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My brother is in the market for a new smartphone, so QUICK, tell me your opinions/experiences with this "Fascinating phone"
Overall it's a good phone however Samsung has not been updating the phone and as a result you will be dependent on community for upgrades...
The stock filesystem and gps drivers were ****ty and Samsung did not really deal with the issue as fast as they should have.
The effects were bad gps lock meaning you could not get an accurate read if at all for location based apps and performance below what the hardware should be capable of.
As of late the gps has been solved and if your willing to root your phone you can update your filesystem to remove additional lag and upgrade to a newer version of Android OS.
Considering the phone price has dropped in price its good but if you can hold out do so as the phone is roughly 6 months old meaning something better dual core or 4g, lte, is coming out very soon and you will be locked in for another 2 years
I would wait for the HTC Thunderbolt. It's suppose to come out in the next couple of weeks. It'll be a better option than the Fascinate.
If you need a phone today, then I would recommend the Fascinate but only if you are planning on rooting it and using custom ROMs. The stock fascinate doesn't even come with Google search. It comes with the MS Bing and you can't change that unless you root and install some Mods.
If you're not planning on rooting and Modding the phone, then I would recommend the Droid X.
i agree with modus, it's a great phone if you plan on rooting and modding it. even the droidx can be rooted and modded though, i was debating between the fascinate and the droidx when i needed a new phone a few months ago. the fascinate's screen is much better, in my opinion, at handling color saturation and sharpness when i compared it to my friend's droidx. i feel like the camera is better too, even though the mp count is lower. i think we have a better image sensor
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It comes with the MS Bing and you can't change that unless you root and install some Mods.
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You don't need to root to get google and the google search widget back on the phone, you just need to use Launcher Pro instead of Touch Wiz.
majority of new android apps are not compatible to our phones now...sad to say ...we can't change that...after a year of being such an awesome phone, now it's slowly dying...we have already pushed our o1's performance to it's limit, a bunch of tweaks can never change the raw performance..I learned myself a lesson to never buy a low end phone if you're going to stick to it for more than a year because it always gets unsupported and obsolete...jelly beans and future android versions might be ported but we can never get the "playable", "enjoyable" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousable"...that's the honest truth, most tweaks now are now implemented to cm7 itself, if you actually add and add more tweaks, be warned it will slow down your phone, the best thing is actually just to stick with the best kernel and stock cm7 rom that's all i can say..
you might ignore this and might not believe me but that's the whole truth, from stock to mik's cm7 to adfad666's cm7.2, i haven't receive any REAL "faster", quicker and lightning speediest rom...same old performance in games, same old performance in ui, same old performance in everything...i have to actually say that the STOCK rom WILL ALWAYS be the MOST STABLE rom you'll get...but might be a little slower because of some limitations and bloatware...
You can only push the device so far,honestly tweaks only work in small pecentages
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i was really disappointed when i was waiting for temple run game for how many months, all i got is incompatiblityness and then some loyal o1 user will say, somebody will port it don't worry!...omg people someday will actually lost trust on you cuz you ask for everything and not to do it by yourselves...and yeah you may expect instagram MIGHT be not compatible with our phones...after waiting for how many months .____. and Angry Birds Space might be the last OFFICIAL angry birds game for our phone because of degrading performance..
tbh I only love cm7 because of it's themes...
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first we get incompatibility from resolution and now from the cpu and then Android version....it's getting worst actually...and actually when i was searching for some changes on cm7.2 on github, the cm team actually threw almost ALL build.prop and init.d scripts and tweak because they don't think that it's even worth it to be tweaked..and only a waste of space..and will only just make CM7 unstable and less functional...
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tbh I only love cm7 because of it's themes...
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first we get incompatibility from resolution and now from the cpu and then Android version....it's getting worst actually...and actually when i was searching for some changes on cm7.2 on github, the cm team actually threw almost ALL build.prop and init.d scripts and tweak because they don't think that it's even worth it to be tweaked..and only a waste of space..and will only just make CM7 unstable and less functional...
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Remember, you're using an entry level android.
Its now time to upgrade, I agree
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Don't worry, temple run will support ARMV6 officially! It's only a matter of time.
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@trettet that depends...not everyone can afford to buy a new phone.For example I think I'll stick with my o1 for another year.I am not in loved with this phone and if I had more money I would have bought an Galaxy Nexus.I like it and it offered more than I expected.Not even now,after almost one year since i've bought it I'm not bored of it.I can always find new apps,games,try new Roms,themes and all this stuff.So in conclusion...who can afford buy a high end phone,who can't .... stick with o1.
I agree that it's time to upgrade and that this is a low performance phone, but what annoys me it's that seems that you are mad about a game that not runs on this phone, I really don't understand why you kids use this phone to play hq games or say "Im a hardcore gamer on my p500" that's ridiculous, this was never a phone for games, this device is just for surfing the net or use social apps, if you wanted to play games on a device on this range of price you should buy an iPod touch 4g
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@trettet that depends...not everyone can afford to buy a new phone.For example I think I'll stick with my o1 for another year.I am not in loved with this phone and if I had more money I would have bought an Galaxy Nexus.I like it and it offered more than I expected.Not even now,after almost one year since i've bought it I'm not bored of it.I can always find new apps,games,try new Roms,themes and all this stuff.So in conclusion...who can afford buy a high end phone,who can't .... stick with o1.
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Truly said! Not everyone can get a new, high-end phone , with latest HW upgrades!! At least due to age limitations, I.e, the high-school students like me. I always come to know everyday about a new phone, again with some new technology and much better HW!! At first look-I say "I am gonna get it !!!!!! "But unfortunately I can't do so! (Father/mother restrictions Y'know!!)
@trettet, You are right ! You can move to other phone, if you are allowed to do so by you father/mother/uncle/aunty blah blah!!
This is the right time to switch, before it gets more outdated............
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i have to actually say that the STOCK rom WILL ALWAYS be the MOST STABLE rom you'll get...
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Do you really mean it??? or just a rush of sentiments
like others said not everyone can afford a new phone. but i dont think it is smart to buy a phone now because everything you will get is a faster cpu and bigger screen. so is it worth to spend 200€ or more for that? i tryed my friends sgs2 and i was not impressed at all. it is like o1 with bigger screen. the only difference noticable was by playing games and if i want to do that i would rather buy xbox. and after all we will also get a taste of ics. i think in a year time smartphones will change drasticly and it will really pay out to buy a new one so i will stick with o1 for another year. but this is only my oppinion .
I agree with Roq, this phone was not meant to play many games...if you want a gaming phone,get an xperia x10 or any xperia phone..personally I think games are a waste of space and resources...how cool would it be to have a phone with interchangeable hardware (could you imagine swapping ram like you would with a desktop PC). ANDROID is rising, and I'm pretty sure microcomputers with android OS will soon be in everything from medical equipment to cellular devices...tweaks,just waste space...I obviously see no difference in speed or performance because at the end of the day the phone only performs as fast as the processor allows it to. I will,however say that some tweaks do increase productivity and performance but only by a small margin..all these new roms coming out are pretty much all themed roms with 50 tweaks and achep ics cm7 theme and custom frameworks and ssystemui's...makes me wish I had a good computer. I miss developing challenges and I really wish I could dive into cm9 and ics developing, I worked alot with htc sense ui for g1 but back than it was still amend scripting and amonra was the choosen choice of custom recoveries and also when you had to actually read the steps in order to gain root. There was none of this superoneclick or gingerbreak stuff..you had to know adb and terminal emulator commands
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this not just about games...it's about ALL kinds of apps: launchers, games, browsers, fun apps and etc...I can mention upto hundreds of apps that aren't compatible and NOT JUST games
logic?
i also agree with roque ...if you want to play games, go buy a PSP
if you want to install more and more apps use a PC it has more multimedia capabilities to make you happy.
optimus one already gave us enough entertainment thanks to the wonderful and intellegent devs who diligently worked for this phone , if still you're not satisfied and have no choice go buy a new one yourself, why whine? this phone is still useful for calling and texting ..
still millions of O1 users love their phone..
yeah but they are too costly, any one suggest me a android device with ics and with a low price range?
abhi29 said:
yeah but they are too costly, any one suggest me a android device with ics and with a low price range?
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what is the point to buy a low price android device that will barely be able to handle ics? jelly bean will be soon out and you will have to buy another phone in few months?
Yep.time is coming but let push the time away as far as possible.
Until requirement of android meeting to O1.we can still hope.
Also this is entry level phone as this is my first mobile its not a big deal.also what if performance not increasing but new settings are coming and look is updating.
So atleast i can stick to these phone til 2 more years :O
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Agreed with the topic starter. We need to upgrade. Even ourselves. Everything changes. We have to cope with the new ways and new things. We ca't even push ourselves to a new place with just knowing and using the old ways.
Regarding to our beloved O1. I think this is the best and the only phone that an entry android user must get. In terms of price per performance it is termed as a "good buy". The easiest and the simpliest way to learn how to tweak or customize your android. Lot of developers and participant in every aspect, ROM, kernel, apps etc etc. This phone is the "stepping stone" of modding and gaining one step ahead of normal android users. I'm really lucky i choose this phone as my first android phone. Now it's easier to adjust to another android phone. Samsung, HTC, Google etc.
Everything has to end. Nothing last forever. ( no 3310 jokes please LOL). We definitely have to adjust and leave our beloved O1. But we never must forget at what, who, when and where we learn how to become "not just your average android user".
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majority of new android apps are not compatible to our phones now...sad to say ...we can't change that...after a year of being such an awesome phone, now it's slowly dying...we have already pushed our o1's performance to it's limit, a bunch of tweaks can never change the raw performance..I learned myself a lesson to never buy a low end phone if you're going to stick to it for more than a year because it always gets unsupported and obsolete...jelly beans and future android versions might be ported but we can never get the "playable", "enjoyable" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousable"...that's the honest truth, most tweaks now are now implemented to cm7 itself, if you actually add and add more tweaks, be warned it will slow down your phone, the best thing is actually just to stick with the best kernel and stock cm7 rom that's all i can say..
you might ignore this and might not believe me but that's the whole truth, from stock to mik's cm7 to adfad666's cm7.2, i haven't receive any REAL "faster", quicker and lightning speediest rom...same old performance in games, same old performance in ui, same old performance in everything...i have to actually say that the STOCK rom WILL ALWAYS be the MOST STABLE rom you'll get...but might be a little slower because of some limitations and bloatware...
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Now u can enjoy Temple Run on our beloved O1 here it is and it is working fine i already tested it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566766
Dnt forget to press thanks if u think it is helpful post to u
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It's all about the uses for your phone. The biggest game I play is Fruit Ninja, but mostly Mahjong. Otherwise I use this as business phone, calender, news reader. Given those uses, this phone will last me another year or more easily.
I like this phone because of its size. I don't want a big honkin phone with huge ass screen. That is what my laptop is for.
I will be sad when this sucker actually dies and I have to get a new phone. I really don't care about the latest games. I have never had a problem finding launchers and productivity apps for O1.
C'est la vie, specially with technology. Really no use crying about it. This reminds me of people complaining their netbook from 2 years ago won't play games. Yup, was never really meant to...
With my old tablet the custom roms always meant a performance increase too, but:
I've tried pretty much well every single custom rom available for this tablet by now and i still havent managed to find one that actually increases the performance of the tablet. When im running the stock firmware i get about 7500-7600 on quadrant and my browser is really responsive and stuff. There's not been a single custon rom out there that has even performed better then 5600 on quadrant. Is it just me, or are the custom roms not hat good performance wise?
EDIT: By better performance i mean how snappy the tablet feels, using benchmarks as a secondary frame of reference.
Not sure if quadrant is doing a good job. I also am getting same results as you with 7xxx for stock and 5xxx for all CM based ones. Although the CM roms feel smoother here.
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I abstained the vote cause the question does not bear a black and white / yes or no answer anymore these days.
In my humble opinion, and I picked up the smartphone / PDA / mobile device modding bug back about when this site catered to the the original HTC XDA almost exclusively, and Steve Jobs was merely having wet dreams about his iPhone (*1)... nodded RIMs have gotten to a state where they are overvalued. Saying a custom ROM is always way ahead of stock is like saying "one device with a fixed featureless fits everyone perfectly".
Custom ROMs had their deserved heyday when the industry loaded up near every carrier distributed smartphone with scrappy bloatware that made you weep. Depending on the mobile OS at any given time it was nigh impossible to get rid of that stuff, unless you flashed the whole shebang. From there on the custom ROM scene kinda exploded along with the market distribution of smartphones and later on tablets, certainly owed to the introduction of Android over older generation closed source systems, which enabled much more in-depth possibilities of adding novel features, fixing stuff that was basically broken out of the box and integrating all of this nicely.
(For a frame of reference: I tossed my PalmPilot and Nokia phone when the HTC Wallaby (Telekom MDA or so)hit the shelves... Early adopter by nature and I thought combining cellphones and PDAs, bother which I used avidly was the most revolutionary idea since the combustion engine. This was generation Windows Pocket PC, basically a PDA with cellphone feature thrown in as an afterthought (the antenna actually doubles a stylus compartment). Phone integration was a PITA on good days. On bad, long work days it might just happen that your moody battery would jump from 35% to flat out dead within a mere six minute phone call. Yet, no biggie right? Well, it was, the devices had no non volatile storage. Dead battery means go home, pray your last phone backup is recent enough and restore the entire thing. I spent a lot of time fixing this device (windows style - shoehorning in binary OS components from newer PocketPC versions and prodding the registry on the phone (!)...) to a point where it was almost usable as PDA only device, supplementing telephonly with a Nokia.
A while later better devices came out, PocketPc was scrapped for Windows Mobile and in high hopes I got a HTC Charmer. This looked like a more solid platform and indeed proper custom ROMa emerged, adding real functionality and allowing to get rid of carrier branded crap, later even RIMs emerged with Windows Mobile version updates never intended for that phone, some even taking the recent cutting edge HTC front-end, the first incarnation of Sense (I think it was called vanilla). I figured the really bad conceptual problems were fixed and merrily went along. But, as god hates my guts, I drained the battery accidentally, only to find that the phone would still go dead, deaf, dumb and wiped despite a good three or four years of technological progress. I was so confident that I neglected backups with that model and basically lost the majority of my stuff again. The Nokia dumbphone was back in the game, the HTC left a dent in the wall that required plaster and a patch of new wallpaper.
TL;DR: The first gen smartphones (PDA with cell module afterthought were such flawed concepts, badly integrated, that keeping recent backups and maintaining it operational took quite an effort on user side, on that sort of negated the higher productivity of using one altogether. But bear with me now, I am still circling around the point or two I want t. Make.
Because a few months after I abandoned smartphones for good (or so I thought) Apple coughed up their iPhone prototype and a few months later pumped it to market. I was amazed (not because of the technological feat, they were more or less throwing R&D money bricks at existing tech and concepts, however they exactly figured out what went wrong in the early generations, fixed that stuff, added fingerdriven multi-touch in favor of stylus driven displays and, this is the real kicker, in a time and age when the cool cell to have was a Nokia 8 Series or a decent, very small flipphone or clamshell they managed to brainwash their customers into what PDA and smartphone adopters at that time already knew - it's totally worth to dump the train of ever smaller telephony only cells for a much larger, more fragile device because of all the freedom and power those things offer you.
I kept my guard and obviously went for Android devices once I got back on the horse. HTC Desire, a backup Wildfire, Desire HD, Sensation, One S and a few tablets along the way. Now, here is the kicker. The Desire ran much better with a custom. The Wildfire could only be updated to a recent Android version with a custom ROM due to HTCs sometimes appalling quick update discontinuation. The Desire HD ran a basically stock custom ROM! But with lots of lovely icon eyecandy, so I stuck with that too. The Sensation benchmarked equally (give or take 5%) but the ROM added novel features, properly implemented, which I decided to stick with. But frankly, it was because I could. I would not have recommended a newbie to Android flashing to take the plunge. My current HTC One S has a recovery downloader and is rooted cause some essential apps I can't live without need it. Full custom ROM switch. I see no point. Android has come a long way. If today I have bloatware I can go to App Manager and disable them. Icon gone, runtime resource hogging gone. Many features that were the selling points for a custom ROM a while back are now natively incorporated.
This is just how I feel about my Sony SGP311 now. It runs 4.2.2 rooted, no recovery yet. This is planned, maybe at some point a stable, close to stock custom kernel to allow some overclocking on a per app basis for XBMC. But other than that it just Danny works. The Sony skin put over stock Androi. Is not that bad, and more to the point it never gave me the impression of hogging the system. Turn off what is useless to you, Office suite, walkway, etc and be on your merry way. It just comes down to what you do with the device, but as a custom ROM junkie who has just gotten off the habit, for me it makes no sense anymore.
Now, if you made it all the way here, I ran two benchmarks on my 4.2.2 root but stock. Maybe they aid you in your decision.
EDIT: the attachments are garbage. Here are proper links:
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http://i.imgur.com/mB5MKSH.png
Also, none of the above is supposed to rain on the developers parade or something. I admire your skills and dedication over all those years, and there isn't a single custom ROM that went onto my devices withour a PayPal "crate of beer" donation ever. However, the fiddling, time spent reading up on custom ROM choice, issues and unlocking process etc is just not in relation for me anymore. Those thoughts are yours to reject, spindle, mutilate, adopt, oppose or plainly ignore... Just speaking for myself here.
Thanks for this! I was also trying to decide if I should be flashing a custom rom on my XTZ. I am itching to flash but couldn't come up with any strong reason to do so, probably for battery life and stock look?
Will be interesting to hear from another person who is a strong believer of flashing custom rom on XTZ.
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i got slightly better score using a custom rom. Plus i get themes, expanded desktop and pie control which is a must for this tablet. I hope more xda developers develop for this tablet. Will reward with donations
By "better performance" do mean higher benchmark scores? Because any of the 4.3 ROMs I've tried are generally smoother than Sony's 4.2.2.
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By "better performance" do mean higher benchmark scores? Because any of the 4.3 ROMs I've tried are generally smoother than Sony's 4.2.2.
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4.3 too bugy for me
im using 4.2.2 cm rom FXP242-cm-10.1-20131021-UNOFFICIAL-pollux_windy.zip
i already sent team a donation hope to keep em motivated
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By "better performance" do mean higher benchmark scores? Because any of the 4.3 ROMs I've tried are generally smoother than Sony's 4.2.2.
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I prefer 4.2 ATM. I get close to 30 Mbps download speed on this ROM where on 4.3 roms only 2mbps download? Also video cam recording, screen is squashed on 4.3. Other than that they run great but I personally cant feel a performqnce boost from 4.3 to 4.2. I also installed crossbreader and Supercharger V6 script which addresses screen redraw lags, so if there is a slower issue with 4.2 i would have addressed it with these two mods and may not be able to tell.
Hi. I currently own Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 for more than a year and I thought its good time to change phone. As you can see, Im a person who buys budget phones. I was searching for my next budget phone and Motorola Moto E LTE got my attention. I couldnt find a better deal than this, so I thought before making a final decision I will ask some opinions from people who got this phone. So, what do you think of Moto E and can you recommend it? What are biggest disadvantages and hows the performance? I already know that lack of flashlight is big hit for me.
Well it's a hard question. On stock 5.0.2 (there is still no update in eu) performance is preatty bad. Sometimes it runs smooth but there are cases when it lags horrible. I don't know who even installed chrome on this phone: it is cleary unusable however I instaled lighting browser and it works fine.
I've bought this phone because I tought that it will be my first smartphone which will be runing fine out of the box without modifications and I'm disapionted now :/ There is update in US and it probably fixes some of performance issues but when it will be available in eu? We still don't know.
Of course there is some good things like:
- of course price
- build quality
- very fast gps
- decent screen for it's price
- great battery life (up to 7h of screen on time)
- almost clean android
- decent speaker
- sd card slot and enabled android's app to sd
- up to date cpu (bigger chance that it will get android m)
- lte
- big data partion (we get 5gb out of 8gb so I think that's good)
- good light sensor
- and I very like it's look (but it's my own preference)
and what is bad now:
- performance on 5.0.2
- there is no e-compas! (my xperia x8 had compas in 2010)
- no notification led (this is very annoying since moto display is too sensitive and ambient display works randomly)
- fornt camera (back one is decent but sometimes it can't focus well)
- lack of camera flash
- updates aren't so fast (at least in eu)
- miracast isn't working (because of only 2,4 ghz wifi)
- moto features aren't working well on 5.0.2, for exaple twist to turn on camera isn't working properly (after twist I feel the vibration but screen isn't turning on)
So would I buy it again?? I don't know, it's performance is really discapointing right now. I compared it to moto g on 4.4.4 (which should be slower because of 720p screen and slower cpu) and it was like day and night. G was way faster.
Thats a bummer. I thought it was very good for basic usage like messages and browser. I heard Android 5.0 had memory leaks, but from what youre saying performance is really bad here. Is it fixed in 5.1?
well for basic usage it can make a job, I discabled all moto services that you can discable in settings, installed nova launcher, lighting browser and it's somehow working. When it starts lags I clean my recent apps and it helps.
The phone is preatty good but it was relased in bad time, in days of probably the worst android relase, lollipop looks cool but it can't be as fast as kitkat :/
howerer when I compared it to my other firend's moto g on stock 5.0.2 they were running simmilar and he told me that he hasn't got issues with it (but he often clear recent apps so maybe thats the reason)
I belive that 5.1.1 will fix all the issues, we have to wait.
I would appreciate other people opinions.
just too good a phone at this price
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when i purchased it i dint have much expectations considering its cheap.but then as i am using it for over 2 months now ,i dont feel it as a cheap phone.it never hanged on me..not even once.though i have disabled quite a lot of stuff but thats fine...this is first phone i am running without rooting in last 5 years.and surprisingly i am not feeling need to .My battery lasts beyond 3 days and it runs fast enuf in comparison to my past phones which i had to root to make them usable(samsung s3 , s advance etc)
i wud say go fr it..5.1 update is sure to improve it further
When I first bought my moto e (xt1526) a few months back, at first it sucked. I wanted my ZTE max back. Everything was laggy. Even after the 5.1 update. So, I rooted and tinkered with roms that our great XDA developers have been working very hard on, until I found one that was somewhat solid. It ended up being a soak test 5.1 rom. It made the phone snappy and overall great. The only issue is my mic drops out on my bluetooth sometimes. Overall it is a great phone to me for its price.
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When I first bought my moto e (xt1526) a few months back, at first it sucked. I wanted my ZTE max back. Everything was laggy. Even after the 5.1 update. So, I rooted and tinkered with roms that our great XDA developers have been working very hard on, until I found one that was somewhat solid. It ended up being a soak test 5.1 rom. It made the phone snappy and overall great. The only issue is my mic drops out on my bluetooth sometimes. Overall it is a great phone to me for its price.
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Well, I think it cant be worse than my current Galaxy Ace 2.
I've just gotten my hands on my mom's ancient Neo V and I wonder if there is any point flashing modern versions of android on this dinosaur? By "point" I mean the device's overall speed (I do not want to wait 15 seconds to read my sms ). The old, original 2.3.4 seems just ok speedwise. It is ages behind my not-so-new LG G3, but the phone is still usable and there is a bearable amount of lag. I use it mainly for calling/sms/email so not a big deal
So the question is, will the device handle lollipop/kitkat better than 2.3.4? I do not want to play San Andreas on this little dude, I would like to have a fluid UI experience (if it is even possible, considering the hardware)
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I've just gotten my hands on my mom's ancient Neo V and I wonder if there is any point flashing modern versions of android on this dinosaur? By "point" I mean the device's overall speed (I do not want to wait 15 seconds to read my sms ). The old, original 2.3.4 seems just ok speedwise. It is ages behind my not-so-new LG G3, but the phone is still usable and there is a bearable amount of lag. I use it mainly for calling/sms/email so not a big deal
So the question is, will the device handle lollipop/kitkat better than 2.3.4? I do not want to play San Andreas on this little dude, I would like to have a fluid UI experience (if it is even possible, considering the hardware)
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I think you would be better off with ics installed, if you root and add custom kernel and use some speed tweaks found on this forum, you will have a fairly fast phone... mind you, that doesnt necessarily mean that you can intstall a lot of apps on it, unless you dont mind your device slowing down a bit now and again.