So my Google Nexus just got updated to Jelly Bean a few days ago and at first it seemed like there were no problems. Nothing new and great, but no issues either.
However, there's a massive problem now, the battery drain is twice what it was on Ice Cream Sandwich. I'm lucky to get a full day out of the phone.
What's worse is my mother has the same phone (who is not a techie and goes nuts when tech doesn't work because she doesn't understand it) and it's being drained at four times the rate of Ice Cream Sandwich.
Which means she has to go in to the Wind store and get them to fix it if they can. I'm going to fiddle around with a hard reboot and see if that helps any, but man, what a pain in the butt. Cutting my battery life in half with a new OS is beyond annoying and for the first time, I'm genuinely pissed at Google.
But that's nothing compared to what my mother feels. Her exact words "WHAT?! I have to go to the store?". And when I told her that it's no big deal, if the phone is screwed on the new OS they would give her a new phone, her reply was 'NO! Oh come on! I'm not re-inputting everything in to a new phone! It took forever to input all my information, I'm not doing that again!"
So she is 100 times more pissed at Google than I am. I can say that if there isn't a way to fix this battery issue and she has to get a new phone, it will not be an Android phone. I'll stick with Google for the time being, but I'm definitely annoyed.
This is just another example, in my opinion, where people who think RIM is guaranteed dead are nuts, because there is still not a smartphone on the market that is 100 per cent reliable.
With every upgrade comes the potential that the OS will make your phone a near useless brick.
Every OS out there has problems. Remember when if you cradled your iPhone the wrong way it would cut your phone call off?
Whoever is the first to come up with a truly reliable OS with excellent battery life will destroy even Apple.
Could it BB10? Who knows, it might be. But my point is RIM is not dead just yet, not with crap like Jelly Bean on the market.
However, there's a massive problem now, the battery drain is twice what it was on Ice Cream Sandwich. I'm lucky to get a full day out of the phone.
What's worse is my mother has the same phone (who is not a techie and goes nuts when tech doesn't work because she doesn't understand it) and it's being drained at four times the rate of Ice Cream Sandwich.
Which means she has to go in to the Wind store and get them to fix it if they can. I'm going to fiddle around with a hard reboot and see if that helps any, but man, what a pain in the butt. Cutting my battery life in half with a new OS is beyond annoying and for the first time, I'm genuinely pissed at Google.
But that's nothing compared to what my mother feels. Her exact words "WHAT?! I have to go to the store?". And when I told her that it's no big deal, if the phone is screwed on the new OS they would give her a new phone, her reply was 'NO! Oh come on! I'm not re-inputting everything in to a new phone! It took forever to input all my information, I'm not doing that again!"
This is just another example, in my opinion, where people who think RIM is guaranteed dead are nuts, because there is still not a smartphone on the market that is 100 per cent reliable.
With every upgrade comes the potential that the OS will make your phone a near useless brick.
Every OS out there has problems. Remember when if you cradled your iPhone the wrong way it would cut your phone call off?
Whoever is the first to come up with a truly reliable OS with excellent battery life will destroy even Apple.
Could it BB10? Who knows, it might be. But my point is RIM is not dead just yet, not with crap like Jelly Bean on the market.
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