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getting progressively pissed at the android phone market
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My phone's coming to the end of security updates but still works fine and is fast enough. I have the same issue, that there aren't any appealing phones out there really. I also still like headphone jacks.
My Xiaomi phone that doesn't have a good custom ROM that's still updated. I did the bootloader unlock, I had to make a Xiaomi account and ask them nicely to do it and wait a few months, but that was years ago and the process probably changed.
There's not any good camera apps for my phone on a custom ROM, they're all worse than the normal one on MIUI. Also other stuff I use like Google Wallet and android auto didn't work good.
yeah banking apps and associated stuff can be a big loss. have you tried a modded GCam apk? they're supposed to be pretty decent
I either lose the close-up macro lens or some other feature when using modded gcam. Tried a bunch of xmls and couldn't find a good one.
ANX camera is supposed to be as close as possible to stock Xiaomi camera app, but it was also a miss for me.
Next time I buy a phone I'll figure out how good the camera is first. Maybe I'll just buy the least flawed old pixel I can find and put graphene OS on it.