Do you Like or Dislike ICS?

I HATE ICS! Ever since the ICS update to my Nexus S4g 2 weeks ago, apps that worked fine before, now are buggy, The touchscreen is often unresponsive - takes 2-3 taps to get a response. The new "People" app is much worse than the old contacts. And in my eyes (and ears) the single worst change is that notifications now have 1 sound level. Before, at night it was easy to reset to just the phone ringer, can't do that anymore. I will be flashing mine black to 2.3.7 tomorrow. I am very happy for the people that like it, it just is not working well for me.
 
I love Mobile technology and will always take the step forward. ICS on my nexus s 4g and Rooted ET4G is great!! No complaints
Bring on JellyBeAn!! :D:D
 
I like it but I am not super impressed yet either. Acer a100. While it does seem to run better then 3.2 it doesn't seem to be living up to the hype. Chrome beta is great. No problems with it.

I still want the ability to install apps to my SD card. It is still not here with ICS. If that is left out of my Evo 3d version, I am not getting it on my phone.

If anyone can suggest a good ICS ROM for the Acer Iconia Tab a100 that includes the ability to run apps off the SD card let me know.

Plus the only camera that has an option to store pictures on the SD card is HDR. Not that I take a lot of pictures with my tablet but I will get to the point soon. The music programs don't install the music files on the SD card either. I have been 16 gb card unused whille my internal storage is almost full.
 
Using a Sprint Galaxy Nexus for a few days now after longtime EVO 4G...

I like it overall due to the consistent look and feel of major applications like gmail, mail, calendar, contacts, etc. I love the larger photos for contacts and the modern look of the phone application when calls come in or during a call. The screen is so clear and text appears great like reading the calendar in month view.

Things I don't like:
- Browser bookmarks aren't customizable in list order or list type (i.e. alphabetical, most visited, list of bookmark name, small icons, large icons, etc). They aren't that easy to quickly recognize the way it is set up now.
- The SMS text entry box is too small for a screen this large. The box on my EVO 4G stock SMS or using Handcent SMS is much easier to edit text while you're writing a long text or at least see all that you have written without scrolling in the box.
- The keyboard is certainly good and great predictive text. But, I don't like that you can't hit a button on the keyboard like with HTC and make the keyboard go away. This is so handy I used it all the time to go back and look at what I was responding to (email or text) when writing a long email or text response. In general with ICS, I feel like you can't see as much of the message you are responding to when writing responses.
- The email shading in a message isn't as intuitive. The email reply area should look more distinct from the subject line. It doesn't "look" like an email compose area. Maybe it's just me.
- When writing an email from the email (not Gmail) app, you can't switch accounts to have an email you are writing go out from your other account. It asks you to default to one or the other and it's hard to send a photo from your gallery, for example, out to different people from each of your email accounts. This is super easy in HTC Sense and not so in ICS. I used to do that all the time and now it's not so easy.


Not sure if this or the EVO LTE with Sense 4 over ICS > stock ICS for me. I'm thinking yes. I would like the have a Nexus for direct early updates from El Goog, though.

:-\
 
Swipe down and the keyboard goes away ;-)

I personally like ICS. I don't know why they didn't implement some of these ideas earlier. Where most of your issues with ICS seem visual, I identify more with the positive back end changes. Like the recently used apps, the ability to "disable" unwanted apps, the browser sync with desktop Chrome , unified holo theme, and of course proper multi-core processing.

I believe that through a combination of apps/theme'ing/mod'ing you can make the phone look and react the way you want it to. However the back end stuff is usually a lot harder to customize.
 
Swipe down and the keyboard goes away ;-)

I personally like ICS. I don't know why they didn't implement some of these ideas earlier. Where most of your issues with ICS seem visual, I identify more with the positive back end changes. Like the recently used apps, the ability to "disable" unwanted apps, the browser sync with desktop Chrome , unified holo theme, and of course proper multi-core processing.

I believe that through a combination of apps/theme'ing/mod'ing you can make the phone look and react the way you want it to. However the back end stuff is usually a lot harder to customize.

Umm, are you sure? I'm talking about when you are in the middle of writing a text or email. Try it. If you start a text or start writing an email, swiping down doesn't seem to do anything. I don't see how you can make the keyboard drop out of sight and then call it back up like you can with the single hide keyboard key on HTC keyboards. To get it back, you just tap in the compose window of the text or email. Does ICS have this ability? I don't see it.

I like it overall, just would like to find a way to get a few of these quick efficiency features that HTC Sense has and stay with ICS.
 
To make the keyboard go away do exactly the same thing you did with Gingerbread, or Sense: hit the back button.

Is that not well known? The soft buttons do what they did when they were hard buttons.

To get the keyboard back just touch inside the input box again.
 
To make the keyboard go away do exactly the same thing you did with Gingerbread, or Sense: hit the back button.

Is that not well known? The soft buttons do what they did when they were hard buttons.

To get the keyboard back just touch inside the input box again.

Yep, figured that out after playing with it a bit more and it works fine.Thx.

Still wish you could switch between email sent from accounts when choosing a photo to send. I can't get it to switch between my exchange and yahoo when I don't want to use Gmail to send something.
 
I'm loving it so far! Thanks Sprint! :D

Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2
 
How the heck would I know? Still waiting for ICS for my Thunderbolt! <sigh>

I'm eagerly awaiting a look at an ICS-Sense 4 ROM, then I'll probably go back to my current de-sensed ROM and live happily ever after...
 
I really like AOSP ICS like the Galaxy Nexus has but so far I cant stand the ICS ROMs available for my phone. Too many bugs, battery life isnt great, and performance is down compared to GB. Again though it just needs some work to be every bit as quick and smooth as the Nexus.
 
Eh by the time ATT releases the official version for my phone i will be running
the leaked (Jellybean) version.

That is what it amounts too. Most phones will run roughly a year behind of the current OS.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
 
Acer A500, 32GB uSD, 888GB USB drive....ICS' greatest asset for me is mouse support. I have a massive USB mouse plugged into the little USB port and my hard drive plugged into the A USB port. So glad ICS included mouse support and is very nicely done, once you get used to the difference in button actions. I can scroll down a long paged loaded with clickers WITHOUT being dragged off to someplace I don't want by simply thumbing the wheel. No more false touchscreen actions from Android and with the new mouse pointer that comes up with mouse plugin, I can point and click on precisely the densely-packed click or mouseover I want with far, far less stupid touchscreen errors. Thanks, Google...:)

The rest of it is a disappointment. My tablet is NOT A PHONE! I have yet to figure out how to get the browser to STAY selected in webpage, not wap, mode. The check doesn't stick, here. Stupid. Wish I spoof all the websites that the tablet was a WinXP desktop so they'd stop trying to force me to install some Android crapapp and let me run content in Flash like my WinXP netbooks. There oughta be a button, but that won't try to drag me into the Cloud I want nothing to do with. I find myself using my Samsung netbooks more and more, just to be left alone.
:mad:
 
I wish I could try it and form an opinion, but Samsung has not released it in the US yet. :(
 

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