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I've loved my 6p, but it's gotten slow AF in the last year or so. I replaced the battery after it stopped lasting more than half a day, and thought that might solve the issue. But it's still intermittently slow.

I'd love to keep it, but it's gotten quite annoying to have to wait for it to respond. I guess it could be malware on it, but it could also be just the hardware not lasting as long as I would hope it would.

I'd like to upgrade, but I don't want to spend $1000+.

Anyone running a Huawei phone that they've flash with a custom firmware? I was thinking of going that route, as it's significantly cheaper.



Same experience here with the 6p. Battery dying early and now the wifi chip is very unreliable.

Only problem is I'm using Google Fi, and I'd like to keep using it. So I don't know what other type of Google Fi-compatible phone to buy.


You don't actually need a google fi compatible phone to switch, you just need it to join google fi. I was astonished when my coworker showed me his ipad pro (I think thats the name- the big one anyway) hooked up to fi a few weeks ago.


Wait seriously? Hot damn, I'm getting a CAT S61.


I think you just need an Android phone with dual-sim tech. Doesn't some of Motorola's lineup have that feature?


Dual sim as in the ability to have two sims? That's popular in India and the middle-east, so Motorolas yes probably. But that's not what's required for Fi.

IIRC Fi's requirement has to do with the ability of moving phonecalls smoothly between wifi and cellular. This capability used to be limited to a dozen or so phones. I don't know what the state of this is nowadays.

Edit: https://www.androidcentral.com/these-phones-work-project-fi -- I don't know which ones are good on that list, to be honest. I really liked the 6P, although it was a bit too large for my taste. I miss phones like the S3 :/




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