OT: Cell Phone Advice

[Bob Elzer]

i have the same phone and gave up when walmart stopped supporting their app
on it,  I got a brand new lg v20 on ebay for $200 mpdel h918 for tmobile it
runs android 7.0

let me know if you get this updated, from my understanding one of the last
updates of the note 2 locked it so it can't be rooted. I've been looking
but haven't found a recent root.

i would really like to root mine so i can do some useful things with it.



On Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 7:41 AM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have done lots of Roms in the past, they are pretty basic to sort out
> with reading and some basic concepts of Linux and the funny partitioning
> that android relies on. but just a quick look you can get up to about
> android 7 or so with LineageOS (fork of Cyanogenmod before they went off
> the deep end.
>
> https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/t0lte This has info about the Note2
> and LineageOS. Super simple to set up. especially on older devices that
> have been hugely documented. (install steps here
> https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/t0lte/install)
>
> Personally I am using the OnePlus3 the OxygenOS CE that they are running
> is i think my favorite stock experience EVER. Add a little root, and
> Substratum and the device does everything I want. even for a 2 year old
> device. the only reason I want the OnePlus6 is for the new spectrum on the
> radio. The 3 is still a really decent device. You can find them around for
> about 200 to 300 still. Also you can look into the Essential phone. Also
> really good in concept, but I am not sure how well it is doing as it went
> on sale for prime day and dropped over 50% off MSRP.
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 8:40 PM Victor Odhner <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> My Samsung Galaxy Note II has been left behind.
>>   * Samsung/T-Mobile offer no updates, I’m stuck at 4.2.
>>   * T-Mobile has increased coverage,
>>         but my phone doesn’t reach their new channels.
>>   * The new thermostat I’m working with requires 4.5,
>>         so I have to use my wife’s to control it.
>>   * The new version of weatherunderground.com
>>         doesn’t work on what I’ve got, and it’s got
>>         all the local amateur weather stations.
>>
>> I think 5-1/2 years is pretty good for a phone, but it burns me being
>> abandoned like that.
>>
>> Before I cave in and buy a new phone, since I’m letting go of this phone
>> as it is, . . .
>> . . . is it time to root it, and install a new ROM that knows the Brave
>> New World?
>>
>> I see these:
>>
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEkN919cHpk
>>
>>
>> https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-2/general/4-5-6a-t3269950
>>
>> Is this a possible solution for me?
>> … 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?
>>
>> There is no way I’d take on this job myself, with all that talent out in
>> LinuxLand.
>> I *would* trust (and pay) a consultant who has done this kind of thing
>> repeatedly, without recent bricking events.
>>
>> Please advise . . .
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Victor Odhner
>>
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