[prmoustache]

For some reason I tend to break screens way before the battery dies usually. I am not afraid to replace a battery or even a screen if phone is not totally out of date. Having said that there seems to always be a point when they start acting semi eratically or stop booting.

I had a totally outdated and probably insecure Samsung S6 edge 2 years ago that started rebooting randomly. I think that prior to that it was so old I could only install stuff from f-droid and aurora because roots certs installed on that old android version were too old for playstore to work. Too bad as you can't easily find smartphones in similar sizes anymore.

Knocking on wood my pixel 6a still going strong after 2 years.

[Group_B]

wow, never thought of root certs being a point of failure

[prmoustache]

That is a common issue on old hardware. You have to be wary because some like android devices get their truststore updated regularly but it doesn't stay in rom so if you do a complete device reset you get back to the original ones that are now useless to connect to app stores and uodate servers.