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Ideally, the optimal quantum estimator is given by the so-called quantum Cram\u00e9r-Rao bound, so any measurement strategy aims to obtain estimations as close as possible to it. However, more often than not, the current state-of-the-art methods to estimate quantum phases fail to reach this bound as they rely on maximum likelihood estimators of non-identifiable likelihood functions. In this work we thoroughly review various schemes for estimating the phase of a qubit, identifying the underlying problem which prohibits these methods to reach the quantum Cram\u00e9r-Rao bound, and propose a new adaptive scheme based on covariant measurements to circumvent this problem. 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