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 😑

  • ree
    6·
    3 years ago

    Lol. It’s just a bad update. It happens in any type of development.

    I understand how annoying that can be.

    • a_HaOP
      21·
      3 years ago

      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 …

        • a_HaOP
          1·
          3 years ago

          My drug is coffee 😋 !
          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.

  • weex
    3·
    3 years ago

    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?

    • a_HaOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Samsung A10, Android 10.
      i don’t know which type of sensor, it’s about 10 mm at the right of the camera.

    • a_HaOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      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 😆

        • a_HaOP
          1·
          3 years ago

          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.