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[dv8info]

Why is Google being such a Nanny on Nexus 5? Examples (in descending order of PITA-ness)

1. Worst nag of all: having to deal with a pop-up screen before being able to turn up volume, when speakers are plugged in :-(
2. When shutting down phone: 1. Press and hold on/off button. 2. in popup window click "Shut Down Phone" 3. In ANOTHER popup window click "Yes of course I do want to fricking shut down this phone, I already told you that" or a command to that effect.
3. When turning on GPS having to give location consent EVERY TIME. Surely once we have given consent in our profile, isn't that enough to satisfy the overly-litigation-sensitive legal nannies?

 

[sharpehenry]

Are you thinking about switching to another manufacturer's device then?

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[dv8info]

Worth considering because of (1). I expect (2) and (3) would still be a problem though because of Android.

 

[Ed Briggs]

Why is Google being such a Nanny on Nexus 5? Examples (in descending order of PITA-ness)

1. Worst nag of all: having to deal with a pop-up screen before being able to turn up volume, when speakers are plugged in :-(
2. When shutting down phone: 1. Press and hold on/off button. 2. in popup window click "Shut Down Phone" 3. In ANOTHER popup window click "Yes of course I do want to fricking shut down this phone, I already told you that" or a command to that effect.
3. When turning on GPS having to give location consent EVERY TIME. Surely once we have given consent in our profile, isn't that enough to satisfy the overly-litigation-sensitive legal nannies?

1. Doesn't happen to me.

2. Takes like 2 seconds tops.

3. See #2.

Don't like it, use an iphone then. You have serious issues if these things bother you that much.

 

[mclasser]

All the things you consider a "PITA" are really not a big deal at all.

 

[dv8info]

Mr Briggs, I don't think that just wanting things to work better is "having serious issues". And I don't think you need to turn this into a personal attack.

 

[dv8info]

Maybe not a big deal, but I do find them to have *some degree* of "PITA-ness" (1) means sometimes wondering why the volume is not working while my attention is focused elsewhere. (2) means noticing some time later after I thought I turned the phone off that there is a dialog still waiting for a response from me. (3) means apps cannot automatically turn on gps for me even if I choose for that to be the case. All of these could be fixed, so I don't know what is wrong with me pointing this out.Why should we not be looking to improve things?

 

[Ed Briggs]

Maybe not a big deal, but I do find them to have *some degree* of "PITA-ness" (1) means sometimes wondering why the volume is not working while my attention is focused elsewhere. (2) means noticing some time later after I thought I turned the phone off that there is a dialog still waiting for a response from me. (3) means apps cannot automatically turn on gps for me even if I choose for that to be the case. All of these could be fixed, so I don't know what is wrong with me pointing this out.Why should we not be looking to improve things?

I never said that things can't improve. I guess my initial reaction was misunderstood. It just seemed the OP came out guns blazing and P'eed off over relatively minor things.

 

[dv8info]

OK, understood. And yes I am a bit P'ed off about issue #1, because it also has been bugging me (and many others on various forums which Google developers seem to continually ignore) and on the Nexus 7 as well, and this has been since v 4.1. So it is because it is still there, and is a nagging annoyance which only increases as time passes because it has been neither addressed nor explained satisfactorily by Android, that I am a bit P'ed off at this point.

 

[dv8info]

And the original post is not a rhetorical question. Why do we *need* these nanny popups? Surely we only need to be told once. And our profile can store that we have read and understood. A simple checkbox saying "don't show me this again" is all that is required in each case, surely (?)

 

[gidgiddonihah]

And the original post is not a rhetorical question. Why do we *need* these nanny popups? Surely we only need to be told once. And our profile can store that we have read and understood. A simple checkbox saying "don't show me this again" is all that is required in each case, surely (?)

Other than number 2 (which I don't find anything wrong with the way Google does it), I haven't encountered these issues.

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[dv8info]

Other than number 2 (which I don't find anything wrong with the way Google does it), I haven't encountered these issues.

I don't understand how it behaves so differently on the same hardware and the same version (presumably) of Android

 

[kd0h]

Other than number 2 (which I don't find anything wrong with the way Google does it), I haven't encountered these issues.

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I've only encountered #2 as well...

Nexus 5 4.4.2 (rooted)

 

[dv8info]

Maybe because you have a rooted phone (?)

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[maverick7526]

Why is Google being such a Nanny on Nexus 5? Examples (in descending order of PITA-ness)

1. Worst nag of all: having to deal with a pop-up screen before being able to turn up volume, when speakers are plugged in :-(
2. When shutting down phone: 1. Press and hold on/off button. 2. in popup window click "Shut Down Phone" 3. In ANOTHER popup window click "Yes of course I do want to fricking shut down this phone, I already told you that" or a command to that effect.
3. When turning on GPS having to give location consent EVERY TIME. Surely once we have given consent in our profile, isn't that enough to satisfy the overly-litigation-sensitive legal nannies?

I don't have any of these issues. Is your phone rooted? 1 hasn't happened to me since ICS. 2 is odd. I only get the 1pop up box with turn off phone, airplane mode, and silent, vibrate options. 3. Just consent to high accuracy, and you never get those.

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[dv8info]

No, bog standard Nexus 5, Android 4.4.2. Now I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness. How can this just be happening on my phone only? Well now I understand while everybody thinks I'm making too much of a deal over this - nobody else is experiencing it. Weird. Has the NSA installed some spyware on my phone... Spy Van 37?

 

[maverick7526]

No, bog standard Nexus 5, Android 4.4.2. Now I feel like a lone voice in the wilderness. How can this just be happening on my phone only? Well now I understand while everybody thinks I'm making too much of a deal over this - nobody else is experiencing it. Weird. Has the NSA installed some spyware on my phone... Spy Van 37?

Shhhh that's where the "free candy" is ;-) idk where your getting all those pop ups. I remember that happening once, but each instance was on a different device. None of those were on my N5 though.

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[tonyr6]

Go use a iPhone and get even more annoyed when you open apps and they pop up bugging you to rate them. So far on Android I have only seen a few apps that I deleted do that.

 

[Tom Westrick]

For #1, there's an option in the settings to disable the pop-up.

For the 2 and 3 you'll just have to adjust your habits

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