Yeah I am sticking with my custom rom until the phone dies. Then probably getting a Sony phonr because those apparently have a no nonsense android on them.
Android updates: thanks I hate it.
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Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Etterra@discuss.online 3 hours ago
Yeah I’ve bought my last Samsung. These over-redesigned UIs that nobody asked for piss me off. If I wanted ugly Apple trash I’d buy ugly Apple trash.
goldenquetzal@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I have two Sonys and love them both. I like that they’re thinner so it’s easier to hold, too. Still have headphone jack and side fingerprint reader.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
I just got a Samsung phone and haven’t seen anything besides the current version and for me it’s fine.
Kcap@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I hate the single page scroll app drawer. I enjoy being able to swipe up to toggle between home and the app drawer. If you keep the single page scrolling drawer, you can’t swipe up to get back to home. You can change this and revert to pages like we had before, but for some unholy stupid fucking reason, you can’t sort it alphabetically. Like, really? I’ve had to manually reposition all of my apps, and for some reason the toggle seems to be pretty janky to settle an app into the place you want it, so insanely annoying. Add alphabetical sorting back, come on. Basic shit.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
third-party android modifications*
my family’s pixel devices, and mine running gos, don’t have this. nor the cell bar style, nor the ‘we have to advertise the wifi version so people feel good that bigger number = better’ wifi icon style…
the default is just a battery icon, though I have it set on my phone to also show the percent alongside it. this hasn’t changed in many years. blame your manufacturer and their skinning and modding.
veroxii@aussie.zone 16 hours ago
Yeah seeing the post had me worried for a while but appears it’s not and android thing but a Samsung thing. This is why I stopped buying Samsung phones 6 years ago.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Oh thank God. I’m probably going to update my Pixel soon and was worried
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
OneUI 7 is visually a steaming pile of shit. Real “we have iPhone at home” vibes throughout. Specifically for me what they’ve done with icons, why cant i have white icons with dark mode?
Beta testers complained so much up to release how uncohesive everything is and Samsung constantly shut down feedback with “this doesn’t meet our design goals”. Surprise, now it hits general public and everyone still hates their goals. This won’t ruin them, but it defintely makes me reconsider Samsung going forward.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
All of my family members have Samsung phones and every single one of them has been complaining about the update. Normal people, tech people, it doesn’t matter. They all hate it. It’s actually kind of insane. The only reason I have been spared so far is that my phone is too old to get the new OneUI update. I can’t imagine any of them will buy a Samsung next time they buy a phone if the UI stays like this. People who buy Android phones are people who like Android phones. You’re not going to lure iPhone users to Android by being more like an iPhone because they’re just going to buy the real deal instead. It’s just stupid. Just the battery icon discussed in the OP was the source of a lot of complaints because it is extremely hard to read especially for older people.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
I hate how ultra round everything is. Especially sliders like for volume feel so weird and look that way too. I really liked the OneUI 6.x rectangular design with rounded corners way more.
The dropdown panel is also stupid. It’s just so incredibly clumsy as you have to pull it down from very top, meanwhile the other mode allows you to double swipe down anywhere on the panel and it expands.
derpgon@programming.dev 6 hours ago
boonhet@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
To your edit: that’s one of top 3 reasons I moved to iOS and while there are annoyances, overall I’ve been happy with it for 3 years. Not suggesting everyone should switch but if you’re tired of tinkering, it’s a good option.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Crazy that they didn’t actually leverage the beta for changing the UX too. A good beta isn’t just to catch bugs, it’s also to catch user experience problems.
Strider@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Ha, uncohesive! Exactly. I was looking for a word what I think of the changes and can absolutely agree.
It’s a mess.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Shitty Life Pro Tip, just keep your battery below 19% and they can’t update.
taps head 😎
Tilgare@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I filled up my storage and now I just get download failed notifications every morning. Happy accident, but now I won’t ever empty my storage again.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Oh boy, can’t wait to see this garbage on my Samsung Tab 9. My mom upgraded me from my dusty, way beyond eol Kindle Fire that I had, cause I I really do on it is watch YT and read/web browse. Was excited, until I realized I couldn’t custom ROM it like my precious Pixel.
Like another comment said, Samsung/One UI is truly the Apple of Android, and it’s dogshit. So much bloat that I had to disable/delete, random UI changes that oversimplify/water down personality, stupid settings I will literally never use, etc.
The best I could get is a stock Android GSI, but I’m not sure if potential bugs and battery life issues would occur, and I don’t want to root.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
My dad bought a new tablet. I spent over an hour debloating it with ADB just to get it to a usable state.
I really don’t know why people love their products. Even the performance out of the box is utter shit until you disable the virtual RAM.
Redredme@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
As an oppo user I can only say: you’re wrong. You’re very wrong.
Samsung one UI is a godsend compared with this… This … shit.
Popups, tracking, insane ui choices. Half of the shit doesn’t work behind a pihole which in itself is damning enough. Everything feels bolted on. Everything feels like its only there to check boxes. Nothing feels natural. Gestures here but not there. Apple style features in Android so half of the time you’re totally lost: does this option still use standard Android logic or is this rewritten as an apple clone?
I really feel tricked into buying this phone. Excellent reviews but the user experience is very lacking. Maybe all of the reviewers are apple users and are happy to see all this shit in Android but I for one am lost. I use Android because i hate the apple way of doing things. If i wanted an apple device I would’ve bought an apple device.
I kept it because i thought it would get used to it. I did not.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Motorola is the only android for me. They can easily last 6 years plus.
Mwa@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
same here with my A55 luckily i still have Oneui 7.1
SkyJuice@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I still use a note8 with OneUI 1.0 and android 9 lmao
thethirdobject@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
that’s just samsung though, i’m on android 15 too and my battery looks like a battery
Exusia@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I hate the battery not looking like a battery. Minor complaint tbh, I dislike it but I might come to like it.
Notifications now stop at 3. Why. Why the fuck. I moderate discord and modmail pings me 17 times an hour. I want to see that I have a text in Notifs, and now it just shows 3 discord icons when opened - I have to open the full tray. Negative user experience item
The split trays was fucking stupid. I have a fold and I STILL hate it. Fixed it in settings. Negative user experience to have forced it rather than asking. Moderate item since you can reverse it.
Adding 6 “quick items” at the top of the Tray is nice, since they fucked with the tray. It’s like…“we know we made the ui worse so here have quick access to 6 items you actually wanted as an I’m sorry present” The whole Tray is very iPhone. I did not pay for a Samsung to get an iPhone. People are welcome to like them, I’m not here to hate. But I specifically bought a Samsung phone with Samsung styled ui - if I wanted this feel id have gotten an iPhone.
Spotify now has like this…loading screen? It tells me when i have no service and won’t even open the app if I’ve lost internet (data off and walk too far from wifi) Difficult to see the upside to this “live status”. Minor poor user experience.
Google assistant has been removed from the bottom left swipe. Holy shit i hated that move. Why the fuck was it in the bottom left in the first place. Even worse, now it’s fucking Gemeni. Ai is actually ass. Turned it off and disabled it. Disabled the tile in my apps. Putting AI on my phone is a hard negative especially with the next item
Google assistant now no longer works. It just makes Google searches. I now no longer have a hands free way to tell my phone to “call (contact)”. Gemini did not recognise this command and is part of why I disabled and removed it. Now GA doesn’t either - continuing the trend of making GA more and more useless. This is such a hard negative actually has me considering turning Bixby on. Using the full phone book when I used to be able to tell my phone to call people is such a shit maneuver. Very, very poor user experience.
App drawers looks clean. Looks smooth. Reorganization is fine. Positive user experience.
They changed something about Home Screens but I dont know what. I feel like they shrank the icons? Gave me an extra row? Something. Feels off now. Somewhat poor user experience because the user is left feeling paranoid about what did or did not actually change.
voice-to-text was removed from the keyboard and then hidden and moved to the bottom left last. You know, the same spot Google assistant was also placed last update. Actual dogshit user experience hiding the VTT and making me dig through the internet to put it back. The fuck was this choice.
Overall negative and has me rethinking keeping with the Fold line given their price. If anyone has a Launcher to fix some of these issues or to restore voice text making calls, I’d appreciate it.
Oka@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Yes, icons got smaller and a row was added. They also changed the weather app to be scalable (ie not every icon needs to be 1:1 squares, they can scale now).
I was able to merge everything on my second page into my first page, so now Inly have 1 “desktop”-like page with folders
MrLuigi002@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Oka@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I hate the battery not looking like a battery.
Welcome to One UI 7 🙃
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
I hate the new top pull-down menus.
Origen@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
If you pull down and tap the little pencil to edit, then go to panel settings, you will find the option to change the pulldown menus from separate back to together. It made me less irritated but I still dont like the new look.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Thank you for sharing this
Strider@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I changed that as soon as I got into the the wrong thing for the fifth time by accident.
Maybe it’s my (front display) slim phone but who designs shit like that?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Why? I’m really frustrated it right now because I’m not used to it, but the settings drop down always felt cramped and this logically makes more sense. I can’t think of an instance where I simultaneously wanted to see notifications and settings. Seems to make sense to separate these. I also thought it was annoying when I switched from the little nav buttons at the bottom to gestures, but man I can’t imagine being without gestures now.
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Tbh I actually got used to it since posting that comment
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
elvith@feddit.org 17 hours ago
I bet they patented (or trademarked or…) that look.
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I’m on oneUI 6 (samsung) and it looks like a battery. I think the way it looks in the post is a symptom of brain dead design…
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
This seems like a tough case to win in court. Patents usually don’t hold up when you’re dealing with obvious stuff.
And in this case, they’d be arguing about an extra 8px of border radius and a 8px semi circle.
Samsy@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
The arrow shows on which side the battery is.
Mac@mander.xyz 15 hours ago
One UI 7 is the worst update I’ve ever suffered in my entire life.
Win7->10 wasn’t this bad.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I see you’re skipping windows 7→8 which is fair because most people did
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It convinced me to finally order a refurbished Pixel 8 sp I can switch to Graphene.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
I genuinely feel for y’all not able to flash your own OS.
Mwa@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
I think it’s just that we don’t have roms tell our phones are eol?
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 17 hours ago
That’s one aspect, but many phones are also just straight-up not jail-breakeable. It’s an unfortunate reality of the phone manufacturing world that they put up as many barriers as possible to try and prevent you from having free range with your phone.
amon@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Hey at least it shows the battery percentage unlike the old default option!
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Old one with massive percentage number next to battery icon was so idiotic.
Strider@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It was more readable, to me.
nope@jlai.lu 13 hours ago
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
OneUI means Samsung.
Samsung means: can’t do shit in the US, limited shit outside of the US. AFAIK most custom ROMs, especially for higher end Samsung’s are OneUI based. They also make it difficult (or impossible?) to use VoLTE/VoNR with custom ROMs because of their own proprietary IMS stack
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
I’ve been gifted a few old Samsung S3s for using in our workshop at work. They’re all the same model, but it turns out that one of them runs a different processor. So I’ve been able to put LineageOS on two of them, but the third refuses to unlock.
Meanwhile, I moved into the world of Android a few months ago after having iPhones since 2009. Within half an hour of taking delivery of my Pixel 9 it was running GrapheneOS.
Fuck Samsung.
Mwa@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Idk if someone made a rom for my A55 lol
hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
It’s sooo terrible. I updated my phone not realizing it was going to be such a big change & it kind of ruined my day.
I’d love to go with a different OS, but nothing has stylus support for writing and note taking :/
Strider@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Dito. I thought it was a minor update and was greeted by ‘welcome’ letting me feel as if my mobile was reset for a few minutes.
Bad experience. And just because it needed to make absolutely sure I do not ignore the gemini AI.
I then ignored the gemini AI, out of spite alone.
FollyDolly@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Oh fuck, I hate this too. Fucked up the video player and a bunch of my settings as well. Why is everything so round!? Why did they fuck up my clock widget SO BAD!??
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It looks almost exactly like the apple one
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It does not. Apple’s is a little battery. This looks more like a notification badge. Corner radius is too big, and it needs a nipple.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Not much that isn’t better with a nipple. Not going to argue with that
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I heard that Samsung is trying to “Apple-ify” their One UI
nuko147@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Is this oneUI 7? If it is, tell me so i can stay in 6.1 when the update comes.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I think it’s 7
Kevo@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yup. Avoid it if you can
Dr_Box@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Ha! Not my problem. Thanks planned obselecence 👍
Kevo@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
And it shows up on the AOD now, and you can’t get rid of it. Plus, they changed smart select to some “draw on your screen” bulletin that takes an extra button press to get to, and it works worse than the version before at auto sizing to what you wanted.
They also changed the options for app grid layout to remove the 5x5. Now you just have 6x4 and 6x5. Plus the colors of the icons changed, and the default weather widget changes. I had my home screen in a way that I was used to, and now it’s all over the place. I feel like everything that was OK before got a huge downgrade, probably to make room for AI bullshit.
rmuk@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
I like it. The “progress bar” style fill is nice and clear, and it’s so much better than having an icon with a number next to it. “BuT iT dOeSn’T lOoK LiKe A bAtTeRy” what, do you think your phone is full of AAs? A plain oblong is actually closer to the mark.
Tja@programming.dev 15 hours ago
I don’t mind it. Wish the notifications were more compact, but that’s about it.
Mwa@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
I hate it aswell
Carvex@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
What was it before this?
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
My autocorrect/word suggestion box is white with a slightly less white font.
applemao@lemmy.world 47 minutes ago
I AM STILL PISSED ABOUT THIS FORCED UPDATE. the second a linux phone is usable daily I will buy one. FUCK SAMSUNG