Looks like the Sensation is going back

[Philio25]

It's sad to say that the Sensation is far from Sensational.

Today I've probably used the phone the most out of the 4 days I've had it and it's been issue after issue.

Firstly, I added some more music to the phone, it refused to group the albums properly. Reset the cache and this caused all sound alerts and notifications to go haywire, resetting them to random tracks from my music collection.

Secondly, after resetting the ID3 tags several times with different software I'm now left with my music completely fragmented, the worst is an album of 42 tracks which the phone displays as 28 separate albums of the same name.

Also, I've been experiencing a lot of signal dropouts today. (Other phone on same network sat next to it on full signal)

On top of this, numerous "little things", e.g. interface is slow and unresponsive compared to SGS and SGS2, battery life is pretty rubbish when doing anything but standby, many default Android software stripped out.

I called HTC support, they didn't even know what model the phone was from the IMEI and could not offer any assistance with any issues. I asked if there were any planned software updates and the response was, "you already have the latest Android software 2.3"

It's a real shame because the design of the phone and the screen are superb, but HTC's software is terrible.

 

[Darnell_Chat_TN]

This is why I'm waiting till it's rooted and unlocked. Custom ROMs always fix such issues.

 

[Philio25]

This is why I'm waiting till it's rooted and unlocked. Custom ROMs always fix such issues.

With the new bootloader, it could never happen?

 

[rd_nest]

Initial units could be buggy. You may try replacing this.

 

[umd]

Woov. "..but HTC's software is terrible"

I'm really suprised to see that comment for an HTC phone. HTC's good at software. At least that's how they're known in many years.

Sorry but these little issues could happen on first units. I'm sure HTC's gonna fix these issues wiith updates. Right now you can use different music player and home launcher. Hope you can solve them.

 

[Lazzzara]

Secondly, after resetting the ID3 tags several times with different software I'm now left with my music completely fragmented, the worst is an album of 42 tracks which the phone displays as 28 separate albums of the same name.

Aww, I hate it when that happens to my iTunes library

I don't know what you mean about the interface being slow and unresponsive though. Granted, I'm using Launcher Pro rather than the stock launcher (mainly because I like to have a 5x7 grid to play with) but when I was using stock it seemed pretty speedy to me. The rest of the phone is definitely lightning fast.

I've been pleased with the battery life too. It's beating what I used to get on my Nexus One, and that always seemed enough for me.

As for stripped out software, I wouldn't mind swapping back to the stock android messaging app. But I prefer the Sense contacts and dialler. Not sure what else has changed really

Anyway, sad to see you're not enjoying it like I am

 

[xnifex]

try to pull up your music on your PC in a tag editing program & see if it's all different in there. I use mp3tag to edit all of my music to match perfectly.

 

[Philio25]

Woov. "..but HTC's software is terrible"

I'm really suprised to see that comment for an HTC phone. HTC's good at software. At least that's how they're known in many years.

It reminds me of the Touch Pro 2, granted it was Windows which sucked ass, but HTC released the first version of the "full" Sense Skin as an update and it totally killed the phone. The software simply required power the hardware couldn't deliver.

To give you an example, I showed the phone to a guy on my dev team today who's not really very interested in phones. His first comment was "how come the Android UI isn't as smooth and fluid as the iPhone?" then I showed him the SGS running stock Gingerbread and he thought it was much smoother.

If you run this phone side by side with the Samsung devices, they piss all over it for UI speed and responsiveness, even the single core SGS1.

 

[Philio25]

try to pull up your music on your PC in a tag editing program & see if it's all different in there. I use this to edit all of my music to match perfectly.

I've finally solved this one, it's due to the "Artist Album" tag which MUST be the same for all songs or HTC's player thinks they are in different albums.

Strange thing is this tag is not editable in any of my editors, but you can edit it via Windows Explorer.

 

[lynxboy]

The fact you mentioned the letters s g s and the number 2 ensures this thread will soon descend to fanboy central......

Regards.

 

[Philio25]

The fact you mentioned the letters s g s and the number 2 ensures this thread will soon descend to fanboy central......

Regards.

Damn, what happened to the good old days when that would only happen when someone mentioned "I" and "Phone" in the same sentence.

 

[umd]

It reminds me of the Touch Pro 2, granted it was Windows which sucked ass, but HTC released the first version of the "full" Sense Skin as an update and it totally killed the phone. The software simply required power the hardware couldn't deliver.

To give you an example, I showed the phone to a guy on my dev team today who's not really very interested in phones. His first comment was "how come the Android UI isn't as smooth and fluid as the iPhone?" then I showed him the SGS running stock Gingerbread and he thought it was much smoother.

If you run this phone side by side with the Samsung devices, they piss all over it for UI speed and responsiveness, even the single core SGS1.

Agree with you. That's a fact.

According to earlier HTC phones everyone knows Sense UI isnt that smooth but it is pretty fast and stable. That's another fact. For me speed and stability is more important. If there is a problem with them and you're saying there is, I have a problem too. I'm sure HTC is gonna fix these things. Because dual core is new and Android 2.3 doesn't support it naturally. So it needs time. But you're right there shouldn't be any lag on dual core phone like this.

 

[intruda119]

Op has to understand that bugs are usually associated with early adaptors. Wouldn't hurt to do a swap.

Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

 

[Philio25]

Op has to understand that bugs are usually associated with early adaptors. Wouldn't hurt to do a swap.

Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

But wouldn't a new device have the same issues?

 

[MisterDonut]

philio are you serious?

i have the tbolt, and i love my phone, but when looking at sensation's specs, it really does blow my bolt away..

however my gf is planning on getting the sensation when it releases.

My point of view is, that if your submerge into the root world, a little drops here and there shouldn't be a big deal, as we all know there will be updates to fix this, not to mention your phone is future proofed for the next two years..

everyone only focuses on the negative but never the positive.. i think the only other phone in the market that is better then the sensation is sgs2.. and thats not even close to being out in the US..

enjoy your 2.3 ginger bread, 3.0 sense.. Unlike you, the majority of us HTCers are now just starting to use the leaked 2.3 and its not completely reliable, as well as using work in progess 3.0 sense which is not a complete port.

consider yourself very lucky to be using an HTC with technology that the rest of us are still waiting on..

spread the love not the hate, because people will always find something to ***** about..

 

[alexp999]

I've come from a galaxy s, even with gingerbread on it I still much prefer my sensation, sure there will be bugs, like any new release, but I find the sensation a lot more of a polished experience, I'm actually using a lot more features getting more out of android than I did on the galaxy s.

 

[Darnell_Chat_TN]

With the new bootloader, it could never happen?

Oh yes it will, as some others with similar having already been cracked.

This game is nothing new and even before Android, HTC played this same game with WM devices and they would also get cracked.

 

[samnada]

If you run this phone side by side with the Samsung devices, they piss all over it for UI speed and responsiveness, even the single core SGS1.

Being a SGS owner I really hope you're not saying the Sensation is as, or even more, laggy than a single core Galaxy S. That would be a huge disappointment.

 

[paulswift36]

Try mp3tag which is free and lets you edit all tags. Works for me

 

[setzer715]

Being a SGS owner I really hope you're not saying the Sensation is as, or even more, laggy than a single core Galaxy S. That would be a huge disappointment.

That is because he is comparing it to an SGS running AOSP Gingerbread which is completely tweaked in every way to optimize the ROM. Apples and oranges, apples and oranges. Imagine this phone with CM7 on it (which is what I'm sure his SGS is running). Can you say Sensation = M3, SGS = scooter?

Sucks it's not working out, but how you like a phone is ALL relative to what YOU like and feel about it.