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My S20FE checks a lot of boxes but I miss a few features from my s8+, mainly the status LED and the heaphone jack. I also am not a huge fan of the fingerprint scanner, but it works well enough so meh. Removable battery, obviously everyone wanta that. I also wish the operating system could could install custom OS.

With the phone itself I miss a headphone jack (using an adapter USB c to 3.5"), no hardware keyboard, and no replaceable battery.

In general I don't turn my phone off often enough, usually only once or twice a week I should turn it off more often.

I dislike most of it, everything but paying contactless, making calls or SMS. I have a 2020 SE because it is small but I want a tiny dumb phone, being able to store my bank card on it to pay anywhere, and phone or SMS someone. The rest to me is useless, I very dislike it when I am somewhere and everyone is on their phone (mostly with the volume on 10 too), I don't even bring mine when I visit someone just to make a point how disrespectful it is when I am invited to your home and whipping out a smartphone.

Proprietary hardware

It's awkwardly tall.

OH, least favorite.

I was wondering why everyone is so sarcastic.

Well, buggy software (MIUI) and the surveillance. I mean, there's a higher chance MIUI bricks itself during an update than with any Alpha-release custom ROM (so I don't update... [But it's also due to Android often removing features from API and breaking niche apps]).
E.g.: Wallpaper bug (stretched or awfully upscaled after changing brightness), brightness slider not working, broken screen rotation, battery drain, swapped L/R microphone audio channels, FM radio cutting out, system crashes and waves of killed apps, camera app in landscape has some buttons off-screen, MIUI screenshot tool occasionally breaks and stock screenshot tool is used (with full-blast audio sound effect no matter current volume settings), notification access service needs to be manually reset for each app after the app is restarted, 120Hz gets laggy after toggling battery saver on and off and needs to be manually reset, dark mode is forced on all apps but the setting to change this sorts all apps in random order,... Also, the Poco X3 Pro motherboard has a tendency to die. I am on this phone's third motherboard currently.

Also... the volume buttons can get stuck. Xiaomi phones have issues with dust particles making their way into buttons and activating them randomly.

Still looking for a keyboard that only suggests actual words

It feels like the os I have wasn't designed for my phone. Buttons aren't scaled properly, system apps ask me for consent over "privacy concerns", no easy control over simple features like wallpaper, sluggish/buggy animations. I have a Redmi

Difficult to type on the outer screen because the keyboard is too squished horizontally (Galaxy Z fold 4)

It's not compatible with LinaegeOS or any FOSS operating system, i checked.

A while back i would have complained that the fingerprint scanner was crap, but i actually got that working properly by entering the same fingerprint three times

That it isn't a librem 5 or one of those tinfoil hat phones

How difficult it is to remove Google's bloatware.

No headphone jack, and having to deal with Samsung's bullshit. This will be my last phone from them.

Battery life is a little short, and the software support ends in about a year. Really wish I could keep this phone going for another 3 or 4.

Making me feel like a freak for asking for the freaking sudo.

If you can't do any software change you want, you are not the owner of the device.