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Yeah this. I bought a Nexus 6p on sale, just over a year after it was released. This meant it was less than two years before it was no longer supported. The bat
by rb808 7y ago
Yeah this. I bought a Nexus 6p on sale, just over a year after it was released. This meant it was less than two years before it was no longer supported. The battery was replaced twice and was junk anyway. Good riddance.
- noisy_boy 7y agoMy Nexus 6p worked pretty well except had to do a battery replacement once after which the battery life remained excellent. After nearly 3 years of usage, dropped it and shattered the glass. Tried several places for a replacement screen but the feedback everywhere was "parts no longer available". The phone works perfectly otherwise and I had no intention of getting a new one soon. Finally gave up and bought a Oneplus 6. This kind of forced phasing out of devices is really unfortunate.
- freedomben 7y agoThis is eerily similar to my experience. I absolutely love my OnePlus 6. 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB storage is phenomenal, and double the resources of the pixel 3
- mehrdadn 7y agoRandom question about OnePlus since I'm seeing it in a Linux conversation... do you happen to use Termux? If so do you happen to know how to run a daemon (e.g. SSH) without getting choked by BgDetect every few minutes?
- freedomben 7y agoYeah I do run termux, but I don't run an SSH daemon anymore (mostly because of issues like that). I just plug in the USB cable and run `adb shell` whenever I need a shell on the phone. Performance for file transfers is also way faster and more reliable using `adb pull /sdcard/DCIM ./` than with `scp -r phone:/sdcard/DCIM/ ./` I use termux mostly just run my own ruby scripts or SSH to cloud servers and stuff. Mind if I ask where the conversation is? (if it's public). That sounds like something I'd enjoy :-)
- mehrdadn 7y agoOh, I was just referring to this post, which is about putting Linux on devices meant for other OSes. :-) Ah I see. Yeah I use USB when I need to, but I neither always have enough data to warrant the speed (often just a handful of pics...), nor is it true that I only want SSH for file transfer. =P
- noisy_boy 7y agoYour question was not directed towards me but would like to add that for synhing media between phone and computer, Syncthing[0] has been great for me. Once setup, no manual steps are required anymore - everything syncs automatically. [0]: https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/
- noisy_boy 7y agoThe only good deal I got on Amazon was for 8GB/128GB storage - still have about 70GB left after having copied all my media over from the Nexus 6p. I think I'll be ready for a replacement by the time I get near filling that 70GB up.
- Aissen 7y agoYou can still find parts on ebay for the 6p. And there are youtube videos on how to do the replacement, but it's not something I'd do myself.
- cameronbrown 7y agoStill rocking my Nexus 5X and will continue to do so until it physically dies. LineageOS works spectacularly and I still get Android updates faster than most flagships.
- Shorel 7y agoI still use a Nexus 5. I think I like the Nokia 6 (not the more recent models) as a replacement. It will sadly have to be replaced at some point.