On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:15 AM, W.Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008.9 + updates > > A phone that works: > reliably make and receive calls > reliably make and receive sms's > > At the moment, totally losing sms messages (phone sometimes > hangs/crashes when one comes in) or not waking up if suspended when one > comes in means that its almost unusable as a phone. > > It often takes several boots before the pin dialog comes up. If you > forget while waiting and it does come up but its awhile until you get to > it, it will hang so you have to reboot anyway. Sometimes restarting X > helps, but not always > > > Stability: > My average in normal usage is at least two boots a day due to crashes, > and often extra rebooting to check if an sms comes in (sometimes they > will only show on fresh re-registration. Leaving the phone on and > registered for hours doesnt seem to help - not sure how vodafone > australia takes to retry messages but surely its less that 12 hours. > The only way to stop crashes is not to use the thing! No GPS, no > wireless, no phone calls, and definitely never send/receive an sms :) > > I suspect the event/0 thread is at the root of a lot of this so I am > waiting a fix for that. > > I dont think I am alone in this - hopefully the new focus means that > these issues can be dealt with. > > I am a little concerned though that you think things like boot time is > important enough to mention, but not basic issues like being able to > reliably make a phone call. Though a faster boot means less time wasted > going through multiple bootups to get the thing registered. :) > > I should mention that 2007.2 seemed more stable and mature than 2008 > anything still is up until work stopped on it. > > BillK > > Totally, totally agree! Who cares a <beep> about wifi , speed, gps, accelerometer, booting time when the phone itself doesn't work. Please fix this issues first, use the precious developing time for these priorities , so whe can finally use the phone for daily use. The fun and fancy stuff can come later.
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