I liked the little led light at the top that would blink for notification

The core apps (like messaging, and calendar) being free software and open source.

• Headphone jack.
• Removable batteries.
• Sidekick/Palmtop form factor with the full width keyboard.
• MicroSD Card slot, and OS support for executing software and accessing data on the card.

no headphone jack is shitty but god i fucking loathe typing on a touchscreen keyboard

HEADPHONE JACK - I scream into the void

Control over it.

Unimpeded root. You can still get it on maybe a handful of phones but apps are getting harder and harder to run with it enabled.

I just want the LG G5 back. It had a(n):

• Removable battery
• SD card slot
• Infrared blaster
• FM Radio
• 3.5mm jack
• Compass
• Barometer
• Gyro
• NFC
• Fingerprint reader

And a ton of other stuff. Truly the best android phone ever made

Closest I can find now is the Ulefone line (no removable battery) but I have no idea if they’re decent phones or not.

IR transmitters

Miracast (in base open source Android, especially access to the ability to receive)

Scrolling notification text in the notification bar (seriously, that was sooooo much better than the obnoxious new default pop-up notifications)

A bunch of permissions that’s been too locked down (stuff used by Tasker, networking tools, etc)

Being able to take out the battery so that I can swap it with a pre-charged one. Those were great times. Then you can just throw the nearly-dead one on the charger.

This is identical to having the super power of being able to restart your phone to get a full battery charge.

Replaceable battery

AUX plug

Expandable storage by SD card

Did I say replaceable battery already?

Edit: oh and non-edged screens (the roundings on the side, don’t know the official name… But it sucks and almost all flagship phones have them, or at least when I bought mine 3 years ago, don’t know about now tbh)

I really miss USB Mass Storage mode. Back then you could plug in your phone into your computer and it would just expose the internal storage and SD card as standard usb storage devices. Nowadays you have shitty MTP which works barely if ever, so you’re forced to use either internet or ADB for syncing files. Old way was better.

IIRC you can still enable it if you compile your own kernel but I wish more ROMs shipped with this feature by default.

Replaceable battery. No contest.

Blinking LED when I got a text

finger print scanner being on the back of the phone not under the screen. and headphone jack