Android phone is a piece of shit

[Agent Provocateur]

Excellent! I'll look forward to your PM, Kulindahr.

 

[cgymike]

I got a Samsung Galaxy S4, and I've spent more time trying to get the piece of crap to do what I want than I have talking or taking pictures.

It says it has SIM contacts and they can't be edited throught the Contacts, app, but when I go to contacts and select "SIM", there are no contacts.

It tells me that ROM contacts canot be edited, but I can't find a bloody thing that even says what ROM contact is.

It will tell me I have voice mail, but if I make a call before checking voice mail, it drops the notification, so if I use my phone to make a call and didn't know there was voice mail, it never tells me -- so I miss appointments and stuff.

I use SYNC to control my contacts list, using Backup Assistant online, but it only does some of the changes I want. When I try to make changes using the phone . . . well, see above.

I'm about ready to ask how to wipe every damned thing off the phone and enter it all manually, because other than that it obviously has its own ideas about how it's going to require me to do things.

And it still has about fifty apps I have no use for but it won't let me delete them.


And I thought MICROSOFT was evil!


p.s. -- google is part of the evil, if not the biggest part -- it's a google phone

You should have gotten an Iphone. Get your money back.

 

[LeicsDom]

I got a Samsung Galaxy S4, and I've spent more time trying to get the piece of crap to do what I want than I have talking or taking pictures.

See if these people can help you http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s/

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

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[Paws]

You have a Samsung.

I have highlighted the beginning and the end of your problem.

^ Truth. I can't wait for the day Firefox smartphones are available in my country

And Samsung Kies is one of the biggest piece of shit software products ever made.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

You should have gotten an Iphone. Get your money back.

He would be in a worse position than he is now.

 

[darden]

Kuli, it sounds like you need to go back to

so you can call the cops to complain about the kids on your lawn

 

[mirlox]

Kuli, it sounds like you need to go back to

so you can call the cops to complain about the kids on your lawn

 

[whitedavo]

Child, please. This is what I literally have to deal with at work. I can't tell them but I can tell you...

Just because you can't figure something out, doesn't mean there's something wrong the electronic device. You barely even know what you're talking about and yet you're making huge judgments.

 

[Agent Provocateur]

Switch to Windows Phone 8!! I had an Android but decided to switch because Im sick of both the Ui and overall experience with iphone and Android and Im never looking back! Picked up the Nokia Lumia 925 and its been amazing so far, great speed, great camera.

I had a Windows Phone 7.8 device and for the most part, I loved it. It was a the Lumia 610, which was the cheapest WP7.8 device available for the North American market and had absolutely awful specs, but still ran incredibly smoothly, aside from Facebook, which was the ultimate deal-breaker. I loved the UI. I was not satisfied with the app choice and emphasis on Microsoft apps. However, I would get a WP9 device if I wasn't already so heavily invested in the Android ecosystem; I'd lose all my Google Play books, for one, and I can't do that.

 

[Agent Provocateur]

I have a semi-geek friend who could probably do it with your guidance.

Crap, I used to be a geek, but I stopped staying current about the time things moved on from C++.

I'd be more than happy to help your geek friend root your phone and install Cyanogenmod onto it! I currently use Cyanogenmod (on my Galaxy S3, the earlier model of the one you have), and if you've ever heard of the Google Nexus series of phones, they run essentially the same operating system (with a few tweaks and some very impressive added features for both beginners and advanced users). What's important to you about it is that it strips literally every bit of Samsung's shitware off of your phone and leaves you with a pure, slim, incredibly speedy version of Android that you'll enjoy a lot more than Samsung's bullshit overlays and bloatware.

 

[Kulindahr]

And Samsung Kies is one of the biggest piece of shit software products ever made.

From what I've seen so far, I have to agree -- EVERYTHING I've tried to do with Kies can be done much more simply with Windows Explorer!

 

[Kulindahr]

He would be in a worse position than he is now.

LOL

That's the same thing everyone I know has said.

 

[Kulindahr]

Child, please. This is what I literally have to deal with at work. I can't tell them but I can tell you...

Just because you can't figure something out, doesn't mean there's something wrong the electronic device. You barely even know what you're talking about and yet you're making huge judgments.

A properly designed device would be made to be intuitive, so it wouldn't take vast tutorials to figure out how to run it. LOTS of programming is done that way -- I used to do it myself, and I use software written that way. And the problem isn't that I can't figure things out, it's that I have figured things out and the result is that I can't do what I ought to be able to do with my device; instead I'm required to accept things I have no interest in or desire for and which serve mostly to be a pain in the ass.

Any device designed in a way that keeps the user from simply and quickly configuring it the way he wants is deficient. Any device loaded with shit up front that the user can't even get rid of if he wants is not merely deficient but dastardly -- it isn't designed to help the user, but to require him to conform.

On the issues that are driving me batty, I most certainly know what I'm talking about: there are dozens of pre-loaded apps that are redundant and annoying, which I don't want -- and they won't go in the trash, they insist on staying in the way. That's not opinion, that's not lack of figuring something out, that's fact as told by Samsung techs and Samsung discussion forums. Google set up gmail for me on my phone without my asking, and even since I got rid of it it's a pain because it keeps asking me to restore it -- again, not lack of figuring anything out, just facts.

When I did computer programming in college, I got the highest marks in the class for user-friendliness. So I can say with certainty that what Samsung has done here is NOT user-friendly.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Child, please. This is what I literally have to deal with at work. I can't tell them but I can tell you...

Just because you can't figure something out, doesn't mean there's something wrong the electronic device. You barely even know what you're talking about and yet you're making huge judgments.

You sound like a GREAT employee. Absolutely fantastic.

Can I have your bosses' number? I'd like you recommend you for a raise, because clearly you helped everyone out.

With you insight. Because that's what you gave here. Insight.

Such amazing. Wow.

 

[Kulindahr]

I've spent twenty minutes trying to figure out something that should be right up front on any phone: how to fund out who tried calling me on missed calls.

It has a little notification that I missed calls -- and from there, absolutely nothing. Rationally, if I tapped the Phone icon, it would have a "missed calls" icon to tap so I could see who tried to call me. No such luck.

Nor, BTW, can I find an option where I can tell it to make a special sound when I miss a call, and to keep telling me that. According to what I can find online, there isn't such a thing. That's a total FAIL on system design! What morons designed a phone system that doesn't give you flexibility on using the phone as a phone?!?!?!?
And is that a standard Android fail, or a Samsung one?

 

[Kulindahr]

You sound like a GREAT employee. Absolutely fantastic.

Can I have your bosses' number? I'd like you recommend you for a raise, because clearly you helped everyone out.

With you insight. Because that's what you gave here. Insight.

Such amazing. Wow.

No kidding. He reminds me of the Microsoft "help" people with their attitude that any way the customer might want to do something is automatically wrong, because obviously Microsoft is so wise and benevolent that anyone with sense would want to do it their way, and of course if they didn't provide a way to do something it can't possibly be worth doing!

 

[darden]

on my Galaxy S4, I click on the phone icon and there's a tab for "Recent" calls at the top. that lists all incoming, outgoing, and missed calls (with different icons to indicate which is which)

 

[Kulindahr]

on my Galaxy S4, I click on the phone icon and there's a tab for "Recent" calls at the top. that lists all incoming, outgoing, and missed calls (with different icons to indicate which is which)

Okay, I take it that the red old-fashioned phone icon means it was missed. That's acceptable, but it would make more sense just to show the missed calls only.

Maybe I'm spoiled by strategy games where everything's intuitive; where clicking on a thing automatically brings you to the information about it, but taking you to a list where you have to sift the information out instead of just having it presented it just seems stupidly clumsy.

 

[darden]

Okay, I take it that the red old-fashioned phone icon means it was missed. That's acceptable, but it would make more sense just to show the missed calls only.

Maybe I'm spoiled by strategy games where everything's intuitive; where clicking on a thing automatically brings you to the information about it, but taking you to a list where you have to sift the information out instead of just having it presented it just seems stupidly clumsy.

in theory, you should have a notification in the Notification Bar area and a flashing light any time you've missed a call. at least on my phone, the notification stays there until I acknowledge the missed call by swiping it off the notification bar (or you can tap it instead and it will call the person back)