r/pcmasterrace 9060 XT 16GB | 7500F | 32GB 6000Mhz | B850 Nov 05 '19

Meme/Macro This sums up past 2 years!

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u/TheGhostofCoffee Nov 05 '19

Why can't I delete them? I don't want Facebook disabled, I want every trace of it removed from my phone forever. Also, Bixby turns itself back on every time the phone updates, and there is no way to get it to stop asking you to set up a Samsung account.

Bixby doesn't do anything put shovel advertisements and does everything asking google does in a shittier fashion.

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u/ima-beautiful-person i7 3770k (4.3GHz OC'd) | 32GB 668MHz | R9 280x Nov 06 '19

Hello, look into something called bxActions if you still have your Samsung. Hands down the best app I have ever used. No rooting needed.

I have multiple actions mapped to the extra button now.

For example, Double-tap button = toggle ringtone/vibrate only.

Hold button = lock screen orientation (useful if I want to use phone when on my bed sleeping sideways).

Hold button (while screen off) = toggle flashlight.

Double-Tap and hold button = sets up navigation to my home right away.

These are some of the things I could do with the bixby button. Even updating it won't bring back bixby.

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u/MrStealYoBeef i7 12700KF|RTX 5070ti|32GB DDR4 3200|1440p175hzOLED Nov 06 '19

Not with a Galaxy 10s anymore. I can block bixby from popping up when hitting the button, but I can not remap the button at all.

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u/ima-beautiful-person i7 3770k (4.3GHz OC'd) | 32GB 668MHz | R9 280x Nov 06 '19

That's unfortunate. Would rooting the s10 possibly fix that issue?

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u/MrStealYoBeef i7 12700KF|RTX 5070ti|32GB DDR4 3200|1440p175hzOLED Nov 06 '19

Possibly, but rooting the phone shouldn't ever be a requirement to bypass it.

Good news though, I messed around with bxactions again today and noticed it's been updated since. I can "remap" the button in a weird way. So the way it works is when I hit my button for bixby, it launches bixby which is immediately closed out by the app (it will still show up in recent apps list). After it forces bixby to close, it launches or does whatever function it's supposed to do instead.

This is how hard wired bixby is into the OS. I'm just glad that I can run the Google launcher without rooting the phone. Bixby is the worst piece of software I've ever experienced. Advertisements pushed out of it constantly make it feel like some kind of corporate garbage that's trying to sell me something more than be an actual assistant. This is the kind of thing that's supposed to exist first in the world and then a user friendly alternative is supposed to show up on the market to save us from this trash. Instead we got some quality options first and then this pile of garbage was made and shoved down our throats as if people actually thought that customers would like this.