Hey at least it shows the battery percentage unlike the old default option!
Old one with massive percentage number next to battery icon was so idiotic.
It was more readable, to me. So for people with waning eyesight this is a massive step back.
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!??
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I don’t mind it. Wish the notifications were more compact, but that’s about it.
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.
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.
Don’t forget the search is now at the bottom of the app drawer instead of the top like it used to be.
sometimes it’s chill to just move a component around randomly, if a ux designer feels like “it just vibes different.” the modern equivalent of feng shui, or giving a shit about crystals
Chill would be to move it with the ability to move it back.
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I tried that but unfortunately when I sort alphabetically it just returns to the single scrolling page. When I go back to custom sort it’s still in random order. Can’t believe the oversight on this basic feature. Thanks for the advice though.
I AM STILL PISSED ABOUT THIS FORCED UPDATE. the second a linux phone is usable daily I will buy one. FUCK SAMSUNG
Sounds like you already have one. Samsung phones are pretty bad though.
just get a phone with lineageos support?
There’s a lot of options. Volla phone, fn(x), fur something. You can use a google pixel 3a to put ubuntu onto. I’ve found that most of those phone have mid specs, unless you’re really wishing to dish out.
Would the Google pixel not retain some line to Google? I’ve been leaning more and more towards getting away from Google and Microsoft. With Linux, I’m scared I’ll have an unsecure system just by virtue of not knowing dick about Linux except the little coding I’ve taken courses on that barely scratched it.
Only reason I got Samsung was the cameras on the S22 or 24 or whatever it is I have. Pixel has good cameras, I’ve heard, but it’s entirely Google. Does putting Ubuntu remove all that…?
Sorry if not the place to ask.
Does putting Ubuntu remove all that…?
I mean, you entirely replace the OS, so i would assume so. For example, I know that GraphineOS is entirely independant of Google, but it’s still Android.
Oh, interesting. Thanks for the heads up!
I just got a Samsung phone and haven’t seen anything besides the current version and for me it’s fine.
People tend to overreact when something changes. It is normal.
that’s just samsung though, i’m on android 15 too and my battery looks like a battery
i just updated to latest lineage and the only change to my battery icon is that it shows a little shield icon when charging is paused, which is very nice and i particularly appreciate that it works seamlessly with non-built-in ways of limiting charging! (acca specifically in my case)
What was it before this?
Just a percent
Readable.
This is mine on Android 14 on OnePlus.
We can even change it. Is that not possible (anymore) on Samsung?
LineageOS 22.2 (Android 15)
It looks the same on my 2024 Moto G Stylus. In fact, the battery icon with the percentage next to it has been an option on every Android phone I’ve used for the past decade or so, at least.
Same. I think it’s a Motorola thing. My current and last few phones for the past 15 years have been Motorola.
I’ve had a OnePlus phone during that time and they had the same option.
A battery icon
I hate that my music player is now relegated to a tiny nub at the bottom of the lock screen that defaults now to google ads for sports betting unless you turn it off.
Also my phone now randomly vibrates every so often, just gently enough to think it was imagined and I think it’s to drain the battery faster to push people to buy a new phone. But that’s just conspiracy from how garbage the rest of this update has been.
Hey so I had a similar problem with the random vibrations, I found that the update turned on Notification Reminders in settings for texts and missed calls. I’d double check those settings around that and I hope it helps you
“Alert when phone picked up”
Was the name of the setting turned on. In the motion settings.
Still not sure how they could have named that harder to find without writing it in Korean.
I miss the sideways swiping in the all apps. I manually changed it, but new apps have to manually be put in place. This new UI suuuuuuuuuuucks. I wish that I could change it back.
Try a custom launcher - this way you can expect things to stay mostly consistent across major upgrades.
I understand the reasons for liking stock, but that comes with the risk of getting an overhaul every once in a while.
For anyone on Samsung, I’ve also been fighting with with the OneUI changes, look into the GoodLock app from the Samsung App store, it’s published by Samsung and helps you take (more) control over how attributes behave and act, along with changing things like the Lock Screen looks and what shows up and how. I can give more info if anyone wants or provide screenshots here if anyone would like
Here’s a link to the app in their store https://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.samsung.android.goodlock
Whelp, my Galaxy A16 is not supported.
I’m just theorising here, but I wonder if you could download the apk externally and try that way, I’m thinking they could just be software locking you out app store side
I hate it aswell
They could also replace the other ones with the same concept, and have identical visualizations for different things, very intuitive.
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.
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.
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.
Good to hear. I had a sony a while ago. Xperia Z1 compact I think. Great little phone it was. Sadly they now only make really high end phones anymore.
There’s always the 5 or 10 models. Those are still great and also pretty affordable if you scoop them on Swappa or eBay
I was actually thinking of getting a 1 year old model from ebay. Might reconsider again
get a pixel and install lineage, it’s quite easy (you just need to fiddle with adb a bit) and you can achieve a 95% flawless experience. only thing that doesn’t just work for me is the fucking mcdonald’s app
I have an older phone with lineage. Currently using crdroid because I chose badly and nobody is really making custom roms for my current phone. I am not buying a pixel just because.
Bootloader unlockable for my past 2 sonys. Plus headphone jack ftw
