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TerriToniAX
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Mobile phones are from hell >:[ Well, at least my gf's Samsung is from hell. It makes noise for anything. If someone calls, play a stupid melody. If there is a text, play a stupid melody. If its battery needs to be charged, play a stupid melody. If its battery is fully charged, play a stupid melody. Even if it's in the middle of the night and people just maybe would like to get a few minutes of sleep! What's next? Play a stupid melody when the stupid Samsung Android piece of junk wants its diaper changed? Or when it's bored? Or just needs attention? Or when it realises that the word "smart" in smart phones actually means stupid? SHUT UP!!! We don't need a tamagotchi, we already have two kids and two cats to fullfill our tamagotchying needs! Technology is supposed to make life easier, not worse FFS! No wonder so many people get stressed out these days! And you, pathetic people at Samsung, or whoever that come up with these "smart" features that deprave decent people of their sleep, now it's your turn to be woken up! WAKE UP IDIOTS! Get outside your small mobile-bound shitholes of confined fart-filled bubbles! Learn about REAL LIFE, get yourselves nagging gfs, screaming kids and a PUNCH IN YOUR FACES! Maybe that will teach you to manufacture phones that SHUT THE FUCK UP during sleeping hours!

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  • 3
    7y
    Most android phones have nowadays sleep times where your phone is fully muted or get tasker and do it yourself, problem solved.
  • 4
    7y
    @JoshBent Either, my gf's phone doesn't have it, or she doesn't know how to use it. Probably she doesn't even know if there is such a feature. These "smart" phones are so bloated with unnecessary features that you can't find the important ones like this one. What good is it then, if the average user like my gf cannot find them? Some sort of default sleeping hours wouldn't be too much asked. Of course, a mobile device cannot "know" when we sleep, but maybe, just maybe, 4:50 am isn't a wild guess? And if "smart" phones are so fucking smart, they should be able to learn their owners' habits. If they can do snapchat and all other sorts of unnecessary AR shit, it shouldn't be an overwhelming task to detect what hours the phone is being used.
  • 2
    7y
    I feel you, but you should really step up your game and check her phone now or install tasker (or the more clicky way "lama tasks" or whatever it was called) and do it 🙃
  • 5
    7y
    This is common when your Samsung phone is upgrading to grenade.
  • 2
    7y
    My own phone is an LG, and it has the weirdest Android version. It can't be turned mute as it doesn't have a silent mode, the most silent it has is buzz and even that is too loud for me. But, it has something better, priority mode. I can choose that calls/texts from only a select few "prioritized" numbers are allowed to cause my phone to buzz. I always have my mobile phone in priority mode and my gf is the only prioritized person :)
  • 1
    7y
    @JoshBent I can't use her phone. It's got a touchscreen.
  • 1
    7y
    @aitkotw Common doesn't mean it's good.
  • 1
    7y
    @TerriToniAX You dont know how to use a touchscreen?..
  • 3
    7y
    @TerriToniAX look at the bright side man, you are getting a granade. Now you can return it to them from far distance.
  • 1
    7y
    Common today means people being too consumed by their mobile phones, I'm not a common mobile user. I hate the guts of mobile apps and never use them. The only use I have a mobile phone for is to call and text. Period.
  • 1
    7y
    @JoshBent I didn't say I don't *know* how to use a touchscreen. I said I *can* not use a touchscreen.
  • 1
    7y
    @TerriToniAX May I ask why?
  • 2
    7y
    @JoshBent Yes, but frankly I don't know why touchscreens hate me. Is it my bug fingers, my impaired fine-motoric skills or is it something about my skin being too conductive or not conductive enough? I don't know. All I know is that touchscreen devices are like random generators too me. Far too often touchscreens don't react at all, and when they do, the result isn't what I expected. The touchscreen-equipped coffee machine at work is a prime example, it's more sort of a coffee roulette to me. I'm OK with occasionally getting Espresso instead of ordinary coffee, it's not the whole world. But, touchscreeens for any serious use? No way!
  • 3
    7y
    @TerriToniAX *LOL* "bug" fingers. That was totally unintentional, my funniest typo ever! Considering I meant to say "big" fingers *LOL*
  • 3
    7y
    @TerriToniAX maybe it's biological bug, Who knows?😂
  • 2
    7y
    You could get a touchpen to bypass that 😉
  • 2
    7y
    @JoshBent Already have one or two, but I always forget to bring them along (I'm not only clumsy, I'm senile too). The touchpen should be integrated in the device, like the stylus of the iPaq.
  • 1
    7y
    @TerriToniAX Talking about coffee, it's due time to go brew a pot and wake up for real.
  • 2
    7y
    @TerriToniAX Attach one to your keys, theres really small ones - theres also ones that plug into your headphone jack
  • 1
    7y
    @JoshBent Thanks, that's a great tip! :)
  • 1
    7y
    @TerriToniAX You're welcome 😄
  • 2
    7y
    OK, at least I'm up early today. Made some coffee, fed the cats and toasted some bread. See you all...later :)
  • 2
    7y
    well smart phone never rest 😄
  • 2
    7y
    I owned several Samsung smartphones and all where configurable in many ways. Some useful configuration options are still missing, but what you want can be done with any Android phone AFAIK.

    According to the discussion I assume it's not really a Samsung or Android issue. Sounds more like PEBKAC.
  • 0
    7y
    @ddephor Yeah, I too blaimed my gf at first, and she did apologize. But at second thought, I realized tech should adapt to the user, not the other way around. So, what you're saying is that my gf and I don't comply to Samsung or Android user standards ;) Sure, I'll tell my gf that the problem is PEBK...whatever. I'm sure that will really make her feel better! ;) You know? that kind of acronyms might actually be one reason why so many devs find it difficult to find a gf.
  • 1
    7y
    My mum's iPhone has a 10 second jingle for text messages (which is bad enough already), AND IT REPEATS ITSELF INFINITELY UNTIL YOU OPEN THE TEXT RARRRRR

    Never have I been more inclined to throw something at a wall
  • 0
    7y
    @Ezard You know you can talk to her or deactivate that repeat function or change the tone etc. or is it just cool now to complain about this..?
  • 1
    7y
    @JoshBent I offered to change it for her but apparently she likes it
  • 0
    7y
    @JoshBent It seems "cool" to make noise these days, and I reserve the right to rant about it ;) It's not just mobile phones, it's other electronics and appliances too, like the microwave oven. The one we have a Siemens, beeps for ten long seconds when finished. Default is even longer and the alarm cannot be set to less than ten seconds, let alone turned off altogether. Reasonable (according to me) would be beep-beep-beep, i.e. three times.
  • 1
    7y
    @TerriToniAX Technology should adapt to the users needs. But technology is really bad ad guessing your needs, so you need to tell it about it (AKA configuration).

    Sometimes it seems technology can do magic, like my smartphone one day told me how long I would take home after work without having it told where I live, where I work and when I want to go home. But that's not the common case, it's a very special, quite easy task for such a thing that already tracks you all day long.

    And disabling noises at night may be comfortable for many people, but not for all.

    I think configuration should be easier, but it cannot be omitted completely
  • 2
    7y
    Well in earlier days windows phones used to have a feature called "Silent Hours" .. It's coming to lot of Android phones these day ... Check out if ur gf's phone has that !
  • 0
    2y
    Cars are also alike.
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