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I don't know what's the problem Google has with SIM storage.
Because the very limited SIM storage space is completely inadequate for the requirements of a modern smart phone.
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Since the beginning of time, mobile phones give you the option to store both your messages and your contacts to the SIM card, and to move them to/from the phone memory.
Yes the SIM card was introduced 20 years ago, phones have changed a lot since then, AFAIK SIM cards haven't.
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Because the very limited SIM storage space is completely inadequate for the requirements of a modern smart phone.
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'128K' is that kilobytes or kilobits? I assume that's the storage capacity. Whatever it is, I'm sure it's woefully inadequate for the amount of information I store about my contacts.
1: The ability to switch seamlessly and automatically between the regular network and wi-fi for making calls and sending texts. My office has almost no actual cell phone reception and I can neither call nor text, which is a bit annoying. I know there are free text apps that work over wi-fi but I don't want to ask every single person I know to program a second number for me into their phone.
2: This will never happen, but I'd love to see every Android device shipped with an "Administrator Privileges" toggle in settings. No more rooting required.
3: It'd also be nice to have the phone automatically switch to the mobile network if the wi-fi signal is poor (under a certain speed) or even use a simultanous combination of the mobile network and the wi-fi signal to attain the best possible connection no matter where you are. Not sure if that's possible, but it would be cool. As it is, my Inspire will ignore the mobile network entirely if it has even a hint of wi-fi connectivity, even when there's not enough to actually do anything with it.
Okay, wish list. They're lotsa things that have bothered me about android, but many of them I've managed to get around by installing new apps, etc. However, I reckon if you have to install a new rom to fix something, that's a failure of the original system. . .
• Screen timeout. A minute is too short, two is too long. Maybe I'm being too picky, but this annoys me.
• KEYBOARD! Gah! This is the major problem I have with android - the whole text-entry thang. It annoys me enough that it'll make me think twice before getting another android device. I know I can download another keyboard, but I shouldn't have to. And the problem is not just the shoddy layout, it's that the word-prediction auto correct thing is really irritating, I can't edit the custom dictionary, changing settings just makes a bad thing different, and swype, although I like the concept, just produces too many errors. On a desktop or laptop qwerty keyboard I am a fast and accurate typist. . . but if I posted this without editing, it wouldn't make much sense. It's making mistakes with maybe every sixth word - that's far too much. And what's going on with the screen turning blue, jumping up and down, beeping? Is it trying to tell me off? Punish me? Trying to commit suicide by making me smash the phone? Or just reminding me that it's
rubbish?
• It'd be nice to be able to place my own files (.doc, .pdf, etc) anywhere on the desktops, rather than have to access them through 'my files'.
• It'd be nice to be able to connect to any laptop or pc without having to install kies, and access the phone through explorer.
Otherwise, I like it.
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Okay, wish list. They're lotsa things that have bothered me about android, but many of them I've managed to get around by installing new apps, etc. However, I reckon if you have to install a new rom to fix something, that's a failure of the original system. . .
• Screen timeout. A minute is too short, two is too long. Maybe I'm being too picky, but this annoys me.
• KEYBOARD! Gah! This is the major problem I have with android - the whole text-entry thang. It annoys me enough that it'll make me think twice before getting another android device. I know I can download another keyboard, but I shouldn't have to. And the problem is not just the shoddy layout, it's that the word-prediction auto correct thing is really irritating, I can't edit the custom dictionary, changing settings just makes a bad thing different, and swype, although I like the concept, just produces too many errors. On a desktop or laptop qwerty keyboard I am a fast and accurate typist. . . but if I posted this without editing, it wouldn't make much sense. It's making mistakes with maybe every sixth word - that's far too much. And what's going on with the screen turning blue, jumping up and down, beeping? Is it trying to tell me off? Punish me? Trying to commit suicide by making me smash the phone? Or just reminding me that it's
rubbish?
• It'd be nice to be able to place my own files (.doc, .pdf, etc) anywhere on the desktops, rather than have to access them through 'my files'.
• It'd be nice to be able to connect to any laptop or pc without having to install kies, and access the phone through explorer.
Otherwise, I like it.
In regard to a the keyboard, that is the beauty and main marketing point of Android you design/customize your device to your liking. So I'll have to disagree with your, " I know I can download another keyboard, but I shouldn't have to." point.
IIRC, ICS will give us a completely different stock keyboard.
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• It'd be nice to be able to connect to any laptop or pc without having to install kies, and access the phone through explorer.
You can do that already. When you connect, pull down the notification screen, select the connection, and change it to USB Mass Storage. Then it acts just like a thumb drive.
The text entry biz. . . yes, I've tried changing my keyboard, and you're right, it did help a bit. . . I think the issues I'm having are also settings-related. . . I've tried changing speed v accuracy, word prediction on / off, that sort of thing. . . but swype and I just aren't mates. . . Yes, I'm hoping ICS will improve things. . . ergonomically (sorta) I prefer swype to the old-skool predictive text entry, I just find all the errors I make frustrating. . .
I'd recommend using the autosuggest feature instead of autocorrect.
Type the first two or three characters of the word you're trying to type (you can even mess up and accidentally hit the keys next to the ones you're trying to hit) and then a bunch of suggestions will come up. Tap the suggestion you want and then it'll fill in and add a space. Then you can start typing the next word.
Android needs notification previews on the lockscreen. It's been around for a while on jailbroken iphones with apps like Lockinfo and now it's built into the new iOS 5. Why can't Android do this? Executive Assistant is the closest thing but still buggy and doesn't work properly all the time.
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My wish:
An ipsec VPN client that works with Group Authentication. I know this issue was closed by Google as being in ICS, but from what I have read they "fixed" it by including/allowing Cisco AnyConnect, which doesn't really address the large number of people out there whose workplaces use Group Authentication.
Hopefully I am wrong and regular old group authentication will work in ICS out of the box.
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Android is the perfect mobile OS in my opinion, they just need to work out some little things, like integrating some customization options.
For example, it's ridiculous that we have to download some app to keep the screen on while using Google Maps with GPS to see our location (without the navigation)
Also, the wifi sleep time is too long. C'mon, 15 minutes? If I unlock it just to check the time, the wifi will take another 15 minutes to be shut down, thus draning more battery.
There are many apps that serve as work-arounds of that should be already in the OS, imo. Work that out, and there you are.
I'd like to be able to set different sounds for sms, email, and calendar. . . And it'd also be nice not to have to go through a three stage process to turn the phone off -.surely two stages is enough?
Press and hold the power button then select power off. What's the third step?
It's probably confirming that you do, in fact, want to power off. I'm not using a stock rom (I'm using CyanogenMod), but on my phone, I have the option to turn that confirmation dialogue off.
Hello people. I went through quite a few suggestions you people made. I realized that most of the features that were not in the android in the past and were suggested here are NOW in it. So I'm hoping my voice gets heard too.
One thing I realized an hour ago about android is that though it allows some apps to be downloaded to the external SD card, its not really the way i (or anyone else) would want it. So the ONE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE I'll like on the android is that if it uses the SD card for all the installations and downloads by default.
I'll explain:
So i downloaded this game- "NFL Pro HD" by gameloft from the market. It was free. It also had the option of moving it to the external sd card and I have an 8Gb on board so i was like woohoo phone memory saved! But I was wrong. It got moved to the external sd card alright. But that was just 10mb. When i started the game it downloaded an extra 190 mb. Now there are two issues here that I have.
First. I have an sd card installed. The game itself is on the sd card. Then why, when it downloaded that 190 mb, it went to my phone memory? I mean this doesnt make sense. Why would the developers even bother to allow an app to be moved to the sd card when its going to download hundreds of MB later and dump it into my phone memory? I felt cheated. I mean, why would the developers first create such an amazing OS, and then leave out something like this out of their logic?
secondly: Now I dont know who to blame for this. but the game downloaded 190mb. But when the download finally finished and I checked my memory, that particular game had 800mb on my phone storage some how! i went to My Files>Android>data> and I long pressed 'com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftNFHM' and then a menu popped up and I tapped on 'details'. I shows 879.8 mb.
This further aggravates my first problem.
And this is the case with most apps. What is quoted, say, 15Mb on the market after installations becomes 25mb or something like that.
I atleast have 4gb internal out of which i can access 1.5gb as my phone memory. I just wonder what would have happened if i had bought a phone with 320mb internal memory.
You might want to upgrade your phone and your version of Android, given that many of your requests have already been implemented:
1. Two-finger resizing came in with Froyo.
2. Google Earth was on my Froyo Droid and is on my ICS Galaxy Nexus.
3. Tethering support is available with ICS, perhaps with earlier versions.
4. Screen sensing the phone orientation has been in Android since whatever came before Froyo.
When I read this email this morning, I came to the forum to see whether for some reason I was reading two-year old mail.
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Instead of discussing crazy apps that would be cool, I think there is still a lot of basic feature improvement that can be done to Android (which might include integrating some current apps in the OS).
Thought it would be good to have this in one convenient thread for the google developers to be able to take note.
Here's a list to get the ball rolling (not in any particular order of importance)
1. Better Caller ID (This might be T-Mobile's fault, but all the numbers that I used to get ID'd, show up as "unknown").
2. Bluetooth Voice recognition? I couldn't get it to work with my motorola set.
3. Virtual Keyboard - I like the Vista Tablet model, but in this case, you would use your thumb to slide the keyboard out when you need it, kind of like you slide out the Main Menu. Although if that got in the way, maybe you could access it through the menu button.
4. I want the option to auto-mount the sd card when connected via USB put back in menu as a check box.
5. Also, the option to choose the time-interval between data auto-syncs.
6. Better battery management functions, profiles, and quicker access to screen brightness, and the other functions that Toggle provides.
7. Make the alarm clock more like Klaxon (minus all the crashing). Big snooze button, back button = dismiss, ability to select any audio in system or sd card, ability to change snooze length (in 1 minutes intervals).
8. Option to remove unnecessary apps, like Amazon MP3.
9. Ability to setup multiple gmail accounts (with one set to master account)
10. Improve email app, allow for multiple message delete, empty trash, search mail
11. Add in-browser Flash support
12. Add OpenOffice-like app to not only read, but create new docs and save to sd card.
13. Add PDF support.
14. Add a file manager. I like Bender, but I think with the support of Google devs, we can make an even better one that integrates a little more seemlessly.
15. Google Earth!!!!!!! I was shocked to see my brother pull up Earth on his ITOUCH!!!! and ashamed that my Google, yeah that's right GOOGLE, phone could not do the same
16. Speaking of iPhones, the two-fingered zoom in/out is just awesome. Not sure if that is software or hardware, but it's just a huge difference is usability. And you won't hear me praise many things about the iPhone.
17. VPN functionality.
18. Fix Auto-connect WiFi. I almost always have to go in and manually connect, says connection problem, but then connects manually just fine.
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19. I have a lot of Google Map connectivity issues, while being able to use other network apps fine, could be google server issue. Don't think it is T-Mobile (I'm in LA)
20. Sync contacts with popular desktop apps, such as Evolution, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc...
21. I am not big on IM, but I've heard a lot of frustration in this area, maybe someone else can give input here.
22. I'm going to steal from another thread, even though this is hardware related. I think we need a VGA video camera in the front for video-conferencing. Can you please release this OTA?
23. Tethering phone to laptop.
24. What do you call it when the screen senses the orientation of the phone, well I want that.
25. How could I forget? ability to copy and paste text from non-text edit modes. Maybe special text selection mode?
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OK, whew, that's all I got.
But to finish, I never expected the G1 to be perfect, it's 1st gen, so as Beta testers, hopefully Google/HTC/Tmobile are listening to us to improve not only our phones but the next gen as well.
Hey, free consumer feedback right here. We are your customers. Make us happy.
Music player
GPS
Video player
Phone
Address book
Game player
Web Browser
Book reader
Video conferencing
Still Camera
Video Camera
Calendar - Appointment
Instant messenger
Texting device
Picture messenger
Video messenger
Audio file messenger
Clock / Alarm Clock
News reader
Magazine reader
Social networking
Internet Radio
FM Radio
Television
Document reader
Bar code scanner
Voice recorder
E-Mail Device
Online Shopping device
Credit card / Debit card (with NFC chip)
Flash Light
TV Remote (Google TV)
Maps device
It would be even greater if they can function as
Reliable VPN to work
Free cloud storage and access
Identity or access card
Document creator/editor
In fact, people will want phone to replace Personal Computer completely.
I (and others in this thread) would like to set different notification alert behavior from sms, google talk, facebook messenger, voicemail, etc etc. It is pretty fundamental to be able to customize notification settings with different profiles e.g. for sleeping, meetings, driving, etc.
Profile apps exist, but they only have overarching control over notification and ringer mode that effect all notifications. Changing notifications for individual apps requires going into the apps' individual settings options one at a time.
Android should be set up such that each event inside of each app that might potentially generate a notification goes into a centralized system list. In settings the user can then go into that list and the *user* chooses how they want to be notified for each event, whether that is a ringtone, vibrate, led, notification icon, etc. This list of settings could then be altered with profiles.
Note that in this setup an incoming phone call would just another line in this list of events (at the top presumably), no need for separate ringer control. Alarms would also be in this list. Then there is no need for the current implementation of silent mode, or vibrate mode, etc. There are just notification profiles where the notification you will get in each profile for each type of event is explicitly and clearly specificed.
There needs to be a standardized way to close apps from inside the app (the moral equivalent of the "X" at the top of each windows program). I think the way the recent apps page is set up is great on ICS for switching back and forth between active apps, and flicking them off the screen to close is all great. But this gets all cluttered with apps I was done with and exited by hitting the "home" button because there wasn't an easy way to just close it. As it is, I either have to hunt through menus to find the "exit" option, or go to the recent apps page and find it. Please just give me an "X" to close an app from inside the app if I'm done with it.
(as an aside, does flicking an app off of the recent apps page really even close it? For example navigation keeps giving me turn by turn directions even after I flick it off of "recent apps" and it no longer appears in this list. I have to reopen navigation and find the "exit navigation" before it will shut up.)
It's not easy in android to see and control your data connection. I'm working with ics on a galaxy nexus.
Ideally, a control (probably similar to the power control widget) would exist that would have selectable buttons for all possible data connections (e.g. wifi, 3G, 4G, etc.) Signal bars would be displayed for all connections that were enabled, the one that is actively being used would be clearly displayed and selectable, and you could enable/disable the wifi, 3g, or 4g radio, etc. right from this same control.
This feature would make it clear at a glance which data connections are currently enabled, which have signal available, and which is actively being used for data transfer.
Today, a friend with a galaxy nexus running ICS sent me a txt to my galaxy nexus running ICS. Apparently delivery failed or something--Her SMS log has the txt in it, but if you look at the exact same txt conversation in my SMS history, that txt (containing important information, btw) is just not there.
I don't know if she had the "delivery reports" option selected in messenger or not. But, the feature I would request is to have txt delivery verification happen for every txt sent behind the scenes. If delivery fails, a big, red, unmissable notification that delivery failed should appear beside that txt in the conversation so you know the person never got it. And when you click on the notification it should give you the option to "resend." Or heck, skip that and just automatically resend it a time or two and only bother the user about it if it really looks like the txt isn't going to go through after multiple repeats.
The way the sms logs are set up as conversations really reinforces the assumption that if a txt was sent, it was received. When deliveries fail, that needs to be made unmistakably clear to the sender.
(side note: I really want to love this phone and be a die hard android supporter, guys. I'm a techie target-android-market type who is bugged by apple's closed ecosystem, etc, etc. But man, it feels like I'm a beta tester for a glitchy half baked product here. I'm doing my best to come here to this forum and provide some feedback in hopes it will get back to google and help them better android over time. But it doesn't quite feel right to shell out $300 plus being locked into a 2 yr contract at $90 for the privilege.)
Telemarketers or unwanted people calling from "Unknown Number"? It would be good to call "Unknown Number" with your number automatically getting hidden or being "Unknown Number" without exposing your real number and it getting into unwanted people's database in case your forget to hide your number manually.
I recently bought an Acer Liquid Metal which has Android 2.3. I'm quite happy with it but there is something spoiling my enjoyment of the phone that could easily be fixed within Android. The problem is eye fatigue. When i scroll the display in any direction i get eye fatigue because the scrolling is not 100% smooth. The display moves a few lines or pixels at a time and it is the skipping of several pixels which is causing the jerky movement.
On my previous phone, the Orange San Francisco, the scrolling would move 1 line or pixel at a time, which produced a much smoother effect. The San Francisco was on Android 2.1 and had much smoother scrolling and there was no eye strain or fatigue with the San Francisco whatsoever. The problem is happening in my new phone because during scrolling the whole display is moving at less than 60 frames per second. If the refresh is less than 60 frames per second then your brain notices the movement and you get eye strain. This is why the old CRT monitors had to be set at a refresh rate of 75Hz or higher to prevent eye strain.
The San francisco had a much higher frame rate because the display moved one pixel at a time during scrolling. I am wondering if this is part of the reason why Android 2.3 seems to respond faster than Android 2.1. If Android 2.3 skips several lines or pixels during scrolling operations then that reduces the load on the processor and the phone will seem to respond faster, but this is at the expense of getting eye strain.
For future releases of Android i would like to have some control over how smooth the scrolling is by specifying whether scrolling should be 1 pixel at a time and be smooth, or if scrolling should skip several pixels and be jerky as it currently is on my current phone.
What I want to see is a voice unlock option. You would obviously be an idiot to use that option around people, but there are times, like in the car, when a voice unlock would be awesome. Maybe simply say the password to unlock the phone, or something along those lines.
Also, I don't know if this is relevant to this thread, but I wish the market had a wishlist of some kind. Tons of times I see apps or games I know I will want in the future that I don't want to buy this second, then I forget all about them later on. Yeah I know I could write it down or something, but I would much prefer a wishlist of some kind.
Currently, android lack the following major features:
1. Adhoc network support
2. Support for large files (>4GB). The only file system android supports for external SD card is FAT32, which does not allow files larger than 4GB. What is the point of having HD screen and dual/quad cores processors when you cannot put a HD films in your phone?
Please enlighten me on this topic. As far as I have tried, Android only support ext4 as internal storage, not for external SD card. I have tried formatting my SD card as Ext4 as well as using Android Revolution HD ROM (which was said to fully support Ext4), and my HTC Sensation refuses to mount the SD card due to unsupported file system. I will be very happy to be proven wrong.
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Please add fine volume control.
Currently I cannot use my cell phone as an MP3 player because there are only 16 volume levels.
It's either too loud or too silent.
Other MP3 players and operating systems have 100 volume levels so that you can find your favorite level for each song.
With Android it's a nightmare to use headphones because the volume buttons of the headphones do the same as the cell phone:
They decrease/increase the volume too inaccurately.
If we have more volume levels, that problem will be gone!
Being able to select multiple addresses from contact lists for SMS and email.
Ability to send SMS and emails to groups.
1) Streaming radio
2) OpenVPN client
3) ability to sudo to root ( I had my sdcard fs corrupted and I dismayed to find that there is not a way to fsck the disk without attaching the phone to a real computer)
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I wish that my Android would store photos that I have taken with the camera in a separate location than images such as album cover art that are downloaded through media player programs such as Juke Fox. When I go to my phone to find a photo, I have to wade through all the album covers as well. This keeps me from wanting to use my camera phone features as much as I otherwise would.
A different theme and more UI consistency. I'm not sold on this dark, geeky, theme and it's really annoying hunting for the three dot icon to find settings. Also, some settings menus are grey and some are black. Some apps have an exit menu item, most don't.
1. An ability to remove pre loaded apps
2. A single button to turn off ALL location/GPS data to all apps
3. This may exist but damned if I know how to do it...The ability to use ALL of a photo as wallpaper (when I select a picture as wallpaper, the phone crops the photo to a fraction of its size...very annoying)
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