The lack of a fucking headphone jack
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2024
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My least favorite thing is it is getting old and I can't find a good equivalent to the Pixel 4a to replace it with. They are all too big, have no headphone jack, and are too expensive for what I get out of them.
Oh, I know what you're talking about. I got a "new" phone a few months ago. Was thinking about either the pixel 4a or Samsung S10e, and went with the latter.
The cool thing is that both of these phones have LineageOS support. I didn't try it yet, but LOS sounds pretty awesome, I hope that I won't be disappointed.
LOS is fine, though I haven't used it in a while. I may just try and get a new battery in my 4a as the screen is still perfect and all the ports work fine. Still after using this phone for four years, I'd love an upgrade.
Zenfone 9? Pixel 5a? About the only remotely close options I found out there. I went with the 5a, but it's getting close to end of life, so I'm debating the slightly newer zenfone 9 now...
I did look at the Zenfone 9 actually and my biggest issue was the locked bootloader and no custom rom support. It may not be a total deal breaker, but it was enough to give me pause. The 5a would be great if it wasn't nearly as old as the 4a. I would still be considering Pixels if they hadn't ruined the "a" line.
its bootloader isn't unlockable, and custom roms don't exist for it anyway
With the phone itself I miss a headphone jack (using an adapter USB c to 3.5"), no hardware keyboard, and no replaceable battery.
In general I don't turn my phone off often enough, usually only once or twice a week I should turn it off more often.
I want a physical keyboard again. I cam't type on these damn tochscreen buttona. They're too small and i canct tell which keya i'm toiching.
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- File system access being locked down unless you're rooted. I basically makes using some retro emulators impossible because in some cases the emulator installs the ROMs into the data partition which the launcher can't access.
- The inevitable forcing of Google/Apple's fucking A.I into every aspect of my phone. I can only opt out for so long before it's just baked into the OS itself with no way to disable it. If I want to ask an AI a question, or to double check my code for errors, I'll go to a website and ask it. I don't need/want it doing shit proactively all the time.
- Samsung bloatware
- Not being able to access files in a sane way both from a computer and in some extent from a phone without using 3rd party solutions.
And yeah, that's it. But I am not needy.
The lack of basic things that used to be standard many years ago. Namely headphone jack and micro-SD card slot missing.
The bloatware. And custom Roms being dead for all except Pixel
Difficult to type on the outer screen because the keyboard is too squished horizontally (Galaxy Z fold 4)
non-unlockable bootloader :(
(Samsung S10e, switching to Sony Xperia 6 soon...)
Lack of physical keyboard.
Being a flimsy piece of shit comes in second.
I'm aware how that applies to basically every smartphone from 2013 - today. Currently rocking a used Galaxy S8
I was disappointed that the Android "BlackBerry" phones have such a bad keyboard. I still remember the one on my Bold 2, and I absolutely loved the shape of the keys. Touch typing at great speed was a breeze!!
I often wish for a little slide-out keyboard at the bottom end of my smartphone.
S23 ultra.
- Finderpint sensors still suck. Get face ID on these please
- Why does the device control button live on the left when swiping down the first time, but on the right on the second swipe? Put them on the same side for the love of god.
In iOS how hard it is to glance the time and date while watching a full screen video.
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How much Google controls the software experience and locks it down.
Currently I wish I could run a local HTML/CSS/JS App on my browser (like you can easily do in any desktop OS) but I can't.
From what I know, we've been able to do this for at least 15 years.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36632649/running-node-js-on-android
Thank you, I'll look into this! Unfortunately, since my phone is Android 13, it doesn't look like Termux would function properly, and the rest of the answers are very old and seem to require lots and lots of setup. What is the easiest way?
Install the f-droid store and see if you get it through there
Installing it isn't the problem. Getting it to run without randomly quitting is the problem.
Ah gotcha, yeah I guess battery saver features would cause some issues asides possible os extended support
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The camera bump.
It feels like the os I have wasn't designed for my phone. Buttons aren't scaled properly, system apps ask me for consent over "privacy concerns", no easy control over simple features like wallpaper, sluggish/buggy animations. I have a Redmi
I know my beloved flip 4 will eventually develop a fault. I had it a month before the initial release. I love it and I don't like the new design of bigger front screen. So one day I'll be forced to upgrade.
The entire point of the mini screen is to minimise the contact with the phone, not to just replace it on a half screen.
My S20FE checks a lot of boxes but I miss a few features from my s8+, mainly the status LED and the heaphone jack. I also am not a huge fan of the fingerprint scanner, but it works well enough so meh. Removable battery, obviously everyone wanta that. I also wish the operating system could could install custom OS.
Can’t listen to music while watching a video or listening to a podcast.
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