I'm a defecting blackberry (Storm 1) user, and i have to say off bat this phone is wonderful, but not without a couple of nuisances.
1. Getting Contact PICS from Facebook - For the most part facebook updates the matching contact from my contacts list with a pic from the site. But how do i force it to update a person whos name i have as "Mike" instead of First, Last name? I have changed this contacts name to his full name as displayed in Facebook and yet facebook wont update him with a pic? This happens to at least half of my contacts whom i had as nicknames and now have added their full legal name yet facebook wont sync them.
2. Misc glitches in SMS/MMS. We've all seen the one where you come out of standby and sms ''force close/wait'' crash. But the one that pisses me off the MOST is when i try to send a sms i hit the ''compose new'' and then under "TO" i try to type a contact name and for some of my contacts NO drop down menu appears with their name to select. Its like they are not in my contacts at all. For these people i have to physically go into my contacts select them, and then click next to their name to send a message. WTF? has anyone else had this problem? This also happens intermittently, like sometimes it recognizes names sometimes it doesn't.
3. Jittery sliding through HOME screens - Does anyone notice that the transitions from screen to screen aren't exactly smooth? Sometimes its worse than others and sliding the notification bar down seems to chugg a chugg sometimes as well. I picked up a friends ERIS and (and it pains me to say this) a friends iphone and they seem to do this task smoother yet with slower hardware. I have hope this will get fixed in the DEC 11 update (if it exists).
4. Mysterious name changes in PHONE app - sometimes ill look at my call log and try to click a contact to call (the phone confirms the gesture as the name is lit up) and is it transfers to the call screen the call is switched to some other name and it calls a different contact. I've only seen this happen like 2-3 times but it was still extremely wierd. I have also seen this happen in the SMS app where i clicked a convo and realized that the name displayed wasnt the person with whom id actually had a conversation with so i clicked HOME and came back and the phone had fixed its mistake. Extremely weird.
5. Email/Facebook Sync - I dont think im the only one who gets his emails before facebook updates and sometimes not at all. I guess i got spoiled by damn near instantaneous emails from a blackberry. I guess some sacrifices were made in the switch, though it sucks to constantly be worried is my email actually being delivered right now? Or is it off on its own world.. I haven't actually started using my computer to check emails until this phone because i feel like i cant trust that they all get delivered. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
6. Does the Phone need TASK MANAGER/ TASK KILLER?! - this is by far my biggest question. I want someone who actually knows an answer to this and doesnt just pull somethin outa their ass. I've heard both sides, that android runs like linux and that you are actually hurting performance by not loading apps to the memory... and forcing them to close; and i've heard that you are hurting performance and battery life by running un-needed processes in the background. From personal experience with TASKKILLER, i used it, it was fine, when i heard that its detrimental, i un-installed it, and have now noticed some lag from the SMS when i click to open it. Like a black screen opens and it sits for a few secs as it loads, instead of being instanteneous like it usually is. So should i use it or let the phone do its thing?
Sorry for the long rant, i just wanted to get a few things straight with the PROS
1. Getting Contact PICS from Facebook - For the most part facebook updates the matching contact from my contacts list with a pic from the site. But how do i force it to update a person whos name i have as "Mike" instead of First, Last name? I have changed this contacts name to his full name as displayed in Facebook and yet facebook wont update him with a pic? This happens to at least half of my contacts whom i had as nicknames and now have added their full legal name yet facebook wont sync them.
2. Misc glitches in SMS/MMS. We've all seen the one where you come out of standby and sms ''force close/wait'' crash. But the one that pisses me off the MOST is when i try to send a sms i hit the ''compose new'' and then under "TO" i try to type a contact name and for some of my contacts NO drop down menu appears with their name to select. Its like they are not in my contacts at all. For these people i have to physically go into my contacts select them, and then click next to their name to send a message. WTF? has anyone else had this problem? This also happens intermittently, like sometimes it recognizes names sometimes it doesn't.
3. Jittery sliding through HOME screens - Does anyone notice that the transitions from screen to screen aren't exactly smooth? Sometimes its worse than others and sliding the notification bar down seems to chugg a chugg sometimes as well. I picked up a friends ERIS and (and it pains me to say this) a friends iphone and they seem to do this task smoother yet with slower hardware. I have hope this will get fixed in the DEC 11 update (if it exists).
4. Mysterious name changes in PHONE app - sometimes ill look at my call log and try to click a contact to call (the phone confirms the gesture as the name is lit up) and is it transfers to the call screen the call is switched to some other name and it calls a different contact. I've only seen this happen like 2-3 times but it was still extremely wierd. I have also seen this happen in the SMS app where i clicked a convo and realized that the name displayed wasnt the person with whom id actually had a conversation with so i clicked HOME and came back and the phone had fixed its mistake. Extremely weird.
5. Email/Facebook Sync - I dont think im the only one who gets his emails before facebook updates and sometimes not at all. I guess i got spoiled by damn near instantaneous emails from a blackberry. I guess some sacrifices were made in the switch, though it sucks to constantly be worried is my email actually being delivered right now? Or is it off on its own world.. I haven't actually started using my computer to check emails until this phone because i feel like i cant trust that they all get delivered. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
6. Does the Phone need TASK MANAGER/ TASK KILLER?! - this is by far my biggest question. I want someone who actually knows an answer to this and doesnt just pull somethin outa their ass. I've heard both sides, that android runs like linux and that you are actually hurting performance by not loading apps to the memory... and forcing them to close; and i've heard that you are hurting performance and battery life by running un-needed processes in the background. From personal experience with TASKKILLER, i used it, it was fine, when i heard that its detrimental, i un-installed it, and have now noticed some lag from the SMS when i click to open it. Like a black screen opens and it sits for a few secs as it loads, instead of being instanteneous like it usually is. So should i use it or let the phone do its thing?
Sorry for the long rant, i just wanted to get a few things straight with the PROS
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