[HTC Excalibur] l0lcats:
Sticky this. Add it to your favorites. I know a lot that is said here will hit home with a lot of you. You may be thinking it but today I am saying it.

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T-Mobile Dash (HTC S620):

The JOGGR bar flips out at random and scrolls uncontrollably. This carries on until the phone is locked and then unlocked. This is present even when the JOGGR is set to adjust the volume (and this has been present since WinMo 6, maybe even 5).

The ear piece tends to cake up with dust.

The radio/phone never seems loud enough.

The phone can be very slow.

The phone can, and has, shut off while sending an MMS message or using Wifi.

Windows Mobile 6.5:

I dislike that the SMS bubble pops up while you're composing a message.

I really dislike that hitting the Dismiss option does nothing.

I hate that I have to click View to get rid of the text bubble.

I am actually quite livid that I have to then open my Drafts folder to continue the message that the text bubble interrupted.

It makes me laugh just to have another text bubble come up while I am trying to finish the text in the Draft folder only to have to repeat the entire process and hope not to get interrupted again.

I don't like that sometimes the SMS history messes up and when I do "view" the message I have to scroll down and select "Newer" until I get to the message (and then quite possibly another text will come in prompting the bubble).

Often times the ROM is slow loading the proper keyboard configuration so when starting a new text or replying to one rather than getting the letter "S" one will get the number "4," etc. This doesn't happen if one lets the phone sit a moment and fully load the text message however. Shouldn't happen at all really.

The need to use Task Manager or Celetask to end an application. When I hit the "End Call" button that is IT for that application until I open it again. I don't get why Microsoft does not understand this. It's PHONE, NOT a COMPUTER (so-to-speak (I want it to be more like a phone than a computer since there are no "exits" or "close buttons" on the apps)). A good example would be Internet Explorer (I use Skyfire but this is just an example). The only way to close IE on this or any version of WinMo is to use Task Manager or CeleTask! Come on!

I have flashed my phone with this ROM just as any of you would have. I think that some problems stem from how the ROM was cooked. Especially when it comes to the text bubbles. I have looked in Automatic Keylock and another place on the phone I cannot recall at this time and have done what I thought would disable the bubbles but to no avail.

If someone could chime out here and just tell me how to turn those blasted things off I'd be so happy. There are a lot of things I like about the phone but the things that are wrong with it are just so deeply rooted into it's very foundation, it's very being that to make it right Windows would have to be completely redone and the phone itself would need it to.

I know the HTC S620 is old now. I don't plan on going to the 3G Dash. I believe I will be moving on to another phone but I have no money to do that right now and I needed this off of my chest.

Please, post your grievances with the phone and the OS. I cannot be alone here! :D