Hi all,
Just received an email from Sony Mobile that my order of one Z1 Compact and the 1 EUR bluetooth headphone has shipped! Eager to receive it... I just ordered a microSD card from Amazon to put some music and videos on!
It will be my first Android phone (I have one tablet)... any suggestions on what's the first thing I should do? Perhaps some bloatware clean-up, or installing some essential apps... I don't think I will root it or install some custom ROM so early in its "life" eheh...
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After much deliberating and forum reading I finally gave in and purchased one from eBay today. I will need to unlock it when it arrives but I'm not worried about that.
First things I will do is
1) Unlock it
2) Load latest ROM if not already on there
3) Do the big storage update
Any tips / tricks people have learnt that would help me? I also have a BlueTrek G2 bluetooth headset on order.
I have TomTom5 so I will need to order a GPS device. Which ones are you all using / recommend I get?
I'll also need a car kit mount for the phone which also charges it. Again, which do you recommend?
Finally I'll need a 2GB SD card. Again, recommendations on if purchasing a high speed one makes any difference or not?
Many thanks in advance.
hi, i was thinking of doing the same thing, but i have a few questions to ask first before doing so.
1. If i get the mda compact and unlock it and update the rom to say like the i-mate one, will that basically make it an i-mate, without any of the t-mobile stuff?
2. What is a reasonable price for a t-mobile mda compact
3. what would happen about warranty if anything goes wrong with the phone, and your not a t-mobile customer?
thanks in advance
I bought an MDA compact locked to T-Mobile last week on e-bay. Paid £250 and then paid £20 to unlock it.
I have updated the Rom to Imate and can confirm that once it is unlocked it stays unlocked.
Stu
once you updated the rom, does all the t-mobile branding stuff disappear as well?
chenman said:
once you updated the rom, does all the t-mobile branding stuff disappear as well?
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Obviously...
If you use the Imate rom then all the T-Mobile branding is removed.
so what about the warranty on the phone, do you just take it back to t-mobile if there is any problems?
I once had a problem (speaker not working) with my Compact purchased from T-Mobile Germany. I sent it back for repair with an imate ROM without any problems. When it came back, it had the T-Mobile ROM installed though.
kta said:
I once had a problem (speaker not working) with my Compact purchased from T-Mobile Germany. I sent it back for repair with an imate ROM without any problems. When it came back, it had the T-Mobile ROM installed though.
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I´ve bought a UK T-mobile Compact for 250 pounds through modaco.com, sim-unlocked it and made the suckar trick with the logo/brand and NOW I want to change the rom to I-mate or Qtek - but when I do i get an country failure code?
Has anyone the latest I-mate rom???
Hello guys,
my Japanese girlfriend bought a X01HT with the intention to use it abroad (after the unlock patch), but after using the device for some time, she is not very happy with it and gave it over to me (^^)/
Well, as I have no use of it, I would like to know if anybody here is interested in buying it.
We got the device beginning of November, so it does not have the limitations of the after 2nd December devices.
The imei-patcher was applied, so you can use every Sim Card with it.
Also I flashed the Cingular 1.34 English ROM on the device, so everything is in English.
The device looks like new and has no technical problems.
So is anybody interested ?
If so, you can PM me.
Ah, currently I am in Tokyo, so I would prefer someone from here. Of course we can meet and you can have a look on everything before the deal !
Hi everyone.
Im about to take the plunge with my first android based phone. I have just returned the compact 5 / Diamond 2 to tmobile as I wasnt impressed with it. Ive had windows mobile before but just couldnt get on with it on the diamond 2 and the phone did not ring anywhere near loud enough unlike the hero that I have had a play with.
So phoned tmobile today to order the g2 / hero and tmobile tell me there will be a 3rd android phone as in the pulse. Also instead of using my upgrade, I could put my contract sim in the pulse and buy it outright for 174 pound.
Bar a larger screen, hardware looks identical. I am aware the hero is a high end device, but when you look at the specs of the pulse which is supposed to be a low to midrange handset, there only looks to be the camera resolution thats different.
Any news on the tmobile firmware update as yet please as well?
Any satnav software that comes with any recommendations, and hopefully free.
Your thoughts and advice please ???
Cheers
Paul
Get the G2/Hero.
The new firmware should be available for it in a few days. T-Mobile have set themselves a deadline of 28th September to have it avaialble. I know this from official posts on the UK T-Mobile official forum.
Free SatNav? You could try AndNav2 but it's still very much a work in progress. CoPilot Live 8 is reasonably priced and a good product.
Hello everybody,
I'm selling my HTC Wildfire, which I bought from big well known online warehouse, because I really can't stand that I can't root it and I really can't stand gooogle anymore to be honest.
The phone is only about 2 months old, has only a little scratch on the camera which can only be seen when looking closely on it.
The phone is from a French seller, on a big well known online warehouse, it has these Languages:
-German
-English
-French
It runs on Android 2.2.1 with the latest H-BOOT, which is unrootable atm.
Yes, this phone is S-ON, Yes it's unrooted, No, you can't root it without S-OFF'ing it first. Simply don't ask if I can do it, because I can't.
You get all the normal equippment (2GB SD-Card, Earphones (unused), Manuals, Battery, Phone, Backpart of the Phone) which was shipped with it, no extras, the phone itself and of course the bill.
I guess we do the deal over an well known auctionsite so nobody can say that he was scammed.
Price: 200 Euro + Shipping otherwise I'm willing to trade this Phone in for a Sony Ericsson Vivaz, which has no or very less damages on the out/inside, which also works in Germany it should have German language too otherwise I would also accept a Sony Ericsson W995 with the same quality as described above.
contact: via email (htcwildfiresell @ huuushmail.com [DOT] com) (just write it with one u instand of 3)
Yours truly
You would have a better chance of selling it by posting in the Marketplace Forum. Just letting you know.
Hello,
thanks, you are obviously right, haven't seen it
//EDIT: Could a nic emoderator please move it to the marketplace, I would be very grateful!
hey guys i just bought one of these tabs for my daughter and i got here a 32gb sd card to use so she can install some games but i cant install games or move games to the sd card, is there a simple way to fix this?
Simply put, no. I called & spoke to customer service. The claim the feature doesn't work with Android Nougat. I had it one day & returned it to Amazon. All you can put on the SD card is media & some save data for specific apps. I hope everyone that bought these for Christmas will return them to teach them a lesson. They don't want to do the work. but they want us to buy their devices. If I can do it on LG, Motorola, ZTE, Nvidia & Lenovo devices devices running Nougat, Huawei need to get there ish together!