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Things that bug me.

scorrpio

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Oct 26, 2009
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Ok, this is my first day with this OS, so I don't know a whole lot of things about it. I absolutely love how responsive and crisp the screen is, how fast the phone is, I love the design - chin and everything. I really like the browser, keyboard is good, and it got my contacts right away and all that.

But there are a whole bunch of issues that drive me CRAZY.
I got a hard holster for this phone - can I get rid of the blasted screen lock? As in, have it turn off the screen after say 2 minutes, so it doesn't waste battery, but let me wake it up with any touch button. Right now, I am using the crude solution of setting the screen to 'never time out', and using manual lock button.

What's up with voice commands via bluetooth? Why can't I tap the button on my earpiece and speak a command to make a call? I used this feature a lot with my previous phone (Moto Q9c)

What's with the speaker? I set volume to max, but anything I play is barely audible. I had ok sounds when I just got phone, but then went into this 'perma-quiet mode'.

So, I get an SMS. I pull down the 'shade', see that it is something I don't need to read. Why do I need to:
Open it
Hold 'menu' key till context menu appears.
Tap 'Delete'
Confirm that I need to delete it?
When all I want is: open shade, long-press the message, have a context menu popup, hit delete - and have an option to perma-disable the confirmation window.

I already found this SuperDialer app that is muchg better thhan the default dialer, and I did find a filemanager app. Is there something like a registry editor?

I want to love ths phone, but coming from a WinMo device, I feel like I downgraded from a PC to an abacus in terms of things I can set to my liking.

So, any pointers for the problems I list? Cause Touch Pro 2 is starting to look a whol lot more appealing to me right now...
 
Going to check out sms popup. Also, I found that restarting the phone returns speaker volume to normal. It must be a bug in some stock app. (Dialer and file manager being only installs I did)

Oh well, journey has begun. But if I can't hit the same flexibility I had via registry editor in WinMo, it might be a short journey...

Posted from the Droid. :]
 
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