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[–] 58 points 1 year ago* (16 children)

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

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Did they disable jailbreaking and flashing new roms on in the last few years?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Jailbreaking is the term for an iPhone, IIRC.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago
    • 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.

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