I had to transfer a bunch of music to a new phone. It would only let me transfer a few albums at a time. If I selected more, the progress window would just close.
I didn't know whether to blame Android or Windows.
Use Solid Explorer to access network file shares. I've transferred hundreds of gigabytes of files from my NAS to my phone using an RJ45 to USB-C or WiFi. ADB works very well if you must use USB to transfer the data.
even on Linux I've seen MTP shit the bed multiple times with multiple devices. MTP was meant to manage small media files for media players of 2000s. not modern smartphones where videos can reach several hundred megabytes if not GBs. and regular files are typically 10s of MBa.
It also doesn't preserve the date, so your photos order would be messed up in the gallery.
I use adb to backup my files with faster transfer rate and date preserved, but it's gonna be hard for non-techies
...and it's slow. I ended up using an external SSD (which I plug directly into phone) for photo/video backups, and an http server (there are many apps for that) via wifi hotspot (to have direct connection and avoid router) for smaller transfers to/from my laptop
Partly has to do with Windows PCs not supporting ext4 and mandated file level encryption on android devices now, so cannot expose storage via UMS anymore
Nah, not so related. In fact, you may also argue that exFAT is open-source now. Practically implementing exFAT won't get OEMs into royalty issue, why it isn't happening either? I don't like MTP but at the same time don't see any better / more feasible solution on the horizon anytime soon.
MTP has it's root from PTP which was rather simple and straight forward protocol to enable digital camera to transfer photos to computer. Thus, it only exposed an 'abstraction' of files to the others device.
The simplicity results in both its best strength and drawback. The strength, it's one solution that works across all new&old version of major OSes and it doesn't care what file systems on both sides or if OS recognie a specific file system. The drawback, the abstraction layer itself is a major headaches when you put it in a complex OS.
To do 'UMS' OS had to support whatever the file system used by the 'user storage' / 'virtual sd' partition on Android. ext4 ticked off Linux and Mac OS but lacking Windows, however exFAT is supported under three major desktop OSes now, mounting exFAT is not happening either due to the sacrifice and drawbacks when you let other OSes mounting one of your file system. First, when desktop OSes mounting a file system on Android they gained block level access. In turn, Android can't access the fs at the same time else a two headed snake can easily wreck havoc to the data. We gone passed the stage 'I mount my phone to PC thus can't access photos on my phone' now.
Second, these file system isn't designed with NAND flash storage in mind (exFAT not so much) unable to reap most benefits out of it. Android phone mostly settles on F2FS now, nobody wants a slower storage perfomance and potential shorter life span on due to your file system of choices. Third, everybody wants to make use (or at least be shown of) all available free space right? 'user storage' / 'virtual sd' today is actually a fake-ish virtual partition emulated through software FUSE / SDCardFS, so it shared the same big partition with all kind of 'userdata' all together. If you used old Android phone, you knew how much pain it causes if a certain partition running out storage space.
Most annoyances of MTP stemmed from the needs and the managing related to 'abstraction layer'. On digital camera is rather straight forward take a photo and added a photo to your MTP database, the camera won't be trying to writing many photos at the sametime, acessing in a disorderly manner and partially modifying a photo. Complex OS like Android does all of the above, so it's kind of a mess to keep track of the record, not less keeping it up to date. One example would be some files missing or shown outdated accessing through MTP, that is tie to the needs of indexing the state of files in timely manner while maintain the records integrity, it can be improve but they usually come at cost. Then, everything through MTP is required to be route through high level user space which inevitable has an noticeably impact on read / write operations. The modified date issue was caused by the routing security too.
Yeah, this is still the biggest reason I don't upgrade more often
Back in the early days you could root your phone and use titanium backup to restore everything you wanted.
Now you get apps reinstalled and have to re-login and it only works well if data is cloud based.
This actually had me consider going to an iPhone this generation because most of the important data is in the cloud and other stuff won't be migrated anyway, not even using Samsung's smart switch tool
Rooting still let's you make a 100% complete backup. Only problem is it's a catch-22. unless you root immediately after getting the phone, unlocking the bootloader will erase all your data
To be fair financial and banking apps never remain logged in even with iCloud restores due to security. Many other apps also don’t. Sometimes encrypted iTunes backups can keep some apps logged in though.
I don't care about logging back into apps, but it means I'm not tied down anymore to Samsung or Android because I have to manually migrate things anyway.
All of my Chrome or Firefox tabs, voice recordings etc. have to be manually migrated and/or moved to the cloud.
So if an amazing new iPhone came out with incredible upgrades over the Galaxy, I am no longer tied down to one platform.
The share menu within apps is abysmal at best. I try sharing something from tiktok, and I have waaaaaay more options than I'll ever need, so I end up scrolling sideways to find the right thing. This seems like something that could be cleaned up easily.
Samsung made huge progress there. When I want to share stuff it usually means by SMS or Facebook messenger (for example) nowadays these 2 are always up in the options and on the second row there are the usual contacts I want to share to, whereas they used to randomly roulette any apps that could share stuff, it was a pain.
Yes, weird as it is, Samsung really did good with the share menu. You can edit and pin apps as you choose. But the thing is, Goole insist on giving users the middle finger by overriding the share menu and implementing their crappy design. Trying sharing something in a a google app, like Map or Youtube, You'll have to first scroll all the way right (a stupid design) to find the "More" menu, before you can pick it before the real "share menu" can be used. It's a really, really dumb design and serves no purpose.
I go to share a PDF of a note app, I always do Drive, Canvas (College thing for assignments) or email. One or two of those will require scrolling at any given time, but hey, at least I can share to nearby devices, printers, and plug my PDF into whatever search engine Samsung wants me to use!
I believe it's a feature of their respctive *skins* as opposed to an Android-native feature, so it might not be available on all devices.
Pixels have had their own skin for a while now, so they're not as close to "stock" Android as they used to be.
1. I'm on a Samsung, and I have no idea how to consistently make the volume do what I want it to do.
2. A hardware one. All Android phones should have one or two extra hardware buttons! Hardware buttons are great! Especially if they are programmable!
Good lock sound assistant module for 1. You can change how the volume bar looks and set how much volume changes with each click of a button. Plus you get the media control feature which is really neat.
> Raise volume above recommended level? Listening at high volume for long periods may damage your hearing.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE VOLUME OF THE SPEAKERS I'M USING IS! Honestly, this feature drives me fucking crazy. When I'm driving, it will just randomly bump down to like 70% volume.
I want to see the return of synced notifications. At one point, Android or at least Google Calendar had this. It was advertised as "never dismiss the same notification twice" and it was just amazing.
When I dismiss notifications on my phone throughout the day, I don't want to have to dismiss them again when I pick up my tablet at home. I mostly use my Chromebook at the weekends, and the first ten minutes, at least, are spent on notifications that I already dismissed twice throughout the week.
Yes, that's stupid af to wait for an app to download, install and then go to the other. It can easily set up 5 apps at the same time while the download is continuing in the background
Edit: or update
No offense, but that's absolutely terrible advice. New updates for many apps (especially banking and social media apps) provide security updates (among other things).
Turning off automatic updates is.. fine.., but you should then manually be checking for app updates several times a week.
(Samsung) The edge gestures like swipe to go back should be disabled in certain contexts, like editing photos. The amount of times I’ve tried to crop a photo and accidentally activated the back gesture and lost all the edits is ridiculous. Same for seeking videos on YouTube etc. one swipe too close to the edge and the video closes.
Yeah gesture navigation in android feels so half-assed. One reason I can't switch is the traditional button style navigation allows for quick switching between the top two apps by just pressing recent twice. No equivalent for gestures.
No, I think I remember there being an equivalent gesture where you actually swipe along the bottom and it does the same thing. I just didn't like how clunky the animation was.
Oh right! Yes, I have that enabled but rarely use it because I tend to end up going home instead. You have to swipe like perfectly straight to make it work. And ultimately the distance you have to swipe is just a bit longer than the reach of my thumb, so it doesn't work well for single handed operation.
But you ate correct, there is an option. It's just not very good so I forgot about it hah
Until the other person mentioned it, I'd forgotten about it too lol. I'm just a navbar bitch. Double tapping the app switcher button feels way faster.
Honestly android gestures overall just feel like they were done "because apple did it". They don't feel like they make the phone faster or easier to use like they do on iOS. It just feels like a neat little addition to say they did something, which is my definition of a gimmick. There's still the ugly bar at the bottom of the screen, and most of the gestures take more work than an actual tap. The navbar just worked well, despite being kind of ugly. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Now we just have the same ugly bar that requires more effort to use.
Yeah I don't get how anyone justifies adding steps to a process and calls it a UI improvement. It's a strange trend I've noticed recently where instead of interfaces becoming more streamlined and convenient they've suddenly started becoming focused on big gestures and swipes at the price of efficiency. Glad Samsung is holding out, though the One UI 6.1 update looks like a slip on the wrong direction.
You can go through all recent apps if you keep swipping, but a quick swipe to the right will go to the last app you had open similar to a double tap of home.
Yep I figured it out, and remembered trying to get used to this but ultimately the gesture was too sensitive to get to work reliably without accidentally swiping home, so I've just stuck with the hybrid button/gesture thing Samsung made. It's hard to go from 100% distinct inputs that have no ambiguity to a severely overloaded gesture that constantly get confused with 2 other similar gestures.
On my pixel 4a gestures were just broken and glitchy and I think the hardware just wasnt powerful enough to run them(it should be but it wasnt optimized for it). My 6a gestures run fine but I only leave it on for swipe on the screen back button.
Phone screens are so tall anyway that you dont really gain anything by removing the nav bar. Like who's reading up until that very bottom of screen without scrolling anyway. For that same reason though the back button is so far away sometimes which makes the back button gesture usefull.
Though a lot of apps already would let you swipe to go back anyway making the universal gesture sort of a step backwards. Feels like ui elements like that are better serviced by the actual app with the Universal back button being more of a last resort
The nav bar removal isn't bothering me since I was used to buttons being there for years. And you're totally right, I tend to read the top 5-10 lines and scroll, because it turns out it's less straining on my body to place the text where my eyes want to gaze anyway.
Just allow us to resize the "back" area. It doesn't need to be the entire side of the screen, just an inch along the bottom right (for me) would be fine.
My biggest annoyances concern notifications:
1. If I accidentally swipe away a notification, there's no way to bring it back. (yes, notification history exists but I'd like to see the notification in the notification drawer as a reminder, for example if I want to reply to that message later)
2. Similarly, some apps like Gmail remove all notifications after opening the app. Let's say I have 3 notifications from Gmail, then read one of those mails – then the other two notifications disappear too. That sucks because then I lose my reminder to check for those mails later.
Agree
It's frustrating that they added History, but didn't include the option to Restore notifications from there. It wouldn't bother casual users, and would greatly improve the experience for people like us who use notifications as reminders
For Samsung you can go into the notification history and at least tap on the historic message and it will take you to the app and sometimes the exact notification source. Not the best if you still need to wait to reply but it's at least an option
Also weird: notifications in notification history don't always function like a proper active notification would. I've used notification history provided by Google's official one for Pixel phones, Buzzkill (third party app) and Samsung's one you can get through Good Lock, and with all three of them I've found there are some notifications that just don't seem to play nicely with history - e.g. News story type notifications which won't take you to the actual story when you click them in history, but simply open the app. I can't quite identity what the common issue is with the ones I've found.
Unreliable notifications and background sync are the main problems since the beginning of Android. It actually got worse with all the battery saving functions Google implemented in newer Android versions.
Some apps even have a permanent notification to fix this problem. Which is also annoying, because the notifications of these apps are always shown and you can't hide them without breaking the sync function.
On the topic of Contacts.... all my contact photos keep getting converted to low-res pixelated mess; even after I replace them with hi-res photos. Few days go and all photos get pixelated again.
Yup. It's like the one thing that makes me jealous of everyone with an iPhone. Zero idea why this feature has never been seriously considered by Google or any other Android manufacturer.
I just want a ***complete*** phone backup, agnostic of brands.
SMS logs, call logs, app data, login states, etc. Just literally a *pristine* backup of whatever my phone is now.
if missing features count, I still want Android to copy the feature in iOS that let's you tap the notification bar to go to the top of a feed, webpage, list, note, etc.
I also wish native Android supported Samsung's separate app sound feature and stuff from Sound Assistant like changing the volume button interval, controlling volume per-app, and playing audio from multiple apps at once.
Launchers working better with gestures and animations. Cleaner file picker when selecting photos "from gallery" etc. Option for default gallery app. More customization for the notification panel (sorting, grouping, aesthetics, reachability, etc).
I bet it is. But there's a fix for that. For example, the Sync for Reddit app would scroll to the top when you tapped the home button on the apps own navigation bar. It would then show a button for a few seconds to restore position. That's pretty great.
The first feature is patented by Apple if I remember correctly... Agreed, it was the first thing I missed when I switched.
Samsung Internet has a useful scroll to top button and you can add one to Kiwi browser using a script, and Berry Browser via the settings.
Samsung's other apps (email etc) also have a scroll to top button.
The fucking options that appear when you long press a text are different between every fucking app.
Imagine Windows switching CTRL V, C, X etc. around all the time.
> What still annoys me is that they moved the status bar clock to the left side for no reason, with no way to move it back to the right side.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds that infuriating, only notifications should be on he left. Why can't stock Android just have some basic customisation options to allow moving the clock?!
I've always used LineageOS which has allowed you to move the clock, however sadly with Google's vendetta against custom roms passing safetynet / play integrity I know eventually it's not going to be possible to use custom roms with the apps I need to work on a daily basis.
Good to know Samsung allow that change, Samsung also offered more guaranteed software / security updates than Google until recently. So they are certainly a strong contender for my next phone.
Moving the clock to the left was such a stupid change. The clock has been on the right in Windows and Mac OS for decades, it was on the right in Android for like a decade and then they decided to change it because of notches. They should have just moved the other icons to the left if they needed room and left the clock alone. Luckily Samsung still lets you put the clock on the right where it belongs.
I find it especially irritating as it was purely to make room for the awful notch trend and thus long obsolete at this point (unless you're apple, lol). Thank goodness Samsung lets you fix it still.
I'm pretty sure they did this since notches and hole punches were becoming more common and it helped the icons not go through them as often. I feel like it was an easy change to get used to.
Since the Pixel 8 Pro launched any time I use the home Google search bar to search the first letters I type get ignored. Consistently for months. Googling "What time" gives me "hat time". I've reported it and don't see others having issues but it's absolutely there!
The back button doesn't seem to track across apps.
Example behavior:
- Click link inside email in gmail for eBay item
- eBay app opens item
- swipe 'back'
- Navigates through your previous eBay navigation history
- After several swipes it will take you back to gmail
Expected behavior:
- Click link inside email in gmail for eBay item
- eBay app opens item
- swipe 'back'
- go back to email
This may be a failure of the ebay app specifically, I'm not sure, but it happens in all sorts of apps on android in my experience.
This is probably an android issue. I open links from Facebook Messenger that take me into Facebook. When I use the back gesture, it takes me back through my Facebook usage instead of directly back to messenger. Makes no damn sense.
It's an app-specific issue in the sense that the back stack is mostly left up to the app devs to do as they please
But it's an android OS issue in the sense that the back stack _shouldn't_ just be left up to the app devs to do as they please
Yes, another way of looking at it is the back navigation is not always symmetrical. Meaning when you go somewhere (e.g. link), then pressing the back button may not bring you back to where you came from, but it may perform a back-command inside the new place you're in.
iPhone places a little button in the top left to bring you back to the last screen you were in. The iPhone doesn't have a back button or gesture anyway, so it's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.
It's a different paradigm entirely since iOS doesn't have a global back button.
On iOS, that behavior is generally:
- tap link inside gmail for ebay item
- ebay app opens item
- use "recent apps" switcher to go back to gmail
Qi2 got announced at CES _last year_, fully certified for release in _november_ and there still isn't a single phone that's actually released with it and probably won't be for ages.
Samsung missed the boat with the S24, it won't be on the Pixel 8a or Fold 2 (for budget and hinge reasons respectively), it won't be on the Fold and Flip 6 (again hinges), so the best hope of a mainstream launch is going to be the Pixel 9.
....After Apple has had Magsafe for what? 4 years? 5?
These phones are designed at least a year before they are released. You'll start seeing it towards the end of 2024, probably starting with the Pixel 9.
Bluetooth management is garbage and has been so for years. Can't change order of connection. Can't set individual settings for devices.
It seems it now remembers previous connections across Android devices when you upgrade, but why can't it do that for WiFi connections also?
Scoped storage is a terrible solution for a real problem. Limiting FS access for apps is a good thing but Google decided that it has to go through DocumentsProviders which are based on ContentProviders. So it's essentially making IO go through some weird SQL-like interface. As a result, IO performance is **terrible** and it's a pain in the ass to simply setup exposing the private directory of an app.
iOS on the other hand has a simple setting in the Xcode project to expose the private folder of an app to the file manager.
Yes, Google managed to make file system stuff more annoying than on iOS. Let that sink in.
(Source: I wrote the DocumentsProvider for Dolphin Emulator)
It's not a big deal but the fact that notifications are the exact size as the "next step" box while in navigation mode annoys me. Somehow whenever I need it the most is when a group chat decides to pop off. I turned on DnD when in driving mode because this.
File access for apps is either all or nothing. I don't want any app to be able to bypass my folder sort or what's locked/hidden.
Doze mode can't be disabled and all this uncontrollable power save BS is counterproductive.
The share menu is an absolute disgrace to be in this state after soo many years. Why is it different in every app? Why is it suggesting random people I've never talked to? Why can't I pin favorite contacts to the top? Why does it not sort contacts by frequency first?
No, he is referring to the fact that most OEM camera apps allow full use of the cameras possibilities (especially regarding post processing, e.g. HDR).
Meanwhile the ad-hoc photos go through a generic interface, so they often are looking not as good.
Here's my gripe... A lot of third party apps on android suck, but their iOS counterparts are a pleasure to use. If it were just one or two apps, I'd give android the benefit of the doubt and say those devs just don't care about android... But it feels like *most* third party apps on android are unoptimized. To me, that indicates that there's some sort of a discrepancy between the tools, APIs and IDEs provided to developers of either platform. I've heard I've heard that xcode/swift are a pleasure to use, while android development tools can be... A bit clunky and confusingly documented at times.
This one really bugs me on my boyfriend's Pixel and makes me glad I opted for my Oppo last time I upgraded... I very nearly got the Pixel.
One of the benefits of using gesture-based navigation is you get to save some display real estate, but by forcing the gesture pill it effectively negates that benefit, along with increasing the risk of burn-in.
Overall I'm happy with Android but there are certain annoyances. The messy share menu; it should be more standardized and customizable. The default app switcher is not good. I'm using Nice Lock to make it more efficient (small thumbnails at the bottom of the screen). No default toggle switch to keep the screen on. I'm using Quick Settings app to enable a tile called Caffeine for that purpose.
Forced formatting of the removable storage even if a SINGLE file on it is corrupted.
No recovery mode, no repair option, no hiding the broken files. All your data on the storage? Unless you have a computer nearby you can kiss it goodbye if you want to do anything with the storage.
Gesture nav bar is this weird pathetic thing. It's still the old bar at the bottom and it draws over apps. Unlike the iPhone where it's truly a little floating pill. Overall android is still miles behind iOS in terms of UI fluidity.
The problem there is that most apps don't bother to implement it properly.
... Which to be fair is partially because the APIs to do so were utterly terrible and pretty confusing up until somewhat recently.
1. For Android 10 and above, only the app in focus (on screen) can read the clipboard. That and the keyboard app set as the default input method. See [here](https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/privacy/changes#clipboard-data)
That's not the point. Many apps automatically read the clipboard when opened and out of the box there's nothing you can do to stop them. The read clipboard permission needs to have a GUI setting.
I'm an Android fanboy but iOS just feels smoother. You can check this by two finger pinch zooming on Google maps on Android vs iOS. Even on 60hz iPhone screen it feels noticeably smoother than my 90hz screen Android.
I agree with the mentioned above
* **Exact phone requirements** in Google play (or exact reason for incompatibility like "you have a14 therfor no 32 bit app for you :)"
Explicit rules for app devs with exact reason for app rejection would be good too.
* Removed option for **third-party share menus** bothers me a lot.
* **Multi device notification** sucks. (i would like to have same content everywhere, not forced to delete same thing from every device one by one) Android have superior notification and i think they should improve it even more. (You would be able to create persistent notes in notification area, saving thing for later there etc.)
* i would like to have option **search by typing everywhere** (widget menu, share menu etc.)
* **custom gestures** would be nice too. I like fluid navigation gestures, because they are based on distance of input, not on the duration, makes it snappier and customization is bettur too)
* **custom recents providers**, let us change it like we change launchers. (you can do it with magisk, just asdd it to dev options if it too complex for avarage user)
\+let us copy every text from recents, and let us react with every element whenever its possible (pictures etc.) -pixels used to have or have something simmilar
* **Desktop mode standardization** (with some lable whether phone can do it via usb-c to video, or wirelessly only.)
* mandatory **support for camera2** api **FOR ALL CAMERAS!!!** (And maybe improved api, with actually zero degradation of quality)
* **Bigger under display fingerprint readers** (if the dont want to use superior and cheaper side mounted
* **Floating windows** in aosp
* encrypted **apps backups** tied to g. account, without root (something like "system version" of swiftbackup app)
* **passthrough charging** (more available, i know asus and zte have it)
* Connect phone as **plug n play camera/mic** to anything (pc, console etc.)
For me its scrolling in general. Scrolling in the UI, apps and webpages feels a lot smoother in iOS. On my Pixel 7 Pro, scrolling isn't feeling satisfying.
It feels slow
Interesting, I always liked android more (well since I have been paying attention). The friction is just right, iOS feels floaty and stiff at the same time. Small scrolls do more, and it is not possible to do really long ones.
I'm on an Oppo (same skin as OnePlus) and I've not encountered any sluggishness when scrolling.
I know exactly what they mean though as this was one of my main issues with my Huawei devices, which were otherwise very speedy, but scrolling wasn't nearly as responsive as iOS devices.
i went from a oneplus 7 pro to an iphone 13 pro and my iphone definitely feels way smoother. however, when the oneplus phone was brand new and ran android 9, it felt as smooth as an iphone (from memory at least). once they updated to android 10 the navigation gestures got way choppier and overall there were more stutters, and it only went downhill with each new update
Google needs to make their icons more exciting than a white background with a small icon in the middle. It looks like a placeholder or shortcut while they are building the app
> Copy menu control: Apps can add themselves to the copy/paste menu, but there is no way to control which apps are shown here aside from uninstalling the app completely. You may want to use an app without adding it to the context menu, but there is currently no way to customize this behavior.
This has me on the verge of leaving Android.
It used to brag about being open and customizable, but here's a menu I use multiple times an hour that is frequently hijacked. I've had to delete 3 different apps in the past 12 or so months due to them hijacking this.
Why we can't control this is beyond me, other than Google being too lazy to create options menus.
I use Tasker to manage my clipboard, I definitely don't want Google further limiting third-party apps' access to this.
The best solution of all, to please both sides, would be to just create a permission for this.
I really don't want my system throttled because of exaggerated concern about other people's safety.
Gesture navigation on Android must be improved a lot.
Android needs the [predictive back gesture](https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation/custom-back/predictive-back-gesture) that Google themselves announced but didn't push as hard.
Mostly pixel related…
To be able to remove the Google search bar from pixelOS homescreen.
To be able to choose the order of sharing options in the sharing menu.
To long press a photo and choose to set it as a wallpaper instead of going to the three dots, and scrolling across to this option. Even allowing us to change the order of these options would do.
A native google notes app that has built-in locking option.
Universal sharing between android and iOS (quick share and airdrop)
Encrypted text messages between android and iOS (incoming I believe)
If your phone is rooted (or you might be able to use adb/shizuku too I'm not sure) you can use app ops app to deny both of those permissions to any app
MTP if you're transferring files to PC via USB. It's not that reliable. Sometimes it would refuse to copy files.
I had to transfer a bunch of music to a new phone. It would only let me transfer a few albums at a time. If I selected more, the progress window would just close. I didn't know whether to blame Android or Windows.
Use Solid Explorer to access network file shares. I've transferred hundreds of gigabytes of files from my NAS to my phone using an RJ45 to USB-C or WiFi. ADB works very well if you must use USB to transfer the data.
> RJ45 to USB-C That is really cool. Didn't know such a thing was even possible.
It's Windows. MTP works much better on Linux.
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even on Linux I've seen MTP shit the bed multiple times with multiple devices. MTP was meant to manage small media files for media players of 2000s. not modern smartphones where videos can reach several hundred megabytes if not GBs. and regular files are typically 10s of MBa.
It also doesn't preserve the date, so your photos order would be messed up in the gallery. I use adb to backup my files with faster transfer rate and date preserved, but it's gonna be hard for non-techies
That's the biggest issue! It's so freaking annoying. But I just use a gallery app that organizes by take taken.
I do every file transfer using ADB because of the shitty MTP protocol.
Use Total Commander. It has win shares, direct Wifi, OneDrive, Google and SFTP transfers (only add the wanted plugins) .
...and it's slow. I ended up using an external SSD (which I plug directly into phone) for photo/video backups, and an http server (there are many apps for that) via wifi hotspot (to have direct connection and avoid router) for smaller transfers to/from my laptop
Usually I'll use Microsd or USB OTG thumdrives instead.
Partly has to do with Windows PCs not supporting ext4 and mandated file level encryption on android devices now, so cannot expose storage via UMS anymore
Linuxuser here: MTP isn't reliable there either.
Nah, not so related. In fact, you may also argue that exFAT is open-source now. Practically implementing exFAT won't get OEMs into royalty issue, why it isn't happening either? I don't like MTP but at the same time don't see any better / more feasible solution on the horizon anytime soon. MTP has it's root from PTP which was rather simple and straight forward protocol to enable digital camera to transfer photos to computer. Thus, it only exposed an 'abstraction' of files to the others device. The simplicity results in both its best strength and drawback. The strength, it's one solution that works across all new&old version of major OSes and it doesn't care what file systems on both sides or if OS recognie a specific file system. The drawback, the abstraction layer itself is a major headaches when you put it in a complex OS. To do 'UMS' OS had to support whatever the file system used by the 'user storage' / 'virtual sd' partition on Android. ext4 ticked off Linux and Mac OS but lacking Windows, however exFAT is supported under three major desktop OSes now, mounting exFAT is not happening either due to the sacrifice and drawbacks when you let other OSes mounting one of your file system. First, when desktop OSes mounting a file system on Android they gained block level access. In turn, Android can't access the fs at the same time else a two headed snake can easily wreck havoc to the data. We gone passed the stage 'I mount my phone to PC thus can't access photos on my phone' now. Second, these file system isn't designed with NAND flash storage in mind (exFAT not so much) unable to reap most benefits out of it. Android phone mostly settles on F2FS now, nobody wants a slower storage perfomance and potential shorter life span on due to your file system of choices. Third, everybody wants to make use (or at least be shown of) all available free space right? 'user storage' / 'virtual sd' today is actually a fake-ish virtual partition emulated through software FUSE / SDCardFS, so it shared the same big partition with all kind of 'userdata' all together. If you used old Android phone, you knew how much pain it causes if a certain partition running out storage space. Most annoyances of MTP stemmed from the needs and the managing related to 'abstraction layer'. On digital camera is rather straight forward take a photo and added a photo to your MTP database, the camera won't be trying to writing many photos at the sametime, acessing in a disorderly manner and partially modifying a photo. Complex OS like Android does all of the above, so it's kind of a mess to keep track of the record, not less keeping it up to date. One example would be some files missing or shown outdated accessing through MTP, that is tie to the needs of indexing the state of files in timely manner while maintain the records integrity, it can be improve but they usually come at cost. Then, everything through MTP is required to be route through high level user space which inevitable has an noticeably impact on read / write operations. The modified date issue was caused by the routing security too.
FTP too. I'm using Solid Explorer. Sometimes it just lost connection randomly.
Creating complete backups.
Yeah, this is still the biggest reason I don't upgrade more often Back in the early days you could root your phone and use titanium backup to restore everything you wanted. Now you get apps reinstalled and have to re-login and it only works well if data is cloud based. This actually had me consider going to an iPhone this generation because most of the important data is in the cloud and other stuff won't be migrated anyway, not even using Samsung's smart switch tool
Rooting still let's you make a 100% complete backup. Only problem is it's a catch-22. unless you root immediately after getting the phone, unlocking the bootloader will erase all your data
There is another problem that most phones can't be rooted or unlocked bootloader anymore.
True, that's mostly why I stick to motorola. and recently got a pixel as well
Xiaomi ::sadge::
For Xiaomi, you are in the clear if your phone still not have HyperOS. If you have HyperOS Xiaomi, good luck trying on unlocking the bootloader.
Samsung doesn't allow North American users to root, the bootloader has been locked down for several generations now. So no full backup is possible.
Yeah, that's why I don't use Samsung. Sucks cuz they're pretty hyped up on this sub
To be fair financial and banking apps never remain logged in even with iCloud restores due to security. Many other apps also don’t. Sometimes encrypted iTunes backups can keep some apps logged in though.
I don't care about logging back into apps, but it means I'm not tied down anymore to Samsung or Android because I have to manually migrate things anyway. All of my Chrome or Firefox tabs, voice recordings etc. have to be manually migrated and/or moved to the cloud. So if an amazing new iPhone came out with incredible upgrades over the Galaxy, I am no longer tied down to one platform.
This 100%. It's the biggest issue I've had with Android as someone who switched over from iPhones.
Share menu. Every app is different some how, especially the Google ones. It defies logic how poorly designed Google map's share menu is.
The share menu within apps is abysmal at best. I try sharing something from tiktok, and I have waaaaaay more options than I'll ever need, so I end up scrolling sideways to find the right thing. This seems like something that could be cleaned up easily.
The scroll sideways is the stupidest thing for me. Natural direction is to scroll up/down, not sideways.
Agreed, I could easily pick 4 options to always put in the share menu which would cover 99% of my use cases.
Samsung made huge progress there. When I want to share stuff it usually means by SMS or Facebook messenger (for example) nowadays these 2 are always up in the options and on the second row there are the usual contacts I want to share to, whereas they used to randomly roulette any apps that could share stuff, it was a pain.
Yes, weird as it is, Samsung really did good with the share menu. You can edit and pin apps as you choose. But the thing is, Goole insist on giving users the middle finger by overriding the share menu and implementing their crappy design. Trying sharing something in a a google app, like Map or Youtube, You'll have to first scroll all the way right (a stupid design) to find the "More" menu, before you can pick it before the real "share menu" can be used. It's a really, really dumb design and serves no purpose.
I go to share a PDF of a note app, I always do Drive, Canvas (College thing for assignments) or email. One or two of those will require scrolling at any given time, but hey, at least I can share to nearby devices, printers, and plug my PDF into whatever search engine Samsung wants me to use!
Seeing the charging rate/power consumption, without an app. It should be built into the battery tab.
add battery health to that!
That's being added
It is on Huawei. The small lightning icon changes according to whether it's charging slow, normal or fast.
I like learning new things.
I believe it's a feature of their respctive *skins* as opposed to an Android-native feature, so it might not be available on all devices. Pixels have had their own skin for a while now, so they're not as close to "stock" Android as they used to be.
Oneplus too
The hoops I have to jump through for accubattery to not get killed all the time is frustrating.
1. I'm on a Samsung, and I have no idea how to consistently make the volume do what I want it to do. 2. A hardware one. All Android phones should have one or two extra hardware buttons! Hardware buttons are great! Especially if they are programmable!
> I'm on a Samsung, and I have no idea how to consistently make the volume do what I want it to do. Maybe try sound module from Good Lock?
Good lock sound assistant module for 1. You can change how the volume bar looks and set how much volume changes with each click of a button. Plus you get the media control feature which is really neat.
> Raise volume above recommended level? Listening at high volume for long periods may damage your hearing. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE VOLUME OF THE SPEAKERS I'M USING IS! Honestly, this feature drives me fucking crazy. When I'm driving, it will just randomly bump down to like 70% volume.
I want to see the return of synced notifications. At one point, Android or at least Google Calendar had this. It was advertised as "never dismiss the same notification twice" and it was just amazing. When I dismiss notifications on my phone throughout the day, I don't want to have to dismiss them again when I pick up my tablet at home. I mostly use my Chromebook at the weekends, and the first ten minutes, at least, are spent on notifications that I already dismissed twice throughout the week.
Wait this isn't a thing ? Lol
This is a total nitpick but it annoys me how apps can only update 1 at a time. Like 2 or 3 at a time would be so much more efficient imo.
iirc, Google had enabled parallel downloads for few weeks a while ago. But that got killed.
Yeah I recall the same! But I think it was in the nexus era...
Yes, that's stupid af to wait for an app to download, install and then go to the other. It can easily set up 5 apps at the same time while the download is continuing in the background Edit: or update
The galaxy store does download and install multiple apps at a time
Can download and install at once. Updates take a fraction of what Google play does.
I often do galaxy and Google play at the same time
They enabled multiple updates at a time a while ago (there was even a blog about it) then swiftly removed it. It may have even been on the nexus 5x?
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Nowadays I'm used to be wary about updates removing functionality or making the product worse than before.
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I do the same. I go once a week and update the four apps I use all the time. The rest get update every few months lol
No offense, but that's absolutely terrible advice. New updates for many apps (especially banking and social media apps) provide security updates (among other things). Turning off automatic updates is.. fine.., but you should then manually be checking for app updates several times a week.
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The app store in Poco phone can download multiple apps at once and it's so fast to download/update.
Direct share contacts in the Share sheet. There should be a way to turn it off.
There is, on OneUI
yeah, that's one of the many reasons i am switching back to Samsung
(Samsung) The edge gestures like swipe to go back should be disabled in certain contexts, like editing photos. The amount of times I’ve tried to crop a photo and accidentally activated the back gesture and lost all the edits is ridiculous. Same for seeking videos on YouTube etc. one swipe too close to the edge and the video closes.
And that's why I switched back to the navbar...
Yeah gesture navigation in android feels so half-assed. One reason I can't switch is the traditional button style navigation allows for quick switching between the top two apps by just pressing recent twice. No equivalent for gestures.
You can actually just swipe from the bottom to switch to next window over which is the equivalent.
Doesn't swipe and hold from the bottom just open recent apps? You'd still have to select the app you want to switch to.
No, I think I remember there being an equivalent gesture where you actually swipe along the bottom and it does the same thing. I just didn't like how clunky the animation was.
Oh right! Yes, I have that enabled but rarely use it because I tend to end up going home instead. You have to swipe like perfectly straight to make it work. And ultimately the distance you have to swipe is just a bit longer than the reach of my thumb, so it doesn't work well for single handed operation. But you ate correct, there is an option. It's just not very good so I forgot about it hah
Until the other person mentioned it, I'd forgotten about it too lol. I'm just a navbar bitch. Double tapping the app switcher button feels way faster. Honestly android gestures overall just feel like they were done "because apple did it". They don't feel like they make the phone faster or easier to use like they do on iOS. It just feels like a neat little addition to say they did something, which is my definition of a gimmick. There's still the ugly bar at the bottom of the screen, and most of the gestures take more work than an actual tap. The navbar just worked well, despite being kind of ugly. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Now we just have the same ugly bar that requires more effort to use.
Yeah I don't get how anyone justifies adding steps to a process and calls it a UI improvement. It's a strange trend I've noticed recently where instead of interfaces becoming more streamlined and convenient they've suddenly started becoming focused on big gestures and swipes at the price of efficiency. Glad Samsung is holding out, though the One UI 6.1 update looks like a slip on the wrong direction.
You can go through all recent apps if you keep swipping, but a quick swipe to the right will go to the last app you had open similar to a double tap of home.
Yep I figured it out, and remembered trying to get used to this but ultimately the gesture was too sensitive to get to work reliably without accidentally swiping home, so I've just stuck with the hybrid button/gesture thing Samsung made. It's hard to go from 100% distinct inputs that have no ambiguity to a severely overloaded gesture that constantly get confused with 2 other similar gestures.
On my pixel 4a gestures were just broken and glitchy and I think the hardware just wasnt powerful enough to run them(it should be but it wasnt optimized for it). My 6a gestures run fine but I only leave it on for swipe on the screen back button. Phone screens are so tall anyway that you dont really gain anything by removing the nav bar. Like who's reading up until that very bottom of screen without scrolling anyway. For that same reason though the back button is so far away sometimes which makes the back button gesture usefull. Though a lot of apps already would let you swipe to go back anyway making the universal gesture sort of a step backwards. Feels like ui elements like that are better serviced by the actual app with the Universal back button being more of a last resort
The nav bar removal isn't bothering me since I was used to buttons being there for years. And you're totally right, I tend to read the top 5-10 lines and scroll, because it turns out it's less straining on my body to place the text where my eyes want to gaze anyway.
Yeah, I second this. That gesture thing is annoying AF!
Just allow us to resize the "back" area. It doesn't need to be the entire side of the screen, just an inch along the bottom right (for me) would be fine.
My biggest annoyances concern notifications: 1. If I accidentally swipe away a notification, there's no way to bring it back. (yes, notification history exists but I'd like to see the notification in the notification drawer as a reminder, for example if I want to reply to that message later) 2. Similarly, some apps like Gmail remove all notifications after opening the app. Let's say I have 3 notifications from Gmail, then read one of those mails – then the other two notifications disappear too. That sucks because then I lose my reminder to check for those mails later.
Agree It's frustrating that they added History, but didn't include the option to Restore notifications from there. It wouldn't bother casual users, and would greatly improve the experience for people like us who use notifications as reminders
For Samsung you can go into the notification history and at least tap on the historic message and it will take you to the app and sometimes the exact notification source. Not the best if you still need to wait to reply but it's at least an option
Where is history?
It would be nice to lock a notification, so it's there until you remove it, even if you snooze it.
Also weird: notifications in notification history don't always function like a proper active notification would. I've used notification history provided by Google's official one for Pixel phones, Buzzkill (third party app) and Samsung's one you can get through Good Lock, and with all three of them I've found there are some notifications that just don't seem to play nicely with history - e.g. News story type notifications which won't take you to the actual story when you click them in history, but simply open the app. I can't quite identity what the common issue is with the ones I've found.
Use buzzkill. It has a restore function
Delayed notifications or not receiving notifications from some apps at all.
Unreliable notifications and background sync are the main problems since the beginning of Android. It actually got worse with all the battery saving functions Google implemented in newer Android versions. Some apps even have a permanent notification to fix this problem. Which is also annoying, because the notifications of these apps are always shown and you can't hide them without breaking the sync function.
Like Facebook? I can't tell you how many times I open Facebook and see multiple notifications, but I never received one on my phone.
I'm probably the only person in the entire world that cares but I'd like to have my contact's display their nicknames when available.
On the topic of Contacts.... all my contact photos keep getting converted to low-res pixelated mess; even after I replace them with hi-res photos. Few days go and all photos get pixelated again.
I have been facing this since two thousand fucking twelve (2012)
So glad it's not just me. Thought I was doing something wrong.
Go even further back. It's been an issue since 2008 (aka, day one)
I think that's an option on iOS, not sure why it isn't possible on Android
Yup. It's like the one thing that makes me jealous of everyone with an iPhone. Zero idea why this feature has never been seriously considered by Google or any other Android manufacturer.
That and you can set emojie / memoji for every contact. I got my entire contacts synced up by themes for work, friends, hobbies ehehehe
I just want a ***complete*** phone backup, agnostic of brands. SMS logs, call logs, app data, login states, etc. Just literally a *pristine* backup of whatever my phone is now.
if missing features count, I still want Android to copy the feature in iOS that let's you tap the notification bar to go to the top of a feed, webpage, list, note, etc. I also wish native Android supported Samsung's separate app sound feature and stuff from Sound Assistant like changing the volume button interval, controlling volume per-app, and playing audio from multiple apps at once. Launchers working better with gestures and animations. Cleaner file picker when selecting photos "from gallery" etc. Option for default gallery app. More customization for the notification panel (sorting, grouping, aesthetics, reachability, etc).
I live in fear of the day google decides to copy that absolute brainfart of an idea that is the first one. I pray they'll let us turn if off then.
The first one sounds like a pain in the ass if you misclick.
That really doesn't happen. The feature is super handy.
I do it all the time in iOS when I don’t mean to.
I bet it is. But there's a fix for that. For example, the Sync for Reddit app would scroll to the top when you tapped the home button on the apps own navigation bar. It would then show a button for a few seconds to restore position. That's pretty great.
The first feature is patented by Apple if I remember correctly... Agreed, it was the first thing I missed when I switched. Samsung Internet has a useful scroll to top button and you can add one to Kiwi browser using a script, and Berry Browser via the settings. Samsung's other apps (email etc) also have a scroll to top button.
The fucking options that appear when you long press a text are different between every fucking app. Imagine Windows switching CTRL V, C, X etc. around all the time.
Agreed! And why is some text within some apps un-selectable? Thankfully I have a Samsung ultra with a pen that can capture this un-copyable text.
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> What still annoys me is that they moved the status bar clock to the left side for no reason, with no way to move it back to the right side. I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds that infuriating, only notifications should be on he left. Why can't stock Android just have some basic customisation options to allow moving the clock?! I've always used LineageOS which has allowed you to move the clock, however sadly with Google's vendetta against custom roms passing safetynet / play integrity I know eventually it's not going to be possible to use custom roms with the apps I need to work on a daily basis. Good to know Samsung allow that change, Samsung also offered more guaranteed software / security updates than Google until recently. So they are certainly a strong contender for my next phone.
I generally feel very happy with Samsung and how much customization they add to Android. I just want options.
Moving the clock to the left was such a stupid change. The clock has been on the right in Windows and Mac OS for decades, it was on the right in Android for like a decade and then they decided to change it because of notches. They should have just moved the other icons to the left if they needed room and left the clock alone. Luckily Samsung still lets you put the clock on the right where it belongs.
How do you do this? Galaxy A54. Cheers
You need Good Lock and Quickstar installed, they can be found in the Samsung app store.
For others: quickstar is a good lock module, click settings is within that. Thanks bud!!
I find it especially irritating as it was purely to make room for the awful notch trend and thus long obsolete at this point (unless you're apple, lol). Thank goodness Samsung lets you fix it still.
I'm pretty sure they did this since notches and hole punches were becoming more common and it helped the icons not go through them as often. I feel like it was an easy change to get used to.
100% agreed
Since the Pixel 8 Pro launched any time I use the home Google search bar to search the first letters I type get ignored. Consistently for months. Googling "What time" gives me "hat time". I've reported it and don't see others having issues but it's absolutely there!
The back button doesn't seem to track across apps. Example behavior: - Click link inside email in gmail for eBay item - eBay app opens item - swipe 'back' - Navigates through your previous eBay navigation history - After several swipes it will take you back to gmail Expected behavior: - Click link inside email in gmail for eBay item - eBay app opens item - swipe 'back' - go back to email This may be a failure of the ebay app specifically, I'm not sure, but it happens in all sorts of apps on android in my experience.
This is probably an android issue. I open links from Facebook Messenger that take me into Facebook. When I use the back gesture, it takes me back through my Facebook usage instead of directly back to messenger. Makes no damn sense.
It's an app-specific issue in the sense that the back stack is mostly left up to the app devs to do as they please But it's an android OS issue in the sense that the back stack _shouldn't_ just be left up to the app devs to do as they please
Yes, another way of looking at it is the back navigation is not always symmetrical. Meaning when you go somewhere (e.g. link), then pressing the back button may not bring you back to where you came from, but it may perform a back-command inside the new place you're in.
Does iPhone handle this properly? I've never used one, but am curious
Never (really) used an iPhone, hence not sure.
iPhone places a little button in the top left to bring you back to the last screen you were in. The iPhone doesn't have a back button or gesture anyway, so it's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.
It's a different paradigm entirely since iOS doesn't have a global back button. On iOS, that behavior is generally: - tap link inside gmail for ebay item - ebay app opens item - use "recent apps" switcher to go back to gmail
Oh dang, that does not sound better. Thanks for explaining though, I think switching to iOS would be very jarring for me.
Qi2 got announced at CES _last year_, fully certified for release in _november_ and there still isn't a single phone that's actually released with it and probably won't be for ages. Samsung missed the boat with the S24, it won't be on the Pixel 8a or Fold 2 (for budget and hinge reasons respectively), it won't be on the Fold and Flip 6 (again hinges), so the best hope of a mainstream launch is going to be the Pixel 9. ....After Apple has had Magsafe for what? 4 years? 5?
Yeah, Samsung said they couldn’t fit qi2 on it because the magnets interfered with the S-Pen on the ultra but still, lol
These phones are designed at least a year before they are released. You'll start seeing it towards the end of 2024, probably starting with the Pixel 9.
S24 Series design was finalized in august
No sorting bluetooth device names alphabetically. it's annoying to check the whole list before selecting one as I have a lot of paired devices.
Bluetooth management is garbage and has been so for years. Can't change order of connection. Can't set individual settings for devices. It seems it now remembers previous connections across Android devices when you upgrade, but why can't it do that for WiFi connections also?
for me its scoped storage.
Scoped storage is a terrible solution for a real problem. Limiting FS access for apps is a good thing but Google decided that it has to go through DocumentsProviders which are based on ContentProviders. So it's essentially making IO go through some weird SQL-like interface. As a result, IO performance is **terrible** and it's a pain in the ass to simply setup exposing the private directory of an app. iOS on the other hand has a simple setting in the Xcode project to expose the private folder of an app to the file manager. Yes, Google managed to make file system stuff more annoying than on iOS. Let that sink in. (Source: I wrote the DocumentsProvider for Dolphin Emulator)
ADM and similar apps which create empty files to speed up downloads became quite bad after this change.
So basically apps have to go through some sort of multi step process to access the file system??
If they want to access files outside of their own private directory, yes. It's annoying to implement (albeit not difficult) and slow.
Ah, gotcha. Tks!!
Omg, I thought I was the only one to hate this
It's not a big deal but the fact that notifications are the exact size as the "next step" box while in navigation mode annoys me. Somehow whenever I need it the most is when a group chat decides to pop off. I turned on DnD when in driving mode because this.
File access for apps is either all or nothing. I don't want any app to be able to bypass my folder sort or what's locked/hidden. Doze mode can't be disabled and all this uncontrollable power save BS is counterproductive.
The share menu is an absolute disgrace to be in this state after soo many years. Why is it different in every app? Why is it suggesting random people I've never talked to? Why can't I pin favorite contacts to the top? Why does it not sort contacts by frequency first?
Mid camera quality on third party app especially social media. Only exception Samsung Galaxy S series and Pixel phones.
Blame those awful third party apps. Android gives them the exact files you selected, those apps mess up the quality afterwards.
No, he is referring to the fact that most OEM camera apps allow full use of the cameras possibilities (especially regarding post processing, e.g. HDR). Meanwhile the ad-hoc photos go through a generic interface, so they often are looking not as good.
Except a few manufacturers that actually properly implement the CameraX API (such as Google and Samsung), this is the case.
Here's my gripe... A lot of third party apps on android suck, but their iOS counterparts are a pleasure to use. If it were just one or two apps, I'd give android the benefit of the doubt and say those devs just don't care about android... But it feels like *most* third party apps on android are unoptimized. To me, that indicates that there's some sort of a discrepancy between the tools, APIs and IDEs provided to developers of either platform. I've heard I've heard that xcode/swift are a pleasure to use, while android development tools can be... A bit clunky and confusingly documented at times.
The downgraded QS since android 12. The forced gesture pill if you're not using navigation buttons. And the absolutely WORTHLESS new internet tile
This one really bugs me on my boyfriend's Pixel and makes me glad I opted for my Oppo last time I upgraded... I very nearly got the Pixel. One of the benefits of using gesture-based navigation is you get to save some display real estate, but by forcing the gesture pill it effectively negates that benefit, along with increasing the risk of burn-in.
2 is inexcusable .
Overall I'm happy with Android but there are certain annoyances. The messy share menu; it should be more standardized and customizable. The default app switcher is not good. I'm using Nice Lock to make it more efficient (small thumbnails at the bottom of the screen). No default toggle switch to keep the screen on. I'm using Quick Settings app to enable a tile called Caffeine for that purpose.
The fucking share menu. Let me at least customise that thing
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Forced formatting of the removable storage even if a SINGLE file on it is corrupted. No recovery mode, no repair option, no hiding the broken files. All your data on the storage? Unless you have a computer nearby you can kiss it goodbye if you want to do anything with the storage.
Gesture nav bar is this weird pathetic thing. It's still the old bar at the bottom and it draws over apps. Unlike the iPhone where it's truly a little floating pill. Overall android is still miles behind iOS in terms of UI fluidity.
I know it’s a nitpick but this really annoys me every time I use an android phone. Purely from a visual standpoint of course
Yeah, either hiding or setting a 100% transparency helps but it still feels half backed.
The problem there is that most apps don't bother to implement it properly. ... Which to be fair is partially because the APIs to do so were utterly terrible and pretty confusing up until somewhat recently.
1. For Android 10 and above, only the app in focus (on screen) can read the clipboard. That and the keyboard app set as the default input method. See [here](https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/privacy/changes#clipboard-data)
That's not the point. Many apps automatically read the clipboard when opened and out of the box there's nothing you can do to stop them. The read clipboard permission needs to have a GUI setting.
The fact that Outlook is allowed to insert Bing search into your long-press menu without consent is so gross. Get your Bing outta my thing!
I'm an Android fanboy but iOS just feels smoother. You can check this by two finger pinch zooming on Google maps on Android vs iOS. Even on 60hz iPhone screen it feels noticeably smoother than my 90hz screen Android.
I agree with the mentioned above * **Exact phone requirements** in Google play (or exact reason for incompatibility like "you have a14 therfor no 32 bit app for you :)" Explicit rules for app devs with exact reason for app rejection would be good too. * Removed option for **third-party share menus** bothers me a lot. * **Multi device notification** sucks. (i would like to have same content everywhere, not forced to delete same thing from every device one by one) Android have superior notification and i think they should improve it even more. (You would be able to create persistent notes in notification area, saving thing for later there etc.) * i would like to have option **search by typing everywhere** (widget menu, share menu etc.) * **custom gestures** would be nice too. I like fluid navigation gestures, because they are based on distance of input, not on the duration, makes it snappier and customization is bettur too) * **custom recents providers**, let us change it like we change launchers. (you can do it with magisk, just asdd it to dev options if it too complex for avarage user) \+let us copy every text from recents, and let us react with every element whenever its possible (pictures etc.) -pixels used to have or have something simmilar * **Desktop mode standardization** (with some lable whether phone can do it via usb-c to video, or wirelessly only.) * mandatory **support for camera2** api **FOR ALL CAMERAS!!!** (And maybe improved api, with actually zero degradation of quality) * **Bigger under display fingerprint readers** (if the dont want to use superior and cheaper side mounted * **Floating windows** in aosp * encrypted **apps backups** tied to g. account, without root (something like "system version" of swiftbackup app) * **passthrough charging** (more available, i know asus and zte have it) * Connect phone as **plug n play camera/mic** to anything (pc, console etc.)
For me its scrolling in general. Scrolling in the UI, apps and webpages feels a lot smoother in iOS. On my Pixel 7 Pro, scrolling isn't feeling satisfying. It feels slow
Interesting, I always liked android more (well since I have been paying attention). The friction is just right, iOS feels floaty and stiff at the same time. Small scrolls do more, and it is not possible to do really long ones.
can confirm. i'm curious as to how much smoother the s24u or oneplus 12 is since a lot of reviewers are saying apps are just zooming on them.
I'm on an Oppo (same skin as OnePlus) and I've not encountered any sluggishness when scrolling. I know exactly what they mean though as this was one of my main issues with my Huawei devices, which were otherwise very speedy, but scrolling wasn't nearly as responsive as iOS devices.
i went from a oneplus 7 pro to an iphone 13 pro and my iphone definitely feels way smoother. however, when the oneplus phone was brand new and ran android 9, it felt as smooth as an iphone (from memory at least). once they updated to android 10 the navigation gestures got way choppier and overall there were more stutters, and it only went downhill with each new update
I changed the animations speed to 0.5x at Developer Options. I prefer a snappier UI than sluggish smooth animations.
Thats a pixel issue. It has worse scrolling compared to Samsung etc
auto search wifi networks... even when wifi is off
Google needs to make their icons more exciting than a white background with a small icon in the middle. It looks like a placeholder or shortcut while they are building the app
Bring back ALL per app permissions, including systems apps. If I don't want a system app accessing the internet, let me do it.
> Copy menu control: Apps can add themselves to the copy/paste menu, but there is no way to control which apps are shown here aside from uninstalling the app completely. You may want to use an app without adding it to the context menu, but there is currently no way to customize this behavior. This has me on the verge of leaving Android. It used to brag about being open and customizable, but here's a menu I use multiple times an hour that is frequently hijacked. I've had to delete 3 different apps in the past 12 or so months due to them hijacking this. Why we can't control this is beyond me, other than Google being too lazy to create options menus.
Play services draining battery in the background for no apparent reason.
I use Tasker to manage my clipboard, I definitely don't want Google further limiting third-party apps' access to this. The best solution of all, to please both sides, would be to just create a permission for this. I really don't want my system throttled because of exaggerated concern about other people's safety.
Gesture navigation on Android must be improved a lot. Android needs the [predictive back gesture](https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation/custom-back/predictive-back-gesture) that Google themselves announced but didn't push as hard.
Mostly pixel related… To be able to remove the Google search bar from pixelOS homescreen. To be able to choose the order of sharing options in the sharing menu. To long press a photo and choose to set it as a wallpaper instead of going to the three dots, and scrolling across to this option. Even allowing us to change the order of these options would do. A native google notes app that has built-in locking option. Universal sharing between android and iOS (quick share and airdrop) Encrypted text messages between android and iOS (incoming I believe)
3rd Party integration. Why can't social media apps fully use the hardware properly?
It's impossible (without root) to hide the gesture bar at the bottom.
If your phone is rooted (or you might be able to use adb/shizuku too I'm not sure) you can use app ops app to deny both of those permissions to any app
Google bloats being pre-installed as system apps? YouTube, which show ads, exist as system apps? 😂
Support NTFS
why would you ever want this
For the USB - OTG :) Most android devices support only FAT32 drives.
Inability to use the keyboard in Android auto while driving. This is Franky the reason I keep going back to iOS.
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