The other main problem I am having is that when I connect the phone to
my Ubuntu PC via USB, the PC does not recognise the phone at all, as if
it were not connected, yet the phone is charging from the cable. An
Android phone on the same cable was recognised perfectly well, as were
ebook readers. So why not the BQ Ubuntu Phone?
On 08/04/15 17:30, David King wrote:
I have noticed that the Dekko email client is quite unstable and keeps
crashing -- surely the Ubuntu team should be developing this? We need
a decent email client. One of the main reasons for having an Ubuntu
phone is to get away from Google, yet the only email client that is
installed by default is for gmail.
When I receive a phonecall from someone not in my contacts list, how
can I easily add that number to the contacts -- I see no options at
all when looking at received calls other than info relating to the
call. It needs to have the option to add a caller to a contact, either
an existing one or create a new one.
In the web browser, there is an option to share the page. This should
have in the list other apps, including the option to send by email,
share on Facebook, save to Pocket, save to Evernote, etc. Sending a
link by text message is not what I want to do.
David King
On 08/04/15 15:16, Tony Pursell wrote:
Hi All
A few problems/observations from me:
1) For the second time I have been given a notification of
'1819631974 voicemail messages'. When I touch the phone icon on it,
it just goes away. First time I had it, I didn't even have voicemail
set up for the new number I put on the phone. Is it a bug, or a
scam, or what?
2) Wifi doesn't let me choose what to connect to. My Moto G Android
phone gives me a list of Wifi networks in my locality - mostly
secure. But there is a BT Wifi and a BT Wifi with FON which are not
secured, but have a poor signal and will always give me a Network
error as I'm not registered to use them. Every so often, my Moto G
locks onto one of these, but I can tell it to disconnect and forget
it. Now my Ubuntu phone has locked onto one of them and I cannot
find any way to get it back to my home Wifi. Even turning Wifi off
in System Settings has no effect.
3) Battery Life is poor - between a day or two at the most. My Moto
G used to be as bad, but has improved a lot with Lollipop. I notice
at least one bug has been posted about this, so I hope it will be
improved for the Ubuntu phone.
4) Closing apps I find a real pain. Perhaps someone will tell me how
to do it easily. The only way I have found is to do a really precise
slow swipe from the right edge to about 2/3rds the way across the
screen to get it to show open apps, then swipe down the one I don't
want. The swipe from the right edge has to be so precise that it
take a few goes to get it right. What I would like is for the <
symbol at the top of the app window to change to X on the home page
and mean 'close'. See System Settings as an example of an app where
this would work. At the moment, only the browser has a greyed out <
on the home page, but just doing it for this would help due to the
way may apps 'offload' to the browser.
5) I've been tapping notifications to get to what they are telling me
about and nothing has been happening. Now I find that tapping the
icon, and only the icon, works. Not very intuitive, especially for
ex-Android users. Also, swiping the notification to the right, gives
me a 'Delete' option. It's not clear if this is to delete just the
notification or the object (email, for instance) it is telling you
about. Scary!
Those are the things bugging me at the moment. More to come, maybe.
Tony
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