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My Samsung Galaxy S3 died after 8 years. EMMC failure. Just started boot looping while I was asleep. Everything gone. Known issue. My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at
by TheScaryOne 6mo ago
My Samsung Galaxy S3 died after 8 years. EMMC failure. Just started boot looping while I was asleep. Everything gone. Known issue.
My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at 7 years. Some kind of thermal failure, I was able to recover my data by keeping the phone in the freezer while I copied. Known issue.
My Samsung Galaxy S21? I figure I've got another year or two in it before it, too, dies.
Having beautiful dead phones that have never had a broken screen or a hard drop is pretty depressing.
- Joe_Cool 6mo agoI am noticing something those devices have in common. My Galaxy Tab also has dead EMMC. My HTC One M8 still works and even holds a day of charge. Too bad Android doesn't support 32bit ARM anymore.
- pseudohadamard 6mo agoIt can also depend on the hardware it's connected to. If the endless gigabytes of Samsung's value-add software are scribbling to eMMC nonstop then it's not surprising the flash is wearing out. A lot of this stuff is masked by the fact that most people swap out their phone for a new one that's exactly the same every 12 months so they never notice this, but if you hold onto a phone or similar device for longer the unnecessary wear starts to add up.
- 21asdffdsa12 6mo agoGoogle Android should get more praise for doing quality control by analyzing and killing apps and processes that attacked the hardware - at least back in the day. The great filter for incompetence by the big G was real and necessary.
- TheScaryOne 6mo agoThe S3 ran Samsung software for about, oh, a month after I bought it brand new? I'd been running CyanogenMod until they quit giving updates to the S3.
- sureMan6 6mo agoI bought a used Samsung and it started boot looping almost immediately, all these issues seem very specific to Samsung
- TiredOfLife 6mo agoMy Galaxy Note 8 is still going as my main daily music player/backup phone. My Galaxy Note 4 still works. Had to sideload updated web certificates. My Galaxy S1 would still be going, but somebody got the charging port wet.
- blks 6mo agoiPhones usually live pretty long life.
- throwaway2037 6mo ago> My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at 7 years. Yikes, that is a long time! How many times did you fix it (screen or battery)?
- account42 5mo agoI have never broken a phone screen, not sure why some people think that's normal. The USB charging ports on the other hand...
- close04 6mo agoI just replaced my OnePlus 5 a couple of months ago at over 8.5 years old. No repairs needed, battery was a bit crippled in active use, especially making calls, but fine for a mostly idling phone. In idle it still lasts longer than a 1.5 year old iPhone 15. I still use it for by backup phone number SIM, as it slowly gets to ~9 years old. The bigger issue was no more OS updates since 2020, and no Play updates since 2023. The battery can be replaced but getting a fully updated OS is more involved.
- zozbot234 6mo agoOnePlus 5 runs great with custom ROMs, including potentially ones based on mainline Linux as opposed to AOSP. (The Linux support is not as good as OP 6/6T but getting there pretty nicely.)
- close04 6mo agoToo bad they have these long lists of "this doesn't work so well" and I'm too time constrained to troubleshoot for too long or dig for solutions. And I'd also need to replace the battery. It's an option for when I actually have some time. The device integrity is a bigger deal, this is also a backup for some banking apps so if they don't work it kind of defeats the purpose. I removed all other apps to minimize the attacks surface.
- zozbot234 6mo ago
- pjc50 6mo agoYeah, the Flash has a wear lifetime. Battery has a finite lifespan too. Anything over five years is pretty good going. My wife managed that with a Nokia 1020, the last and best of the Windows phones. Like everything else, phones need to be backed up.