[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] #Henkate:
For sure it's still too much (well, for me even 400 is much xD) and it sucks that's resold there for more.

Some time ago i was thinking about the same thing: the feeling of needing to buy a new phone although you may not need that at all and i agree with you about the phone addiction. You know, when my first Nova was dead i had to use Galaxy S Advance or Galaxy S3 Neo (mom's phone) which is such a downgrade to Nova, especially the S Advance.

Then I was missing the Nova so much and it made me realise that I should be happy with what I have. You know, just like you and other people, I've also had the feeling of wanting to buy a new phone when I've had the first Nova (even if I don't have money). The feel comes and goes, at least that's how it was in my case. However, since I've got the second Nova, I didn't really had that feeling, maybe just 1-2 times and when that feel came, I've reminded myself how was back then without Nova and the feel kinda went away. The current phone works fine, so why a new phone?

This is like a loop. Every year new phone appears, every year people are seeking for new phones. Foldable phones will appear, but who does needs that shit? How's that smart? How's that helping you? I'd call it just a gimmick.

I'VE GOT A NEW PHONE!

On 8th December I've been PM-ed by a guy (surprisingly RO, just like me) asking how's my Nova. He must've read before that it fall in the toilet and that's dead. And then he asked me the model of the Nova, i've told him and he checked a website from here (olx.ro) to see how much costs and said 800 RON which is about 170 euros. Then he requested me an IBAN, which is the bank account number lol. So, I've gave him the IBAN and then he gave me a pic with the confirmation that he sent me 800 RON.

On 9th I've told him:

He answered: "You can do anything with the money, you don't have to buy a Nova. Maybe this was a sign to leave Huawei". He didn't mention anything about the dc-unlocker, probably he had no idea about that.

On 10th I've got the money. Considering that he allowed me to do anything with the money / to buy another phone and that I didn't know if dc-unlocker still works (perhaps I should've asked y'all here), I've went to the shop to buy a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 (the note 5 pro model, but the global model is just note 5) 64gb / 4gb ram black. It was 869 RON on a popular website (the cheapest I could find) and father helped me with the 69 RON which is about 14.83 euros. The codename of this phone is whyred.

The guy who helped me with money wanted to stay anonymous when I've asked him about his XDA username. He doesn't own Nova and never owned it.

In a way I'm felling sorry for y'all that I've picked another phone, but I'll still try to repair the nova on my own though, as I've promised. [MENTION=6875738]acerspyro[/MENTION] on 13th I could finally withdraw the money from Patreon to paypal (they were locked for 5 days or so to verify my acc) but after I've withdrawed them, they've said that I have to wait another 10 days for another verification lol. On 14th I've got the money from Patreon on PayPal, so it seemed that i didn't had to wait that 10 days for some reason.

Here's a comparison about Nova vs whyred (my opinion):

- nova's design is feeling somewhat more premium while holding it in hand even though both have an aluminium body. It just feels better

- another thing which makes it clearly that nova has better quality build is the fact that whyred's sim tray is so fragile as it's made of plastic or whatever, while nova's one is made of aluminium and of course is so robust

- whyred has faster fingerprint, it's kinda unlocking instantly lol

- whyred is overall faster since it has a newer qcom chipset

- whyred has a stronger flash

- possibly the calls are better on the whyred. When I've spoke with mom when I was at shop, it was so loud and there was no troubles in hearing her

- i like MIUI more than emui and it feels way more polished. And btw, i've recently heard that emui would be based on miui, but i still haven't done a research about this. Emui has some things similar as miui though. Miui was also out before emui. Privacy wise, I think that MIUI is worse.

- whyred's USB cable is moving left-right when plugged, even with a different cable... It's another thing which shows that Nova has a better build quality. A guy told me that it doesn't happen with a charger with a better quality though, but still, the stock charger shouldn't be like that

- inside the whyred's box, it smells like shit, including the manuals xD it smells like a cheap / Chinese thing if you know what I mean. Well yeah, is just a box though xD

- I heard that some (or many) people have a problem called screen retention (check youtube) and apparently it was on Redmi Note 4 too. From what I've read on XDA, it can be fixed with KCAL or reading mode (changing the screen settings). Other people says that it started to happen after unlocking the bootloader and flashing ROMs, other says to not use dark theme because that's what causes it and so on. I dunno even what's the cause, but the fix seems to be KCAL or reading mode. Hopefully I won't get it...

Nova has really better quality build, feels more robust and durable. If whyred would fall on the street, I think I'd be more worried about it than Nova. I can't really complain about whyred's build quality for those money though and it was basically free after all xD.

As for the transition from 5 inch screen 16:9 to 5.99 inch screen 18:9, well, i got used to it quite fast considering that I was using S Advance with 4 inch screen since nova was dead, but it's still too big for a phone in my opinion x I don't have troubles at all in reaching the status bar (right top corner) with the finger from the right hand when I'm holding it, but e.g. if I were to reach the WiFi toggle from notification bar which is in left, it's becoming troublesome a bit, but I can reach it. Now when I'm holding the Nova in hand it looks / feels so small lol.

PS: I've got to wait 332 hours (about 13 days) when I've requested to unlock the bootloader. I was quite lucky considering that there are people who had to wait 1 months or more. I've read that some people had to wait more time when the time was up, but I don't know about that.