Who here still uses "old" technology?
I'm still using a Galaxy S3 running CM12 Nightly, and my desktop and laptop are still on Sandy Bridge i7's. The only things worth upgrading in the past 5 years have been graphics cards and SSDs,
Most of my tech is 4-5 years old and still faster than most new electronics in the median price range. Why do people bother upgrading all the time?
Galaxy SIII will never die.
I've just bought a nexus 5x because my s3 isn't recognised by my computer anymore. When I try to Odin things it won't get detected and I need to flash stock ROM to network unlock the phone. It's a great phone though
I'm gonna keep my i7 2600k and Note 4 for a long time.
>>52223006
I suspect that's why Samsung got rid of changeable batteries. When the battery turns to shit in 2 years (or less), the user has to buy a new phone.
>>52223006
I'm running the same phone on the same OS and it is not fast. Faster than the factory OS, for sure, and the battery life is much improved, but I'm very ready to switch to a Moto G.
>>52223006
Same phone with Resurrection Remix. If only it had more RAM, it'll be a perfect phone.
>>52223006
>Galaxy S3 running CM12 Nightly
My nigga
"old"
That's not fucking old, that's just not brand new.
Goddamnit, /g/.
>>52223606
2GB is quite enough. Ofc you need to have the lte version
>>52223006
Galaxy SIII on CM13
Still runs like a champ
>>52225223
Yup, not lte version. 830mb of RAM. It hurts senpai.
>>52223419
I have an S5 and it has a removable battery, when did Samsung start doing that?
>>52223006
Just out of curiosity (I have never tried this yet) but if you have Android 4.4.x and do a Factory Reset, will it automatically update the OS to 5.x ? Or will it stay to its original installed version?
>>52223995
It is fairly old in the context of smart phones.
>>52225487
Original installed version.
>>52223419
You were literally memeing
The change was because the customer base was demanding muh premium materials, and since the UFS storage meant SD slots are also unfeasible, they probably went ahead without those two gimmicks
iPhone 4s. Had it 3 years, no problems
PC- q6600, 320g hd , gtx 650, 4g RAM
>>52223006
iPhone 4S and Samsung N150 netbook my mother gave me 4 years ago.
I'm saving up so I can get a secondhand T61 and use the netbook to fuck around with Arch without seriously jeopardizing my files.
>>52225852
Same. 4s with jailbreak. It actually fits in my front pocket and does all I need. New phones are ridiculously huge.
SIII will never die!
>>52223006
>there will never be another phone as good as the s III
fuck i want an s III with a snapdragon to install more roms
still using an iPhone 4, don't need to upgrade since all iPhones are pretty much the same shit
Too bad OP, s3 does die.
The soc and other main components are located near the usb port at the bottom. It is the hottest area and will put the usb port to rust in no time.
>>52225915
get a bigger screen, anon
squinting at a 3.5" phone is bad for your vision
>>52226358
parts to fix it should be dirt cheap
any man worth his salt should have no problems opening that baby up and keeping it going for at least a decade
>>52223006
Gave my S3 to my mom. But since CM and other CM based custom roms where all having random reboots during phone calls back then I decided to install something else (Blekota Note 4). Dunno if CM is fixed now but it seems that due to Exynos custom roms not based on stock will never be stable. At least not stable enough for a daily driver (mom approved).
>>52223006
>sandy bridge
>old
c2q-based xeon + sgs2, fite me
>>52223419
the battery of my sammy is over 4 years old and still has the same DOT as before.
luck, I guess.
>>52226376
>and keeping it going for at least a decade
Fuck. S3 was released in 2012. Not sure smartphones will still be relevant in 2020.
>>52226370
I'd need a handbag to carry it around in. Or walk around with a phone in my hand all day like a 14 year old girl...
I dunno how you guys cope with massive phones.
>>52226395
What will replace them?
>>52223006
My S3 is on CM13
My Laptop is Sandy bridge I believe. i5 460M
>>52223006
I got a S3 mini as well but the screen's cracked since I accidentally dropped it on the floor.
Anyways,go have a laugh at the fact that I run Windows 98,through modified Bochs on my S5 Mini. What I modified on Bochs is the BIOS - I replaced it with an PC Award BIOS from a Socket 8 machine - A-Trend ATC-6100. I actually got GPU drivers as well on it - shows up as Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI. And quite frankly,it runs at a decent speed as well.
>>52226537
Speaking of that,if I can trim it down using 98 lite,I might actually make it useable 100%.
>>52226480
a mix of Google Glass and Apple Watch and maybe something else, like an ear implant
wearables are going to kill the smartphone, it's only a matter of time
Using a first gen Nexus 7 for my Mongolian cartoons.
Old neutered Quickpic, Perfect Viewer, Lightning Browser. Disabled most apps.
Bearable performance as long as I don't try to multitask... for the most part.
I would be very interested in a 7inch tablet with up to date hardware. Maybe this year Google will announce Nexus 7 III.
>>52226476
My Nexus 5 fits snugly in my front pocket, but that is as big as I can go without switching to cargo pants.
LGG2 still kickin' after almost 3 years, no reason to upgrade.
>>52226604
tablets are crap, anon, my Nexus 7 is a glorified alarm clock now
Chromebooks are a much better investment
>>52226480
>>52226602
>>52223006
You're calling that old? I'm still using Phenom II with DDR2 RAM.
OP posted a picture of a phone, so I assume he is an autist. Does /g/ have any real developers, or is it all just a bunch of android ricers? Seriously, kill yourself you fanboy faggot OP. Phones are for phone calls you dumb cunt
>>52226822
they make good portable hotspots
I'm still on my old xperia s but it's showing it's age and my t420 is rocking a new 9 cell slice for years to come.
PC: asus p5b lga 775 modded with a lga 771 e5450 xeon
Server: x3550 m2
I used S3 for 2 years and could have still been using it now if the screen hadnt broken a few months back.
>>52223270
Yep there is no reason to ever "upgrade" your phone having a s3.
I don't understand why normies switch to a new phone every year.
>>52226899
because marketing works
phones are just a small piece of the puzzle
almost everything being made today has a set life expectancy, from cars being made to crap out in about 100,000 miles, to shoes that last about a year before they turn to shit, everything we make today is of low quality and is not meant to last.
>>52226863
Same here
2 years and then suddenly the screen died.
>>52226304
What theme?
Also still rocking the SIII. I've got the i9305 (4G) so I'm still waiting for someone to get the damn radio interface layer thingy working in Marshmallow.
Although, the CM team created a CM13 branch for it today, so I have high hopes that it will be supported soon.
https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_samsung_i9305/tree/cm-13.0
I'm sick of Samsung dropping phones like a fucking hot potato once the next one comes out. If I ever change phone, it'll be a nexus.
>>52226845
No wifi? Get a cellular internet card. No reason to bottleneck the connection through USB
>>52225237
how is it running? any random restarts? wifi working? camera?
>>52226973
A what?
What's the point of carrying extra crap and paying for two SIMs when I already have a phone that can provide me with internet?
Galaxy S2 + CM12.1, planning to upgrade in 2017. Most of hw is from 2011 (WNDR3800 + openwrt, Thinkpad X220)
What should I do if I want to do what you guys are doing on my SIII but it's CDMA?
I had an S3 but I fucked the charging port up somehow, it would only charge when I'd bend the USB cable against the sides of the port and the charging was stupidly slow (40% in 8 hours while completely shut down). Nevertheless, I used it like that for a year before getting a Z3 Compact in September.
If I hadn't broken the fucking charging port I'd still be using it. It was so comfortable to hold compared to the blocky edges of the Z3.
>>52227261
I'm replacing the charging port on mine today for the same reason. It probably wasn't anything you did, they just don't live forever.
I'll either get a phone that I can charge out of it or I'll fuck up up but I can't double break it anyway.
>>52227165
pull Verizon's cock from your ass
I've got a Q6600 - Asus P5N-D - 8GB DDR2-800 combination that's starting to show its age quite badly. Lately I've been trying to overclock the piss out of it, but it hasn't gotten me much in the way of speed...
>>52226358
>It is the hottest area and will put the usb port to rust in no time.
Heat does not cause rust you fucking retard, If anything physically plugging and unplugging is way more damaging.
>>52227317
I'm on a shit network known as Cspire (formerly Cellular South) though.
S4 on CM12.
Laptop on a Sandy Bridge i5.
My wife's son's PC on an Athlon II X2.
>>52226899
Because most s3 are not lte, have close to 1gb ram and most users don't root nor install other "versions" or whatever and stay with samsung and touchwizz
>>52223006
>ask salesman what people use phone for
>9 out of 10 use it for whatsapp, checking facebook
>"a 100 dollar phone could do that"
>"well um, gee, dit obscure feature important"
That phone will most likely last you 10 years. The expensive phones are a bubble.
>>52228099
Why the fuck would you want LTE right now in the present? It's like wanting a Titan X to play Minecraft.
You think your pc and laptop are old? I'm using a Gateway Solo 2500 laptop with a p2 and 288 mb of ram. And my pc is a compaq presario from 2008 with a Sempron LE-1250 processor and 1gb of ram. You're trash.
>>52223006
>ITT: Poorfags who can't afford the latest and greatest
how does it feel to still be living in mommy's basement faggots?
>>52228147
>watch youtube
>shitpost and shitbrowse lightning fast
LTE is a must now, unless your country is so shitty that it doesn't support it
Also
>minecraft has shit grafix, it can be run by a toaster lelelele :-DDDD
You underestimate shitty optimisation of 2016
My main machine is a 2011 Asus laptop, and until very recently I used a Galaxy S3 Mini as a phone.
>>52223006
"old"?
An S3 is "old"?
I only upgraded my Note 2 to a Xperia Z2 because it was doable for like 100$ for me. I usually treat my tech really well and sell it when it's still at a good price point, which allows me to always have a pretty recent device for little money.
>>52228259
>watch youtube
>stream twitch
>stream spotify
>shitpost on /g/
I can do all this with my 3G just fine.
>>52223006
This is my cell
>>52228319
But you can do it finer with LTE
Don't even think 1080@60 is good on 3G unless you have very strong connection
>waiting for the 4mb pictures to load when fags on 4chan don't optimise their shit
>>52225879
oh boy, poorfag neet
>>52226517
That's Nehalem
As for general tech shit: It always depends on what you want to do.
I'm using a x230 Tablet, because I like to gayme a few gaymes sometimes and I can easily afford the 400 bucks it cost. And it's the only way to get an IPS thinkpad in my market.
If I didn't gayme on the go at all, I'd have gotten an x61 or x200.
>>52228319
>I can do all this with my 3G just fine.
LTE is more than just raw speed-increase compared to 3G/umts, deshuan.
>tfw galaxy s3 neo is not supported by CM
I was about to post a picture illustrating that I've been unable to update my S3's firmware since I flashed CM11 onto it, but when I just when into recovery, this came up.
What's it doing? I've never seen this before.
>Only good camera is on my phone
Running an fx6300 and HD 6870. My only upgrade is an ssd
>>52223318
>>52226358
>>52226376
s3 should be easily serviceable like s4
My port on s4 started to disconnect randomly, and wasn't charging properly, so i just swapped port and everything works OK.
Recently, my lock button stayed pressed, but that is known issue, so i ordered new switches, so I'm going to just solder new one instead old one and that should be good as new.
Only problem is the battery, but I don't need that, because I'm using s4 mostly for debugging apps.
But on the topic.
Recently I bought Nexus 6, and I think it will last for 2-3 years before battery dies. And after that, it will be used as debugging device also.
>>52226899
because they are retards and a lot of them buy phones from their operator
>>52228496
>Only good cameras are in my camera and nexus 6
>>52223006
autism.
>>52226963
"Dark material" by "chummy development team"
>>52223006
still using my galaxy s3, got a 3900mah battery today. I'm still on cm11, waiting for a cm13 snapshot
>>52228236
please tell me what you use your week old phone for that i can't do on my 3 year old one
My 2.5 yo xperia starts shitting itself. I suspect the battery tho. Gonna buy a new one before considering a smartphone.
>>52229326
fuck the camera, that's a Roland MT-32
I still use a haswell-based laptop (i7 thank god) and a Nexus 6 (not a 6p). My parents computer is IVY-Bridge based, i keep telling them they need to buy a new one but they won't listen to me lel. Also my GPU is a 680ti, so pretty old too although it seems to work ok still.
>>52231290
not sure if bait
>>52226822
You sound like a sad person.
>>52223270
Goddamn mine died three weeks ago
eMMc bug
>>52226614
Cargo pants master race.
Z1 user here. Considering that the most intensive thing that I do with it is reading light novels and listen to music, it's a pretty decent phone. Stamina mode does wonders to the battery life as well.
HTC One M7 with custom firmware here. I can't see any reason to upgrade yet.
>>52226822
>he doesn't use his proprty that i have 0 control over like I do and thus is a faggot.
>>52231045
Yup. Two xmas gifts.
Taken with the new/old (new for me) camera, Nikon D40.
>>52233051
And because my battlestation is currently basically taken apart pending some rearranging, here's my current distraction since I don't have a battlestation.
>good feel note 2 on CM 11 here refuse to upgrade thee hardware or software
>>52226822
>real developers?
kinda. I wrote C programs to hide and unhide windows on an X server. They're based on bash scripts (which may be a bit more stable) that I did a long while ago but required xdotool being installed.
C:
http://pastebin.com/RKMq6KbJ
Original Bash:
http://pastebin.com/eHTBmHGw
Also, I've ported a bunch of command-line linux programs to ARM-based android 4.1 and up, If anyone wants copies, here's what I've got:
* My own build of busybox
* GNU wget (libgnutls, libnettle, libtasn, libhogweed, libgmp included for SSL)
* git, not the version management system, but the glulx interactive fiction JIT interpreter, with ncurses interface. NCurses library included.
* xz-utils android build (contains xz, lzma, etc)
>>52233207
Forgot, I also ported the Nano text editor. Don't remember if I included the ncurses library it needs or not, but it is definitely in the git tarball I made.
>>52226940
A year is fucking alot for a shoe nigga.
>>52226940
The answer is simple, just evolve wings so we don't need to wear shoes anymore.
-Galaxy S2, no 4G LTE, but I hardly use it since free wifi is everywhere.
-A motorola Razr flip phone which is prepaid, haven't used it in years but it still works
-Thinkpad T410. I upgraded the RAM and added an SSD. Should remain good for a very long time since all I do is office work and web browsing.
-Desktop with a I5 2500k and a Radeon 7850. I don't game much anymore so no reason to upgrade.
>>52223373
Note 4 is only a year old.....
>>52231368
How is that b8?
>>52234074
c'mon are you poor goy
>>52233241
shoes should last you a very long time depending on what youre using them for.
provided theyre high quality shoes
>>52233241
My shoes are already 3 years old. What kind of shit shoes are you buying mate?
Sent from my galaxy sII
>>52228297
my nigga. ive got an asus k50i i bought for $60. been using it for the past year at work. hinge broke the other day tho. gettin a thinkpad t420 for $140 tomorrow to replace my asus.
>>52231864
eMMC bug was fixed years ago, maybe is the power button?
Mine was on boot loop because the power button broke and remained active, I order some from aliexpress and replaced it myself, still working to this day.
>>52228259
>>52228350
My university has wifi across campus, and I'm not constantly using my phone when I'm outside of campus. Why do I need LTE to load snapchat/IG/FB?
My Galaxy s2 motherboard broke, now I am back on Galaxy ace. Too bad it doesnt have any decent roms, debloated stock is the only option for me.
>>52223006
How'd you root your S3? Using an American AT&T S3 and I can't seem to root it.
I just traded and sdcard and some cash for an SIII, stock android with samsung, and boost mobile bloatware,i installed CM12, and the phone is perfect now
>>52223006
I inherited a s3 that has a broken usb port. Can I still install custom roms on it?
>>52223006
i5 2400 in my older PC - still runs just fine and i cbf upgrading my CPU till it burns out.
I've just upgraded to a droid turbo phone but desu i'll probably break it because i'm used to older phones which don't break when you sit on them
>>52233207
cm has this by default :^)
>>52234074
I kind of see the guy's point because the Note 4 has a 1440p screen, 4k camera and 3GB RAM but it also has a replaceable battery and SD card slot, which means it's just about the most powerful phone that will ever exist with those two features that we aren't allowed to have anymore because a phone must be a sealed disposable glass slab.
I'm an S3 user right now but I could picture myself getting a Note 4 in two years or so and then literally never buying another smartphone again.
>>52223006
S3 with a broken port, broken volume down and cracked screen. Still going strong
>>52228236
sorry if i value a phone that doesn't break in a drop bigger than a meter, over a shitty af $1200 phone that breaks from the stupidest shit
Galaxy S2 reporting in.
>>52236075
Fix your fucking screen nigga.
Also the USB port on the S3 must be the shittiest thing because everyone ITT seems to have a broken one.
Mine is broken too, and I don't care at all because I always keep a battery in a charger cradle like this to hotswap
>>52236161
>a charger cradle like this
>>52226604
nexus 7 2012 is great, too bad about the nand going to shit after 2 years of light-moderate use. not even custom roms with that f2fs or whatever its called file system format doesn't save it.
running stock cm12, not that good.
swear to god it was really good back when i got it first, running like 4.2 or something
I'm still using the last unboidy plastic macook for shit posting and basic shit
Still use my 120gb classic iPod.
Only used 64gb of it with nothing but music. I think I will actually cry if it dies on me. I think I got it in 2008
>>52236074
Umm lg v10
Still using my HTC desire S from march 2011 with CM12.1, can't even imagine the day it dies.
>>52227014
Only issue is battery life doesn't really seem all that improved with dose. I haven't had any restarts and camera, wifi, network, gps, etc all works
