User: wirehead
These are the most recent forum messages posted by wirehead:
Re: Class Action
So I got off the phone with the law firm that wnrussell posted about and they are seriously looking in to this. I figure that, as wnrussell's occasional arch-nemesis, I'd be the best person to confirm things. ;) I chatted with Laura DiGirolamo about the phone, the various issues we've encountered, and such and tried to help They believe that there is enough to make a case on based on existing laws. She has ...
Re: Yes, please stop
Rich Brome said:
So please stay on-topic, and only post if you actually have something to say and a reason for saying it. The number of pages is irrelevant - no one really cares.
(And if you do care, isn't it kind of a false number if it's just posting for the sake of posting? I would think X many threads would be a much more impressive number if it were that many real threads, which you just have to let ...
Re: Recall over?
There's no firmware update yet. The only thing that will be fixed is the tilt and maybe the bumpers that cause the screen to get scratched.
Re: No difference in picture quality between low, medium, high. Only in size difference?
hypnotizd said:
npitlor said:
litobirdy said:
I just took a pic of something with medium and high resolution.. and both pics are EXACT quality.. Only difference is when i see them on my computer then obviously there is a size difference..But on the phone i see NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL. this is stupid...
If you shrink the "larger" one down to the same size as the "smaller" one, then the previously "larger" one will have more detail... a "tighter" density of pixels making ...
Re: Video Format
riles said:
I was just wondering if anybody knows what kind of files this phone's video's are? I wanted to know if you can view the video's on your computer off of your TF card.
They are "almost" MPEG-4 "3g2" format. Quicktime can play them, so it's not entirely bad. But it's only Quicktime 6.5 and you can only really rely on having Quicktime somewhere in the range of 3-4 on your average person's computer.
Still, ticks me off. ...
Re: Lewisville, Texas Verizon Wireless Store???
wnrussell said:
The guys in Texas are probably in trouble now, just for being helpful to customers.
See, I know that the guys in Texas were trying to be helpful....
But if I caught the people who support the software I write at the Day Job letting out testing and other random internal releases of our software to all comers, I'd be campaigning to have them fired.
If it, as has been rumored, fries a percentage of the phones it is tried on, ...
Re: Should I switch while i still have time.
Peggytas said:
Here is my situation. I have until December 30 to get out of my contract with Verizon, my Motorola v710 or both. I have been reading the forum listings as I bought the Motorola mobile phone tools thinking I could transfer my pictures to my laptop. It appears that I cannot and that the reason is that I have service with Verizon. Is this true? Here are the pluses. I use my ...
Re: Whats a better phone for uscc the koi or v710
nousske said:
So the transflash card, isnt there something i can buy at readioshack where i can print out pics with it. or cant i take my transflash card to walmart
just wondering
Most of the T-Flash cards are coming with a SD card adapter sleeve. So you put the T-Flash card into the sleeve and then are able to use it just like a SD card, print pictures in walmart, etc.
The picture quality isn't exceedingly good. I've got a ...
Re: interseting yet odd
xXx69 said:
As many of you might already know in the VZW website...when the zipcode of 99999 was typed into the box it said shopping in null, which gave you access to the VZW page of every phone they had. Including discontinued phones and future released phones. For example with the LG 7000 the phone was in the zip code 99999, 2 weeks before its release, along with many other phones that have appeared there before release date. Now when ...
Re: Recall of v710(for those who have done it)
AnxiousOne said:
I just came back from VZW and they took my phone. However, I have to go back in an hour to pick it up. Did any of you go through this, and if so, why?
I'm a tad bit confused as to why it takes so long to give me a new phone in place of my defective one. :(
One of two things:
1) The people who are allowed to do such things were busy
2) They were being nice ...
Re: I can't wait any longer
RAP said:
I’ve been waiting for this phone for a long time. Once it finally made it to the stores, I was about to run down to get one until I started to read about all the complaints users had.
I waited through the recalls but after reading the reviews it looks like Verizon has a dog on their hands and I’m not ready to pay $250 to $300 for that.
My old StarTac has about had it, I can’t wait too ...
Re: Superdave 1.02 ... Still no iSync?
yukong said:
well, and not to be dumb about it...but what is the necessity of OBEX? If I can transfer the data from my phone to my computers via BT with MPT, what is the point? I know it would be nice...but is it a must? I'm not being a wiseacre, I guess I need to be educated.
If my sister-in-law wants to beam me contacts while I'm visiting her, I need OBEX. If want to transfer ...
Re: Superdave 1.02 ... Still no iSync?
yukong said:
Well, hope so, but from what I found the other night on Motorola's web site, it wasn't designed for OBEX. So if not designed for OBEX, will a hack enable OBEX?
*sigh*
You can't "design" for OBEX.
Make no bones about it, OBEX was intentionally left out, one way or another. Remember, the v600's software works astonishingly similar to the v710's, and the v600 is capable of OBEX.
It is "technically feasable" to enable OBEX on the v710. However, ...
Re: New Phone
Do not, under any account, drain your batteries completely. Except sometimes people say that you are supposed to do that to a new battery. But others say that's a load of crap and you shouldn't. I think that it may be advice left over from NiCad and NiMH batteries. I generally don't, but I could be wrong.
Do, however, make sure that you top your battery off before you start using the phone. Nobody disagrees ...
Re: BMW and VZN V710
hvaleagues said:
I have an '02 BMW and a verizon v710, here is my experience. The problem lies in the verizon software version for the v710. They have intentionally disabled many of the bluetooth features in order to generate additional revenues by forcing you to use their networks for uploading/downloading stuff. There are 9 total profiles for bluetooth and the verizon v710 only has 3 of these installed, thereby limited use.
Almost right. There's more ...
Re: Bluetooth IS NOT NECESSARILY fully functional on USCC!!!
yukong said:
Well, believe it or not, but the Bluetooth is fully functional on the USCC v710. I have successfully transferred audio mp3 files to my v710 via bluetooth. I have transferred photos also. All via the Mobile Phone tools program. It is pretty sweet. I have also initiated phone calls via my computer over bluetooth. Haven't got it to work as a Modem yet, but that is because I just haven't gotten around ...
Re: Verizon does NOT support file xfer via tf card
dsnelson said:
I agree. Got my new 710 yesterday, tf card is on its way. When it gets here, I'll report back. If it doesn't work, it's going back.
What version is the firmware? If it's 8700_01.30.8f, you are using what all of us are using. If it isn't, we expect a full report. ;)
dsnelson said:
On another note, I notice the USB cable occupies the slot for the power supply as well, but it doesn't seem ...
Re: Verizon does NOT support file xfer via tf card
dsnelson said:
I contacted Verizon about rumors that they have broken the tf card as well as the bluetooth. Here is there response in its entirety:
Note that they do not officially support file transfers, but they may work! Cripes!
--Dave
*sigh*
That *is* going to piss me off.
I want to be able to have my own ringtones. Not clips of commercial songs, but *my* ringtones. I don't *want* the Lord of the Rings theme as a ringtone. It's ...
Re: So what about Altell
That's the Alltel Flex, not firmware.
The firmware contains the most of the code behind the v710's operation. The Flex is there to put "Verizon" on the phone in as many places as possible, sometimes restrict which WAP and SMIL hosts you can use, turn on and off features that Verizon doesn't support and/or want you to use, etc.
OBEX doesn't seem to be in the firmware in the version we all are using, so there's not much you can ...
It's not just Verizon...
Now, somebody may end up correcting me (And, personally, I'm hoping that they do), but it's looking like Sprint's CDMA bluetooth phone *also* doesn't have OBEX, OPP, FTP, or whatever the heck the Bluetooth Camera profile is called.
So, no, it's not just Verizon who's playing dirty with Bluetooth...
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475)
dsnelson said:
My grousing hasn't been nearly so specific. The whole concept of OBEX is new to me. I'm grousing about plunking down a whole fistful of dollars and getting a phone that doesn't do what I was led to believe it would be able to do. I've heard they plan to block the ability to transfer stuff via the tf card as well -- dunno how true that is.
*sigh*
My phone hasn't even arrived yet... I'm thinking ...
Re: PHONE ISSUES
alexz99 said:
Yea, but how about having the best both worlds. Can't they manufacture/adapt those cool phones to work on CDMA as well as GSM? Why isn't there a RAZR for VZW? I understand your message and mostly agree with it, however, my former TMO Nokia 3650 was a very cool phone.
Two reasons:
1) There's *no* common ground between GSM and CDMA. You have to redesign huge chunks of the phone to make it work on the CDMA network. ...
Re: New to the V710...could use some help
lckmylaic0 said:
I dont have a flash card or a card reader... what do they do, where can I pick one up, and how much are they? EBAY or verizon store ??
I haven't picked one up yet. She Who Must Be Obeyed And Who Tracks Spending (otherwise known as the wife) has informed me that I've spent quite enough money on toys this month. :D.
Currently, the t-flash cards are all shipping with an SD adapter. ...
Re: Bluetooth Security Question
ibeetle said:
wirehead I have read most of your post on a variety of subjects over the last few days.
I really do not know why you post here. Everybody but you is wrong. Nobody here knows what they are talking about.
I wouldn't say that.
I'd mostly say that there's a small group of folks who spout off before they have completed thinking. I generally don't bother correcting somebody who's actually *right*, now do I?
I will say that I do ...
Re: Bluetooth Security Question
ibeetle said:
at 20mph?? I would have to see it.
I have seen demonstrations by people who know a lot a lot about this stuff and even they said you can't get a signal much over 5 or 10 miles an hour.
Try 120 knots.
http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/3 q02/warflying-1.html
Re: Bluetooth Security Question
ibeetle said:
Verizon is the only company that charges what other companies do for free. Nokia even encourages 3rd party development of software by using the symbian operating system. Symbian is kind of the Linux of cell phone operating systems.
Verizon is probably using a version of Pocket PC which is a Microsoft product. After paying all that money for licensing to MS they need to recoup there cost. So they find ways to bill there customers.
It is being reported ...
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475)
dsnelson said:
Wirehead, I thought OBEX would let you get/put pictures/sounds/whatever to/from the phone. If not, what the heck good is it?? Just for syncing the phonebook? I can do that with my old phone, without bluetooth!
--Dave
Hee hee hee..
You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? ;)
OBEX will let you exchange the objects that the phone is set up to let you exchange. Yeah, on a fully unrestricted device, sure OBEX will let you exchange *anything*. ...
Wirehead's Security Lesson.....
Okay, so we'll start with a definition of terms:
IrDA = Wireless cable replacement over infrared. Very focused and directional
802.11b / 802.11g / WiFi = 2.4 GHz wireless "Ethernet" networking
802.11a = 5.4/5.8 GHz wireless "Ethernet" networking
Bluetooth = 2.4 GHz wireless cable replacement, and the intellectual successor to IrDA
Cantenna = One of the many easy-to-make-at-home high-gain (meaning you have a focused signal beam with long range, like a spotlight vs. a light bulb) antennas. Pringles cans are usually used.
Now, ...
Re: Verizon's position on broken V710 Bluetooth
spiff said:
I understand your theory here but let me ask you this -- Don't you need to accept an invitation for bluetooth to work??
See, that's the thing.
Some of the Bluetooth phones have a variety of bugs in their implementations that are discoverable all of the time, either by intent or because of some sort of accidental bug.
Or, alternatively, let users make their phone always discoverable. Because history bears me out when I say that most people forget ...
Re: Verizon's position on broken V710 Bluetooth
dsnelson said:
Yeah, the fact that you have to be so close to establish Bluetooth contact makes infection seem highly unlikely, plus most folks (myself included) would likely leave it off until needed, since it's a battery drain.
Actually.....
If you want to just Bluejack somebody, you just make a pringles-can 2.4 GHz antenna.
And if you were spreading viruses, just think about a downtown city street. You'd get close to quite a lot of people.
Then picture each and every one of ...
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475)
wnrussell said:
The Bluetooth standard on the Bluetooth SIG website lists provisions that are not mandatory but recommended as good practice.
So can we agree that the V710 "should" have OBEX, according to the Standard?
Ahh, no, we're on the level of brass tacks here.
The Bluetooth SIG's phone implementation group says that the v710 "Should" have OBEX. The standard says nothing about OBEX. Therefore, it's OK for Verizon and Motorola to advertize the v710 as having Bluetooth.
This is ...
Re: Verizon's position on broken V710 Bluetooth
dsnelson said:
Second, I totally do not believe that horse-doodoo about viruses via Bluetooth. You can reprogram these phones via RF... they're not afraid of that, though.
Dude, I'm the dude who's most likely to defend Verizon and *I* think that's, for the most part, a load of crap.
Here's the thing.... All of the Bluetooth exploits are, for the most part, brought about by poor implementation. So it would make good business sense, especially because the Bluejacking story ...
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475)
wnrussell said:
wirehead said:
I'd invite you, as well as most of the others, to give me a reference to the real Bluetooth standard on the Bluetooth SIG website that says that they must implement OBEX.
A standard is "something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example." What would you call the Mobile Phone Implementation Guide on the Bluetooth SIG website now?
I said Standard. An Implementation Guide is carefully constructed to not be part of ...
Re: Finally, a written response from Verizon
ibeetle said:
Nah. I am sure they mean that they will give up a 20 million dollar a year business. Shut down Get it Now. And finally allow there customers do use there bluetooth phones completely for data transfer for free. You know like every other wireless carrier allows with there bluetooth phones.
Would you want to be the guy who has to tell that to the big boss?
I sure as hell wouldn't. ;)
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475)
wnrussell said:
Here it is. Go to this page and you will see the real Bluetooth standard on the Bluetooth SIG website.
https://www.bluetooth.org/docman2/V iewCategory.php?group_id=173&category_id=1334
The recommendations are:
2.1.1 Bluetooth Audio (HFP, HSC)
2.1.2 Dial-up (DUN)
2.1.3 Synchronization (OBEX) Object Exchange
2.1.4 Object Push Profile (OPP) Object Push Profile
2.1.5 File Transfer (FTP to make files on the phone available to other devices and OPP in order to send files to other devices.
2.1.6 Imaging (BIP) Basic imaging profile to receive images from ...
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475) Verizon rep. question.
wnrussell said:
wirehead said:
It's public knowlege that OBEX doesn't work on the v710 and you can't synch to it. And sure, there'll be a lot of Bluetooth functionality in other devices. That is beside the point.
No, Wirehead, you just exactly made my point.
*Sigh*
So, what is your point, exactly, then? If Verizon isn't breaking any laws, why are you telling everybody to fill out Form 475 and ranting about it all?
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475) Verizon rep. question.
wnrussell said:
What "proof" do you need that VZW crippled the Bluetooth? Do you need proof that Verizon has not publicly announced whether this Bluetooth connectivity issue will be resolved?
Nope.
What I want to know is what law has been broken, how Verizon fits into a definiton of Monopoly other than "I hate them therefore they are a monopoly", and I want to know how the v710 does not adhere to the Bluetooth standard. I want to know what ...
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475)
macaddict315 said:
he said off the record that Verizon wanted to see how customers react by making the phone not FULLY Bluetooth and see how many people complained, for the fact that they wanted them to use the Get it Now feature and make $$$... HOW SICK IS THAT...but they had MOTO make the patch incase of public outcry. Verizon's excuse would be Security Rick involved, but so far he said close to 100,000 customers have had some ...
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475)
Visioneer said:
Russell -- to further support your train of thought -- we've already got number portability across the board, from wired through wireless. That wouldn't have happened if it weren't for customer demand. People were moving from land line to wireless, and the companies go where the money is at. They've got lawyers on staff who get paid no matter what happens -- so they don't care about law suits.
Ironically enough, Verizon was the company most in favor of ...
Re: FCC Consumer Complaint Form - (Form 475) Verizon rep. question.
American User said:
Do Verizon rep's get paid to defend their employeer on this web site?
If not, why are you wasting your time?
I've submitted my complaint as well.
Enough of us will make a difference!
I'm not a Verizon rep.
Of course, you are entitled to believe whatever you want to. This is the Internet, where everybody's 18, female, and sexy. So if it makes you happy, you can think of me as a Verizon rep who doesn't happen to get ...
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