[ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

[Gareth France]

I already do think it is pretty awesome, we all knew the state it would 
be in before we signed up. I have every faith in Canonical to get things 
straightened out. After all this is the first time a big batch of them 
has been released like this so I bet the potential for usage stats and 
bug reporting has gone through the roof!

One other thing I noticed is that using my old android phone the sat nav 
was able to grab control of the screen so that it can't blank or lock 
itself whilst in use. Yesterday I was driving through those horrid 
average speed camera areas and wanted to see an accurate speed as I was 
in a hurry and wanted to keep my foot down as much as possible. I 
downloaded a speedometer which worked brilliantly for 30 whole seconds 
before the screen went dark. I can't find any way of changing that so 
either I've missed something, the app developer hasn't made use of this 
feature behind the scenes or this is a feature which should be requested.

Great to hear that I can feedback as I'm sure there will be lots more 
like this in the coming months.

On 25/03/15 08:42, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> Hi Gareth,
>
> I asked the same question of Alan Pope yesterday. We're putting together
> something on http://pad.ubuntu.com/phonefaq which covers where to report
> bugs, what bugs are known about, what is outstanding on being logged, etc.
>
> Please feel free to contribute. Like you, I've got some niggles with the
> phone (I'm using it sim-free via wifi at the mo), but I really want to
> see some awesomeness here :)
>
> All the best,
>
> --
> Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
>
> On 24 March 2015 at 19:21, Gareth France <gareth.france at cliftonts.co.uk
> <mailto:gareth.france at cliftonts.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Having spent my first whole day with the phone today I have to say
>     it has been a real mixed experience. It feels like I could really
>     get to like the interface but it is currently suffering from a few
>     show stoppers (as you would expect right now).
>
>     I have spent the whole day on the move today and the nearby scope
>     offered up some interesting content on the motorway. Unfortunately
>     the first time I tried to use it, it disappeared and hasn't been
>     seen since. For most of the day the scopes were virtually blank, the
>     facebook app loaded essentially a facebook skeleton and the software
>     centre wouldn't display anything until you did a search. My sneaking
>     suspicion is that my 3g connection is simply too weedy when on the
>     move as all of this content returned as soon as I got back home and
>     on the wifi.
>
>     The handset froze a couple of times today, once it left me unable to
>     make a call for over 5 minutes and the second time it let me answer
>     the phone but didn't let me hear the other person, then the other
>     way round and only on the third time did it work. Hopefully this one
>     will get identified and patched in an update.
>
>     The bluetooth partially gave up on me yesterday and today wouldn't
>     let me make voice calls either. I gave up and just used a lead
>     instead. It should be noted that this is on a par with my
>     experiences of using bluetooth on android, it just seems to have an
>     attitude problem whatever your setup.
>
>     On the whole I love the phone and I'm looking forward to seeing the
>     software mature and develop over time. Could anyone tell me is there
>     somewhere I can report issues that crop up or should the phone be
>     passing all the crucial info automatically?
>
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