[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] mackaby007:
I am totally sick of this crap. Microsoft should stick to PC's and stay out of pocket pc's as they can't develop one O/S that is stable.

Just when I thought I had a stable ROM, the thing displays all sorts of unwanted effects including:

1. Occasional Hard resetting of PPC (but not actually formatting the device; no...it installs duplicate programs and settings instead!!)

2. Soft Keys have a mind of their own (sometimes they appear as I defined their use, other times they appear according to its own desires!)

3. On occasion wifi doesn't work, but mostly it works perfectly.

4. Sometimes messaging application does not initiate (neither through soft keys activation or direct access through Programs)

I have a list that I cannot be bothered to type out, suffice to say I have a degree in Computing & Information systems (no big deal I know!) and over ten years experience in building, maintaining and upgrading PC's not to mention several years experience of owning Palm o/s, Symbian o/s and Win CE pocket pc's.

My opinion is valid!! I don't care what anyone else says to the contrary. Windows mobile 5 and it's predecessors are a load of crap and are robbing us of our hard earned cash!! And I've spent a fortune on them all!!

I am by no means an expert, but I am no fool and more than capable of learning, hence I've tried to no avail with these devices.

Just when you think your device is running near perfect (within reason), new issues pop up!

NEWBIES...PAY ATTENTION!!!

Get out of this while you can and stop throwing away money and your most precious commodity....your TIME!!!

My last o/s phone (smartphone) was a SonyEriccson P910i. That was quite good with minimal crashes or lock-ups. I moved back to Windows based mobile phones because of more CPU power and compatibility.

MAIN GRIPES:

I miss calls....due to maintenance (upgrading ROM or soft resets or hard resets or lock-ups)

I miss text and MMS messages.....due to maintenance

I miss appointments due non-induced hard resets (only twice mind you)

I miss knowing that I can be reached or can make a call at any given moment!!

I'm not one of those people who needs a phone predominantly and a PDA secondly. I just need reliability.

I've swapped..yes swapped my Jasjar for the MDA Vario for the same reasons that I'm complaining about WM5 & HTC. The Wizard is just as unstable!!

Don't misunderstand me...when these devices are working, they are wonderful and I would prefer no other phone/PPC in the world, but reliability is of paramount importance, surely!!

Well...I'm done with this 'got to be a developer to use my phone' syndrome. I'm going back to SonyE. or someone else who know how to make devices with at least 90% reliability!! I wasn't expecting perfection from Man, merely my moneys worth!!

This is the bottom line:

I want a convergence device that I spend more time deriving its benefits than I do researching how to improve its instability and unreliability!!

And before anyone says it:

HTC are full of it just like Microsoft, as they were undoubtedly aware of this WM5 bug-ridden o/s before desinging hardware for it!

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Update: 27/2/06:

See my most recent posts. I was wrong and apologise for misleading you guys without having properly identified the cause of my device problems (very dangerous I know). The problem was definately buggy ROMs and this has now been fully rectified via Qteks 1.6.7.1 ROM.