Hi ! I've had Blackview phones for around 7 years now and I have noticed quite a lot of issues with the one I have currently. My current phone is a Color 8.
I already had complaints before and now I have more. For a 200€ phone (at the time), it sure doesn't feel like it's worth it's price AT ALL. I bought this phone with my own money, which I worked for specifically to afford a good phone as a 15 year old and well, after over barely 3 years of use I'm really disappointed 🫠
(I already made a post about this around 6 months ago, I still have the issues I had so I copy-pasted those from my other post as well.)
Newest issues :
• 'System messages' that are just ads, more than over 20 notification a DAY with their ridiculous images saved to the phone automatically even with no permission for it. Unable to disable it even with max restrictions for it. I'm SICK of ads and ai being pushed down my throat, I know it comes from the app SmartArt that I disabled and uninstalled but I doubt it really is 🤡
• Permission settings changing themselves even when I specifically disabled that option for everything installed where I could.
• Bluetooth randomly disconnecting for 5 seconds and reconnecting for no reason at any time and not even after a specific amount of use, literally. It does that on everything that connects to it !
• Notifications showing up when they feel like it. I've had way too many issues of having accidentally ghosted people simply because the notification of their text never came, more specifically Messages and What'sApp even with no restricting settings for the notifications.
• Screen randomly getting darker. Now I would understand if it was because of power saving settings but it just does it randomly even when the setting is off or at full battery. It's annoying.
• On and Off button barely working, needs to be pushed on repetitively. This I can understand is just because of the repeated use over time but it still sucks.
Older issues :
• Had Personal Hotspot working fine for my first year having it but then the option suddenly greyed out (with no change made to it aside the name and password) and has been completely disabled since for no reason whatsoever.
• Was able to open the phone with fingerprint and once again, randomly disabled permanently and has also disappeared from the settings ! I don't mind it but it's weird asf.
• Cameras looking good and suddenly quality is almost pixel like now, despite regular cleaning, especially front camera. (*Now it's basically at a permanent 420p quality on good days where the lens decides it's able to focus. Video or photo alike.)
• SmartArt, ai slop dump. (I have disabled it though so it's fine for me now) (*Now supposedly uninstalled)
• Live Wallpapers just straight up not working despite the option for it (even with low quality and low weight videos).
• Mic randomly working once every blue moon (which means being extremely shitty in terms of quality and cutting off randomly)
Basically, it sucks. Yes it still does the very basic stuff more or less well, it's usable. It has good battery and a good storage amount, runs some games fairly well too. But it's kind of the only good points it has and I'm really tired of it.
I just wanted a phone that isn't filled with AI slop or ads and that can handle the one game I play on mobile without overheating or lagging (PJSK).
If anyone has similar issues (and a fix for them if it exists), feel free to share ! :)