/spg/ - Smartphone General

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If requesting purchasing advice, please provide your country and what carrier you will be using it with, along with wanted features, budget and size.

Good resources:
>Reviews, specs, comparisons
gsmarena.com
phonearena.com
kimovil.com

>Frequency checker
willmyphonework.net
frequencycheck.com

>Chinkphone news
gizchina.com
gizmochina.com

>Recommended Chinkphones
pastebin.com/eMtwGjJX (embed)

>Post a mini-review of your phone
>Discuss upcoming and current models
>Ask for help related to phones
>Tell us how much shekels you spent on good/bad phone
>PRAISE THE CHINKPHONES unless you live in America you shits

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First for Constanze!

Why none of the manufacturers bring phones with Oreo? Everything is still in 7.1.2. Are they afraid of Treble?

They lazy as fuck so avoid em.

Anybody playing on emulators on the Note 8? I'm curious how well psp runs on it and how well the two screens fit playing DS.

Just got my brand new Oneplus 3T in the mail. Best phone I've ever owned, night and day difference in speed compared to my Nexus 5X.

what's the absolute best way to root an android phone in 2018?

Feels good being part of the 0.01% who have Treble

Unlock bootloader, flash twrp, install root.

This pixel 2 experience is fantastic

Second gen Nokia 6 stateside when

Comparable smartphones to the Samsung Galaxy A5? MI A1 and Moto G5 are unavailable in my country(Macedonia).

Also don't forget to flash magisk.

do we agree the pixel 2 xl is the best phone of 2017?

>note8_gif_saying_no.gif

Shit screen.

3-6 month after the rest of the third world I'd guess.

Does Xiaomi redmi note 5 coming any time soon with 8.0 and project treble?

Who here has installed the Google camera port on their device? It may sound stupid but I'm trying to install the apk on my pixel 2 for the raw support but I'm not sure if it's possible in my case.

Tuturu

>Xiaomi
>treble

Don't be so ridiculous m8. They give no fucks about conventional android updates.

The Nokia 6 2018 is going to have an SD630, smaller bezels, back placed fingerprint scanner and priced at around $230

Only con is launching with 7.1.2 but HMD should be able to update stock android pretty easily so its not that big of an issue

Probably gonna release 3 months later in the west, so I can see Oreo outta the box. Same thing happened with the 2017 one, Marshmallow in China, Nouga in the west.

>bought midrange phone 2.5 years ago
>still smooth, still does everything I want, battery life has gone from phenomenal to merely great
>bought it outright, and have dirt cheap monthly SIM that is more than enough for me
>no intention of upgrading for at least 2.5 more years, hopefully much more

Who else /bad goyim/ here?

Not likely. Devices launching with Oreo out of the box are required to support treble so expect to see 7.1.2 on a lot of midrange and below devices right through til 2019.

2017 Nokia 6 never had Marshmallow, launched with Android 7.0 in China

Can anyone help me out?

can't wait

Why does my Nexus 5 feel than my Moto X Pure, Moto G5 Plus and a lot of other phones?! It's such a great phone. Will probably buy a Pixel 1 sometime

implying that your battery didn't die in the time it took to type that

Is Xiaomi Redmi 5A the best choice for a poorfag?

Also what's your opinion on Xiaomi and Meizu?

Getting 4 hours of SOT (with greenify) whilst having it charged in an hour.

greenify is a scam.

this will be my next phone. nokia pls

youtube.com/watch?v=EZRzeb-3DIk

...

>tfw broke my g4 screen

i rly hope these aren't hard to replace albc i just ordered a toolkit and a new one

Not if you are rooted, I'm also running dark rom

youtube.com/watch?v=_gEjmghHkD8

>6.3'' 1440x2960 screen
>3300 mAh battery

enjoy your 2 hours of SoT

It's been over a year since my girlfriend at the time bought me this fucking iPhone 6s Plus and I can't stand it anymore. I currently live in China and money is no object. Is the LG V30 the best gym flagship?

Get a Oneplus 5T, luv stock android

Removing the old one is the hard part but at least you don't have to worry about destroying it. Just prepare for lots of glue.

I was thinking about this, too. I want some good tunes for the gym, tho, and that special DAC on the V30 seems good. Is it just a meme?

Probably only hearable if you are using hi fi audio products

same

What should I do to the xiaomi note5a I just got. Is there a preferred root method to remove the chinese spy shit?

Is there a list of the best apps for various purposes, file browser/launcher/web browser/etc

Good question, bump

TWRP -> Magisk for root -

Just bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 8, upgraded from a Samsung Juke I had since I was a kid.

just got the v30 last night.

i also bought the v30 for the dac, and it really doesn't make a huge difference in sound quality through my (admittedly battered) ATH-M50x's. It sounds clearer, but it's not night and day, compared to my shitty moto g3 but you really have to be paying attention to pick up on it.

Honestly considered returning this (screen's a bit weird anyway) and getting the s8 instead because it's ~$200 cheaper + better software updates + more features.

happy to answer any other questions on the v30 btw

to add on this:

this is the first time i've spent flagship money on phones in 4 years. my previous flagship was the lg g2, and holy shit does anyone else feel like phone development has stagnated? there has to be something i'm not seeing apart from the marginally better screens/camera

>tiny crack on Sony phone
>whole screen becomes useless
>have to disassemble the whole thing to replace it
>both the back and front are glued

What's with sub par display though?

I want to sell my iPhone 6s and get a better phone, where should I go about selling it?

I've sold plenty of phones on Craiglist easily enough

Swappa if you are willing to ship it

how does it feel buying a used cell phone? Just imagining someone watching porn or idk doing some weird shit on it disturbs me.

No buy if they don't fucking unlock the bootloader already. Seriously, without root and custom roms, these things are just shiny trash.

This fucker is massive

So for some reason an XL got inserted into your post

It got fixed, at least the newer models

absolutely not. that would be the Note 8. and that's coming from someone who would never buy one

Well there's that but I was talking more about the better battery life with the same CPU & other internals

Any phones similar to the Redmi Note 4x but without capacitive buttons? I see the 5 Plus, but I don't feel like paying $60 extra for a Note 4x with a bigger screen and a (slightly) shittier battery., though I may do it in the end.
Namely I need 3~4GB RAM, able to use mSD cards, 4000+ mAh battery. I'm in North America so long I have 850/1900 I'm probably fine

handlet

but the phone nekked feels like what a phone should be size and weight wise

Got my OP5t today, what are some things I should do to with it to improve battery and those kinds of things.
Or are those "charge your battery a full day befote using" 'tricks' just placebos ?

Just keep it in the 20-80% range most of the time and you should be fine. don't run it to zero for max SOT or leave it sit on the charger full at 100% forever

I need a good budget phone for my mom.
She pretty much just uses it for whatsapp, facebook, photos and so on. Light usage.
It needs to have an easy, friendly interface too. Something like Motorola. Easy to understand.

I was thinking the C Plus or the G4 Play.
Any other suggestions around that price range?

G5s, redmi note 4/4x, Mi A1

These need to be in the damn OP

So I know this probably gets asked a million times a day and I’m really sorry in advance, but it’s been a while since I messed with a phone.

Any jailbreak for an iPhone 7 that isn’t filled with shitware or Trojans? Want to be able to get the apps that aren’t on the jewTunes store and send messages from my PC, etc. along with just having it look better.

I mean absolute low-end, my man.

Anybody know where I can get an IBN 5100 from?

Then you should go like, just the cheapest your carrier has or you can get the samsung low range or even supermarket phones. Anything that spec is all fine and the same
Better getting a cheaper old phone that you know is good, like an old flagship

Looking for a 5 inch(or less) phone with a good camera. A phone that is not an iPhone or Pixel, that is.

And since I live in the US I cannot buy Xiaomi or Meizu unfortunately.

Thanks.

>And since I live in the US I cannot buy Xiaomi or Meizu unfortunately.

Y-yes you can...

I have some phones I'd like to revive with newer Android versions, any help is appreciated.
> HTC One M7
> Samsung Galaxy Note III
> Samsung Galaxy S II
> Samsung Infuse
Also best grill coming through.

1975
And hurry up, I feel communism creeping up on us.

can you connect a WIRED controller to a phone (like galaxy s8)? or does it always have to be bluetooth

i worry about latency

Im not clicking on that.

In like 2 years i went from blue pilled to moderate to conservative. Then came to Sup Forums and started getting into race issues and more extreme red pill shit.

But in the last 2 weeks im kind of getting repulsed by Sup Forums posters claiming to be superior while sitting at home sharing videos of people being tortured or whatever.

So there's all these "nigger hate threads"....as much as i see that black people cause all their own problems, 95% of black people still have enough humanity in them not to share disgusting videos on the internet.

Sup Forums posters are ironically worse human beings than any of the groups they talk shit about.

Note 8 crew itt

OP5T or Pixel 2 fellas?

P2xl

I did some review reading and one of the reviews mentiond how the XL has a shittier screen than the regular 2?

A5 2017 Oreo WHEN ?!

the only problem is the blue tint caused by the sunglasses polarizer when viewed at an angle and it looks like they've fixed that on newer iterations.

What Carrier are they from because if it's a Verizon or AT&T version of those phones them you might be screwed.

They're all AT&T. I once flashed CyanogenMod on the M7 so I'm familiar with the process for that one. Did I get jewed?

where can I find the stock oreo boot.img for the mi a1 ?
tried one from xda, but i guess it was for nougat, since it didn't boot and had to flash the previous one i had

It depends on the software version your running on all your devices because AT&T could have patched and locked down the phones. I recommended looking up the AT&T versions of your phones on XDA to see how easy or difficult it is to modify them.

What will be the Redmi Note 4 (Global) of 2018?

Yes

Nokia 6(2018) or the Sony XA2 if priced cheap enough. Rumors are flying about that LG's K Series this year is also going to enter the SD630 arena this year with similar specs to everyone else, so who knows. 2018 in the mid range tier is gonna be a bloodbath if all these big brand phones have little flaws and good word of mouth.

I don't know how outdated this is but it exists
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/List_of_recommended_Android_software

did you reply to the wrong thread?

>Angry Birds

VERY outdated.

Is Naked Browser FOSS? I can't seem to find its source code anywhere.

nvm, the official website says "free as in price". Into the trash it goes.

I just had mine for like 3 days, it doesnt dissapoint. For once Sup Forums wasnt shilling, its actually good.

And no burn in whatsoever yet.

Are there any smartphones at all out there that limit your ability to be tracked?

Phones are tracking devices by nature. Don't like it don't use them.

Should I wait for this or get the current nokia 8?