A Galaxy Note 4?
Moto G 2013. The only reason it's lasted this long is because it's rooted and I keep crap off of it. I still get about 2 days out of the original battery if I'm careful.
I could replace that, it's internal but pretty easy to replace (pop back off, take out the screws for the internal cover and the battery is right there) but the software load is getting to the point where nothing works. T-Mobile is turning off non-VoLTE services next year, and the Let's Encrypt cert issue is the nail in the coffin.
I despise samsung's garbage and their hard-to-root devices (In the USA, due to the processor) with their crappy firmware load that make's google's garbage look like the gods themselves.
Yes, bootloaders have been a historical headache to me.
crappy firmware load
Are you referring to pre-installed apps or Air View and air gestures?
I'm not familiar with the gestures thing, that...may have been something on my device but if it was it was one of the modules I removed.
I'm referring to all the applications that come preinstalled, and the modules that run in the background like the emergency alerts stuff, as well as numerous services that each application has that's useful to 3 people and no one else, but want to run anyway. Even on the MotoG, I disabled/deleted numerous applications including a number of Motorola one-time things that shouldn't but liked to run all the time anyway, a bunch of google things that were useless, a number of helpful "services" that didn't need to be there, and lots and lots of programs that were poor copies of free or cheap commercial equivalents.
Even within programs there were lots of services that wanted to run, connectivity and cloud and other "helpful" things that just sat there and ate battery time while being not-useful. Android is weird, you can fine-grain prevent services from running (with root and an application) and it doesn't care. Typically, I have no more than 5-6 foreground things running, unlike the forever list I see on other phones.
(post is archived)