On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
If you root the existing install then you can remove the root access afterwards, or you could just sell it without telling the buyer as it makes no changes to the UI.
Russell that is an excellent suggestion; I don't care if I leave the buyer with root access (yes I know very irresponsible); just as long as the UI and functionality ; is the same to all outward appearance !
When a phone has "root access" that typically means two things. Firstly some apps just happen to have more access (EG programs like TitaniumBackup have access to do what you expect), that generally has no potential down-side and a novice user won't notice anything unusual (nothing unusual about a backup program being able to make a backup). The second thing is that you might have an icon on the desktop to start a root shell (in the case of a default CyanogenMod install when I tried CyanogenMod), that has an obvious risk. But you can easily remove that icon from the desktop and a novice won't notice to put it back.
Let's see say another 5 years till the ZTE F165 konks out; and 20%/ year compound depreciation on the Nexus 4 => $Nexus 4 (2020) = $170 x .8^ 5 = $ 55; yep that's do-able to :-$
You will probably be able to buy a decent new Android phone for $55 by then. ;) On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, thelionroars <thelionroars1337@gmail.com> wrote:
The flash memory in phones only lasts 5 years of use, so the value of any smart phone value after 5 years is effectively $0, unless you're a gun with a soldering iron.
Citation needed. On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
So what behavior should I be seeing if the flash memory on the ZTE F165; has been dying for the last two years ?
You might see data corruption, system hangs (filesystem remounted read-only but with no way to inform you), or application crashes. On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, thelionroars <thelionroars1337@gmail.com> wrote:
Smartphone, not phone. It's a limitation of flash storage and the amount of writes you can do.
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