On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 07:43:42PM +1000, russell@coker.com.au wrote:
On Friday, 2 June 2017 6:25:31 PM AEST Craig Sanders via luv-talk wrote:
4G is about the only good reason I have to upgrade the phone and even that's not essential.
Well, I know someone who was happily using a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 on Amaysim (the Optus network) when it suddenly stopped working. It seems that either
my phone is on iinet (also an optus reseller). 3G still works fine, but i'm aware of the fact that one day it will vanish and i'll have to switch to 4G or newer. at that time, almost any cheap current model unlocked android phone will do as a replacement (and iinet will send me a new 4G sim within a day or two). i really don't need a fancy high-end phone.
not as a tablet replacement. i want something with a larger, higher resolution screen than my nexus 7.
The 2012 Nexus 7 has a 1280*800 display which is less than any phone you might desire nowadays. The Nexus 6P has a higher resolution than the 2013 Nexus 7. Not that this matters if you want a physically large screen.
I have considered getting a newer, bigger ~6" phone and just having one device but i really want a bigger screen for my ebook reader. and battery life will be longer with wifi disabled and no SIM. The Kogan Agora 6+ looks pretty good at a decent price. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much activity on XDA or other android sites regarding alternative ROMs for them. And I have a horrible suspicion that ordering anything from Kogan will get me added to their spam lists (in fact, their T&C pretty much guarantee that - i have my own domain so i can create a kogan@taz address to use, but i'm not keen to buy from a company i'm certain to boycott as soon as they inevitably spam me).
You can't properly back it up without either OS support (not available in the default build) or rooting the device.
yep. catch-22. can't root without erasing. can't backup fully without rooting.
cyanognmod/lineage may have more recent versions, but this tablet is barely capable of running v5.x. When I get another tablet, I'll wipe this one and install an AOSP-based Android 4 ROM on it.
Later doesn't necessarily mean worse. Newer versions of Android have some better optimisations, sometimes a newer version runs faster.
that was a bit of an exaggeration anyway. it actually runs fine for what I use it for with WIFI off, then unusable for 10-20 mins when i turn WIFI on, then OK but a bit sluggish after that. Turning WIFI off again, returns it to reasonable speed.
In recent versions of Android you can disable them and have them not run. I think you can do it with Android 5 but there is a tendency for some Google apps to get enabled again - this isn't a problem in more recent versions.
in a rooted Android I could just delete the damn things. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>