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Things that Irritate me About Android OS - 4 weeks in

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ZeroGravitas wrote: post #30
gallamine wrote: post #14

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OP here. I got the Optimus V - dirt cheap and only has 256 mb of internal memory. So, obviously this isn't representative of "modern" phones, but I'm not convinced that better hardware is a good solution to a potential design flaw. Case in point, this phone recently went on sale at Best Buy and Target and has been sold out in every store in my city. There's a lot of new Android users that will be dealing with this pr…

What version of Android does it run? I have a similar budget phone (ZTE Blade) and this was an issue under 2.1 (I would get warnings about being low on space) but I haven't even thought about it since I went to 2.2 a while ago. I believe most larger apps install themselves automatically to the SD card now? Enough do it that it doesn't bother me anyway. I actually have no idea how much internal space my phone has, whi…

Blade has 512 MB of internal memory, but it is partitioned into /system, /data and /cache. Both system and data are somewhere around 235 MB each and cache is the rest.

Android doesn't help that it warns you when you are below 10% of free /data. On Blade, it is still 23 MB.

Just out of curiosity, what are you using for 2.2 on Blade? AFAIK, the official version is still 2.1.

Re: Things that Irritate me About Android OS - 4 weeks in

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Post by nuclear_eclipse »

gallamine wrote: post #24
nuclear_eclipse wrote: post #22

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> Having a mix is like having two hard drives. You're suddenly asking your users to make decisions about things they probably don't care about or that they do care about in ways you can't predict. Will they want this app on internal or external storage? What about this music? Except it's not. Android doesn't give the user any options, with one exception that almost nobody ever needs to worry about. See my comment at…

" ... finding the application in a sorted list of icons?" 1. The list can be very long. As far as I can tell, there's no scroll bar indicator or even a alphabet marker. 2. It's sorted by alphabet, not by install time, so it requires you remember the name of the application. If the name is different than in the market, you're really in trouble.

> 1. The list can be very long. As far as I can tell, there's no scroll bar indicator or even a alphabet marker.

That is a completely valid insight. Either solution would definitely make it easier to scroll to the correct area of the list.

> 2. It's sorted by alphabet, not by install time, so it requires you remember the name of the application. If the name is different than in the market, you're really in trouble.

I would imagine that for anything not just-installed, having the list sorted by install time would be a nightmare. I have no idea what the relative order of installation would be for any of my apps. As for the name, I would hope that application authors wouldn't be so daft as to have the package's name be different that the actual launcher's title, although I wouldn't put it past somebody to do that.

Re: Things that Irritate me About Android OS - 4 weeks in

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

vetinari wrote: post #31
ZeroGravitas wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What version of Android does it run? I have a similar budget phone (ZTE Blade) and this was an issue under 2.1 (I would get warnings about being low on space) but I haven't even thought about it since I went to 2.2 a while ago. I believe most larger apps install themselves automatically to the SD card now? Enough do it that it doesn't bother me anyway. I actually have no idea how much internal space my phone has, whi…

Blade has 512 MB of internal memory, but it is partitioned into /system, /data and /cache. Both system and data are somewhere around 235 MB each and cache is the rest. Android doesn't help that it warns you when you are below 10% of free /data. On Blade, it is still 23 MB. Just out of curiosity, what are you using for 2.2 on Blade? AFAIK, the official version is still 2.1.

I'm very happily using MoDaCo custom Froyo rom:

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blade-roms-rom-customi...

Re: Things that Irritate me About Android OS - 4 weeks in

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Post by vetinari »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #33
vetinari wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blade has 512 MB of internal memory, but it is partitioned into /system, /data and /cache. Both system and data are somewhere around 235 MB each and cache is the rest. Android doesn't help that it warns you when you are below 10% of free /data. On Blade, it is still 23 MB. Just out of curiosity, what are you using for 2.2 on Blade? AFAIK, the official version is still 2.1.

I'm very happily using MoDaCo custom Froyo rom: http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blade-roms-rom-customi...

Thanks, I will have a look at it.
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