Anyone still use the old Samsung Galaxy S4? Or am I the only one?

[DoomSlayer]

Who's still using their old phone?

So far, my S4 has lasted me 7 years and its now my daily after having sat for almost 3 years unused when my lg g4, S5 and S6 were still working. Now I'm back to the S4, after the new phones 'died'.

There's quite a bit of wear, and abuse on the phone... the plastic frame is cracked and broken you can see the motherboard in the phone, the screen is cracked but it isn't noticeable and the back cover has been missing for the last few years. https://imgur.com/a/YVpysQ1

With a custom rom and kernel allowing me to oc the cpu to 2.1ghz and the gpu to 600mhz with thermal throttling disabled, its fast. I've had it like this since 2017/18. Only downside was the finger burning cpu temp, 100c at times.

But, still - most reliable phone I've ever owned. I want a reason to get a new phone but this one isn't giving up yet lol. :/

[CursedPanther]

Is the temperature really reaching 100C? That can't be good for the battery at all and I won't be surprised that it'll catch fire any moment.

But if you're using the smartphone as an actual phone and not your daily go-to social media and gaming device, the S4 does hold up well.

[russy23]

i used to have one, its still in the drawer, but even budget phones are alot better nowadays

[Snow]

Basically, that's what custom ROMs do to phones. Liquid Remix on Redmi 4A here, only I keep my frequencies to default. I totally appreciate CPU hotplug in custom kernels, saves battery life so much.

[DoomSlayer]

Originally posted by CursedPanther:

Is the temperature really reaching 100C? That can't be good for the battery at all and I won't be surprised that it'll catch fire any moment.

But if you're using the smartphone as an actual phone and not your daily go-to social media and gaming device, the S4 does hold up well.

I'd agree with that, battery doesn't last more than 2-3 hours under continuous use, but its the original battery. And I got those temps from Kernel Adiutor. Under light use temps would be around 60 to 80c it varies a lot, under heavy use, like gaming - temps would climb up to 90-110c.

I mainly use it for browsing the web, youtube and some light gaming even though I don't game much anymore on mobile, no time to do so.

And I'm running 8.1.0 LineageOS, its not the best rom for the phone, it freezes every once and a while (there's android 9.0 and android 10 available) but I'm too lazy to reflash and restart everything again lol.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Im on a phone whos hardware is comparable to a Galaxy Note II (LG K10). Prior to that I had a stripped down first gen galaxy (Samsung Prevail Gen1) from ~2011 through 2017. Have had the K10 since 2017 and it is still doing well.

Have an unlocked SII I am thinking of rom'ing up to Android 7 and swapping over to though.