Jolla : what is urgently to be improved
asked 2016-08-13 23:00:12 +0300
My Jolla had its first birthday yesterday. Overall I bought it to be because of its nice user experience and to be relatively more secure platform, at least my hope was so.
More or less, it met this expectations. However, I was negatively surprised but the various handicaps of basic functions :
battery management : Jolla is not able to determine reliably the battery status. Jumps like from 50% to 0% are not uncommon
most annoying bug : it shuts down always when the signal is weak or not available. Some in the forum here suggested that it is because of a weak contact to the battery pins
the quality of the pictures depends on a lens which is not designed well. I had to scratch it with a diplex paste
the speaker is so weak that I can hardly hear anything when in my environment there is some weak noise
the same with the headphones jack. I hardly hear anything in my headphones when there is some street noise
Really pity but my frustration is high ...
Am I too demanding ?!?
happy bday to your phone, however bear in mind that the phone was released 1.5 years earlier by the time you bought yours. Besides at the release time, hw-wise the phone was an average device. You can find a replacement battery, e.g. HTC 310(?) but they are not officially suggested for obvious reasons. Again the camera of the phone is nothing special, same probably goes to speaker too. Headphones volume is a bit low, as there are some EU regulations? but that's probably good for our ears in the long run! Again you might find a patch that increases the headphone volume.
pmelas ( 2016-08-13 23:46:41 +0300 )editHow can any of this be urgently improved? The battery and shutdown problems are due to dirty contacts in your battery, clean them or even get a new battery and you will never have those troubles again.
The rest are (also) hardware problems, the Jolla phone is now almost three years old and no longer for sale for quite some time. Jolla no longer produces or sells any hardware.
nthn ( 2016-08-13 23:52:33 +0300 )edit@pmelas: It's the HTC D310's battery.
Eierkopp ( 2016-08-14 05:52:27 +0300 )editthe battery management is related to pins and contact. i solved it with gentle pushes on the pins, cleaning the battery contacts
pawel ( 2016-08-14 08:05:22 +0300 )editI have also successfully solved battery problems (shutting down / restarting) with just pushing battery pins down and releasing them fastly. This was instructed in some post. I got rid of those problems totally.
But I've never experienced weird battery capacity behaviour. Always sliding slowly from 100% to 0% without any gaps. Might be that the battery itself is defective if contact pin solution doesnt work.
lumen ( 2016-08-14 10:50:58 +0300 )edit