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    Android Help Sunday Rant/Rage (Oct 21 2018) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    October 21, 2018

    Android Help Sunday Rant/Rage (Oct 21 2018) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    Sunday Rant/Rage (Oct 21 2018) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 04:13 AM PDT

    Note 1. Join our Discord, IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions.

    This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:

    • Your device.

    • Your carrier.

    • Your device's manufacturer.

    • An app

    • Any other company

    Rules

    1) Please do not target any individuals or try to name/shame any individual. If you hate Google/Samsung/HTC etc. for one thing that is fine, but do not be rude to an individual app developer.

    2) If you have a suggestion to solve another user's issue, please leave a comment but be sure it's constructive! We do not want any flame-wars.

    3) Be respectful of other's opinions. Even if you feel that somebody is "wrong" you don't have to go out of your way to prove them wrong. Disagree politely, and move on.

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    Millions wake up one hour earlier in Brazil due to daylight saving time activating 14 days early, bug affects Android phones

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 06:23 AM PDT

    The HTC dream is 10 years old today.

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 06:49 PM PDT

    Google Pixel 3 XL review: Yet another stunning camera, yet another boring design

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 08:03 PM PDT

    Samsung Has A Brilliant Plan To Kill The Notch

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 07:51 AM PDT

    Bring back Google Now on Tap-like functionality on any Android device (with Tasker)

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 02:30 PM PDT

    Antennapod, an open source podcast client, gets a significant update with experimental Exoplayer playback, redesigned preferences, an AMOLED theme, notification improvements and Oreo fixes

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 02:36 AM PDT

    PSA: The Instagram stories cut off bug is even worse on the Mate 20 Pro

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 11:49 AM PDT

    Due to the 19.5:9 aspect ratio display.

    Your stories will be cut off on the top and bottom for the rest of 18:9 and 16:9 users, and their stories will be dramatically cut off on the sides for you.

    This is very annoying. Instagram solved this on the iPhone adding black bars, but the issue is still present on android.

    This is unacceptable.

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    Poweramp has been updated to v3, featuring a completely new UI

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 06:27 AM PDT

    Weekend poll: Do you use the Pixel 2 and 3's 'Active Edge' feature?

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 08:37 AM PDT

    Nokia 7 plus got official update to Android 9!

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 09:24 AM PDT

    I'm really glad I'm not the only one annoyed by the forced gesture navigation on the new pixel devices.

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 09:47 AM PDT

    I literally returned my Pixel 3 XL because of the forced gesture navigation. Specifically the swipe up on home button. My Pixel 2 has an option to disable it and with the 3 they just decided you don't get to. I don't have small hands, but the 3/4 swipe up is impossible to do one handed and leads to this awkward stuttery mess of the app list appearing and then snapping back away. I even tried doing the double swipe up, but 9 times out of 10 the app list would still slide halfway up and then snap back down, making me do a 3rd swipe up. Maybe I'm an outlier, but I don't have any apps icons on my homescreen. I have 4 widgets for my most used apps and that's it.

    Anyway, I guess I'm keeping my pixel 2 until the pixel 4. And if that one sucks too I'll probably drop project fi entirely.

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    The NEW Google Pixel Headphone Dongle: Pay More, Get Less

    Posted: 20 Oct 2018 03:33 PM PDT

    For the first time since I started using Android OS (since FroYo), I find myself not waiting for, and downright avoiding upgrading to newer versions of Android.

    Posted: 21 Oct 2018 12:34 AM PDT

    Since 7.0+, I noticed that when reading changelog for newer versions of Android, the features listed are either minimal and insignificant, exclusive to Pixels, or downright downgrade from what I have.

    Some examples are tweaks to settings menu that nobody wanted, new multitask interface that is a straight downgrade, camera features that only Pixels will use, Treble that only some manufacturers will actually use, etc.

    And don't even get me started on Wear OS upgrade when it was released, where top posts on XDA were how to get back to 1.x and prevent your watch from upgrading.

    What is happening with Google? Did they get top managers from Apple who only care about feature-hardware exclusivity to improve their yearly financial bottom-line? Do their UI designers seek change only to justify their jobs, a change for the sake of change, regardless if it's even an upgrade at all?

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    Google has a really nice concept for a gesture system, but it needs A LOT OF work.

    Posted: 20 Oct 2018 05:14 PM PDT

    Ever since updating to Pie DP3 on my Pixel 2 XL, I've been using the navigation gestures exclusively.

    (Before you ask, Google should 100% give the option to use the 3-button navbar to Pixel 3 users)

    I like the way Google is trying to do gestures, but this is probably one of the most half-assed implementations I've used. The full-sized navbar is a joke, accessing the app drawer from any app is convenient, but fucking sucks with this current implementation, the animations are jarring even when set to 0.5x, the absence of a quick option to enter splitscreen (on both navigation modes, mind you) is frustrating, and the swipe to switch apps is VERY inconstant. I've been able to work my way around these issues, but that doesn't fix them entirely.

    What I would want is a short navbar, about Moto gestures height, the same swipe height to enter the app drawer on both the home screen and in an app, cleaner animations that flow rather than bounce around, the return of the splitscreen shortcut at least on 3-button mode, Apple-esque app swiping, and support for the 3 buttons on Pixel 3. I think a lot of you guys will agree with me on this, but hey, this sub is filled to the brim with circlejerk.

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