Pet peeves thread

[zenman]

Just to be clear, I love this phone and would recommend it, but I figured I would start a pet peeve thread anyway. Who knows, maybe your pet peeve is fixable, I hope mine is.

My pet peeve may be more about android than the phone itself:

When I return to gmail or the google play store, it's on the last email or app I was looking at instead of the home page. Grrr.

 

[Roll-Tide]

That's most likely because you hit the home button to come out of the app instead of using the back button to back all the way out.

 

[Don S]

Just to be clear, I love this phone and would recommend it, but I figured I would start a pet peeve thread anyway. Who knows, maybe your pet peeve is fixable, I hope mine is.

My pet peeve may be more about android than the phone itself:

When I return to gmail or the google play store, it's on the last email or app I was looking at instead of the home page. Grrr.

Yeah, I think of that as a feature - multitasking - and not a negative. That said, I have a few niggles on the DNA, though I love it as well.

- The notification light. It is sooooo tiny and not RGB.
- Volume overall. It is not very loud - earpiece and speakerphone. Not awful, definitely not great though.
- That damn power button. It's in a terribly unreachable spot for 1 handed use and too flush with the phone. Definitely a form over function choice all around there IMO


I love the phone. I really had to think about it to come up with negatives.

 

[climberman]

Yeah, I think of that as a feature - multitasking - and not a negative. That said, I have a few niggles on the DNA, though I love it as well.

- The notification light. It is sooooo tiny and not RGB.
- Volume overall. It is not very loud - earpiece and speakerphone. Not awful, definitely not great though.
- That damn power button. It's in a terribly unreachable spot for 1 handed use and too flush with the phone. Definitely a form over function choice all around there IMO


I love the phone. I really had to think about it to come up with negatives.

Curses for asking........ but......... and these are piddly observations (what kind of a word is piddly anyway.....) agree that the overall volume of notification is a bit modest but I have yet to download any notification of apps which may address this....... the location of said power button not a locational issue for me own big hands but for some reason my power button needs to be held down with a very hard press and hold to fire up the beast which is, but oddly enough, exactly, the same as my former Rezound...... coming from a BB years ago...... well hardly anything matches those huge land your 747 plane right here bright flashers......

This is the best phone yet in my possession

 

[Waltah]

When web browsing, swiping "down" often causes the bookmarks and url windows to pop up on the screen!

edit: Just ran across another one: the phone gets stuck sometimes turning airplane mode off

 

[zenman]

Verizon pet peeve: Can't remove or move the two verizon bookmarks.

 

[Don S]

I'll add another niggle. That damn persistent Wifi notification in the drop down...

 

[AntimonyER]

I actually don't mind the Wifi notification, because I am constantly turning it off and on, and its an easy place to do that...

1. So many games aren't compatible with it right now. Not the phone's fault, and will be fixed over time, but my favorite game force closes every time right now.

2. Capacitive buttons are so close to the bottom of the screen, I find my palm ends up triggering one while reaching for middle letters in landscape mode, and the letters won't type as a result.

3. Shutter sound on camera is too quiet. I am sure I can fix this if I try though.

 

[Damar1979]

I'll add another niggle. That damn persistent Wifi notification in the drop down...

Lol, at first I too thought that was annoying. But then afterwards I kind of consider that a good thing if I forget that I'm in an area with WiFi for the sake of the battery.
On a side note, is there anyway to change the keyboard?

 

[NightAngel79]

Biggest pet peeve EVER!!!~!!!!!

EVERY!!! time I use navigation it asks me if I want to use VZW navigator or Google Nav. I pick Google everytime, click the 'always use this' (or however it is worded) and it still asks me every time.

I even have vzw nav disabled.... Makes me want to scream

Lol, at first I too thought that was annoying. But then afterwards I kind of consider that a good thing if I forget that I'm in an area with WiFi for the sake of the battery.
On a side note, is there anyway to change the keyboard?

Yes, just download a alternate keyboard from the play store and enable it in 'settings>language & keyboards' then click in a text box (which brings keyboard up) and in the notification window there should be a choose input method option.

 

[untitled1]

Biggest pet peeve EVER!!!~!!!!!

EVERY!!! time I use navigation it asks me if I want to use VZW navigator or Google Nav. I pick Google everytime, click the 'always use this' (or however it is worded) and it still asks me every time.

I even have vzw nav disabled.... Makes me want to scream

This must be intentional, because I started seeing the same thing on my Rezound a few months ago. Highly irritating.

 

[zenman]

Yep, I had the Verizon Navigator choice forced on me relentlessly on my DINC, and now on the DNA too. Verizon is just begging us to root.

 

[Don S]

Biggest pet peeve EVER!!!~!!!!!

EVERY!!! time I use navigation it asks me if I want to use VZW navigator or Google Nav. I pick Google everytime, click the 'always use this' (or however it is worded) and it still asks me every time.

I even have vzw nav disabled.... Makes me want to scream
...

Hm, I haven't seen this happen to me yet. How are you trying to get to Navigation? It launched Google Navigation for me from the Maps interface directly, etc ...

 

[jacko1]

how do I erase frequently text
is there a way

 

[mush10]

More a Google thing, but I really wish the Google Now search/voice box could launch at the bottom so I could use it one handed.

(Windows Phone's browser has the search bar on bottom and it surprisingly very convenient as phones get larger)

 

[Damar1979]

More a Google thing, but I really wish the Google Now search/voice box could launch at the bottom so I could use it one handed.

(Windows Phone's browser has the search bar on bottom and it surprisingly very convenient as phones get larger)

You know you can drag the icon and replace one of the bottom ones with it

 

[AntimonyER]

More a Google thing, but I really wish the Google Now search/voice box could launch at the bottom so I could use it one handed.

(Windows Phone's browser has the search bar on bottom and it surprisingly very convenient as phones get larger)

You do know holding the home button launches Google Now...

 

[Damar1979]

You do know holding the home button launches Google Now...

Also. If you make voice search one of the main 4 apps on the bottom of the home screen, it will be available on the lock screen.

 

[zenman]

I've had two incoming calls get answered even though I dragged the little circle over "decline". I guess I dragged it too far past it?

 

[rbullard]

YES - THIS IS IT.

I was trolling through this list and was going to add this and then saw you already did. I've been on the road all week using this phone and EVERY TIME I tell it to navigate somewhere it asks me that question. WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING THE "Always Use This" option?!?!?! This is a straight up FRUSTRATING bug. Pisses me off every time it comes up, which is every time you tell it to navigate to a location.

Biggest pet peeve EVER!!!~!!!!!

EVERY!!! time I use navigation it asks me if I want to use VZW navigator or Google Nav. I pick Google everytime, click the 'always use this' (or however it is worded) and it still asks me every time.

I even have vzw nav disabled.... Makes me want to scream









Yes, just download a alternate keyboard from the play store and enable it in 'settings>language & keyboards' then click in a text box (which brings keyboard up) and in the notification window there should be a choose input method option.

 

[AntimonyER]

I pressed the navigation icon, pressed navigate to home, the pop-up for choose program showed up, I chose navigation and always, then went into apps, all apps, VZW NAV, and pressed disable. After that, I haven't been prompted again.

 

[WiL11o6]

Coming from a smaller, slower OG Incredible, auto rotate wasn't an issue. If I wanted portrait it would say in portrait, if I wanted landscape, it would stay in landscape. The DNA is much bigger and I have small hands and trying to walk and browse with ONE hand is much more difficult. I need to bounce and slide the phone up and down my hand trying to hit links and thus causing it to auto rotate to landscape because it's so quick to respond when it's turned even so slightly.

 

[paulmike3]

I've had two incoming calls get answered even though I dragged the little circle over "decline". I guess I dragged it too far past it?

You need to drag the "decline" into the circle, not the circle over decline. You did it backwards.

 

[AntimonyER]

You need to drag the "decline" into the circle, not the circle over decline. You did it backwards.

I did that at first too!

 

[Don S]

I pressed the navigation icon, pressed navigate to home, the pop-up for choose program showed up, I chose navigation and always, then went into apps, all apps, VZW NAV, and pressed disable. After that, I haven't been prompted again.

Yup, me too.