The commentor said he bought phones from LG and ASUS and both shut down their phone devisions. So, i suggested he buy an iphone as a joke.

Have you thought about buying an Iphone? I heard even the base model has 120hz refresh rate plus apple did some magic so it feels 120hz smooth without using too much battery.

Devs please stop making apps big, CPU/RAM heavy. Apps like Facebook/Instagram should be shamed they are 1GB each.

Facebook and instagram don’t care. They have grown complacent. People will use their apps regardless of how much battery it will use. Are you willing to stop using bloated apps until they improve?

Phone/SoC reviews are a scam, they say SD 363 is 50% better than SD 625. I don’t think it is a very big leak from SD625 to 7s Gen 2.

7s gen 2 was released in 2023. The cortex A78 cores used were launched in 2020. They are old plus the soc was not that powerful to begin with. If you want to run battery hogs like instagram and facebook be ready to sacrifice performance and battery.

I think I am going to boycott high tier phones.

You should instead buy a good upper midrange or high end phone once and upgrade only after the current phone stops receiving updates. Smartphones have become very mature and don’t bring ground breaking changes any more.

I had tried my friend’s Edge 50 neo. The phone was very compact and had good battery life thanks to the efficient LTPO display.

If you can hear sounds from other apps just fine. It should be a game issue. Try contacting the game support to see if they can fix the issue.

before that check the music, sound and master volume settings for the game in options if it has one. Usually, those are set to 40-50%

Fairphone offers 7 OS updates and 8 yrs of security updates.

I agree with all your points except

2. They run worse than Firefox based browsers in my experience

It has been proven many times chrome is better optimized on android vs firefox. If I didn’t care about addons, privacy and the bottom navigation bar i would be using a chromium fork. They are that fast and bugfree especially on graphics heavy websites. The lag and speed difference is very much noticeable on low-end and midrange phones. Infact i was daily driving bromite until it stopped getting updated.

Why would you self host bluesky. When you have an actual federated open source platform like Lemmy or mastodon?

They are infinitely better respect and grant you the four freedoms of libre software.

You cannot do that. Use the apps which you do use regularly. Hopefully, they make it to the 1st page.

Use signal or other private, encrypted apps folks. Also, get others to use them so they benefit too.

If would be vastly improved if your phone had similar components without power hungry soc.

This year you are getting an even powerful chip, a 165hz even brighter display and some things.

The 8 Elite gen 5 can use 20W at peak power. Last year’s 8 Elite peak was 16-17W. 8 gen 3 was limited to 11W.

Tell me, how do you expect to get more battery life while using more power and doing more tasks at once? If you limited performance you can easily get away with more battery. But, manufacturers don’t and want to push further and further. Multi day battery is possible. But, you need to limit certain things to get that. Can’t game or do processor intensive tasks all day and expect multi day battery. Fortunately, the large battery cell and fast charging should make it a non-issue for most people.

Peak power usage data was shared from here: https://www.socpk.com/cpucurve/gb6/

If you use firefox. You can use external download managers and the links open in aria2

Its not.

Fairphone is a good recommendation, alongside being repairable and sustainable. If its not present in your region. Look into high end Motorola phones (low-end have bloat).

IMO, Best would be a oneplus. You can remove any ads and bloatware with Shizuku, Canta. It will be familiar, reliable, and last a long time. Considering, your usage habits.

(i’ve seen the horrors of redmi software and want to stay as far away from That as possible).

Yeah, they start to lag within a year of use. All the redmi phones I have checked have lag issues. If you must buy a xiaomi skip the redmi. Don’t know about poco. But, anything not Mi should be avoided. Xiaomi charges a premium for its Mi series for a reason.

Great! I too use Adguard on my phones. But, I suggest a foss DNS filter app to others. Because, not everyone may be comfortable with a paid closed source app.

A55 is an super midrange smartphone. I have a A22 5G. The software did have bloat but no ads.

Even if the A55 does include some of that. You can install Shizuku, and Canta to remove any unnecessary apps from the phone itself.

Another thing you can do is install PersonalDNSFilter from Fdroid or Playstore to block trackers and ads.

Get the A55. It is superior in every way to the 10t lite. The software will be decent considering its samsung.

But, if you want you can check your options on gsmsarena’s phone finder https://m.gsmarena.com/search.php3?nYearMin=2024&nPriceMax=350&nRamMin=6000&nIntMemMin=64000&chkNFC=selected&nBatCapacityMin=4800&idOS=2&idCardslot=1

This one can be customized with lots of options. I guess that adds the premium over shift.

It says $ £870 on my end. Maybe, you accidentally selected some custom options? That can increase the price.

Edit: My bad it does say Euro. Not dollar.

You need to whitelist system components like play store and play services. Since, I guess you use it for adblocking.

Just look at the Pixel phones, their SOC is about half as fast as top Snapdragon and Dimensity , and AFAIK nobody I have heard of is complaining about them being slow.

Its not about speed. But, battery and heat where people complain the most about. Even Google’s return and complaints data showed people complained about their phones being bad with heat.

Not exactly a phone I’m getting excited about. I would have preferred better display and a higher end Camera system, and then a slightly slower SOC.

Oneplus had no option but to ship 8 Elite gen 5 since there was no other newer soc on the market and shipping an older soc would’ve meant being inferior to other phones like samsung and losing sales to others like Iqoo, xiaomi, realme, and others.

Things like camera sensor are not something people can easily see. But, you can easily check the processor and see if its better and faster.

Signal uses E2E encryption. Unless, google can capture the screen displaying the message. It cannot read encrypted signal messages.

Wait till you hear how low my battery can be. Once I was cutting it close at 1% battery power.

Depends. Can you share the device name in question? Also, if you use the default OS or a custom rom with/without play services.

Its telling if JRE says he hasn’t had a phone explode in the last 10yrs or so.

The easiest way would be install logfox and Shizuku and see what the crash log says in logfox.

Graphene may have specific requirements due to their security requirements

It’s alright. Personally, I use LocalSend. It’s a neat app which is 16mb download vs 57mb for plainapp.

The links you shared are broken for fdroid and source code.

Yes, its a known issue since v142.0. You will have to wait or try workarounds to get around this issue.

Increase the time it takes for doze to kick in. You can find guides & adb commands online. There’s an app called GalaxyMaxHZ(needs payment) on github which can make it immediate.

Don’t you mean the Adguard android app?

If you enable developer settings by tapping the version number in, about settings 5-7 times you can enable “show refresh rate” and see how it changes in real time.

I use Lawnchair. The animations are okay. The same imperfect animations as on my Pixel.

Good to know.

E: Actually I think the back animation is a bit more broken for some apps.

I guess some things can be broken more or less. Thanks for the response.

Consider doing a longterm review in the future when use the phone for longer than a few months.

Does the LTPO display work and save battery by dialing down the refresh rate to 1hz when idle for 24/30hz when playing videos?

Also, do casual games support 120fps like pocket rogues, quest of wizard, etc.

Last question, is the animation experince good with 3rd party launchers like Niagara, Smart launcher 6, Lawnchair?

Can’t wait to try this update on some of my work computers.😈

Most already do. This is the 1st we have been hearing for a while. Consistently since the Pixel 4a

I have used cheaper budget and midrange phones. To date I have never experienced this issue ever.

This is the 1st I have been hearing since the Pixel 4a. Let’s not justify google.

Android has added app archival feature for app stores starting with Android 15. Currently unobtanium does not do it since the developer has not implemented the api and necessary features to support it.

Smart launcher does auto app classification based on categories.

You absolutely can.