Timezone override makes a lot of sense. Manually setting time and
allowing any time/date before today ... does not.

Andreas

Sent from Mobile.

On Apr 30, 2013, at 10:37, Dave Hylands <[email protected]> wrote:

> Personally, I don't think we want to remove the manual stuff.
>
> I know when I'm travelling, I often don't have any of the automatic methods 
> available (i.e. my prepaid sim doesn't work in Eurpoe), and I like to change 
> the timezone while I'm on the plane. Free Wifi seems to be much more uncommon 
> in the European airports than it is in North America.
>
> GPS gernally doesn't give you a timezone (although there isn't any reason it 
> couldn't since you should be able to use a timezone map). Although if you 
> lived in a timezone border town, you probably wouldn't want your time 
> flipping every time you go shopping either.
>
> Dave Hylands
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andreas Gal" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Alex Keybl" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], "Cheng Wang" 
>> <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:26:08 AM
>> Subject: Re: [b2g] Feedback from Telefonica internal dogfooding program
>>
>> The date issue is definitely a problem. I have seen it myself
>> repeatedly. I still think we should delete all the manual date/time
>> setting code and rely on the many time sources we have available
>> instead (NITZ, NTP, GPS).
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> Sent from Mobile.
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2013, at 10:22, Alex Keybl <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'll try to address the most critical here, and if we should be
>>> concerned for v1.0.1.
>>>
>>>> * 3G stops working after a while (8 hours? One day?)
>>>> * Short battery life (a few mentions that it got worse with
>>>> update), this might also be issues with charging since we had
>>>> those at MWC with Geeksphones.
>>>> * Phones stuck in 1980 (which causes errors with marketplace,
>>>> https sites, and others)
>>>
>>> Likely hardware/build/changeset specific. We should be confident in
>>> our testing as well as partner longevity/field testing for v1.0.1
>>> here.
>>>
>>>> * After saving an app (may be web app?) to the desktop, it works
>>>> the first time but hangs after future attempts (lots of mentions
>>>> of twitter)
>>>> * Problems handling a time change (clocks off by an hour, alarms
>>>> firing wrong)
>>>
>>> Would be more interesting if we're able to reproduce these (or had
>>> steps to reproduce). Do we have contact info?
>>>
>>> -Alex
>>>
>>> On Apr 29, 2013, at 11:52 PM, Cheng Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Feedback on Keons and Peaks from Telefonica's dogfooding program
>>>> (mostly Peaks, I think, but I don't have the solid numbers).
>>>> Most of these came from users who'd updated to the 20130404
>>>> build (I think this is a build that TEF is handing out?), I've
>>>> tried to take out the feedback from users still on 20130222 (this
>>>> was the build shipping with the phones). A few users have
>>>> 20130416 or 20130418 (this is the current GP build).
>>>>
>>>> Fair warning, this is interpreted from text that was machine
>>>> translated from Spanish so details may be missing/incorrect.
>>>>
>>>> I got a ton of feedback from them so pretty much everything here
>>>> got mentioned at least a few times.
>>>>
>>>> Concerning things:
>>>>
>>>> * 3G stops working after a while (8 hours? One day?)
>>>> * After saving an app (may be web app?) to the desktop, it works
>>>> the first time but hangs after future attempts (lots of mentions
>>>> of twitter)
>>>> * Lots of trouble with the back button, this came up almost as
>>>> frequently as the tiny fonts on the Peak, easily dozens of times.
>>>> * Short battery life (a few mentions that it got worse with
>>>> update), this might also be issues with charging since we had
>>>> those at MWC with Geeksphones.
>>>> * Phones stuck in 1980 (which causes errors with marketplace,
>>>> https sites, and others)
>>>> * Problems handling a time change (clocks off by an hour, alarms
>>>> firing wrong)
>>>>
>>>> Bugs (things are broken/feel broken):
>>>> * Fonts, buttons are too small (likely a Peak resolution problem)
>>>> -- This one got mentioned so many times, in particular Here maps
>>>> which can't zoom and browser
>>>> * Persistent update for Here Maps that won't go away.
>>>> * 3G stops working after a while (8 hours? One day?)
>>>> * Calendar entries duplicated (not sure why)
>>>> * Black screens were reported a few times from different usecases
>>>> * "Taking the phone in airplane mode, open the notification center
>>>> to remove airplane mode, I am asked the pin but does not hide the
>>>> notification center and this is therefore covering up the option
>>>> to accept."
>>>> * Didn't handle a time change correctly (clock in notification bar
>>>> is correct, clock on home screen isn't, alarm at the wrong time)
>>>> * Import from SIM stalls out (maybe only during first run)
>>>> * Outgoing SMSes sometimes get weird characters appended (may be a
>>>> problem with the SIMs that they're using)
>>>> * Undefined MAC address
>>>> * Even though specific Facebook contacts were selected, all
>>>> contacts were downloaded
>>>> * After saving a web app to the desktop, it works the first time
>>>> but hangs after future attempts (may explain the twitter problem
>>>> above)
>>>> * Camera flash settings are odd (there are four states but three
>>>> symbols and the symbols don't necessarily match with behavior)
>>>> * Browser sometimes comes up blank
>>>> * Lots of WiFi issues: often need to reenter passwords, may need
>>>> to reboot to switch between connections, can't seem to connect
>>>> automatically.
>>>> * "There was an error synchronizing your Facebook Contacts" once a
>>>> day.
>>>> * SMSs take a long time to be received (may meaning before we
>>>> notify?)
>>>>
>>>> Annoyances:
>>>>
>>>> * Back button hard to hit reliably (too small, sometimes hits
>>>> notification bar, too far to reach)
>>>> * Moving the cursor when editing text is too hard
>>>> * Won't update reliably (may just be Here maps)
>>>> * Music stops playing when music app loses focus
>>>> * Settings > Date Time > Doesn't always show the current time
>>>> zone.
>>>> * Importing both Facebook and Google contacts gets names messed up
>>>> (possibly if people are maybe using different names?) -- Can't
>>>> put custom name on imported contacts or merge contacts into a
>>>> single name
>>>> * Cannot disable autorotate or force it for some apps
>>>> * Can't zoom the browser (may be that users are trying to do it
>>>> wrong)
>>>> * Hangs when using it as a hotspot "after a while"
>>>> * Video recorded is a crop of what's actually displayed
>>>> * Too easy to tap notification bar buttons when trying to close
>>>> the bar
>>>> * Cannot change browser search engine (came up multiple times)
>>>> * Applications aren't keeping state between launches so it doesn't
>>>> seem to be multitasking.
>>>> * Really short battery life (or possibly issues charging) --
>>>> complaints that this started after the update.
>>>> * A lot of people seem to have clocks set at 1980 (which makes
>>>> HTTPS not work)
>>>> * Some things aren't translated to spanish
>>>> * Can't configure screen timeout (my Peak has a setting for this
>>>> but I can't tell if it's working)
>>>> * Dailer shouldn't beep when phone is silent
>>>> * Keyboard requires a lot of precision
>>>> * No volume in music apps
>>>> * Changing SIM password is confusing (no feedback)
>>>> * Calendar alerts for "right now" when it means "in 15 minutes"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Feature requests:
>>>>
>>>> * Smart keyboard capitalization (caps for first letter in names
>>>> for example)
>>>> * Change user agent so we stop getting offered android apps
>>>> * Cursors (password fields, entering SIM unlocks etc)
>>>> * Volume for radio (this came up a surprising amount)
>>>> * Enable USB storage mode by default
>>>> * Need a game built in (lots of suggestions)
>>>> * More apps need to be offline
>>>> * Needs a file manager and downloading of files in the browser
>>>> * Needs more homescreens
>>>> * Capslock
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