New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Nokia G22 Beware
Tell HN: Nokia G22 Beware
5 by 2ton_jeff | 3 comments on Hacker News.
So I bought a Nokia G22 to replace my old Galaxy, and it has not gone well. I did enjoy hearing the Nokia chime for the first time in nearly 2 decades though, haha. Deal breaker first and foremost: Nokia/HMD Global Oy has apparently decided not to license any MicroSD storage filesystem, and declares ext4 as a non-portable filesystem and rejects it too. This means that the ONLY filesystem format it will deal with on a MicroSD is FAT32. So my 256GB space shows up correctly as "250GB" but I can't for example store my Signal backup on it because it is >4GB. The device itself's camera is readily capable of storing files larger than 4GB but you can't store that on your own MicroSD either. Second thing that nearly was a deal-breaker: For reasons unknown, Signal doesn't end up correctly whitelisted for the Android deviceidle feature regardless of all UI-based battery settings/disabling/etc. This means Signal notifications arrive every 10 minutes, and for most people I know including non-technical family, this is unacceptable. The fix requires developer tools and adb: adb shell dumpsys deviceidle disable It is interesting that "org.thoughtcrime.securesms" is indeed in the whitelist, it just doesn't work. So since this phone was only just released here in Australia, I reached out to their AU support and asked for a refund due to the fact that their MicroSD is basically useless to me. This was their reply: Hi Jeff, Thank you for your email and for bringing this to our attention. We shall pass on your comments to our product design team. Unfortunately as the Nokia G22 is not faulty and works as designed we cannot issue a replacement or refund. Kind regards, Nokia Care Team Australia
5 by 2ton_jeff | 3 comments on Hacker News.
So I bought a Nokia G22 to replace my old Galaxy, and it has not gone well. I did enjoy hearing the Nokia chime for the first time in nearly 2 decades though, haha. Deal breaker first and foremost: Nokia/HMD Global Oy has apparently decided not to license any MicroSD storage filesystem, and declares ext4 as a non-portable filesystem and rejects it too. This means that the ONLY filesystem format it will deal with on a MicroSD is FAT32. So my 256GB space shows up correctly as "250GB" but I can't for example store my Signal backup on it because it is >4GB. The device itself's camera is readily capable of storing files larger than 4GB but you can't store that on your own MicroSD either. Second thing that nearly was a deal-breaker: For reasons unknown, Signal doesn't end up correctly whitelisted for the Android deviceidle feature regardless of all UI-based battery settings/disabling/etc. This means Signal notifications arrive every 10 minutes, and for most people I know including non-technical family, this is unacceptable. The fix requires developer tools and adb: adb shell dumpsys deviceidle disable It is interesting that "org.thoughtcrime.securesms" is indeed in the whitelist, it just doesn't work. So since this phone was only just released here in Australia, I reached out to their AU support and asked for a refund due to the fact that their MicroSD is basically useless to me. This was their reply: Hi Jeff, Thank you for your email and for bringing this to our attention. We shall pass on your comments to our product design team. Unfortunately as the Nokia G22 is not faulty and works as designed we cannot issue a replacement or refund. Kind regards, Nokia Care Team Australia
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