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amazinz5

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I'm thinking about getting the stratosphere because it'd be free. I had been waiting for a newer LG to come out but I've been waiting for months. My brother says the stratosphere isn't popular enough to have custom roms like the lg ally, which i'm using now. can anyone tell me what the situation is with rooting and using custom roms?
 
I should add, the combination of limited internal memory and extraneous apps preinstalled made rooting and flashing a faster rom pretty much a necessity, can anyone comment on how the stratosphere runs/amount of apps you can install before affecting performance?
 
The Stratosphere has been rooted for a while now and we're on the verge of having a fully working ClockworkMod recovery. The phone runs great without bloatware and I'm sure we'll see a working Cyanogen soon after the Droid Charge (or at least, I hope so).

This phone has a bright future in development since the bootloader and everything are unlocked, as well as the fact that it's still quite a young phone.
 
amazinz5 said:
I should add, the combination of limited internal memory and extraneous apps preinstalled made rooting and flashing a faster rom pretty much a necessity, can anyone comment on how the stratosphere runs/amount of apps you can install before affecting performance?
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I too had an ally. the stratosphere is a naturea succesor to the ally.
but no custome roms yet. but we have root.
if you had an ally you will find the stock performanace for the stra tot be fantastic. the nthings you needed a custom rom for like over clocking and dalvik to cache are not needed.
ther interna storage on the strat is hyge. (2gb?) i have moved NOTGHING to teh sd card yet.

lots of blaot ware. it can be removed with root, but I am waritng for a recover before I remove anything so I can doa nandroid first.

screen is gorgous, battery is good, LTE is fast. the keyboard is good and roomy but not quite a snice as the ally, that being said it also comes wth swype, so I find I use the kbd less than on the ally.
 
The phone does seem like a natural successor to the Ally (I had one as well), but I've gotta chime in on the battery: it's horrible. With 4G enabled, I'm lucky to have the phone last past lunch. Since turning 4G off, I've had a little bit of a bump (I can take it off the charger at 8am and have it last until 2:30pm), but all in all it's a HUGE disappointment.

I'm hoping that a bloat-free rom will solve some of the battery issues, but the most important thing that will come with the dev work will be the ability to theme this bad boy. Samsung's skin is fugly. Can't wait to get a true AOSP theme on it.
 
greenless, i have to ask what you are doing with the phone that you only get 4-6 hours out of the battery, i charge mine at night and it runs from btwn 7 and 8 am until i go to sleep at midnight, its around 15-20% battery remaining when i plug it in at night, no im not rooted yet, i have too many other things going on right now, hopefully ill get to it after xmas.
 
I also get decent life with 4g and wifi on. I work from home so using wifi a lot of the time. but I have never turned 4g off and very realey do I have an issue.
 
I'm not rooted, and I'm running ADW EX.

I play Words With Friends a couple times throughout the day and I have 3 Gmail accounts and 1 exchange account syncing throughout the day.

That's about it.

If I stream a podcast with Stitcher Radio with my phone plugged into the car charger, I'll have LESS battery than I started with when it's over.
 
thanks for the info guys. found out the bionic is $80 pre-owned. that, along with the dual-core, more storage, and selection of roms already available make this a cant-pass. gonna be weird not having qwerty but it'll be exciting to go from a POS to a high end 4g phone. good luck getting your cwm and roms and everything.
 
I'll concede the Bionic is a nice piece of hardware. A little disappointing after how Motorola botched it, but nice nonetheless. The deal killer for me? No keyboard.

That and it's Motorola. Never getting another locked down phone again.
 
p_025 said:
I'll concede the Bionic is a nice piece of hardware. A little disappointing after how Motorola botched it, but nice nonetheless. The deal killer for me? No keyboard.

That and it's Motorola. Never getting another locked down phone again.
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I'm assuming you're referring to the bootloader...what does that mean outside of overclocking? I can't imagine needing to oc this thing.
 
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