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As others have mentioned the back button is kind of a nightmare. Rarely a day goes by I don't accidentally back my way out of an application. That sends me to a

by jsz0 15y ago

As others have mentioned the back button is kind of a nightmare. Rarely a day goes by I don't accidentally back my way out of an application. That sends me to a long-hold on the Home button to find the application again and sometimes this involves starting from scratch and other times I just pickup where I left off. It seems totally random to me. I did not care for the day when my stock-ish Droid X got the MOTOBLUR update. Any OS can be updated in a way that changes a lot of things but it rarely happens with iOS or, from what I've seen, WP7. Basically everything stays the same with some enhancements. This change from stock-ish to MOTOBLUR was a big step backwards and when/if this phone gets ICS it will be another major change. The locked boot-loader situation is chaotic. When I go to buy a new phone I have to study the details of locked vs. encrypted loaders. Checkout forums to see if anyone is developing a stock-ish ROM in case there's another MOTOBLUR type of incident with the carrier provided ROM. Motorola promised to unlock their loaders then just never did it. Obviously now I would go with a Google phone running stock Android instead but that was not an option when I got the Droid X. Battery life is not reliable. Some days I get 6-8 hours and other days its dead by noon. I don't know why this happens. I can't rely on using my Droid X as an alarm clock because occasionally the battery goes from full charge to dead overnight. Random apps in the Android Market are allowed to SPAM me with ads in my notification bar. It feels like a massive invasion of my personal space when this happens. I can't even stress how big of a problem this is for me. I'll stop using any platform that allows this to happen. It's a non-negotiable point. In general I'm also concerned about malware in the Android Market. I don't really install many third party apps anymore. There are things I would like to try out but hitting the install button is a difficult decision. When it comes to games it's total chaos. You have no way of really knowing if the game is going to work correctly or not on your phone. The Droid X isn't all that old yet most games seem to lag on it. It ranges from annoying to unplayable. The lag/jitter of the UI, especially in the stock browser, is just annoying. Some sites scroll fine and others jump around annoyingly. I can't really count on being able to happily use the web browser. My phone reboots a lot. A few times a week at minimum. Something to do with being paired to a Bluetooth device. Bluetooth should never reboot my phone randomly. Never. Every-time I plug my Droid X into my computer two volumes are mounted. The SD card and another Motorola Tools volume. Every single time I have to close the window when it comes up. Annoying. My SD card is littered with all sorts of random files. Trying to find folders on it is pretty difficult. Some of the folders are from apps I deleted long ago. I have to go through every now and again and clean-up all these random folders. Annoying. For other people these things may not be a big deal but they really deeply annoy me. It's not so much that I can't deal with them but just that I don't want to. I hate needing to micro-manage every little detail.

grkhetan 15y ago
Wow... thats a really comprehensive, meaningful comment. Finally came to know whats so "unorganized" and "unpolished" about Android. I upped your post, but it was good enough to require a verbal vote of appreciation!
- drivebyacct2 15y ago
  Really? It's a list of random complaints, most about Blur, and most of which are a result of the freedom apps are given and the freedom of choice that users are given. It's no more "chaos" than Windows or Mac OS X.
  - jsz0 15y ago
    Just my personal preference. I don't want or need my SmartPhone to pretend to be a computer. I already have a computer. A SmartPhone just needs to do the most common tasks as efficiently and trouble free as possible. Being as it's a SmartPhone and not the constitution of my country freedom isn't really at the top of my priority list. If it was seamless I wouldn't mind just having a list of options to choose from but when we start talking about evaluating a bunch of different replacement apps/ROMs/etc I lose interest. It's too much time to invest into a device that is supposed to make my life easier. My benchmark for SmartPhones is how difficult it is to complete some common tasks. I've found in most cases for Android that process resembles an if/then/else function. If I use app X then I do Y but only if A=2.2 && B=3.1 else I just give up and decide it's not worth the effort. I would prefer to just learn the one, maybe two, ways of possibly doing it and adapt. I don't need to modify the device to adapt to my every whim in part because that assumes I actually know exactly how I want it to work. I really don't. I want the OS to figure some of those things out for me.
drivebyacct2 15y ago
Motoblur sucks, sure. Not all Android devices are the same. Blur is trash, almost as bad as Sense. I already addressed the back button. I still have yet to understand how it's a nightmare. It's predictable. It's a stack. done. Yes, locked bootloaders are ridiculous. None of my half-a-dozen Android phones have ever had locked boot loaders. Yes, apps can make notifications. Remove the app, install another to block the adpush service. That's a result of freedom. The Android browser is much better in ICS, again, the jittering you're describing is blur. Not all Android devices are made the same. The SD card is also infuriating, but again, that's the beauty of Android. There is an API that, if devs used properly, places all files in a subdir of the memory card. Unfortunately, unless you want crippled, walled off apps ala iOS, there's no other way to do it. No idea what Motorola Tools are. You really ought to try a Nexus device man. >When it comes to games it's total chaos. You have no way of really knowing if the game is going to work correctly or not on your phone. The Droid X isn't all that old yet most games seem to lag on it. It ranges from annoying to unplayable. What? I've never had a game not play on my Fascinate and it's older than the DX. You say "chaos". I say freedom and choice. It's not hard to avoid the problems you're complaining about (save for the SD card, which I argue is hard-to-impossible to fix properly without just limiting functionality).

by jsz0 15y ago

grkhetan 15y ago

Wow... thats a really comprehensive, meaningful comment. Finally came to know whats so "unorganized" and "unpolished" about Android. I upped your post, but it was good enough to require a verbal vote of appreciation!

drivebyacct2 15y ago
Really? It's a list of random complaints, most about Blur, and most of which are a result of the freedom apps are given and the freedom of choice that users are given. It's no more "chaos" than Windows or Mac OS X.
- jsz0 15y ago
  Just my personal preference. I don't want or need my SmartPhone to pretend to be a computer. I already have a computer. A SmartPhone just needs to do the most common tasks as efficiently and trouble free as possible. Being as it's a SmartPhone and not the constitution of my country freedom isn't really at the top of my priority list. If it was seamless I wouldn't mind just having a list of options to choose from but when we start talking about evaluating a bunch of different replacement apps/ROMs/etc I lose interest. It's too much time to invest into a device that is supposed to make my life easier. My benchmark for SmartPhones is how difficult it is to complete some common tasks. I've found in most cases for Android that process resembles an if/then/else function. If I use app X then I do Y but only if A=2.2 && B=3.1 else I just give up and decide it's not worth the effort. I would prefer to just learn the one, maybe two, ways of possibly doing it and adapt. I don't need to modify the device to adapt to my every whim in part because that assumes I actually know exactly how I want it to work. I really don't. I want the OS to figure some of those things out for me.

drivebyacct2 15y ago

Motoblur sucks, sure. Not all Android devices are the same. Blur is trash, almost as bad as Sense. I already addressed the back button. I still have yet to understand how it's a nightmare. It's predictable. It's a stack. done. Yes, locked bootloaders are ridiculous. None of my half-a-dozen Android phones have ever had locked boot loaders. Yes, apps can make notifications. Remove the app, install another to block the adpush service. That's a result of freedom. The Android browser is much better in ICS, again, the jittering you're describing is blur. Not all Android devices are made the same. The SD card is also infuriating, but again, that's the beauty of Android. There is an API that, if devs used properly, places all files in a subdir of the memory card. Unfortunately, unless you want crippled, walled off apps ala iOS, there's no other way to do it. No idea what Motorola Tools are. You really ought to try a Nexus device man. >When it comes to games it's total chaos. You have no way of really knowing if the game is going to work correctly or not on your phone. The Droid X isn't all that old yet most games seem to lag on it. It ranges from annoying to unplayable. What? I've never had a game not play on my Fascinate and it's older than the DX. You say "chaos". I say freedom and choice. It's not hard to avoid the problems you're complaining about (save for the SD card, which I argue is hard-to-impossible to fix properly without just limiting functionality).