Still running a Samsung note 8, probably the biggest thing I dislike is kinda wish it was a little smaller. It might fit in my pocket better, would probably be easier to hold, and I would be fine having other devices for stuff where I need a bigger screen. Not a huge deal, but I do kinda miss having a medium sized smartphone.
How difficult it is to remove Google’s bloatware.
I’m relatively content with my Pixel 4A running LineageOS (with root), but that’s an experience that’s really only suited to very technical users, in large part because some apps actively resist running in an environment the device owner actually controls.
My complaint is with the smartphone ecosystem as a whole: it’s designed to empower the OS vendor and app developers over users. The entire tech world (outside Microsoft and maybe some corporate IT types) saw Microsoft Palladium as a nightmare scenario a couple decades ago. Now we’ve let Apple and Google do the same thing with barely a grumble out of the mainstream tech press.
How much Google controls the software experience and locks it down.
Currently I wish I could run a local HTML/CSS/JS App on my browser (like you can easily do in any desktop OS) but I can’t.
UPDATE: I found a way!! I have to run a local HTTP server on my phone using an app like “Simple HTTP server”, put my HTML/CSS/JS into a folder targeted by the server, and then go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ in Chrome (it doesn’t work in Firefox for some reason).
From what I know, we’ve been able to do this for at least 15 years.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36632649/running-node-js-on-android
Thank you, I’ll look into this! Unfortunately, since my phone is Android 13, it doesn’t look like Termux would function properly, and the rest of the answers are very old and seem to require lots and lots of setup. What is the easiest way?
Install the f-droid store and see if you get it through there
Installing it isn’t the problem. Getting it to run without randomly quitting is the problem.
Ah gotcha, yeah I guess battery saver features would cause some issues asides possible os extended support
Update: I got node.js to do a simple program. Now, I want it to run a much larger program involving playing audio.
Update 2: I can’t get node.js to play any audio, and I cannot install the non dependencies for some reason.
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I can’t remember how I did it but I finally figured out a way to turn that shit off. My phone is pretty old, though. They probably took that away on the newer phones.
bxActions, probably? Turn the useless button into something you want.
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is that still around jfc
consider pixel with calyx or graphene as your next choice, you don’t have to suffer like this
It’s not on the s24
my condolences
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i am shocked it is still alive… who da faq be using that shite
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That week long period of time when it would take 8 hours to charge
That its producer has gone bancrupt they have absolutely lived the enshittyfication while doing the settings in their custom Android and I am currently on the last supported android version (12) which will probably go unsupported soon-ish and the company I got the phone from has sold so few that the definitely better alternatives (Lineage, etc) don’t have any reports of people who have done it with my device or even a tutorial. And reading into flashing it on an unsupported device is a rabbithole I currently don’t want to spend time with. And if I fuck up I can’t even write the company to fix it for me or smth like that…
- Samsung bloatware
- Not being able to access files in a sane way both from a computer and in some extent from a phone without using 3rd party solutions.
And yeah, that’s it. But I am not needy.
Software updates. They are disguised as security and feature updates while slowing down your phone to make you buy the newer versions.
S23 ultra.
- Finderpint sensors still suck. Get face ID on these please
- Why does the device control button live on the left when swiping down the first time, but on the right on the second swipe? Put them on the same side for the love of god.
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FWIW there are a lot of people trying to sell used ones, if you want one cheap.
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No headphone jack, and having to deal with Samsung’s bullshit. This will be my last phone from them.
Lack of OIS on the camera. Literally the only bad thing about it.
The shear amount of samsung/Microsoft bloatware on my samsung a55
Maybe give the universal android debloater a try. Its a pretty useful tool.
I did it I used universal android debloater new generation
With the phone itself I miss a headphone jack (using an adapter USB c to 3.5"), no hardware keyboard, and no replaceable battery.
In general I don’t turn my phone off often enough, usually only once or twice a week I should turn it off more often.
