Just got my new phone from Virgin two weeks ago but have four questions/issues. Sorry for dumping these into one (poorly titled) thread, but figured it's better than starting a bunch of new threads, and when I searched I didn't really find good answers to these...
1. My phone's randomly rebooted itself twice so far. I think in both cases I was listening to music on Spotify and probably also had a ton of stuff open (Facebook, browsing the web, etc). Is it just that it reboots itself when it gets too much stuff going on? Is it overheating? What can I do to prevent this?
2. I'm new to Android in general so maybe I'm missing something, but why doesn't there seem to be a way to truly close out of a lot of applications? Sometimes if I'm worried about my battery dying I'll go try to "Force Stop" all the apps I don't need open, but they come right back there. And these aren't weird apps either, it's "mainstream" stuff like Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Yelp, etc.
3. How much of an impact on battery life does a lack of signal have? I was under the impression that it had a big impact on my old phone (which was a Windows Mobile piece of junk) because it was constantly doing a lot of "work" to try to find a signal, so if I was going in and out of signal a lot I'd turn it off. Is it worth putting on airplane mode for 15 minutes? Let's say I'm going to leave the house and hop on the subway for 15 minutes, transfer at Times Square so I'll go above ground enough to get signal for a minute, and get back on the subway for 15 more minutes. Does it make sense to switch the phone into airplane mode, switch it back on when I transfer to check for texts, and then switch it back to airplane? Is that just totally ridiculous?
4. Is there really no way to get the SMS client to display a timestamp for anything sent or received unless it was today? I know I can go to message options and "view message details" to see it, but it'd be so much more convenient to just see it in the message view. I know there are 3rd party SMS clients I could use, but it seems like kind of a ridiculous oversight in the stock SMS. Am I the only one who's texting around midnight and then suddenly everything just came "yesterday"?
1. My phone's randomly rebooted itself twice so far. I think in both cases I was listening to music on Spotify and probably also had a ton of stuff open (Facebook, browsing the web, etc). Is it just that it reboots itself when it gets too much stuff going on? Is it overheating? What can I do to prevent this?
2. I'm new to Android in general so maybe I'm missing something, but why doesn't there seem to be a way to truly close out of a lot of applications? Sometimes if I'm worried about my battery dying I'll go try to "Force Stop" all the apps I don't need open, but they come right back there. And these aren't weird apps either, it's "mainstream" stuff like Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Yelp, etc.
3. How much of an impact on battery life does a lack of signal have? I was under the impression that it had a big impact on my old phone (which was a Windows Mobile piece of junk) because it was constantly doing a lot of "work" to try to find a signal, so if I was going in and out of signal a lot I'd turn it off. Is it worth putting on airplane mode for 15 minutes? Let's say I'm going to leave the house and hop on the subway for 15 minutes, transfer at Times Square so I'll go above ground enough to get signal for a minute, and get back on the subway for 15 more minutes. Does it make sense to switch the phone into airplane mode, switch it back on when I transfer to check for texts, and then switch it back to airplane? Is that just totally ridiculous?
4. Is there really no way to get the SMS client to display a timestamp for anything sent or received unless it was today? I know I can go to message options and "view message details" to see it, but it'd be so much more convenient to just see it in the message view. I know there are 3rd party SMS clients I could use, but it seems like kind of a ridiculous oversight in the stock SMS. Am I the only one who's texting around midnight and then suddenly everything just came "yesterday"?
