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OpenStars@discuss.online 5 months agoTrue dat.
I also have a Samsung Galaxy, a S22, and kinda regret it. Somehow it’s always hot, like just having the screen on is enough to make it hot, and it literally hurts my fingers after a few minutes. Maybe it’s my fault somehow, but I definitely researched a lot before buying and all the text and video reviewers swore that the cooling was adequate. I’m so done with big expensive phones.:-( One day I may buy a cheapie and when I have an adequate daily driver play around to see what a custom ROM could do to improve the experience. Basically I miss my Nexus is what I guess I am saying:-).
morriscox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Have you tried Samsung Thermal Guardian?
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 months ago
No - I never created a Samsung account, so I am much to blame for my phone’s lack of performance, though at the same time I also blame it for not creating that right from out of the box, for such an expensive device:-).
morriscox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I agree. Whether they claim that it’s to reduce bloat or to get people to create a Samsung account, they really should have included apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.… as core functionality. You should also look at apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.…
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 months ago
What bothers me the most about that is how they use double-speak to try to have it both ways - like Samsungs are both supposed to be “great”, and also those features are claimed to be “optional”, but when you try to go without an account… suddenly you find that much of the phone isn’t “great” anymore:-(.
Also, why not allow downloading of such a 100% “free” app without needing an account?
Also, why need an app at all to stop the phone from getting hot just from holding it in your hands and trying to surf the F-ing web with it!? I mean, even if I had an account, that’s still effort and more importantly attention I have to expend to make the phone minimally viable…
I’m more used to Apple product I suppose, which truly do “just work” right out of the box. Or replacing the OS on an Android phone, so trying to use it like the former when I clearly should do the latter I guess is my fault. But it also does not absolve them from gatekeeping their product behind a “store” concept, which they clearly are trying to suck me in with the promise of a few freebies and then hope that I stick around to purchase more and more products. The commercialization of it all just turns my stomach.:-(