MajorRawne Posted January 21, 2014 I bought a Huawei Ascend Mate with 1gb of ram and have discovered, to my horror, that it is the worst phone since that bloke in Disaster Movie trod in dog muck and put his shoe to his ear. Not only does it keep freezing and running slower than a granny chasing a bag thief, it doesn't even have a full gig of ram. I don't know what its four cores are doing - playing with themselves, most likely. Having failed to find an Android guide that makes sense to a layperson, can anyone walk me through rooting and downloading custom ROMs to try and get some performance out of this horrible house brick? 0 Share this post Link to post
Clonehunter Posted January 21, 2014 First you gotta take the brick and lay some cementing glue on it like a Hamburgler steals hamburgers from Stuff'N'Puff, and after that you razzle dazzle that android processing core with jello pudding like a gnat on fruit and you're as golden as Chaos's cancelled Golden Shower Fatality from Primal Rage. (Sorry) 0 Share this post Link to post
MajorRawne Posted January 21, 2014 Listen, there's only room for one man's weird analogies in this thread :P I honestly think putting cement on it and using it to start a house *would* be the best way to get some use out of this phone 0 Share this post Link to post
MajorRawne Posted January 21, 2014 Actually, it's pretty well built, possibly not in Nokia's league, but at least it's not built by Apple. 0 Share this post Link to post
Krispy Posted January 21, 2014 Download FramaRoot. And don't brick your phone because warranty and stuff. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted January 21, 2014 Oh no u shouldn't root your phone cuz r00t1ng s1 h4rd and s1 0nly for 1337 h4xx0rz, l0l. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted January 22, 2014 Hit it with a 3 pound hammer - repeatedly if necessary. That should both root the phone and be extremely cathartic. ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Flesh420 Posted January 22, 2014 Find the version of the rom your phone uses (on your phone, gingerbread etc.) and look up a guide. Roms that come on phones are usually trash, damn near any rom will be an improvement. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nomad Posted January 22, 2014 Methods for rooting phones is mostly specific to the phone itself, and I'e never heard of that phone before so I couldn't tell ya anything more than "google it." sry 0 Share this post Link to post
MajorRawne Posted January 22, 2014 Thanks for the replies. It's running Jellybean 4.2.2 and it seemed like an improvement, it just felt more polished than 4.2.1, but lately it is freezing a lot. That's mainly when using YouTube though, so maybe there is some incompatibility. Also when replying on forums like this, lengthy replies become very difficult because of lag on the keyboard. It starts putting numbers into my words rather than letters and keeps popping up with different input methods. Finally, available RAM is usually about 200-300mb. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nomad Posted January 22, 2014 I remember when my computer had that much ram, about 20 years ago 0 Share this post Link to post
Aliotroph? Posted January 22, 2014 20 years ago you could buy a car for the price of 300 MB of RAM. :p 0 Share this post Link to post
Nomad Posted January 23, 2014 haha, I was mostly joking. I think my computer was a frankenstein with 96mb of ram :P 0 Share this post Link to post