<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">My Samsung Galaxy Note II has been left behind.<div class=""> * Samsung/T-Mobile offer no updates, I’m stuck at 4.2.</div><div class=""> * T-Mobile has increased coverage,</div><div class=""> but my phone doesn’t reach their new channels.</div><div class=""> * The new thermostat I’m working with requires 4.5,</div><div class=""> so I have to use my wife’s to control it.</div><div class=""> * The new version of <a href="http://weatherunderground.com" class="">weatherunderground.com</a></div><div class=""> doesn’t work on what I’ve got, and it’s got</div><div class=""> all the local amateur weather stations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think 5-1/2 years is pretty good for a phone, but it burns me being abandoned like that.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Before I cave in and buy a new phone, since I’m letting go of this phone as it is, . . .</div></div><div class="">. . . is it time to root it, and install a new ROM that knows the Brave New World?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I see these:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEkN919cHpk" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEkN919cHpk</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-2/general/4-5-6a-t3269950" class="">https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-2/general/4-5-6a-t3269950</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is this a possible solution for me?</div><div class="">… and if I did do this, could I later convert it to operate as just a WIFI device as I moved on with a new phone?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is no way I’d take on this job myself, with all that talent out in LinuxLand.</div><div class="">I *would* trust (and pay) a consultant who has done this kind of thing repeatedly, without recent bricking events.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please advise . . .</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Victor Odhner</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>