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I just want micro SD and removable batteries again.

Receiving calls and texts from people.

It's too darn big. I'd love another Nexus 4-sized phone.

Under screen fingerprint reader (pixel 7 pro) . It's a downgrade from reader on the back of the phone (pixel 5). It's slower, less accurate, and worst of all, at night it often results in being flashed with a bright light.

I thought it'd be more convenient having the reader on the front, so i can unlock the phone without lifting it, but most of the time it's a nuisance because i doesn't work as well.

Can’t listen to music while watching a video or listening to a podcast.

• Samsung bloatware
• Not being able to access files in a sane way both from a computer and in some extent from a phone without using 3rd party solutions.

And yeah, that's it. But I am not needy.

Under screen fingerprint sensors. Doesn't matter how old/new your phone is, they all suck. The one on my phone works... whenever it feels like it. That and OneUI sucks, but yk, custom ROMs ftw.

The fact that it won't have any record of calls I missed while the phone was off or didn't have reception, although actually that's probably the fault of the service provider. They can send me texts I missed. Why can't they send me a list of missed calls?

In iOS how hard it is to glance the time and date while watching a full screen video.

Software updates. They are disguised as security and feature updates while slowing down your phone to make you buy the newer versions.

Not being able to install Graphene OS

Have had my S8 galaxy since release, and now various apps won't work on the OS. I'm being forced into buying a new phone at this point.

its bootloader isn't unlockable, and custom roms don't exist for it anyway

I wish I had customizable buttons for like... Flashlight, or you know... Whatever I want.

The screen protector is peeling just a little bit around the edges, but it's put on really well, and I don't want to use the replacement just yet, but it's slowly ever encroaching and leaving more and more of a dead zone in an area I don't touch all that often, but when I need to I question whether or not it's time to put the new one on.

It's been like this for almost a year now.

Also no ir blaster, so I can't subtly mute the commercials when I'm at the in laws.

non-unlockable bootloader :(

(Samsung S10e, switching to Sony Xperia 6 soon...)

Lack of physical keyboard.

Being a flimsy piece of shit comes in second.

I'm aware how that applies to basically every smartphone from 2013 - today. Currently rocking a used Galaxy S8

After close to 6 years of use it’s reaching the end of its useful life. Unless there’s a catastrophic failure or something I plan to use it until it no longer gets updates, which should be some time next year.

My S20FE checks a lot of boxes but I miss a few features from my s8+, mainly the status LED and the heaphone jack. I also am not a huge fan of the fingerprint scanner, but it works well enough so meh. Removable battery, obviously everyone wanta that. I also wish the operating system could could install custom OS.

i want a physical qwerty keyboard like the pro1x

With the phone itself I miss a headphone jack (using an adapter USB c to 3.5"), no hardware keyboard, and no replaceable battery.

In general I don't turn my phone off often enough, usually only once or twice a week I should turn it off more often.

Generally: That I can't mount my network samba shares into local folders without rooting the whole damn thing.

That I can't force my device to stay in wifi if no internet connection is available (to access local network only).

Device specific: That sometimes volume control is very buggy while putting in a headphone jack and I have to navigate into sub-sub settings hell to set everything back.

Even though I turned it off, my phone will sometimes pop open the AI assistant after hearing something not even close to the "hey Google" phrase.

I also hate that the new AI system for the assistant can't even do half of the shit I used the old assistant for. Which is why I turned it off.