Well, I'm glad that you like the screen quality but you're missing the point. The screen is great, but there shouldn't be a setting that locks down the browser brightness to 80%.
The Phone stalls A LOT. But there is a fix, and now all of my apps open instantly and the capacitive buttons work right when you touch them. Ive also fixed the GPS, all of this stuff is on XDA guys.
Im used to iTunes so when i plug the Vibrant into the computer, i have to go to "computer" and all it shows is "removable device J" and "removable device K". Click on it and it says" please insert disk".
Is that whats supposed to happen? Is that where you drag and drop stuff onto a Micro SD card? Because it isnt even showing anything on the inserted 2GB card with Avatar on it.
Also when my battery icon shows 3/4 of the way charged, when i go into settings> about phone>status>, it says battery level was 43%. When it was halfway, it said 35%. I think something is off as far as how much battery is actually left. Hopefully it is the the one in "about phone".
OK guys, its been almost three days with the device I can safety report the bugs I found so far.
Such a thread is much needed and if a moderator can stick it would be great.
All of you please feel free to post your comments and/or your additions.
Here we go:
- The most important bug is the Java script handling in browser. This bug forces the browser to crash when visited popular webpages. See this thread here.
- When Google Contact contains birthday entry but this entry only includes DAY and MONTH without the YEAR then this contact is not accessible from the phone.
- In Taskbar the Bluetooth button opens the Bluetooth settings instead on Power ON/Off the Bluetooth as it should.
- The battery indicator is wrong. I have 69% of battery and by looking the indicator looks like I am still on 90%!
- If you set your SMS settings to NOT delete any SMS you will keep getting an annoying popup telling you to choose if you want to set automatic delete for SMS. Even if you choose NO you will get this notification every time you open messaging.
- If I get a new email in my PC and read it. The phone checks for new messages after couple of minutes. It will download the message you previously read but it will notify you that you have a new email. You click on the new email and only to find out that it only contains the email you previously read. This applies to IMAP server. I am not using GMAIL and I am not sure if this bug is present there.
- T-Mobiles Visual Voicemail is build-in the firmware. Even thought a newer version of this app is available in the market we cannot install it.
- Clicking to Facebook notifications from both the Taskbar or from within the Contacts will open Facebook Mobile in browser and not the Facebook App.
- The *#*#checkin#*#* does not work for me. The code is accepted but I am never getting a Checkin success message or any other error message.
- The native Gallery app cannot display Facebook Albums. If I am not mistaken this function was available in the preproduction units (This is not a bug but a missing function)
- SMS Delivery Reports create a new notification every time a message is delivered. (This is not a bug but it is really annoying, it feels its like 1999 all over again loool)
With all the respect what is the point of your post?1. I checked that thread, only happened with the Greek sites, could be due to poor internationalized support??
2. If I ever keep track of birthdays, I also put the year. Kinda ocd like that, so haven't seen it
3. This is one of those how you feel about it things. Touching this button isn't the same as with the wifi button, as that simply turns it on or off.
4. I think the batter icon is using a exponential or logarithmic scale as I've seen the same thing on my Behold II. I'm thinking their thinking on this isn't to show you the raw percentage but a relative percentage based off of expected performance of the phone. Think of it like the miles remaining meter on newer cars. Depending on how you drive changes how much the computer things how many miles is left in the tank, not how many gallons. So I think this is more of a how ever you feel about it, but doubt it will change.
5. Geez some of these things you call "bugs" are just ui "features" Maybe not well thought out like the bluetooth/wifi buttons, but I dont think they are bugs. Anyways I think their thoughts on this was to keep the sms databases small. I know with my previous experience with the Behold II, if I didn't delete messages after a while, the messaging app would lag big time.
6. Haven't delt with that, so it could be a bug.
7. I think this is more to do with the market and not the phone.
8. This probably has to do with touchwiz ui. Think of the way file types on a pc are mapped to particular programs. doc for ms word, txt for notepad, etc. Similar idea in Android. Actions are mapped to different things, and thats why you get the pick default option if you have more then one program that can handle some action. In this case, either a) its hard mapped to use the browser(more then likely the case) or b) the facebook app hasn't been built to specify that action. But then even the facebook app sends you to the browser for things, so I've never used the app.
9. I dont know what this does, but reading this post, http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/38801-checkin.html . Its like the check for update item in the settings menu. I'd say meh whatev on this point.
10. You might be confusing that with the real feature of Picasa web albums. The gallery app will show your picasa album thats linked to your google account used on the phone.
11. You can turn this off in the messenger app. Also something to point out, you can turn off notifications in the default messenger app and use whatever one you like.
So final thoughts. Most of these are just maybe some sticking points on your personal preference on doing things, not generally bugs. Except for 1,2,6,7. They are what I would think of as bugs as they affect the functionality of the phone.
This isn't a bug but the lights on the capacitive keys goes out way too fast. I can't see them in the dark and end up pushing the wrong one most of the time.
My bad i didnt mean to post the issue post in here but i guess its better then making a whole new thread thats already been started
The whole browser closing on java websites is killing me... I cant even open woot.com
Not saying this is a fix, but in the mean time, I've tested Opera and it appears to work fine (including woot.com). Again, I think this issue needs to be fixed, just letting you know there is a work around. Hopefully it gets fixed in the first software update they release.
Hope that helps.
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