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Lupus
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People still do Xposed? Wow that feels about as long ago as the 5 year old phone you purchased ;-)
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Jet-Fighter7700
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yip some people still do Xposed and rooting is still as strong as ever.
I suppose its all down to what you want to be able to do with a phone and how long you keep them.
just like somebody will be hard pressed to justify an old Land Rover Defender, when there are so many better cars out there.
I suppose its the same exact thing, if you buy on contract every 2 years, stick to your Samsung 8,9,10,20 200K .
if your weird and have an Iphone stick to your Iphone 7,8,9,10,11,12,200.
but some of us of limited means buy phones that built to last as long as possible.
with upgrades to better O/S and flexibility to do things the manufacturer never intended.
one of these days ill understand what its like to buy a phone and keep it for the length of the contract.
then into the sock drawer it goes, when the battery and software determine its finished.
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Root to play PoGo 
Jet-Fighter7700
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you were the lucky one,
its gone up quite a bit now
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Agreed, The Doogee S55 was without doubt the best smartphone I ever owned. That until I inserted the SIM without the tray. I also rooted it for lineageOS to test. The battery lasted for like 4-5 days and it was supremely fast.
EDIT: What I also loved about the S55 was that it could get excellent signal anywhere. I swear you could throw it down a mine shaft and it would still have signal. To point it out we were in a place with next to nix signal and the iPhone 11 couldnt make or receive a call. Yet I could make a call clearly. Both of us used MTN at that time.
Jet-Fighter7700
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even better, rooting and getting a device with a active community keeps old phones working for long.
now if I could only find a removable battery example in my price range?
The_Ogre
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You get access to the phone's hardware as a root user. Root in linux means the user with the most power, he can do anything to the system. Once the phone is rooted, you can install different versions of Android (custom, or original firmware, or even firmware that wasn't meant for the device at all, but works).
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Okay you want root able, removable battery as well? What next? Flip? 3g? I can't italise in tapatalk.
Jet-Fighter7700
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I had a flip phone a Sony Ericsson Z550/Z600 previously.
still miss it sometimes could drop it and it never cracked.
but yes, I want a rootable phone with latest updates (or an active community of support) so I get android updates once a month.
dual sim, 2GB of Ram and above, and ideally with a removable battery.
(Nokia 2.2 was one, Galaxy grand prime plus (G532f) was another, and samsung Galaxy j7 neo J701 was a third)
the last part is impossible to find, just impossible, unless you go the route of importing a Fairphone from the UK or something.
@Thugscub , this is probably the phone for us, pity nobody else sees the light yet , we thinking so far ahead.
a (easily) repairable, removable battery phone with EVERYTHING (NFC, 4GB of Ram fingerprint sensor, the works)
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KleinBoontjie
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Was a problem with some wifi routers, that's why I rooted and custom rom'ed my S4. I think I had a Dlink router back then, that the S4 didn't want to connect to. Custom rom fixed that. Think it was also my last phone that I played around with custom roms with. Never needed to do it again.
I now have my Mi Max 2 for 3 years, wanted to load custom roms a few times, out of curiosity. Didn't yet.
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I had a Nokia 8 from 2017 until the end of August this year, also didn't bother putting roms on.
Jet-Fighter7700
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give it a go, well worth it imo,
I used to also leave phones alone,
until I discovered that they start acting weird on the stock rom around the 2 year mark.
more apps crashing, less battery life, strange restarts when you least expect them.
heating up, when it never used to do that.
just generally odd things that made no sense.
then I did my first root on a S5300, and what a difference custom Roms made.
since then, literally every android phone Ive owned, Ive rooted.
the only ones I haven't rooted are company phones for obvious reasons.
try it out and see how things go, nothing really to lose but a lot to gain.
The_Ogre
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Same here. The last phone I loaded CyanogenMod (which is now forked to Lineage for you youngsters out there) on was also an S4. Never bothered with rooting after that.
Jet-Fighter7700
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also the last removable battery phone I take it?
there's your problem, if you go dig up your S4, change batteries, and load android 10 for it (it does exists)
tell me you cant use your ancient phone in daily use.
KleinBoontjie
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Any good roms for the Mi Max 2, that you know of?