It used to be fun

I am in dire need of a true Linux Phone

I am very happy on GrapheneOS. Even in terms of flashing it was much nicer experience than what you had to go through back in the days

AOKP was king. I miss all the extra silly features they packed in. You could make it look almost nothing like Android by the time you were done.

Don't forget rock solid app gets an unexpected update 3 years later and now is jammed with ads and offers an ad free subscription at $14/week

I miss those days. Ive jumped to iOS for quite a few years since, but I do miss the community and tinkering. I don’t miss the shitty battery life and hoping my phone doesn’t brick when I flash a new ROM or kernel.

Bring back the Nokia N900!

A nice sentiment but in reality the n900 and n9 were both too slow to use. That's the first thing that would have to be fixed.

so apple fixed the battery life thing? i knew macbooks have insane battery life, but i thought iphones still couldn't do 2 days which i think is the line between shitty and ok. anyway samsungs could never and still can't do more than 2 days in my hands, but I've been amazed that my p8p with graphene can easily get 4 days (I'm a pretty light user).

I’m comparing the galaxy s2 I believe and other older phones I would use to flash ROMs. Battery life was always an issue then. I’m sure it’s gotten better. I’m just speaking from 2011 time period.

An in-app-purchase screen would have been a great fit.

I would eat my foot for this

Low key it was fun flashing roms back in Late 2023 on a Xiaomi Phone.
The only unfun part was unlocking the bootloader

Look at this: https://liberux.net/

I'm glad I heard of Discord's plan to add ads to their Android app beforehand so I had the chance to disable updates. It's annoying that Android keeps reminding me there's an update available, but it's less annoying than ads.

This is why I moved to iPhone a few years ago. Every premium android was a legit knockoff of iPhone in every single way, down to the lack of a headphone jack and SD card slot. Why continue chasing these phones that aren’t even as good as the real thing?

Android USED TO be better than iPhone, but Google is just gung-ho on enshitification. Apple, for the walled garden that it is, at least works well with its eco system. Android is so fragmented and complicated that it’s collapsing under its own weight.

I just hate that so much. The openness was one of the two reasons why I got an android phone. The other one being the price.

I did alright with mine. I figure a modern one would have modern hardware in it. People forget how dire the performance on the first couple of iPhone generations was, too. The N900's contemporary was the iPhone 3GS, I think, which was an objectively terrible device in every metric except sales.

Oh, and the N900's inbuilt phone dialer was also kind of ass. But I found its performance more than acceptable, and it could run full fat Firefox including the Flash plugin, which was still a big deal at the time, whereas its competitors could barely render a web page.

Yeah app purchases sure went to shit, didn't they? Sorry turns out buying an app one time for a small fee isn't good enough, we need you to buy it again every month.

CyanogenMod, how I loved thee