Hi guys has anyone got this contract: form buymobiles.net
1 x XDA Exec on O2 250 with 50 messages (12mths).
I have troubles using VIDEO CALLING. Keeps telling me no network coverage. I wonder if they have actually sent me a 3G sim, or Regular?
Does it actually have to say 3G?? on It?
I think if you have a U sign next to your signal that indicates 3G coverage, that is what it says on mine anyway. It seems a bit weird though that you've been having troubles with 3g
Fin
There's no bloody U on top. I had U for few seconds when i changed BAND from auto to UMTS, but then it disappeared. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
flashing to JJ new rom, will see what will that give me.
Stupid question, but have you rang O2 Customer Services (a horrible shiver just ran down my spine!) Surely they can tell you if your SIM is 3G?
ye i did and they told me once that my phone is not 3G compatible,
and today the guy adviced me to call back 2morrow to speak to XDA team :roll:
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just rang the tech support @ O2 explained the problem to them and here is the solution..
1) take out ur O2 simcard
2) look at the colour and see if its a blue one with the bubbles
if yes then you have a 16k type and you need to order a 32k sim from your service proider.
the tech support is very good, the engineer assured me that the upgraded sim will work fine.
Chris (Species)
How can this be the case? My SIM has bubbles but is marked 32k!
And I have the RSU 4.21 upgrade problem whether or not the SIM card is in place.
Nothing seems to work
what problems have you got ?
the problem here is crap reception and failing to reconnect after signal loss, the rest of the pda is fine.
perhaps you need to talk to tech support @ O2
here is the number I rang, when u get to customer services ask them to put you through to technical support.
0800 0854485
just life
My XDA has good months and bad months. Although this seems to be a bad week. No bars on the Antenna signal strength. But phone calls are perfectly fine for me!
I'm lucky my contract is up at the end of the month. Time to get a proper phone. The XDA is a great principle, just that it falls to short for me. Maybe the XDA III will be better... 2005?!
Martin
hey guys which should i get cant decide, i dont like the name jasjar but i like the colour.
also is there a way of swapping between 3G and GPRS if i want to reguardless of whether your in a 3G area or not because i get very cheep gprs and might wanna use it even if im in a 3G area. thanks
Neckarb
I had the same dilema and went with the jas jar for several reasons.
1) no o2 commitment (they are, in my personal experince, rubbish in so many ways)
2) cool grey case.
3) imate release rom updates on a regular basis, o2 release one every four thousand years, if your lucky.
4) the jas jar was available sooner
I think you'll find that youll pay the same rate per mb regardless of whether you are using the umts (3g) or edge(2.5g/gprs) networks. you're just liable to use it up faster on umts becaue of the higher data rate! you can force it not to use umts if you want tho'.
Maybe neckarb is on one of the old BT Cellent Genie tariffs where GPRS may cost almost nothing?
Maybe neckarb is on one of the old BT Cellent Genie tariffs where GPRS may cost almost nothing?
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that i be. and so am interested on o2 for that sole reason, the other problem im having is i wanna pay abouy £400-£500 (either sim free) or preferable including a 12month contract but cannot find the jasjar for that price even though i found the exec for it so again aaah!
neckarb said:
hey guys which should i get cant decide, i dont like the name jasjar but i like the colour.
also is there a way of swapping between 3G and GPRS if i want to reguardless of whether your in a 3G area or not because i get very cheep gprs and might wanna use it even if im in a 3G area. thanks
Neckarb
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Yes you can force the Universal into GSM mode under settings/phone/Band...There you select GSM instead of 'Auto' under 'Select your network'. Apparently it saves you loads of battery power too as UMTS is power hungry.
Regards
cheers for that mate, can the xda exec be reflashed with an imate rom as im a member of club imate and would love to get the rom updates.
asking for problems
From what i have read from other o2 devices with Imate roms, its is problematic.
get an universal rom first, that way if the imate rom gives your grief, the change back is less trouble.
Please post your findings, it would be interesting.
Can anyone else clarify this? I was intending to get the O2 XDA Exec, but with such a new device and new OS, it's bound to need a ROM upgrade or two. I was looking on the O2 site for ROM upgrades to any of their other XDA devices but couldn't find any which is not a good sign.
My understanding is that i-mate ROM updates will not work on the O2 XDA Exec, in which case I reckon the money saved on an Exec against a Jasjar will not be worth it.
They should be the same hardware, so you could get the slick looking XDA Exec and put the imate ROM on.
it would be great if i could, becuase i found the xda exec £150 cheeper than the jasjar but i love my imate rom updates, has anyone sucsessfully flashed the xda exec or mda pro with the imate jasjar roms?
For all those T-Mobile users, I am in Souther Cali and have been thinking about getting one of these. Can anyone let me know what they think about it??
Sound Quality
Signal Strength
Data Connection speed ( I know it's not EDGE)
Any other info.
Thanks
I had the PDA2K but got rid of it because I was thinking about getting the ETen G500 but wanted to check this out first since it is actually available from T-Mobile.
why not edge?
I thought t-mobile had finished the rollout of its edge network?
:roll: :?:
I swap between my tmo and cingular sim all the time.
both have edge...and the speeds are identical for me.
only problem i have is that i cant get to google.com from my home calling are (texas), but was able to get to google.com fine when i was in tampa, fl for vacation. very strange!
i called tmobile about it, and they said it's a problem with some of their mda users (i have the the imate kjam version). they were suppossed to have their engineers look into it and call me back, but i haven't heard back from them in over a week. I am able to setup my gmail account in outlook and pull mail down fine. and i have no problems accessing google from a wifi connection and an active sync connection.
other than that, tmobile is good. I can access google on my cingular sim, though. If i were you i'd try the 15 day (or whatever it is) trial period, and go from there.
so long as you run the rom upgrades you'll be fine....i'm in Los Angeles and pleased.
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only problem i have is that i cant get to google.com from my home calling are (texas), but was able to get to google.com fine when i was in tampa, fl for vacation. very strange!
i called tmobile about it, and they said it's a problem with some of their mda users (i have the the imate kjam version). they were suppossed to have their engineers look into it and call me back, but i haven't heard back from them in over a week.
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Have a look at the comment from T-Mobile in this article. They have been trying to fix this for quite some time now.
I am a Cingular user, I was using Cingular for a long time and it worked fine for me. However, after this May, I found some problem by connecting Cingular service. On that time, I was using MDA II, at first I thought my PDA was broken so that I can't get the signal from Cingular and I bought a XDA EXEC from England.
However, problem still there. It is still so hard for me to get Cingular service. I have tried to put my SIM card to cingular phone, and it shows the connection well, at least 3 bars. Once I put it back to my XDA, the connection is very weak or most of the time, it doesn't work.
I wonder if anyone of you have the same problem with me? I have check that this XDA is an unlock phone and it works fine with other service, but not Cingular. I have no idea about what Cingular has done.
Please help, any solutions would be appretiate!
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I am a Cingular user, I was using Cingular for a long time and it worked fine for me. However, after this May, I found some problem by connecting Cingular service. On that time, I was using MDA II, at first I thought my PDA was broken so that I can't get the signal from Cingular and I bought a XDA EXEC from England.
However, problem still there. It is still so hard for me to get Cingular service. I have tried to put my SIM card to cingular phone, and it shows the connection well, at least 3 bars. Once I put it back to my XDA, the connection is very weak or most of the time, it doesn't work.
I wonder if anyone of you have the same problem with me? I have check that this XDA is an unlock phone and it works fine with other service, but not Cingular. I have no idea about what Cingular has done.
Please help, any solutions would be appretiate!
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The signal is weak because the device does not support the most widely used frequency band among Cingular cell towers in the United States (850 MHz). You will find that as you travel into busier areas/cities/neighborhoods, it will significantly increase
Do you have any suggestion about what kind of service is better? I am considering T-Mobile, is it good?
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Do you have any suggestion about what kind of service is better? I am considering T-Mobile, is it good?
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It is very likely that T-Mobile will work better in your area. I, myself don't get such great service with Cingular at my home because I live in the suburbs. Anywhere else I go, my signal seems to be fine though.
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Nachogy said:
Do you have any suggestion about what kind of service is better? I am considering T-Mobile, is it good?
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It is very likely that T-Mobile will work better in your area. I, myself don't get such great service with Cingular at my home because I live in the suburbs. Anywhere else I go, my signal seems to be fine though.
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I really appretiate your answer!
Video call doesn't work ***UPDATE!*** NOW IT WORKS JUST FINE!!
READ THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE FOR UPDATE!!
When I try to make a video call with my dutch t-mobile vario 2 to another dutch t-mobile vario 2 user it disconnects me right away. My friend has made a video call from his vario 2 with a other cellphone umts user with success. His and my college's whom all had the vario 2 can't also seem to make a video call with eachother.
What is the problem with it? We all have 3G/UMTS connections and still it doesn't work. Is this just a setting we need to adjust? Is it T-Mobile NL that won't allow any video call connections?
PLEASE HELP ME / US OUT GUYS!!
I love my vario 2 but still haven't seen this video calling work. Video calling was also one of the reasons why I bought this phone...
Thx a million is advance
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Ok guys! T-Mobile finally called me after 5 days and couldn't test it at that moment. After 2 days a technician called me and he checked my connection and that of a friend of mine whom I gave the number of to be checked also.
What he saw was that they (T-mobile) FORGOT to turn my video-call-option ON!!
Now it works perfectly!
So guys if it doesn't work just call T-mobile and they'll turn the video call option ON
btw! VIDEO CALL RULES!!! lol
Enjoy!
hlc1971,
Have you contacted t-mob NL customer service ? I am very courious whay they will say.
By the way, how much do you pay per month to have UMTS in your t-mob NL subscription?
Yeah I contacted T-Mobile this evening and their technical department is going to give me a call about this problem. I'll let you guys know what their answer to this problem is.
Here in The Netherlands we only have to pay 10 euro's a month for an unlimited GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA connection.
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Yeah I contacted T-Mobile this evening and their technical department is going to give me a call about this problem. I'll let you guys know what their answer to this problem is.
Here in The Netherlands we only have to pay 10 euro's a month for an unlimited GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA connection.
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But it's only 64 kilobyte download!
For the 1,8 meg connection, it costs about 70 euro's.
I don't know anyone with the video call function, so I can't test it with my T-Mobile contract.
I'll post something here if it works, or not.
That's what I tought.
I have Magician at this moment (The MDA Vario II has not came yet, I ordered last week) and I also subscribed to the Web'n'Walk for 10 euro / month.
When I use the Vario II, will it AUTOMATICALLY use HSDPA 64 Kbps ???? Do I need to contact the customer service to activate HSDPA in my account ???
Or will it still use the GPRS connection like the old Magician ???
Thanks.
TiMMah!!! said:
But it's only 64 kilobyte download!
For the 1,8 meg connection, it costs about 70 euro's.
I don't know anyone with the video call function, so I can't test it with my T-Mobile contract.
I'll post something here if it works, or not.
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hlc1971 said:
When I try to make a video call with my dutch t-mobile vario 2 to another dutch t-mobile vario 2 user it disconnects me right away. My friend has made a video call from his vario 2 with a other cellphone umts user with success. His and my college's whom all had the vario 2 can't also seem to make a video call with eachother.
What is the problem with it? We all have 3G/UMTS connections and still it doesn't work. Is this just a setting we need to adjust? Is it T-Mobile NL that won't allow any video call connections?
PLEASE HELP ME / US OUT GUYS!!
I love my vario 2 but still haven't seen this video calling work. Video calling was also one of the reasons why I bought this phone...
Thx a million is advance
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I have the same problem with my tytn and tmobile web-n-walk NL.
I cant seem to get video call to work with another tytn.
It did work one time with a nokia cellphone.
I gave up hope to ever make a video call with a tytn.
gogol said:
That's what I tought.
I have Magician at this moment (The MDA Vario II has not came yet, I ordered last week) and I also subscribed to the Web'n'Walk for 10 euro / month.
When I use the Vario II, will it AUTOMATICALLY use HSDPA 64 Kbps ???? Do I need to contact the customer service to activate HSDPA in my account ???
Or will it still use the GPRS connection like the old Magician ???
Thanks.
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Yeah. When I bought my Vario II, I automatically got the higher speeds.
gogol said:
That's what I tought.
I have Magician at this moment (The MDA Vario II has not came yet, I ordered last week) and I also subscribed to the Web'n'Walk for 10 euro / month.
When I use the Vario II, will it AUTOMATICALLY use HSDPA 64 Kbps ???? Do I need to contact the customer service to activate HSDPA in my account ???
Or will it still use the GPRS connection like the old Magician ???
Thanks.
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Overhere it switches AUTOMATICALLY from GPRS to HSDPA where it's possible. Before I had the MDA Compact (GPRS only) and just renewed my contract for a year together with the gprs package for 10 euro's/month. And indeed it switches automatically from "G" to "3G".
I just read that with the provider KPN you need to pay for whatever connection you like. So a GPRS connection was around 30 euro's a month and a HSDPA connection around 70 euro's.
Not with T-Mobile... not yet tho...
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Overhere it switches AUTOMATICALLY from GPRS to HSDPA where it's possible. Before I had the MDA Compact (GPRS only) and just renewed my contract for a year together with the gprs package for 10 euro's/month. And indeed it switches automatically from "G" to "3G".
I just read that with the provider KPN you need to pay for whatever connection you like. So a GPRS connection was around 30 euro's a month and a HSDPA connection around 70 euro's.
Not with T-Mobile... not yet tho...
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What do you mean not yet?
They changed their whole priceplan for data-connections when HSDPA came, they must have thought about it quite well.
I don't think it will get more expensive in time.
Or do you have some inside information you want to share?
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What do you mean not yet?
They changed their whole priceplan for data-connections when HSDPA came, they must have thought about it quite well.
I don't think it will get more expensive in time.
Or do you have some inside information you want to share?
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hahaha No I don't have no inside information about T-Mobile getting more expensive but if KPN doesn't lose a lot of members because of the high pricing of HSDPA T-Mobile NL might wanna take a bite out of that pie also
I just wouldn't be supprised about it...that's al I'm saying
OH! The best friend of my uncle is an ambassedor at T-Mobile. She might enlighten me some more about it...
Will come back on this if I can get a hold on her...
UPDATE!!
Ok guys! T-Mobile finally called me after 5 days and couldn't test it at that moment. After 2 days a technician called me and he checked my connection and that of a friend of mine whom I gave the number of to be checked also.
What he saw was that they (T-mobile) FORGOT to turn my video-call-option ON!!
Now it works perfectly!
So guys if it doesn't work just call T-mobile and they'll turn the video call option ON
btw! VIDEO CALL RULES!!! lol
Enjoy!
How is 64kbps HSDPA??? That's around EDGE speeds!
Woah .. do we have to pay for this option ? I have Web'n'Walk with T-Mob NL for 9.5 euro / month.
We can only do video call with other MDA Vario II user right ? Or with other device like Nokia too?
hlc1971 said:
Ok guys! T-Mobile finally called me after 5 days and couldn't test it at that moment. After 2 days a technician called me and he checked my connection and that of a friend of mine whom I gave the number of to be checked also.
What he saw was that they (T-mobile) FORGOT to turn my video-call-option ON!!
Now it works perfectly!
So guys if it doesn't work just call T-mobile and they'll turn the video call option ON
btw! VIDEO CALL RULES!!! lol
Enjoy!
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gogol said:
Woah .. do we have to pay for this option ? I have Web'n'Walk with T-Mob NL for 9.5 euro / month.
We can only do video call with other MDA Vario II user right ? Or with other device like Nokia too?
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I have the same web'nWalk with T-Mobile NL just like you!
Just call their customer service number: 0624001200
Say you need your video-call option turned on by the technical department
And your good to go
Oh! And then you can call anybody with a HSDPA connection on any phone
Enjoy!