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S6 is the best actually for being faster, lighter, smaller, and since it still has Nougat
James Smith
Just got one (s6 edge) as a temp while my s8+ is repaired. The thing works, but unfortunately it's shit in comparison to s8 baka. It gets uncomfortably warm at times and maybe it's just this particular unit's problem, but it has been charging for 5 hours now and still isn't full. In comparison, when I was given a s7 in a similar scenario, it was alright. Ps: ive played with s5 that had Oreo lineage on it, the thing was perfect.
Blake Jones
Semi-poorfag here, have had iphone 5s since 2013, finally time to upgrade because battery doesn't even last me past midday.
Liked the iphone for its small size and square-ish look. Found a deal for an LG Q7 for 200€, is it any good? Anyone had any experience with it?
Any recommended apps, games, or something to download and fill my SD card?? S9+ 64GB SD
Dylan Long
That space is mighty useful to have when recording video.
Sebastian Williams
Friends all use LG's and had good experiences with em (but they have much more expensive ones). XZ1's specs look great though, a bit above my price range though
A bit too large for my taste, battery looks good tho, so will deffo bookmark that one
Michael Smith
Nothing much to record inside my room, also just graduated so I probably won't go out anymore.
I bought DraStic DS emulator and My Boy! GBA emulator. If you have an Xbox One or PS3 controller you can hook it up to your phone with the included OTG connector. Both are great emulators.
Brody Nelson
problem with LG midranges are they have inferior hardware, and LG doesn't release bootloader codes for ANYTHING under the G series, so if you like flashing ROMs, using Titanium Backup, or want to flash GCam ports, you're shit out of luck
Easton Sanchez
they can't keep getting away with it!
Camden Butler
The budget and mid-range LG phones are trash.
>bit above my price range What about Nokia 6.1 or Mi A2 Lite?
Dylan Morales
I want to see my options in the 200-350 range. Used or new. All phones from all years.
Is there a good resource?
Asher Myers
daily reminder that if you're in EU and you bought your phone in EU rooting it or unlocking the bootloader does not void your mandatory 2 year warranty
Brody Gutierrez
What country you in? There probably exists some price comparison site you can use for new phone prices, something similar to kimovil.com or geizhals.eu. For used phones just go to whatever site is the most popular for selling used shit and filter the search results by price.
see >Digging the A2, how can a 200 phone be this packed? What's the catch? the $200 one is the A2 Lite, the A2 is almost $300, the catch is it uses the older SD 625 instead of the SD 636 of the Redmi Note 5 and the SD 660 in the Mi A2
Hunter Russell
This works
Chase Smith
Ohh.....kayyy....
I don't give a shit about flashing roms.
Michael Johnson
from start to finish, how hard is it to install Gcam on a Redmi Note 5 pro? I haven't rooted my phone, unlocked the bootloader, etc. and I've never done it before
Ah I was looking up the $300 one... What about the Huawei P20 lite? Seems like a not shit mid-tier LG to me
Levi Thompson
ok then >the camera isn't good compared to it's rivals >it's overpriced for what it is >the software, LG's skin, is too heavy for the device the only good midrange from what I've seen, even though it uses the same SoC, is the Stylo 4, but again it's inferior compared to it's competition in it's price bracket
Eli Watson
>>it's overpriced for what it is
I thought we were talking about budget and mid ranged ones.
Landon Hernandez
How promising does the librem 5 linux phone look?
Asher Garcia
Like the other user said, the specs on LG budget and mid-tier phones are terrible for the price. Take the Q7 as an example, it's got an ancient 28nm MT6750 SoC commonly found in $100-150 chinkphones. At a similar price you can find phones with SD630 or a SD636 for example that absolutely shit on the 6750.
LG G6 on the other hand is a decent deal, it's their 2017 flagship and you can often find it at around 300€.
Colton Nelson
we are, what's hard to understand? Moto's budget and midrange devices are superior to LG's
Mason Gomez
If you've never done it before - moderate difficulty. Go step by step and stick to a guide, rooting is comparatively easier these days than a few years ago. Once you're rooted Gcam is a 5 minute work.
Levi Russell
what are some phones I can eat in case I'm lost and get hungry
Landon Ramirez
The A2 Lite is still a decent phone, especially if you're looking something not huge. SD625 still does a fine job at regular phone use and the 4000mah battery is nice. Has the headphone jack and MicroSD slot too, unlike the regular A2.
The P20 Lite is meh, you get Huawei's EMUI skin instead of stock Android, worse update support, Kirin 659 is weaker than the SD625, bootloader cannot be unlocked. I'd take the A2 Lite over it any day of the week.
Justin Wilson
>Take the Q7 as an example, it's got an ancient 28nm MT6750 SoC commonly found in $100-150 chinkphones. ??? are you talking about th Q7alpha? the regilat Q7 has the SD450 in it
Landon Wright
root or unlock bootloader first? any good sites for guides? thx for replying btw
Justin Russell
eh, the only point you're incorrect on is comparing the 625 to the 659 the 625 has a stronger GPU, but the 659 scires better in geekbench single and multicore and in Antutu V7 CPU scores, but I'd rather have a Snapdragon device because Huawei turned into a piece of shit company for no good given reason
Parker Ramirez
you have to unlock the bootloader before you can root, check out xea, or google Redmi Note 5 unlock bootloader xda
Jaxon Edwards
>the regilat W7 has the SD450 I guess that depends on the region? In Europe all versions have Mediatek.
Austin Hill
oh that's really unfortunate
Leo Jackson
The benchmarks here show the 625 ahead the Kirin 659 in both multicore and GPU performance, and pretty much even in single core (659 is a little over 900, 625 a little under) www.gsmarena.com/xiomi_mi_a2_lite-review-1804.php
Huh. A2 really looks like a good budget phone, wonder why none of the stores I've been to had it. How's privacy with these Chinese phones doe? Heard that Huawei and Australia had some beef over privacy concearns. Is Xiaomi any better?
Lucas Hill
P20 Lite beat it in single core, but lost in multi-core also the P20 Lite also scored higher in Antutu V7, not sure of the different methods between geekbench and Antutu for CPU tests, but it's interesting how the tests themsekves compare the chips also not saying he should get a Huawei/Honor device considering how shitty they became
I'd go with Nokia 6.1. Honor 8 is EOL now, won't be getting any more updates after Oreo. Nokia 6.1 will get Android Pie this year and Android Q next year.
Ayden Cruz
WHEN CAN I CUSTOM ROM AN XZ2 COMPACT RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe
Zachary Garcia
Aah. Alright, thanks so much for the help man!
David Thomas
What if spyware is in the firmware like chinknovo did?
Eli Morales
This is a new level of Courage
William Watson
then private security firms, like the ones who busted BLU in the Adups scandal, would have already found it by now, also custom ROMs are the firmware
Chase Thompson
>don't know what half the words on the instructions mean
The mi a2 (non-lite) is also a good phone and can be had for around $30 more than the redmi note 5 global. That $30 gets you the same SoC with higher clocks (especially on the GPU side), a better rear camera, and USB-C with Quickcharge 3.0. Though you lose card slot, the fm tuner, and have a 30% smaller battery with mi a2.
Nolan Sanchez
Huawei is in full panic mode right now, pulling that doesn't really surprise me.
Henry Reyes
>That $30 gets you the same SoC with higher clocks (especially on the GPU side) wrong, the SD 636 is not the same as the SD 660, GPU or not >a better rear camera true >and USB-C with Quickcharge 3.0. also true, but you're forgetting that there's no headphone jack or mSD support however, there is an IR blaster
Juan Sanders
>When UL ran an internal version of 3DMark, which Huawei’s phones couldn’t recognize the name of, the phones performed worse in the test. That indicated that the phones weren’t actually smart enough to identify high performance demands on their own, which meant the benchmark score wasn’t an accurate reflection of how the phone would handle a typical app without special attention from Huawei. Top kek
anyone know what phone is that in that pic? want to research more, looks cute
Kevin Young
the new Palm phone made by TCL(Alcatel)
Christian Hughes
What rom should I install on my Redmi 4x?
Grayson Miller
I know about Lineage and Resurrection Remix, I don't know if either of those are good choices.
Andrew King
There's also Xiaomi.eu which is MIUI unfucked in case you want to stick with it.
Nathan Wilson
>Why can't they just make cute small bezeless things? Cause they're fucking hard to type on nigger.
Lincoln Bell
I want to go as freetard as possible without runing normal functionality. So MIUI eu isn't really what I want.
David Wright
I haven't had any problems with lineage, don't have your device though. If there's Copperhead support you could do that plus FDroid as the app store.
Jeremiah Brown
Has anyone looked into NOA phones?
Ayden Cook
who?
Elijah Parker
random slav phone brand
James White
With all of these random Chinese phone brands why not make our own brand and design famalam
Ethan Hernandez
Which app to get the best camera performance out of Redmi Note 5 ?
Jaxson Bell
you got hundreds of millions in capital laying about? how about deals with a chinese assembly plant? Qualcomm? Mediatek? marketing firms? no? well there goes that idea
Luis Jenkins
GCam, best I've heard of is by Arnova Issue being that you'll probably need to flash a 64-bit ROM of your choice to get the most up-to-date one with all the features and pray it plays nice with your ROM selection, or do your homework and figure out which one works with it
Kevin Cook
I can get an S9+ 64 for 320€. Buy or no buy? Coming from LG G3 with a broken digitizer
Xavier Wood
Mind testing if said apps even moves to the SD card at all? An user said the "Move to SD" function is better these days, but I haven't a device with an SD to test that isn't on KitKat.
