Samsung BlackJack SGH-i607

Hi Experts,
For the life of me, I cannot get a good connection to my blackjack from my laptop or my desktop at home using activesync.

I know that my wires, phone connection is fine because I can use my mom's laptop and synchronize using activesync.

I've been reading the manual, samsung's website, cingular website to find out more information on disenabling the firewall so that I get a connection. Nothing works. I've even turned off all norton virus programs and turned off the window firewall to see if I get a connection through activesync with no success.

Do you guys know of something that I can try other than disenabling my firewalls.

Thanks,
Dae

Does anyone who currently owns the bj, know if you can use the songs that you download from your personal CD collection as ringtones or can you only use the ones you create on the phone or the ones purchased from cingular?

How to avoid it? Email app wants WAP in Settings/Connections/GPRS/MediaNet/ConnectsTo while Google Maps and many sites want Internet setting. As a result I constantly have to go back and forth switching between two values. Is there way to avoid this annoyance?

It keeps saying memory full when I try to save a file from online...How do I choose to save it to the storage card, rather than the phone ?

Maybe this isn't a Blackjack specific question, maybe more to do with Windows Mobile 5 for smartphone...

But is it possible to get push email from Hotmail or Yahoo? I know it supports push email from an Exchange server.


thnx!

I was by a Cingular store today and
saw the new Blackjack

Looks pretty nice but can't decide if I should wait for the new Treos coming out or go with this one. (truthfully)

Had Treos with VZW before and they were all troublesome one way or the other

Tried the E62 when it first came out, looked nice but kind of slow moving along the internet, so I trturned it in 3 days and went back to using my Razr (but that's another story)

This alarm clock pisses me off. It doesn't let me choose between AM and PM ?! I don't get it !! It just gives a choice of a time...not AM or PM, and it has failed me twice already. Please helpppp. Also, there is no way to keep the phone ringer on vibrate and make the alarm sound ?

I've just had my phone for a couple of days, and I got how to put ringtones on the BJ, but when I want to set one of the ringtones to one of my friends, it doesn't list it. What am I doing wrong?

I recently picked up a Samsung Blackjack, but was also looking at the Pearl (and really intrigued about the 8800 showing up in a week or two at cingular stores)...

Question is - is the 3G of the Blackjack a better advantage to have right now? Besides the push email, which the Blackberries do very well (although I think there's similar push email capability, maybe not as slick or fast, on windows mobile 5.0) and they currently are EDGE only not 3G. Not sure if future Blackberries will converge to 3G, and/or Wi-Fi.

Another advantages I might want to consider the Pearl or 8800 over the Blackjack, which I have time to decide during my 30 day trial period?

And apparently there might be a GSM Q coming with both 3G and Wi-Fi? Any news on t...
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This is a wish list idea but I'd like to know if anyone has seen a converter plug to change the Samsung USB plug into a standard mini USB plug. Probably no such item but it would be handy.

I finally moved form VZW to Cingular and got Blackjack. Overall I'm quite happy with both coverage and device though after being a PalmOS guy (latest Treo 650) for 8 years WinMo seems bizarre. I still much prefer simplicity and elegance of POS.

Anyway, few basic questions:

1. When calling oversees how do I set up a particular country number to be prefixed with calling card number and code?

2. How do I enter pauses in numbers?

3. Blackjack seems to be lacking an automatic keyguard, e.g. if won't lock keys after some non-usage preset time (you have to remember to press red button for 2 sec). The wake-up sequence is also needlessly complicated - press left soft key, then press the "*" key. Is there an app that introduces auto keygu...
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alright so I just got my black jack and i am trying to run my sync with outlook express. The damn thing keeps telling me that I have a problem and the code is 85010014. So i call cingular and they tell me that I have to call microsoft because they are idiots (basically). So i call microsoft and they tell me that I need to pay them $60 buck because it is a cingular item. I did a little research and nothing that microsoft says to do works. Anyone had this problem and does anyone know how to fix it?

thanks guys!

I'm considering the BJ but it looks like so far in my research that with smartphones you don't get the touchscreen and without that you can't select text in whatever application. Does anyone know if this is true or can you select text? Thanks

I know, its a dumb question but for some reason when I try to download the BJ software to my computer it wont work. It tells me that I do not have a email account. What the crap!!! 😳 Somebody help me pleeeaaassee!!! Also is the xm radio worth it?

OK I'm in the market for a new phone, I want to know if anyone actually had the media max 1000 or 3000 plan 29.99 and 39.99. I would like to get the phone with one of these plans so it will include unlimited Internet and text messages. Is it possible?

Before buying BJ I want to be clear about

few things...

I am wondering following applications and

websites are working fine w/ BJ.


- Skype (Can you make a phone call? I read

one review that you can't. Also phone will

lock up when you try, so you have to remove

a battery for reset.)

- MS Foreign language pack.

It seems MSN messenger and hotmail work fine.

But as MS insists( 😛 ) if I download

language expansion package for pda, can I

see and type properly like in desktop?

(I need spanish/japanese/korean language packs)

- Yahoo webmail.


Generally, I heard that you can't see many

web page now days because more and more

web pages are designed based on broadband

connection. But what's you...
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Hi,
I'm sorry, but this would be my first smartphone and need to know something. I have a Treo 650 and I hate that I can't snooze an appointment, reminder or alarm for a specified amount of time like you can do in Outlook. In other words, when I get a reminder for a task or appt., I want to be able to snooze it for 2 hours or 2 days. Can anyone please tell me if you can do this on the blackjack? Thanks for any info!

how do you activate these on your blackjack?
thank you