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[Venue Pro General] Poopants:
After NoDo, my 16GB DVP is crashing much more often. Before, I simply turned off WiFi and the crashing went away for the most part, but now I crash seemingly just as often regardless if WiFi is on or not.

I sure hope the firmware update fixes this. I realized I'd be an early adopter but if the battery wasn't removable I'd be totally screwed. I probably take it out 5x/day depending on how often I browse.

I love the form factor. Love WP7. T-Mo is fine too. But hating the Dell software/firmware.
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
Ok....this is probably a stupid question. But I ran into this myself....so I'm going to ask.

Are you sure its a crash? What makes you say its a crash? Are there blue screens, bells, whistles, what?

I'm not asking in any way to imply that the people here are mistaken. I'm an early adopter. My phone shipped before xmas and arrived on Dec 21. Since then I've had 2 replacements, none initiated by me. The first....I dropped that original phone and the gorilla glass went ape on me. The next one had issues. I complained to a buddy of mine who works at MS. The Mobility team 'borrowed' my phone for a month and worked it over. When they were finished, they ordered me a new one to replace that one. That is the phone I have today. it was NOT any special order, it was off the shelf, did not contain new firmware or software.

While they had my phone, they gave me a VP Engineering model, with NO SD card, but did have the new firmware on it. It did not hang or freeze, with out WiFi or with WiFi. So the answer is obvious, its the firmware...right?

Well, I put a 16 g sd card in the device, and the freezes started. Not huge freezes, but some. It only occurred on the 16g card. I could reproduce on demand a freeze or hang when ever a 16 g card was installed. If I swapped that card out and put in ANY other card, I could NOT reproduce a freeze of hang.

When I got my new device, the replacement, the same things happened. So I swapped the card out..and immediately the same stuff happened. This is with the old firmware. I ordered a 32g class 2 card and the problems are almost gone. I have since persuaded my buddy to update my firmware. I'm living high on the hog here, waiting for the 'next' update to Windows Phone and then Mango....and yes, I've had the chance to see Mango in action...and I'm drooling here.

But....

Back to the original quesiton.....crashes. What do you call a crash?

My original unaltered device was full of hangs and freezes, but never crashed. When the device appeared to lock up, I waited a moment, and pressed the power key once, waited a moment and pressed it again. The Hang, freeze or lock, was 'usually' gone. I was told the power button press was a screen reset.

So, what I am asking is...are you positive you're crashing? Could this be a lag or freeze that you have now become sensitized to, and immediately pull the battery instead of just waiting a moment?

Since swapping my card out these hangs and freezes are at a bare minimum...I barely notice them anymore..yes, they are stil there. Since the new firmware, I have almost no issues. My WiFi is always on. My bluetooth is always on. I am on the internet all the time. I have 4 different email accounts running. Maybe its live tiles....I added ONLY Weather channel and Settings to my home page...everthing else is stock...oh wait...I have the gmail tile there too. Could it be the number of tiles you have outside of stock?

Anyway.....crashes.....we should sync of what a crash actually is.
[Venue Pro General] efjay:
@alodar1: I can answer that because I had the exact same thing. Before nodo the only crashes I could regularly replicate were with wifi on. With wifi enabled the phone would crash completely, ie a hard lock where the screen would not respond, start button was also unresponsive and the power button would also not respond to a normal press. Only way out was to either pull the battery or press and hold the power button. Under normal usage and with wifi disabled (internet, email, twitter app, games, etc) the phone was 99% solid, with the occasional black screen when turned on which required a restart with the power button. This was all with the original sd card and also with the 2 replacements I tried.

When nodo was released this was the status with my DVP, Transcend 32GB class 2 card installed with lockups mostly with wifi. On installing nodo crashes during normal use increased greatly. Internet explorer was most noticable, after browsing for a while (sometimes within a minute) the page would become unresponsive eventually leading to a complete lockup where nothing but a battery pull or press & hold of the power button would restore the phone. Sometimes you would be able to get back to the start screen but that would normally be followed by the screen becoming unresponsive as well. This also happened when I was using rowi, listening to music, applications. I would describe it as feeling as if the phone was having difficulty when writing to disk (sd card) similar to when a PC is writing to a disk that has not been defragged in a long time and it seems to stop and hang the whole pc. Here are a few vids I made of my phone when it was frozen. http://www.vimeo.com/user6782057
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
Ok....I see your videos. Thats totally weird. The second symptom....the in action video, shows the symptoms that were supposed to be fixed in the very first update....well...the NODO. yet you still have those. Of course you hard reset...you have a new card...so that cannot be an issue. How about the "Notify me when new networks are found" option? Read about that on Dell.com this morning.

How about live tiles? How many you have running?

Again...I'm not an expert...I just find it interesting that some people, myself included, don't appear to have many problems. Others...like MissionSparta and what you show in your videos....thats utterly unacceptable....

I also find it interesting your comments about writting to disc. I believe, if the memory is not truely being reported....as evidenced with the 225 reading most NON new firmware people in the US are reporting....I wonder if this can be a issue when writing to disc.
[Venue Pro General] efjay:
See my post here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13695110#post13695110. As has been said seemingly countless times, its the way the DVP handles sd cards thats the problem. With the new card my phone is just working, so far no sign of the hard locks or freezes from just a day before with the old card. Pretty sad that Dell has just sat back and left us to spend even more money to fix problems with their device.

On a side note, my live tiles are completely shot, none of them work anymore, trying to enable any new live tile gives me the error that I have reached the limit of 15 live tile apps, when clearly I have not. Yet another problem we may never see an official solution for.
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
curious....and interesting. I've always thought there were apps that had issues and could impact performance of a device. I know with the HD2 and WM6.5 I al ways had problems with some apps...like, APNews....that always impacted the performance of my phone...overall.

with WP7, you may recall, that yahoo mail did something that used up alot of extra bandwidth.

For me, weatherbug never works as a live tile....never works when I want it to. Some live tiles just do not work for me. So, I've taken any app that is supposed to anything remotely in the back ground...and removed it. I only have on my device apps and games I use....If an app looks like its not doing what its supposed to, I remove it. period. I currently have 16 live tiles. 1 is settings, 1 gmail, 1 weather channel, 1 weatherbug. The others are the ones that are stock OS. Came with the setup.

Weather bug is not working as a live tile and will hit hte trash pile shortly. It is working as an app...just not a tile....to me...this is a problem. I do NOT care whose problem it is..MS or WB. Not working...it goes. Of the apps I have installed, a couple ask about working in the background. I have only a couple of these. Messenger by Miowa is one of them. The phone works well with those apps. I pay attention to the apps I load and phone performance. Supposedly the phone should run ok regardless of the app....but heck...its supposed to run find on the stock 16g SD card too...without dust.....I'm following my own advice now....its only a conspiracy if you play along with them. :p
[Venue Pro General] efjay:
Here is an interesing look at live tiles and why they are failing: http://mobilitydigest.com/my-live-tiles-are-dropping-like-flies/. I also uninstalled applications I didnt use and only kept a few with live tiles, definitely less than the 15 limit yet I cant enable any of them. Another thing for Mango to fix.
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
You know....I still think this is speculation. MS came out and said the 15 is a reg setting designed to balance battery life. Of course I cannot confirm that, but it seems a place to start.

The article did mention the push and pull options. Though logically you should consider this in planning with LIve Tiles, I wonder if we do. The XDA app carries a push option to it...so does twitter, facebook and others I believe...Some newsreaders and newsreader types do. I wonder if you counted up all of those...if you'll be over 15.

Still, right now, I can hard reset my device and install weather bug...and it won't work. No other app except for the native apps....no facebook setup...only Windows live id...and the associated email/Contacts/calendar download.

There is definitely something else going on.

When I played with Mango last week, Weatherbug was working...there looked like alot more tiles on the screen....but whether this is a bug fix, or a change in setting or what...I don't know.....
[Venue Pro General] efjay:
Here's some more from the same poster, this probably clears it up a bit: http://mobilitydigest.com/the-live-tile-debacle-and-a-solution-sort-of/

Not sure what the answer is but there's definitely something wrong with how live tiles work at the moment, whether its down to the OS or devs.
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
you're right, no matter what, something is not right. So we either put hope in a firmware update...or root for mango!!
[Venue Pro General] cdgoin:
Was hoping the Dropbox errors would go with 7392 nothing.. videos won't stream off dropbox anymore and I don't want to put them on the phone and take up space from my music.

Seems the color banding issue got worse. Videos (even backgrounds in Zune player) are not the full color they were.. and videos that are being played via http (I.e. dropbox) and not through Zune, tend to no longer work or have heavy color banding. Am I the only one noticing this problem?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] DrCosinus:
Name: Word Prospector

This is a fun word game.

Have fun while improving your vocabulary, and your memory, and find words from a grid of letters while the clock counts down.

You can choose between two dictionaries: English and French

Each one contains thousands of words.

Swipe your finger along letter tiles (horizontally, vertically or in diagonal) then release to valid a word. Each tile should be used only once per word.

For each correct word, you score 1 point per letter in the word, plus 2 extra points if the world is at least 5 letters long, and plus another 2 extra points if the word is at least 7 letters long.

For instance:

"bad" is worth 3 points,

"good" is worth 4 points,

"better" is worth 8 points (6+2),

"perfect" is worth 11 points (7+4).

There are two game modes:

Simple Game: Find as many words as you can in the time runs out!

Full Game: Climb levels by scoring the required limit of points (which increases at each level). Each level is time limited. The grid is reset at the beginning of each level.

Feel free to test it and to give me some feedback.

The application seems to have no icon, because foolishly I did it in white on a transparent background.

I just submitted a new version to fix this issue.

Deep link: social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=86698426-d0f8-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
[About XDA developers] deliriousDroid:
XDA has not been working right for an hour or so. I have trouble logging on, get logged of frequently and get "unknown error..., error code is one" a lot. Just a fyi :) thanks for all your hard work!

Sent from my SilverBullet "HTCDesireZ running CM7"
[About XDA developers] reinbeau:
They were doing some kind of maintenance, at least that was the error message I got here on Firefox. I've noticed there are no error messages on the app other than 'Error', if at all.
[About XDA developers] svetius:
Working on it! Doing the best we can to fix.
[About XDA developers] reinbeau:
I've been getting the 'sorry, we're over capacity' message all day.
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Keep an eye on the xda Twitter page for updates of maintenance and server issues :)
[About XDA developers] deliriousDroid:
Yayy :D it's working fine again. Nd lol, I don't do the twitter thing

Sent from my SilverBullet "HTCDesireZ running CM7"
[About XDA developers] Dirk:
Just for the irony i'm getting 'out of service' on the Twitter link :D
[About XDA developers] homerforpres:
Working fine now.
[About XDA developers] iRiKi:
Not really, the search fuction is working intermitently. Attention this is NOT a complain, I love XDA, it's my fav forum on the interwebs!111oneone :D
[About XDA developers] queencitypete:
Rock on for Twitter, glad the link is back up. Gracias.
[Omnia 7 General] sp1der:
http://www.sysadmin.it/Forum/tabid/57/aft/6120/Default.aspx
[Samsung Mesmerize] MyMesmerize:
Hey was wondering if there is a app that I can use that will let me record all my calls incoming and outgoing. I am need of something asap. I could do this with my old dumbphone so I would hope that I can do it with my mesmerize.
[Samsung Mesmerize] bsbokc:
Ya. Its called call recorder there is a free version and a paid version ($7.95) in the market. But check your laws first because it is illegal to record calls without first telling the other party you are recording the call in many states.
[Samsung Mesmerize] TedMurphy:
Call Trunk has an android app for recording outgoing phone calls. Simple and easy, cloud-based, keeps the call saved and available forever, free for the first 25 minutes. Contact me at ted@calltrunk.com for more information.
[Samsung Mesmerize] add144:
Shameless self promotion. ;)
[EVO 4G General] buck1623:
Figured they would strip my upgrade tomorrow so I went and blew it on a shift since all evos are sold out. Got the instant rebate and it was 150 out of pocket today. Also upgraded my discount from military to boeing since I work for them too... anybody else beat the April 1 rush?
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
Hmm... I don't have my one year yet, so I will be calling tomorrow to see if i can get my upgrade reset.
[EVO 4G General] cordell12:
If you already had a upgrade available they wouldnt have taken it. You already earned it, those who are a month away from earning one would go to 11 months or whatever, depending on when it was available under the old premier plan. Check on it in a few days, you can return that shift within a 30 day period...
[EVO 4G General] frontay:
My $75 upgrade will become active April 1st, I wonder if they are gonna try to take it away, lets see what happens
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
I relented and changed my polan to 99.00 all in one so I can stay gold, ponyboy....
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
Wrong

They told me and many others "Use it or lose it"
[EVO 4G General] sand1303:
I have been told both ways. My line is out of contract so there is no way they can take mine. It's been open since 08. I used my wifes line for my evo. So when evo 3d comes I am going to wait for Christmas and see if I can get it for 99 like I got my evo4g.

Sent from my rooted HTC EVO using the xda app!
[EVO 4G General] pittphan:
U should've gotten. The Arrive! Same phone with a better keyboard and OS... Except no 4g. But a great phone and I wish it were on tmobile.
[EVO 4G General] buck1623:
na pitt, i dont fool wit winmo no mo.... and they bumped my main line upgrade a few days to today so that i wouldnt lose it for another year. thats what would have happened, i would have got knocked to silver status and pushed back that upgrade another year... as for the other lines on the account, time is time and they all have about close to 22 months starting in june, which would warrant the $150 upgrades without worrying about them being stripped...
[EVO 4G General] antjc80:
Just checked and my upgrade is still ok at 12:01 am
[EVO 4G General] r916:
lol'd at better os.
[EVO 4G General] chaoticallysweet:
Lol. We must be thinking same thing. I just checked my upgrade good as of 12:24; but Sprint on central time so I will check again in an hour.

Edit. Checked at 1:04 am 12 central and got a message: can't check upgrade eligibility at this time. Sign. Not good.

Sent from my EVO from a super secret place
[EVO 4G General] Semantics:
My upgrades were rolled back. I had an upgrade that I was holding since 11/1/10 and that line now says I can upgrade it in 153 days on 9/1/11. Awful nice that I've had that upgrade available for four months and they gank it. Oddly enough, another line of mine which wasn't upgrade eligible until 12/1/11 was moved back to 8/1/11 as the 150 dollar upgrade. Sprint is a hot mess.
[EVO 4G General] ffolkes:
I emailed and called, and both reps confirmed those ALREADY eligible for an upgrade wouldn't have it removed. Only those who are x months away will have to wait x more months.

"Your line has had an upgrade available since 10/2010, and you will be able to use that for the EVO 3D when it becomes available in the summer."

I'm sure there will be confusion over this though, but I have it in writing, so I'm happy. And should there be any problems with it for me or anyone else, I'm sure Sprint will restore your one-last-upgrade rather than lose an entire account.

There's a big difference between amending one of their perks to add a longer waiting time, and flat out withholding something they agreed to give you after you satisfied their requirements and have already earned it.
[EVO 4G General] Honder:
My wife's line is eligible for the old Sprint Premier (Now gold premier level, which we are not) tomorrow, go figure. I went into the Sprint store today and had the reps confirm that we would still get the same $150 discount whether we came in tomorrow or even in a few weeks from now. She also said that they are currently doing the no mail in rebates until the 16th, which hopefully sticks as well. Just thought I'd throw what I found out today out there for you guys
[EVO 4G General] Semantics:
Well, I'm telling you now, my line was upgrade eligible on November 1, 2010. I have lost that upgrade, on the Sprint site it says that upgrade is now available on 9/1/11. I have no faith that Sprint will restore that upgrade, I have had far too much experience with CS there to think any differently.
[EVO 4G General] MILH0U5E:
I cancelled my main line today because they wouldn't keep my upgrade despite saying otherwise in January. ( ETF of 60bucks was easy to swallow to show my displeasure).

I had been eligible since October, but it didn't matter. Whenever the Nexus comes out, I may just add a line to get it...

Sprint is retarded but smart at the same time... they know this will piss a lot of people off, but they are so damn cheap its hard to leave their dumbasses.
[EVO 4G General] KB112:
The normal Upgrade Checker on their site was down/inaccesible. But they have a new Beta store thats been up for like a week or two. If you choose upgrade in the beta store you can check your eligibility. It pops up on the screen. Mine still shows I have an upgrade 10/01/2011, which is/was correct under the old Premier rules. I assume if it's changed, my upgrade will display as 08/01/2012. Seeing as how i am now a Silver member....no longer a Gold Member.
[EVO 4G General] Semantics:
The normal checker works perfectly for me. When I log into Sprint.com and my list of 4 devices comes up, the green circle with the (i) in it, tells me my upgrade dates. The phone that had the full 150 upgrade since 11/1/10, now has a 75 dollar upgrade until 9/1/11. Working as intended, I assume.
[EVO 4G General] KB112:
I don't have a green circle with an (i) in it. I have the blue circles with the plus/minus symbol to expand the options under each line. If I hit the upgrade button, it directs me to the new phone/plans page and once in there, I'm sent to the beta store.

Also if I text "upgrade" to 1311, it also shows 10/01/2011. My luck this will all change tomorrow during regular business hours for me.

Edit: I think I know what you're talking about now. When I did have available upgrades on my line I did have a little symbol. None of my lines are eligible at this time. Thats why I don't see that. But the current means of checking my upgrade status all show it's unchanged at this time...for now.
[EVO 4G General] Semantics:
Weird, the green circle with the (i) is on the left side of the My Sprint page, in fact, its right on top of my EVO and my Wifes Pre.
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
Very interesting. Please do let us know if it sticks..

I have nothing in writing but spoke to 3 csr's in retentions in the last couple weeks all of whom confirmed "use it or lose it". I was very specific that the change to two tiers didn't bother me in the least, but they were making a horrible cs decision by making the change retroactive. I told them I had been saving the upgrade I "earned" back in 12/10 specifically for 6/11 and now they're rescinding the offer??? The best I got was an apology and about six identical explanations of the new policy..

SMH
[EVO 4G General] awesomeindeed:
The green circle should only show up if you already have an upgrade available. Since you *had* one available to use, that's probably why you still have the circle on that page. My upgrade was going to be made available on 5/1/11, and I recently changed my plan to make sure I'd stay Gold. Upgrade checker on the website and via text tells me that hasn't changed... so we'll see.
[EVO 4G General] #Winning#:
Mine changed, try to upgrade the line that you want to check as if you were going to be putting a new phone on that line. I talked to a rep on the Sprint website a couple days back, who told me I would be eligible for $150 on May 1 2011 even after the new system came into play. Low and behold, just checked it and that $150 was knocked down to $75. Good thing I have record and documentation of the whole conversation saved in email and printed out. Things are going to get interesting whenever its time to upgrade, I am sure I will have to go through hell, but if its on paper and a rep confirmed it 3 times during the conversation...
[EVO 4G General] KB112:
No symbols for me, but like I said I am not eligible for any upgrades at this time. Maybe because yours was already eligible it's showing. I'd call in and ask it be reset.

That's how i just checked my upgrade status. I selected to Upgrade my phone, then I selected "Shop Now for savings" in the phone section.

At the top it says "You are shopping to upgrade phone number 925-xxx-xxxx " Next to it in bold blue it says Upgrade Savings.

I click it and the pop up shows i am eligible on 10/01/2011, which is correct since I last upgraded (EVO) Oct 2010.

My plan is the $129 base family plan and I am Silver now. But as I said, I won't be surprised to see this change in the next day.
[EVO 4G General] Semantics:
Yeah, I'll give it a try. I spoke to several CS Reps and retention reps who all told me the same thing, use it or lose it. My ETF is about to be 50 bucks on my main line and just a bit under 200 for all of my lines. I wanted an EVO 3D, but I might just bite the bullet and go elsewhere on principal for a couple of years.
[Omnia 7 General] wwfc:
Worked! I'll be honest I'm surprised it worked but it did. Haven't had a chance to check all the Nodo features but I know WiFi is alot quicker to connect