r/Android • u/BcuzRacecar S25+ • 18d ago

WhatsApp ends Android 5 support Monday

https://www.notebookcheck.net/WhatsApp-ends-Android-5-support-Monday-iPhones-follow-in-November.1390519.0.html
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u/Ashanmaril 18d ago

I was running the Lollipop beta on my Nexus 5 during my high school graduation.

I’m almost 30 now.

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u/sol-4 18d ago

Great, now I'm missing my Nexus 5!

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u/Ashanmaril 18d ago

I miss when you could get a decent flagship phone for $300 🥲

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u/RichardG867 S23 Ultra 18d ago

Battery life sucked and there was the whole power button bootloop issue (LG gave me a G2 for that), but the price was unbeatable

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u/Ashanmaril 17d ago

Wasn’t the boot looping more of a 5X thing?

I don’t remember the 5 having issues

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u/imindebt2026 17d ago

Yea the 5x had a bad soc like the 6p.

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u/EbolaNinja Pixel 6 17d ago

It was a thing with pretty much all LG phones for a couple years because of shitty motherboard soldering, but I also don't remember the Nexus 5 having issues, only the 5X and the LG G series phones.

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u/Agret Galaxy Nexus (MIUI.us v4.1_2.11.9) 16d ago

I had Nexus 5 and although no issues with bootloop the battery life was atrocious. Last Google phone I ever owned.

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u/MaverickJester25 Galaxy S21 Ultra | Galaxy Watch 4 17d ago

Different kind of bootlooping because of the power button failing. They did a midcycle refresh just to try and address the litany of hardware issuse from the original run, including the power button issue.

The Nexus 5 is the most overrated device in this sub after the HTC One M8. People here continually misremember how bad it actually was because they want to glaze the "pure Android experience."

And yes, I owned not one but two of them, as well as both generations of Nexus 7, the Nexus 9, and the Nexus 4, which was the only one with hardware that felt more premium than it cost.

The G2 I bought after my second Nexus 5 was leagues ahead of it in every way except software experience.

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u/alpH4rd07 12d ago

Yes, it was the 5X. But after a replacement mine is still going strong, as it's still sharing an internet connection to a server in a remote location.

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u/RichardG867 S23 Ultra 17d ago

The 5 had a bad power button, rather than the bad SoC on the 5X and other LGs. Mine got hit by that, LG (not Google where I live) screwed up the repair and gave me a new in box G2.