Example Of Why I Don't Love Android

[Haalcyon]

I don?t believe all Android phones/implementations are equally buggy. I honestly don't know what "bugs" CM10.2 has as I don't see the flaws. However, I will more closely monitor my two phones with it. My G Pad 8.3 doesn't seem buggy either so it makes me wonder if I've I've dimply become numb to the kind of "bugs" some people see.

Optimus G Pro

 

[Old Stoneface]

Maybe it's k9. I've never used it because I like gmail. But here's a good review of a different email client.

Better Than Gmail for Android: Boomerang For Android Reviewed

Looked at it. Boomerang does only Gmail. I have three additional email accounts: All SMTP (w/STARTTLS) and IMAPS. Thanks for the suggestion, nonetheless.

I'm not sure what the answer will be for you Stone, so I'll just make the same suggestion I usually make in these situations: there are less buggy OS's than Android. But they also do less. Up to you to decide based on your needs

Unfortunately, of the current non-experimental systems, Android is the best, for me. I'm hoping Ubuntu proves viable, but that's not today.

Xchange makes an excellent point, everyone has said WP runs super smoothly, also BlackBerry (not looking to cause trouble here!) is supposed to be a very stable platform for business use. The latter could definitely use the patronage too. And then there's iOS...

WP: Not on a bet! I've been dealing with Microsoft's brokenness for so long I've come to hate Microsoft and everything they're ever produced, or ever will produce, with a deep and abiding passion. My dream, my goal, is, after retirement (in a few more years): To never have to so much as look at another piece of MS crapware again for as long as I live!

I don't think Blackberry would suit me. Besides: Protestations to the contrary: Their prognosis doesn't look very good to me.

iOS... y'know... Apple makes some damn nice products... and I've never liked any of them for my use.

I don’t believe all Android phones/implementations are equally buggy.

I think that's clearly true. But there are other things where it's not. For example: I've been swapping email with the author of Contacts Sync Fix. The app addresses a flaw, or flaws, in Google's code. It may or may not be this/these flaw(s) that's causing one of my problems.

As one person noted in a review of that app: "Sad that we need this app" And sad it is.

I honestly don't know what "bugs" CM10.2 has as I don't see the flaws.

CM 10.2 isn't stable, yet, is it?

As for "not seeing flaws": That happens. A while ago, in Yet Another Android vs. iOS thread, somewhere, an iPerson noted several fairly common, and recurring problems with Andorid devices as compared to iOS devices. I hit "Reply," prepared to put him in his place--until I got to thinking... and realized most of things he'd pointed-out, I'd experienced. I'd just gotten used to them, so didn't think about them any more.

After force-stopping the Google Contacts app, clearing its data, and restarting its sync: My handset appears to be behaving itself this morning. And, unlike the previous "fix" procedure I was using: It doesn't invalidate my direct dial shortcut widgets. Yay! \o/ If that works: I'll live with it.

But it should not be necessary.

Just like having to occasionally clear the device's cache from recovery should not be necessary.

 

[anon(394005)]

I work in IT and its been my experience that all platforms have some glitches. I'll just say that Android doesn’t have any that are memorable enough to me to be notable.

That has been my experience too (17 years in IT ). I've seen my fair share of issues on all OS platforms: Android, IOS, Windows Phone, Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, even mainframe!, none are without glitches. For Android though, I'd say that anything pre-Jelly Bean is far glitchier and problematic and needs a lot more hand holding. So if you're still on an older pre-Jelly Bean device, I'd recommend updating to a new one to get off those older less stable OS's. I can honestly say my current devices (Note 2 and Note 10.1) running Jelly Bean 4.1 have been pretty rock solid and trouble free. They just work!

I do have to say though that IMO Google sometimes tends to use its end users as beta testers, putting out some highly buggy updates (OS or apps). But that's always kind of been their nature.

 

[mrsmumbles]

I agree with Synycalwon, my Nexus 5 works amazingly well and fast as light almost. And my Jelly Bean phone hasn't as much speed or power but no issues with it either.

Too bad the email alternative doesn't suit though.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 2

 

[xchange]

You sound like you've been around a while OP, I think what you're noticing is that handsets are now catching up to the problem that afflicts other electronics. The more complex they become, the more screw ups that appear. I can sympathize. Unfortunately the more this happens, the smaller the pool becomes of manufacturers that get it right. Which leaves us looking for manufacturers to shop that not only make better and more reliable hardware, but also the software that drives it. Some do a pretty decent job at one or the other, some do a bad job at both. Rarer are the ones who excel at both. And if you've set your bar very high as a customer, that means a lot of frustration.

 

[dhangejr]

There is a lot of good points here. One was basically something to the tune of all electronics have bugs. Admissibly this is true, the new JB is pretty solid for me, and so is ios 6.1.3. I don't like 7...
I am an ios guy who is still trying to convince myself android is legit. I was IOS when the g1 came out and it was to be the iphone killer. I took that pos back and never got a droid again. My dad got the s2 when it came out two years ago and I got the 4s then too. I love the screen, and wish my iphone had it, but that is where the love affair ends. The battery life on droid sux! Droid does remind me of the old IOS days when it was jailbreak and tweek tweek Which is fun, but I've come to love the "it just works feature" and the great battery life I get. I don't know if its how yall treat your devices, but my old 4s gets 6 hours of heavy usage and will stay in stand by for more than a day with 3 hr use per day. Thats pretty good. My th989 4.1.3 can't do 1/3 of that. Also I like the iphone alarm sound. That is how I ended up on this thred by accident searching for something else.

Back on point buggy...Yes the droid is harder to control it has more settings that are often pointless. I also can't stand the way it copies for copy and paste. I also wish it would read to me like my 6.1.3 device will.
Droid also uses WAY more data than my "other device" again I find thi sbuggy cuz the other guy seems to push me my emails better. On the droid it is always going off or never. THis is artially a me controling it issue and I know that, but the other is easier for me. This is def a noob issue. I also think the touch response is not as nice as "the other guy" either. Again I still can't wait to get my hands on a note 2 or 3 for a week but Im still not too hopeful it will be better, in fact I think it will be too big. I like a phone I can use with one hand and "slip" in my pocket.

Ok I babbled and ranted! I love Jelly bean non the less and really like the native calendar app and the fact that I can do things down to the minute unlike the other guys. I also like alarm called "briefing" it is nifty. I will play with it more and wish my iphone did it!