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Google pushes a new feature to Android where phones wake up at 2:22 AM every night to play a blood-curdling scream at maximum volume, regardless of settings. An
by zetanor 2mo ago
Google pushes a new feature to Android where phones wake up at 2:22 AM every night to play a blood-curdling scream at maximum volume, regardless of settings. An issue is created and gets assigned, into which Google employees regularly butt in to explain the feature exists to keep users safe from night break-ins. Nothing changes. People have to start modifying their lives around this problem—most have to shut off their phones during the night, many had to buy a separate alarm clock—and masses of disappointed customers eventually make their way to the bug tracker to voice their concern. The issue gets locked as "too heated".
Apple has had this feature for three years on iOS. What else should they have done?
- gruez 2mo ago>What else should they have done? Use an AOSP fork like grapheneos or lineageos. Barring that, voting with their wallets and buying a HarmonyOS phone. If for whatever reason they're doing that too, there's probably more powerful forces behind this change (eg. government mandates) that won't be helped by spamming an issue tracker.
- aceazzameen 2mo agoDownside is those specific forks only work on very specific devices, when there's countless great hardware in the wild with shit software.
- beej71 2mo agoAnd apparently a lot of people can't access their savings with grapheneOS. I know eventually I'm going to end up carrying 2 devices.
- Gander5739 2mo agoLineageos works on about 300 different phones, and you can flash a GSI for partial support on others.
- NotPractical 2mo agoI have bad news for you if you think GrapheneOS isn't going to accept this patch from upstream if it lands.
- gruez 2mo agoThat's a non-issue because you can build (or patch+resign) grapheneos yourself.
- matheusmoreira 2mo agoBut if you do, it fails attestation which turns the phone into a paperweight.
- inigyou 2mo agoGraphene would probably make it an option, like how it asks you if apps should be able to access the internet.