Not sure if it is like that because I’m in Korea, but on my Samsung S9 Samsung is injecting ads for their new S24 in my notifications. I’ve had the phone for 5 years and this is the first time I see ads in my phone notifications, unbelievable.
I gave up on Samsung after the exploding phone thing. I got enough problems
There was once a man named Sam, who lived in a town named Samsville - ironic, I know. Well, Sam was a really good singer, so good that he became famous and began touring the world. On Sam’s tour, he was singing, like any ordinary song, and then, suddenly, he sung a note so perfect it could melt hearts. A member of the audience who happened to be a Father of a church cried out that he knew what that was; a holy note. He explained that a holy note was extremely rare, and could only be sung by the most talented of singers. Now that it was known that Sam was able to sing holy notes, his tours became infinitely times more popular. As he toured the world, Sam sung holy notes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and then his tour was over. After the tour, Sam decided to go back o his home town of Samsville for one last show to the people he knew and loved. He performed the show in their local church which was oddly large, and the mayor of the town attended. About halfway during the performance, Sam sung a note so horrible that it sounded like a cross between a loud metal fork being scraped across a dinner plate and a demon screeching. After he sung this note, Sam burst into flames and melted to the ground in a puddle of human goo. Everyone was so shocked, the whole church was silent. After a moment, the mayor questioned what just happened. The Father of the church looked at the mayor with a sad look and said, “don’t you know mayor… Sam sung Note 7…”
And that’s why you only buy phones where you can install a custom ROM, and then kick any poisonous bloatware and google shit off before starting to use it.
Edit2: I learned about GSI roms and DSU Sideloading is a thing https://github.com/VegaBobo/DSU-Sideloader
Yeah unfortunately that Custom ROM scene is dying out, I see that plenty of older phones are still supported (e.g. Galaxy Note 3, Samsung S5, kind of all Xiaomis) but newer phones are just a handful of models which its bootloader can be unlocked, and then some of these have support for Magisk and TWRP but sadly no custom ROMs.
Edit: still the ability to root these and unbloat them is better than nothing.
it’s extremely ironic that pixels are some of the best phones for installing lineage on
Yeah unfortunately that Custom ROM scene is dying out
I feel like recent Android has gotten good enough for me that I don’t really need custom ROMs anymore. As long as I can still root the stock ROM and install AdAway, I’m fine.
And that’s why you only buy phones where you can install a custom ROM
Info update request. What is the current/best/uptodate websites to go to in 2024 to see that list of devices?
Also to such a thing also exist for tablets?
Thanks in advance.
Samsung has gone full HP since about 5-10 years ago. They used to have awesome products, now it’s just bloatware crap riding on customer goodwill that they built up over decades
remember the s5? ir blaster, waterproof, headphone jack, removable battery, lots of custom roms
now look at their recent devices
I like Android but man Samsung’s version has always sucked
And they wonder why they can’t compete with the iPhone
Samsung is ahead of Apple in almost every market.
Apple over took Samsung in sales in 2023
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-overtakes-samsung-top-seller-smartphones-2024-01-17/
Literally not true. They lost ground last year.
Not defending Apple. But fighting misinformation.
Their hardware has been, with few exceptions, very nice. It’s sad to see they’re embracing the enshittification with such gusto on the software side… I mean, it was always bloated, even when they made BREW phones, but this is a whole nuther level.
