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Buy one at home. Its not like you can get a 'buddha picture' online.

Rule number 1 of Pleasure Boats - What happens on the Pleasure Boat stays on the Pleasure boat. Rule number 2 of Pleasure Boats - No pictures.

What's the problem? It's a "Pleasure Boat!"

Exactly.

Come on. Be real. We've heard the same story with the shoe on the other foot a hundred times over. If AN wrote these "woe and tears" stories about all the foreign guys conned by Thai women, they wouldn't have space for any other posts. To the woman who was conned: Did you learn anything? What's next? Nigerian romance scams? Educate yourselves and stop falling for these scams.

However the trick is? Removing all the the bloatware, junkware, app that you yourself didn't install, pre-installed c**p by Google, etc etc etc.

It doesn't matter. It adds to the gist of the topic.

This is why I simple state that all 'smart-phones' were explicitly designed as spyware and private data collection devices.

I'll play with that. I'm running ADB via Linux and bridging the phone in developer mode. I'll try ADB native on the phone just for grins and giggles.

Exactly. ADB has a "root" switch, but the phone architecture can override it.

That's probably the best solution as it seems that Kasikorn in the intermediary bank for international transfers - for whatever reason.

It doesn't work on mine. I also want to be about to flash a custom ROM when needed without bricking the phone.

"I'm not adverse to buy used phones." I.e, Used phones would be fine. Probably preferred. As you said, I'm just going to flash it with a custom ROM. You were correct. Nice site for checking out specifications. Then I just need a site where I can purchase an older, used phone.

Just an FYI. The OPPO I have runs ColorOS over Andriod 5.1. LINE works fine. However, if it didn't it would be fine with me. LINE is a "honey-gatta-have" app that my wife wants on my phone as she insists it will save money with "free calls." If it died today I'd celebrate and remove it. It would save 1/2 a gigabyte of space on my phone. LINE like so many Andriod (an Apple) apps is a combination of spyware and data collection and advertising junkware.

How's that. If the phone can be rooted you can use computer apps like 'adb' to in developer mode to remove apps off of the phone.

I'm just curious. Hit the Love button if you're anti-war: ❤️ Hit the Laugh button if you're pro-war:

You must be talking about the unkempt, unshaven dude in a dirty green t-shirt who only attends virtual meetings via green-screen setups. Putin just attended a meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan where he met with numerous Asia heads of states. Just saying. Stay on top of your Geo-politics. Otherwise you end up sounding ignorant.

What's the problem? Sounds like fun!

I'm not going to any "tourist area" where cops are stopping people to give the drug tests. That's called totalitarianism. What I want from the cops when I visit is to limit their activities to 'keeping the peace', not shaking down everyone in sight. I'll pass on Trat. Thanks for the heads-up.

Close the borders. Lock people in their homes. Close all business except for large international corporate retailers.

It should be a 500 THB each for fighting as so sad for the loser. If the Farang had lost and was in ICU, this would be an non-issue.

If it was two Thai Hisos beating a farang unconscious and putting him into ICU, the pair would be out on bail. The story would disappear from the MSM as some paltry compensation was negotiated and the farang victim would probably be thrown out of the country and blacklisted because he was unconscious and in ICU when his visa extension expired. Anyone who doesn't grasp the two tiered system of "justice" here will probably end up a victim of it eventually. A level playing field would allow these guy to do what Thais are allowed to do - compensate the victim and his family and then skate.

The Dharma is falling apart in Thailand. I'm seeing more and more and more instances of drunk monks, as well as monks motivated by money. I personally know quite a few Thai monks. Some are the real deal. But for many it's a way to make money. When you think like that, it's not much of a step to consider boozing it up as being OK. Sad. There are very few true monks who strictly follow the Vinayas. Which is indicative of the destruction of The Dharma. Annica.

One and a half baht weight is trivial. If you don't want to be separated from 46K THB of gold? Don't wear it in public.

Apple is out - so this is a decussion of Andriod (or something else) based phones. Andriod is simply loaded with Bloatware. I don't want Google Hangouts, Music, Games, other Google-ware that isn't necessarily core OS components or any other third party bloatware package with the OS which I'm unable to delete. I currently have a hand-me-down Oppo <deleted>-phone running Andriod 5.x under Oppo's ColorOS. It's built in obsolescence. It can not be upgraded and the phone can not be rooted short of "bricking" the phone. What I want is the cheapest phone I can find that runs Andriod but can be rooted so I can get rid of all the Bloatware including Google's. I want the phone striped down to the few apps that I personally want while getting rid of all the rest of the crapware. I don't like these phones. I use my as a phone, a camera, an audio/video recorder, a "looper" program for guitar, and epub reader, a Thai-to-Engllsh scanner, some Thai-English translators, a graphics to text scanner and a couple of social media programs, Google maps, and Brave browser. If I can "root" it I can delete the Bloatware. Because I don't use the phone for much - I don't want to pay much money for it. So I'm looking for Inexpensive and Rootable. I've looked online by reviewed phones that are considered "inexpensive" are not inexpensive by my standards. Inexpensive to me is under 3000 THB. I'm not adverse to used phones as I'm going to completely wipe it then rebuild it. Any suggestion?