For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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    11 months ago

    My phone is 4 years old and this sounds like a horror story to me. I have no idea what I’m going to do next.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        11 months ago

        I had to use my Moto G5s Plus again for 2 weeks when my current phone (Poco X3 Pro) was broken. It made me realize how usable it could still be, it’s just that the battery is basically dead. Also the micro-USB connector is so worn it doesn’t work with some cables anymore, and it is soldered-on. Well, OK, there’s a few more problems. It only has 32GB of storage, screen gets burn-ins within 3 minutes now, the main camera’s focus is mostly non-functional (it just makes weird noise while shaking the view, but if you hit it just right it can be used), it’s very laggy, it keeps losing cell signal,…

        OK, it does have a few more issues, but I could still use it if both the micro-USB and battery were fine. The bezels and navigation button/fingerprint scanner are a large enough positive. But I can’t do micro soldering. I don’t even have money for a soldering heat gun…

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        11 months ago

        My issue is that I no longer get updates for a over a year now, I’d be happy using it until it no longer works otherwise.

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          11 months ago

          Might be able to get a more updated ROM, idk if Xda is still the best place for that kind of thing or not.

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        10 months ago

        Man I did this to my S10, forgot, dropped it in water. Bummer. I wanted to have it at least 5 more years.

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      10 months ago

      I’m still using my '18 Nokia 6.1 and '16 Samsung Tab S2 8". As phone I see no alternative apart from fairphone, haven’t found an alternative yet for the 8" tablet. (There are no 8" left it seems)

      Main tablet is a Lineage running Samsung Tab S5e, no alternative found for that. No 10" (or slightly larger) tablet that has an alternative rom. (Or one I can start developing for with another device as base)