Let's give it a try - Weekly discussion thread - discuss whatever you want about Android!

I'm frustrated with the lack of sdcard options in upper midrange smartphones.

If you get a midrange smartphone you either compromise on processor, ram, storage or a combination of other.

I want a good quality smartphone which has 45w of minimum fast charging, UFS 3.1 256GB of minimum. 12GB ram, snapdragon 7+gen 2, or dimensity 8300 at minimum. And provides an sdcard option.

Is it that hard for brands to do that?

Nothing phone 2 and 2a would've been decent. If they had an sdcard option. Alas, they skipped it for some reason..

I hate Xiaomi's bloatware so much

Why don't 3rd launchers not support native gestures yet? Why does Google refuse to fix that?

Is it me or is the Pixel 9 hype very low? I feel like nobody is expecting much from it

I don't update apps until they break. Never know when an update is going to enshittify an app. (Fing, etc.)

For a short period of time, I thought about buying a Google Pixel phone to run Graphene OS on it , Google Pixel isn't available in the local market, so I'll have to buy it from abroad, and this comes with risks : not being able to benefit from the phone’s warranty , the extremely high costs of shipping the phone into the country, and the extremely high costs of making the device work on the local network legally As much as I would like to try Graphene OS, such risks are too crazy to take so I changed my mind or at least stopped thinking about it temporarily... who knows, maybe some local company will bring the brand to the local market one day due to competition with other local companies. The same competition introduced phones to the market that weren't previously there: Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Infinix, Tecno, etc.

Why none of chat apps have 1080p video call? Is it a Android issue to implement or battery concern?

Swipe down to search (iPhone's spotlight)

I have an old asus zenfone 2 with the x86 processor. Has anyone tried turning it into a small server? It runs some whatever old android at this point, and I figure it could still run a thing or two.

To me , firefox and its android forks have nothing to offer other than ublock and extensions support in general, but only a few of these extensions are reviewed by Mozilla so if I needed another extension that is essential to my browsing but it's not reviewed... I'll have to ignore the voice in my mind that asks me " Are you sure the extension you installed can't see your password while you're typing it ? " ... But I'll give it another opportunity and try waterfox again

I really wish I had the option to completely disable the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi radio since there are so many networks and it clutters up the list when I'm looking at it. If I could just turn it off and do five gigahertz only, my network's list would shrink a lot and that would be a lot more helpful.

Any SAMTIME viewers here? I always enjoy his piss-takes of new product announcements. Here's his video on the latest stuff from Google.

I love sideloading modded versions of apps with all paid features unlocked

I really don't know why big companies like Google are terrified to make options.

You made the quick settings show only 4 options immediately. Your research might show that 70% of people prefer it that why. Instead of leaving the 30% in the dust, why not just make it an option in settings? Or even have custom layouts?

Why not add more lock screen options? Why not add options for the navigation pill? Why not make "at a glance" an option?

Even iOS is catching up in terms of customization and at this point I'd say it's surpassed Android. I still prefer Android for many other reasons, but it has lost one of its main qualities.

MaterialYou apps are so nice looking but every time I use one of them it frustrate me so much when scrolling because scrolling is too slow compared to other apps