Lol. It's just a bad update. It happens in any type of development.
I understand how annoying that can be.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2021
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Android perverted Linux by removing user's choices and access. Linux will remain a rat race & a social disease until it is properly funded. Somedays i like to be edgy and make easy rants & see where it leads ...
What they fuck are you smoking
My drug is coffee ๐ !
One more rant : pkZip by pkWare was fantastic new product back in the late 1980s until Microsoft tried to scrap the concept of universal free simple compression and encryption tool. This same dishonest model repeated many times since in techno//electronics.
What kind of device was this? I typically shop a lot for phones, choosing as stock android an experience as possible and I don't buy from carriers. Interesting that tape worked though, how does that kind of proximity sensor work?
Samsung A10, Android 10.
i don't know which type of sensor, it's about 10 mm at the right of the camera.
No. The problem is that some of these smartphones, especially the low end ones, and especially by Samsung, have garbage detection of ear proximity to your phone's earpiece.
There is a reason why Samsung is notorious for this, and is usually an untalked point. They force you to buy costlier models unlike the Chinese counterparts, and also want to push you towards (and also make) AMOLED panels that are highly fragile in terms of durability on drops, and upon breakage, cost 50-70% of the price of the phone.
Deep nice comment ๐
Yes : i bought the cheapest available phones. The cheap Chineses had integrated malware which installed more malware(s) after 12 months.
Samsung's bad "detection of ear proximity" would be no problem if there was 1 software switch to disable it.
"Trade is war" yet i dream of the (almost) perfect Linux smartphone ๐
You can easily debloat all of that bloatware that comes not just from China, but from USA and everywhere else in the world. I would not define that stuff as malware.
You can have a look at this non root smartphone guide https://lemmy.ml/post/54596
I will look at this guide, yet ...
At the time I had put away my cheap Chinese phone, I searched the topic thoroughly. There had been some security researchers trying to identify this particular phone's issues. Any attempt to remove/patch the original settings_app_malware would result in bricking/breaking the phone.