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.

I use FairEmail. I have most of emails downloaded on device and those which aren’t can be searched from the server.

You can contact the dev by filling an online request form. Maybe, he can help with your search issue.

Seek help. Its not too late.

I too would be all for it. Unfortunately, I bought a phone from an OEM with short support cycle. Android 15 will be its last rodeo.

I too use droidify and unobtainium and have never received such pop-ups. I guess if it warns you there’s the possibility the app is malicious or requests sensitive permissions.

They removed sdcard slot support in A36 and A56 series phone.

Its beyond bleak – dead.

Samsung A series were the last hope. Now, that they are dead – and stuck on 256gb. Your only options are portable SSD/micosdcard with type C support, buying a phone with 512gb/1TB storage.

Honestly, the A56 makes literally no sense. You could just get the S24fe since it lost the one defining feature which would’ve made it worth Samsung’s asking price.

Removal and high capacity Silicon carbon battery?

Choose one. Fairphone does the former and is expensive for a reason.