Hi everyone,
well I’m new here and I like the /e/ OS - it’s a good OS and using it now for almost 1 year.
I am quiet not sure if this section is the right one to create this topic but I am not sure if this only affects Samsung S9+ devices or other devices too. If I am wrong please give me a hint and I will put it in the appropriate section or move my thread where it should belongs - thanks.
Part 1: a few critiques for the OS =)
I don’t understand the reasoning behind preventing users from deleting system apps like notes etc. nor am I able to deactivate them. What’s the point in preventing that? That gives me the typical big-tech vibe which google and apple do us all by giving us devices which we can’t manage on our own. I guess most of the people here who use /e/ OS are not the average joe user. So it would be great if we would be allowed to do more things in the OS. I understand that the devs like to prevent people from bricking the system and complaining afterwards but I think there should always be an option for advanced users to gain more control of their phone.
Oh I forgott to mention that most of the apps just restart on their own after some time. Why? I don’t want notes, tasks, app lounge and my other apps to restart at their own will. I want to open them, when I need them. This is not just only useless waste of cpu and memory resources but more important battery “juice”.
Why not implement some kind of feature or app which allows to boost the microphone volume? I don’t know why but on most phones (specialy samsung) when one installs a custom rom the mic volumes goes down that you almost have to increase your voice for no reason. It would be glady appreciated if that would be fixed one day.
Part2:
I recently upgraded via OTA from 2.0-s-(I can’t remember the exact Version anymore) to 2.1-s-20240603406609-stable-star2lte and noticed that besides the common annoyance mentioned above a heavy battery drain and weird behaviour in apps. So I decided to make a factory reset and configure anything again from scratch but now I see some more anoying things:
I lost the ability to assigne the “back” button the functionality to close the front running application. That was a great neat feature which is now gone and I don’t know why. Considering I am not allowed to deactivate some system related apps, I am not allowed to deinstall them but now I am even not allowed to close them running in the front anymore? oh come on guys - seriously!?!
And a little small weird bug I encountered. If I am in the app list and want to scroll down and up - it sometimes doesn’t respond to the scrolling request. I run with my fingers up and down and nothing happens but when I swipe a little bit more left up-and-down it works. I found out that if I remove animations this problems is fixed.
The Notes app which worked very well with my nextcloud (via davx5) now is not able to find my notes which doesn’t make any sense. I can’t figure out what the issue is for now.
/e/ OS is good and hopefully will be better and stay 
I guess that’s the reason why we all are here.
have nice day everyone
EDIT:
Oh I forgott to mention that after the upgrade the battery drain increased. I use the exact same amount of apps. Nothing new and my using behaviour didn’t changed. I am sure it’s OS related.
