About 2.5 years ago I left behind Android and went to the Dark Side. Bought an iPhone. It was frustrating to use at first because changing OS is a pain in the ass, but I got used to it and actually really like it now.
But I still have two big complaints:
There ought to be some kind of icon in the toolbar to show me I have unread notifications. I miss this very much from Android, which would show icons for the apps that have notifications. The Apple Watch solves this by having a notification icon, but I shouldn’t need to buy a separate device for that functionality.
I cannot stand that I can only go back by swiping from the left side of the screen. On Android the swipe in gesture from either left or right side could be set up to be the “back” action. I understand why this is, Android developed with a dedicated back button and thus has an OS-level back command, whereas iOS is highly contextual and you flow through apps and menus differently than Android, and it has no dedicated universal “back,” so swiping in from the left is back and swiping in from the right is forward. It makes using a large screen one-handed unnecessarily difficult.
Making me feel like a freak for asking for the freaking
sudo.If you can’t do any software change you want, you are not the owner of the device.
Generally: That I can’t mount my network samba shares into local folders without rooting the whole damn thing.
That I can’t force my device to stay in wifi if no internet connection is available (to access local network only).
Device specific: That sometimes volume control is very buggy while putting in a headphone jack and I have to navigate into sub-sub settings hell to set everything back.
Battery life is a little short, and the software support ends in about a year. Really wish I could keep this phone going for another 3 or 4.
No headphone jack, and having to deal with Samsung’s bullshit. This will be my last phone from them.
How difficult it is to remove Google’s bloatware.
It’s too darn big. I’d love another Nexus 4-sized phone.
HELL YEAH! Finally someone who thinks they’re too big these days.
They are slippery. So they require a case. Why not, i dunno, make them easier to hold? The phone design doesn’t matter if it’s always hidden.
Not being able to install Graphene OS
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
I don’t own it like my computer, i’m forced to use the OS that google put, and i don’t even have root access to it
Battery life
Keeping too many things running in the background, making things laggy. (I do close out apps when I’m done using them, and I solve laggy times with the Optimize widget. I just wish it would automatically optimize)
Makes we wonder what OS you’re running. Most modern phone software “freezes” the app state when it’s in the background and frees up the memory for the frontmost app.
I have the opposite issue with background apps - I have 12 GB of RAM (16 on the tablet) and it still closes utilities sometimes and forces me to relaunch them (in some cases going back into settings and re-enabling accessibility services for example. That should never happen, in case it’s Really for accessibility)
A rare Lemmy thread that has more comments than kicks.
How do you know how many in here are wearing shoes?
It’s still 2 comments for every kick, fresh.
Samsung S22 Ultra. Probably battery life, specifically that 15% means “you have 5 minutes left”. And how long it takes to open the camera app and take a photo.
OS is okay, performance outside of the camera issue is okay, size, camera quality, screen, s-pen… I could have changed it this year and chose to skip. I might change it next year or even try to make it to 2026. New battery might be needed for that.
Probably battery life, specifically that 15% means “you have 5 minutes left”.
I’m assuming that unless this is some kind of 3D gaming thing, that you can’t deplete your battery from full in 33 minutes. So I’m guessing that the battery estimation is just off, reads a higher percentage remaining than it should at that point.
There are some power monitor software packages other than the built-in one that can do their own prediction that might be more-accurate. I have BatteryBot on my phone, and I’d bet that there are others out there.
Yes, it’s specifically the estimation. It takes like 1 hour to go from 100 to 90 and mere minutes from 15 to 0. Given that I only charge to 80% to protect the battery, it feels like only having 65% of battery usable.
Interesting, I don’t start to worry until I reach 5%. But I keep my brightness pretty low. How long does it take for yours to pull up the camera?
About 2 seconds, maybe 3. Eons in kid time.
Snapdragon or Exynos?
Exynos :(
The undocumented proprietary SoC and Modem. I want complete bit register level documentation of ever piece of silicon used.
