You're a power user. Can the Xiaomi Poco F1 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Xiaomi Poco F1. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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Definately a strong community for the phone. Hopefully it will stay like that quite a while, the F1 has potential for a few more years
My flashing addiction began with the first generation of Nexus 5's, then on to the first three OnePlus phones, a few RedMi phones and now the Poco. This is probably my favorite device so far. Not only is the device beefy enough for me, but the community is pretty active and supportive. There are plenty of solid ROMs available and some are updated frequently. That makes a difference. Community counts.
It's so difficult to buy a phone that has little or no custom ROM support.
Previous to this phone, I had a Moto G7 Plus and a Honor 9, both of which have next to no support via XDA. I moved to the Poco F1 as I fancied getting back in to flashing custom roms like I used to in the days of my Nexus 5, however, having used the device, I have thus far felt no need whatsoever to unlock the device and flash anything on it as I find that the stock MIUI rom works perfectly well for my needs - I grew accustomed to the extra goodies on both EMUI and the Moto and quite like the little extras with MIUI.
I started rooting phones since Android 1.6 (I had an Akash Tab knockoff, which Indians should remember). Every device after that was Android and it was unbearable to live without rooting until Kitkat phones came. That was when the benefits of rooting started to decrease (and ironically, the dependence on google play services started to increase). Google play services is the ultimate phone killer. I run my phone without gapps and my phones just fly.
Just saying, I still have a Samsung Galaxy Ace s5830i which rooted and all apps removed running on GingerBread has the same screen response time as my Poco F1 which stock MIUI. That was the power of rooting. These days with faster processors, the difference is not that apparent. Now-a-days, I simply root because it's my habit and I cannot stand living with google on my phone. And better battery life.
Once you get used to totally disabling the notch (because notches are starting to be a thing of the past), this phone will live on for years.
However, the device still has some problems.
On miui, you will answer a call on speaker when connected to bt audio.
On custom rom, random bluetooth connection drop and slow/no connection when devices search each other.
Wifi n speeds plummet when...using bt audio.
I come from an LG G6. The bt audio implementation was better than anything else.
Community development strength!
I bought the Poco just a month ago, and it's one year old now but it's still an awesome phone it has been my favorite phone hands down and my flashing and unlocking addiction started with the Moto X 2013 and I've had many since, but I love my Poco and I love the people in our development community everybody is so helpful and cool! I love that there is so many ROMs and kernels, and the really huge draw for me to the Poco was that we even have MultiRom! I even actually love MIUI as much as some custom ROMs ..it is just a great phone all around and I really hope and pray we get a new second version soon, because I will be buying it for sure. Thanks for being such an awesome development community guys!
i love to be here with POCO F1
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You're a power user. Can the Xiaomi Poco F1 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Xiaomi Poco F1. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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The community strengh is strong. a lot of roms are being released almost every day. I hope it keeps like this and it prolongs time our device is supported. I hope lineageos will be developed for poco during many years more. pocopone deserves it
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You're a power user. Can the Asus ROG Phone keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Asus ROG Phone. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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You're a power user. Can the Asus ROG Phone keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Asus ROG Phone. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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Rog phone is my first asus phone, and it will be my last. It took asus 9 months to release the phone, and still it has so many flaws. The screen is clear and beautiful, but reacts slowly on touch. The antennas are horrible and a huge shame when the phone was built for gaming. Ui could have been built better and the gaming mode should be like Oneplus. The battery is 4000 mah, but the screen only last the same as Oneplus 6, which has only 3300 mah. The fingerprint scanner is placed and formed different, on the cost of unstable and slow scanner. You actually need to hold the finger on the scanner. Not like huawei, Oneplus and Samsung, where you just need to touch it.
So in my opinion. A waste of money. But I need to live with it now for 6 months.
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Rog phone is my first asus phone, and it will be my last. It took asus 9 months to release the phone, and still it has so many flaws. The screen is clear and beautiful, but reacts slowly on touch. The antennas are horrible and a huge shame when the phone was built for gaming. Ui could have been built better and the gaming mode should be like Oneplus. The battery is 4000 mah, but the screen only last the same as Oneplus 6, which has only 3300 mah. The fingerprint scanner is placed and formed different, on the cost of unstable and slow scanner. You actually need to hold the finger on the scanner. Not like huawei, Oneplus and Samsung, where you just need to touch it.
So in my opinion. A waste of money. But I need to live with it now for 6 months.
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So your saying its not worth buying?
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So your saying its not worth buying?
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Correct. Not unless you want an expensive gamer phone, not built for gaming.
consider there's still no updated twrp that can run with the latest firmware, which is kinda ironic on a bootloader unlocked phone, i'd say the community development strength is virtually DOA until further notice.
bamsemh said:
Rog phone is my first asus phone, and it will be my last. It took asus 9 months to release the phone, and still it has so many flaws. The screen is clear and beautiful, but reacts slowly on touch. The antennas are horrible and a huge shame when the phone was built for gaming. Ui could have been built better and the gaming mode should be like Oneplus. The battery is 4000 mah, but the screen only last the same as Oneplus 6, which has only 3300 mah. The fingerprint scanner is placed and formed different, on the cost of unstable and slow scanner. You actually need to hold the finger on the scanner. Not like huawei, Oneplus and Samsung, where you just need to touch it.
So in my opinion. A waste of money. But I need to live with it now for 6 months.
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I won this phone in a giveaway should i sell it or should i keep it?
What phone did you have already?
do we have a telegram yet?
Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the Opp Find X, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the Opp Find X is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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i love it.. wiper her down everyday. shes not my sidekcik. she's my side. . only 4 people have touched her and i almsot had to eliminate onedropping her 4cm .
ps- nothing happened to her
Looking for a place to express my anger for this phone. The phone is completely buggy presently. The usb c connector doesn't properly work. The theme store never appeared in my version, despite my efforts to force updates that never appeared themselves. I wanted to wait for a few month tio get the s10 5g but its getting more painful each day. I never thought an android phone would bring me back to my struggling iphone times like 4 to 5 years ago when I was trying to use iphones like android phones. 1 000 euros for a total loss. Pretty busy right now, could have written for hours. Not sure this topic is really viewed.
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You're a power user. Can the Google Pixel 3 XL keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Google Pixel 3 XL. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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3/5 but only because half of the pixel XL 3 user base is stuck with a locked bootloader.
Judging by past thread activity on previous Android phones, development for those phones was way beyond what we're seeing with the Pixel 3/3XL. The phones been out for almost a year and there's been what, a couple ROMs/mods? Hell, even the accessory threads are dead. It's really unfortunate.
I'm surprised at the low activity honestly, this phone has been out for almost a year. Came over from OnePlus 6 and wow what a difference in support. I thought I'd see more development for it but so far it's looking like that's about it for this device.
usablefawn said:
I'm surprised at the low activity honestly, this phone has been out for almost a year. Came over from OnePlus 6 and wow what a difference in support. I thought I'd see more development for it but so far it's looking like that's about it for this device.
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That's what I'm saying. There was so much hype for this device, but it died so quickly. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that barren wasteland that is the Pixel 3 forums.
I've recently back to Google after oneplus, lg, etc and thought I would be back to rom flashing in no time.
What I have found on xda recently which could be driving developers away is that lack of control on the threads. All issues seem to be about problems with root and updating with root etc.
I found the oneplus xda (6 and 7) to be bad at this. You would see the same post on several threads about the same thing usually around root or magisk not working.
Could be way off the mark but I agree there is a big drop in development going on.
On my nexus 5x I would be on a different rom each week, carbon, purity, tesla, slim etc etc. (Have to mention cataclysm on my Nexus 4!!!!!)
But then again stock has got so good that I find rooting not required anymore.
Big drop of development. There was more action going on in the OP6 but i suspect development will pick up when it becomes more affordable for others in the next few months , as does always occur.
@slothdabski Just significantly increased the amount of development for Crosshatch, which is fantastic. We are in better shape than we were 1 week ago. We will all miss AOSIP, that's for sure. What I can say is that I have recently gained a serious amount of appreciation for the amount of time developers spend building for our devices. I started testing for AquariOS about 6 months ago and I've been exposed to the underworkings of development through the private Telegram channel. It's insane how much time these guys have to spend tinkering for the benefit of the masses. Truly.
You're a power user. Can the Nokia 6.2 keep up? Rate this thread to express how "healthy" the development scene is for the Nokia 6.2. A higher rating indicates available root methods, kernels, and custom ROMs.
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Good choice
I'm sorry for offtopic.
But I have now purchased Motorola Moto G6 and strongly regretted that I did not buy Nokia 6.2.
Been using the Nokia 6.2 for a week now. Really enjoying the stock android experience, development seems kinda slow and not a lot of people using this phone right now. Maybe it gets better in the future.
daudirfan58 said:
Been using the Nokia 6.2 for a week now. Really enjoying the stock android experience, development seems kinda slow and not a lot of people using this phone right now. Maybe it gets better in the future.
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I bought my Nokia 6.2 today.
Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the ASUS ROG Phone 3, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the ASUS ROG Phone 3 is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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The best phone I had sees the Sony Xperia Z Ultra. It feels sturdy and I like the heaviness (I am the kind of guy who add the keyboard extension to an Xbox controller for make it heavier). The battery doesn't drain on heavy use nether does it feel like a toaster in the hands. It is the smoothest experience I ever had.
I am not fan of cameras on phone, it can't compare to a true camera. So not having the best camera on this phone is not a problem. It does the job I need it to do.
Black crush is a bit annoying in some cases but I am sure it'll be fixed and I didn't experienced it often. Before this phone I had a Galaxy note 2, Galaxy S7 edge, HTC U Ultra and a Galaxy note 10 plus on hands but none of this phone gave me a woah effect. Until I got my hands on this phone.
Only regret is that this phone will never have a big community, so there will not have much things going on this forum. But even so I am a proud owner of this of the rog phone 3.
5* from me
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Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the ASUS ROG Phone 3, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the ASUS ROG Phone 3 is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
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I had a Xiaomi Mi 9 before this phone, and I like the ROG Phone 3 a lot more!
Even the cameras are better than the Mi 9's cameras, which means good enough for me.
As @bASKOU wrote, the ROG 3 is quite sturdy and heavy - that's fine! -, and it's quite well balanced, so you can use it one handed (plus there is a dedicated option for this too), the 6Ah battery is a WIN, coupled with the SD865+ SoC you can't deplete it in a day - I charge it once in like 3 or even 4 days!
Yeah, it's a niche phone, it will never be the tinkerers' dream, there won't be dozens of custom ROMs and kernels for it - but for me it's also not a problem, since it has stock Android 10 (let's hope that ASUS will update it soon to Android 11 ), and the stock launcher is snappy enough (still, I'm using Nova Launcher Prime, since I love it!).
The 144Hz display is good enough, even if it has black crush visible here and there - that's also not a dealbreaker for me.
I bought the 12/128GB Tencent version with the global ROM, which I was able to update to the latest global (WW) ROM - everything's fine, there are no stutters, everything feels buttery smooth...
So let's sum it: I love my ROG Phone 3, it's the phone of my dreams, it ticks all the checkboxes for me.
I'm coming off a Oneplus 7T, which is a great little phone.
The Rog 3 has made me forget about it completely (well almost, nostalgia aside).
Have definitely fallen hard for this device.
More so than any other phone I've owned (despite its short comings).
I look forward to a good couple of years, using my new Rog 3.