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Every Android phone that I've owned (about 7-8 of them?) died with hardware problems within 2-3 years. Except for my current one. It's a 5 year-old Moto G5 Plu
by bxparks 5y ago
Every Android phone that I've owned (about 7-8 of them?) died with hardware problems within 2-3 years. Except for my current one.
It's a 5 year-old Moto G5 Plus that I bought for ~$200. It got one OS upgrade to Android 8.1.0. I run Firefox, Signal, Google Authenticator, and the usual set of Google apps (GMail, Maps, Keep, Drive, Contacts, Calendar). It's a great phone. The only problem is that it stopped receiving security updates 3 freaking years ago. But I'm not going to throw away a perfectly usable phone.
- gruez 5y ago> Every Android phone that I've owned (about 7-8 of them?) died with hardware problems within 2-3 years. Except for my current one. That seems suspiciously high. I "manage" approximately that many phones and only one has stopped working without obvious cause of failure (eg. smashed screen).
- bxparks 5y agoI agree, but here is my rough memory: - the Nexus One died when the power button broke - the Nexus S died when half the touch screen stopped working - the Galaxy Nexus died for some hardware reason that I cannot remember - one of my Nexus 4 died when the battery ballooned and shattered the glass - another Nexus 4 died in an infinite boot loop - the spare BLU brand phone died in an infinite boot loop - the Moto X died when the radio antenna (both WiFi and cell) stopped working - the Nexus 5X died in an infinite boot loop
- crtasm 5y agoI don't think the bootloops count as hardware failure?
- lostmsu 5y agoCan confirm Nexus 4 and Moto X issues. Had exactly the same ones. Nexus 6 though (it is very similar to Moto X hardware wise) only died after 4 years after taking a swim, and was perfectly functional until then.
- gabrielsroka 5y agoI had a Nexus One, a Nexus 4, and a Pixel 1 XL. They all worked great-- lasted a total of 11 1/2 years. I just bought a Pixel 5a/5G, and it's great.
- kyriakos 5y agoWeirdly all my android phones are still working. I upgrade on average every 2 to 3 years, current phone bought a flagship 3 years ago and other than battery degradation it's performing as it was when I first purchased it. I am actually using my older models for various automation tasks and one as a webcam for video calls from desktop. Maybe the problem is when buying cheaper models?
- hazza_n_dazza 5y agomy android phones are all going great, back to the google nexus one. maybe this is just a highly emotive and irrational topic?
- Markoff 5y agonone of my Android phones died in last 11 years of using them though i used to upgrade after 1.5-2 years, current phone holds record, soon 4 years of use without any lag or anything probably attributed to not updating system, which would bring me no benefits and using clean lineage ROM, also not fan of crap apps