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[General Topics] Le Widget:
Hey guy,

So I lost my Galaxy S3.. pretty sure it fell outta my pocket somewhere :( .. had it since 2012 .. considering picking up a cheap(ish) 2nd hand phone.. probably a HTC One M7 around $100 .. what's everyone's view on this phone?

Also, what's the latest on current model phones.. what's considered best Low > Mid > High ? I hear huawei have a good phone coming out.. one fo their 'Mate' series phones .. how do they compare to HTC and Samsung ?
[General Topics] s8freak:
I'm well aware of all of that. As I said I'm buying the G935F that already has Root and TWRP and sending my G935A back. However if I keep my G935A I'm cool with the lack of development this phone is fantastic just as it is.

"Zed?Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead."

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[General Topics] EdAus:
Hi all.

Been watching this forum for a while and planning for future mobile phone. Currently own a note 3 sm-n9005.

Today I came across this.

http://deals.banggood.com/deals/edm...=knGwk9OGQF&emst=knGwk9OGQF_399759_1752232_96

Seems to good to be true.

I have No association with seller, vendor etc.

Opinions please..
[General Topics] force70:
If Im not mistaken that device has a mediatek processor in it.

No thanks!

Sent from my Nexus 6P, Note 5, Note 4 or Nexus 6
[General Topics] Planterz:
LTE, like most Chinese phones, is limited to bands 3/7/20. Processor is a MediaTek 1.3GHz octacore with Mali T720. It's not garbage, but don't expect smooth gaming performance on Asphalt 8 or Angry Birds 2. Or, I don't know...maybe. The thing is, every month or 2, we see one or 3 of such device come out. Too good to be true, an unbelievable bargain, etc. And most often, we never hear about them again. Or only minimally. I'm not saying that such a phone is a bad deal for the price. But if you're expecting a flagship at 1/4 the price, don't. If you're expecting the battery to be anything but crap over time, don't. In my life's experience, you can get what you pay for if you do your research. But every time, if you don't pay for what you get for, you'll never get anything good. Knock-offs, clones, and cheap alternatives never pay off. Knock-off knife? The lock will fail and you'll end up in the ER with a bill that cost far more than the real knife. Cheap gun that jams? I'll attend your funeral. Sam Levitz couch that the springs broke and are poking you in the nards? I'll find another friend to watch UFC 197.
[General Topics] IAmLucky:
SD cards slows down phone.

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you will get arrested for leaking info.

kappa

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mediatek chips has cheap GPU. Thats why snapdragon or even exynos is better.
[General Topics] trinilu27:
Agreed.....sounds like a hell of a deal....to good of a deal. I just glanced over the ad. but I don't think it ever said how much internal memory (storage) it has....but as the other person was saying ^^^^.if it sounds to good to be true....it probably is.....16 gig rom....got it

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ha iv said to much already....there will be a knock at my door any min

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[General Topics] SirVer:
A new UMI device, eh? It might look too good to be true, and maybe it is, but not as much as you might think. Their previous "flagship", the Iron Pro, was received fairly well; nobody seemed to report any of the usual issues that cheap Chinese phones have (poor build, low touch response, etc). And that thing about the custom ROMs is true as well, to an extent; some of their devices do have that option, and it does seem to work, but the Iron Pro was supposed to get it (software's called Rootjoy), and back in Nov-Dec when I did my research, it hadn't. May have changed by now. And they do release updates - OS upgrades or not, I don't know, but still. All in all, you'll probably get exactly the hardware they're promising, and it will all likely work as expected, but I'm not sure how well the thing would hold up to the test of time.

Frankly, at that price, even if it doesn't get upgraded to N, you can just buy a phone that has it out of the box next year, if you can make this one last that long. If you have some spare cash, go ahead and experiment (but don't toss the Note!), and report back here with results. ?
[General Topics] trinilu27:
big SD cards slow down phones ...never let ur 32 gig get over 15 gig and ur good......or I'm good anyway... just a preference

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[General Topics] SirVer:
Quick, make like Snowden and ask the EU for asylum!
[General Topics] Soufiansky:
There is some sd cards faster than your internal storage , so no not all sd cards slows down the phone....
[General Topics] trinilu27:
OK so what SD card are faster then my phone... I spare no expense when purchasing an SD card...but if such a thing exists I'd really like to know about it...thanks

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[General Topics] Soufiansky:
There is the Samsung EVO+ 64GO , Samsung 64go PRO , Sony Highspeed microsd , Sandisk PRO , Sandisk extreme...Those are one of the best and fastest sd cards you can get.

But you are wondering what is the difference ? Well first of all quality , sony-samsung-sandisk , those 3 are in my opinion the best for sd cards , second is the speed of course , with those cards i mentionned you can get more than 90MB/S ! And finally writing speed , which is everything related to copying a file , extracting something , moving a file..etc.

Hope it helps.
[General Topics] trinilu27:
and it's a hell of an SD card.... I've definitely put it through its paces

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[General Topics] Soufiansky:
Lol so you already have one ?
[General Topics] trinilu27:
but thank you....the SD card option is just one of the many things that I always felt android had over apple..it's just a little piece of freedom. I do realize SD cards won't be around for too much longer now that they're starting to figure out ways to give us more internal memory for our buck...but still...I like my SD card

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[General Topics] 350Rocket:
I have a 128gb evo + in my m8. At one point I had over 100gb on it when my girlfriend's laptop was messed up and I had to back up all her stuff to wipe it. Right now I only have about 30gb used. No complaints about it. Makes me feel like I could possibly use this phone for another few years.
[General Topics] trinilu27:
and thats what I'm saying...just think what it would be like to move to a device with out a SD card....I enjoy moving files and folders between my phone and SD card....that's why I love android and despise ios...freedom to customize move my files where I want and I'm the super user..setting real setting..yea sorry don't get me going..[emoji12]

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[General Topics] Planterz:
Amazon just had the 200gb Sandisk microSD cards on sale for

$60. Mine arrives on Wednesday.
[General Topics] s8freak:
Just bought the Gold unlocked G935F S7 Edge woo-hoo giving the locked down G935A back to ATT

"Zed?Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead."

Sent from my Smokin G935A
[General Topics] trinilu27:
yea I saw that...I was thinking I mite wait to get it until I have a better phone...that's a lot of storage space..that thing starts getting full or even half way full it would bog my s5 down quite a bit

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and yes I'm ready to go throw this locked down s5 at at&t also....can't do anything when it's already running 5.0 ...stuck with a stock device.....no thank you

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[General Topics] NOSTALGIA:
rich guy.... :):)
[General Topics] force70:
Curious to see if the international versions are also locked down, Tmo units now have locked bootloaders..first time for that.

Going to try and see about the Canadian version also.

If this is how samsung is going forward with the next note my note 5 will be the last sammy device i ever own.

Sent from my Nexus 6P, Note 5, Note 4 or Nexus 6
[General Topics] 350Rocket:
Would a 128gb or bigger card actually slow down the device more than a 64 or less? I never thought about that. I just figured the more free space the better.

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Don't say anything about the signature at the bottom. I just bought a mint condition iPhone 4 for $40, testing to make sure it's working fine before I try to resell it. Man this thing is slow.
[General Topics] SirVer:
inb4 "you overpaid" comments. ?

And it's not so much the size of the SD card as the amount of stuff you have on it. If my thinking is right, it's more stuff for Media Scanner to index and keep track of. Though apart from that, I never understood the whole "SD cards will make your phone slower" thing. I know that's true if you've got apps installed on it, but otherwise, it would only matter when actually accessing it, right?
[General Topics] trinilu27:
Surprisingly it will slow ur phone down over all...look at ur SD card as a big empty room...the more stuff u fill that room with the more stuff ur phone has to dig thru to find what it's looking for.its not like a filing cabinet where everything is alphabetical order and organized...test ur self...if u have a 16 gig or bigger...fill it 2/3 of the way and use it for a wile....now take an empty 2 or 4 gig and put it in ur phone.... you will see a huge noticeable difference.

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[General Topics] s8freak:
Not locked down Joe already has TWRP and Root for G935F that is why I bought it. Selling the G928C to offset cost.

"And on that bombshell!"

Sent from my Smokin G935A

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Nah just selling my G928C to offset the cost

"And on that bombshell!"

Sent from my Smokin G935A
[General Topics] 350Rocket:
All my apps are on my 32gb internal storage. I have tons of apps but very few games. I'm using 13/32gb internal and 46/128gb on Samsung evo+ card. I don't think it would be possible for this phone to be any faster right now.
[General Topics] trinilu27:
just for laughs...take out ur 128 gig out and stick in a empty 2 or 4 or even a 8 gig.......ull notice a huge difference right away ...but keep it in for 30 min or so and see how it effects the overall speed of your phone

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[General Topics] 350Rocket:
Couldn't I just take it out and leave it empty?

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Also what about formatting as internal storage instead of using for media storage? I assumed formatting as internal would affect speed for sure, much more than the way I have it
[General Topics] SirVer:
But why would it be slower if it's not actually trying to read something from the card? My apps should perform exactly the same as long as none of them are accessing the SD card, right? My 32 (25.5 usable) has 5 left, and my 32 SD has 1-1.5 left, but performance is as good as factory reset condition. To be fair, it's a custom ROM, and I've never actually had the card empty, or used a smaller capacity (on custom ROMs), but still... I honestly don't think this phone could get any more responsive.

P.S: I just realized while typing this what exactly I was typing: I have like a bajillion apps installed on this thing, and have noticed no lag whatsoever under normal use, and very little under heavy load. That may be standard on flagships these days, but for someone coming from a phone using the SD S4 and 4.6 gigs of user accessible storage, it feels like heaven. ?
[General Topics] trinilu27:
someone that knows more about this then me and u needs to kindly jump into our conversation and answer that question...I am almost positive that whether your phone is opening an app or whether your phone is getting on the Internet no matter what process or task your phone is doing its involving the SD card someway or some how..it makes no sense to me eather...and as far as ur memory goes I for got what phone u have but it's probably a kick ass phone the will run balls out until the last 25 mb of space are used up.. but now you really got me wondering so I'm going to do some Google surfing .and I will get back to you as soon as possible

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Well from what I see they say that under normal operating conditions the SD card should not slow your phone down maybe the reason I was seeing such a big difference is I have owned a lot of bottom-end hundred dollar phones...and iv hard bricked everyone of them....ha ha and no...I'm not proud of that

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Formatting your SD card as internal storage? if it was only that easy we would all be android Developers..some of the newer phones will let u do that... then there's one of my favorites...swap!..two kinds of swap.there's ram swap and yea u can trick ur phone into thinking that your external SD is your internal memory and vice versa. But that's always a tough one too because you got to keep in mind that your phone can always read the internal disk a lot faster than it can an SD card...so to much swapy swapy will have a reverse effect

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Also where are you looking to see your memory? are u going into settings then storage? I'm just wondering if there's a chance you're getting false readings?

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[General Topics] 350Rocket:
Yeah I'm looking in settings. The stock mm rom for the m8 let's you format SD card as internal memory. But I didn't try that.
[General Topics] Lorenz15:
Every MM ROM let you do this and it's working fine. I just tried it myself. The biggest problem is that you only can move some apps on your SD card that is now your internal storage. For example you can't move big apps like Chrome, but I think yoh can move games and stuff like that.
[General Topics] trinilu27:
sweet and that the beautiful thing about link2sd...you can move ur factory-installed apps and user apps...u can move parts of the app .lib files .cache..data. apk.etc and as much as I like this galaxy s5 I'm just about to traid straight a crossed for a g4..Iv had this phone for about a month and there's no root for it and I can't take it anymore

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[General Topics] SirVer:
Oh yeah, Link2SD - truly a lifesaver on those 4-8 gig devices. It's a pain to have to create a second partition and potentially waste space, though.

I have an LG G3 - does that count as kickass by today's standards? I mean, it does to me, but when they call the OnePlus X mid-range, I begin to wonder if it's only me.

About the bottom end phones thing - you're not alone, bro. I have 4 devices here just sitting in a drawer, and none of them go beyond dual core, 512 MB RAM. And one of them's a TABLET. Though I've only hard bricked one of them, the rest have come horribly close many, many times. I blame XDA.
[General Topics] thanhnvt194:
anyone will get the exynos s7/s7edge instead of SD820 ?

i heard all 820 s7 has locked bootloader
[General Topics] thwartfulGUY:
Hey I'm looking for a phone under 15000 rupees (translates roughly to $223) ..

The best bet here are the redmi note 3 and/or letv le 1s but the support in the forums are less or none at all and considering these are from chinese OEMs.. I don't think conditions will get better..

So do you guys have any suggestions for a phone under the above said amount with a great spec to support on xda ratio?
[General Topics] s8freak:
OPX

"And on that bombshell!"

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[General Topics] SirVer:
If you can spare 2k more, OnePlus X looks like your best bet. It's really fragile though, and repairing it will probably be a pain. The LG G3 can be found for about the same on eBay and sites like that, but apart from the obvious trust issues when buying from such places, none of them seem to mention if it's the D855 model or not, which is the one you want for the best dev support. The next best one with dev support would be the YU Yureka, but that's a huge step down from the OPX. It does have lots of dev support though. There may be other developer friendly devices in the price range, but these are the best ones as far as I know.
[General Topics] Soufiansky:
Honor 5x , Oneplus X , LG G3 ..Moto G 3rd generation , Moto X 2014..etc.
[General Topics] SirVer:
Forgot to mention the original OnePlus One: you can get it for about 14k on eBay, Manufacturer Refurbished with 6 months manufacturer warranty.
[General Topics] thwartfulGUY:
Thanks for the suggestions.. I looked em all up....

I thought of going for honor 5x but it doesn't seem to have any roms or great support in general

Unfortunately.. I can't spare another 2 grand to buy OPX..

G3 seemed like a great device but as SirVer mentioned.. I'm wary of buying it from ebay..

I think I'm gonna go for moto x 2nd gen...

Thanks for the help!

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I'm looking for first hand phones and not refurbished so that's not an option
[General Topics] SirVer:
Looking online, I only see the 16 GB version for 15k - everything else is higher. Will 16 be enough, considering it doesn't have an SD card slot?
[General Topics] thwartfulGUY:
It doesn't? Dammit! I don't think it would be enough for me. I honestly have no idea what to buy anymore
[General Topics] Soufiansky:
LG G2 32 GB ? Quite old but this phone is a beast , OPO 64 Go ?
[General Topics] thwartfulGUY:
Thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately, none of them are in my budget
[General Topics] Soufiansky:
The LG G2 is so cheap now what are you talking about , it's less than 200$
[General Topics] Kirkland301:
Anything that doesn't have a damn Samsung logo on it. I have an S6 Edge right now and it's possibly one of the worst phones I've ever owned...I mean come on, it has screen burn (it's less than a year old) in for gods sake! I've got Blackberries from 5 years ago that don't even have that problem.

And let's not go into the random reboots, random wipes and not charging. Now on a custom ROM which has solved all but the screen burn in but still hate it.

Z5 Premium is probably top of my 'I like it' list right now.
[General Topics] thwartfulGUY:
Doesn't seem to be the case here... Can you post the link?
[General Topics] Soufiansky:
http://www.amazon.com/LG-G2-Black-Verizon-Wireless/dp/B00EZW9UXW
[General Topics] s8freak:
That's funny I've had a Galaxy s device since the S2 up to and including my S7 Edge and have never had any of those problems.

Best phones I've ever had. Yes I've had several others from HTC to LG to OPO.

"And on that bombshell!"

Sent from my Smokin G935A
[General Topics] Kirkland301:
I don't doubt others, like yourself like them. I liked both the S2 and S3 I had in the past. But the S6/E is awful, not just by my judging either, few people I know who got the S6 handsets actually still have them...a colleague had a battery expand which damaged the rear case, then got a new handset only to find the screen burnt in within a few months.

Unfortunately I'm stuck with this handset until I can either upgrade or offload it onto someone for some cash.
[General Topics] Soufiansky:
Z5 is top ? Lol go see some forums it lags as hell , even the moto g is smoother ;)
[General Topics] SirVer:
That's a carrier version, which would not be ideal for someone not living in the US, even if it is unlocked. But the biggest problem is that it's offered by Amazon US - shipping that to India would make it just as expensive in the end as buying it here, with the customs fees.

[MENTION=6506111]thwartfulGUY[/MENTION]

Looks like the Moto G 2015 16 GB edition is the best option for you. 2 GB RAM, SD card, and good development going on. There's a Turbo edition that's also within your budget, which gives you the SD615 (with quick charging, I think) instead of the SD410, but it doesn't have its own forum, and a quick search didn't turn up anything in the way of development.
[General Topics] Kirkland301:
That's worrying :( I didn't realise it lagged, mind you I'm basing my liking of it solely on having owned Sony handsets in the past (Z1 and Z2) which were by far my favorite past handsets. Plus it looks awesome.
[General Topics] SirVer:
It is worrying; they're really going downhill since they started using the SD810. And their next line is only launching after everyone's already bought their shiny new G5's and S7's. They keep this up, they're not going to survive much longer. ?
[General Topics] Kirkland301:
Carry on playing that game and they'll go the same way as Blackberry did.
[General Topics] trinilu27:
Yes i totally blame xda....well ok I partially blame xda....the rest the blame goes to unleashed pre payed( rip)... Man I miss those guys..and yes the g3 is a damn good phone,,,,,just sold one and got a good deal on this g4 lastnight
[General Topics] thwartfulGUY:
I would've gone for the turbo edition but it doesn't really have a dedicated forum and the normal one doesn't really have specs that great.. I think I'm gonna hold on till there is a price drop for OPX or Moto X Play...

Thanks a lot for your help!
[General Topics] TheNetwork:
Can someone tell me what are some good high end phones available on AT&T currently (don't worry about price) that have good enough stock ROMs that rooting is enough for most people? Please no LG, this G3 has pissed me off to no end and I refuse to give LG another cent. How's the AT&T S7? I know the S7 is nice overall, but ATT neuters the hell out of their phones a lot to squeeze more money out of its customers.
[General Topics] trinilu27:
How about an lg!...no no never mind,,,,ummm,,,,a g4!..I love mine,,,wait,,,...no....I'll get back to you?
[General Topics] Soufiansky:
Got my new phone today , youhoouuuuu :p
[General Topics] haris2887:
Hi guys. Need some advise about a new phone.

I am currently on a Note 5 which I find ok. Nothing special. Gets slow since I have loaded it up with apps and opening apps takes long now. Compared to my 2 yr old one plus running cyanogen.

I am after a phone with a big screen 6", large battery and Cyanogen support.

I have looked at

1.Huawei Mate 8 which has everything except cyanogen support.

2. Nexus 6P which does not have large screen.

Reason I want to get away from Samsung is cyanogen support likely will not happen.

Any ideas for a phone for me?
[General Topics] udo 240:
Take the old nexus 6.Its a really good device with a perfect community support :) and really splendid and fast Roms like Chroma or pure nexus
[General Topics] SirVer:
Which one?
[General Topics] haris2887:
I saw that was worried that battery would not be enough 3200 mah to last a day but reviews say otherwise.
[General Topics] SirVer:
Well, it does have an AMOLED, so slapping a dark theme on it should help things. Even if you don't want to resort to that, it should be fine on Marshmallow. Failing that, there's always custom kernels and Greenify. I know that's not something you should have to do on a new device, but your options are quite limited. There is the Zenfone 2 Laser 6" model, but that has precisely one custom ROM (CM13), which breaks the speakers. There's also the ZTE Axon Max, but it's got a SD617; the 600 series has issues powering anything above 720p, and combined with ZTE's skin, performance would probably be below par. And as far as I know, the Axon line doesn't have much going for it development-wise.

Overall, it looks like the Nexus 6 is your best bet if you're set on a 6" display. If you're willing to go down to 5.7, there are many more options, starting with, as you said, the 6P. Who knows, maybe after a while, you won't mind the smaller size as much.