Just Mike

Problems With MyTouch Slide

// June 3rd, 2010 // Uncategorized

Relying on my new phone for a day at a conference where I may not be able to recharge it wasn’t the best idea but I may have been naive.

I bought the MyTouch Slide at 10:05am on Wednesday.  The T-Mobile person told me there was enough charge to get me through the day.  I wasn’t naive enough to think that and it didn’t.  I gave it a minor charge because I knew I was going to be out for a bit later in the day.

I loaded apps that didn’t transfer over from my G1 which was a huge annoyance and worked on setting up my phone. At one point I pressed the Gmail icon and it went to my Gallery. I reversed, hit Gmail again and it went to Gallery, and repeated it.  I figured I would turn it on and off, possibly all the apps I loaded just messed with something.  I restarted it and it was fine though the battery was toast by 10pm.

I charged it all night,unplugging it at 8:20am today. I used 3G, which I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off as I can on the G1, I used a little bit of GPS, and tweeted.  By 12:30 I was getting the low battery warning. I found a friend’s laptop and started charging, even turning the phone off so it might charge faster.  I got it back up to 70% according the the stupid notched bar in the About window.  They couldn’t have a number assigned to it?

By 4pm I was a low battery again. I charged it again with the phone off and got up to 60% when I turned it on but still charging.  I ran some apps including Taskiller but then the battery indicator said I had 50% charging.  Laptop charging couldn’t keep up with using the phone?  Interesting Taskiller would kill something and then seconds later it was back.  It showed 15+ apps running, some I had never opened.  I kept killing and many came back. The phone finally died around 7:30pm which I find pathetic.

I also had several problems getting the Twitter app to work and Seesmic. Often they would just sit there.

I switched from my G1 to get a faster more reliable phone.  I am going back to my G1 to have a more reliable phone even if it’s slower.  I can use the GPS and forget it’s running in the background for 2 hours, run different Twitter clients, call, text message, etc and usually get 14 hours.  Granted I do have a double battery but I thought the newer phones with upgraded Android systems could handle battery life better.

I had to pay an upgrade fee to get this early.  It isn’t worth it for a glitchy phone that dies if I can’t find a charger.

I will give T-Mobile a chance to give me a different MyTouch Slide or a different battery to see if it is just one thing causing my problems.  I wouldn’t have kept the G1 if it sucked this bad in the beginning.