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New xda 2

Hey all, im a newbie here and have just got my xda 2 on o2,
now iv read in the user manual it says when setting up for the first time it asks for corporate set up or personal ?
which is the best one to go for ?
and what are the main differences between the two ?
also its says that if the phone battery dies all the software that is not standard will be lost ? :x
any way around this ?
oh yea and one more thing....is there a room on irc dedicated to the xda ?
hope you guys can help
cheers

Welcome to the wonderful world of the XDA2!
When I first bought mine in November I asked the same question and didn't get a single answer. I still don't really know what the answer is, but I've tried both options after a hard reset and I don't think it makes any difference, although like I say, nobody has told me for sure.
Choose personal setup, I would say. Corporate is probably for IT managers who are doing something special with a fleet of XDA2s for their company.
On the XDA2 the battery (and backup) are required to maintain the contents of the system memory - all of your day-to-day usage, installed programs, files and info is stored in volatile memory, i.e. it needs battery power to maintain the contents. If the batteries both go completely flat your machine will reset completely, and when you charge it, it'll be like a brand new machine again.
This is one major weakness of the XDA2-type machines, and is done this way to maximise battery life while the phone is in use, I think. In practise it means you'll need to charge up your XDA2 at least once every two days or so in average use. It's also a very good reason to keep your files and contents regularly backed up onto a PC.
Dunno about the IRC thing.
Hope this all helps.

cheerz ben, as uv prolly noticed i also got no answer :shock:
but i went ahead n did it as personal user neways i think il learn more if i jus mess about with the fone, same way i did with my amstrad way back when, never broke that so lets hope i dnt break this..
after a long hard search on dalnet/efnet/n every other *net. only found a few sites, a few good ones there for help.
doesnt seem to be much dare i say "w a r e z" floating about for this fone, dnt knw whether this is good or bad, but seem to be able to find alot for other types of fones... one thing i did find was the nokia 6600 has ALOT of software available that can do absoloutly almost anything, frm putting in ur call plan and it working out ur fone bill for u before u get it frm ur service provider, to using it as remote control for ur tv!
lets hope the xda 2 can offer alot more(and easily available) user target programs such as these...
:roll:

GPRS counter - Why won't it work ?

Hello folks
I have just bought an XDA exec - I did a corporate install (thanks to the advice on here for that one ! ) and everything seems to be going fine , except the GPRS counter ,the one supplied with the phone
Every time i try to install , it gets almost all the way ,the screen on the exec says "unable to install you must upgrade to the latest rom" (or words to that effect ) - but according to 02's site I HAVE the latest rom installed (1.13.139 ? ) So I am not sure what the problem is !
anyone else had a similar experience ? or is the app "confused" because I have not installed all the o2 stuff ?
Any help appreciated ......oh , and also ...........
The Green /orange LED seems a bit irratic , it seems to turn orange during *some* phone calls and then sometimes it turns green again afterwards , sometime it stays orange ,are there any known issues with this ? I have looked in the manual and it says very little about what colours mean what etc . so can anyone point me in the direction of a definative guide ?
Thanks in advance

Looks like there's a problem with the current release
Rather than copy & type it all up check out this article
http://www.4winmobile.com/viewforum.php?f=6
looks like we will have to wait for an update

I apologise ! on my contiinued searching of this site I found someone had had similar problems and found a solution (I had searced before i posted , honest but I missed it somehow the first time )
The CAB file worked for me . thanks !

Pointers required for removing slow O2 software (please!)

Hi guys, great forum.
I must admit to being rather nieve and lost in all the technical stuff! Im a newbie to the XDA world, and so far Im loving it!
I bought my O2 XDA mini s on ebay, at just over 2 months old. Its in perfect condition, but when I try to remove the O2 software, it's not on the list... but its definately still on there!
Should I let my battery run out and reboot it?
Also it wont link with the outlook on my pc (installed from the cd) so it looks like its gonna take me 3 weeks of typing to put all my contacts in to it!
Can someone point me in the right direction for a thread? Or is there a good site for newbies to look at in layman's terms?
Any help would be extremely well recieved!
Cheers

Hi Gary
sorry mate can't help but noticed your post had no answer. Like you I am not a techie. Most of the posters on here seem to do nothing but experiment with their XDA's all day There is a wealh of info and help but sadly only useful to other techies.
There doesn't appear to be anything geared at assisting casual users and non techies that have neither the time or inclination to fiddle with ROM's and software etc .
I reckon that would be a useful sticky for noobs- like how to change/ customise the desktop and install various A/V software and remove o2 software etc
Suggest you get the full manual and wade through that.
I bought my o2 mini s at xmas and haven't made a single call on it yet . Its far too complicated for me and working 12 hour days I've no time to play about with it. :roll:

I'm no techy either but I do know that if you do a hard reset and choose corporate install the O2 stuff is not installed. There's some good advice here too - it's maybe a bit less technical than this site.
http://www.clieuk.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=45
Dave

Cheers for the replys Dave and Peanut.
I managed to find something useful here... http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=287641
if theres anyone else thats confused about this stuff.
I'm really happy with mine, on the whole it seems pretty simple to use. I hate that it doesnt close programmes when you click the x though.
Im gonna have a little play, but I'll need to get my mms and gprs info from orange first if i install the corporate profile.
I find that if the phone is on for more than 5 mins ifI press the green call button it doesnt bring up the phone screen, even with the normal power setting! I'm hoping this new profile will speed the bad boy up a bit too!
WiFi is a godsend on a mobile! Yey!

Without going through all the palava of flashing a new Rom the easiest way of really removing the O2 crud is to do a Hard Reset of the device (hold the Com Manager and Voice Command buttons the poke the little reset hole on the right hand side of the unit.
When you get the option select corporate installation option and then if I remember correctly you get a count down, press the reset button (without the other two buttons) again briefly to do a soft reset this should then start Windows in its regular non O2 sullied form.
Hope this helped.

Need To Know!!

I am about to get a p3600i in a few days.. any warnings or anything i need to know about this phone. i flashed my himalaya into non existance many years ago and my tornado is running wm6 now and i love xda-dev but from what im reading in the forums, no one knows jack about this device yet.... can i network unlock it? supercid??? etc etc. tried following posts but too much confusion with having p3600 and 3600i in the same froum so i cant always make sense of whats being posted.
Any help appreciated!
EDIT REASON: GOT THE DEVICE!!
Well thanks for the heaps of input guys
only irritating thing i found with this device (p3600i) so far is the stylus being right next to the camera button so every time i go for the stylus i start camera. definate annoyance!

NEED SOLUTION-multikey pressing problem in some great phones

hello frendz,
unfortunately there are two crappy made devices in terms of keyboard drivers.1 is jasjar(aka o2 exec) and the other(maybe coz i read somewhere) which doesnt allows multibutton press with its sliding keyboard.means for example while playing with an game emulator like pockesnes,we cant press direction(up,left,right or down) + fire or jump(w,a,s,d) at the same time.this annoying problem hasnt yet been resolved in other great ppc's as well such as o2 exec or jasjar...plz guys many users in this forum have even asked for donating money to the exceptional guy who will make it possible to use....
&&&& most important thing ZINC USERS iams ure about this problem on jasjar,but not 100 % sure for o2 xda zinc,plz check this error on ur device and plz plz respond here.....

no reply,plz guys be active in this thread