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by morsch 1211 days ago
The extra physical button on my Samsung S10 is my favorite thing about it. Ordinarily it launches Samsung's voice assistant, which naturally is completely pointless, but you can patch it to do whatever you want. I've set mine to play pause on long press, toggle the flashlight on double press and act as a secondary lock button. I toggle podcast playback without taking my phone out of my pocket dozens of times a day, through the fabric even, which I imagine is difficult with a capacitative button.

I wish every phone had at least four custom physical buttons, two for each side.

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That button is one of the main reasons I still use an S10e to this day. I also have my volume buttons set to skip tracks on long press, which was something that BlackBerry phones had back in the day, and is something I find extremely useful. On Android I use a sideloaded app that uses a hidden API to get this functionality:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-8-0-skip-track-by-vol...