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tavisc

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Its time for me to move on. I love this phone, but my battery is shot, and the phone itself has some damage from where I've accidentally dropped it.

Before I move on, I want to get some opinions on which phone I should get. I've been looking at the Optimus F3, the Galaxy Victory, and of course, the Galaxy S3. They all look like capable phones, but I'm a huge fan of custom roms. This will be my fourth phone, (along with various tablets) to get a custom rom.

So which phone is best? I'm leaning towards the S3, but if I can save some money by going with something cheaper, and still be able to find some great roms, I may do that.

Help, please?
 
tavisc said:
Its time for me to move on. I love this phone, but my battery is shot, and the phone itself has some damage from where I've accidentally dropped it.

Before I move on, I want to get some opinions on which phone I should get. I've been looking at the Optimus F3, the Galaxy Victory, and of course, the Galaxy S3. They all look like capable phones, but I'm a huge fan of custom roms. This will be my fourth phone, (along with various tablets) to get a custom rom.

So which phone is best? I'm leaning towards the S3, but if I can save some money by going with something cheaper, and still be able to find some great roms, I may do that.

Help, please?
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I would have to say the S3. It will probably have the longest "support" from 3rd party devs since it's a really popular handset, kind of like the Evo V (borrowing ROMs from the Evo 3D of course). I mean; I got 4.3 going on my Evo. That's got to be a testament to something.
 
New_droid said:
Anyone heard any rumors on a new phone from VM?
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I punched in "Nexus 5 Virgin Mobile" on Google yesterday; and got a little excited, but further reading stated that it was for Virgin Mobile Canada. VM US likes to hardware-lock their phones; so I can't get a Nexus 5 unlocked and a SIM from Virgin Mobile.

Kind of sucks actually, I was looking forward to keeping my VM service.
 
Branhower said:
I punched in "Nexus 5 Virgin Mobile" on Google yesterday; and got a little excited, but further reading stated that it was for Virgin Mobile Canada. VM US likes to hardware-lock their phones; so I can't get a Nexus 5 unlocked and a SIM from Virgin Mobile.

Kind of sucks actually, I was looking forward to keeping my VM service.
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Yeah, VM is CDMA only here in the states.
 
Was wondering I moved onto LG F3 but is their a way to remove my account off the Evo V 3d I was gonna give it to a friend of mine but wiping formats don't get rid of the username @ virgin mobile & my number in LessAnns Rom settings About phone ? I've got my Msl # so was wondering if their is something I have to edit to remove my virgin User name & phone number off it that a hard reset or wipe or new ROM install doesn't fix like a dialer code
 
I almost fell for the eBay buy byop Virgin mobile Sims they too where Canada & they said they would work in USA but different pricing & it would be roaming so not worth it
 
I've got an F3, and as a very heavy like every minute of the day on the battery I get at least 8 hours of screen on time. If I put it in airplane mode in my pocket for my entire 8 hour work shift it doesn't even go down 1%. Stays at 100%. So battery is better then any of the other phones your thinking about.

Hands down the S3 will have most roms, but again that means more bugs. The F3 is nearly perfect from stock. Runs at 1.2ghz and I have almost never ever had even a second or two of lag. Everything on it works flawlessly.

Only problem is there is no roms yet, but we have root and recovery which is fairly easy to apply. You'd want to root, then install the stock Rom, as it has a loki'd boot.img that will prevent a factory reset from happening every time you enter recovery with an app, otherwise you have to do button combo every time to avoid getting reset. It was a panic mode bug LG put in, but we have a developer that fixed that.

Also, we have a Cyanogenmod10 rom being worked on as our first rom, the same developer that uploaded the stock Rom I believe... He says he just built it and it only works like 20% right now, but has plans to go to Kitkat after its finished, and it's on the same Android version as our Stock android so it can't be too hard, and we have source files and he's building it from source. :) also we have a mod to remove this annoying qslide apps out of the status bar. (very annoying.) it's just a replacement systemui.apk. The phones fairly light as well and the camera is pretty decent for a 5 megapixel. Sadly, you missed the sale radioshack had it for $79 I think around Thanksgiving. I paid $180. Idk the current price, but either way, it's still pretty worth it and I don't think you would have ANY complaints with it. Links2sd works on it and everything, and has 1.2gb's of internal space. Oh and what's great?? I have only had ONE random reboot since I've had the phone. Which I bought like 5 months ago. It's a very well built phone for being on stock. And xposed works on it as well I've been told.

Oh and the only problem with installing the modified stock Rom that's pre rooted, is that it breaks activation I think, but all you have to do is reactivate. Doesn't take more then a few minutes tho, and it doesn't happen again as long as you don't reinstall again so just make a nandroid backup.


That about covers everything about this phone that I can think of off the top of my head. :p I'd really go for the F3. Roms aren't that far away, just need a few more devs to come and help out and give some time to our current one.
 
Might get it anyhow the Victory because its LTE & some development & Roms not many I do know that I am new to a lot of this stuff but before its back up to 249.99 the LG F3 is nice but has 1 gig ROM & The Victory has 4 ROM I am unsure how much either Android os Takes up before so even Though F3 is newer the Victory does kind of to me sound better however I've seen there is several variance carriers of The F3 so if it is ever truly Unlocked it may have the most rom s to port but I have very little knowledge of Samsung devices so its always a terror thrill addiction feeling when making that bold move too root & install recovery then a custom ROM before getting either the sigh of relief or sigh of dead phone & Sorrows
 
I agree with the OP, my battery isnt great either and this is the 2nd one I have had.
The phone is also falling apart, the left rim has separated from the case.

I havent read many good things about the F3, I am hoping Virgin get the Moto soon.
 
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