Just had a text from Orange to say that my Hero is out for delivery today.
Will post a short unboxing video to YouTube, and then a more in depth look later.
My channel is at: http://www.youtube.com/fatfurrycat
If anyone has any questions, I'll do my best to answer them once it's in my hands.
Bagpuss.
So is mine
Ya Buggers!!!
i got my tracking number this morning
not sure if i get it today or tomorrow
I was told I'm getting mine tomorrow and I haven't had a tracking number yet so I think you're in luck. Can't you check your tracking number online, should tell if it's out for delivery today?
Received mine about 11.30Hrs
For those that are expecting the Heros then you should get a text later(if not already) but normally in the evening to state that it has been dispatched. The text contains a tracing number which can be check via http://www.dpd.co.uk/index.htm. You should also get a text from a mobile number in the morning stating its out for delivery.
Any first impressions, how's the UI speed?
Have Orange customised the software at all?
Still waiting for mine, but should be here today.
Will post my initial impressions once it's in my hands.
@R3PUBL1K - What's taking you so long to give us your opinion
I'm jealous, I don't even have a release date in Sweden
Not had time to play until now
Well I must the phone is sweet. The finish is nice and looks more chocolate brown than graphite and has a soft touch to the back casing. The screen is bright and colourful and the OS seems to be a welcome edition. I can see no heavy Orange customisation apart from one of the startup logos and the orange world bookmarks.
The setup was intuitive, whereas the handset took you through using the keyboard and GMail, Exchange (no task sync) and POP3 mail setup as well as some socail networking sites like twitter and facebook.
It'll take a while getting use to but I'll post more later.
Does it have a Teflon coating on the outside? I had a play with the dummy one in the Orange store and it felt like it did?
Yes - This is why I mentioned the soft touch
I will see if the Egg I fry on it later sticks.
I thought it was only the white sim-free hero that had the teflon coating? Played with a dummy orange model a couple of weeks back and that definitely wasn't teflon coated.
R3PUBL1K said:
Yes - This is why I mentioned the soft touch
I will see if the Egg I fry on it later sticks.
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Does the UI slow when updating the widgets as in the reviews? also could you post the firmware version if it is in the menus somewhere.
UI seems fine so far, but still customising it. The firmware is 1.5, software version 1.0.0.A6288
Appologies for bombarding you with questions but did it come with a MicroSD card in the box?
Mine just arrived, so will be making a video very shortly.
Bagpuss.
R3PUBL1K said:
Not had time to play until now
Well I must the phone is sweet. The finish is nice and looks more chocolate brown than graphite and has a soft touch to the back casing. The screen is bright and colourful and the OS seems to be a welcome edition. I can see no heavy Orange customisation apart from one of the startup logos and the orange world bookmarks.
The setup was intuitive, whereas the handset took you through using the keyboard and GMail, Exchange (no task sync) and POP3 mail setup as well as some socail networking sites like twitter and facebook.
It'll take a while getting use to but I'll post more later.
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Hi there. Any Sync software in the box and does it look like it syncs with Outlook as well as Exchange? Does the Pop3 mail setup allow 'push'?
Thank you!
sjbale said:
Appologies for bombarding you with questions but did it come with a MicroSD card in the box?
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The 2GB card is already in the phone
Bagpuss said:
Mine just arrived, so will be making a video very shortly.
Nice - will view that later - I would of done but you already mentioned that you would.
Bagpuss.
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bigbamboo5 said:
Hi there. Any Sync software in the box and does it look like it syncs with Outlook as well as Exchange? Does the Pop3 mail setup allow 'push'?
Thank you!
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No software in the box at all - need to install HTC Sync to see first - will do later as I am off home now. POP3 will not push mail but you can poll (check at intervals).
R3PUBL1K said:
The 2GB card is already in the phone
No software in the box at all - need to install HTC Sync to see first - will do later as I am off home now. POP3 will not push mail but you can poll (check at intervals).
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Can I please ask what is the shortest polling period? 5 mins?
Related
Every now and then when I send a sms from my Vario II it includes parts of my hotmail emails, when I look at the sent message there is nothing there only the sms I sent but friends are telling me and confirming my emails..!
The last time this happens it included my usser name and password from another forum.
There are no stored emails on my phone so it must be getting them from the Hotmail server some how, I do use MSN messenger on the handset I notice when it connects it downloads the hotmail emails but I delete them from the handset.
Has anyone else had this problem?
To me it sounds like some software problem and not a faulty handset but what do you guys think?
Thanks, Chris
I've had this problem once but it was on a Vario. Part of an email I'd sent got delivered to my girlfriend along with a text. Its likely that its a software problem. I dont know of any fixes
Strange you should mention that - one of my messages the other day went with a part of a Web page from eBay and I would speculate that there was some kind of buffer/cache overlap.
anyone else got any sugestions?
deadmetal said:
I've had this problem once but it was on a Vario. Part of an email I'd sent got delivered to my girlfriend along with a text. Its likely that its a software problem. I dont know of any fixes
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Lucky you were looking at Ebay at the time and not www.dodgy-rude-stuff.com !
same here
Got the exact same problem! My girlfriend got an sms from me with an email after the message. I use the emoze program to pushmail from my companys computer.
This is very wierd...
same here
Got the exact same problem! My girlfriend got an sms from me with an email after the message. I use the emoze program to pushmail from my companys computer.
This is very wierd...
Some times I got spaces inside the sms. can this be the same problem?
timbouk said:
Lucky you were looking at Ebay at the time and not www.dodgy-rude-stuff.com !
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How very very dare you, I own dodgy rude stuff.com and it's all in the best possible taste. I have sent a couple of boys, with the concrete boot mix, down to Bradford for a wee chat!!
Mike
mikechannon said:
How very very dare you, I own dodgy rude stuff.com and it's all in the best possible taste. I have sent a couple of boys, with the concrete boot mix, down to Bradford for a wee chat!!
Mike
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lol!
ill buy you a pint
timbouk said:
lol!
ill buy you a pint
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Ah well that's different all is forgiven, the Scots are always open to bribery of the liquid variety.
Mike
Okay, my first thoughts on the Hero.
Good
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Hardware is lovely. The unit feels just right in the hand, and graphite colour is great.
Screen is very sharp and has excellent colour.
Sense UI is a huge improvement over stock Android is virtually every way.
HTC E-Mail client is great compared to standard cupcake version.
Browser is very fast, and text wrapping is very effective.
Phone is now unlocked and running on Vodafone (thanks to the folks at unlock-now.com). It detects this, and offers to update all my settings accordingly. Nice.
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HTC Smart Dialer doesn't correctly display contacts that only have a company name in them. The numbers show up but with 'unknown' next to them. They display properly in the 'People' application, so it's definitely a HTC bug (I seem to remember the same problem with early versions of this dialer on WM).
GMail client won't let me set a 'reply-to' field. I use GMail for all my e-mail, but use a forwarding service (pobox.com) so want to set my reply to field accordingly. I can get the functionality by using the HTC e-mail client, but then I lose HTML mail capability.
GMail and HTC Mail don't integrate in the mail widget. You can only see accounts configured using HTC Mail.
Flash in browser is very hit and miss. Some simply stuff works, but not much.
Standard calendar application is rubbish. The iPhone is way better here. I guess I'll be looking for a third party alternative.
I'll post more as I discover it.
Bagpuss.
Cool, thanks for the quick update.
When you say the standard calendar is rubbish, can you elaberate more on this? I use the calendar quite a bit and was hoping there would be a widget to show tasks/appointments on my home screen.
Any chance of a video going round the calendar or a good detailed explanation of it?
Sorry to ask again, but the reviews say that the phone WILL sync directly with Outlook (not just exchange) and I have ordered one on that understanding. Could you confirm this for me, please? Ta...
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Sorry to ask again, but the reviews say that the phone WILL sync directly with Outlook (not just exchange) and I have ordered one on that understanding. Could you confirm this for me, please? Ta...
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Sorry, don't know about this as I don't use Windows or Outlook.
From what I understand, you can sync with Outlook, but you need to use the HTC Sync software. The only problem is that HTC haven't yet made the Hero version available for download. If you go to their support site, they don't have a section for the Hero yet. I'm guessing this will change once the phone is officially released SIM free.
Bagpuss.
nicelad_uk said:
Cool, thanks for the quick update.
When you say the standard calendar is rubbish, can you elaberate more on this? I use the calendar quite a bit and was hoping there would be a widget to show tasks/appointments on my home screen.
Any chance of a video going round the calendar or a good detailed explanation of it?
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The main problem is that you can't get a month view, and be able to move across days to see what they actually contain. On my E71, you see the month calendar on the left, and a small pane on the right which changes to show the events for each day. On the iPhone, you get something similar, but see the details at the bottom of the screen. On the Hero, you get a full screen month display, but have to click on individual days to see the detail. Not a big thing for some, but it's a change to what I like.
You can go to what they call 'Agenda' view which gives you a long list of all upcoming appointments, but you can't get a week view. There is a day view, however.
There is a calendar widget, and it does show today and tomorrow details, but it's very small.
Hope that helps,
Bagpuss.
"Phone is now unlocked and running on Vodafone (thanks to the folks at unlock-now.com). It detects this, and offers to update all my settings accordingly. Nice."
Hi I´m newby spanish user.
I just bougth an HTC Hero with orange and I will like to use the phone with movistart => I need to free the phone. Is it the same as unlock the phone? Is a good method unlock using emai? Did you do it at "http://hero.unlock-now.com/sim-unlock-HTC-Hero/"?
A lot of thanks, sorry for my bad english.
Best regards,
zeed82
Any Speed Issues noticed? Can You give us a brief Comparison to fE iphone 3G, 3GS or maybe TouchHD/Blackstone?
Thanks for the quick little review!
Just a quick couple of questions:
- Im not believing the battery life some have stated as the phone seems to be fully working round the clock
- Can the handset be rotated the other landscape way? So that the trackball is on the left side?
zeed82 said:
"Phone is now unlocked and running on Vodafone (thanks to the folks at unlock-now.com). It detects this, and offers to update all my settings accordingly. Nice."
Hi I´m newby spanish user.
I just bougth an HTC Hero with orange and I will like to use the phone with movistart => I need to free the phone. Is it the same as unlock the phone? Is a good method unlock using emai? Did you do it at "http://hero.unlock-now.com/sim-unlock-HTC-Hero/"?
A lot of thanks, sorry for my bad english.
Best regards,
zeed82
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That's exactly were I got it unlocked. They were incredibly fast. I had my unlock code within about 10 minutes of ordering.
Simply insert your foreign SIM, it will prompt you for the unlock code. Enter the code from unlock-now.com, and it all works.
Bagpuss.
sphinxy said:
Thanks for the quick little review!
Just a quick couple of questions:
- Im not believing the battery life some have stated as the phone seems to be fully working round the clock
- Can the handset be rotated the other landscape way? So that the trackball is on the left side?
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Not sure on the battery life at the moment, as I've not had it long enough to tell.
Sadly, you can't rotate it so the trackball is on the left. It's only a software thing, though, so HTC might implement it in future.
Bagpuss.
Hi Bagpuss,
I have a question. I have two different gmail addresses that I normally use. Is it possible to have the two accounts setup in the phone? Basically I want to know how it handles two e-mail accounts and two google calendar accounts.
Thanks mate.
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Sorry to ask again, but the reviews say that the phone WILL sync directly with Outlook (not just exchange) and I have ordered one on that understanding. Could you confirm this for me, please? Ta...
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yes the sync software for the orange phone is on the micro sd card provided you plug it in go to mass storage mode and then run the .exe I have syncned all my contacts and calendar , unfortunatly you cannot sync any other outlook items this way currently
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GMail client won't let me set a 'reply-to' field.
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you set up the reply to address on the Gmail website.
It's in Settings > accounts, and it sends as whatever you have the default email address set to in the 'send mail as' section.
stilghar said:
Is it possible to have the two accounts setup in the phone?
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No, you can not be signed in to two Gmail accounts at once. you can set up a second Gmail account in the mail application to access your mail from the second account, but i don't know any way to access calendars from a second account unless you can share calendars between accounts. maybe that will work?
How is the screen outdoors?
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No, you can not be signed in to two Gmail accounts at once. you can set up a second Gmail account in the mail application to access your mail from the second account, but i don't know any way to access calendars from a second account unless you can share calendars between accounts. maybe that will work?
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Thanks, I think that will do. I can sign in with one of the Gmail accounts and set the other one in the mail application. Regarding the calendars I just noticed that all my google calendars are only in one of the accounts. So I will sign in on the phone with that one and use the other only in the mail application.
The only problem will be moving all my contacts from one account to the other...
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Any Speed Issues noticed? Can You give us a brief Comparison to fE iphone 3G, 3GS or maybe TouchHD/Blackstone?
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Just got mine as well,
I noticed that there was considerable amount of lag for the first hour of using it, but now all the lag is gone and its working amazingly well.
HTC have taken a lot of the ideas from this site and implemented it in the sense ui, Customising the phone is fun and really easy, the only thing I'm unhappy with is being unable to get my Hotmail, and I don't really want it forwarded to my gmail.
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the only thing I'm unhappy with is being unable to get my Hotmail, and I don't really want it forwarded to my gmail.
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Correct me if wrong, but you can always create a new dummy gmail account, forward your mail to that, and set in the gmail website that your 'identity mail address' (from address AND reply-to) is your hotmail address.
that way other people will not notice you use gmail to retrieve it (unless they look in the headers). Thing is you can't manage your hotmail account that way (delete / move / mark as read your mail)
dipje said:
Correct me if wrong, but you can always create a new dummy gmail account, forward your mail to that, and set in the gmail website that your 'identity mail address' (from address AND reply-to) is your hotmail address.
that way other people will not notice you use gmail to retrieve it (unless they look in the headers). Thing is you can't manage your hotmail account that way (delete / move / mark as read your mail)
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Funnily I got hotmail working through the standard email app, it doesn't push the email but you can set the frequency at which it syncs, so it's good enough.
Also while using the hero i'v noticed that some times the phone doesn't respond after unlocking and it takes a couple of seconds to respond to your touch.
got mine this morning
only just got home to play with it.....
must say it really "feels"like a nice phone....time to play now
hi all to the lucky owners
reading mobile-review and engadget review they say about slowness and sluggyness and lag and devilsh ****ness
is it becouse they have some prototipe sample or do you confirm all this lag and slowness ?
thanks guys
Hello all, I'm new to the board and had a couple questions I can't seem to find (I've spent time searching)
First off, let me say this. DO NOT TRUST THE RUBBER CASE that came with the TMO US HD2. I dropped mine from prob 2.5 feet up and it hit the corner with a very light thud. I thought the case protected it from the fall. It did, really well actually, but it didn't totally break the fall. The case failed and when you look inside the case there's noticeable damage. The inside of the case looks worse than the outside and now I have a nice ding on my phone. I thought the case totally protected the device but I was wrong It could've been much worse so I'll stop whining LOL.
Now to my questions. Who's using GMAIL via activesync to push their mail? It appears to be working, but it didn't copy any of the email from my labels. Is it supposed to? Or does it only track the changes I make to them AFTER the sync? When I had gmail synced using IMAP it never updated the contents of my folder labels. There's some things in those folders I'd love to have access to (since there's no GMAIL app for winmo).
Also, I use the included gchat app. Which is ok, but I don't get notifications of new messages. I have to check it periodically just to see if someone has IM'd me. Is this normal?
Thanks to anyone who can help, great forum!
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Hello all, I'm new to the board and had a couple questions I can't seem to find (I've spent time searching)
First off, let me say this. DO NOT TRUST THE RUBBER CASE that came with the TMO US HD2. I dropped mine from prob 2.5 feet up and it hit the corner with a very light thud. I thought the case protected it from the fall. It did, really well actually, but it didn't totally break the fall. The case failed and when you look inside the case there's noticeable damage. The inside of the case looks worse than the outside and now I have a nice ding on my phone. I thought the case totally protected the device but I was wrong It could've been much worse so I'll stop whining LOL.
Now to my questions. Who's using GMAIL via activesync to push their mail? It appears to be working, but it didn't copy any of the email from my labels. Is it supposed to? Or does it only track the changes I make to them AFTER the sync? When I had gmail synced using IMAP it never updated the contents of my folder labels. There's some things in those folders I'd love to have access to (since there's no GMAIL app for winmo).
Also, I use the included gchat app. Which is ok, but I don't get notifications of new messages. I have to check it periodically just to see if someone has IM'd me. Is this normal?
Thanks to anyone who can help, great forum!
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Bumping this thread so you can get help on GMAIL because I'm clueless on that subject.
rickyoon.vegas said:
Bumping this thread so you can get help on GMAIL because I'm clueless on that subject.
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Thanks, one more bump for help....
Seriously? no one?
Pretty easy to set up actually.
Here are the instructions as provided by Google from there website.
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
For you user name just make sure to put your full Gmail E-maill address.
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Pretty easy to set up actually.
Here are the instructions as provided by Google from there website.
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
For you user name just make sure to put your full Gmail E-maill address.
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Thanks for your response! But I already had it set up. The push mail seems to be working just fine. It even shows me my labels but nothing is in them. I wouldn't complain if there was a gmail app that i could use when I needed to see my labels...but noooooooooooooooo. Google and Microsoft have beef and we're getting shafted because of it
igotdatglow said:
Hello all, I'm new to the board and had a couple questions I can't seem to find (I've spent time searching)
First off, let me say this. DO NOT TRUST THE RUBBER CASE that came with the TMO US HD2. I dropped mine from prob 2.5 feet up and it hit the corner with a very light thud. I thought the case protected it from the fall. It did, really well actually, but it didn't totally break the fall. The case failed and when you look inside the case there's noticeable damage. The inside of the case looks worse than the outside and now I have a nice ding on my phone. I thought the case totally protected the device but I was wrong It could've been much worse so I'll stop whining LOL.
Now to my questions. Who's using GMAIL via activesync to push their mail? It appears to be working, but it didn't copy any of the email from my labels. Is it supposed to? Or does it only track the changes I make to them AFTER the sync? When I had gmail synced using IMAP it never updated the contents of my folder labels. There's some things in those folders I'd love to have access to (since there's no GMAIL app for winmo).
Also, I use the included gchat app. Which is ok, but I don't get notifications of new messages. I have to check it periodically just to see if someone has IM'd me. Is this normal?
Thanks to anyone who can help, great forum!
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GMAIL: once you've set up active sync, go to outlook's settings there's an option there that says if you want to view mails from up to 1 week ago, 1 month and so on, these are the messages it will try to sync to ur phone. Go there and select the settings that you want. then go back and view ur folders...
GTalk App: it does give u notifications, go to ur settings and check e-mail and chat, if that's not enough, go to gtalk's settings and also check play a sound on a new message.
If you want it to sync your contacts and calendar and emails. Use the google Microsoft Exchange settings for active sync.
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GMAIL: once you've set up active sync, go to outlook's settings there's an option there that says if you want to view mails from up to 1 week ago, 1 month and so on, these are the messages it will try to sync to ur phone. Go there and select the settings that you want. then go back and view ur folders...
GTalk App: it does give u notifications, go to ur settings and check e-mail and chat, if that's not enough, go to gtalk's settings and also check play a sound on a new message.
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Thanks!!
And for everyone offering help, i appreciate it! But I am using activesync, maybe this thing with the old email will work. I tried finding settings for sounds in gtalk and couldn't...maybe I just need to hunt some more..installed palringo, seems ok so far...will have to play with it some more...but sound really wont help me if i'm not by my phone...would be nice to have a notification at the top of the screen
One note though, I get new mail into one of my gmail labels every hour and it NEVER shows. Does anyone else have their yahoo or hotmail coming to your gmail? Will the phone pull your emails from their respective labels? I always go the mail from this label on my blackerry...I"m sure its just me not setting it up correctly..at least i hope
Hey guys. Did an extensive search and Im 99.9% sure this hasnt been covered here before. The only solution was on cnet and it doesnt seem to be working.
Anyhow, is there a way to get push email for Hotmail on the HD2?
Windows Live Messenger application will give you push email.
Watch out for the Sync Contacts check box when you set it up, it will merge your email address contacts with your phone contacts and cause a right mess. you have been warned!
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Windows Live Messenger application will give you push email.
Watch out for the Sync Contacts check box when you set it up, it will merge your email address contacts with your phone contacts and cause a right mess. you have been warned!
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Thanks for the response man.
So stupid question, but do I need to keep WLM running all the time to for push email?
Frizzel said:
Thanks for the response man.
So stupid question, but do I need to keep WLM running all the time to for push email?
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No, it works without WLM running in the background.
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No, it works without WLM running in the background.
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So I signed into WLM, left it running and sent an email, but I didnt recieve any notifications. I had to hit the send/recieve option to retrieve the email.
Im starting to regret getting this phone. So many issues, and its just the first day.
You have to go the sync schedule and choose for items to come as they arrive. you can set what you want it to do in peak and off peak times, and then define what you want as peak and off peak if i recall correctly
mate, its "not so many issues"...its just the first day. When i got my first WM and fisrt smart phone aswell, which was the touch HD, i wasnt too impressed until i started flashing roms, and learnt how the device works. give it time, its honestly far more interesting than most phones, WM phones are the first phones where i havent lost interest in a phone after owning it for a while (as happens with all devices! and im somewhat of a tech geek )
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You have to go the sync schedule and choose for items to come as they arrive. you can set what you want it to do in peak and off peak times, and then define what you want as peak and off peak if i recall correctly
mate, its "not so many issues"...its just the first day. When i got my first WM and fisrt smart phone aswell, which was the touch HD, i wasnt too impressed until i started flashing roms, and learnt how the device works. give it time, its honestly far more interesting than most phones, WM phones are the first phones where i havent lost interest in a phone after owning it for a while (as happens with all devices! and im somewhat of a tech geek )
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Nice one mate. Ill have a look into it.
Yeah, I guess my sentiments are a little premature. Just need to adjust after owning BB's for the last 8 years.
Thanks for the advice, and Ill let you know how I get on.
that is no 'true' push mail and setting it to as items arive will couse a lot of battery drain its just that the free hotmail accounts don't support that feature.
What is push email then? i always assumed its when items arrive as they come :\
I forward my hotmail along with all my accounts to my gmail. This way I get true push email, contacts and calendar.
again, what IS "true" push email! please someone enlighten me...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1215501
Get to it if you haven't heard already. Quick, download the file and instructions just in case mods take it down!
Happy MANGO!
It beats 7712
So you have followed those steps and have it running on your DVP?
I'm running RTM on my DVP.
i'm coming from a unlocked (from dell.. t-mobile version), 212 (came on the phone), 7712 (beta 2), dev unlocked phone.
It took only a few min.
I don't see anything different from beta 2 other than it doesn't say not for resale when it boots. Did i miss anything?
Zurvv said:
I'm running RTM on my DVP.
i'm coming from a unlocked (from dell.. t-mobile version), 212 (came on the phone), 7712 (beta 2), dev unlocked phone.
It took only a few min.
I don't see anything different from beta 2 other than it doesn't say not for resale when it boots. Did i miss anything?
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hard reset
there is a help guide and a few other speed enhancements
some refining as well
Anyone else seeing banding? It is really clear on the splash screen for the xda app. Boo.. It would suck if it was reintroduced.
Sent from my Venue Pro using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
If you update to the new 7720 it will allow you to update you .212 even if you lost your back up!
Zurvv said:
Anyone else seeing banding? It is really clear on the splash screen for the xda app. Boo.. It would suck if it was reintroduced.
Sent from my Venue Pro using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
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apps have to update to remove banding
no banding in the os like in nodo
ah, that is good to know. I was trying to hunt for something that looked bad on IE.. but couldn't find it.. it was just the XDA app.
HD html 5 video in IE was looking sweet
Zurvv said:
ah, that is good to know. I was trying to hunt for something that looked bad on IE.. but couldn't find it.. it was just the XDA app.
HD html 5 video in IE was looking sweet
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xaps need an update all around
games especially to bump up the 30 fps -> 60 fps
also to add the background agents too
New DVP user here. I bought one of the unlocked units two weeks ago, and it arrived this week while I was out of town at a work conference.
I've run all the updates to get to Mango 7712, and while setting up the phone at home I realized I can't use hidden SSID wireless networks despite the beta Mango build.
Anyone with 7720 gone into wifi and seen if you can enter wifi networks manually? I'm downloading 7720 now, and just need to download Zune 4.8 and install that at home. If that is in there, this is a no-brainer...
None Issue on 7712 supposedly fixed with RTM.
So I went ahead and updated, and I must say it's not all roses.
1) Hidden Wifi still doesn't work. Doing all my downloading with my NON-unlimited AT&T data plan.
2) Yahoo Mail doesn't seem to be supported. Yahoo isn't an option like Facebook, Hotmail, Google, etc... and even using advanced options, it seems to be pointing me to Exchange e-mail, not POP3 or IMAP like Yahoo Mail.
3) The mp3 ringtone functionality I was expecting from Mango isn't here either. Or at least I can't just hold on a song and set it as I'd expect to.
Other than the Windows Live integration, which isn't why I bought this phone, I'm not finding a ton to like. Sorry to report I'm disappointed so far.
merkman said:
So I went ahead and updated, and I must say it's not all roses.
1) Hidden Wifi still doesn't work. Doing all my downloading with my NON-unlimited AT&T data plan.
2) Yahoo Mail doesn't seem to be supported. Yahoo isn't an option like Facebook, Hotmail, Google, etc... and even using advanced options, it seems to be pointing me to Exchange e-mail, not POP3 or IMAP like Yahoo Mail.
3) The mp3 ringtone functionality I was expecting from Mango isn't here either. Or at least I can't just hold on a song and set it as I'd expect to.
Other than the Windows Live integration, which isn't why I bought this phone, I'm not finding a ton to like. Sorry to report I'm disappointed so far.
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That's because you need to get yahoo plus in order for you to get your email on your phone, and also to get the ringtones working you have to label a 30 sec clip as "ringtone" on zune first
I picked up an unlocked phone from Dell a few weeks back.
After some mis-steps I was able to upgrade.
First, the process does not like if your zune software is not in the default location.
I had to run the flash tool install, uninstall and then run it again.
Once I got past that it seemed to pretty smooth (but long) sailing. At times it appeared nothing was happening and being patient helped.
The instructions work. Follow them. At your own risk of course.
duncan440 said:
That's because you need to get yahoo plus in order for you to get your email on your phone, and also to get the ringtones working you have to label a 30 sec clip as "ringtone" on zune first
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I have Yahoo Plus and that has nothing to do with it. After upgrading to 7720, there is literally no option for Yahoo on my Dell Venue Pro.
As for labeling the clip, I wouldn't know where to put it, let alone the proper labelling format. And haven't heard about this anywhere else.
right click on the WMA or MP3 under GENRE put ringtone.
Go to zune and search for your ringtones by sorting music by GENRE
drag and drop into the phone.. viola.
Problem lies in they can only be 40 sec long you can not just make a song a ringtone. But you can create custom ones.. with Cool Record Edit Pro
merkman said:
So I went ahead and updated, and I must say it's not all roses.
1) Hidden Wifi still doesn't work. Doing all my downloading with my NON-unlimited AT&T data plan.
2) Yahoo Mail doesn't seem to be supported. Yahoo isn't an option like Facebook, Hotmail, Google, etc... and even using advanced options, it seems to be pointing me to Exchange e-mail, not POP3 or IMAP like Yahoo Mail.
3) The mp3 ringtone functionality I was expecting from Mango isn't here either. Or at least I can't just hold on a song and set it as I'd expect to.
Other than the Windows Live integration, which isn't why I bought this phone, I'm not finding a ton to like. Sorry to report I'm disappointed so far.
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1) that's not OS based. It is OEM firmware based
2. I have yahoo mail
3. 40 seconds for song
may want to hard reset. After every major os update, I hard reset and start fresh
Thank you sir! That worked GREAT!!! I SO appreciate your help!!!
I'd already converted one of my favorite songs to a 31 second ringtone. So I used Nero wave editor to save it as a 64-bit wma file, and it worked just like you said!!!
Also of note, when I unhid my b/g wireless network this morning rather than have to swap my sim back into the phone when I don't intend to start carrying it yet... I found Yahoo Mail under the list of available services to add.
I added both my Yahoo e-mail accounts, the one I pay an annual fee for, as well as the one I do not... and both are working great!!!
I need more time with the phone, to see all the cool toys and tricks, but I'm not nearly as frustraded this morning as I was yesterday. Thanks XDA!!!
Hey guys, have a german non brandet non locked Venue pro, (from MediaMarkt)
On stock Nodo.
Got a little pain that the battary life with musikplayback is soo short..
At 6am disconnect from charger, 7am start to listen musik, ~2Pm battary low..
My question: Does the update change the battary life?
(Please sorry for my english..)