Moving from BlackBerry to Android
I have moved from Blackberry to a Sony Xperia Z3 compact. Currently it feels to me like the dumbest smartphone ever.
Here are my most urgent problems:
1. I run four e mail accounts, two are accessed via web browser and two are "Talk Talk" personal accounts. My problem is this: my phone often fails to send an e mail and I often don't notice the tiny and briefly visible "not sent" message. In order to see whether a message has gone or not I have to come out of the "Combined inbox" and into each individual account inbox. Then for each account I have to scroll down to find the "sent" and "outbox" folders to determine whether each e mail has gone or not. To me this is madness and very time consuming when you send as many e mails as I have to from four different accounts. On a Blackberry there is one icon for "all accounts" or you can chose from separate icon for each account. Whether in the all accounts or the individual ones the messages BOTH IN AND OUT are displayed in order of sending/receiving. Each message has a tick or a cross next to it so you can easily see if the message has gone or not.
Does anyone know how to replicate this on my Android phone? It seems obvious to me this is how it should work especially as my Android phone seems far less reliable for e mails than my Blackberry.
2. The second most useful feature of the BlackBerry was the large flashing red light to alert you of incoming messages. I've seen that I'm not alone in missing this but some people seem to want the full multi coloured LED. I just want ANY visible sign of a new message. My phone does seem to have a very tiny white LED (On a white phone??) but it's almost impossible to see. Any thoughts on this would be welcome - even if there's a better Android phone out there with a decent LED notification.
3 The phone almost continually "buffers" when either changing from viewing one e mail account to another or when trying to delete e mails. If I delete more than 6 e mails it can buffer for five minutes or more.
4. Alarm. Apart from the useless Clock it now has following an "update" which is not easy to use to change the alarm time (what was wrong with the 24 hr clock which you simply scrolled through?) the most annoying thing is that unlike a Blackberry you cannot seem to put it to sleep and have it wake itself up at the prescribed alarm time? What is really annoying about this is that being a "smartphone" it uses much more battery life than the old blackberry yet wastes most of it during the night if I use it as an alarm! If I leave it on and waste the battery then I have to remember to turn the sound down or be woken every few minutes by incoming emails. Of course I then have to remember to reset the sound in the morning otherwise I won't hear my incoming calls or message. I thought smart phones were supposed to make life easier not much harder?
5 Finally (although there are many more less important problems) it simply refuses to sync with my two Talk Talk (Tiscali) e mail accounts. I've tried the recommended delete and start again with no luck. The phone is definitely set to auto sync. This is really irritating as I obviously have open/delete every e mail twice once on the phone and once on the PC when I'm working form my home office.
Any constructive thoughts and advice would be gratefully received.
Many thanks
Mark
I have moved from Blackberry to a Sony Xperia Z3 compact. Currently it feels to me like the dumbest smartphone ever.
Here are my most urgent problems:
1. I run four e mail accounts, two are accessed via web browser and two are "Talk Talk" personal accounts. My problem is this: my phone often fails to send an e mail and I often don't notice the tiny and briefly visible "not sent" message. In order to see whether a message has gone or not I have to come out of the "Combined inbox" and into each individual account inbox. Then for each account I have to scroll down to find the "sent" and "outbox" folders to determine whether each e mail has gone or not. To me this is madness and very time consuming when you send as many e mails as I have to from four different accounts. On a Blackberry there is one icon for "all accounts" or you can chose from separate icon for each account. Whether in the all accounts or the individual ones the messages BOTH IN AND OUT are displayed in order of sending/receiving. Each message has a tick or a cross next to it so you can easily see if the message has gone or not.
Does anyone know how to replicate this on my Android phone? It seems obvious to me this is how it should work especially as my Android phone seems far less reliable for e mails than my Blackberry.
2. The second most useful feature of the BlackBerry was the large flashing red light to alert you of incoming messages. I've seen that I'm not alone in missing this but some people seem to want the full multi coloured LED. I just want ANY visible sign of a new message. My phone does seem to have a very tiny white LED (On a white phone??) but it's almost impossible to see. Any thoughts on this would be welcome - even if there's a better Android phone out there with a decent LED notification.
3 The phone almost continually "buffers" when either changing from viewing one e mail account to another or when trying to delete e mails. If I delete more than 6 e mails it can buffer for five minutes or more.
4. Alarm. Apart from the useless Clock it now has following an "update" which is not easy to use to change the alarm time (what was wrong with the 24 hr clock which you simply scrolled through?) the most annoying thing is that unlike a Blackberry you cannot seem to put it to sleep and have it wake itself up at the prescribed alarm time? What is really annoying about this is that being a "smartphone" it uses much more battery life than the old blackberry yet wastes most of it during the night if I use it as an alarm! If I leave it on and waste the battery then I have to remember to turn the sound down or be woken every few minutes by incoming emails. Of course I then have to remember to reset the sound in the morning otherwise I won't hear my incoming calls or message. I thought smart phones were supposed to make life easier not much harder?
5 Finally (although there are many more less important problems) it simply refuses to sync with my two Talk Talk (Tiscali) e mail accounts. I've tried the recommended delete and start again with no luck. The phone is definitely set to auto sync. This is really irritating as I obviously have open/delete every e mail twice once on the phone and once on the PC when I'm working form my home office.
Any constructive thoughts and advice would be gratefully received.
Many thanks
Mark
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