Previously under settings-battery, you got a nice battery icon showing the available charge and when you clicked on it, you got a break down of the usage. This seems to be gone with gingerbread.
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The color of the Bluetooth icon on the notification bar is just dumb. Unfilled (hollow) logo when disconnected, filled white when connected. It was (prior to the update) filled-blue when connected. I find this silly since they re-colored so many of the notification icons blue when active (wi-fi, 3g). Too nitpicky?
And I hate hate HATE that a load of apps I have are now incompatible with my phone. I use poweramp more than anything and now when i use it it always reboots my phone which leads me tothat my next gripe..
Am I the only one having bluetooth issues? Since the OTA Gingerbread update, my bluetooth connection to my car resets about 4 times per hour. Previous to the update, I think it happened twice in the last 6 months.
What kind of car? I have a 2011 Fusion with the regular SYNC system, and the update has resulted in *less* BT disconnects.
Am I the only one having bluetooth issues? Since the OTA Gingerbread update, my bluetooth connection to my car resets about 4 times per hour. Previous to the update, I think it happened twice in the last 6 months.
Also, I'm not a fan of the dark bar at the top, and what seems to be smaller darker icons. Just doesn't make sense to me.
A classic example of......
You can please all the people some of the time,
Some of the people all the time,
But you can't please all the people all the time.
Try this:Does anyone know how this can be beaten?? I have to leave for a full day and now I will have to dial in 20 times a day to check VMs
Try this:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.toremote.audio.freeplayer
I used this back on 2.1 when Android could pretty much not play any files recorded by voice mail systems. Still works for me on 2.3,
welcome!...hope you stick around!Hello,
Recent forum lurker, first-time poster.
First surprise was the blue theme to everything. Any fan of Futurama knows that Gray is the neutral color. Blue is decidedly...biased. Forcing blue on the population seemed rather odd.
the dock is a built in feature of Android....so not having one would actually be less "droid-ish"The app tray button. I like the idea of having four permanent slots on a dock that maintains it's position through the different home screens. I don't like that the app tray button is treated as just another icon. I guess it's really aesthetics, but I really liked the centered arrow button. The four permanent slots makes it looks, somehow, much less droid-ish. Reminds me of an old PDA somehow.
well they needed a way to try and incorporate the new "groups" feature of the app drawer to organize apps...I'm not sure if I like the fact that there are multiple steps to adding an app to the homepage.
Previously, when you slide the home page left and right, a small 'house' symbol with two dots on either side would pop up, allowing you to very quickly choose a page. That...gone. Now just five small slivers at the bottom indicating which page you're on. (Sorry if page and home page are incorrect terminology). I really liked that, now it's gone.
i agree about the battery usage...but i think the rest of the UI is a whole universe better than Froyo...There is definitely a lack of...smooth/flowing/artsy design to the new UI. Too...something. Illustrated by the look of the keyboard.
--Looking at the Battery Usage chart, the very top looks like it's some half-done bit of design, stuff missing. After looking at it forever I think I've determined that it's a usage line graph with an ultra-thin blue activity bar graph below it. I tap on it and voila, more ugly, almost label-less charts...which I can't actually see a use for besides mundane curiosity.
Less flow than before, more...simplistic grid.
no, they didn't say that at all...they said "please" instead of "fool"Someone earlier said the complaints were an example of the old Lincoln saying: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Pretty much.
But considering that Droid's catchphrase "Droid does...," implying that Droid does...a lot, it's strange that such simple UI bits such as color and layout aren't open to easy manipulation. For something that costs so many hundreds of dollars and is billed as such a gob-smacking piece of work (which it is for the most part)...
"You can have any color you want...as long as it's black."
The problems with the compass being backward and the camera not saving your resolution setting aren't things I don't like - they're things that don't work correctly. There's a difference.
The time it takes to boot the phone is excruciatingly long. Although I noticed that the phone is a little more responsive as soon as the lock screen comes on compared to before...
1 minute is a long time??...thats roughly how long it takes my phone to boot...if you are seeing much longer times than that...something is wrong...
Its only a long time cuz I use poweramp when im at the gym.. and since the gb update poweramp keeps rebooting or locking up my phone. When im running I really don't want to stop to pull out my battery and I really hate it when I have earphones in my head that aren't playing any music because my damn phone is taking forever to boot up.
A classic example of......
You can please all the people some of the time,
Some of the people all the time,
But you can't please all the people all the time.
i agree with things like menu colour and dialer ui. those are a matter of personal preference.
but things like led notifications not working, launcher led issues compass problems and other various things that do not work properly since GB. no its not a matter of pleasing the masses.. its a lack of proper testing on Moto's part to ensure the update works and doesnt create more problems than its trying to fix.
Previously under settings-battery, you got a nice battery icon showing the available charge and when you clicked on it, you got a break down of the usage. This seems to be gone with gingerbread.
Don't like:
Battery life less than on ApeX 1.4.0 (gonna let it settle down a few days before I really start fussing)
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Really HATE the BRIGHT backlights for the menu buttons! HATE IT!
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