Pretty annoyed, First time having a flagship android phone: samsung galaxy 8

isnt its simpler to bind camera to power button double tap? so you dont need to unlock the phone.
hmm, i wonder if changing my country to one of EU country will fix the ads, or maybe i can disable those ads apps

 

nah, thats way too tiny and it have a vulnerable screen. Something like this would be better



the antenna fin probably also awesome to scratch an itch, or to give massage.

 

It randomly stutters on Galaxy Note 8 too. Workaround fix: change the animatin speed to 0.5. Probably its still stutter but i cant see the stutter.

maybe their exynos ramp up too slow?

 

China has been generous
I build for China
We have big plans
We will live in prosperity
Let's build
Building the chinese empire

 

If you go to xiaomi subreddit and open their wiki, they got debloater script.

It works out if the box. No root needed no modifications needed.

Btw if you got ads, change country to UK. If you got no ads and no theme store, change country to.... I forgot which country have most features with no ads.

If you change country to Indonesia you will get almost all features enabled but there will be a minimal amount ads.

 

nice, samsung, nice!
you've gone the extra extend no other manufacturer has:

Completely, utterly, totally removed Adoptable Storage from Android.

.......

other manufacturers simply removed it from the GUI, but still accessible thru shell. But samsung are different! they also make it wont mount the goddamn encrypted partition even when you manually told it to mount it via shell command. Bravo samsung! bravo! you've put more development resource than your competitors!!!!! You really have different development priority than your competitors!

https://www.samsung.com/nz/support/...series-support-the-adoptable-storage-feature/

they explain

ooooh! ooooh!

in a few years, when this galaxy note 8 dead, i'll surely won't even look at samsung phones ever again as an option.

Adding their own bloatware? okay, understandable, samsung want to not too dependent on google.
Adding unremoveable bloatware? okay, i still can disable them thru shell command (hey! maybe they will also remove this capability too!! who knows!).

but.. REMOVING feature? what? why?!!!!!!!
why they even remove adopted storage totally, completely. Including from shell command!

btw they also well-known for removing features for Indonesia region
- samsung galaxy note or s series: they removed the MST (the one needed to emulate magnetic cards). Okay to be fair, maybe due to regulations and beaurocracy.
- samsung A series: they remove NFC. Why?

 

its usable on other device, including on a PC just fine. My adopted storage mSD was moved between 3 devices.

on other brands, they only remove adoptable storage from GUI, mounting works fine thru shell command. So its the kind of feature that you would never expect for the support team to even know about.
on other brands it will merge the internal with external into one big pool (and on some other brands it will show negative storage instead...) and you dont need to have a headache which apps are going to internal or external as long as you answered YES/ALLOW on the adopted storage setup process.

when the card is ejected, apps icon will become greyscale and you cant launch them. When card is inserted, app icons become colorful again and you can launch them. Some launcher have issue with this. They simply removed the app icons instead. Need reboot to make the icons appear again.

 

encrypted doesn't mean you cant use it on another device. You just need to move not only the encrypted microsd card but also the encryption key

EDIT: for android since M its on
/data/misc/vold

 

then why deliberately completely removing it from android? its only samsung that did this AFAIK. Sony, xiaomi, huawei, nokia, all works with adoptable storage. They just require you to use the shell command.

the cynic in me thinks so Samsung can force consumer to buy the higher priced big capacity variant (that microsd card slot? yeah you can expand the storage but only for media. Apps wont use it. you must buy our higher internal capacity model). But then, the amounts of people that use shell command should only be a few percent. why they even bother deliberately breaks android feature?

 

how do you move the game and app to expansion card?

IIRC google removed that feature from android a few years ago. So currently apps will still be installed on internal storage but it also can be coded with an ability to put part of data on sd card formatted as portable storage (e.g. spotify song cache and download).

or google has added the feature back? i have not tried it on android 10. as my xiaomi was working fine with adopted storage, i didnt use portable storage.

 

i gave up. now using beta custom rom. According to reports, only VoLTE that's not working. Still restoring data + apps. Adopted Storage works fine.