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Rant : Stupid smartphone use of proximity sensor during phone call (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by a_Ha@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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After stupid update of "phone application", had to tape over the proximity sensor ! ... otherwise there's no way to reliably shut the screen during a phone call. Whenever the screen is on, my face touching the screen triggers any stupid functions 🙄 Had to try and test a few location because it was not located at the selfie camera. Once again it shows we are not the customers ; we are the product 😑

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[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] a_Ha@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Deep nice comment 😌
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 😆

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 years ago

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