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Ok, I guess quite a few of us are now usig the MDA/XDA II and have made our experiences.
I think it is time to start collecting the different bugs and "features", so that maybe the guys here can start fixing them. Maybe even O2/T-Mobile or HTC might startt doing something.
I'll start with my contributions:
1) SMS: The SMS-Application doesn't copy the "+" from the phone number when you select through the contacts application. See also: http://xda-developers.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3198
2) Bluetooth: Right now, this seems to work mostly as a marketing gag, considering the very limited profiles supported. The list of missing profiles keeps getting longer, including HFREE, PAN and others. In fact, it might make sense to collect the experiences of successful bonds in a dedicated thread.
3) BT-Headset: Even when it does work, the performance is shaky s you can see here: http://xda-developers.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3548
4) Phone On/Off: Turning the phone on/off seems to have gotten less user friendly than on the old MDA. Now you always need to get out your stylus, which can be quite a hassle when you are standing at the gate getting on a plane - with your suitcase in the other hand. See also: http://xda-developers.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3553
5) Google: Ok, this seems to be a problem on almost all WM2003 devices when I look at all the suff on the web about this issue. Still, it would be nice if it would work :wink:
6) Wireless Modem: Well, you would expect that they include the driver on the CD wouldn't you.
7. The MDA II closes open programms as soon as you open another large programm. Like a device with no memory. You cannot keep large programms open at the same time (e.g. Pocket Informant, PIE, Total Commander, aso.) , so they would be accessible more quickly if you choose them over an taskmanager.
Have a look at this, it would tell you something about this "closingbug":
http://xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3477
Xda USB Modem driver
The USB modem driver *is* on the disk. There are no drivers for Serial, Bluetooth on Infrared.
ANyway, the infrared requires a public domain add-on to work...
Hi
It seems that my XDA II turns on spurious ( not often, but sometimes), which is not nice when having it in my pocket.
Does anyone has the same experince ?
Not sure if this could be considered a bug, but I have yet to be able to receive a video MMS sent by either a P800 or a Nokia 7650. Have successfully sent one to a 7650 though. On the UK O2 network.
sorry could not post a link !
but here is a hummdinger !
try the following hit the "Wireless" icon and note how long it takes for the dialogue box to pop up then hit the "Turn the radio off" hotspot.. You will notice much longer delays before it performs the task, the same happens when you have switched it off and then attempt to "Switch the radio on". A further prob is with the Volume control....do the following...call your voicemail "long" press the green phone key, now when the speakerphone is on , reduce the volume with the side "Slider" when it is at minimum try to increase it...it don’t work you can only use the stylus on the screen, if you allow, after reducing the volume, the dialog to disappear then try to increase the volume with the slider it works again, then if with the dialogue displayed you then end the call the dialogue will appear to be stuck on screen, and only disappear after about 10 secs...
Xant said:
Hi
It seems that my XDA II turns on spurious ( not often, but sometimes), which is not nice when having it in my pocket.
Does anyone has the same experince ?
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same here. happens all the time and that´s not funny. Called O2 Tech Support and they said (of course) that i´m the first to report that problem. can´t really believe that.
it´s very annoying
Xant said:
It seems that my XDA II turns on spurious ( not often, but sometimes), which is not nice when having it in my pocket.
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Have you turned on the homezone indicator? Everytime your mobile phone changes the cell, the homezone indicator updates itself, causing the XDA to turn on.
Christian
I also have the problem of not being able to recieve a video MMS from a 7650, I phoned o2 support on Tuesday and they said they would look into it and call me back on Wednesday, Well its now Saterday and i have not had a call back from them. Its good to see they sill use the same calender where next day means we dont have a answer so we wont bother to call you back
John
Buffer full / crash on transcriber/Notepad
8.) Buffer full / crash on transcriber/Notepad
Waring: Maybe you should do a backup before you try this....
How to cause:
- Go to Notpad
- Change to "Transcriber"-recognition
- Start to enter by writing normal letter/words: >> ok, works
- Try to "fill/paint the whole Screen" without (!) removing the pen from screen: After some seconds the Buffer will be full, constant Signal will apear if you touch the screen again
- Regognition won't work anymore
How to resolve the "full buffer" (seems to be the reason for me):
- Soft reset, okay
BUT:
- Xda2 behaves unstable afterwards.
You might get messages like this:
"camera.exe is not a valid apllication"
"media player is not a valid apllication"
So you need a "hard reset" with all the data gone.
(Maybe a sync is still possible - I didn't try this yet)
Okay, maybe not a Killer-Bug.
But now it's impossible to hand over the xda2 to my friends cause' they know how to "kill" my pda
Don't know is it's a xda2-specific bug or caused by OS.
Justaname
3 bugs?: text colour, letter recogniser, transciber
Great PDA - I've had an XDA for a few days and have been using it extenisvely (having had an iPAQH3850 for 2 years). The power of having a combined PDA, phone & camera/video is great. However, I've got a couple of problems. Anyone else had them or know how to fix them? (soft reset doesn't help- I haven't tried a hard reset yet):
1) Funny coloured text: some of the letters on the screen are brown rather than black. In particular the following letter combinations: 'in' and 'll'
2) 'Ghost' characters in 'Letter recogniser' mode. I write quickly using 'Letter recogniser' mode. Sometimes a grey outline of the character I've drawn stays for a fraction longer than I'd expect so that I end up writing the next character over the previous character. More noticeable in the 'numbers/special charcters' section on the right of the letter recogniser window.
3) Change of font/script when correcting words in 'Transciber' mode. The transciber mode is not bad at recognising my handwriting scrawl. However, if a word is interpreted incorrectly and I highlight the word and then rewrite the word, the new interprtation appears lowerdown on the line than the rest of the text (like MS Word's 'subscript')
chrissi75 said:
Xant said:
It seems that my XDA II turns on spurious ( not often, but sometimes), which is not nice when having it in my pocket.
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Have you turned on the homezone indicator? Everytime your mobile phone changes the cell, the homezone indicator updates itself, causing the XDA to turn on.
Christian
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yay, that was it. thx a lot
Andy said:
chrissi75 said:
Xant said:
It seems that my XDA II turns on spurious ( not often, but sometimes), which is not nice when having it in my pocket.
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Have you turned on the homezone indicator? Everytime your mobile phone changes the cell, the homezone indicator updates itself, causing the XDA to turn on.
Christian
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yay, that was it. thx a lot
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But it is still a bug and I hope they intend to fix it, as it is rather interessting to know if I have contact to my homezone or not.
Hi
Got an other one. The alarm function seems not to work reliable. First I thought I missed the alarm due to much drinks the evening before but this morning I woke up before, but no alarm from my XDA. Instead when I turn the XDA on manually, it notified me about the alarm.
I also noticed it with a meeting.
I don't need an alarm clock I have to turn on manually...
btw... Is there some action to fix the reported bugs... either O2 or M$
new annoying bug
OK I just had a new REALLY annoying bug happen last night.
First i found that GPRS kept dialing up every time i diconnected it - i thought it must have been because ie was open in the background so i went and closed all runing programs but it still kept dialling up GPRS whenever i disconnected.
Then I received an sms but when i viewed it in Inbox, the parts of the stripy background that are usually white where really dark grey making it almost impossible to read anything on the screen... so i decided it was time for a soft reset.
but instead of soft resetting it did a hard reset so I've now got to re-install everything!!!!! :x
Pope,
The GPRS dial up could be to do with your network settings. In fact an awful lot of issues where the PDA switches on for no reason are probably that.
I've always found 'interesting' problems with ActiveSync where it switches on the PDA periodically (it's nothing specific to the XDA II as it also happened with the Fujitsu Loox and the Viewsonic V37). I always 'close' activesync (using vBar) when I'm not using it for this reason!
I recently spent ages with the XDA II trying to get it not to switch on after I'd set up a blue tooth link with my laptop. Had to change some of the network settings to stop it (but can't remember what) ... even 'resetting' the PDA hadn't fixed the problem.
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Pope, I too have had a Hard Reset occur without knowingly doing it.
As far as I am aware I did not press the power on off button, when I soft reset, and it just did a hard reset.
I was having problems with an app that froze though, and just figured it was that.
Anyone else expereienced this ?
Cheers, Shire
I installed the upgrade at www.clubimate.com
Some noticeable changes after the upgrade:-
Fast switchoff of the phone, though u still have to use the stylus
The missed call red blink of the LED stays red (at least for the few minutes I checked) instead of turning back to green after a minute as in the past
The + in SMS is added when chosing from the contacts menu. I think this was a problem in the past
I had difficulty in installing SanDisk Wi-Fi software in the previous version. Went smoothly on the upgraded one.
membership??
I tried to sign up but I don't have the EMI whatever # ... any chance you can e-mail me this fix software?
[email protected]
Has anybody else seen this? it happens to both mine and my wife?
You cannot receive calls, and the alarms don't work? It needs a soft resest to start up again.
Any ideas?
If I understand your problem correctly the same thing is happening to my TyTN. I'm slowly trying to figure out if it's some software that I've loaded or not - any 3rd party apps you've recently loaded? The biggest problem for me is I can't tell if it's frozen or not until I try to turn it back on. Post any progress with fixes and I shall do the same.
Voice Command is the only culprit I can think off
I will uninstall it and see what happens, even though I love it it ha notorious bugs and power consumptions (it runs in the background 24/7)
Also here is a list of my software maybe you can add yours?
atek cool camera
vijay555 vj candela
vjay555 VJbluesync
vodafone fone skin
c ghiesler total commander
tt6
my company flas messenger
pocket mechanic
skype ilium software wallet
fit4carhermes tweaker
mikeycollins13 said:
Has anybody else seen this? it happens to both mine and my wife?
You cannot receive calls, and the alarms don't work? It needs a soft resest to start up again.
Any ideas?
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If you search the forum I think you find it has been traced to installing *some* apps onto the micro SD card.
Think I might have fixed it
I'm sitting here fingers crossed as I think I might have fixed this on my Vario II.
I was getting the hang in standby mode problem and having to soft reset on average about 3 times a day. I was reading in some forum or other that it has something to do with applications trying to access the SD card while in standby mode.
It occurred to me that this might have something to do with my email settings. I had a pop3 email account setup to download emails at 15 min intervals (24hrs a day).
I changed 2 things :-
1) Changed interval to 30 mins (basically to save baterry power)
2) Unchecked the 'Store attachments on storage card' check box on the Options - Storage tab.
I don't see how changing the interval would change anything apart from possibly reducing the number of crashes.
I think it could well be caused by email trying to store downloaded email attachments on the storage card when in standby.
It's been 2 days now without a hang.
Fingers crossed.
I'll update if it comes back.
Chris
I changed radio from 1.20 to 1.16
Because I realized that i had recently upgraded my wife's and then this started with her too.
I had 1.05->Radio 1.20>HANGS, so changed to 1.11> some hangs, but less, back to 1.20=hanging all the time=>back to 1.16, no hanging so far and battery improved.
Must be something to do with power usage as battery is much better now.
I conclude not such a great idea to upgrade with Chinese Dopod radio rom when living in London, who knows how they all set up their networks and GPRS etc.
Last night, with BT on, and AS in the background, I only lost 30% power compared to 50% before with these apps off. So a noticeable difference.
ok, ive recently installed igo8 on my touch hd, my problem is i get a constant tapping when in use, annoying more than enything else. the program runs perfect appart from that.
someone please help its driving me insane
someone pleeeeeeeeeeeese help
What do you mean, constant tapping? Explain more deeper your problem when use iGO8?
If you think on lights to power off and you must tap to screen to go on, you must go to Settings -> Device -> Power Management: Backlight Always On
first of all thanks for the reply, i will try to explain further. when i open the app (igo8) i get a constand tapping sound, its like im tapping the screen again and again (which im not). when i open GPS data (on igo8) there is a green flashing light next to a satalite, the sound corresponds with the light flashing? at first i thought i was because i didnt have a signal but it still happens when i have a full GPS signal
any help at all appreciated
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first of all thanks for the reply, i will try to explain further. when i open the app (igo8) i get a constand tapping sound, its like im tapping the screen again and again (which im not). when i open GPS data (on igo8) there is a green flashing light next to a satalite, the sound corresponds with the light flashing? at first i thought i was because i didnt have a signal but it still happens when i have a full GPS signal
any help at all appreciated
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Hey brad,
Try deleting the "save" folder, and then adding the following to your sys.txt file
[sound]
mute_os_key=1
Hope that this helps...
Cheers,
MjeSpoz
no that didnt work mate
still tick tick bloody tick
ive just noticed that the save folder had returned? tryed to delete again (was confirmed) but when i re-open file explorer its back again?
ive tried deleting from my pc via activesync and from the handset, and yet the folder still re-appears
brad,
If it's empty, then I don't believe that it's an issue...
Here's a link to a thread about the same issue - apparently cracou111 fixed his by "just adjusting the power management in the menu of igo"??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2957695#post2957695
Good luck!
MjeSpoz
adjusted power management, no more TICK TICK! WAY HEY!!!!!
i really do appreciate all your help
Simple, isn`t it...
I have a big problem,it happens once a day(it happend before MR1,with MR1,and with MR2). Cant unlock the screen,when I need to drag padlock left or right it just cant,padlock stays on the left or right side, I can get it back to the middle but unlock - NO (sometimes it promts for some ''unlock code'' but it is not usuall lock code,one REFERENCE it is NOT set to use a screen lock code). Only soft reset helps. Somebody have something to say???
hi
this is a strange thing you said, and i can't imagine what are you saying.
but try to set a unlock code and set the setting not to ask the code.
i can't tell the step by step cause i'm updating the MR2 right now.
I had similar problem after upgrading my X2 to MR1. It used to happen frequently.
Yesterday evening I upgraded my X2 to MR2, since then I have encoutered the same problem once.
Any solution?
that problem makes me very.........i cant use basic functions like answering the call when it happens. and that was happening to me also before i installed mr1and now with mr2.
I solved problem when set the device to promt for a pass when unlock,but when i turn off that option problem comes back. I must use my phone with that option turned ON or it will freeze every day.
Ah had this all the time initially, after MR1 it never happened at all.
In about a couple weeks of MR2 usage, it happened once. Hasn't happened again, but ever since then my sms alerts randomly become silent.
Guess MR2 is still quite buggy. I'm about to jump ship.
I've had a lock bug on the MR1 a lot but with MR2 i've only had it once (where it would tell me that my pass was invalid when it wasn't). A quick reboot of the phone and it hasn't happen again (thankfully).
Maybe every once in a while (every 1-2 weeks) give your phone a full reboot (pop out the battery, put it back and turn the phone on). Maybe that will keep you from getting it as frequently (maybe).
guys,
do you use Autolock activated mode when you see unexpected password to unlock prompt or when you can't unlock unit by moving bubble on the screen?
I sow this issue a lot of times - but it's interesting that I never sow this issue when unit is in autolock and in sleep mode, I receive input call and I see bubbles like Answer or Skip but I always can unlock my unit and answer or skip Call. Do you know anything about similar issues for other WinMob products?
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I have a big problem,it happens once a day(it happend before MR1,with MR1,and with MR2). Cant unlock the screen,when I need to drag padlock left or right it just cant,padlock stays on the left or right side, I can get it back to the middle but unlock - NO (sometimes it promts for some ''unlock code'' but it is not usuall lock code,one REFERENCE it is NOT set to use a screen lock code). Only soft reset helps. Somebody have something to say???
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Hello I have face the same problem and still I am facing after the firmware upgrade using the sony ericssion update service.
Phone ring tone selection problem
I have another issue with the X2 Sony Ericssion. I select the ring tone called "Adventure" after some time phone automatically changes the ring tone to window default which is Ring01-WindowsPhone.
Please advise how to fix this issue
that's beacouse your sdcard enters standby,put the sdfix cab and youll be ok
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that's beacouse your sdcard enters standby,put the sdfix cab and youll be ok
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Can you link me to sdfix cab?
Hi All,
I have problem with turn over sensor. I had this sensor on, and anytime when I received voice call phone stoped ringing and vibrating (only shows on screen that someone is calling me). But its doing it at random times.
When I switched off this sensor everything is fine. Phone is ringing....
I think, that is problem of sensor in my device.. Or it is software bug.
Thanks for your interest.
nobody?????
Try to recalibrate your accelerometer and Gyrosensor
Settings -> Display -> Bottom two ones
still the same... but when calls me one my friend (I tried to call me from his mobile) everything is OK.... It might be some thing in contact.. some information.. I dont know.. Or this sensor...
to be continue...
hello
i got the same problem, i can't pass "turn over" test
i wonder if it's hardware or software problem, i just put it in my shop lab and i hope 2 get more info about it.
I'd like to know please if there is another users with similar phenomenon and were able to overcome that issue, ty
Testing Mode?
Try the gyroscope test:
Start the standard phone app
type in *#0*# as you would a phone number. This brings you into testing mode, select gyroscope and have a look at the numbers.
There are also test modes: Settings -> Motion -> Tutorial
fix
The device was replaced in the store where it was purchased, everything is fine now.
i don't have the info of who or what was the problem.
ty for the tip arabbitte, too late 4 me
Thanks
Hello,
thanks, I tried to test by graph, and everything seems OK. I dont understand it...
Same problem here
Hello,
I have the same problem as PetoG, I think it is a problem with the sensor working with the vibration on. As tested on my sgs2, when I turn off the "turn over" or the "vibration" options one at a time, everything works as expected.
@ fatalit7, thanks for your reply but I think your issue was that the sensor was not working at all.
I am very much interested in any solutions to this problem.. And if it is really a hardware problem, guess we can only try to change the phone.
Thanks and regards
Hi kayamemet,
after update on 2.3.4 is everything OK. It seems it is solved. I have to test several times.
Still does not work
I've updated to 2.3.4 (xxkh3).
After several tries the problem persist. Quite annoying really.
So "vibration" is the enemy of "turn over" :S.
Any new remarks?
I've updated to XWKI8, still not good ...
anyone? anything?
ok, I've also tried the tutorial mode and it is also bad. It detects a turn over while it is laying down and vibrating.
Id really appreciate any "intel" on this matter, I'm kind of desperate.
Thanks