If you’re that fed up, may as well buy an iPhone and root/flash the thing to a custom OS, or another Samsung, and do the same thing. Those brands have consistently had the best hardware, so if you’re gonna just nuke the software anyway, which is your best option, may as well get the hardware that you want.
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mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoSamsung recently released UI 8 for Android, which had the astounding forward-thinking and innovative move of removing the ability to silence your phone by hitting the volume down button
idk what phone I’m gonna buy next, but that’s the last straw with Samsung for me. I’m already sick of them changing features on the phone to make them worse, like how in order to do a partial screenshot (a feature I used to use a lot) you now need to click the button and wait a few seconds for the “AI” to think about what portion of the screen to select. you cannot skip this waiting period. you cannot disable this (that I have found). you cannot ‘undo’ when you draw a box around a section that includes text and it tries to helpfully extract the text for you instead of just fucking taking a screenshot of the highlighted portion of the screen
fuck Samsung
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
pogmommy@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
No offense but what world are you living in where you can just install custom firmware on iPhones and Samsungs? I’d love to live in that world but those are two of the worst manufacturers for cfw support
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I think Huawei is worse
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did they disable jailbreaking and flashing new roms on in the last few years?
Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Can you even root those brands easily?
UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not anymore
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure that it was ever easy. I haven’t rooted anything newer than a Samsung Galaxy S10, but it was possible then.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Root/flash an iPhone? How?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jailbreaking is the term for an iPhone, IIRC.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
But that’s just semantics, as the end result is the same. Which leads back to my original question: how? Rooting a modern iphone has been all but impossible for quite some time now.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh thank fuck I disabled updates holy hell my phone would be in a billion pieces and my wife would kill me for destroying my phone.
randomblock1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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that doesn’t turn the phone on silent
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yes, they replaced the partial crop with AI select. same method of using it, worse feature
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I’m on a relatively new phone, so it must be because Samsung sucks
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the OCR button doesn’t undo, it just flashes and then reselects the same thing with the text highlighted
maybe mine is buggy. either way, it’s still because Samsung sucks and the feature doesn’t work.
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vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I like my Motorola it’s on the cheaper side but it has an AUX and a disturbingly good battery. Still android so you have to deal with BS, but hey the slightly better model has an microSD card slot so that’s good I guess.