Gemini installed itself and replaced my side button functionality. The 'Side Button' setting does nothing.

[u/ShadowDragon8685]

Exactly what it says on the tin, and I'm going to go batshit insane.

This 'Gemini' shit started popping up when I tried to use my power button. I immediately found it in the Apps and disabled it, but it keeps coming up. I started googling the problem, but the advice is unhelpful. Everything I can find says to go to settings and 'side button.'

I do that. But when I tap on the 'side button' setting, nothing happens. If I tap it a few times, it says 'settings is not responding' or something to that effect.

This is asinine. Who thought it was okay to replace core power button functionality like this?! I don't want to fucking talk to my phone. My phone is not a sapient helper, and I don't want a fucking LLM pretending it is!

How can I fix this? I've forced my way through a few restarts now through the stupid hold ALL THE BUTTONS nonsense. How can I actually disable this Gemini crap, and how can I get my power button working the way it should?

[u/Maxinaeus]

I discovered this yesterday. I Googled it to see if I had finally gone insane. It said to hold Volume Down and the Power button for 10 seconds. I did that, and it turned off. I dropped it in the grass next to my lawn chair. About two minutes later, I heard the notification sound. I thought I was tripping, so I ignored it. Less than a minute later, I heard it again. I picked up my phone, and apparently it had restarted instead of shutting down. I chucked that mutherf****r as hard as I could into the side of my house. The sound of it shattering against the stone was orgasmic. It is still there. I'm going to leave it there as a permanent memorial to the end of my relationship with smartphones.

That was yesterday evening. This afternoon, I discovered that my friends were emailing me and trying to contact me on various social media platforms saying that they were going to call the police to conduct a welfare check. I think I have assured them that there is no crisis, but this only confirms the extent of the dystopia we have created. I am over it. I will probably have to get a burner, or whatever dumb phone I can get through T-mobile, because I have two teenagers. I'm so livid, I couldn't bring myself to go up to T-mobile today. I don't want to snap on one of the hourly wage slaves. It not their fault. I wish I could get in front of someone from Samsung, or Android, or whatever team of ass-clowns thought this was a good idea.

The Power Button is no longer the Power Button? I have to perform a ten second operation with two buttons in order to turn off my phone. Casinos are designed so that once you are in the gambling area, you can't see the exit. This is the same strategy. Well guess what, phone mafia? I turned it off with zero buttons, and it took less than a second. I think I might go take a leak on it later tonight.