When you get a nem phone, or tablet even, what do you do to it? I don’t mean like rooting or roms or any of that, I mean like to the os to make it more useable for you. So example:
I hide the soft keys, use hackers keyboard, set it to 25% screen size, change my home screen to adw or smart launcher, shrink system text size, brighten colors, and use dvorak to speed all that along.
I would love to have a T9 touch keyboard but theres no good apps for it and no demand, sadly. I’d also like to have music and a podcast play at the same time like I do one my pc. I use my phone as a laptop in many ways, and these few things would be nice.
What do you guys.do? What do you want that doesn’t exist?
Making the OS more usable starts by wiping it and installing Lineage, so I’m afraid I can’t avoid mentioning ROMs.
Lineage without GApps, no root as It’s not needed.
Set Privacy Guard to ignore all permissions by default
Developer options enabled with long press back to kill apps and advanced reboot menu
Install F-Droid
First of all disable all the apps preinstalled that I won’t be using. Than turn off all the blips bloops, haptic feedback and change all the UI elements to be as small as possible.
Install Action Launcher 3, chrooma keyboard (resized with number row and punctuation and symbols as second functions for every key; no text correction or prediction) and install Chronus as clock.
P.S. also install Solid Explorer to access every possible storage local and non on my phone
I tried Linage on my LG G4. While it is nice to have stock Android but the experience has not been great.
Often I have to press the power button many times to get the screen to come on. Sometimes I will find the device red hot even if I have not been using it and the battery plunging to zero.
A reboot temporarily resolves the situation.
Sadly the build is no longer maintained due to an encryption bug. Unofficial builds can be found here but I can’t do a direct upgrade and would have to wipe my phone again.
The first thing I do is install Nova Launcher Prime and uninstall/disable all bloatware.
Other than that I enable developer settings, install Gboard and an icon pack of my choosing. I’m currently running Lines Free.
not much you can do about it except “get a different app”