The $7 Samsung Galaxy...

Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at the £5 or $7 Samsung Galaxy SII I ordered from a pretty sketchy listing on ebay....Which does seem to be the norm, atleast when im involved.So join me today as we push this phone to the latest and greatets version of Android, run a load of benchmarks, chosen by you guys, the community, from OpenTTD through to Half Life this thing is really put through its paces.
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Games Tested:
Xash3D Half Life
OpenTTD
Oddworld Munchs Oddysee
Minecraft
Drastic
ePSXe
Mupen64
3D Mark
Music:
Metal Gear Solid III - Sea Breeze
TTD OST
Pokemon Diamond OST
National Park OST
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Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: Radeon HD5870 (With Final WHQL Drivers and Beta Drivers)
RAM: 32GB DDR4
OS: Windows 10
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[@d9zirable]

God bless XDA, masters of mobile necromancy

[@andrive]

Ah yes

[@tiagobelo4965]

Except not evil

[@3dcomrade]

XDA, brings you windows flexibility to android

[@MrJ0mmy]

yes im so happy for the people on that site ran on a pop c3 android 5.1 and it ran decent Chipset Mediatek MT6572 (28 nm) CPU Dual-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7 GPU Mali-400 Ram 512mb Storage 4gb So i use a 32gb sd card as the internal storage with the custom rom it has a 5mp camera but now take better photos also can run free fire fine too

[@efftee]

3d comrade hell, they even got a Windows phone running Android

[@Brand2Tiny]

When a 9 year old phone is more updated than your almost 2 year old phone.

[@emil.soderholm]

that's android for you

[@hahaiseewhatyouredoing9086]

It usually depends on how much the phone got supports on hardcore forum like XDA.

[@matthewferraro8020]

or my iPhone 6

[@underii]

Yeah because you can't install a custom rom on your 2 year old phone? Dumbass

[@superbored4576]

@@underii damn calm down lmao

[@MGR99]

BBO gets in his car Me: "I wonder what car it is." BBO minutes later showing pics of an Astra and zooming in the center console Me: "Okay, gotcha, thanks."

[@sebastianchibrac4877]

he be flexi'n with his vauxhall

[@RWL2012]

looks like a glittery purple one...?

[@Ignacio.Romero]

Hey fellow automationeer lol

[@MGR99]

@@Ignacio.Romero oh shit, Nacho! :D

[@TheRadPlayer]

Notice how during the GT2 clip, that's the car he goes to view at the dealership.

[@SussyFortskinNiteFreakbob]

As a very active XDA dev that roots and creates multiple ROMs. I have to thank the XDA community for making outdated phones a thing of the past.

[@luccabimbati]

Galaxy S2: a lot of Android 10 ROMS My Galaxy A5 2016: Well, at least you've got Android 7..........

[@mruczyslaw50]

That's why sometimes it's better to get older flagship than new low/mid-end

[@addiction2861]

@@mruczyslaw50 Galaxy S5 International is still on nougat.

[@JustARegularNerd]

@@addiction2861 I'm currently running Android 9 Pie on my S5 (kltedv, not international) and my other S5 is still rocking Android 8.1 Oreo, both via LineageOS. If you follow the tutorials exactly and precisely, I strongly recommend getting away from stock, because it truly does give your S5 a new life.

[@3dcomrade]

It seems exynos chipsets are a bit unpopular for the devs. Weird thing is 2012 galaxy tab 2 even with its OMAP4430 version have quite amount of custom ROMs, last i checked there is a nougat for it

[@ELECTROHAXZ]

S7 and S7 edge (US, Snapdragon) still both on 8.0, at least running the carrier free firmware so no bloatware but still I wish there were good custom roms like the older Samsung phones and the unlocked bootloader ones.

[@Garrettdx1988]

This phone was a beast when it came out. My roommate had a white one and I had an iPhone 4. I remember being pretty jealous of all the emulators he was able to run.

[@swinoob616]

pokemon sinnoh music in the intro :D

[@blowyourmindscientist6497]

Which theme exactly? I just wanna know, since I got bored because of social distancing and wanting to replay some older Pokémon games.

[@SpudCommando]

@@blowyourmindscientist6497 I think it's one of the cave music where you find the legendaries

[@justaadhdgamerwesley6244]

@@SpudCommando lake theme

[@blowyourmindscientist6497]

@@justaadhdgamerwesley6244 Thank you!

[@ReshiLuna]

It's the lake theme from diamond and pearl. :3 it's one of my most favorite pokemon themes.

[@scellyyt]

I have an s3 and it really is interesting how much its changed over 1 generation. Great review 👍

[@doritofan80]

You're so right m8

[@razorsz195]

h

[@eliotisconfusedaboutyourpa8105]

Me too. Im very nostalgic to that phone, because I spent years with it. I dont use it anymore, but I will never forget how much time I spent with it. I never thought I would be nostalgic with a phone or android version. Time flies

[@Dacite6]

9* generationd

[@adamjoler]

I have an s3 too

[@Ansigo]

Galaxy SII: runs Android 10 fine, plays lots of games great and is still usable iPhone 4S: *WUT*

[@fandyus4125]

I mean, maybe if you took a 4s, completely stripped it down and installed Linux, it might be okay too. Don't know though.

[@Ansigo]

@@fandyus4125 but the amount of effort to do that and to get it fully or mostly functional would be a nightmare

[@almondnguyen2699]

@@Ansigo plus the optimizations. Remember iDevices' hardware is extremely mediocre, such as half a gig of RAM.

[@craftimations9265]

Im am either sad or hurt because our country only sells iPhone 4s and not Samsung Galaxy s2 its rare here

[@TenWolf-wb7pc]

To be fair, the 4S got more official updates than the S2 Not saying it should have *cough* IOS 9 *cough*, but it did

[@vasilepuscasu3048]

Apple: We have the best software support *Xda: Hold my Custom ROMs.*

[@lupreztryson]

Sandu Zmeu an average joe isn’t a computer geek to install a custom rom on his phone. You can update your 6year old iPhone with 2 taps

[@Melonese]

@@lupreztryson i mean the 4s usability is just sad compare to this though

[@reynardrouser7863]

Apple does have the best

[@reynardrouser7863]

Yato Fouze the iPhones do last longer it was probably water damage or something

[@Melonese]

@@reynardrouser7863 huh? why are you mentioning water damage out of the blue?

[@wowitsshit9734]

little story from me, couple years ago I got a samsung galaxy s6 for £40 on ebay (with faulty camera). I put android 10 on it and tried camera, it still didn't work, but last week i opened a scan QR code link and camera actually activated. Camera been working ever since. It's not often things miraculously go right for me.

[@ruanrossouw9209]

The camera didn"t look too bad until you compared it to the pixel 4 ,but for its age it really does well

[@IgorGiganskiANtiatom]

Still better than some modern cheapo Chinese smartphones

[@royisdabest]

@@IgorGiganskiANtiatom xiaomi phones are pretty good m8, idk what youre trying to get at

[@user-do8jq4kd5z]

@@royisdabest he means others, my younger brother has a really cheap one that has 2.0mp camera in the back. No front camera.

[@IgorGiganskiANtiatom]

@@royisdabest I have Xiaomi too , Mi9 lite it's very good for it's price, i was talking about brands like leagoo, doogee , leeco that cost from 50 to 100$ and they are awful !

[@losch78]

I wonder if a GCam - at least the Go version - would work with this;

[@YouFoundMee]

When a decade old phone is running android 10 Meanwhile the s8 is stuck In android 9

[@folddyy]

Meanwhile the on5 is stuck in android 6

[@faisalfarooq5242]

If you root it and flash Android 11, it will run it.

[@ryzenryne8747]

@@faisalfarooq5242 Android 11 doesn't exist yet 😆

[@blaperturemesa]

@@ryzenryne8747 yes it does. It's in beta. You can flash it as a GSI if your phone supports treble.

[@user-iv4dh7zp7s]

@@ryzenryne8747 nope it has beta

[@AliYassinToma]

apple users : android phones sux no updates android users : CUSTOM ROM MOTHAFUCCA apple users : wait thats illegal

[@mruczyslaw50]

@@melvinharris7859 Super AMOLED in S2 was a great screen when it came out. But it's not near to today's OLED.

[@3dcomrade]

*risks and consequences exists Ali: ill pretend i didnt see that

[@AliYassinToma]

@@3dcomrade no risks ... U: ill pretend im dumb and cant flash a rom and brick a device

[@AliYassinToma]

Even if u brick the device just flash the original rom and start over

[@3dcomrade]

@@AliYassinToma risk are risks man, and some newbies might just give up after the 1st bricking

[@xElias01]

My mom used a Galaxy SII until two weeks ago, soo... And when we told her to upgrade, she said that it „still works completely fine“ and after finally upgrading to a new phone she „can‘t actually tell any difference in performance“! This absolutely shocked my mind, especially since the phone was also still running the Android 4 Jelly Bean OS.

[@krullexneo]

I've never heard someone call Exynos Zenos before lol ~Eksee-nos

[@yaskeepants]

I thought it was pronounced Eks-ai-nos lol

[@bztr659]

same

[@raf9826]

xD-nos.

[@EdgyShooter]

Still amazing what an almost decade old phone can do, and serves as a reminder of just how powerful the tiny computers in our pockets are!

[@computercatgaming02]

When I heard you were trying Android 10 on that phone I got so curious how it would perform so I actually flashed it onto my old Galaxy SII ;-) It actually worked better than I expected though the battery-life like you mentioned is rather poor and there's no fast way to charge it. However if my main phone were to break I could honestly use the Galaxy SII until I get a replacement since it does the small necessary things though not especially fast.

[@Ignacio.Romero]

LineageOS 17.1 is really buggy atm on all phones, I recommend you to install Android 9 (LineageOS 16) which generally works much better

[@almondnguyen2699]

Ignacio Romero Not really man. Some that are officially supported are running totally well. 10 is also MUCH MORE RESPONSIVE than 9.

[@Ignacio.Romero]

@@almondnguyen2699 Dude, I have 3 phones with official support and 2 of them (Galaxy S4 and S5) run much worse than LOS 16. The third one runs well only because it's a OnePlus 7 Pro

[@almondnguyen2699]

Ignacio Romero Wait what? I have an S4 (i9506 variant) and S5 (G900D) too, and I can confirm only the jflte variant (the S4 Snap600 aka. i9505 one) has official 10 support. All other are unofficial. So what are you onto here? Also 10 on S4 has been really smooth for me (9 has lags even in homescreen). So maybe using the OP7 spoiled your performance expectation?

[@Ignacio.Romero]

@@almondnguyen2699 I have the S4 jfltespr and, like most people, I'm experiencing a lot of crashes and random freezes that last like a minute, there are people that can't even install it in the first place because it causes a bootloop. And no, using a OP7P hasn't spoiled my expectations, using LOS 16 on the S4 just works much better

[@MarcosCodas]

Huh, this is totally my kind of stuff. Just recently I restored and sold an S5, and put together my 2010 HTC Desire, flashed a custom ROM on it, and use it for all the Facebook crap I need for work. That way, my actual phone doesn't have any Google or Facebook shit.

[@wews2047]

Yes good on daily usage(for work) without disturbing apps.

[@pacso2000]

Do you have a HMS supported Huawei phone?

[@user-iv4dh7zp7s]

@@pacso2000 hms installable on any phone

[@smashandburnyt6938]

Everybody gangsta till the OLED starts burning in.

[@rajideva6745]

@Black Hole why doe it's true

[@rajideva6745]

@Black Hole doesn't happen often but it's true

[@justsomepandawithinternet]

@@rajideva6745 1/100000

[@rixzin5046]

@ababab stop using siting with your phone max brightness. This has never happened to me

[@rajideva6745]

@@rixzin5046 if you also text often or you have the keyboard open alot the keyboard can also burn into the screen

[@zeberto1986]

This was an awesome phone back in the day. I remember swapping my S2 for the first Note and had a massive shock when I saw how big the note was back then.

[@rosalinamacarita01]

same

[@jbritain]

I had an SII, it was a great phone. More recently I tried rooting it and installing LineageOS but the internal memory finally gave out.

[@otabekmirzayev3306]

It really was a great phone. I regret selling it. Back in the day, this phone was a joy to watch stuff

[@alexkuruvilla1571]

I had it too.i stopped using it in 2020

[@half-dusted]

@@alexkuruvilla1571 2020?!

[@alexkuruvilla1571]

@@half-dusted yup last year

[@half-dusted]

@@alexkuruvilla1571 I had a J3 2016 edition and used until 2020

[@Sithedd]

0:57 there's literally a bug on the phone. I love this channel.

[@aienp]

Waiting for that 1 guy "Watching this on my Samsung S2 phone with Android 10, best phone yet, might upgrade to the S3 next"

[@osheratias3010]

15:31 "Helo" ... "Help.. me..." lol

[@JarosawSwierczewski]

Galaxy S2 is a pretty damn good phone - I have it on Android 8.1 as 10 and 9 were a little unresponsive. 8.1 is a little bit better. The most scary thing for new moders to do is to change the size of system partition. But it's great that you can assign any size you like for system and apps from available 16GB.

[@DiabloXL69]

you can even push it to 7.0 considering that you can still use all apps and it’ll be faster

[@MarcosCodas]

Also, the SII is a gorgeous phone. History changing.

[@PignaofLegends]

Whenever i hear Sinnoh i have the need to choose Turtwig again :)

[@Link1J]

Good person. Turtwig is the best starter.

[@Lauren_C]

*hugs my Piplup

[@colinhoban8660]

call me basic but im a chimchar guy...

[@Ndlanding]

Fascinating! I have absolutely no idea WTF this thread is about, and I am head of ICT in the White House.

[@ReshiLuna]

@@Lauren_C I love Piplup too! :3 it's so cute, and it's really good when you evolve it into Empoleon.

[@skramzrave]

I use old phones as hard drives and app development. They are pretty cost efficent for that

[@YOCOSMINMAX16]

What types?

[@nahpets2345]

Samsung in 2011: Our phone is very powerful and thin Samsung in 2020: Introducing Samsung Galaxy S20, the most powerful phone in the world Wow, phones have changed a lot

[@uniqhnd23]

Is this sarcasm?

[@maciek6470]

I had this Samsung in 2011 and I dare say it was most powerful phone of all androids back then

[@humankerbal3623]

some phones have more ram then my computer

[@MsMRkv]

Thre are more poweful phones than the s20, heck even some 2019 phones are more powefull than the s20.

[@3dcomrade]

@@MsMRkv depens which version, SD865 are one of the best SoC you can get on a phone. Exynos 990 on the other hand

[@patricroberts6849]

I waited 3 hours for this and I wasn’t disappointed 🤩🤩🤩 its 3am here

[@JacksSpiralShape]

You are the hero we don’t need or deserve but are happy to have anyway

[@Ndlanding]

It isn't 3am any more. Now what?

[@drumsmoker731]

Shout out to XDA. They gave several of my old phones and tablets a second life (until the battery or the hardware failed).

[@Tuhueleamierda1991]

Well if the battery fails you can always buy another, just make sure it’s the right kind and not from some sketchy seller

[@RC-pj1pr]

Some quality albums there in the car. Can’t believe it’s 15 years since I saw Oasis at Man City’s ground, time flies indeed.

[@enzomeister]

You are one of few youtubers that entertains me at this times and always, and I like that you started recording more videos compared to before.

[@jamie74gemini87]

I still can’t quite get my head around why the performance drops so drastically over time. This was a beast of a phone at the time, a s2 running as new would be a match for most budget phones running new now.

[@FullMetalPanicNL]

You're underestimating how far budget phones have come. A Redmi Note 8t sports an 8 core CPU with 4 cores at 2Ghz and 4 at 1.8 Ghz. It has 4 gigs of RAM and 650 Mhz GPU. The SII has a 1.2ghz dual core, 1 gig of RAM and a 266 Mhz GPU. It was definitely a beast at the time, especially compared to Apples offering though. But budget phones have come far and have become decently powerful. I remember checking some budget phones back in the day and man, where those things sluggish as hell. The S2 wins it on price though as it's only about 5 bucks now. :D

[@megamiazga]

The best option for no Gapps is using MicroG, a FOSS alternative.

[@rashidtlemsaniuk250]

@Budget-Builds Official and @najzwyklejszyzludzi can you advise a tuto to install the playstore please?

[@megamiazga]

@@rashidtlemsaniuk250 Get F-Droid and install Aurora Store, it's a FOSS Play Store alternative.

[@MacintoshMen]

Thanks a lot for this very interesting video! I'm getting bored of all these super fast smartphone nowadays where you already know they are fast and do everything with ease.

[@02loveslollipop]

The people: commenting about something related to the video Me: thinking about the lake verity song from 4th gen Pokémon games

[@TheTardis157]

The good old LG G4 is a high end phone from 2015. Most phones still don't have as many pixels in the screen as this old thing does. It was the first phone with a 1440p screen and still works fine today so long as you don't plan on using the latest and greatest 3D gaming apps. Most work fine, but the Snapdragon 808 is showing its age. It does have 3 gigs of ram which today is still pretty good. It's amazing to think that these old phones are still usable today for almost all tasks years on down the line when it seems like you are told to upgrade every year or 2. It's going to be hard to give up user replaceable batteries that is for sure. Great video as always. Can't wait to see what phone you test out next!

[@FilFee]

How did I not know that there's a mobile port of OpenTTD? This is brilliant :D

[@ButchLising]

14:32 ahh yes, the nsfw version of Wind Waker running. Good times.

[@sdewey4152]

11:54 Zelfa that's a good game.

[@LemonTangWang]

I got the s2 on launch day. It was my first smart phone and it cost considerably more than a fiver. Great phone, kept it for two years then gave it to my mum.

[@EragoEntertainment]

I was really happy with my S2 back then. Especially putting in a 32GB microSD and having USB-OTG host felt like a real computer in my pocket. Also it had MHL, meaning I could play N64 games on my TV using the S2 and a fake 8€ Bluetooth PS3 controller and 6€ MHL adapter ordered from DealExtreme. Also unlike the iPhone at the time it supported almost all Bluetooth devices, like keyboards and mice. When the S5 came out I got the S4 to upgrade and it felt like a good successor, I had the S4 until 2018, when I switched to my Honor 9 because Samsung got too expensive. More than 300€ for a two year old Samsung phone just wasn't worth it.

[@crabhuman]

Just to add on battery life. Back in the day, I used a lot of android phones, and it is so simple to forget how fleeting was the battery life on them, should you use them for any demanding tasks. Anything utilising 3g, as in streaming youtube, any 3d games, etc would devour your battery in less than an hour, even on a brand new...ish phone. I do enjoy my Samsung Note 9, allowing me to work remotely for 8h now, and it seems to be a new standard, but older phones were not as good as we remember them to be. Anyways, thanks for your videos bud, I do enjoy them a lot, and keep up the good work!

[@khmerkandal121]

Your videos are amazing. Keep up the good work

[@kommentator1157]

Now I want to go out and buy a few old phones just to mess around with them. Edit: Instead of GApps you could try microG.

[@MegaHayes]

My dad gave me this as a pass down back in Dec 2013, it felt like the bee's knees when I got it and having moved from an S8000 JET (with an awful resistive screen), I absolutely loved it, it was a huge step up from the S8000 and having a touchscreen that actually bloody worked was fantastic. 4 phones after that now I have the Galaxy Note 10+ 5G. Times have certainly changed.

[@alandoesexist]

This guy just have a decade phone for 5 pounds an have Android 10 Me have a $150 phone 2018 and Android 9 :(

[@Makerbreake]

Dam what phone is that?

[@adamjoler]

Just yes

[@ryzenryne8747]

I still have my 7 year old Samsung Tab 3 Lite SM-T110 laying inside one of my drawers. 9 months ago, its operating system finally had it. It couldn't go to recovery mode because of bootloop issue (I couldn't turn it off because of that). Somehow it can go to download mode but, I don't know how to flash it.

[@user-iv4dh7zp7s]

Huawei Y9 2018 Right?

[@alandoesexist]

@@Makerbreake max pro m1

[@Fred51701]

Anything where you can find a car: Budget builds: ASTRA

[@makifrable]

What is nice to hear? You using oldschool software names, those which started the whole modding community. Clockworkmod, Cyanogen, the old dogs!

[@Emma-xh5lp]

Great video, Good information on a nostalgic phone using nostalgic pokemon 4 gen sinnoh and PMD background music to up boost the nostalgia.👍🏻

[@AsmodeusDeviluke]

I still have sitting in a draw, an USA GSM Galaxy SII. I loved that phone. @7:57 Ah, hrt is good.

[@IcedFriend]

Yes. Can confirm. HRT is very good.

[@bigpierogi]

Damn, you got the galaxy s11 for $7! also yay im in the video

[@andrive]

Noice

[@user-iv4dh7zp7s]

No it does not exsist.

[@ameenie]

I recently bought a galaxy a21s, I'll use it on the stock firmware, but after a few year, I hope XDA have my back

[@Sketchy_Dood]

7:05 hey look ma, it’s me

[@RandomAxe]

That's pretty crazy, My s5 only has Lineage os up to android 9, although i havent checked in a couple weeks

[@doomdesire3460]

I have lineage os 17 on my s5

[@RandomAxe]

@@doomdesire3460 which version? The Verizon version hasn't been updated yet according to the site

[@cotto_1203]

6:33 installing Minecraft Ah I see you are a man of colture as well...

[@beanbaghandle]

The hours I spent fucking around with superuser priviliges on this phone, the hours spent with the XDA forums open, flashing various roms etc was ridiculous. 9 times out of 10 it was a complete waste of my time and I ended up actually bricking one of these back in the day. Not to mention the fact that the universal charger port seemed to be weak on these models meant that for me this phone was an absolute fucking nightmare. 10/10 it's legit my favourite older phone despite the countless hours my 13 year old dumbass spent destroying them. This video brought me some much needed nostalgia.

[@MokkaHai]

I like the 2010s camera "style" A lot more bc of its colder colors

[@ShumanGore]

I still have a GT-I5500 laying around somewhere... still works xD

[@MichelleTamezPerez]

Fun fact, i had one of the earliest Android smartphones a LG GT540 Optimus. iirc it had something like 96mb of RAM, a MIPS cpu @ 600mhz and the equivalent of a "2d graphics accelerator" that being, not much of a gpu at all. It came with Android 1.5 and got updated when turned on for the first time to 1.6. Official support was up to 2.2.1 or something (i truly hated the old way of android updates) i got the phone mugged from me but i had a beta 5.0 running on it. I remember watching a 6.0 or a 7.0 rom available on 4PDA or HTC Mania. Even funnier was updating to the S II Advance just days before the phone was axed and the joint venture between Ericsson & Samsung ended.

[@N15.2]

Your background track choice is amazing! Pokemon Soundtrack for the win

[@romanbachler4853]

This was my daily driver for 2 years, I quite liked it, especially how it fit into my hand and how much you could mod on it.

[@rgbgamingfridge]

11:42 did you write that with your phone or did you write "Zelfa" on purpose?

[@MsMRkv]

Im still using a 6 year old nexus 7 with a custom rom, and it actually holds up pretty well today.

[@nicholasbrooks7349]

Going to buy it! Edit: Just order it’s sibling the Note 1 almost the same specs (slightly higher clock speed , a pen , and a bigger screen and battery).

[@lucasbn1221]

Loved the video, definitely would want to see more of old phones!

[@Racey.]

me sitting here wondering if I was the one that gave him the idea to install Android 10 on it or he just randomly felt like doing it

[@jamesramirez85]

I think it needs to be overclooked and the ram improving using a USF class 10 microsd for an extra 50% up to 100% more ram and a new battery, how i know it? I used to do this upgrades to old phones including S2

[@SvexTheDragon]

Had one of these when they were almost brand new. Got one on sale just a few months before the S3 came out for a good price. I started having issues after about 2-3 months of use with frequent crashing and random reboots, the battery life was terrible on day one and the phone got unbearably hot when doing anything on it for more than a couple of minutes (especially playing games or watching videos). After about a year it started doing this extremely fun thing where it actually stopped working as a phone. It wouldn't let me call anyone or send text messages whatsoever unless I rebooted the phone several times and after doing that it would maybe work for one phone call or a couple of minutes. I got myself an iPhone after that. Two Samsung phones with a ton of software and hardware issues was enough for me.

[@SvexTheDragon]

Oh yeah and I forgot to mention that the screen on mine had burn-in covering 90% of the screen straight from the factory so that was nice. The build quality on these old Samsung phones was absolute garbage.

[@AshinMc]

BBO:This camera is gonna be bad! Gcam:Let us introduce ourselves...

[@marcing115]

Xperia Z2 is also really good phone for modding, rn i have lineage [10.0], went through ressurection remix 6/7 / carbon rom 8/9

[@marcing115]

@Rakyiv not worth it anymore, z2 has 32bit CPU so Android 10 is sadly the last one we will probably get

[@marcing115]

Cool, i gotta check it out. And it's pretty hard to find it for under 60$ from what i can see, which is weird for a phone that old.

[@donotscantheqrcode8700]

"Zelfa:MM"

[@Sanrasxz]

Ahhh, yes. My favorite game, Zelfa.

[@dandan9510]

XDA has been my friend since my very first android phone, the Galaxy Pocket back on highschool. It's a life saver

[@TheNiteNinja19]

Samsung phones have amazing third-party support. Even my old Galaxy S4 has support still from lineage OS. and if it wasn't for it's mediocre 16 gigabytes of internal storage, I probably could daily drive it. turning off animations in developer options is also a good way to make the interface feel much more snappier on these older phones.

[@Dimondminer11]

Ah yeah that smexy AMOLED display is amazeballs for such a cheap device

[@wilyamiyoo]

I'm actually surprised that the AMOLED did not have any very obvious OLED burn-in too!

[@Dimondminer11]

@@wilyamiyoo yeah I really was surprised as well. My 2 year old phone has burn in so the fact that that phone has basically no burn in is really impressive

[@augusli9716]

I just realized, he isnt using a recent graphics card for his rig!

[@ChrisSheeksters]

The Photos taken on the Samsung have a certain charm to them that I can't quite describe

[@sarmadabrar185]

This was actually my very first smart phone and it was a good phone for its time and I have a lot of good memories with it.

[@thegadgetarchives7429]

Imagine having Android Go edition on this It might improve the performance? 🤔

[@armorgeddon]

No, go is just for devices with even less RAM AFAIK.

[@W00fer]

AFAIK there are almost no Android Go custom roms. It will help setting Lite versions of apps on these phones.

[@Hari-kx2er]

armorgeddon Is there any phone with even less RAM these days ?

[@ryzenryne8747]

@@Hari-kx2er yep. They're still selling them here in my home country.

[@BabyBlue.23]

When this is performing better than my s6

[@ugzz]

I love seeing other people doing this stuff!! I use an s3 almost daily (Sorry folks, it's a.. *ahem*.. "shitter phone"), and it's an s3 flashed with android 8! Sadly i couldn't find a good rom with anything above 8, but it runs well and youtube and other apps run great! The only real downfall is the boot time, it takes like.. ~3ish minutes to boot up. Also just forget about multi-tasking, but as long as you remember to clear each app after using, it works decently well!

[@cameronuy9552]

The nostalgia the Lake tune from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl brought to me is on another level....

[@Miaaa_]

so your the kind of person to randomly go onto ebay.

[@BabyBlue.23]

Aren’t we all?

[@defagan3562]

Man, that was my first phone!!! It's nice to see how good and reliable these phones really are, please make more of these videos!

[@Turborb26]

Please continue this video series. You're the best at it😁

[@CYellowan]

These old phones often was sold with an additional battery extension that was pretty damn large. Hunt one down and check it out, 2-3x the battery capacity. It did however make those phones pretty large VS the stock size.

[@andrive]

I got mine unlocked for $10. It's awesome! It's also the NFC version

[@lukasauer02]

A man of quality knows the gold standard of background soundtrack!😌 Pokemon D/P

[@miguelhamrol6567]

I still use an LG F5 from 2013 running Android Jellybean, and a lot of things still work. Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera open at least most web pages just fine, Spotify and Gmail still work, KZbin and KZbin Music also play videos just fine, I haven't found any video that wouldn't play. And many games from the Google play store work, though you'll also find many that won't work. It's still a usable phone and a somewhat usable version of Android, though it has its limitations. There are still many apps that support Android Jellybean, which is natural. I guess developers want to reach as many users as they possibly can, so they keep support for as many versions of Android as possible.

[@gaomn_03]

That Diamond/Pearl music is sweet!

[@taimoorali10k]

So much hardwork went into this video

[@Marcus.SweetVanilla]

Do l hear national park from Pokemon heart gold? Holly shit that brings memories. That soundtrack is beautiful.

[@amigoads7986]

Bro this shows that you can use pretty much any phone forever with custom roms

[@friedgpu]

Oh that sweet Pokémon Diamond and Pearl soundtrack, the Lake theme at the starting is just so good.

[@friedgpu]

Also just heard the National Park theme by the end, you're awesome.

[@aurismat_main]

I used to own the S2 Plus. It was a workhorse, that thing. Bar none. Glad to see it's still maintained.

[@pratmak]

Dang I heard the Pokémon Gen 4 Soundtrack as soon as the vid started and got hyped

[@dovydasgrigas441]

This video is really just about the astra gsi with a bit of samsung

[@akthegamer306]

15:30 Who wants to say "hello" when you can say "help me"?

[@AlexTenThousand]

Weird/old tech with Pokémon music makes for a pretty chill combo for a hot late spring evening.