I use the stock behavior of my vendors value-added UI - HTC Sense.
The way to do that is in my phone's user guide - that's very well-written, in my opinion. But - I don't read user guides, so one of my fellow users on this forum taught me that trick when I was new here.
I simply populated my stock screens the way I wanted.
Then I use this feature with one, fluid motion.
I think many of you really misunderstood me. I hate MS and I hate Apple, I wouldn't use a Windows 7 phone if you would give it to me free. I just want to see a better Android.
Nothing wrong with that.
But first, you need understand what Android is, and you've got some misconceptions that can be easy rectified.
What you are saying is this: Android is an OS, a platform, and it comes stripped down from many functionalities, including many basic ones like "profiles" or pin protection. It's not very easy to use, BUT, it's flexible. You are saying that every person should and can easily customize his Android with all that good stuff and more, and that you can do anything you want as long as you customize and tweak the settings.
I did not say that.
I said to someone that misrepresented the UI that many customizations are possible and to call the UI ugly and confusing - based on a little-used component with my phone's stock incarnation - was ludicrous.
I said that Android was not a single look-and-feel.
Because it is a platform, you can choose look and feel by choosing one from the vendor OR customizing your own - it's a choice.
The vast majority of people buy vendor-phones with value-added UIs and never change them. Android from HTC, Motorola and Samsung (excluding the Nexus S) all have a different look and feel and are targeted at user-friendliness, per their manufacturer's included software.
My phone comes out of the box with profiles and pin-locking ability, by the way.
Very, very few Android phone are sold without add-ons, as plain vanilla Android. Those that are, are marketed that way.
The Nexus phone, be it your S or its predecessor, the One, lead that category. The Nexus phone is designed to be marketed by Google's spec to show how powerful the latest version of Android is - so it has very advanced hardware and comes without any adornment. It's suitable for Android purists, or anyone who finds none of the value-added phones to their liking and would prefer a plain, nothing-added interface.
Other smartphones follow Henry Ford's original approach to the Model T: You can have any color you want, so long as it's black. So, in truth, iPhones and Windows phones are very much like Model Ts - they come one way.
Android phone offerings are more like a combination of offerings by totaling GM, Ford, BMW, Honda Motors, Hyundai, Citroen - out of the box.
You bought the high performance roadster. It goes fast, it's a beautiful machine.
But you're complaining that it lacks power windows, powered leather seats, family seating, has road noise and is not for the feint-hearted. And you don't like the confusing array of accessories to change those attributes.
And - you're complaining that Android is wrong because of that.
I didn't buy the high-performance roadster - I bought the Euro-sedan version of Android, as do many people.
We simply don't have the road noise complaints that you do.
And because mine's also a top-class machine, I paid no more for my phone than you did for yours.
But, by analogy, you're looking for the Caddy or BMW features on the Android hot rod - and unless you tinker with your hot rod, you won't get them.
This is why you're finding so little traction with your idea that Android is so very stripped down and needs changing.
It's entirely possible that you did not get the right phone for your needs or your desires. But that's not Android's fault. Android is a platform, much like GM is a fleet of choices.
I have a question - do you think your mother, father, grandmother or 8 years old sister can or WANT to do all of that stuff?
Nope. I'm a grandfather of 6 and my mom and 65 year-old sister came and spent a few weeks with us this summer. Neither had touched a smartphone in their entire lives.
I switched to the stock profile on my phone, handed it to them and they loved it - had no trouble using it, the internet, Google sky or maps after - literally - a few minutes of orientation with the phone and a few minute with each app they wanted to play with.
They adored it, and couldn't get over how easy it was to use.
Especially after they'd tried my wife's phone - a Samsung Moment, an earlier model that came with - wait for it - plain vanilla Android, like yours. (OK - an earlier version of plain vanilla Android.)
Why is Android like that? Because Google is not a consumer products company, it is an engineering company. They probably didn't have the foresight to involve many consumer product and UI specialists on what is a "platform" or "OS". But guys, 90% of the people who buy phones don't know what a "platform" is. They are buying a phone. They think in terms of "I like my phone" and "my phone is easy to use" or "my phone is hard to use". So it's very cool that Android is a platform, but the real goal here is to sell as many Android phones as possible. So it's not enough that it is flexible... it needs to be intuitive for the average user and preloaded with all the basics. Right now this is not the case. That's it. If you like Android and want to see it as popular as possible, I'm not really sure why would you argue with that.
And if you don't want the engineer's purist-phone, don't get it.
Get the Android phone with the UI added by companies whose software teams' sole mission is the user interface.
This is possible because Android is a platform.
Here's a commercial for my phone's stock UI. It's made in Taiwan, but the UI team is located right here in the USA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kax24GN1458
Whether this is the interface for you or not - you must admit that out of the box, this interface looks and feels worlds apart from yours and has more customizations - if one would like them - than yours.
For a huge percentage of Android users - that video is what Android looks and feels like.
Before criticizing Android, you must understand it.
So far, you're criticizing the Nexus S and you're looking for luxury features on the company's hot rod.
When your complaints extend to what's under the hood - the power plant of Android - we'll have that in common. But we don't have the UI in common because it's model dependent.
You've drawn a conclusion that our models of Android are exactly like your Nexus S model - and that's simply not so, where the UI is concerned.
PS - I've worked as a system engineer and systems analyst most of life, working primarily in matters involving physics, electrical engineering and systems software. My degrees include one in computer information systems. My wife is a not-unpopular New Mexico fine artist. Yet, I use the more artsy-fartsy Android interface, while she prefer the vanilla Android.
Just goes to show, you can't profile Android users as easily as one might think at first blush.
, second, your spelling gave me a headache 