Samsung caught me early (like 2010 or early 2011.) Years later I got a Pixel and was astonished at how much stupid shit isn’t in regular Android. Also looking up how to change settings on Google suddenly started being way easier.
Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Oh boy, can’t wait to see this garbage on my Samsung Tab 9. My mom upgraded me from my dusty, way beyond eol Kindle Fire that I had, cause I I really do on it is watch YT and read/web browse. Was excited, until I realized I couldn’t custom ROM it like my precious Pixel.
Like another comment said, Samsung/One UI is truly the Apple of Android, and it’s dogshit. So much bloat that I had to disable/delete, random UI changes that oversimplify/water down personality, stupid settings I will literally never use, etc.
The best I could get is a stock Android GSI, but I’m not sure if potential bugs and battery life issues would occur, and I don’t want to root.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 2 days ago
zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
My dad bought a new tablet. I spent over an hour debloating it with ADB just to get it to a usable state.
I really don’t know why people love their products. Even the performance out of the box is utter shit until you disable the virtual RAM.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Motorola is the only android for me. They can easily last 6 years plus.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I loved my 7G Play like it was my own child in middle school. It was my third phone, and not a hand-me-down like the Note 4 and the iPhone 6? that I had previously. Kids used to green bubble shame and be like “OMG wtf is a Motorola?!?!” but I loved it. I didn’t do too much crazy shit on it cause I still was a less-curious middle schooler, but I did get a cracked version of a wallpaper app to use this special Persona 5 background, and I loved it. I didn’t love my next hand-me-down iPhone X nearly as much, in fact I hated it so much in highschool that once I graduated my mom got me my current Pixel 8a as a gift.
I tested putting a custom ROM on my old Motorola to prepare for doing GrapheneOS on my Pixel (silly, since they literally have a button to do it for you on the website) and once it loaded up LineageOS it felt like Christmas again. I seriously almost considered using it again, and was just so happy to scroll through it lol.
Mwa@lemm.ee 2 days ago
same here with my A55 luckily i still have Oneui 7.1
SkyJuice@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I still use a note8 with OneUI 1.0 and android 9 lmao
Redredme@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As an oppo user I can only say: you’re wrong. You’re very wrong.
Samsung one UI is a godsend compared with this… This … shit.
Popups, tracking, insane ui choices. Half of the shit doesn’t work behind a pihole which in itself is damning enough. Everything feels bolted on. Everything feels like its only there to check boxes. Nothing feels natural. Gestures here but not there. Apple style features in Android so half of the time you’re totally lost: does this option still use standard Android logic or is this rewritten as an apple clone?
I really feel tricked into buying this phone. Excellent reviews but the user experience is very lacking. Maybe all of the reviewers are apple users and are happy to see all this shit in Android but I for one am lost. I use Android because i hate the apple way of doing things. If i wanted an apple device I would’ve bought an apple device.
I kept it because i thought it would get used to it. I did not.