About redesigning incoming call experience in 3.4.0

Design
#102

Very late 2 cents. I love the empirical testing that you’ve done, and the design decision makes sense on a macro level. Individual preferences don’t live on a macro level, and I’d prefer to have the possibility to chose myself which option I prefer.

My problem with the new design is probably because I got used to the old way of doing it. I feel the new way is inconsistent with other actions across different activities (e.g. swipe up/down still exists for alarm, and swiping left for accessing the homepage from pretty much any other place).

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#103

Last week I rebooted my XA2 for the xth time. Each time I have to do the instruction, still with pulley menu, very easy. The phone hives a little push when scrolling up or down.
Inkeep my XA2 in Torronsuo because I cannot adapt to the new swiping when picking up a call. Overall the UI becomes more hybrid now, which is a bit chaotic. I also have an XA2plus that has a broken card slot. This has been updated to Koli. I use ot at home only. I really hope that Jolla will give us the option to choose for the pulley menu when answering a call.

#104

I updated my patch to work on SailfishOS 4.
https://coderus.openrepos.net/pm2/project/return-old-incoming-call-screen

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#105

hullo @Kuba77 - finally I tried your patch, on all new 4.1.0.23 Kvarken, via Terminal as recommended. No success yet. I’ll try again later this day, could be a mistake been done.

#106

Hello, I am on 4.0.1.48 now so I can’t confirm if my patch works on 4.1.0.23.

#107

thank you - so I’ll wait :wink:

it seems Kvarken 4.1.0.23 is XA2 specific or something…
pkcon update messages no packages require updating to newer versions. So that seems the latest version I can get on my hardware.

sorry: of course 4.1.0.23 is a more recent version than 4.0.1.48

#108

Sailfish OS update 4.1.0 was rolled out to the early access subscribers last week. It will be released to all users in the next 1-2 weeks (that is the plan).

#109

Bluetooth switch is not working since 4.0.1.48 and may be earlier (see here). Are you planing to address this issue?

#110

No, there are no pushes anymore, it’s just swiping. The lack of pushes is one of the reasons that I miss calls. The swioing gesture is too vague.

#111

I’m not sure if it is only behavior of my Sailfish XA2, however I didn’t change /etc/mce. But: When my phone sleeping (display is off) I have call and I didn’t answer this call, LED starts blinking after this call ended. Which is normal and good. Then I wake up phone, look who was calling in events view and switch phone sleeping back (switch display off). The LED stopped blinking / lighting. Which is also OK. But when again (after few minutes) rings SAME number and again I don’t answer call, the LED will not start blinking anymore. Which is weird - because I don’t have any notification about second call. What is logic behind this?

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#112

This might be a bug you encountered. Post it to #bug-reports so it gets the right attention

#113

After the time passed since the release I still am not used to this new way of answering. I constantly miss calls, because when I try to swipe the home screen opens. I have to navigate back some how and it shows “call in progress”, then I have to swipe that, swipe again to answer (fingers crossed I have the right swipe) and I have the call active.

I understand the design will not change, though is there something that can be done here to improve the calling answer behaviour?

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