An improved Backup system.
Easy backup restoration of the seedvault backup, with a button (not having to type ##RESTORE## in the phone dialer knowing not to create a new backup after factory reset after an upgrade for example). Clearer explainations about the working principle for backup and restore : for example, are the data in the internal storage saved or no.
I have noticed that the backup will not be as complete whether we use an internal SD card or a USB flash drive int the phone receptacle or internal storage.
Ideally the backup (saving) of all system parameters with automatic sync using murena cloud and also the shared folder and apps and apps data.
Ideally the seedvault backup should include everything in the phone like a TWRP backup that even includes the recovery. I guess this is not possible, so maybe include a backup function in the /e/ os (lineage recovery) that will save absolutely everything including cache ! like Twrp
Apart from that, everything is really great. Murena cloud makes things really easy and user freindly. OTA updates works well and the updates always improve things
You can find a very useful app for backing up your data. Itâs Linux Android Backup. Despite its name, it works on Linux, Windows and MacOS. https://mrrfv.github.io/linux-android-backup/
The possibility to re-arrange widgets on the home screen would be nice. Now I have my clock at the bottom and itâs more logical to have it at the top.
In general: Iâm not very pleased with the overall design. Itâs quite boring. Ofcourse, reliability of the operating system is most important, but I would like a little more eye candy to love my /e/ device even more. Think of wallpapers and icon styles.
If you donât like the preinstalled Bliss launcher, just install a different launcher according to your taste and make it the default launcher when asked. Standard Android procedure .
Well there are two things i really want. The first is i wish for is a easier way to distribute the system apps like e.g make a f-droid repo for them or something like that. So that way we donât have to wait for a system update every time to update the apps
The second thing i wish for is to make advanced privacy more configurable for power users such as e.g adding custom blocklists. itâs not that i doubt itâs effectiveness by itâs default configuration i would just like to add onto it. maybe do this by adding advanced settings area somewhere in the advanced privacy app?
I recently updated to Android 12 and I really donât like it. Not only they are making less efficient use of space, they even removed certain functionality like turning volume up/down from the top scrollbar. Settings menus now waste about 20% to 25% of screen real state and have made the font considerably larger by default. I mean, it just objectively worse⌠change for the sake of change itâs a horrible policy.
I think this is a great opportunity for /e/ to stand out by coming up with a custom UI that addresses the shortcomings of this version of Android, which will likely continue to exist in future versions. Assuming there are enough resources for it, that isâŚ
Considering that /e/ already has itâs own launcher, I donât see why that would be a bad idea. A lot of people continue to use Samsung or Huawei, that doesnât mean they are unhappy with the product.
If we can measure it, we can be objective about it.
But itâs not objectively better or worse. Subjectively you donât like it. (I donât like it either, but I choose to just live with it.)
Subjectively somebody else must like it, else we wouldnât have it .
At least they should fix some things: when you pull down from the top and you see the now full size quick settings/notification area they should remove the three-button-bar at the bottom because it just doesnât work as expected. It looks like not intended there but I always push the damned square button just because itâs there. They also could probably easily change the size and the default number of these big fat quick settings buttons. This must not result in an entire custom GUI, some minor changes would already be good.
Even if /e/ had enough developers, trying to hold back the tide of Android UI changes is not a sensible use of those resources (as Canute attempted to show his courtiers )
Iâm not suggesting to hold back Android in any way, just an alternative. Customization is something Android used to be praised for, right?
For instance, I donât know if any of the things you mentioned about the Bliss launcher are true or not since I dislike it and donât use it, since there are alternatives that I could find and use instead. But the very fact that there is a Bliss launcher made by /e/ means at some point resources were poured in. Maybe it was never a serious attempt at making anything meaningful, or maybe it was, I donât know. But why not explore that possibility anyway? Something that could âfeel and look like /e/â of sorts.
Why the defeatist attitude? We are all here because we wanted something different in the first place, right? All Iâm asking for is a slightly more efficient use of screen real state.
The only thing holding me back from using this OS as a daily driver is getting DUO Mobile to accept Google Drive when restoring the app. Its the only way that DUO Mobile handles their backups, through Google Drive and ive tried several options, along with two phones (Pixel 3a XL, OnePlus 6T).
Aegis doesnt allow me to import my DUO mobile account on another phone. Just like other attempts with this application and DUO mobile, when trying to scan the QR code, it states that its not the correct QR code. Believe that the QR code that it wants is the one that I was first given - aka from the computer / account side.
I have transferred my DUO Mobile account across devices but mainly only if the âI have existing accountsâ function works since its backed up to Google Drive. On /e/, it just fails.
I have ran adb logcat while doing this but the output is outside of my scope. Would like to learn more about this, and I really like /e/, i just use it as a daily driverâŚyet
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