Getting a new smartphone is a fun experience, because you can unbox the device and play with your shiny new toy. The setup process involves some work, though you add a Wi-Fi connection, log in to your relevant accounts, install the desired apps, change sound profiles accordingly, add Bluetooth devices and much more.
Once the setup process is complete and you’ve tweaked the expected settings, we’d like to know what the first change was to your phone otherwise. We conducted a survey earlier this week and here are the results
What would you change first on a new phone?
The result
We posted this poll on June 13, got only 3,600 votes so far Turns out that removing or disabling bloatware was easily the most popular first change, with 35.42% voting. We can completely reverse this choice, as many phones have annoying pre-installed apps that only take up space on the home screen.
A remote second place wallpaper and / or theme change, 17.73% votes. Rounding the top three is to change the display settings (such as resolution, color, temperature, refresh rate, etc.), as 12.03% of respondents chose this option.
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Meanwhile, changing app settings (such as default apps and app notifications) and launchers accounted for 11.98% and 11.27% of the vote, respectively. Finally, the least popular picks on the list are “Other” (4.62%), “System Animation (3.86%), and” Battery / Charging Settings (3.10%).
What’s worth it is that readers who voted for “other” and made a comment pointed to changes in settings such as disabling vibration, changing the clock to 24-hour clock, switching to dark mode, and system tinkering (unlocking the bootloader, Root, install a custom rom).
Comments
- O Christ: I am disabling the vibration response in all possible ways.
- Ash: Change the time from 12 to 24
- Joel Maihar: I Need See the battery percentage otherwise I can’t work. Although I may be the only one.
- DBS: Immediately change to a proper dark theme (which uses black which is actually how to make a good dark theme). Only when the phone is usable can I change the launcher, sound, icon and uninstall all Google Spyware from it.
- Eric Cope: Change to dark mode, then everything else is not a pain I need to change
- And then what?: Bootloader status which I change first. Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either.
- veesonic: I immediately switched to Nova Launcher and Google Keyboard. Other things I finally get the hull.
- Moshammed Santaka: Change gesture interface.
- Andre Maura: Disable keyboard haptic response
- fs10inator: Rom. Whenever possible, I unlock the bootloader, install a custom recovery (such as TWRP), and install a custom ROM of my choice. That way, I get a cleaner build of Android, with more space and less swelling. Then, just after that, I change the launcher; In my case, I use Apex Laucher Classic because it allows me to simulate Classic Launcher 2 used on Google Nexus and GPE devices from 2011 (ICS) to 2014 (LP).
- Alessandro 87: With a custom from the whole OS aahhhhhh. Can’t use stock rom on any device, I need root and a good rom.
- EENJ Tech: The first thing I do is change the screen time from 30 seconds to ten minutes
