[General Questions and Answers] Locklear308:
Fellow XDA'ers. I've been riding on my OPO for almost 2 years now and she is falling apart badly lol. Battery dies in 5-6 hours, reception is almost nonexistent, GPS works 1/10 of the time, phone gets extremely hot doing anything. Anyway... I need something new...badly and I wanted to get some outside ideas in case there is a good device for me that I just don't know exists. I gave up on the Axon 7 since CM development was having issues with audio and in generally flashing on the device was too risky for my tastes. (Risky as in easy to blow up).

New Device Requirements:

Software & Root:

The first and MOST IMPORTANT THING... Device needs to have active dev support. If it will take me 5+ hours to unlock and root it, require an act of all historic religious deities, and has a 50% chance of exploding for no reason or deleting it's IMEI. Then no way. Basically anything with current TWRP & CM/LOS support. If the device checks every mark but this one, it is a no go.

Screen:

Generally 5.5" is the perfect size IMHO. Don't really want to go too much below or over that size. I really dislike amoled panels also. A 5.5" 1080p IPS is the best for me. Don't want/need 1440p UNLESS the device is larger than 5.5" OR if the panel is an AMOLED (To avoid the amoled screen door effect nonsense. Full RGB amoled is prefered (yeah it is sadly rare) as well if possible, if amoled is a must. Really want something respectably close to around 6500K, OR at least a phone that with root I can correct myself.

Battery:

As manly as possible

. Don't care about quick charging nonsense. I just need a phone with a battery that can seriously take a beating. Something that could easily manage 5.5+ hours of SOT over a 20 hour period without having to turn off every function of the device (within reason). If that helps give an idea. In generally nothing under 3200mah. Really the higher the better.

Performance:

Nothing weaker than the equivalent performance of a SnapD. 801 (Prefer something close to SD820) Don't need the best/newest CPU but I don't want some garbage CPU that is slower that what I have now, defeats the point of upgrading basically.

RAM:

No less than 3GB of ram, no point in going back in time spec wise.

Speakers:

Stereo speakers mega prefered but sadly OEM's have thrown them out the window mostly. A single/dual front/bottom firing speaker that DOES NOT SOUND LIKE GARBAGE is required. I don't want to spend $400+ on a piece of technology only to have it sound like a blown 5$ walmart speaker when my ringtone/notification tone plays. Doesn't have to be ultra loud, just loud and quality. (Basically not trash). Lastly, rear firing speakers are an absolute NO. Might as well not even have one at that point.

Audio:

A Hi-Fi DAC would be MAGICAL, but obviously (and sadly) not all phones have them. Should either have a Hi-Fi DAC or support a external (a/c or battery powered) USB DAC.

Wireless:

LTE (Obviously), Wifi 5.0ghz (Obviously), Bluetooth 4.1+, and NFC are my big 4 requirements. Don't need an fm/am radio but won't reject it if it is there. Also, really would like if the GPS actually worked. lol

Connectivity:

MicroUSB is fine, USB type c would be better but as long as I can get everything else on this list I would forgo the Type C port in exchange. 3.5mm Analog Audio Jack is required, no idea why this is even a choice now days...

Camera:

Just needs to be better than an OPO. I don't need the best but really nothing under 13mp. Slow Motion 120fps

or higher

is really prefered. Don't give a poop about 4k. OIS is GREATLY prefered as my hands are shaky.

Storage:

No less than 32GB of ram with a microSD slot, UNLESS the device has 128GB or more so I actually have space.

Carriers:

All 4 carriers would be cool, but generally just GSM (AT&T/TMobile). If a device has everything else on this list but cannot support Verizon that is acceptable. Basically Verizon is a bonus.

Price:

No more than $500. That is an absolute limit, any more than that and I might as well buy a real computer lol. Only if there was some magic device that super checked all the boxes on this list exceptionally so would begin to slightly go over that amount.

Open to any and all suggestions as long as they are decently close to the requirements above. Really appreciate any help!!

Thanks guys :3