For the OS version 4.3 I felt the complaint was being a bit harsh but having upgraded to 4.4, I wholeheartedly agree. I’ve been away for a few days and when travelling on a train I connected it to the train’s wifi. Fine. Except that when I got to the hotel, it wouldn’t connect to the hotel’s wifi as it wouldn’t disconnect from the train’s wifi. So I rebooted. Except that it wouldn’t. It wouldn’t fully power-off. It just sat there with a red LED glowing. With the trick of holding both volume buttons and pressing the power button I get it back working. On the train home today, it wouldn’t connect to the train’s wifi as it wanted to stay connected to the station wifi. So another power-cycle. I then received a text sent yesterday morning! But all the time this thing has supposedly has 4G connectivity as I’ve been in the centre of London. I can but agree that it’s bordering on unusable.
With the failure to properly update to 4.4 I went back to v3.2 and did all the upgrades to bring it up to 4.4 so there can hardly be any complaints from Jolla that the thing has been contaminated with other software and that’s what causing the problem. I don’t believe it is. I think the whole os is now degrading so rapidly that I’m seriously thinking of jumping ship. I have a couple of apps of my own and they work just fine with no sandboxing needed. I have another app which did need that but at least I can get all the data out.
I think the next thing for me will be to see if I can port my own apps to an iPhone.
I started to get p*ssed off with Jolla with the defaultuser stuff. With each update some other stuff has been introduced which just seem to screw the phone up even more.
The software held so much promise. Sad that it’s come to this.