My fingerprint scanner was on the back, but now it’s on the front, and can’t identify me as regularly as it did before.
I’ve gotten used to the new location, but I can’t forgive making it less accurate than it used to be.
My god, I upgraded from an S9 to an S22 and seeing the fingerprint scanner on the front baffled me. With a screen protector on I unlock it on the first try maybe 25% of the time
There’s a setting you can turn on that increases the sensitivity, which should fix the issue. It works perfectly fine for me with a screen protector
I went from a Pixel 3 to a Pixel 7. I hold on to my phones as long as possible.
why on earth are people so comfortable giving private companies their fingerprint and face scans?
The fingerprint is stored on your device. You don’t give it to a company.
Knowing how Lemmy is, I’ll probably catch shit for this, but it’s the truth:
I just don’t care.
I won’t say you’re being paranoid because, I don’t know for sure that there won’t be repercussions, but I don’t see a realistic downside considering the cops and FBI already have mine for clearances.
Touchscreen basically being unusable in any kind of rain no matter how light
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)
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)
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.
No removable battery.
Fixed battery and removal of headphone jack and SD card slots were 1000% anti-consumer practices designed to cost you more money and make your device lifespan as short as possible. I don’t see the battery problem going away - why enable your phone to last twice or three times as long when they can just force you to have to buy a new device when the battery is shot? At least we got our card slots and jacks back (mostly).
I am also salty that phones USED to have IR blasters and they don’t anymore. IR LEDs cost next to nothing, another feature that was amazing but thrown away to save 5c per unit.
I was super stoked to find out my OnePlus Open has an IR blaster! I missed it on my old galaxy note 4. It is surprisingly convenient, and doubles as a fun way to mess with TVs in public spaces.
I can get the battery replaced on my phone for a fraction of the money it would cost me to buy a new phone. So I have to take it in to the shop for an hour. Big deal. I can do that once every few years. And I can still use wired headphones with my phone even though it doesn’t have a headphone jack. Sheesh, I wonder how that works.
The biggest anti-consumer practice to make your device lifespan as short as possible is whatever software update practices the manufacturer has. Annual major versions increase hardware requirements - I can tell every day how my 5 year old phone is getting long in the tooth. Lack of long-term software support is another way to make sure the average user buys a new device well before the old device has reached end of life.
battery
I don’t think that this is a conspiracy by phone manufacturers to force purchases of phone hardware.
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All kinds of devices use fixed batteries these days, not just smartphones. It’s cheaper, lighter, makes the device stronger, avoids them having to deal with “User X bought a counterfeit battery that then caught fire” – that’s a real issue for lithium batteries, unlike traditional alkaline/NiMH-type removeable batteries. Virtually the only device class I can think of where removable lithium batteries are the norm is high-end flashlights – anything on [email protected] probably supports removable 18650s or similar. I have gone out of my way to get a lot of devices that use AA batteries or maybe 18650s, but there are just tons of products, including in highly-competitive, low-barrier-to-entry industries like gamepads, where it’d be impossible to form a cartel to refuse to offer a device with removable batteries. And yet they’ve mostly moved to fixed batteries. There is no industry convention for removable, BMS-enabled, lithium batteries the way AA or the like were traditionally used in devices.
If there were a cartel driving this against consumer wishes as a whole, you would have just smartphones doing the fixed battery thing, not the consumer electronics industry as a whole.
If it were cartel-driven, I’d also expect to see, in a situation like that, manufacturers making hefty use of price discrimination – like, think of how some laptop vendors charge a premium for devices with a lot of RAM when they have soldered RAM. But in the market today, the differences in battery size are minimal. Google makes a “large” version of the Pixel, and they barely bump the battery up, even with a slightly larger screen.
Instead, it was associated with the shift across consumer electronics to non-removable batteries with the move to lithium batteries, which is what you’d expect if sketchy batteries were a problem.
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Phones in particular have a space and weight premium, so compared to a lot of devices that aren’t held in your hand, using removable NiMH batteries or the like is more of an issue.
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I recently got a de googled Fairphone 5 which has a number of removable parts, including the battery! Can recommend.
KATIE LEAVING ME ON READ WHEN I ASK FOR FEET PICS
Have you tried asking again? Or maybe she just wants you to send yours first
😱
Do we still say “name checks out” on Lemmy?
Be the continuation of a meme you want to see.
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.
- No good operating system preinstalled by default
- No headphone jack anymore
This plus no way to replace battery yourself or upgrade storage.
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 :(
Spam and ads
The fact that it won’t have any record of calls I missed while the phone was off or didn’t have reception, although actually that’s probably the fault of the service provider. They can send me texts I missed. Why can’t they send me a list of missed calls?
Every single operator I’ve had does this. Maybe you turned it off?
Mine sends me texts lol
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.
The screen protector is peeling just a little bit around the edges, but it’s put on really well, and I don’t want to use the replacement just yet, but it’s slowly ever encroaching and leaving more and more of a dead zone in an area I don’t touch all that often, but when I need to I question whether or not it’s time to put the new one on.
It’s been like this for almost a year now.
Also no ir blaster, so I can’t subtly mute the commercials when I’m at the in laws.
I dislike most of it, everything but paying contactless, making calls or SMS. I have a 2020 SE because it is small but I want a tiny dumb phone, being able to store my bank card on it to pay anywhere, and phone or SMS someone. The rest to me is useless, I very dislike it when I am somewhere and everyone is on their phone (mostly with the volume on 10 too), I don’t even bring mine when I visit someone just to make a point how disrespectful it is when I am invited to your home and whipping out a smartphone.
The undocumented proprietary SoC and Modem. I want complete bit register level documentation of ever piece of silicon used.
Motherfucking Bixby button.
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 8+ years old lol
i am shocked it is still alive… who da faq be using that shite
I am.
It’s not on the s24
my condolences
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.
Yes this is the first thing I downloaded, it still “does stuff” even when you set it to ‘disabled’. But I don’t have to see Bixby at least.
