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I can't live with this thing anymore

The S2 was a good phone for it's time and the display is still pretty nice compared to many phones available now. But the battery life is really atrocious compared to the newer devices. I was using an Alcatel OneTouch Fierce before but I put it in my pocket with my keys and shattered the screen so I pulled the S2 out of a drawer and starting using it again. I loaded a couple of custom ROMs and currently have ParanoidAndroid 4.4 RC1.
What I have noticed is that both the screen and the GPS both take a ton of battery on the S2. On the Alcatel, the screen was down usually at the bottom of the list of things using battery. On the S2 it is always at the top of the list. I have the S2 screen turned down to minimum brightness, which is fine for indoor usage, and also set the screen timeout to 15 seconds, but still the consumption issues persist.
I do a lot of fitness logging and the most I have been able to log on the S2 is around 40 miles of bike riding until the battery runs out. This is from starting with the battery in the mid 90s percentage. With the Alcatel phone I had been able to data log over 200K/125miles before running out of battery.
Saturday I was out in the sticks riding my bike. I put it in airplane mode to save battery in case I needed to call home. After the 44 mile stop at a country store, I forgot to put it back in airplane mode and by the time we went another 30 miles to the next food stop (about 2 hours) the phone had drained from 70% to 14% percent. And I wasn't even using it, it was just riding along in my pocket as I pedaled.
Even with just web surfing on 4G data or WiFi takes a lot of battery. Seems like I can play with the phone for 30 minutes and the battery goes down at least 20%.
On top of this I've also been having problems with lockups. On the first ROM I tried, Liquid Smooth, it was getting android.systemui crashes pretty often. But if I waited a while, the system would right itself and I would be able to keep on going. When I first installed PA it was doing great but now I'm getting random lockups as well. On PA the lockups require a hard boot to fix. Perhaps a hardware issue, who knows. The S2 has not been dropped and is in excellent condition, but I suppose that's neither here nor there.
If it was just the battery consumption issues, I could try an extended battery and see how that went. But in the end I decided that I was going to bite the bullet and get a new phone. I thought about a refurb S4, or Nexus 4 which were both under $300, but in the end I went with the LG G2 as it was less than $400 new from T-Mobile direct.
Farewell Galaxy S2, your days are numbered.

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My wife has a s2 t989 running cm 10.1.3 with a new anker 2200 battery. Her phone flies, zero lag. And Her battery gets her through the day. This phone is a old little beast.

Lokke9191 said:
My wife has a s2 t989 running cm 10.1.3 with a new anker 2200 battery. Her phone flies, zero lag. And Her battery gets her through the day. This phone is a old little beast.
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If it wasn't for the lockups, I might have tried a new or larger battery. The battery will last all day as is if you don't ask the phone to do anything and you have good signal. The screen and the GPS use so much power on this phone though. It's just older silicon.
I agree it's still a fast phone when you use a cm10 or cm11 ROM. It's just not meeting my needs.
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brons2 said:
If it wasn't for the lockups, I might have tried a new or larger battery. The battery will last all day as is if you don't ask the phone to do anything and you have good signal. The screen and the GPS use so much power on this phone though. It's just older silicon.
I agree it's still a fast phone when you use a cm10 or cm11 ROM. It's just not meeting my needs.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA Free mobile app
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Get the M8

Rushing said:
Get the M8
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too expensive!
I ordered an LG G2 for less than $400, and signed up for the payments divided over 2 years. So I'm trading a really old phone for a 1 year old phone
Funny thing is, the S2 has not locked up once since I ordered the new phone. Haha.

I can really relate to your frustration as I have had quite a bit trouble getting great performance out of this device in the 7 months I've had it. I've went through what seems a million ROMs and have had problems with every single one. To the point I believe it was just the phone and not the ROMs. The last month was really bad when CM made a lot of changes that seemed to adversely affect this device. Then I started trying JB ROMs that were even worse than KK ever was. I've had way over 2 years experience flashing ROMs and kernels so in nearly every case I wouldn't say user error was to blame either. That said, after nearly making a coaster out of this thing, PA RC1 really has come to the rescue along with the Wild kernel. Which is why I'm a bit surprised you are not even having good luck with that. The battery drain you describe is very extreme. At the worst my battery drains 3% an hour on standby. I always have everything on, such as Wifi, GPS and high accuracy location reporting too. Not to mention Viper audio mod with super quality driver which uses a chunk of battery as well.
Overall I can typically get 20 to 24 hours on an average weekday. If I use the screen for a couple hours, listen to music, browse the web and make a call or two, more like 10 to 16 hours. At any rate things are good enough I can live with this phone for while now, provided I do myself a favor and leave well enough alone.

i've had my s2 for almost 3 year, i believe, and i know the pain in the ass it can be. the screen issue happens to me, too, and there isn't a solution, so you learn to deal with it. seems like you may have a faulty battery? i still have the stock battery and it doesn't hold up well as it used to. i run carbonrom with wildkernel (testing) and it's not too bad. but it's a dated phone in techie age.

Yea PA RC1 was the best of the ROMs that I tried on the S2. But I've moved on and am super happy with my new phone. The LG G2 is the best phone I've ever had. 3000mAh stock battery, huge screen, blazing fast LTE and I love the volume buttons on the back!
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The T989 may be difficult to deal with but with a few customizations (new battery and rom), it'll be faster.

HeadachePuppies said:
The T989 may be difficult to deal with but with a few customizations (new battery and rom), it'll be faster.
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Too late, I already have the new phone and it is way better even with the stock rom. I might update the S2 again though just for kicks when PA goes stable. It probably does need a new battery also but there's no reason to go that route when I have another phone already.

Glad to see I'm not the only one that's having battery problems. It seems as if using Apollo for music and using Messenger to talk to a friend, the battery drains really quickly. Can't wait to upgrade in the near future.

Any custom ROM that i have tried are not to good for the battery life. I think the best ROM so far for battery life is SHADOW 1.5 ROM because it is based on Stock ROM and has the Power Saver feature.
Now i am using CM 11 and loving it, the features and speed are incredible. Thanks CM Team for your great work.:good:

The T989 is one of the best phones in his time. Now is almost obsolete, we grow ups, every months there are lots of new devices, sooner or late the time will come when we will let go the T989 and have a newer one. It's like a childhood girlfriend experience. I now have the Moto G LTE version, I keep my T989 in my archived electronic things, he is simple something not to forget.

I gave my old S2 to my wife after I got my Note 3. At the time all the Jellybean ROM's for it were unstable, so I put the Jedi ROM on it. For some reason it was ridiculously slow, despite being based on the stock ICS ROM. I had figured the phone's age was just showing and didn't think much about it.
Recently my wife asked me to upgrade the ROM on her tablet to KitKat, so I figured I would do her phone as well. To my surprise, KiKat runs amazingly smooth on the S2 - especially with Wild kernel (1.89GHz overclock + sio governor). Tried both SlimKat and Carbon. It's just liquid smooth and feels totally like a new phone.

Lorien_Silmaril said:
I gave my old S2 to my wife after I got my Note 3. At the time all the Jellybean ROM's for it were unstable, so I put the Jedi ROM on it. For some reason it was ridiculously slow, despite being based on the stock ICS ROM. I had figured the phone's age was just showing and didn't think much about it.
Recently my wife asked me to upgrade the ROM on her tablet to KitKat, so I figured I would do her phone as well. To my surprise, KiKat runs amazingly smooth on the S2 - especially with Wild kernel (1.89GHz overclock + sio governor). Tried both SlimKat and Carbon. It's just liquid smooth and feels totally like a new phone.
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is really surprising how kitkat can give new life to this old phones.. I've changed my T989 for a nexus 4 as a daily driver but still keep the S2 as a work phone, after using the AOSP of the nexus4 I tryied evervolv in a MyTouch 4G and really liked it then though of trying that on the S2 and wow that was an improvement. right know Im currently using Evervolv kitkat 4.4.4 with Cl3kerner on the T989 and I tell you is a really good combination if not perfect.
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I love this phone much like you guys but it's time for the sweet prince to nap!
One of the issues I had a few months ago is that my power button got stuck. My device kept rebooting every few minutes to the only option was to open up the phone and remove the power button entirely. This fixed my issue but now the only way to turn the phone on when it dies (or turns off due to crashes!!) is by plugging it via USB and going into download mode then cancelling. Talk about a hassle!
I also got some dust particles (I think?) on my camera lens so I have several black dots whenever I take a picture.
My battery life is also HORRIBLE. I can relate to OP. My phone can barely make it to lunch let alone get through a full day. If I want to get through a full day, brightness needs to be low, bluetooth/wifi/data/gps/screen rotate all need to be off and I can't expect much screen on time. Basically, I use my phone for communication (texting, calling, etc) and for listening to music. Nothing else really. I might also try flashing another CM rom. I've tried KitKat CM roms but they are all incredibly laggy, so I don't know. Perhaps a new battery could fix this but it's too late.
(By the way, if anyone can recommend a good KitKat rom [preferably CM based], I'd appreciate it. I plan on giving this away to someone who will mainly use it to listen to music, web browse, read. Nothing too major but I'd like to update it as much as possible before giving it away.)
Although there a number of problems, this phone has lasted me 2.5 years. I got it in May of 2012, about 6 months or so after launch. That couples with Cyanogenmod has given me one hell of an experience. This phone, without a doubt, has been one of the best phones I've owned. It just works, in spite of all odds. Heck, I've had it for several months with all of these issues and it can still go until the end of the year (or longer, who knows). But all good things must come to an end.
So good night sweet prince. You were amazing, will never forget! Also, thanks Cyanogenmod for supporting this device! Thank you devs and fellow T989 users for all the support!
As far as the future goes, I am putting all my eggs in one basket and hoping that the Nexus 6/X is solid. There are rumours that it is going to be nearly 6" which is just too big for me to use reasonably. I also considered the Note 4, but honestly, after almost 2 years of using Cyanogenmod, it's very difficult to go back to TouchWiz. The other phone I have considered is the Moto X (2014). If none of these work, I might settle for last year's Nexus 5. Who knows! All I know is that I'm getting a new phone soon!

Try also the new CM11 by Sultanxda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rom-kernel-unofficial-cyanogenmod-11-t2885259
Seems to give best battery life for this device.

tuxx1337 said:
Try also the new CM11 by Sultanxda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rom-kernel-unofficial-cyanogenmod-11-t2885259
Seems to give best battery life for this device.
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Absolutely, I no longer feel anything like I did when I posted the previous comment in this thread. I'm not ashamed to own this device anymore, LOL. Sultan did things with his kernel that made CM11 stable & fully optimized for the Hercules.

tuxx1337 said:
Try also the new CM11 by Sultanxda:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...rom-kernel-unofficial-cyanogenmod-11-t2885259
Seems to give best battery life for this device.
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thanks for the suggestion! i was thinking about changing the ROM for my Hercules and this seems like a really good choice..

How many XDAers still using find7?

I use this phone for two years and a half , the battery can't work well and RAM is not enough for me. So,find7 is a backup phone now.

Mine is my daily driver. Battery is really only just enough for it.
A 3500MAh battery would suit it better, but other than that, still a good phone with mods to keep it running well when on OmniROM 6 Marshmallow.
If it still ran ColorOS I do think I'd retire it from daily.

Mine is my daily driver too.
AND I am still using ColorOS^^
Don't have the time to flash and toy around with my phones anymore :/
With root ColorOS is really okay. Battery life could be better but gets me through a day. Everything else works like a charm.

daily driver too
and flash omni 6.0
can change battery is A GOOD POINT

Daily driver here.
Just flashed in Lineageos 7.1.1 nightly 24Jan17
Looks good except for the battery life which seems to be draining faster.

RobboW said:
Mine is my daily driver. Battery is really only just enough for it.
A 3500MAh battery would suit it better, but other than that, still a good phone with mods to keep it running well when on OmniROM 6 Marshmallow.
If it still ran ColorOS I do think I'd retire it from daily.
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Yes,everyone likes high-capacity battery and I also replaced ColorOS. My find7 runs LineageOS right now and my daily driver runs Resurrection Remix.
Rodelkoenig said:
Mine is my daily driver too.
And I am still using ColorOS^^
Don't have the time to flash and toy around with my phones anymore :/
With root ColorOS is really okay. Battery life could be better but gets me through a day. Everything else works like a charm.
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If I want to use an official oppo rom ,I'll choose Project Spectrum:good:.I think ColorOS looks more and more like ios and I dislike ios style.
before_c said:
daily driver too
and flash omni 6.0
can change battery is A GOOD POINT
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Changing battery is unnecessary for me:laugh:. People like me replace phones every year or every two years.
But still find9 did not appear.
ernestelf said:
Daily driver here.
Just flashed in Lineageos 7.1.1 nightly 24Jan17
Looks good except for the battery life which seems to be draining faster.
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LineageOS 7.1.1 for find7 too. I wanted to use Resurrection Remix for find7 at that time, but there was not a RR-N for find7 until now.

i am still using my find 7 currently on crdroid v2.1 android 7.1.1 no complaints about the rom. the only thing i have an issue with while using this phone. is that developers seem to fall off quickly. and thats not that many people to port over roms. ive tried myself but i am unable to as i dont have a full understanding of what to do. ive followed instructions and asked for help before nothing seems to work for me that is. but outside of this phone is remarkably great in my opinion. its been 3 years since ive had this phone and havent wanted to buy a new phone since.......unless the find 9 actually drops

jaer418 said:
i am still using my find 7 currently on crdroid v2.1 android 7.1.1 no complaints about the rom. the only thing i have an issue with while using this phone. is that developers seem to fall off quickly. and thats not that many people to port over roms. ive tried myself but i am unable to as i dont have a full understanding of what to do. ive followed instructions and asked for help before nothing seems to work for me that is. but outside of this phone is remarkably great in my opinion. its been 3 years since ive had this phone and havent wanted to buy a new phone since.......unless the find 9 actually drops
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OPPO always abandon new devices, so "developers fall off quickly" is normal.
Because of oneplus Liu Zuohu, find9 becomes an uncertain factor.

Still using Find7a with OmniROM 7.1.1. But I had to buy a new battery a few months ago.

Still using as my daily phone....with Omni 6.0
As batteries, no luck on find original ones....should had buy more 2 at the time

I recently posted about my needs for a new phone, would the oneplus 5t be a good fit?

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75319989&postcount=10806
That's where I put my list of needs/wants.
Is there anything you don't like about owning this phone? How is the camera, especially on rooted/custom roms?
Any help appreciated.

Side question - is this phone available for a discount anywhere? Why are so many being sold on ebay for the same price as brand new from the oneplus site?

NexusLush said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75319989&postcount=10806
That's where I put my list of needs/wants.
Is there anything you don't like about owning this phone? How is the camera, especially on rooted/custom roms?
Any help appreciated.
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Everything you have listed is covered by the 5T except wireless charging and waterproof. Without wireless charging I don't see the negative as the phone hash Dash charge which gets you from 0% to 60% in 30 minutes and to full battery in under an hour. The battery life on stock or beta is impressive. I am a heavy user and I get an average of 7hrs daily.
The custom ROM development for the 5T is great. At the moment I am on open beta 2 but I have rooted and tried several different ROMS with LiquidRemix being the best for me. The camera on ROMS is not exceptional because the drivers are proprietary which makes it difficult to get the camera as good as stock or a with all stock camera features. Having said that the camera on stock has it's downfalls anyway.
I am delighted after the first two months of owning my 128GB/8GB OP5T. I just love it and it is excellent value for money. I hope that helps you decide :good:

jd1001 said:
Everything you have listed is covered by the 5T except wireless charging and waterproof. Without wireless charging I don't see the negative as the phone hash Dash charge which gets you from 0% to 60% in 30 minutes and to full battery in under an hour. The battery life on stock or beta is impressive. I am a heavy user and I get an average of 7hrs daily.
The custom ROM development for the 5T is great. At the moment I am on open beta 2 but I have rooted and tried several different ROMS with LiquidRemix being the best for me. The camera on ROMS is not exceptional because the drivers are proprietary which makes it difficult to get the camera as good as stock or a with all stock camera features. Having said that the camera on stock has it's downfalls anyway.
I am delighted after the first two months of owning my 128GB/8GB OP5T. I just love it and it is excellent value for money. I hope that helps you decide :good:
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I actually ended up ordering it a few hours after posting this. For 559 USD delivered I really can't find a better value out there. I'd rather have a Pixel 2 XL for the same price, but unfortunately, it costs almost double.
It sounds like this will be a great phone, as the more I read about it the more people seem to rave about it. In terms of camera speed and photo/video quality, do you recommend a custom rom or going stock/beta and simply rooting?

NexusLush said:
I actually ended up ordering it a few hours after posting this. For 559 USD delivered I really can't find a better value out there. I'd rather have a Pixel 2 XL for the same price, but unfortunately, it costs almost double.
It sounds like this will be a great phone, as the more I read about it the more people seem to rave about it. In terms of camera speed and photo/video quality, do you recommend a custom rom or going stock/beta and simply rooting?
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Cool, enjoy the phone!
I would stay stock and root. That is what I find myself doing for the camera. Then from time to time I flash ROMS to see how everything is but so far I have no come across a custom ROM with a camera as good as stock. OnePlus Beta 2 is pretty rock solid as well with great battery life. In terms of the best custom ROM imo it is LiquidRemix.

jd1001 said:
Everything you have listed is covered by the 5T except wireless charging and waterproof. Without wireless charging I don't see the negative as the phone hash Dash charge which gets you from 0% to 60% in 30 minutes and to full battery in under an hour. The battery life on stock or beta is impressive. I am a heavy user and I get an average of 7hrs daily.
The custom ROM development for the 5T is great. At the moment I am on open beta 2 but I have rooted and tried several different ROMS with LiquidRemix being the best for me. The camera on ROMS is not exceptional because the drivers are proprietary which makes it difficult to get the camera as good as stock or a with all stock camera features. Having said that the camera on stock has it's downfalls anyway.
I am delighted after the first two months of owning my 128GB/8GB OP5T. I just love it and it is excellent value for money. I hope that helps you decide :good:
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jd1001 said:
Cool, enjoy the phone!
I would stay stock and root. That is what I find myself doing for the camera. Then from time to time I flash ROMS to see how everything is but so far I have no come across a custom ROM with a camera as good as stock. OnePlus Beta 2 is pretty rock solid as well with great battery life. In terms of the best custom ROM imo it is LiquidRemix.
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Do you see any issues with the beta so far? I'll probably have to read the thread... I also want to do something I've never done before: Make a full, complete off the phone backup of the way it is when I first get it.

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Do you see any issues with the beta so far? I'll probably have to read the thread... I also want to do something I've never done before: Make a full, complete off the phone backup of the way it is when I first get it.
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Yeah always good to do a backup.
I have not encountered one single issue with the OB1 or 2 betas but do read through the thread to see for yourself :good:

considering buying htc m9

hello,
i want something with fast up and download,
rootable for an ad free phone,
good camera
and good battery life
and dual front facing speakers
seems like the htc m9 can achieve all this with
rooting and various mods
how good can this phone become,
and will i need to keep rebuilding it every
week?
and does it have support for newer roms etc,
or will is it already "too old"?

I guess that all depends on what your previous phone is.
My previous phone was Samsung galaxy ace 2, so getting an HTC M9 is definitely a good upgrade. Performance, multitasking and pretty good camera. Mind you that it's not the best in its class but considering where I came from, it's really good.
As of software development, in terms of official support, we might get Oreo (still uncertain), but nougat is on the table.
Since there is no official support anymore most sense based custom rom developers are already hinting that there might not be any more updates. That leaves with aosp/los based custom rom, that sometimes have hiccups, and currently a bit slow in progressing.
Other than that it's quite a decent phone. I'm currently using Viperone 6.2.0 (Nougat) and it satisfies my need quite well.

current phone is an iphone5s
sick of how slow it's become
6-8 seconds to open the camera app
no more jailbreaking,
at the mercy of ads everywhere
did have an aquos once
hated
it lol
but want to go android again bc of above reasoks,
mostly i hate ads

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mostly i hate ads
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Well, if that's the criteria, any rootable phone should do it.
Xposed would enhance it further with minminguard.
Never had any issues with ads on every phone of mine with that config.

well,
i'd like a snappy camera too,
and battery life.
long pauses after a pic is taken is frustrating
and battery lasting only half a day sucks too
aftermarket waterproof cases are hard to find
for android too...

sorry if i'm too vague
how good is the htc camera after being modded/
custom rom?
comparible to iphone?
and does the battery life improve with custom
roms? how long can an htc m9 last with heavy
youtubing?

Well, the camera is decent enough, and fast enough for me. HDR is a bit slow, but most of the time it's good to take good images. Without hdr, it's really fast and not that bad.
I haven't used an iPhone thoroughly before though, so I can't really compare.
See the attached pictures from some of my shots with this phone. This is from sense-based custom roms. Aosp based custom roms is a bit worse, especially in dark conditions.
Battery life is only average on this phone. Most of the time it could last me the day on normal usage.
For exclusively YouTube, it should last 3-4 hours.
See my screenshot of battery usage, around 1 hour it drops 20%, and I was watching YouTube the whole time.

thank you for your detailed reply!

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thank you for your detailed reply!
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Well, you could always press the thanks button for a simple thanks ?

Question on a custom kernel on a custom rom

Hi a total total newbie here I have no clue but I love to learn.
I really like the ElementalX kernel for my htc one m7 mainly because of the overclocking and undervolting for battery consumption and the doubletaptowake with some sound enhancement. I custom rommed lineage os 16.0(stable) Android 9.0 from the site and I tried installing ElementalX kernel 14.12 sense which was for Android 4.4.2 sense UI 6 and the newer ElementalX-m7-22.4-Sense, obviously it wouldn't work because none of them are built for Android 9 and it would just bootloop all over again. The phone is rooted and I did download some root-needed apps kernel editors but you know how they go.. I don't wanna go back to stock because of the newer apps I'm gonna miss out on
Is there any hope for me to find a kernel that sort of supports my purpose? Thanks in advance

I honestly can’t answer your question. Just wanted to say I’m impressed you’re still rocking the m7 after all these years.
Was an awesome phone when it came out, except for the battery consumption; and then Verizon dragging their feet, and eventually refusing to release official updates.
I eventually turned to custom ROMs for a couple years before I eventually moved onto an iPhone 5c. May not have been able to customize it. But, I knew Apple would keep the updates flowing for a while.
Good luck in your quest.
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Robertjm said:
I honestly can’t answer your question. Just wanted to say I’m impressed you’re still rocking the m7 after all these years.
Was an awesome phone when it came out, except for the battery consumption; and then Verizon dragging their feet, and eventually refusing to release official updates.
I eventually turned to custom ROMs for a couple years before I eventually moved onto an iPhone 5c. May not have been able to customize it. But, I knew Apple would keep the updates flowing for a while.
Good luck in your quest.
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I knowww tbh I'm still using the LG V20, the Samsung note edge and the Nexus 6(which I still love to this day and wouldn't sell) from time to time. The main problem I have with those devices was the battery life.. "was" as in not anymore since I changed the battery and they're workhorses back again but the m7 is a hurtful little thing. I opened it once and immediately regretted unscrewing the first screw. It's a mess and hardware alternation is my current options . Anyways thank you for your input. I appreciate it. I might as well downgrade to lineage OS 14.1 Android 7 and there's a custom kernel for the same LIOS14.1 which might be compatible.