On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Niels Heyvaert <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hi, > > Last night I upgraded from an ancient full SHR-U full (early september '09) > to the latest lite SHR-U and thought it would be nice to share of my early > findings. > > The entire look and feel is a lot more consistent and cleaner. From a > usability perspective there have been major improvements: notifications, > contacts scrolling, theming... it all fits together much better than before. > Good stuff! > > There are however a few things I noticed, which, to me, are regressions > compared to the old version: > > - sound during a call is too loud. In fact, it's _screaming_ loud. People > that are in the same room with me can overhear what the person I'm talking > to is saying. This was not the case before. I've kept a copy of the > also.state files from the old build I used. The sound settings in that build > where better during a call. Will overwrite the current ones with the old > ones and see if it fits better. > You can't just replace, as the state files changed format and loaction (read in the history of this ML more about it) > - mute ringing phone on incoming call is gone. There used to be a button > showing at the bottom of the screen during an incoming call. The layout was > [accept] [silent] [reject]. This actually was really good and I used the > silent button all the time, but this feature is now gone... Any chance of > getting it back? > Please open a ticket about it if there isn't one already. This is not a trivial change, we'll have do some work to make it work correctly, I was the one who removed the silent button, it was poorly written, very hackish, and caused bugs. > > - some applications respond remarkably slower than before. Mainly loading > up the terminal is a lot slower compared to how it was loading in the > previous version. > No idea what you are talking about. > > - matching incoming number to contact no longer works. The contacts are > stored on the SIM. All have the international prefix (for example: > +44123456789) and the phone prefixes in the config files are left > untouched. Now, still without touching the settings, the incoming calls are > not matched to the entry in the contacts list. However, in the missed calls > phonelog (yes, this SHR-U is freaking out on when receiving a call so my > incoming calls all ended up missed) , these numbers are matched to a name. > In the previous version this all used to work also without any changes to > the prefix settings. > So what if it worked for you when configured *incorrectly* in the past, this is bad, I don't get why you don't just configure it properly. > > - stability has deteriorated. During my first day I had to reboot three > times and even once had to remove the battery to get the phone to behave. > With the old build I was running for weeks without any of this... > No idea what you are talking about. > > Still, the entire package just looks and feels more mature. > I agree. > > Let me know if any of these findings should end up in the tracker and I'll > do it. > > Hope you find it useful. > > Kind regards, > > Niels. > > -- > Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > De nieuwe Windows 7: vind de juiste pc voor jou. Meer informatie. > http://windows.microsoft.com/shop > _______________________________________________ > It's funny seeing "Microsoft gives you windows, Linux gives you the whole house." and then one line after "http://windows.microsoft.com/shop"; -- Tom.
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