I don't have to power down regularly, but I did used to have a huge problem with my Nexus One ignoring front face button pushes and screen touches. Getting the back button to trigger reliably in the Browser app was particularly difficult.
There're a few places where the problems ended up obviously software related. I often tried to tap an icon in the launcher when it wasn't fully scrolled into view, for example, or while the icons were still bouncing from the latest scroll, which just doesn't work. I'm really going to have to look into getting rid of that lousy 3D thing. I hate how it bounces while I'm trying to touch something instead of just stopping, especially how it does it for a scroll in the middle of the icon list, not just a scroll to one of the ends. Many other cases ended up avoidable by performing magic rituals meant to help the hardware, however. For example, I never lightly poke the screen or front face buttons with the tip of my finger any more. I now firmly lay down the whole first part of my finger, giving a huge signal to whatever touch sensing hardware is involved. Similarly, I never hold the phone by the sides. That screwed up touch sensing all the time. I always support it from the back, and maybe a finger under the bottom, which is a side pretty far away from the screen at least. I also bought a case that surrounds the whole outside edge to help here. I don't use a screen protector. This avoiding the sides thing is what saved the browser back button for me. Overall I consider the Nexus One pretty disastrous. My Droid lets me hold it by the sides, my Nexus One doesn't. My Droid can get a GPS signal while I'm on the bus, my Nexus One can't. Lots of stuff like that. On Aug 21, 3:59 am, higonnet <[email protected]> wrote: > On average, I have to power mine down once a day. > > And when I don't have to power it down, I often have to press a button > several times to get the desired action. > > Release 2.2 was a great improvement (I was very very unhappy before > that) but this product (I suspect Android more than the physical > device) really is not first class for reliability. > > I realize this is not a particularly productive post, but > > 1) I wanted to vent somewhere and > 2) hope others will agree so something will happen > > Bernard Higonnet -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
