09-29-2013, 11:25 PM
BLINGMW Wrote:.RJ Wrote:I just want the shit to work.I haven't kept up with this whole thread, but having finally gotten with the decade about a year ago, I am really unimpressed with Android. Am I doing it wrong?
Both Jess and I have fairly basic phones by Android standards, hers is a Samsung something running 4.0 and mine an HTC Status with 2.2. We use them as phones and for texting 90% of the time, email and web now and then. She has facebook going on hers and uses a lot more data, I refuse.
I think the most ridiculous thing to me is the quality of 3rd party apps. I've tried so many apps just to do simple things like turn the wifi on and off on a schedule, or a different texting app. Most of them break something else, phone stops ringing after a day or two, and I end up deleting them. Many don't even do the one thing they say they do. And they're well rated with 100k+ downloads. WTF? Anything that stops the phone from ringing or receiving texts on any users' phone should be f'ing deleted from the market.
Does rooting these things help at all or is that a step in the wrong direction?
Should I only use paid apps? Many will have a free and paid version, and I guess I assume if the free one doesn't even work, or wastes a day or two while I figure out what it broke, why would I pay for it?
Seems like restarting typically helps, should I find something to restart each every day? I'm guessing whatever app claims to do that won't actually do it of course.
Should I just lower my expectations, wipe both and never expect them to do anything they don't do with the factory apps? :dunno:
yes, replacing core OS functionality with free apps that just as well could be a 15 year olds class project is a bad idea.
IF you want to replace something like the messaging app , then at least buy something from a real software company (ie, swype). personally i dont feel the need to mess with that, core funtionality of any recent android version does everything very very well.
roms are a different ballgame (if that phone has any roms), you should stick to something well supported like cyanogenmod, and realize that youre then responsible for flashing your own updates
youre on a 2 year old midrange device that was never well regarded to begin with, running a 3.5 year old version of the OS. I would temper your expectations. if youre unhappy with it, a nexus 4 (or 5) should be in your near future.
i used to be as big of an android hater as there was, but recent versions combined with newer hardware is much better than the competition