Do you install beta / preview OS on your daily driver smartphone?
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"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so." -- Artemus Ward aka Charles Farrar Brown
hello sir this is CurryOS ROM v 3.3.5 GOLD edition (Score:3, Funny)
this is my deodexed AOSP rom. it has
has:
- stable for daily drive
- battery optimization
- open gapps (be sure to register ur device with google!!!)
- auto screen brightness
not working:
- camera
- wifi
- calling function
- you tell me
bugs:
sometimes reboots once a day
kindly donate to my paypal for continued development
Re: hello sir this is CurryOS ROM v 3.3.5 GOLD edi (Score:2)
Even better try NÃggerOS 14.88: has:
- runs fast
"And real gangsta-ass niggas don't run for shit
Cuz real gangsta-ass niggas can't run fast
-Geto Boys*
Speaking of whom, I got dragged out to the Denver area's nastiest titty-bar (out in Aurora) by Bushwick Bill and his manager at 3am; that was interesting...
Does LineageOS count? (Score:2)
Running on it on a Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 and love that I can turn off those stupid heads up notifications that cover the top part of the screen at the most inconvenient times. Android Cupcake had notifications right. Keep them in the status bar, let nothing cover the screen unless it's Apple.
Only if I'm paid to use it! (Score:2)
Like a work phone. ;)
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Same with me: Not since I left the phone making business where it was part of my job.
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Which company and what did you do? QA test?
I used too. (Score:2)
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The special part is/was getting OS updates when your manufactures stops updating the phone, if they released updates at all. Take the Nexus 6 for example, google stopped updating when it hit Nougat, but mine currently are running Pie.
I now have the Essential Phone. Android Q is suppose to be the last update, so once Android R comes out I'll probably install the LineageOS on it and keep getting Android updates a while longer.
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But it allowed you to get rid of the vile amount of Samsung bloat.
I got a Samsung from Samsung and it has a quite modest amount of bloat. Used to have a Samsung from a carrier; that's where the vile amounts of bloatware come from.
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I used to install beta operating systems on computers when I was younger and had more time to muck around. Now I'm old and just want things to work. I got old enough not to want to run beta operating systems before smartphones proliferated.
I don't use a smartphone (Score:3)
I don't have a smartphone, you insensitive clod.*
I choose to not become a zombie. I have sometimes got issued a smartphone by an employer, and then of course followed that employer's instructions for updates and software installations. (And then left the "phone" at work, to be used only during work-hours)
* = It is Slashdot tradition to end with "You Insensitive Clod". ;)
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I guess the real problem with smartphones is the term "smartphone". The "phone" part should probably be dropped. After all, they've always actually just been pocket computers that happen to handle phone calls.
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Re: I don't use a smartphone (Score:1)
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Re: most phones are to locked down to even try thi (Score:1)
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Well... (Score:3)
That's a gay sex joke.
Never (Score:1)
My smartphone is my only phone. If I brick it, I don't have a phone until the SIM gets moved to another device.
I used to do it, but no more (Score:5, Informative)
I eventually figured out that, no matter what shiny new feature was included in a new beta, I would find it interesting for maybe a day and then never use it again. It's just not worth the tradeoff for a device which I want to be as reliable as possible.
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waiting for rotary dial support (Score:2)
If I got to the point where things didn't work (Score:2)
anymore, maybe, but Android 5.5.1 (only one update and apparently done) seems stable enough if I clean the cache and reboot weekly/weakly.
dropbox and the cellular company have issued warnings that their apps aren't supported on my version of android anymore, which is actually not a bad thing.
All I really use the device for is phone/text/mail...
In the past, I have rooted and run alternative OS versions, but who really cares anymore?
iOS public betas are pretty solid (Score:2)
Loved Cyanogenmod then Windows Insider Preview (Score:2)
Now - I run an Iphone X.
No (Score:2)
Flip-phone.
the missing option (Score:1)
Just not worth it.... (Score:2)
A long time ago, I guess I cared more about being among the first to use whatever new thing came down the pipe. Maybe it just felt like what I was "supposed to do" as a guy working in I.T.? I was supposed to learn about all of this stuff before everyone else, right?
But nah -- I got older and I think wiser. These days, I'd never put a beta version of a cellphone OS on a phone I actually rely on day to day. Leave that stuff to all the kids who only use their phones for entertainment and personal use to ch
I used to. (Score:2)