Gomtu
Newbie
I now have two android thingy-doos, a tablet and a phone, and I'm sure I'm not alone in the learning/frustration curve. I just had to get away from the iPhone, you can't block harassment calls on that phone, and I could not afford an iPad, so another frightful learning experience was inescapable.
The tablet launched me into the arcane world of Android apps, some of which work, (those are the bait to draw you in) and the phone, being that I depend much more heavily on it became the focus of my frustrations. It's radically different from what I was using. I tried to answer a call on it by pushing the answer button, and it would not answer, no matter how many times I pushed it. Okay, I found out you have to swipe it instead. I never would have guessed.
Then I found myself locked out of my voicemail, because it was a new phone, and I didn't remember the passcode I'd put into my iPhone 5 years ago, and so had to take it back to the store where I got it, and be treated like an idiot by the manager who talked down to me with obvious contempt. I did get my voicemail unlocked though.
Next was the GPS thing. Again, radically different from what I was used to. I work as a driver, and I have to drive people to hundreds of places I've never heard of, so GPS is vital. I'd been using an iPhone 3G running Waze, which had been going insane on me. I'd heard Google Maps was the best thing out there so I tried it out. To my amazement I can speak to it, tell it the address, and it gets it! Wow! The disappointment was that it would not shut up!
Gawd what a babbling chatterbox app! It's just like having Nancy McDonald back in my life running her big mouth on and on again about every little thing she can think of. Every turn I have to make that app goes on and on at me about the road, the county road number, how many feet to the turn, and all the places it goes, multiple times before I even make the turn! Please just shut up you stupid thing!
I went into the settings of the app, and there was no way to get her to shut the eff up! I tried turning the sound all the way down on my phone, no dice, she just kept babbling on and I could not even lower the volume. Oh man, Nancy is in my car and won't shut up!
Finally I discovered that there are settings for notifications of each app on the phone, and I was finally able to silence that stupid broad in my phone. Next come the widgets. When I first saw the phone the arrogant pig who sold it to me (the one who so enjoyed talking down to me) swiped things off the screen he would not have wanted on there, but I did. Now I can't get them back. My previous phone didn't have those things, or work at all this way. There was a widget, I guess, in the upper right hand corner of the screen displaying the time. He just deleted that because HE wouldn't have wanted it there. He didn't ask me. There was another little window left of it, and he deleted it so fast I didn't get to see what it was or what it did.
Next comes the screen shut-off. There are times when I don't want the screen going black on me on a timer. I need it to stay on and it's on a charger, so there's no reason for it to shut off on me, but there also seems no way to stop it from doing that. Does anyone know how to do that?
Sorry for the rant, I'm going through a rough patch here....
The tablet launched me into the arcane world of Android apps, some of which work, (those are the bait to draw you in) and the phone, being that I depend much more heavily on it became the focus of my frustrations. It's radically different from what I was using. I tried to answer a call on it by pushing the answer button, and it would not answer, no matter how many times I pushed it. Okay, I found out you have to swipe it instead. I never would have guessed.
Then I found myself locked out of my voicemail, because it was a new phone, and I didn't remember the passcode I'd put into my iPhone 5 years ago, and so had to take it back to the store where I got it, and be treated like an idiot by the manager who talked down to me with obvious contempt. I did get my voicemail unlocked though.
Next was the GPS thing. Again, radically different from what I was used to. I work as a driver, and I have to drive people to hundreds of places I've never heard of, so GPS is vital. I'd been using an iPhone 3G running Waze, which had been going insane on me. I'd heard Google Maps was the best thing out there so I tried it out. To my amazement I can speak to it, tell it the address, and it gets it! Wow! The disappointment was that it would not shut up!
Gawd what a babbling chatterbox app! It's just like having Nancy McDonald back in my life running her big mouth on and on again about every little thing she can think of. Every turn I have to make that app goes on and on at me about the road, the county road number, how many feet to the turn, and all the places it goes, multiple times before I even make the turn! Please just shut up you stupid thing!
I went into the settings of the app, and there was no way to get her to shut the eff up! I tried turning the sound all the way down on my phone, no dice, she just kept babbling on and I could not even lower the volume. Oh man, Nancy is in my car and won't shut up!
Finally I discovered that there are settings for notifications of each app on the phone, and I was finally able to silence that stupid broad in my phone. Next come the widgets. When I first saw the phone the arrogant pig who sold it to me (the one who so enjoyed talking down to me) swiped things off the screen he would not have wanted on there, but I did. Now I can't get them back. My previous phone didn't have those things, or work at all this way. There was a widget, I guess, in the upper right hand corner of the screen displaying the time. He just deleted that because HE wouldn't have wanted it there. He didn't ask me. There was another little window left of it, and he deleted it so fast I didn't get to see what it was or what it did.
Next comes the screen shut-off. There are times when I don't want the screen going black on me on a timer. I need it to stay on and it's on a charger, so there's no reason for it to shut off on me, but there also seems no way to stop it from doing that. Does anyone know how to do that?
Sorry for the rant, I'm going through a rough patch here....
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