Should i regret buying the x1?????:
I bought the x1 few weeks ago … the problem is ;it wasn’t what I was expecting from sony Ericson ,the speakers are sooo low .. the device get very hot and sometimes it is unresponsive specially when I try to access the messages I have to restart it (soft restart)and now a crack appeared beside the volume button and the phone didn’t fall , I was treating it well ?
So guys should I regret the buy ?
The speakers on mine are very loud. I have noticed that it depends on the quality of what you are playing as to how loud the sound is. Some of the built in ringtones are loud, and some are not. All of my music and mp3s are loud. My phone also only gets hot when its connected to the computer. It should not get hot during normal operation. The phone will get faster and faster over time and crash less as well. If it is cracked and you haven't dropped it, it definitely needs to be returned.
mtaher said:
Should i regret buying the x1?????:
I bought the x1 few weeks ago … the problem is ;it wasn’t what I was expecting from sony Ericson ,the speakers are sooo low .. the device get very hot and sometimes it is unresponsive specially when I try to access the messages I have to restart it (soft restart)and now a crack appeared beside the volume button and the phone didn’t fall , I was treating it well ?
So guys should I regret the buy ?
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I've never really played music from mine without the case on, but even with my case on it's more than loud enough. My device only gets hot when it's charging for an extended period of time and I've always figured it's due to the case. My phone has only froze during a couple installs and occasionally hangs during messaging, but it sorts out in a couple seconds.
Now the crack is an issue, I'd call SE and see if they can help you. Hopefully they're willing to offer some help if it obviously wasn't dropped.
My device isnt slow - nor is the speaker quiet - nor cracked
u got latest ROM installed?
Well I regreted I did not read the specifications throughly before getting an X1.
I thought many of these things are very common in modern WM phones: In Call Recording & Accelerometers, etc. so that I thought X1 got them all, but turned out that X1 got none of them.
I am getting my hands off it and probably will fetch another phone instead.
I was given one free by my employer.
To be honest it sucks imo. It just isn't a congruent experience to use it.
it has the arbitrary few second lockups now and then, etc. The keyboard isn't really necessary and the screen is too small.
The pics, video recording and videophone ability is great but the HTC Touch HD has all of these plus the best screen on any phone in 2009.
Just geth the HD and not this.
In-call recording is in the notes application. Go to Menu->View Recording Toolbar.
Thanks WhyBe,
I don't know why this doesn't work for my X1.
I have tried to install the HD Dial Panel and related ICR; VITO, Resco, and even the SRS plug in but they all don't work. It makes me think that I have done something to my X1 (softwarewise) that stop it from functioning. Some days later I will flash another ROM to try.
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Well i think its true. why? read on!
I bought my XDA II a few weeks ago. Its a love & hate machine & i won't get into that. But i think i have damaged the speaker .. as in i can notice sound getting distorted at times. It probably happened when i played this audio file at full volume .. which was actually for less than 2 seconds!! Ever since then, i can tell how the sound from the speaker comes out distorted. Same exact thing happened with my brother, where he played some song at full volume & it apperntly blew his speaker. I've soft reseted the machine multiple times (who doesn't!) ever since but no hard reset yet.
Although my question is .. is it really _that_ easy to blow the speaker?! The device should either have a speaker that can handle the amplification it is being providing, or not amplify the sound to levels the speaker can't handle. Blowing your speaker away on the first attempt to play something loud seems awfully lousy to me from a machine's design point of view.
Has anyone else experienced such problem or know of some remedy? I don't want to open the machine up & get the speaker repaired. Would really appreciate any help on the matter.
Thank you all.
Hi m8. Don't know if you've tried this but I had a problem a while ago where I could not hear any sound at all. I could make a phone call and ther person on the other end could hear me fine but I could not hear anything. I found the way to make it work again would be to squeeze the thing at the top near the earpiece (as if it was a loose connection).
Like I said, don't know if you've tried this but it worked for me. Have you got warranty?
Hey Camel, i have had my sx56(wallaby) all the way apart, and the only thing attatching the mainboard to the speaker are two little spring-loaded contacts, perhaps try tightening the screws on the back of your device (if it's anything like mine), this should make the connection between your speaker and mainboard more secure.
Tim
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hey mate,
yep same thing with mine. now anything above about 50% in a phone call and it's all distorted.
pretty annoying, i've just got to get around to opening it up and checking the speaker contacts/replacing speaker with a spare.
will post results.
Curious if it works with the Kaiser and if you would recommend it.
Thanks!
http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/product/details.jsp?globalObjectId=177
Motorola S9
New to this site. First time poster. I just got these headphones for my Tilt. I tried them with my 8125 using mfrazz WM6 rom and they worked well. Volume got fairly loud and sound quality was pretty good.
I haven't gotten my microSD card yet for the Tilt, but listened to some of the music that came with phone. Volume was lower, but I don't know if that was the audio level of that particular file. I haven't tried it with any personal mp3 files. I placed a phone call with this headset and sound quality was average. The caller could only be heard through the left earphone, not stereo.
The headset was fairly comfortable to wear, but I haven't tried it for extended periods. I'm going to try using it while running this weekend to see how well it stays in place.
that combo works great for me, used them at the gym all the time
There are many many user comments about these headphones over at Howard Forums bluetooth message forum. I went thrui 2 paris of these. Both failed for the same reason, The first lasted 1 week. the second lasted 1 month. The issue is they aren't really sweatproof as they claim. if you sweat alopt (and running in Phoenix will make you sweat), they konk out (i.e. technical term for stop working altogehter) after a while. The seals aren't really tight enough to keep water out. I tried a second one cuaz there were rumors of a bad inital batch. so I got a one from a later batch a couple months after and it did the same.
Two other issues with them: they tended to skip alot and also people complained it wasn';t very good for calls. So, if you have had good xperience with them that's great. But if you are still considering them, be forewarned. I loved the concept of them. But they just didn't meet their own marketing's expectations IMO.
Im now looking at the Plantronics 855, which is just becoming avail. No it's not sweatproof (but at least they don't claim to be). I;ve given up on getting a sweatproof BT headset for now. But otherwise, it looks like it might be a great solution for both calls and "casual" music.
Here's my two cents...
I bought the S9 headphones a few months ago after using the Motorola HT820's for close to a year (the HT820's are the ones that make you look like Mickey Mouse when you wear them).
The pros:
- The sleeker design of the S9 dont make you look like Mickey Mouse or Princess Lea. In fact, many people don't even realize I'm wearing headphones at all...
- They generally sound good
- The controls on both ears allow you to start/stop phone calls, raise and lower the volume, start/stop music and change music tracks
The cons (as compared with the HT820):
- Battery life is not wonderful -- the HT820's provide 14 hours or music, the S9 seem to provide more like 8
- Phone call audio plays only in one ear (the left one, to be exact). I had gotten used to phone calls in stereo...
- The middle button on each ears' control panel is a bit hard to use -- and those are the buttons which are used to start/stop phone calls and play/pause music
Overall, the sound quality is good. I dont usually have many dropouts during music and almost never during phone calls. People have never complained that they cant hear me speaking when using the S9 for calls.
Hope this helps....
Music sounds pretty decent. Not on caliber with a nice set of wired phones, but compared to the Shure Ec3, I'd give them a 7. On the plus side, if you can get a good fit for your ear, the bass response is a bit better than some of the "reference" quality earbuds. I think this is a matter of taste though.
Comfort is OK, but my ears do get a bit sore after an hour or so, but never to the point where I feel the need to take them off.
Music controls work fine, but I have not had great luck with activating incoming calls from the headset. Sometimes it works, others not. The buttons don't have a great tactile feel, so I may not be hitting the accept call button squarely. I also notice the music does not always pick right back up after using the head set activation button, so for these reasons, I usually hit the call accept button on the phone. This works fine.
I do get occasional skipping, but this seems to be related to Activesync.
I get occasional droped connections. Just turn the headset off and back on to reconnect. Happens maybe 1 out of 7 times I use them, and usually in the first few minutes - odd.
Phone call quality leaves a lot to be desired. For some reason, they only play through one ear when on a call and is seems that no matter what I do, the incoming person is too loud and boomy, even when I turn it way down. Usually this is passable for a short conversation, but if the person on the other end has an unfamiliar accent, I wind up having to switch over to the handset. People in general say they can hear me fine, but I don not use them in an environment with a lot of ambient noise.
That being said, I still use them very often at work as I don't get a lot of personal calls during the day. Battery life is usually sufficient for most of the day on a full charge. If you are at your desk the entire day, you may find they are drained before the end of the day (6-7 hours).
For home, I was thinking about picking up a pair of the Bluetrek phones. From the reviews I have read, if they fit you well, the sound quality is good, the battery life is a bit longer (though not much), they play phone calls in both ears and come with a nice carry case.
One final consideration, for some reason they do not get very loud with the Kaiser connection. It is still adequate, but if you like your music really loud, they may be lacking. I wouldn't rile them out on this though as they are plenty loud when connecting to my laptop, so there might be some software limitation on the volume which can be tweaked in the registry. I have seen some others mentioning this too and have not come across a fix yet, but I'd be willing to bet there will be one as soon as the BT headphones start getting more use.
Hi, wanted to briefly comment on my largely positive HD2 & skiing experience.
Video
Worked fine right down to about -15c (-25 with wind chill), noticed some jerks in recording but cant say if it was cold related, Here is the HD2 video I made.
Bear in mind that some videos had gamma/brightness adjustments.
Camera
Yea, not too bad after the HTC camera patch, the last image at the end of the video is a (curve adjusted) photo taken with HD2. I was impressed with the camera under some conditions (medium-good light levels and little movement), still not in the same league as an N95 especially in low light conditions.
Music application
Worked OK, but its still pretty lame, making the experience quite frustrating:
1. no volume control on the headphone piece
2. long pauses while (large) playlist loads, why is this not cached???
3. Cant use your own headphones with remote (like Nokia) so had to use crappy HTC ones
4. Scrolling large lists in the cold! (I believe there is a scroll bar in 1.6x)
5. loads more niggles
General
No problems most of the time but a couple of times in extreme cold (-15) I found the keyboard became really erratic and once it even completely stopped responding. I also noticed that coming in from the extreme cold quite a lot of fog behind the screen, this cleared up after the phone warmed up with no ill effects.
All in all I was happy, BUT I was pretty pissed off to find, after running for the plane, a scratch on the screen, keys or coins the culprit.. just shows how wrong the unscratchable claims are!
Sorry to hear about the scratch on your screen. You should have listened to your head and bought a screen protector. It's not too late.....
WB
And you really should have tested the SatSki application, then you could also have tested the GPS functionality.
Had this application already running on my previous phone, excellent application for skieers and on the big HD2 screen it is really handy.
I've downloaded Satski and will be trying it in Les Deux Alpes in a couple of weeks, will report how it goes.
I must admit I noticed the same thing about not being able to ajust the volume using the remote on the headset. That's a real pain.
Also intending to buy some new thin gloves for using the phone poss The North Face E-Tip or Blacks do their own version which I tried in store and they work ok (perfect for texting your mate at work while you're have a beer on the slope)
Headset
I use my HD2 when snowboarding with Jabra bt620s bluetooth headset. It works great and I can adjust the volume, skip songs and answer calls with buttoms on the headset. And its nice not to worry about wires.
kaospiloten said:
I use my HD2 when snowboarding with Jabra bt620s bluetooth headset. It works great and I can adjust the volume, skip songs and answer calls with buttoms on the headset. And its nice not to worry about wires.
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I only ever have one earphone in - I like to be able to hear out of control boarders coming so that I can get out the way ;-)
Pete1909 said:
I only ever have one earphone in - I like to be able to hear out of control boarders coming so that I can get out the way ;-)
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Strange, I have the same problem with people on GAYSTICKS
kaospiloten said:
Strange, I have the same problem with people on GAYSTICKS
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To be fair I don't really have a problem with you guys being behind me...........because you can't keep up on your trays.
What I really need is a camera that can look out for groups of you sitting down just after the brow of a hill.
Pete1909 said:
To be fair I don't really have a problem with you guys being behind me...........because you can't keep up on your trays.
What I really need is a camera that can look out for groups of you sitting down just after the brow of a hill.
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Here is a pic taken with my HD2 tonite at my local hill I am sitting down just after the brow of a hill with my dog watching my mates building a big jump
Try mapping your snowboarding as you go down the slopes, i'm gonna test the skiing mode this weekend. But there are some ski trips recorded with sportypal that I found, http://sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/124172
Hi Guys,
I've been reading up on the Nexus and I'm really tempted to buy one but a few things I'd like to know please.
I want to play tv programs thats have been downloaded to my pc on the nexus so I can watch them on my train journey to work is there a program on the pc that will convert files to be played on the nexus ? the files are mostly in mkv format.
What is the call quality like ? as I am slightly hard of hearing call quality is very important to me the same goes with Volume call volume, ringer volume, txt message alerts etc
I've heard an issue that its possible to get dirt under the screen if I get screen protector will It stop that ?
What is the battery life like ? Will I need to charge it a few times a day or does it last quite a while ?
One last question Is there any issues using it on 3 Mobile in the uk or other networks ?
Thanks for your help guys I really appreciate it .
Cheers,
brayman said:
Hi Guys,
I've been reading up on the Nexus and I'm really tempted to buy one but a few things I'd like to know please.
I want to play tv programs thats have been downloaded to my pc on the nexus so I can watch them on my train journey to work is there a program on the pc that will convert files to be played on the nexus ? the files are mostly in mkv format.
The nexus one can play h.263, h.264, and mp4 videos by default (maybe others) so any program that can convert to those formats will work
What is the call quality like ? as I am slightly hard of hearing call quality is very important to me the same goes with Volume call volume, ringer volume, txt message alerts etc
Call quality is great, nexus one has dual mics for noise cancelling, and I havent had any problems with loudness
I've heard an issue that its possible to get dirt under the screen if I get screen protector will It stop that ?
Dirt doesnt get in through the screen itself, thats physically impossible, so getting a screen protector wont help you. I think the whole issue has been blown out of proportion. If you take an LED light to any phone you will se some particles under the screen.
What is the battery life like ? Will I need to charge it a few times a day or does it last quite a while ?
Under heavy use the Nexus One will last a whole day. Compared to other phones id say battery is average, but considering the hardware it runs its good. def better than iphone 3gs battery life.
One last question Is there any issues using it on 3 Mobile in the uk or other networks ?
There shouldnt be any issues, it is an unlocked phone.
Thanks for your help guys I really appreciate it .
Cheers,
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Thank you
Hello everyone,
I wanna ask you if you had any problems with your X5 bluetooth coverage? I'm using an A2DP stereo headphone and it work well if I'm not touching the device. However if I touch the top of the device covering the top 1 inch or so inside my palm, it stops playing. Even worse, when I put my phone in my jean's pocket, I can't listen to my music continuously. The sound keeps getting broken when I walk.
The thing is if I leave the phone on a desk or something I can walk away from it about 15 feet or so without braking the sound.
So, what I want to ask is whether or not this is a regular antenna related issue with X5s or is something wrong with my device?
Best regards ..
Which headset are you using? And which ROM? I had this Plantronics BackBeat 903+ bought especially for this phone due the fact that stock ROM doesn't support phones mic while using headphones. Inside music quality was great and I could listen to the music from long distance and in different rooms. But outside it cut music all the time making itself useless piece of trash; I needed it to work on my way to work where I go by bicycle. Then I bought SonyEricssons mv600 and it works like a charm with stock ROM! On void it was bit more twitchy, but still acceptable (cuts only once or twice during 20 min trip). So the problem might be in your headset, not the phone.
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Thanks for the info _Vk,
I'm still using the stock ROM. I have the device less than a week and after seeing the bluetooth performance I've decided to wait till I hear from a few of you guys before flashing anything else -just in case i need to replace it if it is due to a hardware problem rather than a general thing-.
I've tried with two different headsets actually, one "bluezen bsh-25", a cheap headset but somehow beats my other headset, "samsung SBH-500" both have the same issues with my X5 and both work really fine with my computer and my old SE Xperia X1.
So any thoughts?
So I take it I'm just about the only one with this particular problem ? I've even installed dzo's Oxygen port ROM but its still the same. I hate to send my device to service since with my luck, it will take a month for me to see my phone ever again.
You're definitely not the only one with Bluetooth performance issues, it's just that not many users are actually using Bluetooth.
The Bluetooth performance has been the same (****) on all Roms that I've tried (and I've tried 90% of them)...The only one that seems to have improved a little is the very latest Oxygen version, but insignificant improvement compared to stock...I honestly believe that BT in this phone is **** and no matter what you do, it's not going to improve.
Well, cheers then. I'll still love my phone even with its bluetooth going to the dark side when I put it in my pocket