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sirico@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’ve owned the 4, for a couple of years. Was really excited to get one.

Parts have been unavailable for a long time when I needed them. The battery is pretty dead after 2 years meanwhile my pixel which is about 5 years old still going strong. The os is the buggiest experience I’ve ever had, sluggish, going from portrait the landscape kills UI formatting if it switches to power save it’ll skip a video. Boot loops constantly.

Never again I’m afraid it’s neat I could fix things with it so quickly but they fail hard past that.

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Tonuka@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Wow. I got the 4 at launch and honestly never had any problems except calls get fucked up more frequently recently. Didn’t know they stopped selling parts, what’s the point?

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- sirico@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They didn’t stop selling parts they were just unavailable which when you need them as you say defeats the point.
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s a distinction without a difference. If things are consistently out of stock, they’re not actually selling them.
    
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hamFoilHat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Navigation buttons covering the Voyager UI is an Android/Voyager bug. It has happened on my last two phones.

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- aeharding@vger.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It works fine on all my test devices.
  
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  - hamFoilHat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I just got it to happen by flipping my phone back and forth
    
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    aeharding@vger.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Weird! Rotating is working fine for me.
    
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  - hamFoilHat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It doesn’t happen all the time. I’m currently on an Android 14 device and it seems to happen sometimes when the screen rotates to vertical. Sometimes toggling the orientation by doing my phone sideways fixes it, sometimes not. It’s very inconsistent.
    
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Leeuk@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. I believe the F6 is likely expected by autumn and was considering this as my next. I often wondered about parts as time goes by, as I suspected the company wouldn’t want a huge inventory of spares and the costs involved. If I do get one, I’ll likely buy a spare screen at the least.

The UI stuff is disappointing, however maybe not a deal breaker as I’m trying to reduce my usage. Perhaps a buggy smartphone could be a decent dumbphone alternative.

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LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Just switch ROM?

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- sirico@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Def something I need to do
  
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