I hate Xiaomi’s bloatware so much
I have a Realme phone and it came with so much bloatware that I can’t tell. Dozens and dozens of purely unwanted apps that I had to disable almost all of them to get a decent experience.
Have you tried the Universal Android Debloater?
Doesn’t it use adb to uninstall/disable unwanted packages? It is manually doable as well, just takes more time via the terminal.
It does, but the nice thing about UAD is that it comes with lists of bloatware apps for different phone manufacturers, and you can simply uninstall anything from that list without having to worry about breaking something.
Debloat with adb or shizuku?
I thought about it but I have Android 10 , from what I understand, I’ll have to redo it periodically… I also don’t own a computer so far
For the case for my poco x3 I only debloated once when I got my phone and it remain bloatware free ever since.
using adb ?
Yes
It’s really getting in the way. I got a Xiaomi’s as a backup phone recently because on paper the specs were good. Well, the phone is fast, but the UI…
I got a Motorola next, probably going to resell the Xiaomi once I’m done migrating
HyperOS?
My phone runs MIUI 11 and I honestly found it very good , I had more problems with MIUI Battery optimization though , and battery draining to some extent
It’s probably the first and the last Xiaomi phone I’ll ever buy though
HyperOS yes.
For a short period of time, I thought about buying a Google Pixel phone to run Graphene OS on it , Google Pixel isn’t available in the local market, so I’ll have to buy it from abroad, and this comes with risks : not being able to benefit from the phone’s warranty , the extremely high costs of shipping the phone into the country, and the extremely high costs of making the device work on the local network legally As much as I would like to try Graphene OS, such risks are too crazy to take so I changed my mind or at least stopped thinking about it temporarily… who knows, maybe some local company will bring the brand to the local market one day due to competition with other local companies. The same competition introduced phones to the market that weren’t previously there: Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Infinix, Tecno, etc.
This risk seems high indeed, I wouldn’t do it either
Plus the Pixels with the Tensor chip suck. You pay a flagship price but the processor cannot even compete with 5 year old chips.
That alone is actually an enough reason for me not to buy it if I knew that , I care a lot about device performance
Is it me or is the Pixel 9 hype very low? I feel like nobody is expecting much from it
Same old slow chipset, ugly design (personally), software locked features rather than hardware limits
No big features. Satellite emergency is nice, but that’s it. Everything else is just a slow iteration on the last version. So it’s fine, but nobody will upgrade early for it.
For myself, I have an 8Pro, so I’m in general not all that interested until at least the 10 and then knowing it would just be a one-upsmanship of AI bullshit really made me not pay attention to its release at all :-\
I have an old asus zenfone 2 with the x86 processor. Has anyone tried turning it into a small server? It runs some whatever old android at this point, and I figure it could still run a thing or two.
Running a server out of a phone would probably shorten the remaining lifespan
Any SAMTIME viewers here? I always enjoy his piss-takes of new product announcements. Here’s his video on the latest stuff from Google.
To me , firefox and its android forks have nothing to offer other than ublock and extensions support in general, but only a few of these extensions are reviewed by Mozilla so if I needed another extension that is essential to my browsing but it’s not reviewed… I’ll have to ignore the voice in my mind that asks me " Are you sure the extension you installed can’t see your password while you’re typing it ? " … But I’ll give it another opportunity and try waterfox again
I don’t update apps until they break. Never know when an update is going to enshittify an app. (Fing, etc.)
I don’t use most of Google apps and stock’s bloatware , so I don’t update it too For other apps , it depends on the update itself , if it brings good new things and bug fixes I update , otherwise I mostly ignore until the next update
Anyone have a Fing replacement from the likes of fdroid/neostore or otherwise that says fuck you to the new “requirement” that Fing is claiming hampered their app?
I’m using Fing 10.3.0 - a version before it was enshittified. Not sure where I got the apk from.
I found one on APKMirror https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/fing-limited/fing-network-tools/fing-network-tools-10-3-0-release/
I really don’t know why big companies like Google are terrified to make options.
You made the quick settings show only 4 options immediately. Your research might show that 70% of people prefer it that why. Instead of leaving the 30% in the dust, why not just make it an option in settings? Or even have custom layouts?
Why not add more lock screen options? Why not add options for the navigation pill? Why not make “at a glance” an option?
Even iOS is catching up in terms of customization and at this point I’d say it’s surpassed Android. I still prefer Android for many other reasons, but it has lost one of its main qualities.
MaterialYou apps are so nice looking but every time I use one of them it frustrate me so much when scrolling because scrolling is too slow compared to other apps
Swipe down to search (iPhone’s spotlight)
I’m frustrated with the lack of sdcard options in upper midrange smartphones.
If you get a midrange smartphone you either compromise on processor, ram, storage or a combination of other.
I want a good quality smartphone which has 45w of minimum fast charging, UFS 3.1 256GB of minimum. 12GB ram, snapdragon 7+gen 2, or dimensity 8300 at minimum. And provides an sdcard option.
Is it that hard for brands to do that?
Nothing phone 2 and 2a would’ve been decent. If they had an sdcard option. Alas, they skipped it for some reason…
Hello,
Could you please maybe pin this thread to keep it visible for the rest of the week?
Sure, done
Thanks!
Seems like as your account is not local, the pin didn’t go through
- https://lemdro.id/c/android
- https://reddthat.com/c/android@lemdro.id
- https://lemmy.zip/c/android@lemdro.id
😔
Bummer. I guess just some federation shenanigans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have an alt here, @Netrunner@lemdro.id, if you want I can use it to pin the post and ensure that it federates.
How would that work? An easy way would be to ask one of the instance local mods to pin the post. That should work.
Hello @ijeff@lemdro.id and @Paradox@lemdro.id , could you please help with this?
I love sideloading modded versions of apps with all paid features unlocked
There’s no payment methods or options in where I live , so I relied for a long time on modded apps , until I got to know FOSS softwares which mostly have free good alternatives , since that time, my reliance on modified programs has become almost non-existent
I like modded apps
Any recommendable and trustworthy sources for modded APKs? Installing modded apps from unknown sources always feels a bit sketchy…
For android native apps (Java/kotlin) you can learn to mod the easy ones (that are not completely obfuscated) yourself. I do this with apktool_m.
I’m guessing if I say one I’ll get banned from here so idk if I’m allowed to say
Well, tell us those sites to avoid ;)
It’s not even a site, I use an app
Are we talking some lucky sort of patcher app, or are those days long gone?
