Anyone notice the battery indicator changed from green to all white after updating to Kitkat 4.4.2????? Not sure what else changed but this was annoying to me.
I'm in the same boat, and I'm unable to tell whether it's a faulty update or that someone over at the design department has a poor sense of humor. I suppose there's no way to revert to an earlier version? We just bought the phone two weeks ago, and our choice for the HTC was its design - both the interface and its exterior - and at the time it seemed a slicker unit than Apple's. Now it looks and operates like a brick, and my old iPhone-4 is once again king.
As much as we paid for the HTC, I'm not liking this situation one bit.
Cheers!
Marc - Riverside
Your non-4G, 3.5 inch screen, less ram, slower CPU is better iPhone 4 is better? Um nope. Especially if the reasoning is the color of an icon. I hate to tell you, but ALL phones with KitKat are gong to have all white notification icons.
I was being facetious.
Nevertheless, I'm not keen to the update and simply voiced my opinion. I still believe that whomever came up with the update, including the group that approved it, need to take a remedial course in basic design. An additional class in how to serve customers couldn't hurt either.
My wife is just getting used to the new phone, and having the OS change mid-stream can make things difficult. Security updates are one thing, but end-users should be allowed to revert to a previous release when visual changes aren't acceptable.
Cheers!
Marc - Riverside
3DTrains wrote:
I was being facetious.
I still believe that whomever came up with the update, including the group that approved it, need to take a remedial course in basic design.
Here you go if you want an explanation
"According to Android engineer Dan Sandler, the white icons were originally chosen to present a more neutral palette that works better with apps. It also turns out that #33b5e5 blue doesn't show up very well with the transparent status bar"
kebevets wrote:
Anyone notice the battery indicator changed from green to all white after updating to Kitkat 4.4.2????? Not sure what else changed but this was annoying to me.
HTC is following (for the most part) the KitKat design standards for the battery and other icons that Google wrote for KitKat version of the Android OS.
I'm most definitely NOT a VZW employee. If a post answered your question, please mark it as the answer.
It's a Google tweak. All icons in status bar must be white in KitKat.
I am experiencing the same battery issues...go to bed at 90% batteries and wake up to 9% with no handling of the phone during the night....
alkmouse wrote:
I am experiencing the same battery issues...go to bed at 90% batteries and wake up to 9% with no handling of the phone during the night....
You should look at the battery usage to see what is listed as using the battery during that time.
I'm most definitely NOT a VZW employee. If a post answered your question, please mark it as the answer.
Same stuff as always...Sorry I posted this to the wrong question...
Yep and I agree. It looks "cheap" and archaic. I liked lots of things on my phone before this update.
My phone, a Droid Razr Maxx HD, just recently updated. I am really disappointed to see this issue has not been resolved, or acknowledged as an issue. Engineer Dan Sandler explained white icons present a more neutral palette that works better with apps. Unfortunately they don't work better with my eyesight. When my battery is extremely low and I plug it in, I can't tell if the thing is charging because there is no contrast. I still end up cutting my blue tooth off & back on because I still expect to see a color. We live down in a little valley and have trouble receiving 4G except in certain areas in our house, typically 4G would come on white and then it would eventually turn blue. Once it turned blue it had a good signal. If you were on the computer and it started acting up you just checked to see what color it was (we can get good 4G with a blue icon for hours and then it would turn white; sometimes it would turn back blue on its own, other times we would have to boost our signal). Now I can't always tell if I really have a good 4G signal or not!!! As for my battery I have added a previously used Battery Widget, that has an 'animation' when its charging as well as having the actual battery level (not by 5's) as an icon which can be colored. My husband is going to ignore the message about the update being available...I just wish someone else in the family had gotten it first, so I could continue to ignore it. I have never had an iphone, but it is looking better and better. #nothappy
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I, too, am very disappointed with the monochromatic icons. Very bad form to force it without any option to use colored icons as preference.
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