Droid Turbo common issues?

[k1ngr4t]

On the note of phone calls, I don't like how you have to pull a drop down menu to select handset if you don't want to use BT or speakerphone. I drive a lot for my work and use BT constantly, however it's worthless on the highway since the outside noise is too loud. But now instead of just tapping it off, I have to pull down the tiny menu and tap the tiny handset piece option. And I have big hands too.

As always not the end of the world, but an inconvenience that wasn't an issue before LP. It's just downright dangerous!

 

[PereDroid]

That actually happened to me today. Driving to work in the convertible with the top down and wife called. I couldn't figure out a quick and easy way to make it use the handset instead of BT. So i answered via BT... then I turned the Sound System OFF. This made it switch to the phone. Very easy!

 

[k1ngr4t]

Unfortunately I use a plug in bluetooth device in the cars cigarette lighter, which was accessible in my old Jeep but actually isn't even a cigarette lighter in my element but an outlet that's all the way on the passenger side. So if I wanted to turn it off, I have to reach over and reach around into the little shelf area and turn it off. This then messes with the music and even occasionally unpairs the device (can't figure that one out) so I have to repair the two and restart the playlist...all while driving. Not the end of the world, but it is a hassle, and it wasn't an issue before LP. I also do drive a lot for work so I get a lot of phone calls in the car.

Alas, woe is me

 

[PereDroid]

Ah...I have the same thing in my car. My wife's car is the one I was talking about.
Inside the armrest, though, but yea...not messing with it.
Tap'n Turbo

 

[kodiak799]

I've also noticed that sometimes my alarm clock goes off in notifications - and THAT is an even bigger nuisance (I'm half asleep, I want to swipe snooze). But only sometimes...although I think I may have turned that feature off. We'll see.

I have to find a way to revert this. I don't want that stuff to work like it used to. I'm not sure it's the best user experience for Google to change this stuff without telling you, and not make it easy to revert.

 

[PereDroid]

Stock Alarm?

 

[kodiak799]

Stock Alarm?

Yep. I think it was a default setting when Google intrusively pushed their new notification thingy. But I think it's been buggy before that for me - sometimes the alarm goes off but nothing pops-up to silence it, and I have to turn the screen off and back on.

But the floating notification alarm is a new one, and I don't think that was supposed to be even possible (in notification settings, it says alarm is always intrusive, or at least the default setting is supposed to be).

 

[PereDroid]

Get rid of that POS.

Alarm Clock Plus NoAds - Android Apps on Google Play

I bought that for my Moto Droid way back when. Not once in 6? 7? years has it ever let me down.
Eclair, Froyo >>> Lollipop IT JUST WORKS.

Free version:
Alarm Clock Plus - Android Apps on Google Play

I originally got the free version for 2 reasons:
-Wake to my music
-Gentle Alarm (gradually gets louder)
Paid for it after 6 months. The oldest paid app I have on my phone. Certainly got my money out of it.

and YES I know it sucks to have to get an app to get around something you hate on your phone, but it is well worth it.

 

[rkirk]

Get rid of that POS.

That was great advice. I just downloaded that alarm app. Way better than the crap Google left us. I use my alarm on my phone to wake up every morning and I have been hating it. Too complicated to turn off when I'm half a sleep.
Thanks for that link


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[k1ngr4t]

I also used Alarm Clock Plus for many years, probably since my D2. Maybe a year ago I switched to a different one called Sleep for Android because it was free for me and had some cool features ACP didn't, but I wouldn't be surprised if those have been added in by now.

Either way, there are very, very few stock apps that are worth using.

 

[rkirk]

Either way, there are very, very few stock apps that are worth using.

I definitely agree with that. I've already disabled most of them.

Another nuisance I've noticed to deal with is alert volumes. When I get home in the evenings I turn down the notifications ringer volume because I keep it pretty loud while at work so hear it better. I use my phone for work all day. Emails, text msgs, phone calls. I keep everything kinda loud during the day and keep it low at home. Problem is it's all separated. Easy to turn the main ringer down with the volume control on the side, but then I have to go to settings to lower other volumes in sounds. They should incorporate it all through the side control. My lg g2 was easy to do that.
Anyone know of an easier way than that?

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[PereDroid]

You can thank me for the big SNOOZE button in ACP. Originally SNOOZE and DISMISS where the same size. I wrote the Dev and said "Snooze needs to be HUGE!" Next update, it was.
Having said that....ACP has been pretty much abandoned. Rumor has it the Dev stopped working on it when he started Grad School.
I tried a few others looking for one that might be prettier. Timely being one which is supposed to be one of THE best. No music choice AND It failed on me on DAY #2!
I decided then, even if ACP has minimal choices for customizing the desk clock view, reliability was WAY more important.

It amazes me Google hasn't added the ability to use music tracks (but of course they want you to store all your music in the cloud anyway, so...)

 

[obxsalvo]

I'm going to try Alarm Clock Plus also thanks for the info Pere, Wake up to some Jimmy Buffett ....

 

[PereDroid]

I could really go on and on about it. It was the first alarm clock to offer the Math Test. Everyone copied it from this app.

Multiple alarms, backups, nap clock, plugged in action, plugged in times, speak weather on wake, add widgets to the desk clock, the gentle alarm... which probably saved my marriage because my alarm no longer wakes my wife up . It gets just loud enough to wake me without waking her.
All this and everything works in a free\99 cent app that hasn't been updated since 2012. Dev kept it simple and based it off of the the Gingerbread default clock for reliability.

 

[rkirk]

the gentle alarm... which probably saved my marriage because my alarm no longer wakes my wife up . It gets just loud enough to wake me without waking her.

Sweet!!! Just what I need. I'm golden now.

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