Sunday Rant/Rage (Feb 20 2022) - Your weekly complaint thread!

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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/...

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Google Photos integration in Messages can no longer upload and send images
https://9to5google.com/2022/02/19/messages-google-photos/

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Sony Xperia Pro-I review - Premium smartphone with the giant image sensor of a compact camera
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-Xperia-Pro-I-review-Premium-smartphone-with-the-giant-image-sensor-of-a-compact-camera.601477.0.html

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it seems the death of LG phones is acellerating the death of 3.5mm headphone jacks.

For awhile there was a brief resurgence of headphone jacks in phones followed by resistance from makers to completely drop them.

Some had them on their main flagship, but most put them in their upper mid range or midrange phone series. Upper low end ($100-200) had several too.

However since the announcement that LG(Lucky Goldstar, but they like to pretend that wasn't a thing) were leaving the smartphone industry things changed, and we saw some makers drop the jack.

After full death of LG unti...

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Say Good Bye to Old Blurry Photos - S22 Ultra Image Enhance Tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI5R6HFJPQQ&t=497s

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Samsung Galaxy S22+ and S22 Ultra's 45W charging doesn't really make a difference
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s22_series_45w_charging_is_a_lie-news-53223.php

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Instead of tablets, why doesn't a company make a good portable monitors that you plug your phone into?

Instead of needing a CPU/GPU/RAM, it just needs a good display and maybe a battery, bringing the cost down.

Users won't have to juggle applications and data on two devices and can just plug it into their tablet for the bigger display.

Asus had a PadFone before, but that was proprietary instead of working with any device.

You just need a netting or fannypack or elastic band on the back of the tablet to hold your phone while its connected. See how the PadFone worked with the dock, its proprieta...

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Daily Superthread (Feb 21 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

Note 1. Check MoronicMondayAndroid, which serves as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom!

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Please post your questions here. Feel free to use this thread for general questions/discus...

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Galaxy S22 Exynos owners reporting defective devices

Many early adopters of the Exynos S22 Ultra seem to be experiencing an issue with their phones where a column of pixels is displaying jumbled data. This typically is a hardware issue, caused by a loose display cable or fault in the display or GPU. The other reason this is likely a hardware issue, is because only the Exynos models are having the issue, I have not seen anyone with a Snapdragon model post about this issue yet.



Reddit sources with videos:

Thread 1
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Is anything actually using the ML processors in the new SoCs?

ARM/Qualcomm etc are pushing their new processors with "2x ML performance" - are there any apps or good use cases for on-device machine learning? There's a bit of computational photography going on but I'm not aware of any other novel uses?

Many companies use AI extensively, but how many are actually doing it on your device, and not their datacentre?...

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Somethings wrong with the OnePlus 10 Pro... - Durability Test!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idX-x5W5O30

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Drastic DS Emulator Pulled from Google Play Store and developer account also removed
https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/sx1tzw/drastic_emulator_is_gone_from_play_store/

https://redd.it/sxpdnu
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Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra review - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/22941246/samsung-galaxy-s22-ultra-review-price-screen-specs-stylus

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After 7 years of using Android today I realised that you can select a word or sentence and use caps lock to capitalise just first or all letters.

It's soo useful, now I only need an undo redo function....

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Dylan Roussel on Twitter "So, I was part of the OnePlus 8 Pro closed beta. I'm now allowed to express how bad it was, from the beginning to the end. "
https://twitter.com/evowizz/status/1495831394353877005

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Samsung Galaxy S22+ review
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s22_plus-review-2381.php

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S22 Ultra has software issues according to ComputerBase.de and other testers

Many reviews, benchmarks and battery tests that are on the internet right now, do not show very positive results when compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 or even the Exynos 2100. This could be due to unfinished pre-release software.

Do you think that reviewers should wait with publishing reviews until there has been a software update?

Software problems: Galaxy S22 Ultra stutters in testers (and ComputerBase)
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I switched Android to Apple last month, and it is my biggest regret of 2022. What I wish I knew!

So I have mostly had OnePlus android phones, and I have loved them. However, because they still rely on questionable networks, occasional texts still fail to get delivered. This only happens about 0.001% of the time or something like that. Still, I missed one particular text that was SUPER important that led to the end of a relationship. Things wouldn’t have worked out anyway, but things would have ended much more pleasantly. So I decided that this situation was my wake-up call. I decided to get...

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Lenovo Legion Y700 Tablet leaked further, 8.8 inch iPad Mini competitor, 1440p 120hz, 6550mah 45w charging, SD870, 12gb LPDDR5, 256gb UFS3.1 all for the rumored price of 2000 Yuan / $316

Seems like an incredible offering for that price, especially with barely any decent 8" tablets around, the iPad Mini 2021 has been a massive success with rave reviews praising it for its compact size, surprising that more manufacturers haven't jumped on the chance yet!

Source from Weibo
https://weibo.com/5981912323/Lgtj8esXA

English article with pics https://www.notebookcheck.net/Optimistic-Lenovo-Legion-Y700-price-tag-suggested-by-leaker-as-upcoming-iPad-Mini-6-rival-s-full-specs-and-first-re...

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Four Gaming Phones Are Entering the Chinese Market in a Short Span, Stirring Up Competition

This February is a busy month for gaming phones.

Redmi K50 eSport was made in collaboration with Mercedes AMG F1 team. The Red Magic 7 Pro is announcing the first gaming phone with an Under Display Camera, front-facing camera. Legion Y90 integrated a dramatic dual-fan cooling system. BlackShark 5 hasn’t revealed much yet, and no launch date has been confirmed yet....

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One UI 4.1 - Shadow & Reflection Removal Tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI-FMM35iPs&t=194s

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