The straw that broke the camel's back: I missed my Dad's fathers day dinner because this fucking POS failed to register a default SMS app...despite me selecting it in settings.
My step mom apparently texted me at 11 about it...never got it...it was like if was in limbo between Hangouts (the default app on the Nexus 5) that inevetibly blows at chronological listing messages by contact once you have a few hundred SMS messages in it and Google Messenger (a sms only app).
A friend texted me in Hangouts ...weird cause he has a iPhone...sure enough, its a SMS in hangouts.
I opened Messenger and was asked about whether to make it the default...I am 99% sure I did this yesterday as I did it through system settings. I accept and his message moves to Messenger.
I checked and even rebooted the phone.
I didn't get shit from her. And we were just texting yesterday, I visited the house for my birthday and we all discussed fathers day plans with the idea that we'd take dad out to dinner. She was able to text others too today, my other brother asking him if he was planning on heading to dinner, if he wanted to meet halfway, etc.
Is it possible that her iPhone had a problem or she was trying to snub me or something? I guess, but highly doubt it, it was intended to be a gift all of us chipped in for anyway so they wouldn't have the burden of the cost of a dinner out for him. Plus she's not really a annoying dick anymore, hasn't been for quite some time really.
Edit: how did my coworker text me if it was in limbo...now I'm confused (unless im confusing the sequence in which i hit the default) and wonder if she was being a dick and snubbing me...or if her phone was having issues.
Edit 2: I've asked to see a screenshot of the message under the guise of checking for errors. We shall see how this goes...as she is sleeping now.
Edit 3: she was still awake so I asked about seeing or getting a pic of the message she says she ended up clearing her messages after getting told she'd need more icloud storage earlier that day. She only has a few people's messages left.
She's a iPhone noob and actually hates her iPhone so it is plausible that she doesn't realize the non logic in deleting SMS for that error.
My brother, my other brother and his BF were at the dinner IIRC...so I don't get it. I guess I should ask one of them if they went to be sure but I'm certain they did because one of them then took my dad bowling...
She's been nothing but nice to me but if I do find out I was snubbed it's fucking on. I did nothing to deserve being snubbed, fuck that shit.
Edit 4: ya know what, I am going to assume she didn't do anything - we were just talking for 45+ minutes yesterday one on one...no way she'd do this.
Besides the battery life, could you see your android being a work tool? For me iOS is the gold standard of work phones while android is the leisure play thing.
I use my Android phone as a work phone each day. Prizrak is right, there's plenty of tools available that make it handy to have for IT folks.
But even our network admin manages to do just fine with iOS. If he can do fine with it, I certainly don't need Android.
It highly depends on what your work is, a friend got an Android phone at work and loves it. There a ton of different apps for sys admin/IT type stuff.
This is indeed true. I like the OS and phone most of the time but there's little shit like what happened today that pisses me off.
What about just strictly as a calling, texting, email, camera phone? I know android phones vary widely but, what about the ones that you guys use?
Its fine for that and works well. Some of my issues are phone specific (signal strength, smallish battery) but the straw that broke the camel's back today was OS specific.
If you love to tinker, the world is your oyster with Android. I used to be a tinkerer with Windows Mobile and earlier versions of Android.
These days though, I need a phone that works.
One that I don't need to put on the goddamn battery saver at 70% only to still struggle to make it through a day- One that I don't need to root and attempt to "Greenify" apps to save power.
One that has great reception so I can actually get shit on time.
One who's software isn't a constant work in fucking process: MMS randomly stopped working for like one contact for a few weeks. What fixed it? Factory resetting the phone yesterday. You gotta be shitting me...
One that doesn't get random fucking errors AFTER resetting the fucking phone - I had a "can't load widget" bar on my recent apps screen...I had to boot into safe mode once to clear it.
Trivial for me, sure, but its another "unpolished" example that irritates.
You really can't beat iOS for intuitiveness and ease of teaching to old people who aren't really good with technology (and they have very little to fuck up by screwing around in menus). If you've got to give your entire office a phone, with people of all ages getting one, then it'll probably be an iPhone because of that.
We are deploying and standardizing on iPhone 6 at work (for admin and maintenance people who get work phones) for this very reason.
Before we had a mix of Android and flip phones: Casio sold a rugged line with PTT capability that we used...we are moving to a new radio system that can reach our off campus schools, making PTT unnecessary.