On my old phone I had an issue with the proximity sensor and front facing camera. This led me to holding my phone backwards to take photos and being unable to hang up phone calls.
I think I put up with this for a year and a half.
I did end up figuring out the issue with the proximity sensor but opening up my phone to reconnect the camera module was too much effort for me.
Any time an android phone I own gets older than, say, a year, the volume controls get more and more sluggish. I feel like it’s a form of planned obsolescence, but I haven’t ever heard of anyone else talking about it.
Seems like you may not be hearing of anything if the volume is that bad
Yeah, the ear-blast videos take a full two or three seconds to register that I’m hitting the volume button. Tinnitus hit me like a train
I used an Ubuntu Phone as my daily for about 6 months.
And how was it
Quite bad. This was over 10 years ago so the details are muddy… It was on BQ hardware and the first weeks it couldn’t even work outside on GSM or 3G (or whatever was at the time). It was clearly developed and tested solely on Wifi. Using cellular connection make it fall apart and constantly hang.
Then it never was able to get WhatsApp working. Everyone uses WhatsApp, and had to get by using old SMS or whoever I got to trick to install the then unknown Telegram.
Eventually got tired and got back to an Android phone. An Alcatel if I recall correctly.
After some time, BQ offered a way to revert the hardware back to its Android version, did that and had a backup for many years.
It was a very messy and buggy launch, but being on the bleeding edge, it’s expected. If they had offered a WhatsApp app I would have hung on way longer, it was the only deal breaker.
Used an OG Google pixel until about a year ago. Had to replace the battery a couple times but otherwise still mostly ran like it was brand new.
Have a Samsung Galaxy. Screen cracked by itself several months after getting it, however I was busy, didn’t have time to take it in and got used to it. Now the warranty is expired so I can’t get the screen replaced anymore. I cope by believing they wouldn’t have replaced it and would have told me it was somehow my fault despite using a fairly heavy case and not being a phone-dropper/slammer.
My truck has two warnings. I could get them fixed but they don’t bother me, it’s for features I don’t use and I don’t care enough.
I knew a woman who used an iPhone 6 up until I think 2022.
Her secret was she never did updates. And lo and behold, the phone kept working fine and she never felt any need to get a new one. By the end, the battery lasted about 15-20 minutes.
This is pretty horrible to hear as someone working in security. Just because it works does not mean you should do it.
I imagine her data gets lost multiple times per year.
I don’t disagree - I should make clear; I’m not saying this as an example of a good thing you should do (hence why I posted it in this thread), more as a data point about how happy Apple is to break their stuff for old hardware holders and to give some perspective on how they use software updates to encourage hardware purchases.
So did I, it was just fine. Though I kept it updated and replaced the battery once.
My 6s still works. I did have the battery replaced 3 years ago because I expected to continue to use it a couple more years. I got a new phone last year but my old one is still happily running.
It belongs in a museum!
None. I’m an engineer, if there’s a technical issue, I just can’t ignore it. I have to fix it, or get it fixed, or implement a workaround or switch to an alternative.
My luck with phones has always been pretty good, never had any major issues with any of them, going all the way back to the dumbphone era. Only exception ever was a Note 8 that I’d dropped on concrete only a few days after I bought it, but instead of fixing it, I decided to just sell it off the very next day, and switch to some other phone (kinda hated the Note 8). But otherwise, never had issues with phones - even second hand ones bought off eBay. I even bought phones from Kickstarter, like the Nextbit Robin and the Unihertz Jelly, never had issues with them either.
Same with technology in general. Never had any major issues with latops, PCs, consoles etc, going all the way back to my 486 DX2 in the MSDOS era. At least, there was never anything that I couldn’t fix myself.
I had a cellphone around 2004 or so, where sometimes the dosplay would suddenly become mirrored. After a while it would als turn upside down. On the really bad days it would be both. Everything else worked fine, so I kept using it, but writ8ng and reading SMS was a pain.
My old note 9 stopped charging via the USB port. Ended up having to get a wireless charging dock. Worked so well that I still use it instead of wired charging.
I don’t know if ignoring is the word for it, but I don’t trust for shit the dashboard warnings in my car. I’m pretty sure they don’t report issues. I haven’t tried to have it checked, but the car is old and I try to pay attention in some other ways.
Especially in older cars, the warnings usually are fully legit - as in, there is no software stack in-between that could be buggy.
However, it’s important to note that quite often the probe fails before the car. Meaning that if the oil probe is signaling oil level too low, it might actually be the probe or its wiring that is damaged. This shows up as the same error because hey, it is rather important for the average user to have that warning should the oil level actually be too low, so they make “I cannot know” look as scary as “It’s broken” just to make sure you go to the repair shop with that.
I’m not sure what it is but I’ve gotten no warnings when oil levels were dangerous, I only noticed because I checked the oil stick. Anyway the temperature gauge seems to be working and I keep an eye on it as much or more than the fuel.
The majority of cars don’t have a warning for low oil levels, the sensor for that has historically been the owner checking the dipstick. Oil level sensors are becoming more common now as more models appear with them but are still not ubiquitous even in brand new cars.
The oil warning light in most cars is for low oil pressure, and if that one comes on it’s time to pull over immediately and hope you managed to turn the engine off in time to save the bearings.
A Fairphone 4. Got it at launch and it’s a terribly buggy mess.
Describing all the issues would make a huge wall of text.
The sad part is that the hardware is ok. But they don’t seem to have any software QA at all.
My goal was to carry it until 2027, when replacable batteries will become standard, but since I can’t even use the phone for calling, I am trying to at least carry it until the Galaxy S55 launches.
Have you considered using something like LineageOS?
I run my FP4 with eOS and everything works just fine. Maybe this can help you too. The FP4 is an awesome phone!
When i boot up my (linux) PC sometimes the second monitor is all messed up. Reloading i3 with super+shift+r fixes it so i can’t be bothered to actually fix it.
Hah dude I’ve been using i3 for years, and same. Like maybe 30% of the time. And half the time the background image is wonky when I start it up. Super+shift+r fixes it every time though, so fuck it
When I turn on my PC, it goes into BIOS and I have to Save and restart for it to boot. It doesn’t detect the boot drive at first. Sometimes it does. Been like this for the past 5 months
Check inside your BIOS if you can add a delay to the startup or disable skips for a faster boot. Sounds like the drive need some time to wake up.
Naaah it’s fine, it’s either the CPU not making contact or I scratched the MB with a SATA cable. The boot drive is m.2 so it’s not the cable. Cos it’s started happening after I changed the CPU, and while doing that a SATA cable got stuck behind the MB and I pull it out with force instead of unscrewing the MB :) I just can’t be bothered figure it out anymore lol
My computer wasn’t booting properly for a month or two, I think it was saying boot drive not found or something. It would work if I went into boot options and picked my main drive.
The cause? I used the Blu Ray drive for the first time in years, and for some dumb reason, that was listed higher in the boot options. My computer was trying to boot into a Blu Ray of Blade Runner
Automod. Need I say more?
I had a car with a leaky radiator. I would fill it up with water in the morning and drive to work. If I didn’t it would start overheating. I don’t remember filling it again on the way back. Put up with that for weeks. I think I only got it fixed because the weather warmed up and it was no longer sufficient to cool it. Or maybe it was the same problem as the heating not working and after a few weeks of wearing multiple layers and getting absolutely frozen I finally got it fixed. They may have been two separate issues/occasions, this was around 2003.
I have a HDD in my PC that was manufactured in 2008, it still works and SMART is not reporting any errors.
How is this a technical issue? Seems like your hard drive is working fine?
