Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7.

[fireborn@dragonscave.space]

Day one with the Galaxy Z Fold 7. Setup was a disaster. Smart Switch didn't. TalkBack went silent. Samsung installed everything I told it not to.

This is why nobody upgrades their Android phone.

Galaxy Z Fold Seven Day One: The Fold Has Arrived. Setup Was A Disaster. This Is Why No One Upgrades Their Android Phone. — fireborn

(fireborn.mataroa.blog)

#Samsung #GalaxyZFold7 #Android #TalkBack #Accessibility #Blind #tech #writing #blog #reviews

[xogium@tech.lgbt]

@fireborn OMG this is like, almost so hillariously bad you'd almost laugh. Except you can't laugh because it's not actually funny at all.

Pretty glad my next phone is the iphone 17e.

[fireborn@dragonscave.space]

@xogium Right? I hope tomorrow is better. Maybe I just got incredibly unlucky.

[xogium@tech.lgbt]

@fireborn Maybe... But this being samsung, I honestly doubt it.

Your post makes me incredibly glad I never, ever went to samsung. That, plus all the failure over the years I kept reading about including the loss of speech over bluetooth during phone calls and the broken explore by touch if you had the display hidden.

[fireborn@dragonscave.space]

@xogium Oh yeah, I had the broken explore by touch problem, but that was my fault for enabling without doing updates when I knew the bug existed.

[xogium@tech.lgbt]

@fireborn Sure but what I mean is, someone who doesn't know... Like a beginner? Just... Good god.

[xogium@tech.lgbt]

@fireborn Honestly the worst I've ever had with my iphone SE 3rd gen in nearly 5 years of usage is, it froze on me. Only twice. Twice, in almost 5 years. Thati s nothing compared to the worst I've seen from other manufacturers.

Was it scary? Sure was. The home button was still reacting but nothing else was going on, no tts, no sound, no haptics from VO. I had to force reboot it. But it never happened again.

I wouldn't trust android to not keep crashing like that if it did. That being said I believe VO also has no fallback if the system can't talk, exactly like talkback. I might be wrong though?

[fireborn@dragonscave.space]

@xogium VO doesn't have a fallback as such, but you can add different voices from other engines to your voice rotor which you can navigate to in most cases.

[dhamlinmusic@dragonscave.space]

@xogium @fireborn Yeah this is why the general rule is just stick with Pixel if you are a blind android user, never run across any more issues than I had when I still could see.

[dhamlinmusic@dragonscave.space]

@fireborn @xogium Have Samsung fixed the issue where you'll just be bricked if you enable screen curtain

[fireborn@dragonscave.space]

@dhamlinmusic @xogium Yes, appears so. I have screen dimmed right now and it's not doing anything stupid.

[dhamlinmusic@dragonscave.space]

@fireborn @xogium Ok cause even by Samsung standards that was an impressive issue.

[thequinbox@dragonscave.space]

@fireborn Out of curiosity, What LLM helped you compose this? Editing to be clear that I'm not against AI writing at all, but this is pretty obvious and I'm curious on your tools.

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@TheQuinbox @fireborn Claude. definitely Claude, though I can't tell what version

[j3317@allovertheplace.ca]

@dhamlinmusic @fireborn @xogium yep

[j3317@allovertheplace.ca]

@fireborn oh god, glad you were able to figure it out in the end, idk why you had all of those issues, for me when switching from my S20 to the S23+ everything worked, it seems you were just super unlucky

[luiscarlosgonzalez@mastodon.social]

@x0 @fireborn I'm going to break your heart but... Maybe I'll purchase a Galaxy S26Ultra for my birthday! You, on the other hand, go for the only option. Motorola with a GrapheneOS config installed and... goes the ragtime!

[farshidhakimy@chaos.social]

@fireborn Samsung ships all their fold devices unfolded.
I think the reason is actually that they don't know how long those devices will be in the box before someone unboxes them.
If they ship it folded, it will have a bigger crease the first time a user unboxes it. And I have noticed on my own fold that some glue on the inside of the crease loosens up with time, which causes a sound when you tap there on the display. That might happen sooner if the device ships unfolded.

[jonathan859@someplace.social]

@dhamlinmusic @xogium @fireborn Yup, this. Was about to say, I wonder if the Pixel fold would've given you similar issues.

[fireborn@dragonscave.space]

@jonathan859 @dhamlinmusic @xogium aI couldn't say if it would or not with any degree of certainty. A lot of this seems to be failures on Samsung's part, but that wouldn't change the fundimental state of things, that a foldable is still a foldable