And here’s how they could do it.
  • Zectivi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I didn’t know that Samsung had that feature, but it does sound nice - so long as you have the ability to enable maintenance mode.

    I recently took my pixel 7 in to ubreakifix for a screen replacement. The screen was 100% dead, but I could still hear the notifications coming in. I couldn’t put it into maintenance mode if it had one, so I think I’d still stress a bit about whether or not the phone would be wiped, such as in the case I was unable to verify the upload of a recent Aegis backup. It would be nice if the maintenance mode was able to be triggered via a web interface in cases such as mine. Or maybe even a specific button combo that would be difficult to accidentally do.

    • MishaalRahman@lemdro.idOPEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      That’s a good point, and I agree: There should be a way to trigger Maintenance Mode remotely, like through Find My Device, should Google implement this.

  • ScOULaris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    One UI has been crammed with features for years now, many of which would be very nice to have in Pixel phones. Maintenance Mode would be good, I guess, but I can think of several others that would be far more beneficial to have merged into AOSP in some form.

    For example, One Hand Operation + is the best implementation of gesture navigation in all of Android IMO. It’s quicker and more efficient than traditional gestures, more customizable, and plays well with third-party launchers. It’s one of the killer apps that makes it hard for me to consider anything other than a Samsung phone these days, especially since Google has made no attempts at fixing the wonky behavior of the native gesture navigation and third-party launchers.