My phone is doing a weird thing.
May. 16th, 2012 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinIt's something that almost seems like a feature rather than a bug, if it would do it consistently and there were a place to turn the behavior off. Twice today while I had the phone in my hand and was doing something non-telephony with it, it popped up with a notification that I'd missed a call that happened just that moment. No ringing, no nothing. I didn't have my hand on the display or a button at the moment so it wasn't like I'd pressed something at just the right moment to send a call to voicemail or whatever.
After playing around a little, I've found that it consistently (so far) rings normally when the display is off, so I'm probably not in too much danger of completely missing calls in the normal course of things. When I've tried to reproduce the error myself, I get something slightly different: the call pops up on the screen, but the "mute" symbol flashes on and there's no ringtone. Again, this would almost seem like a feature if it had behaved this way before and if it didn't at least occasionally block the call completely. I don't necessarily need it to start playing music if I'm looking right at it.
This phone was pretty cheap for a smartphone to begin with... I got it to replace a phone I lost around the time I moved, and it's pretty well below my specifications/needs in every level (notably, the lack of a physical keyboard). It's been getting flakier and flakier on me, doing things like crashing when I try to take pictures and losing all my recent photos in the process.
I'd planned on switching carriers when my contract is up, so I'd really like to avoid getting a new phone before then... now I'm starting to look at the cost analysis of jumping ship early and taking advantage of new member deals at another carrier, and I'm thinking I'll probably do that shortly after I get back to Omaha.
I miss having a phone I can type on, and I'm at a point in my life when it's important that I'm reachable by phone.
After playing around a little, I've found that it consistently (so far) rings normally when the display is off, so I'm probably not in too much danger of completely missing calls in the normal course of things. When I've tried to reproduce the error myself, I get something slightly different: the call pops up on the screen, but the "mute" symbol flashes on and there's no ringtone. Again, this would almost seem like a feature if it had behaved this way before and if it didn't at least occasionally block the call completely. I don't necessarily need it to start playing music if I'm looking right at it.
This phone was pretty cheap for a smartphone to begin with... I got it to replace a phone I lost around the time I moved, and it's pretty well below my specifications/needs in every level (notably, the lack of a physical keyboard). It's been getting flakier and flakier on me, doing things like crashing when I try to take pictures and losing all my recent photos in the process.
I'd planned on switching carriers when my contract is up, so I'd really like to avoid getting a new phone before then... now I'm starting to look at the cost analysis of jumping ship early and taking advantage of new member deals at another carrier, and I'm thinking I'll probably do that shortly after I get back to Omaha.
I miss having a phone I can type on, and I'm at a point in my life when it's important that I'm reachable by phone.