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Ask HN: Has anyone successfully upgraded their phone?

1 pointsby listicover 5 years ago
I wonder if anyone here has managed a successful hardware upgrade of their phone?<p>The things that come to my mind are:<p>* camera (provided there&#x27;s a better model with the same electrical interface)<p>* CPU (provided there&#x27;s a higher performance one with the same pinout)<p>* RAM (provided it&#x27;s not a PoP SoC or not otherwise integrated to the CPU)<p>* Flash ROM (seems straightforward, but haven&#x27;t heard of that, too)<p>or anything else, really.<p>Failing that, any steps you tried to that end, but failed?<p>I googled around, but failed to find any quality discourse on this topic at all.

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listicover 5 years ago
Someone managed to upgrade the RAM of the Nexus 5X from 2GB to 4GB; for $60 via some repairman in Shenzhen. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;18&#x2F;upgrading-ram-on-a-nexus-5x&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackaday.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;04&#x2F;18&#x2F;upgrading-ram-on-a-nexus-5x&#x2F;</a>