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Lenovo Z5 Pro GT Edition

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i just want a durable phone

Kyocera DuraForce Pro 2?

Is the difference in performance between the LG V35 and the V30 worth the price difference?

Is OG Pixel XL still a based deal for the camera? I want to jump on it but most refurbs are 32gb and no expandable storage is a big loss imo

for the Belarussian in the other thread:
check kimovil for the Zenfone Max M1 Pro, you'll find the best price and what store to buy it there
its Android One, has SD 636, 3.5 jack, good storage and RAM, and has developer support on XDA if you want, also 5,000 mAh battery

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Yes

Depends on what the price is

Ordered the Mi A2 Lite after my current chinkphone camera broke. I don't want to ever deal with pajeet ROMs ever again, so it seemed like the best option for me. It'll be nice having a headphone jack and SD card reader again

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how long will 5g bands be a meme? When will upgrading actually matter?
I don't think any of the telecom companies in the US have the infrastructure ready for it to matter, but then again I haven't been following it all that close.

Bought this. It's pretty good. Stock android is nice.

should i go with Zenfone Max M2 Pro?
or just Nokia 6.1 plus?
both has pros and cons,but has same price in my country for 4/64 GB model

Can anyone vouch for a Note 9?

I'm stuck between a Note 9 and an iPhone X..which would you guys honestly recommend? Not a mobile gamer, just like using basic smartphone functions quickly

I've had a Nexus 6P since its release but my battery is finally dying. Thinking about going for the pocophone F1, thoughts? Experiences? I want to step down from flagships and go for a solid midrange and this one seems to fit that description, I'm aware about the DRM issue but I don't think it'll bother me that much. More interested in hearing what you think about the UI etc

>Zenfone Max M1 Pro
found it here for $ 220

They can find fault with this and check the cost.
I remember situation, when the cost of the order from aliexpress was 1 cent, but the border guards checked the cost of the goods and took the tax from its full cost.

Zenfone for the big battery

Moving on from a Moto G 2nd Gen to a Pocophone F1, what productive (i.e. not viddya or social media) work can I do with it with its 6GB RAM and Snapdragon 845 CPU?

Film amateur porn

I have one and my only 2 complaints are no NFC and you need a VPN to get android 9

I miss the old days when there was no chinkshit around, just HTC and Samsung and Sony and all that. These new chinkphones are disgusting

It's happening and I wish it didn't.

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I've never bought a new phone before, can I take te sim card out of my iphone 5s and put it in an unlocked android phone? Will it fit? If not what do I do, do I have to buy a blank sim card and transfer shit over or something?

>phone market has been stagnant for all of 2018
This is the first year since smartphones started getting big in 2011 that has sucked complete ass for new releases this hard.

iPhone 5S has a nano-SIM, if it's a new Android phone you're buying it'll very likely have the same size of SIM card, just take it out of the iPhone and put it into the new phone.

>having more options and competition is bad

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Cool thanks. Once I put the SIM in does the phone just start working and taking calls/texts from my old number automatically? Or is there some kind of activation I have to do or something?

So if I don't buy a Snapdragon Galaxy phone from a carrier I can use custom ROMs?

Depends on the carrier you're on, but usually calls/text will work straight away. For mobile data you might need to input the correct internet settings, usually there carrier has a number you send a SMS and the message you receive will automatically configure the correct settings.

No, even the US unlocked Samsung phones have the bootloader permanently locked. You need the international Exynos version or Chinese Snapdragon version.

Opinions on the Fire HD10 tablet? $99 for how it seems to perform compared to Samsung tablets seems too good

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That's so strange, is there no official support yet or chink trickery at work with the update?

It's a staged rollout. They release the update to a few regions, see if there's any complaints about issues or bugs, if they deem the update stable they release it to the rest of the regions. Nothing out of the ordinary, pretty much all phone companies do it that way.

I had an amazon tablet.
It wasn't bad.
Definitely a better choice than an ipad or other more expensive tablets

Eastern europoor reporting in.
Old phone got plannedly obsolete, time to buy a new one.

The most I'm willing to pay is ~120$. What's the best phone I can get? And I mean best as in - will be usable for at least two more years - rootable if possible.

Xiaomi

Recently picked up an XR to get a feel for iOS. However. Using it day to day vs my S9+, I can honestly say my S9+ is faster in almost every single task. Especially download speeds. The S9+ downloads on wifi and data about 3x faster. What gives? Is the A12 a meme chip? iOS seems more "fluid" but it's so much slower an android at basic tasks.

New showdown for out-of-daters:
>OG Google Pixel XL
>OnePlus 3T

Which?

>just like using basic smartphone functions quickly
What do you need $1000 devices then for?

>Best phone
MotoG 3gen
>Can decide between 1+ 6t, poco or another moto.
Might as well wait for opo7?

I'm still using an android lollipop phone with 1.5gb ram. It sucks so fucking bad, always lagging and hanging.

Buy Pocophone

Alright, I want a new phone and I am a picky bastard. I want a phone with a removable battery, better specs than my current Moto G4, no fingerprint reader or other biometrics, and I want it to be compatible with Google-free alternatives to Android. Most importantly, I don't want to spend more than $400. Any other one thing I'm willing to give up, but the price is firm. I paid $200 for my Motorola and could never see myself giving more than 2x that for a phone.

It's notched chinkshit
I'm saving up for the S9+ 64gb

>removable battery
rope yourself
or get the redmi note 5/6, it's way less than $400

speed

So if I live in the US, what reasons would I have to NOT get a Z5 when it launches? Should I wait for a domestic release?

Does anyone have a brainlet's guide to flashing custom ROMs?

so mkbhd just named the op6t his poty so i'm going to buy one

>It's notched
At least you can hide it.
>chinkshit
Yeah, and what isn't at this point?
>I'm saving up for the S9+ 64gb
Enjoy your reduced performance and considerably worse battery life then.
Max Lee on YouTube. But any ROM installation tutorial for your particular device would do.
How much of a gullible bastard are you?

Cricket carrier
$150 budget
Thinking the Motorola supra
I'm pretty tough on tech constantly dropping stuff
Thanks

Will this phone be able to connect to mobile internet in Mexico?
Frequencycheck and the kimovil checker seem to be giving me conflicting information (pic related).
www.aliexpress.com/item/Lenovo-K5-Note/32884498560.html

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That's ugly as fuck dude

Which s9+ should I get?
>all development (recovery, roms, kernels) is centered around the exynos versions, easy enough to get from amazon
>all the performance is on snapdragon, Chinese model with unlock boot loader on b&h but has zero ROMs

Poco vs op6t
So torn.... the 4g bands available on the op6t blow away the Poco but poco is so fucking sexy and meme'sh

help anons....

No, get a Redmi Note 5 instead:
kimovil.com/en/where-to-buy-xiaomi-redmi-note-5-global-64gb

...

Save up a bit more for a RN5, Lenovo are trash
Do you really need something a custom rom/rooting offers or is it just for playing around with stuff? If it's the latter, get the Snapdragon.
OP6T seems like a much nicer phone overall, imo looks really good with that tiny notch. If you can live without the headphone jack, I see no reason why get the Poco instead.

Whichever S9 you get, you're getting cucked by Samsung in some way. Buy OP6T

Note 9

If you're a total casual I'd go with the iPhone X. Note 9 is basically a really powerful pocket computer with tons of features that you wouldn't even use.

>aesthetic design
>durable phone
pick one, retard

what's a good email app for Android that has a dark mode

pajeet ROM? wuz this?
i'm conisiderin buying this but the notch is just messing up

Bamp
Any gsm recommendation

>pajeet ROM? wuz this?
>i'm conisiderin buying this but the notch is just messing up
get the Asus Zenfone Max M1 Pro, much better phone and no notch, also bigger battery and its AndroidOne, also
>pajeet ROMs
this is what brainlets who don't do their fucking homework describe every custom ROM because they had a bad experience with one and, as I said, didn't do enough research to avoid the bad decision they made

New Other (open box) LG V20 off eBay
get the H918

>Zenfone Max M1 Pro
too expensive

Unfortunatelly custom roms aren't very common and not accessible for every phone the only one i know is LineageOS what else can you recommend?

Any $200-300 phone will be as fast as the flagships when handling basic smartphone functions. You only buy flagships for the camera, design and gaming performance

A12 only looks good on benchmarks, which are designed to make apple chips look better

> I see no reason why get the Poco instead.
It's half the price

this
i was looking now for phones in the price range 100-200€ and they were totally fine specially those from the chinkmarket i wish they'd leave the selfiecam out since i'll never need it. and the fingerID. and instead lower the price

How do I run an ADB command on my android phone?

your retarded, just go ahead and buy whichever one costs more.

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Use your PC

I've done some screen with frame replacements before, now I wanted to learn how to do it without the frame since in many models it's faster.
What should I use? B7000 glue? 3M tape? Something else? It needs to be
-strong
-possible to remove (if another screen gets destroyed)
-preferably as water resistant as original screen (it wasn't waterproof before, just splash resistant as every screen out there, I'm wandering if 3M tape won't be worse then glue when it comes to this).
I'm asking since my friend went to repair shop, they used the wrong thing and his screen started to detach, so I'm not 100% comfortable to go with B7000 as all those YT pajeets as it seems that repair shops don't know their shit.

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Who the fuck writes this shit.
>5 years old Xeon with 256GB of RAM can't beat a TR with 4GBs of RAM in CPU intensive tasks
>a truck won't outrace a sportscar even though it has a more powerful engine
>I can't use my brain but I know how to ingratiate myself so I got a job writing about shit I don't understand
Those people make me sick.

Best mobile provider in the US?

OP6T or Mix 3?

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I installed this but how do I run it? How do I make it recognize my phone also?

(Reposting since no replies ;_;)

I currently have a OnePlus 6 with a broken screen and some other problems, looking to purchase a new one.

I like:
>large bezels
>no notch
>headphone jack
>physical home button

Which pretty much leads me only to older phones.

Would it be worth it in the Current Year to buy a Galaxy S7? I can purchase a new one for $228 USD. Or should I just suck it up and get a new phone that doesn't meet my preferences?

I would like to use it for at least the next two years. I'm mainly concerned that it would get ridiculously slow after a while, not really sure how the software works.

Enable USB debugging in developer settings on the phone. On the PC open an admin command prompt in the folder ADB is in. With the phone connected to the PC, use the command "ADB devices" to confirm the PC sees the phone.

hey guys, I bought a iphone last year after using androids for years because I was tired of the slowass lag that android gets after like a week of usage. The iphone turned out to be even worse and now they lag too and on top of that the battery fucked off and now the phone is stuck on that stupidass black battery screen. Goddamn I hate smartphones so fucking much. They've been making these pieces of shit since 2007 and we haven't gone a single fucking step forward.

Anyway, I'm here because I want to know if any of you know of a phone that will last more than a goddamn week and isn't full of a bunch of retarded forced software that will slow down the little pieces of shit even more. Someone needs to fucking just start manufacturing phone parts so we can build them like a computer so I don't have to rely on slave chinks making unreliable shit hardware that doesn't have easily replaceable components.

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Does this mean it does not see it? I have USB debugging enabled.

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if that's too expensive, there's not many other android one phones without a notch and 18:9 that fit your budget besides the Mi A2 Lite and the Mi A1
I recommend that you decide what phone to get, then check XDA Forums to determine if it has any development going on, if the one you were thinking about doesn't, then look up another and search XDA forums again
repeat until you find one that fits the bill, then explore the development section for the phone because there are many custom ROMs out there, and a lot are based on Lineage that offer more features, but ultimately Lineage itself is actually based on AOSP

correct, you probably need to download and install the drivers for the phone on your PC

Alright I will look into this

bump

any MVNO that provides the best coverage in the areas you live or travel to, generally those that use AT&T or T-Mo towers

Nokia 6.1 or redmi note 5 pro?

Redmi, better SoC, bigger battery, cameras are probably better too.

I cant seem to find Nokia 7.1 drivers. Is it phone specific or are there just Nokia drivers?

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Try this
adbdriver.com

I get a thing saying its already installed.

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What's the spec ~$250 phone that has android 5.0 so I can I can play games and has 4G LTE? Most phones in this thread have 3g on FrequencyCheck, what do?

Anyone here owns an Essential Phone. I got mine used for $150.

I'm kinda bummed about its Android Pie battery life and poor quality speakers

Is there anything I can do about it?

Check on windows device manager, when you plug in the phone, "ADB interface" or something similar should appear.

Also, did you get pic related the first time you plugged in the phone with usb debugging enabled?

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there are plenty of really good android phones out there that are much cheaper just look at the chinksmarket

What country/carrier?

Not worth it to buy a phone that's almost three years old at this point, especially if you're expecting to use it at least the next two years onwardd. Get something newer.