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No hard feelings. LOL.
My real question is do you think HD2 development will die and finish in next 3-6 months after creating successful ICS ports of CM9, AOKP and SENSE 4.
My opinion is that we have 6 more months of development and maybe 1-2 years of use ICS roms before HD2 era ends. I've been using HD2 for 2 years and but i think in next 12-24 months it will be retirement of most HD2's.
Little digression. Main reason i see for leaving HD2 is becouse i want less freedom with phone. LOL. Sounds funny but i keep changing ROMs more often than i change my socks. I use my HD2 more for trying and testing different ROM's than i do for talking This device is so good that it cant even be called a phone or smartphone. Other reason for leaving is that i really like new HTC One X but im afraid that no other phone will be as much as fun as HD2.
denyboy said:
Just joking
No hard feelings. LOL.
My real question is do you think HD2 development will die and finish in next 3-6 months after creating successful ICS ports of CM9, AOKP and SENSE 4.
My opinion is that we have 6 more months of development and maybe 1-2 years of use ICS roms before HD2 era ends. I've been using HD2 for 2 years and but i think in next 12-24 months it will be retirement of most HD2's.
Little digression. Main reason i see for leaving HD2 is becouse i want less freedom with phone. LOL. Sounds funny but i keep changing ROMs more often than i change my socks. I use my HD2 more for trying and testing different ROM's than i do for talking This device is so good that it cant even be called a phone or smartphone. Other reason for leaving is that i really like new HTC One X but im afraid that no other phone will be as much as fun as HD2.
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Lol that title is a pretty good way to gain attention Yeah I would agree with you on the 6 months max more development time although I reckon realistically it will be between 3 and 4 months. I also understand exactly what you mean about the phone being too diverse, we're completely spoiled for choice Since around November I've definitely noticed a massive lull in the amount of activity in the HD2 forum (looking specifically at the Q&A) so soon we're going to be out of developers and development. However, I plan to use my HD2 pretty much until it is unusable really, I'm not on a contract and I see no point upgrading too hastily, only had it since Jan 2011
A year ago i broke my HD2 and after i used hd desire>optimus 3D>nokia lumia today i bought my second HD2.
i was missing old times when i used to "play" with my phone. i dont think people will forget HD2 easily and always will be a smart guy to develop for it.
I bought a nokia lumia on the first day it was out for 500 euro and after few month i am gifting it to my mom. it suck , all those money and i couldn't stop the screen from rotating when i was lied on bed. all those kind of lock they made to prevent any modification of the device software.
developing for HD2 probably will stop the same day it stop for every phone. Big companies are "buying" developers (!chevron) to prevent what happen to HD2. All these years and we are still using that phone. updating to the last software without spending any money.
I agree and will be purchasing a Samsung galaxy s 2 in the near future. I just feel with phones like the HTC one x developers will have more power to work with (eg quad core processor) and our lousy 1ghz won't be enough to pull through, however I'm too poor to own a HTC one x however in my dreams I own many
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I just got my 3rd HD2 & your right denyboy this phones has a grip on us & it needs to release us from it's powers!
No other phone I had(knew) that had so many tinkering & updating, the last phone I spent much time tinkering was the XDA II
maybe next iteration would be Banana Split or Goober Goo Goo
been using my hd2 for a year and i am the happiest guy on earth but its showing signs of age so yeah maybe use it as it was really intended a windows phone as development there seems to be still going strong
I think that the HD2 still has a bit more future ahead. Even if the new hardware is / will be faster then the HD2. I just saw this posting and was very impressed!:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633044
So, if this could be ported to HD2... *puh* there could be future
Hello guys, since our XSP is already 2 years old, I wanted to know some of your thoughts on this phone. Do you regret buying it? Do you think it's still a good phone? Share your opinions here.
PD: Sorry for any mistake, English isn't my native language
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Hello guys, since our XSP is already 2 years old, I wanted to know some of your thoughts on this phone. Do you regret buying it? Do you think it's still a good phone? Share your opinions here.
PD: Sorry for any mistake, English isn't my native language
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In short, it's still Awesome to me!
The best thing is; there's so many stable ROMs to try, I don't think much of 2013 device has any development going now at all. So yeah I'm pretty satisfied.
I think it is a good phone today, but at this time i can say that only if i have stock debloated rom or cm11, lp roms have too much problems and freezes to use it as daily driver for a long time.
Btw i suggest you to try every single rom on this phone if you are getting to it now
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I think it is a good phone today, but at this time i can say that only if i have stock debloated rom or cm11, lp roms have too much problems and freezes to use it as daily driver for a long time.
Btw i suggest you to try every single rom on this phone if you are getting to it now
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Try CM11 by Bagyusz [v150826] if you haven't yet.
It's the smoothest 4.4.4 ROM I've ever used!
I have never even flashed phone than the SP.
The only reason i still have it, i like the colour lights.
Soooo sloww, android 6 rom fixed it but maybe too late?
I still regret buying it. It has been a disappointment for me from the beginning and has given me so much frustration. Honestly I think this phone actually made my life incredibly hard at the worst moments as if it could sense it. If I would have had a good working stable phone, I think I would have been happier the last two years. I'm not kidding and not exaggerating. I really mean this. So I'm very glad that I'm buying a new phone soon... I just have to figure out which one... But when I have one I'll be throwing this ****ty stupid thing against a wall, kick it a few times and throw it in a fire. I've literally had blue knuckles from hitting this phone hoping it was going to do what I wanted it to do. I even flashed and unlocked it and everything which I don't even want and like to do. And then somehow all roms slow down within a week even without installing anything other than whatsapp which seems to work fine for on phones of my friends. So I might even leave android and go for the new Lumia 950. Anyway, never a Sony again because I'm still blaming them for not giving us a stable stock rom and kitkat. I'm done with them, I'm done with this phone and I might be done with android.
So yeah... that is basically the rage this phone has given me.
edit: usually I'm a really, really calm and patient guy... really... but this phone got under my skin so many times, I can stand some amount of lag, but not this amount. I'm traumatised for life.
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I still regret buying it. It has been a disappointment for me from the beginning and has given me so much frustration. Honestly I think this phone actually made my life incredibly hard at the worst moments as if it could sense it. If I would have had a good working stable phone, I think I would have been happier the last two years. I'm not kidding and not exaggerating. I really mean this. So I'm very glad that I'm buying a new phone soon... I just have to figure out which one... But when I have one I'll be throwing this ****ty stupid thing against a wall, kick it a few times and throw it in a fire. I've literally had blue knuckles from hitting this phone hoping it was going to do what I wanted it to do. I even flashed and unlocked it and everything which I don't even want and like to do. And then somehow all roms slow down within a week even without installing anything other than whatsapp which seems to work fine for on phones of my friends. So I might even leave android and go for the new Lumia 950. Anyway, never a Sony again because I'm still blaming them for not giving us a stable stock rom and kitkat. I'm done with them, I'm done with this phone and I might be done with android.
So yeah... that is basically the rage this phone has given me.
edit: usually I'm a really, really calm and patient guy... really... but this phone got under my skin so many times, I can stand some amount of lag, but not this amount. I'm traumatised for life.
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could you just try this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-sp/general/lagfree-want-lagfree-4-days-battery-t3245164
Sometimes I don't like how it lags.
But it's cool to use custom Roms on it.
I have it since 2013, but I want to buy a new one, lag free.
as long as i get new ROMS to try .. i love xsp
using one right now, rooted but with JB 4.3 and stock ROM. it gave me quite a headache at first due to some lag/freezing issues. was able to resolve those issues after deleting the built-in Facebook app.
I love it. It might not be the best phone but I love it. It can easily cover my needs ( mainly lots of video streaming) and I recently went back to stock 4.1.2 (from a 5.1.1 rom) that I've modded on my own. I just can't find something really bad to say about this phone. I'll keep using it as my daily driver until it can't cover my needs.
I have been using mine for 2 years and it is still a really good phone, yes it sometimes very occasionally gets the yellow fading and the memory management could be a bit better but in general it does everything you can ever need. Recently I have been a bit a bored though as I have had no justification to get a new phone So just started playing with the lollipop roms. Definitely given it a new lease of life!
Well i have this phone for a little more than 2 years i fell in love with it's compact design and of course the unique illumination bar,
it's still like day one on the outside, i bought it because my Neo V had dropped of my pocket and went to heaven.
But after 2 years i really got bored with,i didn't have many lags maybe because i don't use it more than average but the worst was that the keyboard kept disappearing and it didn't show up.
With XSP i am doing my first steps at heavy modding flashing etc,i remember those day that i was super happy cause i did made it to change the menu icons in my K800i and i was showing of at school ,anyway,i am afraid to get it bricked but i read tons of pages with one purpose the goal for me with custom roms is to find the battery drain, and the stability (ok ... sort of) of the original version, hopefully.
I definitely won't regret buying it, it worth's it's money, i comfortable keeping it even more, and i am still angry with Sony for not getting 4.4kk .
Peace !
I have it since last 2 years. Sold it last month to try Xperia M5, returned M5 (Because its a horrible phone) and re bought my SP with loss of 10 pounds
Best feature Notification LED and yup Gaming on XSP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> M5
very laggy phone, would not recommend it to anyone
Hi guys,
Yesterday I hard bricked my GS4 trying to update it to marshmellow. The repair will cost $40 and this is after I spent $110 replacing the digitizer. I decided to give up on that device (It was getting a bit beat up anyway).
Walmart is currently selling the ATT version for $250. I bought it but now I am wondering if it is still worth the value now (late 2015). The S4 was starting to show its age especially with the bloatware which is why I was attempting to upgrade the OS. What better place to ask this than a forum full of tech geeks like me who have actually used the device!
So, what do you guys say? Is it worth it now to buy as a daily driver? What do you guys think of the cost? How is the custom rom community? I saw that Samsung EOLed it at 5.0 but what are the chances custom roms will keep going for a few more versions? I have just started to browse this section of xda. The S4 was a hassle especially if people accidentally upgraded it to Lollipop. I know I followed the directions to a T but I still go the hard brick so I am hesitant to attempt to mess around with a Samsung device again.
If anyone has experience with the S4, how is the experience compared to it?
Sorry if this stuff was recently asked, I just quickly browsed the front page of this section
I just got rid of s4 for note 3 also (got mine used £100) note is fantastic but I think you should read read and re read before jumping in. How did you hard brick s4 can you enter bootloader or recovery. As for note 3 I'm running phonesis 5.1.1 as primary and marshmallow test build as secondary rom.
Just get rooted and get a good backup (including efs) and you will be fine
I just really hated the bloatware on the s4 and I thought it really slowed the phone down. My S4 is completely unresponsive, When I plug it into my comp it reads it as an unknown qualcomm device. Do you feel like you could use the note 3 as a daily device for another year?
Yes most definitely nice speed boost from s4 2gb to 3gb makes everything that bit smoother. Stick note5 port on it
Well I don't know which version of S4 you had, but I had the Exynos version and believe me when I say this the software was diabolical, I don't rememeber what version of Android it was, probably KitKat 4.4.2, in any case there was no support for that phone, and had to sell it. Then that hatred of TouchWiz continued in me, and I moved to M7, then sold it in less than couple of months, then bought Moto X 2013, which I literally enjoyed for first two three months, until I realised how pathetic the display was, so sold it and then bought Note 3 last year November, and believe me when I say this, I absolutely love this phone. KitKat was excellent, and despite what people say about ofiicial Lollipop 5.0, I love it too, I don't find any bugs at all! Just wished Xposed was as good as it was on KK. Anyway, for me this phone is performing excellently on 5.0, and especially with Shinto kernel, super smooth.
So if you are not hell-bent with Marshmallow, can live with 5.0 TouchWiz LP, then yes, go on. I believe even with this iteration of Android this phone can run smooth for at least another 5-6 months. Then there are custom ROMs like you said. CM13 is already there, Android 6.0 and all that, I will never touch it, but you know if its your cup of tea, its there. There are Note 5 5.1.1 ports are there as well. Also there are two or three very good to great kernels out there. So I believe if you can live with a decent enough speced phone, then go on, but practically no, I don't think one should get a Note 3 at the end of 2015, especially when Note 4 is really cheap nowadays, and even Note 5 is becoming cheaper gradually, though I am not a fan of it.
I will probably keep using this phone until S7 is announced, then I will have glimpse whether Samsung will bring back user removable battery and IR blaster or not, and I will make my decision accordingly.
I know opening this kind of thread might be weird ! but I want to share my experience with you guys! I already have a OPO purchased in 2014 Nov. I was in love with this device ... I had Nexus 5 , HTC one E8 and OPO at same time.. I never used Nexus 5 because of bad battery life.. although I really loved that device.. Finally 3 months back I gave my OPO to my dad and bought Galaxy S6 . After frustrating 3 months .. I bought another OPO for myself instead of buying any other device .. including n5x, 6p etc etc..
Galaxy S6 has really amazing hardware with most pathetic software ever customized! >.> 3rd party keyboards are always reloaded! i'm like wtf?! OPO / one e8 / n5 had amazing software experience.. and I felt like I went back to 256 MB RAM phones due to Amazing Optimizations by Samsung developers for Galaxy S6!!!
Anyways If you are really thinking to buy some sammy device for replacing OPO ! Don't do that for god sake!!! >.> Anyways Feels great to be owning an OPO again!!!!!!!! :highfive: :angel:
Although missing finger print scanner!! But I will live with it!!!!! and My S6 is just gonna be a camera for me now >.>
My OPT arrived a month ago, did not have the courage to leave my OPO, yet. Already unlocked the BootLoader, I installed CMOD 12.1, just to see if it is equal to the OPO. I will wait for the Cmod 13 ...
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same here bro, OPO is coolest device i've owned. custom roms, mods, community is huge , it make me feel this is ultimate playground for me, true " android experience" i desire.
i bought, sold several OPO, switch to m8, s6, OPT ( yeap) , and note 5
but still keep an 64gb OPO for my flash-holic game =))
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My OPT arrived a month ago, did not have the courage to leave my OPO, yet. Already unlocked the BootLoader, I installed CMOD 12.1, just to see if it is equal to the OPO. I will wait for the Cmod 13 ...
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I was thinking for OPT but after looking at the list of sw issues I settled on OPO. I still feel 801 is better than 808 n 810
good phone? but even simple functions it has bugs that are still not fixed until this day!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/aux-connection-bug-t3221583#post63379144
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good phone? but even simple functions it has bugs that are still not fixed until this day!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/help/aux-connection-bug-t3221583#post63379144
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Might just be your phone. I use aux on a daily basis since I purchased my USED opo 9+ months ago. Never had an issue from any ROM 4.4 and up.
So i bought this phone since it released in my country, i bought the 6Gb ram version and i was too excited about, Android one phone with great specs according to the price, but i am a lil bit disappointed right now,
The update releases is a bit confusing as we can see what's happening with pie updates.
The development is too slow as there no working twrp and related stuff.
Forgive my ignorance as coming from HTC M8 with its big development from its early stages , this phone disappointed me, but dont get me wrong i am happy with the phone regarding its battery life what annoying me a bit but the fast charger make it up to me.
So based on ur experience guys what do u expect guys and is the fourms going to be on fire soon or is it going to be like that all along ?
its going to be alive for sure, but you won't get first-class support, also for sure. this phone is good for people who are on a budget yet want to have a fairly up-to-date software (including security updates) and don't expect pixel-level support. If you are one of these people, A2 is probably one of the best phones you can get. But if you expect a pixel-level support then you should probably go buy pixel
It will get better, but don't expect anywhere near the support your old phone had, that was a flagship and a very successful one, I don't I've tried a quarter of the roms that were available for my m7
Yu are being given more than just descent specs for a more than descent price but no updates should be fast like google pixel ... well not gonna happen
Software r&d is not cheap as yu can see many here on xda develop on in there spare time and with donations and i dont think even though xiaomi have great revenue and sales they are yet ready to speed up the process (FOR ME UPDATES ARE ALREADY FAST ENOUGH EVEN NOW BETTER THAN MY SAMSUNG GALAXY S7 THAT WAS WORTH 49999 rs)
Moral of the story is = just because yu are given good hardware at a fine price dont expect them to give yu fast software support too ( only if yu have a pixel )
Otherwise apple phones get ios for really long time( enjoy there new emoji in every damn update )
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its going to be alive for sure, but you won't get first-class support, also for sure. this phone is good for people who are on a budget yet want to have a fairly up-to-date software (including security updates) and don't expect pixel-level support. If you are one of these people, A2 is probably one of the best phones you can get. But if you expect a pixel-level support then you should probably go buy pixel
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It will get better, but don't expect anywhere near the support your old phone had, that was a flagship and a very successful one, I don't I've tried a quarter of the roms that were available for my m7
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Yu are being given more than just descent specs for a more than descent price but no updates should be fast like google pixel ... well not gonna happen
Software r&d is not cheap as yu can see many here on xda develop on in there spare time and with donations and i dont think even though xiaomi have great revenue and sales they are yet ready to speed up the process (FOR ME UPDATES ARE ALREADY FAST ENOUGH EVEN NOW BETTER THAN MY SAMSUNG GALAXY S7 THAT WAS WORTH 49999 rs)
Moral of the story is = just because yu are given good hardware at a fine price dont expect them to give yu fast software support too ( only if yu have a pixel )
Otherwise apple phones get ios for really long time( enjoy there new emoji in every damn update )
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Mates i didn't expect pixel level of support at all, it just i didnt think Android One phone would get low development and update like that,
I can run Android pie on my M8 which pretty old phone now, but u cant run it on my 2018 Android one device, does that make any sense to you mates ??
On the other hand pocophone got it's official TWRP and keep being updated while the price difference is t that much though.
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Mates i didn't expect pixel level of support at all, it just i didnt think Android One phone would get low development and update like that,
I can run Android pie on my M8 which pretty old phone now, but u cant run it on my 2018 Android one device, does that make any sense to you mates
On the other hand pocophone got it's official TWRP and keep being updated while the price difference is t that much though.
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Why the hell are yu guys quoting me when i am making the exact same point that yu made
This is a budget phone not pixel lile ( COMPARED TO MY S7 JUST TO MAKE A POINT and even if my s7 is a flagship it gets security patches at end of each month whereas this MI A2 Gets updated on start of each month and that too sometimes more than one update )
I used to use an OPO which had and to a certain extent still has a lively developer scene (It's been a few months since the first Pie popped in the forums for it).
I don't neither expect nor foresee that sort of activity over here. This is a mid-range budget phone.
Then again, at least, bootloader unlock is hassle free.
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I used to use an OPO which had and to a certain extent still has a lively developer scene (It's been a few months since the first Pie popped in the forums for it).
I don't neither expect nor foresee that sort of activity over here. This is a mid-range budget phone.
Then again, at least, bootloader unlock is hassle free.
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I came from an OPO myself. And kind of disappointed with lack of development for now. It's a new phone and hopefully it'll pick up. It's a good phone don't get me but it's a "meh" or "alright" phone after a few weeks. Definitely a forgettable phone. Feel like I should've gone pocophone fone (1)