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Bixby is the worst. I switched to a Huawei because of it, which is a shame - I loved my previous Samsungs right up until you accidentally bumped that button.

ayoisaiah 7y ago
I find it hard to believe that a single button would cause you to jump ship. Especially since you claimed to love the Samsung flagships you had. Perhaps there were other frustrations the Huawei solved for you?
- Legogris 7y ago
  I was happy with the Galaxy S7. Got an S9. This and some other tricky-to-remove bloat like Samsung Pay is enough to have moved me from "happy with stock ROM" to "not going to buy another Samsung device for the foreseeable future".
  - r3bl 7y ago
    Out of curiosity, are you using an Android One phone now or something a little less bloated, but still bloated?
    - Legogris 7y ago
      I haven't settled on my next phone yet. Aiming at either one of the more secure and clean phones, something I can flash with Linux (like Librem 5 or some Android device that has high compatibility with PostmarketOS, might be too premature though) or a Pixel 3 with https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack.
- King-Aaron 7y ago
  A single button did indeed cause me to jump ship. Android devices are functionally pretty similar, and at the time the Huawei and Samsung scored the same ratings for their cameras and had near-as-makes-no-difference performance. So it was an easy decision. Samsung had a rage-inducing button, the Huawei did not.
- krageon 7y ago
  > I find it hard to believe that a single button would cause you to jump ship. Why is this hard to believe? The smartphone market is currently very saturated, with only very limited differences between high-end (or even low-end) models of different brands. If one brand has something stupid (especially to the tune of "annoys me every day", like the mentioned button) it seems to me that it's fairly obvious you would switch.
  - vinay427 7y ago
    There are a lot of differences that Samsung adds into their firmware that many people seem to like. Particularly if you get one of the Galaxy Note series devices, it goes well beyond what I would consider "very limited differences."
    - krageon 7y ago
      You are convinced that I am incorrect, but I can't actually see from your response in what way I am incorrect. What are those much acclaimed firmware differences? What makes the Galaxy Note especially "well beyond" competitors, I am assuming even compared to the rest of the line (what are the differences between those?). This way, maybe you will enhance my life with some new knowledge. Maybe I'll even agree with you. Who knows!
vardump 7y ago
S9+ owner. Yeah, Bixby button is very annoying. The worst is that you have to register to their service in order to tone the button down a bit. After toning it down, a single press doesn't do anything, but sometimes I do accidentally long press while trying to adjust volume or grabbing the phone. The Bixby update screen that pops up doesn't respect back button at all, need to click cancel. Samsung should instead make it freely configurable button, including ability to completely disable it.
- Svperstar 7y ago
  S9+ owner here. I remapped the bixby button with bxactions. You can set it to anything you want.

ayoisaiah 7y ago

I find it hard to believe that a single button would cause you to jump ship. Especially since you claimed to love the Samsung flagships you had. Perhaps there were other frustrations the Huawei solved for you?

Legogris 7y ago
I was happy with the Galaxy S7. Got an S9. This and some other tricky-to-remove bloat like Samsung Pay is enough to have moved me from "happy with stock ROM" to "not going to buy another Samsung device for the foreseeable future".
- r3bl 7y ago
  Out of curiosity, are you using an Android One phone now or something a little less bloated, but still bloated?
  - Legogris 7y ago
    I haven't settled on my next phone yet. Aiming at either one of the more secure and clean phones, something I can flash with Linux (like Librem 5 or some Android device that has high compatibility with PostmarketOS, might be too premature though) or a Pixel 3 with https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack.
King-Aaron 7y ago
A single button did indeed cause me to jump ship. Android devices are functionally pretty similar, and at the time the Huawei and Samsung scored the same ratings for their cameras and had near-as-makes-no-difference performance. So it was an easy decision. Samsung had a rage-inducing button, the Huawei did not.
krageon 7y ago
> I find it hard to believe that a single button would cause you to jump ship. Why is this hard to believe? The smartphone market is currently very saturated, with only very limited differences between high-end (or even low-end) models of different brands. If one brand has something stupid (especially to the tune of "annoys me every day", like the mentioned button) it seems to me that it's fairly obvious you would switch.
- vinay427 7y ago
  There are a lot of differences that Samsung adds into their firmware that many people seem to like. Particularly if you get one of the Galaxy Note series devices, it goes well beyond what I would consider "very limited differences."
  - krageon 7y ago
    You are convinced that I am incorrect, but I can't actually see from your response in what way I am incorrect. What are those much acclaimed firmware differences? What makes the Galaxy Note especially "well beyond" competitors, I am assuming even compared to the rest of the line (what are the differences between those?). This way, maybe you will enhance my life with some new knowledge. Maybe I'll even agree with you. Who knows!

vardump 7y ago

S9+ owner. Yeah, Bixby button is very annoying. The worst is that you have to register to their service in order to tone the button down a bit. After toning it down, a single press doesn't do anything, but sometimes I do accidentally long press while trying to adjust volume or grabbing the phone. The Bixby update screen that pops up doesn't respect back button at all, need to click cancel. Samsung should instead make it freely configurable button, including ability to completely disable it.

Svperstar 7y ago
S9+ owner here. I remapped the bixby button with bxactions. You can set it to anything you want.