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Google made changes on my phone I can't stand!
Vanity | 04/23/2019 | Vendome

Posted on 04/24/2019 9:59:41 PM PDT by Vendome

I just updated to Oreo OS on my gorgeous Samsung Galaxy S8 and them sum beeches at Google changed all my icons to some book chit with frames and there is zero possibility to change back to original theme and icons.

They also effed my texts and a few other things.

I can't stand this cartoonish theme buttons!

They are for 4-7 year olds and took my very professional looking phone down to etch-a-sketch looking crap.

Rant off...

I will upgrade to iPhone on my birthday and Samsung/Google can go to hell...

Wasted quite a bit of money upgrading to this phone,only to have them down grade it

Oh, just realized they also dropped the video player to some asinine klugee thing as well.

Sure, I can go download other apps and customize but, damnit! It was fine the way it was and I dont have time to create new themes

FOAD Google... You made me waste hundreds of dollars.

Plicks....

I most certainly did not give you permission to eff up my phone...


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To: MortMan

They did.

I found how to turn it back on in settings but, forget where.


61 posted on 04/25/2019 7:19:11 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Vendome

Ours was the mustard colored wall phone. With the 10 foot coil cord ;’}


62 posted on 04/25/2019 7:20:40 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Vendome

Before I retired, I worked in an industry whose equipment operating software was upgraded maybe every year or two, necessitating the tech group to learn new, sometimes radically different, programming.

Now, I find that equipment in my own house gets new parameters unannounced, sometimes creating a real hassle in relearning. And sometimes it’s an improvement, but that’s not the way to bet. ;)


63 posted on 04/25/2019 7:23:26 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: rockrr

Ours was the creme colored one. The 10’ coil cord had an effective length of about 5’ due to knots and tangles.


64 posted on 04/25/2019 7:33:29 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Vendome

I kicked yahoo to the curb when I was around 12 years old. Yahoo, hotmail, aol and other relics. Over the years, many of them have “upgraded” to some form without vigor or any survival qualities whatsoever, and these I have avoided easily though I’m still, imo, rather ignorant about all things tech. My phone is semi-smart, like me, but unlike me it’s smarter than it needs to be. If they mess with it, I’ll have two choices, an antique clamshell or an overpriced Apple product. Either way I’ll be shamed. Millennials will mock the grannyphone and boomers will think me profligate. (It’ll be the Apple, it takes better photos.)

Adjustments are inevitable. Eventually the roads are for automobiles and your horse, even with a buggy attached, belongs in the back pasture.

It’s just a tool, after all. If you depend on it too much, well, maybe you depend on it too much.


65 posted on 04/25/2019 7:41:18 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Vendome
Ford should come to my house once a year and make whatever changes they want to car...

Ah, the car. You saying they don't make changes to your car? Lucky you! I traded an old, very fuel-efficient car that never peeped a warning light at me about anything, for a shiny Jeep that is constantly jonesing for fuel and has an epileptic computer that freaks out every few days about the braking system, the tire pressure, and a half-dozen other non-problems. When it has one of its seizures, the turn signals don't work. The dealer can't replicate the phenomenon, so it can't be fixed.

Meanwhile the mfr (that is, manufacturer) will send me notes telling me I need to get some recalled thing or other attended to. My next car, when I have the free time to shop, will be an antique with no computer. Something a juvenile delinquent can fix with a wrench and a rag.

As for GPS, on long drives I take along my old man, and a map. He needs that map like the jd needs the rag. Not.

66 posted on 04/25/2019 7:56:26 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: MayflowerMadam

For old phones, there’s no place like ebay.


67 posted on 04/25/2019 7:58:20 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: gleeaikin

Landline phones are now connected to the fiber network very close to the premises, and often don’t work when the power is out. That nice redundancy is gone in most places.


68 posted on 04/25/2019 8:26:14 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: vannrox
Sure, buy Huawei, the Chinese spy machine...

Not that every Android phone doesn't already spy on us...

69 posted on 04/25/2019 8:29:35 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: Vendome

Gosh. I read this thread and the replies....

All I can say is “First World Problems.”


70 posted on 04/25/2019 8:31:27 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: ssaftler

13 bucks: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005MITU/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_10?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1


71 posted on 04/25/2019 8:32:09 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: Vendome

There is a free or purchase program called NOVA in the playstore. You can customize any of your looks. It’s extensive. This doesn’t address how an app may look once you click into it. Maybe this helps?


72 posted on 04/25/2019 8:35:40 AM PDT by Cardinal Kirk
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To: sparklite2

Another comment on an Android board

Samsung should send hello kitty case with the upgrade. Android Pie/OneUI turned my Note8 into a 12 year old girl’s diary

.


73 posted on 04/25/2019 8:52:30 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: rockrr

LOL


74 posted on 04/25/2019 8:52:51 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Cardinal Kirk

Just went and looked at

Promising...


75 posted on 04/25/2019 8:55:37 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Vendome

The DVR that came with my cable service has graphics and procedures designed, it feels like, for second-graders or tech-terrified oldsters. I replaced it with a TIVO Bolt with six tuners and a grownup interface. World of difference.


76 posted on 04/25/2019 9:08:05 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Vendome

Their latest upgrade also reduced my battery power to one day. I fixed it by entering SETTINGS, APPS, and GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES. Turn off the various services you don’t use, and the battery will now last for days.


77 posted on 04/25/2019 9:18:57 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: Vendome

Look in your settings for wallpapers, icons, themes. See if you have anything in there you like better. And, there us stuff you can download if you don’t mind samsung knowing all your business.

I liked oreo, but i hate pie. They really mess things up with that one and it eats more battery, also.


78 posted on 04/25/2019 11:31:31 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Vendome

My icons didn’t change after the update. I use Nova Launcher, so maybe that’s why.


79 posted on 04/25/2019 12:42:25 PM PDT by Keeper of the Turf (Fore!!!)
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To: Vendome

I turned it back on, but it didn’t come on.


80 posted on 04/25/2019 12:49:31 PM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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