Please enlighten me about some D3 annoyances

[dfkt]

I had some spare time lately, so I dug somewhat deeper into the D3. Some of its flaws are truly aggravating, and I didn't find any fixes or workarounds, forum searches weren't overly helpful either.


The idiotic redundant "slide to unlock" screen: is there a way to disable it? The D3 has a hardware button for lock/hold, having an additional slider is just a further useless step.
Video screen contrast is broken, blacks are grey, colors are washed out. The screen is fine for everything else, just not for videos. I tried a few other video players, but either they're washed out too, or they stutter and are unusable.
Sleep mode: there is no sleep mode - it just turns the screen off and continues playing music, or drains the battery over night. Power off is not an option, since it takes ages to start up every time. Is there some real sleep mode (like on the J3/S9/C2), or is it plain broken?
Tactile buttons: any reason only the volume controls work when the screen is off, but not the Play/Pause and FFWD/REW buttons? I played around with the randomly spread and cryptic options in music and system settings, but couldn't find a fix for that bug.
Is it normal the D3 gets more than reasonably warm during operation, and really hot during charging?
Anyone knows of a pan/balance app/addon for Android? Not even Rockbox's integrated pan/balance works, unfortunately.
Is the main menu clock widget broken for everyone, or just for me? It always displays a wrong date below the huge clock numbers, even if the date is set correctly in the settings.


Thanks for any help.

[jakeroux]

Not sure about the rest, but I'll share my workaround on the Sleep mode. Since I use mine primarily (almost exclusively) for playing music, I simply hit pause on the tactile buttons while playing. Music stops, screen eventually goes dark (how long it takes depends on your back light settings) and battery seems to be relatively preserved over long periods of non-use. Not sure what else may carry on while in this "paused" mode, but for my purposes, it is essentially a Sleep mode.

[snakebite2]

I had some spare time lately, so I dug somewhat deeper into the D3. Some of its flaws are truly aggravating, and I didn't find any fixes or workarounds, forum searches weren't overly helpful either.


The idiotic redundant "slide to unlock" screen: is there a way to disable it? The D3 has a hardware button for lock/hold, having an additional slider is just a further useless step.
Video screen contrast is broken, blacks are grey, colors are washed out. The screen is fine for everything else, just not for videos. I tried a few other video players, but either they're washed out too, or they stutter and are unusable.
Sleep mode: there is no sleep mode - it just turns the screen off and continues playing music, or drains the battery over night. Power off is not an option, since it takes ages to start up every time. Is there some real sleep mode (like on the J3/S9/C2), or is it plain broken?
Tactile buttons: any reason only the volume controls work when the screen is off, but not the Play/Pause and FFWD/REW buttons? I played around with the randomly spread and cryptic options in music and system settings, but couldn't find a fix for that bug.
Is it normal the D3 gets more than reasonably warm during operation, and really hot during charging?
Anyone knows of a pan/balance app/addon for Android? Not even Rockbox's integrated pan/balance works, unfortunately.
Is the main menu clock widget broken for everyone, or just for me? It always displays a wrong date below the huge clock numbers, even if the date is set correctly in the settings.


Thanks for any help.
1. No
2. They haven't fix that yet. I don't know if they will. I don't think anyone can miss that. The screen is fantastic. It would be nice if they added video settings like contrast and brightness ect...

3.Only the Stock music app can prevent sleep mode. You must enable block sleep for that to work. And it only works if you're on the playback screen. If you're have jet effect or file browser it will not work. It goes to sleep mode if you're out of the playback screen and stopped the music. Take about 5sec. You know you're in sleep mode when pressing the buttons don't start the music up.

4.Make sure you enable the Media Buttons and FF/REW options in the music settings. The buttons only work probably when on the playback screen. If you paused it while out of the play screen the player will go in sleep mode.

5. It doesn't get a little when your playing videos or games. Charging it gets hot.
6. I guess those options are not available.
7.For now I only know the widget displays August as April. The other month works fine. The day seems to be correct.
Anything else?