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Samsung 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
a guy at work said graphene has been going pretty good
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.
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.
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
Did they disable jailbreaking and flashing new roms on in the last few years?
yes
Well fuck. Looks like I need to stockpile some Galaxy S10s
Can you even root those brands easily?
Not anymore
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.
Root/flash an iPhone? How?
Jailbreaking is the term for an iPhone, IIRC.
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.
I haven't done it for a few years. Didn't know they killed it on newer models
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.
that doesn't turn the phone on silent
yes, they replaced the partial crop with AI select. same method of using it, worse feature
I'm on a relatively new phone, so it must be because Samsung sucks
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.