I also have a garbage phone:

Motorola Droid Bionic, from November 2011, originally with Android 2.3 (now has 4.4 thanks to Pacnet). Full root, custom ROM.
6 months ago the 4G LTE transmitter somehow burned out. So I'm stuck with slow 3G now (200 or 600 Kbps) instead of the 15 Mbps I used to have.
The battery life is the only good thing about this. Only has 512 MB RAM, which is so frustrating. Takes 70-80 seconds to boot up.