Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad
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@kristatos said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad:
if the input is to slow?
FIY I have noticed that disabling haptic feedback was leading to me typing faster. I don't know if it's psychological or if the buzz is really slowing the keyboard. Give it a test if you don't have disabled it yet.
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M mariogrip referenced this topic
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As a daily user can I share my "bugs that drive me mad"...
Having read the thread so far, I've minimised the duplicate topics you've already covered including:-
RCS, VoLTE, notch/corners, slow GPS fix, backup/restore, small buttons.
Below is in personal priority of annoyance. Hopefully this ramble is helpful.Clock app:-
In my opinion the clock/alarm app is terrible and annoys me daily. Stopwatch and Timer are much better to be separate better fleshed out apps. Missing timezone information for world clocks but hours ahead and behind useful feature to keep.
I would suggest having the top menu options as just World Clocks and Alarms windows, loosing the swipe up menu completely (see below). Having a separate settings menu for each. Alarms menu could have larger font for time more legible and note be one line to maximise space for alarms list, as too much wasted space.General UI Swipe ups:-
I'm not sure about any of the swipe up menus across all of the apps. Yes they're mostly consistent to be "add new thing" but really can be achieved much quicker and intuitively with a + on the top menu in every case. Swipe up is not an easy gesture to do either often requiring two hands as you need to swipe at least 1/3 up the screen to open the window.
Only swipe up that isn't "add new thing" would be the phone app which I feel should just display recent calls list anyway with options to open either Contacts or Dialling pad.Settings:-
Lack of network connection options frustrating, proxies, static IP's, DNS, automatic connection, priority, etc.
Needing to connect to things with static IPs is one reason I need to keep a laptop around.
Previous networks should only show if you successfully connected to that AP.General UI PullDown:-
Calender from pull down shows incorrect dates for future months. Multiple times I have given incorrect dates due to this and now have to open calendar app not use the pulldown one.Keyboard Layout not consistent with settings. With English UK set in settings, a bluetooth keyboard types English US and is shown in the keyboard pull down as US.
Phone:-
Better highlighting of missed/incoming/outgoing calls from Recent calls would be useful read at a glance. Red/Green/Blue text maybe?VOIP or IM accounts for Calls and Messaging. No XMPP/Jabber?
Music app:- Resume playing on headset reconnection needs to be an option.
Not using local album art seems to be a bug, I have folder.jpg files for all my music and yet thumbnails rarely work.
Now playing gestures for play/pause (to go with swipe skip gesture) would help for driving.Nice to Have:-
Adaptive Charging or Maximum % threshold should be available in battery settings.Lack of Printing app as standard?
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@mariogrip
Thank you for the summary table, it gives a pretty good overview.
I would like to point out that some of the issues listed are not present on the phone I use every day, so perhaps indicating which phones do not encounter these issues could help/guide the implementation of fixes:
Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 ProPriority 1 bugs
None of them on my daily driven phone.
VPN: connection to my openvpn instance without any problem. (but has been quiet hard to make it functionnal)Priority 2
Bluetooth: working with some issues (Ratchanan has a quiet clear idea on this)
Imap mail notification: works...
Communication (voLTE): works fine (Orange Belgium)Priority 3
Keyboard crash: never. -
@mariogrip
As it is difficult for developers to have access to all phones to check/debug a given issue,
Ratchanan has twice used my VPN to connect to my spare phone (camera patch and bluetooth car debug).
I can offer the same service for others if it is useful.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro -
Here is a new one that I forgot to put on my list the first time.
Silent Mode!
It does not work correctly, or at least it does not behave in a way that is intuitive. I turn on silent mode, and I still get notification ping sounds. I don't see the alert volume change to 0 in uVolMan.
Also there is no separation between silent and do not disturb that I can find. It would be good to have a do not disturb mode that completely silences the phone, vibrations, and notifications.
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@Vlad-Nirky said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad:
it gives a pretty good overview.
Interesting that my opinions about the installer were more or less reproduced.
That's the missing point in the premise for most posts here: what's driving you mad in your use of UT presumes that one is using UT. That is, the installing part did succeed else one would not use UT. However there is a surviving bias here :-).
Taking a second look on this problem, it is actually worse than I thought: there are 1900 unsolved issues about the installer on Github. It may point at many fire and forget issues, but that's also a janitoring problem: the installer is missing resources even for handling problem reports and that's because the experienced users are driving attention by being vocal about their problems on the forum or on Gitlab. The missing users are silent because they have tried UT and given up.
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@gpatel-fr Thanks for the hint, but I'm always using my phones without haptic feedback or any tones.
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Thank you everyone for the colossal amount of work going into UT
I'm going to to vote for two high priority items mentioned before. The rest is nice to have
Priority 1:
- backups: running ut as your daily driver carries quite some risk without being able to do easy backups and restores. Not only from anything software related, but irl as well, say damaged or lost phones etc.
Priority 2:
- volte: phase out of 2g/3g networks is picking up world wide.
Priority 2.5, though medium to long term:
- battery runtime. single day endurance is a must and should have some spare capacity to actually use the phone.
Priority 3:
- contact & calendar sync
- call history: show all calls with a given contact when going into info, not just from the selected day(?)
- (camera recordings are broken on my FP4, not sure if that's a global issue though)
Priority 4:
- volume handling between calls, music, and the ui is a bit of a mess overall.
Priority 1-5:
- better changelogs: it's actually quite frustrating to try and figure out what is supposed to work and what was fixed or changed.
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@gpatel-fr Yes, that's one option plus "Sound"->"other vibrations" (I'm using german localization , don't know exactly what it's called under with english localization)
