So far, I am really enjoying the OP3 (vs the old GS4 it replaced). That being said, I'm on a learning curve on two fronts, moving from a Samsung environment (the GS4) to the OP3, and more importantly, moving from Android 5.0.1 to Android 6.0.1.
A few questions:
1) I had my alert slider set to the mid position (priority) overnight and enabled alarms and repeat callers as well as calls from starred contacts and messages from starred contacts. However, my alarm (set via Timely) did not go off this morning and I assume it has something to do with the alert slider. Any clues what I should tweak to make my alarm work? Or maybe this is a Doze issue?
2) I am not much of a fan of the default dialer. I like to set speed dialers via the dial pad, not from a favorites list. Have I overlooked a setting or do I need to install a 3rd party dialer? If a 3rd party dialer, any good suggestions? I've used a number of them in the past on the GS4 but always went back to the stock dialer after a time because many of the default actions called ithe stock dialer back up, so I figured I might as well just stick with the stock dialer.
3) I use a Pebble Steel watch. I seem to lose BT connectivity occasionally. I have to wonder if that's something to do with Doze. Where can I modify Doze settings? I haven't found anything about Doze in the phone settings. Yet.
Otherwise, I am well on my way to getting my OP3 setup. I decided to continue using Nova Prime vs the OP launcher. I thought I'd save my settings from the old phone, but that turned out to be a bad idea since I have yet to install many of the apps I had on the old phone, so I reset NP, then copied over the main NP settings from Nova settings. That works for me.
I noticed an anomaly with Messenger and Tesla Unread (for my unread message count balloon). Even with all messages read, it still showed one unread message in the balloon. So I switched to Textra and all looks good.
Initially, I had issues with the FPS on my OP3. But it turns out that I was not setting my FPS up correctly. I was trying to use my finger tip instead of my finger print (the whirl). In addition, my finger tips are pretty dry and cracked and were very poor choices to use to setup my FPS. While I could set it up eventually, it was unreliable. When I used the whirl area for FPS setup, my FPS has been absolutely reliable and extremely fast.
I've had no rebooting issues yet when using Waze or Google Maps. I hope my luck holds.
Thus far, I've not found any bugs that affect my usage. Overall, I am extremely pleased with the OP3. Maybe I'll get brave and try a community build after I'm fully setup and functional ... and comfortable.
I'm currently set up using sRGB for my display (never did get the sRGB slider to show after installing 3.2.7 and doing a FDR with sRGB enabled). Believe it or not, I haven't really noticed that much difference between default and sRGB. But perhaps that may have something to do with my brightness settings (more or less mid-range). Anyway, I'm still very early in my setup process and finding my happy place in the OP3 world.
Last, while 64GB is likely plenty of storage for me, I'm used to having spare capacity with my 64GB SD card in my 32GB GS4. So I feel a little naked without that (SD card kept my pics and media data). I'd feel a bit more comfy if the OP3 has 128GB storage. But hey, I figure for the price, I can buy a new OP5 in a couple of years and be up-to-date and have that increased storage and still be ahead of the game vs buying a 2016 flagship from Apple, Samsung, LG, or Google.
I looked at a V20 the other day when I went into the store to get my OP3 set up with a new nano sim. I have to say, the v20 is impressive. But IMO, the OP3 surpasses it in value. If LG would make a Google Play edition (with similar OS updating as a Nexus), I'd love to have that removable battery, IR blaster, and 5.7 inch screen.. as long as it doesn't bootloop. Sigh.
A few questions:
1) I had my alert slider set to the mid position (priority) overnight and enabled alarms and repeat callers as well as calls from starred contacts and messages from starred contacts. However, my alarm (set via Timely) did not go off this morning and I assume it has something to do with the alert slider. Any clues what I should tweak to make my alarm work? Or maybe this is a Doze issue?
2) I am not much of a fan of the default dialer. I like to set speed dialers via the dial pad, not from a favorites list. Have I overlooked a setting or do I need to install a 3rd party dialer? If a 3rd party dialer, any good suggestions? I've used a number of them in the past on the GS4 but always went back to the stock dialer after a time because many of the default actions called ithe stock dialer back up, so I figured I might as well just stick with the stock dialer.
3) I use a Pebble Steel watch. I seem to lose BT connectivity occasionally. I have to wonder if that's something to do with Doze. Where can I modify Doze settings? I haven't found anything about Doze in the phone settings. Yet.
Otherwise, I am well on my way to getting my OP3 setup. I decided to continue using Nova Prime vs the OP launcher. I thought I'd save my settings from the old phone, but that turned out to be a bad idea since I have yet to install many of the apps I had on the old phone, so I reset NP, then copied over the main NP settings from Nova settings. That works for me.
I noticed an anomaly with Messenger and Tesla Unread (for my unread message count balloon). Even with all messages read, it still showed one unread message in the balloon. So I switched to Textra and all looks good.
Initially, I had issues with the FPS on my OP3. But it turns out that I was not setting my FPS up correctly. I was trying to use my finger tip instead of my finger print (the whirl). In addition, my finger tips are pretty dry and cracked and were very poor choices to use to setup my FPS. While I could set it up eventually, it was unreliable. When I used the whirl area for FPS setup, my FPS has been absolutely reliable and extremely fast.
I've had no rebooting issues yet when using Waze or Google Maps. I hope my luck holds.
Thus far, I've not found any bugs that affect my usage. Overall, I am extremely pleased with the OP3. Maybe I'll get brave and try a community build after I'm fully setup and functional ... and comfortable.
I'm currently set up using sRGB for my display (never did get the sRGB slider to show after installing 3.2.7 and doing a FDR with sRGB enabled). Believe it or not, I haven't really noticed that much difference between default and sRGB. But perhaps that may have something to do with my brightness settings (more or less mid-range). Anyway, I'm still very early in my setup process and finding my happy place in the OP3 world.
Last, while 64GB is likely plenty of storage for me, I'm used to having spare capacity with my 64GB SD card in my 32GB GS4. So I feel a little naked without that (SD card kept my pics and media data). I'd feel a bit more comfy if the OP3 has 128GB storage. But hey, I figure for the price, I can buy a new OP5 in a couple of years and be up-to-date and have that increased storage and still be ahead of the game vs buying a 2016 flagship from Apple, Samsung, LG, or Google.
I looked at a V20 the other day when I went into the store to get my OP3 set up with a new nano sim. I have to say, the v20 is impressive. But IMO, the OP3 surpasses it in value. If LG would make a Google Play edition (with similar OS updating as a Nexus), I'd love to have that removable battery, IR blaster, and 5.7 inch screen.. as long as it doesn't bootloop. Sigh.
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