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I strongly dislike our new NUU android phone

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It was a good price with a lot of storage and a step up in photo quality.....but...google is even more annoying and invasive than with our last phone that was an arista lg15....this is a NUU A15.

The only upside is that there's enough signal to make and receive phone calls in the house rather than on the porch as was with the arista.

I miss 'quick memo'.
When I copy and save now it goes somewhere but I've yet to find the place. I'm imaging google just chuckling and shredding my stuff...

more and more annoying stuff...

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I hope that you are able to work out ways to make it better! That sounds frustrating. I gave up believing in "upgrades" more than ten years ago. I try to keep what works working, and I wish electronic product vendors had that same ethos!

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And this is why I'm using the absolute oldest smart phone I can run on the network. I fix problems for other people on their phones, and have yet to see a phone I like. My old one does what I tell it to, mostly. I don't use cloud storage, and I put 80% of it's preinstalled programs into a file I labeled "garbage." I get along fairly well with it.
I wish there was such thing as a phone I got along REALLY well with, but I'm not who they design phones for.

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After writing this I switched back to our old phone

I'm going to do a factory reset on the new one and see if I can bypass some of the stuff this time like I did on this old phone.

Thanks Rachel!
This old phone's screen is getting stripey like it may go dark so I thought I should stay a step ahead of it and get a new one...and it is nice to chat on the phone in the warmth of the house rather than bundled up on the porch.....

Pearl, I do what you mention but I think I agreed to something when setting up the new phone and there was no going back.
I disable what I can...do you have a list? They always give dire warnings when I disable something.....

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Hi Judith;
I couldn't agree more, these things are aggravating. I constantly tell mine that I hate it... and frustratingly, it does not seem to care!!!
I have a Samsung Galaxy A-11, new to me but old tech. (free)
I pine for the old days when the phone stayed on the wall.
You were not expected to be available 24- 7 or to participate in texting...
There was no touch screen anything, no such thing as a smartphone, and only drug dealers had Mobile phones.

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Judith: Sorry, no list. I have no idea what's on your phone. If nothing else, arrange your icons so the stuff you don't want to use is not on your screen all the time, put them on a second page or something.

The problem with your phone is most of your data is not on your phone, it's on their servers. So I don't know what won't work if you ignore the dire warnings.
One thing I definitely did on this on was disable Siri everyplace I could, I can think on my own, not in the least bit interested in that. If it was on my computer, I'd have eliminated the whole thing via the registry, that's what happened to Clippy in my word processor. I'm a firm believer in over the edge with stupid stuff!! :D

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thomas rubino wrote:.
You were not expected to be available 24- 7

I’m wondering if it’s a gen x thing. Most millennials and younger that I know hate being called.
Text us with whatever messaging system you prefer and we’ll arrange a call, preferably video.

As CS Lewis in The Magician’s Nephew put it “living at the mercy of the telephone”

My own phone has a small screen and physical buttons and is just about clever enough for whatsapp. It also has absolutely no accounts or reporting to google because I trust google about as far as I can throw them. (And yes, meta is worse but I’ll never convince people to leave whatsapp)

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My phone had a setting to turn off the internet which I did because I am not going to use it for that.

I dont like my phone though there is no other option.

I loved my Razor though it went away with 5G and I don't want one bad enough to pay $600.00.

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Anne Miller wrote:My phone had a setting to turn off the internet which I did because I am not going to use it for that.

We only have a cell phone now, no computer and no wifi, just tello at $10 -15 a month for unlimited calls, texts and a small amount of data.

We do turn the data off often and keep track of megabytes.
That was the other thing I noticed with the new phone, that it was eating up data like crazy. Some extra was setting it up but I suspect it is going to use more in general.

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I sometimes leave my phone in the house, when I go out to do my chores - but sometimes wish I hadn't. Having it on me has saved my butt, many times, when I've needed help, and didn't have time (or was injured) to go back to the house. It comes in handy, for pictures, and keeping reminders, out there, too. I use the alarm & timer features much more than the phone or texting, and having the calender, 'notes', timer, alarms, camera, phone and internet all in one is very handy, & when I'm out there has proven to be a very helpful thing. With John's heart, bp, and back, it eases my mind, knowing if either of us is alone, and something goes dangerously wrong, we can get help.

That said, when we're together, my ringer & message notifications are generally turned off. I also disable or delete(when possible) everything I don't use, and set those things all to 'do not update'. We are both of the general opinion that the phones are for OUR convenience, and if someone needs to get in touch, they can text or leave a message, and we will get back to them, when we can. It's not like we can actually get to anyone in less than 5hrs or so, anyway, considering our family are all so far away.

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Judith, I use a Samsung phone and all the stuff that I copy and paste gets saved to the clipboard.

To find it, when I open either a new message or use the "notes" app, the clipboard option is available under/above the keyboard.

If your phone doesn't come with a notes app, you can probably download one for free from the Google play store.

If I screenshot anything, it is saved to the photos and my phone automatically created a folder for screenshots.

Let me know if you find your copy and pasted data.

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I hate learning new tech crap, its really hard for me, that part of my brain, learning new sequential procedural tasks doesn't work very well so its hard. I feel for you. I try to make things last as long as possible before buying new ones to have to learn how to use.

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A couple of years ago, I was paid a high compliment from a Verizon employee when i brought my iPhone 6 in for some reason, “ How can you use your phone without any apps?” I had deleted everything I could.

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My mother is 89 and I managed to teach her to use a smart phone 5 years ago. It finally gave up the ghost earlier this year and had to be replaced.

Any superfluous apps that I was unable to remove, were hid in a folder and the folder moved to the third page, away from her Home Screen.

She knows how to send us voice messages and photographs and even manages to cast you tube videos onto her tv - Li Ziqi is a favourite vlogger.

I taught her the basic functions by drawing diagrams of her screen layout as though they were screenshots with larger drawings of the function buttons that she had to tap.

Each and every step had to be written down, right down to hitting enter.

She still gets confused occasionally and her arthritic fingers can tap the wrong symbol/key.

@Riona, perhaps you could find someone familiar with your phone's operation, prepare a list of functions that you struggle to remember and get them to do a series of screenshots for you like the ones I did for finding the clipboard contents.

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Google and I got a divorce.... :-)

I buy old Pixel phones then I re-install the operating system so that there are no google services. No google play, no google services running...

Lineage OS is where I started, now trying other OS..

I like having control over my phone, no more COVID tracking on me.

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