[kaoD]

Your experience seems pretty unique to me.

My family uses Android exclusively (including extended family) and the only cases where performance degraded is with very cheap 10+ y/o phones that could no longer keep up with system updates that now take most of the storage space.

Even those more or less still work after reflashing a leaner FLOSS ROM.

Did you perhaps buy a crapware chinese phone and are receiving bloat/spyware?

[nottorp]

> Did you perhaps buy a crapware chinese phone and are receiving bloat/spyware?

No, this latest one is a crapware Samsung phone. Doesn't mean I'm not receiving bloat/spyware.

Come to think of it, the Huawei I used before this Samsung degraded less. But I had to abandon them when they got kicked out of google services. Need a full featured phone so I can develop whatever the customer wants.

[withinboredom]

Is it because you got used to it? Or maybe it JITs most-used applications? I don't think their experience is unique at all (I also have an Android device for development and it is a lagfest after a couple of years).

[kaoD]

> Is it because you got used to it?

No, I know what you mean, I've seen this happen with very cheap (or not cheap but just rubbish/spyware) brands/models that quickly filled the system partition over time with bloatware during updates.

Being cheap, the system partition was already tight on purchase, so the bloat/spyware quickly turns it unusable. The cheaper models tend to have inadequate storage to begin with and install bloat/spyware to subsidize them.

I just don't think it's an "Android" thing, most of those can be revitalized by installing a custom ROM without the spyware (but the crappiest brands are probably not even FLOSS-supported).

What is your device brand+model?

[nottorp]

Hmm mine is a Galaxy A21s.

/dev/block/dm-4 3.4G 3.4G 22M 100% /

/dev/fuse 23G 14G 8.2G 64% /storage/emulated

I haven't worked with AOSP in ages, just normal apps. Is root supposed to be 100% full?

[kaoD]

Honestly it's been a while for me too and I don't even know how to see the actual device partitions instead of just mounts (e.g. I think in this case your / is just a read-only ramdisk so it doesn't really matter what df says... mine is 100% too.)

I don't even know how this works anymore since I think since Android 10 they use some sort of overlay FS for updates?

I tried installing parted on Termux but it refuses to do so and I have no energy to fight it.

I know it's cliché but... have you tried a factory reset?

[nottorp]

> I know it's cliché but... have you tried a factory reset?

I will when it starts to annoy me.

Or I may just get a new phone the next time I need to do Android. This one has 12, they're at 15 now. I may need to be on whatever's the latest on a new project, whenever that comes (not soon).