User: pamela80
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Wifi on saves battery
I found out about this trick from cnet, I actually tried it on my incredible as well and it works. Leaving the wifi on while at home does indeed help with the battery life on the pre.
Re: Wait for ALLY or buy the DROID?
I had the droid. unless you really want to have a larger screen i would get the ally over the droid.
Re: speaker phone
I've heard that it doesn't work with the phone opened. The Env and Env2 both didn't work with the phone closed as well.
Re: Mobile IM
Not that I know of but you can erase your yahoo login information so the client isn't able to log you in all the time. It's in the mobile im settings i think otherwise just do a reset of the phone itself.
Re: I HAVE A HUGE QUESTION FOR VOYAGER
Well, from what it seems you don't need a data package for this phone. I activated it online and had the option for pay as you go data. You can block text messages from your my verizon account online or by calling customer service. As far as blocking incoming calls I don't believe that is possible but I could be wrong.
Re: Overall Texting
Honestly. I'm having a hard time with this phone. I make many typos. It's just too small. The funny thing is though is that the Samsung Eternity, which looks much like this phone but isn't a smartphone has a better keyboard than what they put on this one. If you have larger fingers I wouldn't recommend this one, it also isn't the most touch responsive phone I've used, sometimes you need to click something ...
Re: Align Screen
It requires a bit a hard press. I would tap it with the stylus pen and leave it there a bit firmly for 3 seconds until the + moves to another spot.
Re: How 'bout this...
I was really looking forward to upgrading to this phone. But after watching the reviews and reading new information I am sorely disappointed. Verizon first lost the Iphone because of their greed and now their greed is costing them from giving their customers an Iphone killer. They told Rim they didn't want Wifi (probably for some reason that could have given customers something for free), they did not include the youtube app that the Vodaphone customers ...
Dumb of At&t to get rid of 200 texts with the plan
For $20 it was a great deal with the old iphone. It was their Sidekick plan. Data and some text. Now you have to pay $30 a month which is the same price that Verizon charges for all their smartphones/blackberries and you don't get any text messages. I think they should have kept it at a great deal and not conform it to what you get with other companies. I understand 3g and the ...
Should have free email option
Verizon should give the option to have email use text messages instead or pay $5 a month. Even Virgin Mobile gives you free email app that only uses text messages. It would be a great option for people that want to use the email app but don't use it that much and want to use a real program instead of text email.
Re: are there compatability issues with 1gb microsd?
Well, I tried out my 1gb card again, it shows the mp3s but I have issues while trying to play them, I have to skip to the next track and go back to the previous to play the song I want. I just put my 256 card back in again, I have an ipod already so it's not a big deal for me. Prehaps it's the brand I am using for my 1gb, Kingston, I don't know.
Re: are there compatability issues with 1gb microsd?
I have read that people have used a 1gb card, but I used one and my mp3s wouldn't show up on the phone, then while trying to record video i would get that camera error you mentioned after 8 seconds of recording. I swapped it out with an old 256mb card and it works flawlessly. There definitely was an issue, and I doubt anymore firmware releases will happen being Verizon discontinued the phone. I had this ...
Re: New Pink phones?
i only know of the blackberry pearl in pink.
Re: Pearl with Google Maps
Verizon blocked it out, there is no way yet to use GPS with anything other than VZ Navigator.
Re: Well...
They just lowered their personal blackberry data/email plan to $29.99 a month. I don't know if that is what you are looking for or if that's a good price compared to the other companies.
Re: Voyager off verizon site
Yes that is what is going on now. I've already written to Verizon complaining about this as suggested by someone I know in the VCC, I suggest if anyone else is annoyed by this to complain as well.
Re: Well...
I know but I figured I would try to reason :) I have been a Verizon Wireless customer since 2003, but honestly I've been annoyed with them lately for reasons that are off-topic.
Re: HOW BAD ARE VERIZON WORKERS?
I agree with you. It was very nice of you to do that.
Re: Well...
If someone is mad, why can't they make a comment about it? The USA makes a big deal about freedom of speech, but I rarely see it available on message boards. Verizon isn't perfect, if they were they would be the only wireless carrier and there wouldn't be many other customers to all the other carriers. The person may be wrong or right and of course go argue about it but they have a right to ...
Re: Hot off the Presses, the Pre-order Solution
Temporarily stop? So if I have a AC2 plan I will be able to preorder before the time is up at some point? Because I'm hearing you can't preorder at all without changing plans.
Are these two problems bugs?
Two problems with the phone I have noticed so far.
1) I have my number always blocked, my phonebook entries all have *82 before their number. When I get a call their phonebook name isn't showing up, only the phone number. It seems that the *82 is causing the phone to think another person who isn't in my phonebook is calling me, I've never had this problem before with a phone, so I'm really hoping a fix will come out ...
Re: CRIPPLED
How come all the razrs for verizon have only 65k? It's becoming an annoying habit. Is this to save battery life because of evdo?
Re: Speaker phone
I haven't seen an LG for Verizon since I've signed up with them years ago that lets you use the speakerphone with the phone closed so I wouldn't count on it :(
Re: FM Radio
Listening to FM Radio is free and Verizon can't charge for it, so why would they keep it in the phone :twisted:
Re: FM Radio
I doubt it, from all the specs I've seen I haven't read anything about Verizon keeping the radio.
Re: Release date?
It's the new type of display themes that the phone can support, macromedia flash made themes, they are somewhat animated, and make the phone look much more different than just changing the color of the bars.
Re: How is the Reception?
Can anyone who lives in the NY area tell me how the reception is? All the samsungs I have bought (different carriers not just t-mobile) have all had horrible reception/zero bars on one of them lol/dropped calls. All other brands have had excellent reception Moto/Nokia/LG etc. I've been told by people on hofo that it just may be Samsungs software with the towers where I live because people from other states have gotten excellent reception from ...
Re: The Specs....to clear up confusion
I'm confused, the article said that the display was a lower resolution to the 8500 so does that mean it's 65k?
Re: Why change V3c Razr interface from Verizon to Alltel?
I've read that doing *228 to update the prl on a verizon v3c with an alltel flash will mess up data settings, will *228 and the activate option mess it up as well? I would like to esn swap between phones once in a while.
Saw ad for Cingular V3i in magazine August Issue :)
I was waiting to get my haircut and picked up the august issue of Glamour magazine and there it was, an ad for the Cingular V3i Razr, so it will definately be soon :)
Re: Finally!
how come the cdma versions of all the razr phones are always 16 bit and the gsm versions are all 18 bit?! this is ridiculous :cry:
Re: WARNING don't buy
Actually I had an lg 6100 and the reception was excellent. I have heard that certain phones work better in different states, for me samsungs are awful where i live but i've read that people from the midwest get great reception with them.
Re: Problem sycn'ing with PC...?
From what I gather you need sp1 installed for syncing to work, I haven't been able to get it to work otherwise with the chocolate or even my mp3 players for the matter.
Re: Is my 8500 broken or is this normal?
That is what I had thought at first, what made me question this was that it only has a gap on the bottom left corner and not any other part of the phone.
Is my 8500 broken or is this normal?
When the phone is closed, on the bottom right side there is a gap between the keypad and top of the phone and i can press them together, however the rest of the phone is tightly together and there is no gap you can press together. Is this normal or is everyone else's phone firmly in place with no gap? I want to make sure my slider is not breaking apart. Thank you.
Re: OK so its Lacking But...
why why oh why is there no memory card and such little internal memory!? :( i was waiting for a phone to come out after the slim samsung that disappointedly didn't have a memory card to have one and now this. The OPP is the same as Verizon's crippled phones, only for the vCard :(
Drivers to complete installation of V190 for P2K software
These are the p2k drivers that let me finish the installation of the v190 and got rid of the annoying ! next to the device in my hardware list. I was then able to use the v190 with the p2k programs and pst. Here is the link for anyone that wants them.
http://www.geocities.com/hofohelper/motodri ve29.zip
Re: MP3 player help!!!
Because of the silly Verizon music service they by default only allow wma files to play on the phone, so Mp3's will not be recognized. To turn on Mp3 abilities you must press menu, 0, 000000, and go to number 11 Music Setting and choose Mp3 Enable.
Handsfree Problems
I have stereo handsfree headphones that I've used with a few different phones to listen to mp3s and talk to people. When I plug it into the 8300 the music sounds all distorted and while on a call the person can't hear me. Does this phone take a special kind of stereo handsfree?
Re: Which bluetooth headset for the 8300? - Dont buy the LG headset !
I hope that this can be fixed with a software update. I can't hear people with my bluetooth headset h500! Their voice cuts in and out and there is static.
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