[Q] Most attractive option for selling an Aria?

[911jason]

I finally upgraded to one of the ginormous phones after fighting it for so long. I just couldn't take the "out of memory" errors anymore on my Aria. So now that I have the HTC One X, I'd like to sell my mint-condition Aria. It's got CWM and CyanogenMod 7.0.3, but like I said, with hardly any apps on it, it's constantly out of memory.

So my question is what should I do with this Aria before I list it on Craigslist?

• Official HTC Android 2.2
• Fresh CM7
• Other?

Plain ol' stock Aria's are selling for $100-$125 here in LA. Should I add a premium price for having it rooted and custom ROM installed?

 

[mustafu]

In my experience, having a rooted phone with a custom ROM had actually lessened interest in phones I've sold. I would go full stock, unrooted, stock recovery also. You never know when someone will want to do a factory reset, and if I understand correctly, this causes problems for rooted phones. The people that know how and are interested in rooting will do it anyway, the rest will be perfectly happy with it in stock form.

 

[911jason]

Good point. Thanks.

 

[mirGantrophy]

I finally upgraded to one of the ginormous phones after fighting it for so long. I just couldn't take the "out of memory" errors anymore on my Aria. So now that I have the HTC One X, I'd like to sell my mint-condition Aria. It's got CWM and CyanogenMod 7.0.3, but like I said, with hardly any apps on it, it's constantly out of memory.

So my question is what should I do with this Aria before I list it on Craigslist?

• Official HTC Android 2.2
• Fresh CM7
• Other?

Plain ol' stock Aria's are selling for $100-$125 here in LA. Should I add a premium price for having it rooted and custom ROM installed?

ohhh man. I hope your One X is on 1.85 or you will be very, very sad.. (AT&T im assuming)

 

[911jason]

Unfortunately not... 2.2. Hopefully they'll break it though.

 

[fspl600]

I finally upgraded to one of the ginormous phones after fighting it for so long. I just couldn't take the "out of memory" errors anymore on my Aria. So now that I have the HTC One X, I'd like to sell my mint-condition Aria. It's got CWM and CyanogenMod 7.0.3, but like I said, with hardly any apps on it, it's constantly out of memory.

So my question is what should I do with this Aria before I list it on Craigslist?

• Official HTC Android 2.2
• Fresh CM7
• Other?

Plain ol' stock Aria's are selling for $100-$125 here in LA. Should I add a premium price for having it rooted and custom ROM installed?

I'd go with rooted 2.3.5 liberty S rom. I'd delete some stock apps and overclocked the core. Then i'd sell it. But that's just me

 

[smiles.smiley]

Stock ROM I would pay less if the Phone's ROM is customed.

 

[ECEXCURSION]

I'd just leave it on a stock looking ROM.

Sent from my HTC One XL

 

[911jason]

Dude... Jealous of your rooted One X!

 

[wistlo]

stock with automatic transmission

My guess is you would have better luck for resale with stock ROM.

I base this on the experience of selling a nearly new car. I have always been a fan of manual transmissions and to this day that's all we have in the garage. About 20 years ago I was assigned overseas and had to sell a nearly new Mazda 626 with a stick. I got few calls, all of whom had overlooked "manual transmission" in the ad and backed out immediately when they realized it. I ended up selling it back to the dealer at a big loss.

Only five percent or so of automobiles on the road today have manuals. I imagine custom ROM users are a similarly small minority.

Even though the experience is better, even though my own technophobe wife loves her Aria running CM7 nightly, a random buyer--who probably will drive up with an automatic--would be more likely to buy with the stock ROM.

PS: By mentioning a car sale 20 years ago, I've probably identified myself as part of an even smaller minority: old people who run with a custom nightly

 

[mirGantrophy]

Here's what you should do. Root it, install custom recovery, boot loader should be unlocked after using unrevoked. Then flash Liberated FR008, so it will look stock, but they can read up on root and take it from there if they care enough

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[mustafu]

Here's what you should do. Root it, install custom recovery, boot loader should be unlocked after using unrevoked. Then flash Liberated FR008, so it will look stock, but they can read up on root and take it from there if they care enough

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This is well and good until they decide to factory reset within the ROM for whatever reason. I'm not sure if that is disabled in Liberated FR008 or not, but better safe than sorry IMO.

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[mirGantrophy]

This is well and good until they decide to factory reset within the ROM for whatever reason. I'm not sure if that is disabled in Liberated FR008 or not, but better safe than sorry IMO.

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All a factory reset does is wipe /data and /cache

Root is in /system/xbin
Could you elaborate on problems that would arise?

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[DanGeorges]

All a factory reset does is wipe /data and /cache

Root is in /system/xbin
Could you elaborate on problems that would arise?

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I can tell you that once I tried to wipe data from the ROM itself (not CWM Recover) and it hosed the phone. I couldn't boot to anything.
This was when I first got my Aria and didn't know much about rooting Android devices.

I would restore Stock and sell it. If the buyer asks about any techie-stuff like "is it rooted?" you could root it, load CWM Recovery, and ask if he'd like a custom ROM on it. You could even ask for a little extra $$ for the effort... Just a thought.

 

[mirGantrophy]

I can tell you that once I tried to wipe data from the ROM itself (not CWM Recover) and it hosed the phone. I couldn't boot to anything.
This was when I first got my Aria and didn't know much about rooting Android devices.

I would restore Stock and sell it. If the buyer asks about any techie-stuff like "is it rooted?" you could root it, load CWM Recovery, and ask if he'd like a custom ROM on it. You could even ask for a little extra $$ for the effort... Just a thought.

Ok thanks, I've never tried it so I didn't know.

You were wanting a one x (at&t) right? they just found root for 2.20 if you are still interested.

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[911jason]

You were wanting a one x (at&t) right? they just found root for 2.20 if you are still interested.

Today?! Awesome, I've been checking daily but haven't heard yet... off to look now!