Help Am I wasting my time with Gingerbread?

[Carrotpipe]

Hi folks, just found your forum and enjoying the threads so far. Just a quickie. Recently dusted off an old T Mobile Vivacity running Gingerbread as it was gathering dust and I needed a phone to play spotify on. The phone itself is ok and for the price pretty good really - but the more I use it the more glitchy and tempramental it becomes - I'm no expert but managed to sort out some of the problems myself by doing basic stuff like remounting the SD card, clearing the cache, rebooting the phone etc etc. I appreciate Gingerbread is a bit old hat now and probably not even fully supported - so am I wasting my time delving into things further to get it running smoothly or should I give up the ghost and upgrade to a better phone? Any help for this newbie much appreciated. Cheers

 

[Guggy]

I have tried to look for support on your device for upgrading, and found nothing, So if I were you, i'd upgrade to a Galaxy S2 or something similar, they are cheap, around $50-60.

 

[girolez]

Hi

Yes, I agree. Get a better phone, 0.5GB of internal memory is just not enough these days. Apps (particularly the commonly used ones) are getting much bigger year on year. I would not consider a (new) phone with less than 2gB ram (perhaps 1gB for second hand) and 16gB internal storage these days.

Roger

 

[hiredgun]

While I agree with the first two answers, I'd also like to say it depends on the use that you are going to give it. I have an older phone that has Gingerbread, and for some strange reason, it's still my favorite stock keyboard out of all of them so far. I also only use it when I'm at home to play the older "puzzle" kind of Android games, as if it were a small gaming console, and it works just fine for that. If you are only going to use it for Spotify, and it runs that well, why spend more money on a better model?