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Mateo1041

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My phone keeps rebooting no matter the ROM / kernel. I'm not sure if I'd root right away, but would love to find a new more modern phone with good root community support.

Any ideas?

I'm currently with Sprint, but at end of contract, so can technically go with anyone. I use my current phone for just about everything including SMS, email, social networking, reminders, calendar, you name it. And with a new phone, I'd also like to be able to play games without my phone rebooting all the time.

Thanks for any help.
 
yeah the ones rx mentioned would be the top three in my book as well. all three have a great community going and they are great phones as well. i'm a little partial to the evo lte since that is what i have. but i do not think you can go wrong with any of those phones.
 
I was getting ready to ask the same within this sub forum as no one here as steered me wrong before. However I was looking at the LG optimus g. Anyone care to chime in on lg phones? I want to try something different from HTC and sense.
 
sanity29 said:
I was getting ready to ask the same within this sub forum as no one here as steered me wrong before. However I was looking at the LG optimus g. Anyone care to chime in on lg phones? I want to try something different from HTC and sense.
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It's UI is very similar to touchwiz. It has some pretty cool features though, its what I'm considering for my next phone. That or the J Butterfly.

The only thing with LG is that I've read over on android police that they will have a locked bootloader which will make flashing ROMs difficult. The Sprint version can be rooted though, again only read over on android central.

It feels very nice though, and is smooth and fast. It seems to multi-task well (the video overlay feature is pretty cool, although I dunno how often I'd use it). If you get the chance play with it in store!
 
Gnex. The dev support is overwhelming. If you want dev support you won't be disappointed.

There are like 10 different kernels, a bunch of ROMs and in another week or so, we'll have 4.2 up and running. If you love android, you owe it to yourself to get a nexus device. I likely will stay on nexus line stuff going forward.
 
My nexus7 cured my flashaholism.


I get to stay up to date the same day a new version of android is released via an official ota, and get to keep that killer sense camera on my phone

Best of both worlds
 
As much as I love my og evo, I want to try something different. Both my android devices I have ever owned have been HTC (The hero and the EVO). I want to try another company with my upgrade. Samsung looks good, but I can't get over the LG specs. Sadly, I have read that LG sucks with updates and support. I'm hoping that their new friendship with google will turn things around for them as it did for samsung. I know that is a risk, but that is why I asked what others might suggest that isn't htc?
 
sanity29 said:
As much as I love my og evo, I want to try something different. Both my android devices I have ever owned have been HTC (The hero and the EVO). I want to try another company with my upgrade. Samsung looks good, but I can't get over the LG specs. Sadly, I have read that LG sucks with updates and support. I'm hoping that their new friendship with google will turn things around for them as it did for samsung. I know that is a risk, but that is why I asked what others might suggest that isn't htc?
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well if it is the nexus 4, that is one thing i would not worry about as this will be google's next baby. you will be one of the few to get the next os (keylime pie?) whenever that gets out. google treats its nexus line very well. plus there will be tons of dev support for it. i would not worry about it.
 
ocnbrze said:
well if it is the nexus 4, that is one thing i would not worry about as this will be google's next baby. you will be one of the few to get the next os (keylime pie?) whenever that gets out. google treats its nexus line very well. plus there will be tons of dev support for it. i would not worry about it.
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+1 to that

I've never owned a nexus device but I've heard as far as updates/upgrades the nexus line normally gets them first.

And root support is crazy good too. Can't go wrong with a nexus device.
 
dragonslayer95 said:
+1 to that

I've never owned a nexus device but I've heard as far as updates/upgrades the nexus line normally gets them first.

And root support is crazy good too. Can't go wrong with a nexus device.
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Not only does nexus get them first, most everything works immediately.
 
sanity29 said:
not the nexus as sprint isn't getting that......yet?
I was referring to the LG optimus g.
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The nexus 4 is not announced for sprint yet. The optimus g is essentially the same hardware. But it's not a nexus so software updates won't be as good.
 
I'm chalking that up to google giving sprint and Verizon a little spankin for being so bad with updates in the past on nexus devices
 
Thanks guys. I'm considering the Nexus 4 as it would really match my sentiment on phone freedom. I don't mind some of the cons like no SD card slot, but am a bit bothered by no removable battery, especially since my current EVO 4G needed a battery replacement recently. How long do these batteries actually last for the phone to still be considered usable?
 
Mateo1041 said:
Thanks guys. I'm considering the Nexus 4 as it would really match my sentiment on phone freedom. I don't mind some of the cons like no SD card slot, but am a bit bothered by no removable battery, especially since my current EVO 4G needed a battery replacement recently. How long do these batteries actually last for the phone to still be considered usable?
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Generally they should last 2 years at least. But they have a finite number of charge cycles overall. Not sure what that number is.
 
MizzouBrent said:
Generally they should last 2 years at least. But they have a finite number of charge cycles overall. Not sure what that number is.
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And you throw sbc into the mix, life of the battery may be even shorter:eek:. Stock phone batteries(unrooted phones), I would hope that the battery would last longer than 2 years considering you can't replace the battery in some of these phones
 
Its only a few screws to remove the ltevos battery. Its not overly complicated and could easily be done by the user when the time comes
 
andygu3 said:
And you throw sbc into the mix, life of the battery may be even shorter:eek:. Stock phone batteries(unrooted phones), I would hope that the battery would last longer than 2 years considering you can't replace the battery in some of these phones
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I don't know how many phones SBC exists for....definitely does not exist on the galaxy nexus.
 
Rxpert83 said:
Its only a few screws to remove the ltevos battery. Its not overly complicated and could easily be done by the user when the time comes
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That sounds simple enough:D





MizzouBrent said:
I don't know how many phones SBC exists for....definitely does not exist on the galaxy nexus.
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Rxpert83 said:
No go on the ltevo as well
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Tell me again why buying a new phone is sooooooooo awesome? It seems that no matter what, we are/were the most spoiled phone owners with the Evo, development will never reach the heights that the og Evo will/did ever again, imo:)
 
The gnex is so much faster and more smooth than the og. The og was great but it does not compare to the dual core phones on the market. Jellybean is just incredibly smooth. I had the og active for a couple days awhile back and it felt like I was in quicksand.
 
Rxpert83 said:
Same with ICS to JB. I can't run ICS ROMs anymore because JB is just so fast. I feel like its crawling along.
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Yea, it's hard for me as well to run any JB/ICS roms on the Evo since my Prime has JB on it. If people are going to run aosp roms on their evo then reloaded is the way to go, imo
 
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