minor annoyances

[cstrasz]

Really enjoying the one so far. This is my first android phone coming from an iPhone 4s. Here's my few annoyances, all of which I'm perfectly find living with but seeing if there are solutions/suggestions to some.

- Wish that when sending text messages, it wouldn't close text entry.
-Havent found a good alternative email app that works with all my accounts and still connects to exchange for my work. Don't want to separate out apps per account. I like the default app although I wish it showed subfolders in a tree view. I also wish it shortened who the email was sent to in the inbox (since you end up having to bring up all recipients to see). Finally, wish it had delete to swipe.
-The screen seems to be a bit too precise at times with taps. One example is closing tabs in the internet app. I often end up opening the tab even though I thought I was pretty accurate with tmhittinf the x in the top right.
- Performance is really good. But I do notice a very slight amount of stuttering while scrolling in some apps (facebook comes to mind). It'd a miniscule amount but it did feel like there were cases where certain things were a touch smoother on the iPhone.
- Still not super impressed with battery life but still playing with this to see where I can improve it.
- Keyboard is nice although I find myself sometimes hitting home accidentally since it's right up against the period key.
- Miss being able to change the audio source for blue tooth on the fly for my car so I can have it pump audio through my phone vs car speakers when I want. You can change this with the one but have to dig into the blue tooth section in settings.
- Miss the magnifying glass showing up when holding down your keg in text and trying to move the cursor while editing text. I know it comes up if you drag the cursor, it's just not as easy.
- Wish the default browser had an option to always keep the address bar up. Similarly I wish there was a forward button. I know there are alternatives for browsing, just havent found a good alternative yet.
- Wish apostrophes were automatically added for words like can't.

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[mrbootcrm]

To address your concern with apostrophes when using swype it's as easy as running your finger over the apostrophe key where it fits in the word.

 

[cstrasz]

Ah I'm assuming you mean typing by swiping/drawing over the keyboard? I still type with two thumbs since I find swiping over the letters harder to do while having the phone cradled in both of my hands.

 

[cstrasz]

Another question I had is with regards to the phone app itself. Is there a way to have it default to the contacts window instead of the keypad? And does anyone know what the the favorites view is for?

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[SandersJC1964]

As to the Favorites view, you can place any of your contacts into your Favorites group. I find this very useful in that I use Sense's People widget, and have it show my favorites group. Makes it easy to quickly call/email/text contacts you interact with frequently.

 

[sfla99]

For exchange try touchdown, this is what my company has me using, it works quite well and is extremely feature rich for corporate mail.


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[Darth Mo]

Another question I had is with regards to the phone app itself. Is there a way to have it default to the contacts window instead of the keypad? And does anyone know what the the favorites view is for?

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The best you can do is rearrange tabs in the phone app so that 'People' is right next to the dial pad. That way when you launch the dialer app, a quick swipe left or right will get you to the People tab.

 

[semp1]

You can easily change back and fourth the audio source using google play music app. Which is far superior to htc's. also download the swiftkey keyboard. That will address all your typing concerned. Far better than the stock keyboard. Take full screen off and the browser bar will stay visible.

 

[cstrasz]

The full screen mode in the browser only toggles the HTC notification bar. I meant the browser address/tabs bar.

Does the Google music play app modify the output source on a global level or just for the music? I run into situations were I may be viewing a web video and want to output the audio briefly through the phone. On iOS they had a button that switched sources on the fly that was displayed anytime something output music or video. Thanks for all the info so far.

 

[AceRockolla]

SwiftKey keyboard. And AquaMail for email. They've been great.

 

[semp1]

The full screen mode in the browser only toggles the HTC notification bar. I meant the browser address/tabs bar.

Does the Google music play app modify the output source on a global level or just for the music? I run into situations were I may be viewing a web video and want to output the audio briefly through the phone. On iOS they had a button that switched sources on the fly that was displayed anytime something output music or video. Thanks for all the info so far.

Don't know what you're talking about but I have no address bar visible when full screen is active.

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[cstrasz]

Right, I was trying to make the address bar visible all the time. Right now it's only visible when you scroll upwards on a page. hope that makes sense.

 

[semp1]

I used an iphone for 6 years and I'm still a little confused as to what you mean.

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[aaronlam]

You can pull down anywhere on the page and the address bar will show up.

 

[cstrasz]

Yep, but that's what I was trying to avoid. I basically wanted the browser's address bar (where it shows the web url, tabbed count, and settings ... icon) to be up 100% of the time without the pulldown method. The full screen modes suggested earlier have no bearing on this at all. All that does is alter the status bar of the phone itself (the top bar that shows your battery life, 4g signal, etc.)

It's a minor thing for sure but it also has to do with it being a little bit flakey. Sometimes it won't come up even when swiping downwards and requires me to get to the top of the page to see it (or alternatively, stop swiping altogether, wait a second, and then start swiping downwards again. I guess this somehow re-registers the input event). It happens rarely, but it does happen (specifically on this post on my phone I just had it happen lol).

Just tried swiftkey out. It seems pretty cool. I will have to give it some more time. So far, it feels like the swiping to type method on the default keyboard is a bit more accurate (i.e. I could not get swiftkey to register the word "it's" no matter what combination of swiping i tried). Will try it out further though as the default keyboard application.

I've checked out k9 email and enhanced email as well as touchdown. All work great on their own. The problem I ran into was finding one app that I could access my gmail, yahoo, and exchange account on. The only app I've had success with is the default mail app. Touchdown is great for exchange, but having it deal with gmail/yahoo seemed like it required alternate profiles and switching between them, versus letting you have a consolidated inbox. I didn't have luck getting k9 and enhanced email to work with my exchange server, unfortunately. I will give Aqua Mail a shot.

Anyways, thanks for the continued suggestions. Still liking droid, just acclimating to some things that I was used to. I'm sure once I'm used to this, if I ever go back to iOS I'll be complaining about what that is lacking in relation (which is a much easier list to compile.

 

[djshackman]

Yep, but that's what I was trying to avoid. I basically wanted the browser's address bar (where it shows the web url, tabbed count, and settings ... icon) to be up 100% of the time without the pulldown method. The full screen modes suggested earlier have no bearing on this at all. All that does is alter the status bar of the phone itself (the top bar that shows your battery life, 4g signal, etc.)

Try out Chrome, and you can set it as your default browser. The stable version keeps the top URL bar visible at all times. I believe the beta does not, however. Maybe this will be an option once it makes it to the stable version.

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[SCjRqrQCnBQ19QoYCtdl]

I am trying swiftkey as well. It seems to me that some words are not possible to swipe to enter. Although, It's works depending on context it seems, and pretty much always in the alternate selections.

I haven't figured it out completely but I think it learns as you go, so hopefully it gets better.

 

[cstrasz]

I have to say I'm really impressed with the default keyboards sweeping capability. Honestly,the whole swiping algorithm altogether is pretty incredible. I don't know if I'm necessarily quicker typing this way but it does make typing a hell of a lot more fun and the accuracy is pretty darn good.

 

[Xsie]

I too didn't like how the set up was when I'd press the phone key. Many times I would accidentally call whoever it was that called me last. In settings I switched to full screen keypad, & I no longer have that issue. I use speed dial or simply swipe to contacts or call history.
I think it's just something I had to get use to - for me anyways.

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