no matter where I looked nothing I found worked
I just bought a G4 because there's a girl that's a manager at a local Sprint shop that wants my dick so bad that she sold it to be off contract at $150 because I switched to Sprint on a Dumbphone since I don't want to fuck with subsidy costs.
Otherwise, I'd still be using my galaxy s3 on at&t, since it runs sexy smooth with 6.0/CM13. If my gsm s3 could work on Sprint I'd probably never have gone into the Sprint shop and asked about off contract phones.
>>51528470
Xperia J here
Running out of app memory and puts the lag in lagdroid, but until it's broken there are pretty much no reason to upgrade
When the inevitable happens, Z5 or Z3C?
>>51532929
fucking winnar
>>51531654
And rooted, with pure lollipop. It runs like a dream. I really love the edge features. Also
>S6 edge owner AMA
Another Note II master race here.
not changing it for a while, and will be for another Note
>>51531063
I bought my Note 2 used in November 2013. I used 280 DPI the entire time and I'm now seeing very minor burn-in on the status bar. The bar itself is lighter and there are darker dots where the notification and status icons were. You can only see it at minimum brightness with a grey screen, so I don't mind.
Have a Note 3. Went into Verizon store today to look at potential upgrade. Looked at Note 5, Droid Turbo 2, LG v10, Samsung Edge+ and Nexus. They all seemed really..... bland. None of them really stood out and each had some strengths in one area but strange drawbacks in others. Think I might hold out for next wave.
Nekasusu oune
>>51528888
>
I see by that chain you must work at staples, a gas station, or some bumfuck tech place.
Have you considered doing us some good and ditching the goth scene to look more professional and by doing so upgrading your paygrade?
I have a nexus 6.
is this old?
>>51533476
have iPhone 6.
Old as balls.
I don't even know how I manage
Moto x 2013 here and rocking it
Is the SH-06G an old phone?
Anyone /webos/ here?
>>51528541
>great screen
>>>great screen
Posting from an S5 as we speak, and this peice of shit has the worst fucking burn-in I've ever seen. Keyboard's started to burn in, status bar icons have burned in, line below non-fullscreen YT videos has burned in, fucking everything's burned in.
It's shit.
>>51528470
I'm still using a Note 2 but I'm starting to feel silly because it's a massive phone with a subpar screen and is generally underpowered compared to most flagships today. What I'm really missing is the ability to use a phone comfortably with one hand. The 3 years I had with this phone was pretty good though.
>>51534098
plus the fact it looks like a backlit drive thru menu
>>51531647
battery on mine was fine
shit camera was literally the only issue it had
>>51534135
Same but only 2 and a half years here
Power is debatable but since I never play video games or do things that require heavy GPU usage, I may be a little different from you.
I do wish the screen was 1080, though. 720 is okay, but you can see pixels easily.
I'm moving to the compact series from Sony after this phone breaks. Two and a half years of awkwardly taking out my phone out of my jeans or fumbling with it while jogging is not fun anymore.
>>51534152
wtf 4.99 bigmac meal holy shit thats cheap
We get jewed so hard here in ausfalia
Casio G'zOne Brigade
I work construction and need a rugged phone, I've dropped this one countless times and had it fall out of my pocket into mud and it still works. I can easily afford a smart phone but I'm fine as is.
GS3 here, don't remember which came out first.
Runs 5.1 better than what Samsung/Carrier put on it, and 6.0 is in development.
Galaxy S III here. Rooted and riced. The only reason I'd upgrade is because the guy I bought it off fucked up a root and fucked up the 4G, so mobile data only works at 2G. Apart from that, its perfect. Even has a 7200 mAh anker installed.
>>51532850
Lollipop kills the battery on mine, but I don't mind. I carry a spare everywhere I go.
S3 yurop version
1gb ram and no 4g is making me want to upgrade.
Mite get z3 or mi 4c
Best phone I've ever had, to be honest. Can be rooted and riced.
>>51534775
Ahh yes, that would make me want to upgrade too.
>>51534735
Is there no going back? Reflash the firmware or something?
>>51534778
DO those phones even have Snapdragon? Or are they using Mediatek or whatever that other ARM brand is.
>>51534821
Some have snapdragon like mi4c
Most have mediatek
Huawei phones have their own kirin soc
Meizu has some exynos phones
>>51532850
>>51534725
Hi S3bros, I've got an i9305 (S3LTE), will use it until it breaks. 3 years of service - glass already cracked, LCD has seen better days, on second battery. Original software was bloated & shitty, so I run CM11 nightlies. Can last a day on battery with frequent LTE usage.
Dunno what to buy for a next phone, but I know it has to be:
* more durable
* better or similar battery life
* specs no lower than S3 LTE
* there has to be Cyanogen for it (MIUI in worst case)
I think that you're seeking validation to keep your old phone.
My BlackBerry Q10's two years old. I'm going to upgrade to a Classic, but only for the trackpad
Sgs2 here. We even have android m and cm 12.1. But i went back to official jb because i need a better cam. It sometimes lags but other than that the phone is still ok
>>51534283
To be fair our dollar fucking sucks
>>51530959
Same here and reboots randomly once a week but i dont care too much
optimus l7 here it's fine
OnePlus X. No reason to upgrade. 6hrs of sot. great screen. great rom. great size. 128gb microsd card. Can't complain
Moto E 1st gen here. It's still perfectly capable for what I do, doesn't lag a bit.
>>51528470
S3 Here. I see no reason to change it.
Hat gs4 until week ago changed to lgg4, was great fone
>>51533118
do you use the edge enough to justify the cost?
Priv owner, happy guy.
>>51536489
Is it laggy? Heard it's laggy and build quality is poo poo, though I like the phone but a bit too expensive
>>51528470
if you haven't broken a phone after more than three years then good on you. some people spend thousands replacing theirs while you don't have to dish out cash
BlackBerry Q10. Old, by todays standards.
Nah, I don't wanna give it away. Ergonomically it isn't as perfect as the Bolds, but overall I'm still convinced that, if you don't game on your phone or watch a lot of videos, the Q10 is just about the best thing you can get right now.
Provided you use your phone for communications mostly.
Guys, I can't find a debloating list for my phone (Xperia L)
I removed some useless apps and the battery drained very quickly. It's not my first time, and I've had some experience before, so I generally know what to keep and what to remove, but damn, that was unexpected.
Anyone?
Also, which kernel should I install? Should I even install kernels?
>>51528563
Be thankful. Lollipop is crappy. Everything looks huge. The animations are not worth it.
I've tried it on my phone, and even with a reduced DPI everything is still fuckhueg compared to 4.2.
>>51528470
Still SGSII w/CM12.1. Laggy. Not sure about replacement, maybe I'll go for a Xiaomi.
>>51536687
>SGSII w/CM12.1
go back to Kitkat you faggot
it's so much better
All these faggots with iPhones 4 and S3s calling them old.
Writing from a fucking Galaxy S i9000
Does my nexus 4 reporting in
>>51536826
Fuck me how did that happen
>>51528484
>Hardly an old phone is it
>Old phone would be a Nokia 3310 or something
Everything older than 2 years is old on the mobile phoon market.
I'm waiting for prices to drop a bit further on ebay for LG G3 and Galaxy S5 to get one of those as my first phone as a poorfag; the note 4 would be ideal but is more expensive than those two.
s3 mini here, no reason but my next one's gonna have ubuntu touch on it.
Samsung Galaxy S3. Had CM11 on it, but 4G didn't work on it so switched to stock lollipop rom. Shit werks.
Sony z1, bought it a year ago cause it's cheap. Installed cm11 now 12. Good camera, no need for 3gb ram cause I don't gayme on phones
>>51536474
I got it for only 125$, thanks to loyalty discounts. I would say yes. But just barely. I love how immersive it is, and I also love the people edge. Lights up with who is calling and eliminates vibrations. Feelsgoodman.jpg. also you can pin your most used apps and open them from anywhere.
Not to mention it's loads of fun when people say it's just a gimmick, but you know they are butt blasted because they are poor and can't afford the newest chinkphone 6SP
>>51534087
GOAT OS
>>51532120
Me too. E970. The only flaw is a scrape on one edge of the screen when I dropped it down between the seat and the console in my Suburban in the parking lot of the AT&T store.
>>51528470
s3 mini with cm 11 here, 3 years and still werks just fine
Xperia MM on sony stock with the z3 theme cause JB one sucks.
It doesn't crash when I browse 4chins and listening to music( love walkman app ) so I'll keep it until it dies.
Pretty small too.
The screen could be better though
>>51528470
Got a Samsung Galaxy Ace 4, fairly new phone but low-mid tier. 1gb ram, Amoled screen, 4.3" perfect for one handed use, 4G/LTE, Kitkat. It's awesome. I tinker with my wife's IPhone 6 just to compare and the only use scenario where I would prefer the iPhone is taking pics, but the camera is still perfectly fine. Phones have matured to the point where there's no need to have flagships other than showing off.
The best feature is that it only cost me $99 unlocked, so when I dropped it on the pavement a month ago I just went and bought myself a new one, exact same model, no big deal.
galaxy core prime. first smartphone and just got it recently. it's perfectly fine as an entry level cell phone. naturally the camera is crappy and it's not very fast with a lot of intensive apps open, but a full charge lasts me a minimum of two days. i played some fallout shelter, checked my email and messages and it's still at 99%.
only complaint is i can't find a cheap case for it in stores. closest is an s5 or s6.
Atrix 2, best phone I've ever owned tbqh
Samsung Ativ S winphone
Because I can't afford shit, and I'm waiting for more M$ phone because fuck android and ios
>>51541626
Same here.
Flashed back to stock tho because camera quality was shit on CM
>>51544327
Dude I think that's cause you forgot to backup the drm keys
Xperia Neo V
It's always running out of memory and it feels way slower than when I got it, but it's still more than enough for what I do with it
One m8, just upgraded to a GPE 6.0 ROM. This phone is as smooth as the day I bought it. I know the battery is going to go sooner or later but I'm pretty confident I can replace it. (Hardware has never stopped me before.)
>>51536166
Mine doesn't do that. Have you flashed anything else to it? Rooted it?
>>51536748
A GOD
>>51528470
iPhone 5s, reporting in.
>>51528888
nice quads, and you are gleb, pot smoker.
>>51531595
have it too,
the battery life has halved down to almost one day standby with very light use, it lags more often and the camera isnt as snappy as it was, sometimes takes a few seconds to start. I could try reinstalling the OS again, but i dont give a fuck anymore. I wait until it degrades even further (1-2 years should be enough) and get something new
>>51528590
My anker battery lasted about one year, now it's garbage.
Also, I still use a galaxy s 4. The only missing feature I feel would be useful is water resistance and battery life advances. Otherwise, all I see are miniscule cpu upgrades and useless gimmicks.
>>51528470
I dropped my Galaxy S2 Skyrocket in toilet like a month or two ago. LG G3 now.
4th phone in 15 years or so
shitty Samsung Galaxy Ace II, but I'm running KK 4.4.4 Xposed on ParanoidAndroid.
This one came with GB 2.3.6.
Just snagged a Z5p. It's pretty goat desu
I "upgraded" to a nexus 6 from a note 2.
I think I might grab my note 2 again for studying with the stylus on Anki. That shit was amazing
>>51528470
Note 3 here probably wont upgrade till it breaks, have a glass screen protector with no scratches but no case so a few chips in the frame other than that it hasnt skipped a beat.
motox first. dev edition.
os is garbage stock. and not as open as I'd expect. but since i went thru the trouble, not changing.
wife would still have a note 2 but got stolen. bought a note 4 for cheap after they tanked the note 5 with the most garbage ideas ever.
... to everyone dumb enough to cry over lack of lollipop, news flash: it has nothing more than 4.4. it's just new color (more white) and more wasted screen space. get over it.
G2 here.
It just... does everything I need it do. I kinda want a new phone, but it's hard to justify when this one is completely fine.
I have an X1-00 but now my carrier is switching off their 2g network so I need to get a new one.
I've been looking at some older meme phones (pureness, crystal, etc) but I'm not feeling it.
Anyone know any long battery life 3g phones with life comparable to the X1-00? For reference, it lasts about 60-90 days.
Pic related is the sexiest phone, look at this color, Apple dun goofed with their "space gay" color.
Though I wish I'd waited 1 more year for the 5S, the 64-bit support and A7-chip is much more future proof and based.
My next phone will probably be the iPhone 7, the 5 did a good job surviving for 3 years, latest iOS and no lags..
I still use my LG Optimus One that I bought way back 2010.
>>51528470
Htc one m7 I broke by overwriting the bootloader with some HTML. Looked around, literally no phone in the last two years is a strict improvement, bought one off eBay for $190
Note 3. Hardly ever use it for anything other than an alarm clock, quick snapsnit camera and a hotspot.
I don't see what a new phone could possibly offer that my Note 3 can't do well enough.
>>51550050
As far as the note is concerned, they make major advances with the pen and camera every generation. I'd at least get a note 4, honestly.
There's too much that they fucked up with for the note 5, I'm waiting to see what the note 6 has to offer.
>>51550467
I don't use the pen much as it is and I have no use for a new phone. If my Note 3 stopped working I'd probably buy just buy another one.
I dont use my phone for much outside of music and looking shit up so I'm still using this shitty xperia L I got with a TV.
At one point I might get a phone with keys again, or maybe one with a stylus.
Touch screens suck.
>>51528470
My Droid Turbo will easily last longer than another year. It doesn't feel dated a single hour a year later
>>51528470
Get on my level
>>51534806
I don't know what's up with it. I've reflashed literally everything. Still only have 2G.
Have a friend who keeps buying phones all the time. Just bought a Nexus5 of him for less than half of the cost new.
iPhone 4
>>51551967
Samsung galaxy S Plus running CyanogenMod 4.4 KitKat.
It just werks.
4s
so much stutter in any current bloated app though
>>51534775
This is me
Ordered the z2, should be quite the step up in terms of speed and battery life. Got it for cheap so no regrets there.
Nexus 4 reporting in
i have never used a smartphone
Note 3.
Still the best phone at my place of employment, even 2 years on.
Nobody I know really gives a fuck about phones.
>>51528888
Please for the love of RMS remove that hideous chain
apart from it being round, heavy and therefore slippery, had the LG G2 not shat itself upon meeting concrete i would have been happy with it. except FUCK that lock being on the back.
Does Xperia Z2 count?
>>51528470
Original Note here. Unfortunately it's dying. Intergrated storage disappeared, only a factory reset fixed it. It did a factory reset by itself a few months back, which very annoying. And now when scrolling, doesn't matter what app, the top part of the screen fades to near black and the bottom part displays the content.
Note 4, still running great with 5.1, in fact I even got a note 4 for my father recently.
>>51528470
Had a note 2 but after one year it was a laggy piece of shit with no update coming other than 4.4.4, gave it to my dad but he manhandled it so badly that it broke down costantly, buttons got stuck, even more laggy, etc.
