Android annoyances

kyote00

Have an Acer iconia a500 tablet for a good while now and have the following list of annoyances....

I have upgraded to 3.2....

- Default google browser is very poor and buggy.tried opera,dolphin and firefix but they are quiet bloaty and slow. Some very basic stuff nis not supported in google browser, for example, try to do a search on boards topics using Google default browser....lots of other pop up Widgets on other web pages can be very hard to activate...

- most media managers don't cope very well with external drives,flash cards connected.Trying to manage photos from digital camera, look at them on tablet and back them onto a hard disk is a really painful job.

- default gallery application is a joke more than a few thousand photos are the world becomes unmanagable...

- same story for music collection, missing artwork, missing formats - not looking onto external drives try Google music,player pro - all ****e

- photobucket app and web version thro browser is also a joke, it can only provide the filename of the pics and not the thumbnail....

Atomic Pineapple

So..................more a complaint about apps than Android then?

iknorr

draffodx wrote: »

So..................more a complaint about apps than Android then?

agree, thats why theres a market....for apps....lots of choice...

Sounds like the Op came from an Ipad!

Professey Chin

kyote00 wrote: »

Have an Acer iconia a500 tablet for a good while now and have the following list of annoyances....

I have upgraded to 3.2....

Have the same tablet and i wouldnt agree

- Default google browser is very poor and buggy.tried opera,dolphin and firefix but they are quiet bloaty and slow. Some very basic stuff nis not supported in google browser, for example, try to do a search on boards topics using Google default browser....lots of other pop up Widgets on other web pages can be very hard to activate...

I find the default browser fine. Nice tabbed interface, yet to come across any bugs over the last 6 weeks or so. Where are you trying to do the search? In the search bar on the top left, boards website or the google homepage?
What pop up widgets?

- most media managers don't cope very well with external drives,flash cards connected.Trying to manage photos from digital camera, look at them on tablet and back them onto a hard disk is a really painful job.

What are you trying to use/do here?

- default gallery application is a joke more than a few thousand photos are the world becomes unmanagable...

Have about 2 thousand pics. All synced with picasa. Albums alphabetical. Simply managed.
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same story for music collection, missing artwork, missing formats - not looking onto external drives try Google music,player pro - all ****e

Cant say I have that issue. Everything with correct metadata, albums organised with album art. All shows up properly.

- photobucket app and web version thro browser is also a joke, it can only provide the filename of the pics and not the thumbnail....

Cant comment on this cause I dont use photobucket

kyote00

Yes, fair point.

draffodx wrote: »

So..................more a complaint about apps than Android then?

kyote00

Regarding the ipad, play the ball now not the man.

I don't have any apple products. I suspect I was developing and using Unix before you were born

I also regularly develop android apps so am famliar with sdk....

iknorr wrote: »

agree, thats why theres a market....for apps....lots of choice...

Sounds like the Op came from an Ipad!

kyote00

The search I am referring to is the "Search the Forum" option which is on most pages.

When I select it in the Google browser, I get a drop down window with "Search this forum", an "edit field" and "go" button. All works fine, however once a search string it entered - it goes into the browser search field...
Also look here for lots of other users with crashes on the browser....



http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19457

Popup Widgets for stuff like calenders - something like aerlingus.com or sort options on eBay.

Are your pics on internal memory card, external sdcard or external USB drive like mine ?I find I like to keep pics/movies/music etc on big external drive so its not consuming lots of space on the machine.... (Not a convert to the cloud either yet)

PS what kernel version are you running on yours....in settings/about tablet.

Mega Chin wrote: »

Have the same tablet and i wouldnt agree

I find the default browser fine. Nice tabbed interface, yet to come across any bugs over the last 6 weeks or so. Where are you trying to do the search? In the search bar on the top left, boards website or the google homepage?
What pop up widgets?


What are you trying to use/do here?

Have about 2 thousand pics. All synced with picasa. Albums alphabetical. Simply managed.
-
Cant say I have that issue. Everything with correct metadata, albums organised with album art. All shows up properly.

Cant comment on this cause I dont use photobucket