I wanted to compile a list of the quirks, glitches and little annoyances I've had with this phone. Overall, it's been a great phone and a welcomed breath of fresh air from the Droid X.
Basically everything I could point out here can be ignored or worked around, but it would be nice if they have a fix or can be fixed in the near future. My hope is that some developer of some sort takes note of my list and uses it for future builds.
If anyone knows of any solutions to the following or has the same issues please feel free to share!
Here's my list:
1) Alarms do not go off long enough: When my alarm goes off in the morning it only plays for one minute before it automatically selects "snooze" for me. It would be nice if there were a setting that allowed the alarm to go off, on loop, indefinitely until it's shut off. Automatic snooze selection after only one minute is sort of counter-intuitive for heavy sleepers.
2) No screen timeout setting for lock screen: I use a numeric pin to lock my phone. When I hit the power button, the screen stays on for 5 seconds before turning off unless I unlock it. When unlocked, the screen remains on for 10 minutes (as I set it). It would be nice if the screen timeout persisted through to the lockout screen as well, or if individual settings existed for each.
3) File and folder locking/hiding without losing accessibility: I like to keep things organized. I hate that my wallpapers and custom icons folders appear in the Gallery list. I find it really annoying that all my ringtones are carefully organized in individual folders by artist only to have the ringtone selector list glom them all together alphabetically along with the horrible default tones. I've seen a lot of apps that allow you to hide folders and I've tried the ".naming" trick to solve this issue. The problem with these methods is, your phone can't see these things anymore either. I've tried selecting/setting them from the back-end via a file manager app, but the phone won't always allow this. It would be nice to have a way to hide things for better organization, but also still have them be able to be selected by the phone providing you know the exact file path.
4) Picture messages view as video clips: Whenever I receive an image via messaging, I click on the image in the text message history to view it. When the image displays, it has movie controls at the bottom and the timeline is running. Every image I receive and view this way is treated as a 4-6 second movie. The problem is that none of these are actual videos or even animated GIFs, they're just still images. The video controls take up a portion of the image and are sort of distracting. It would be nice if there was a way to view them simply as images, because they are images.
5) Battery indicator inaccurate: I downloaded "Quick Battery Widget" to actually see a numeric translation of what percentage my battery was at. Sometimes, the widget will report it's at 30% when the icon in the notification bar appears to be blue and visually at 50%. It would be nice to have a numeric indication and more accurate representation without needing to download an app or widget.
6) Ringtone Cutoff: I've seen this issue mentioned before, but I figured I would add it to my list. Whenever I receive a call, the first second or three of the ringtone I chose plays very quietly, after which it will play at the current volume the phone is set to. It would be nice if the volume could be consistent at all times and didn't cut off the beginning or every ringtone.
7) Front-facing camera quirks: Why can't "add me" be used in the front-facing camera setting? Why aren't different scenes/lighting options available? Why can't the timer be used? It would be nice to have these features when taking pictures with the front-facing camera. It just seems incomplete as is.
8) No date/time display when using PIN?: I use a PIN lock on my phone, which does not display the time or date when viewed (without unlocking it). It would be nice to hit the power button and see the time and date without needing to unlock the phone to get this information while using a PIN lock.
9) Notifications looping: I've noticed that notifications that are in MP3 format loop when played. This is really annoying and certainly must be unintentional.
10) Contact history: It would be really nice if there were an option to never save contact history, particularly for text messages. It's really tedious to delete an entire conversation but still have it exist in the contact history.
I'll edit/update this as I do more research and receive feedback.
Basically everything I could point out here can be ignored or worked around, but it would be nice if they have a fix or can be fixed in the near future. My hope is that some developer of some sort takes note of my list and uses it for future builds.
If anyone knows of any solutions to the following or has the same issues please feel free to share!
Here's my list:
1) Alarms do not go off long enough: When my alarm goes off in the morning it only plays for one minute before it automatically selects "snooze" for me. It would be nice if there were a setting that allowed the alarm to go off, on loop, indefinitely until it's shut off. Automatic snooze selection after only one minute is sort of counter-intuitive for heavy sleepers.
2) No screen timeout setting for lock screen: I use a numeric pin to lock my phone. When I hit the power button, the screen stays on for 5 seconds before turning off unless I unlock it. When unlocked, the screen remains on for 10 minutes (as I set it). It would be nice if the screen timeout persisted through to the lockout screen as well, or if individual settings existed for each.
3) File and folder locking/hiding without losing accessibility: I like to keep things organized. I hate that my wallpapers and custom icons folders appear in the Gallery list. I find it really annoying that all my ringtones are carefully organized in individual folders by artist only to have the ringtone selector list glom them all together alphabetically along with the horrible default tones. I've seen a lot of apps that allow you to hide folders and I've tried the ".naming" trick to solve this issue. The problem with these methods is, your phone can't see these things anymore either. I've tried selecting/setting them from the back-end via a file manager app, but the phone won't always allow this. It would be nice to have a way to hide things for better organization, but also still have them be able to be selected by the phone providing you know the exact file path.
4) Picture messages view as video clips: Whenever I receive an image via messaging, I click on the image in the text message history to view it. When the image displays, it has movie controls at the bottom and the timeline is running. Every image I receive and view this way is treated as a 4-6 second movie. The problem is that none of these are actual videos or even animated GIFs, they're just still images. The video controls take up a portion of the image and are sort of distracting. It would be nice if there was a way to view them simply as images, because they are images.
5) Battery indicator inaccurate: I downloaded "Quick Battery Widget" to actually see a numeric translation of what percentage my battery was at. Sometimes, the widget will report it's at 30% when the icon in the notification bar appears to be blue and visually at 50%. It would be nice to have a numeric indication and more accurate representation without needing to download an app or widget.
6) Ringtone Cutoff: I've seen this issue mentioned before, but I figured I would add it to my list. Whenever I receive a call, the first second or three of the ringtone I chose plays very quietly, after which it will play at the current volume the phone is set to. It would be nice if the volume could be consistent at all times and didn't cut off the beginning or every ringtone.
7) Front-facing camera quirks: Why can't "add me" be used in the front-facing camera setting? Why aren't different scenes/lighting options available? Why can't the timer be used? It would be nice to have these features when taking pictures with the front-facing camera. It just seems incomplete as is.
8) No date/time display when using PIN?: I use a PIN lock on my phone, which does not display the time or date when viewed (without unlocking it). It would be nice to hit the power button and see the time and date without needing to unlock the phone to get this information while using a PIN lock.
9) Notifications looping: I've noticed that notifications that are in MP3 format loop when played. This is really annoying and certainly must be unintentional.
10) Contact history: It would be really nice if there were an option to never save contact history, particularly for text messages. It's really tedious to delete an entire conversation but still have it exist in the contact history.
I'll edit/update this as I do more research and receive feedback.
