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[Off-topic] makbil:
The worst phone I ever used would have to be the Sony Ericsson P990i.

I still keep it though, reminds me not to take things for granted and do a thorough research before investing in something :)

Following the groundbreaking P800, which I used, I was more than happy with the P900i that I bought, it was leading edge technology at the time and served me well for over two years.

Naturally when the P990i was announced, it could only have been better than the already excellent P900 and I got it. What a mistake! (BTW, the downfall of Sony Ericsson started with the P990)

Out of the box, it just didn't work! Frequent restarts while answering calls or doing anything else - with the message Restarting to improve performance. After several software updates, it became barely usable but because of the memory limitation of 64 MB, it just couldn't perform as it was meant to. The sad part is, if it only had 128 MB RAM, it would have been an excellent device at the end. The Symbian/UIQ3 combination is just unparalleled in handwriting recognition, has multi tasking and is probably the best OS suited for mobile use.

Rant over :) It remains my most loved and hated device.
[Off-topic] poetryrocksalot:
The worst smart phone I have ever used was probably the Nokia N85. It's optical button works like an ipod controller, except the sensitivity is disgustingly terrible.

The speakers broke, so it only had 1 mono speaker, and the sound quality sucks.

The worst phone I have ever used was probably an ordinary land line phone.
[Off-topic] Darkzy55:
lol

worst phone i ever used was probally the p990i like another user said ... it was just ... awkward to use and just plain weird ?? lol
[Off-topic] julian2596:
the iphone is cool i dont know whats wrong with u
[Off-topic] Purple Drama Llama:
Question for all you Nokia P990i users.... why did you buy it? This goes for everyone else. I mean, I haven't been using smartphones as long as those dinosaurs lol but i was just curious.
[Off-topic] makbil:
Never heard of that model, where can I see it ? :)
[Off-topic] kdskamal:
MWG Atom Life - poor built quality, low RAM and unstable OS build (at that time)
[Off-topic] felixdd:
Mitac Mio 8390. WM Smartphone. Horrible battery life. Horrible reception. Horrible voice quality. Horrible speed. Horrible stability (froze all the time)

but it was later beat by...

Toshiba G810. As listed above, and worse. It was so slow it took 5-10 seconds to register button presses sometimes. So a call will come in and it won't register the "answer" button press until after the call has dropped. Battery lasts only a day or so.

POS.
[Off-topic] mrono:
Don't remember the model, known simply as the brick phone

On the other hand, the best phone i've ever had, besides my vogue, was the Kyocera Koi....damn i miss that phone
[Off-topic] xManMythLegend:
You have any idea how retarded I looked holding that thing during phone calls ??

There was no default SMS app...I had to guess who a message was from because there was no number ...just the text.

I kid you not this phone cost me easy sex with a really hot girl. Not only did she look at me with mass confusion as I was in the middle of a call when we met ((blind date))....but after a non eventful date and 4 days of no communication; I suddenly got a txt asking me to go over and hang out. I automatically assumed it was from a buddy who'd asked me earlier to swing by and help hook up his xbox. So my sarcastic response of "***** didnt I already answer you" was sent to her instead =-(

About 2 week later my buddy called and said "dude...why the hell did you get nasty with "name" ...she was into you." ...I threw my phone towards the couch..the stupid hinge shattered on impact and I went out and bout a Moto Q.

That phone didnt get me any girls but it survived every couch toss and concrete drop imagineable.
[Off-topic] alexisprz:
As like other users before me, the worst phone I have used would have to be the sony ericsson p990.

It was a very expensive phone, the xperia of its time but was a scam of a phone.Out of the box it had only 16mb of ram available! The housing was cheap plastic which is saad for a flag ship model.

The screen was difficult to use because it was recedded screen instead of being flush with the housing and the whole ui was plain and sometimes confusing with having to go through multiple folders to reach a single setting.

It was an actual brick in your pocket.

I still feel ripped off and have it hoping too get my money back some day.
[Off-topic] imperiallight:
HTC Diamond.

I got it when it first came out and the battery wouldn't last 2 hours of 3g web use. I bought a massive battery and back cover before realizing that was defeating the purpose of this crappy phone. I heard it got better but I wasn't waiting around. The software keyboard was a joke.
[Off-topic] imperiallight:
On a side note the SE P990i that everyone is lambasting was the first phone I desired (for functionality) and started me on my crazy phone obsession! My friend showed me all the cool things he could do on it at the time including MSN Messenger! I never actually owned it though.
[Off-topic] imperiallight:
lol, that phone looks really neat to me what was it called?
[Off-topic] makbil:
That's a common feeling among all P990 owners :)

As for getting your money back, maybe in 50 years when it becomes an antique. Nowadays people would even pay you to get it off their hands and I noticed that SE has taken it off the list of phones (even the old ones) in many of their sites. SE doesn't even want to hear its name. That was the device which effectively made me decide not to use any SE phone, ever.

That phone is an epic example of how a company can screw up a good product and destroy itself. The P990 had such a good legacy with the previous P800/P900/P910, all milestones in technological breakthroughs and state of the art at their time, it really takes great talent to scrap that in one move.
[Off-topic] alexisprz:
@makbil

That's pretty much everything in a nut shell.After buying the p1,I felt it was just what the p990 was just updated and in a new housing.That's why I switched to htc and having looked back since. Though I did stay away from the xperia, mainly because of experience from SE and turned out a good choice.:D
[Off-topic] xManMythLegend:
Treo 300. Ill be happy to fling the damn thing to your house.

(as with all my others I still have it lying around).

Did I mention the space age 2 hour battery life ?
[Off-topic] poetryrocksalot:
When it comes to Sony Ericsson and Toshiba, they have no idea how to make a Windows Mobile / Android phone. Seriously.....it's either bad hardware or terrible software and software support.
[Off-topic] SMS92:
Damn, that Sony P990 has taken the lead by miles! I can't say I ever really experienced another Sony/Ericsson phone first hand after that A1018S, sister's had the "walkman" series for a while before moving to Samsung and then to an iPhone.

^LOL, good story there!

My first 'Internet' phone was this little beauty: http://www.dgttv.net/site_images/mitsubishi-trium-geo-2.jpg

Found it in my attic the other day believe it or not. Doesn't hold charge which is a shame! I remember Genie offering 90 days of WAP access for free or something. Felt quite powerful at the time!

The phone's I used for the longest were my Nokia 3210 and Samsung A800. My 3210 kept getting resurrected over the years and was in use 'til as late as 2008 when I needed a spare phone. It developed a line on the display though and I bodged the repair, losing some pieces, so the shell remains in my attic once more.

The most infuriating phone I've ever had would probably be my (or my many) HTC Hermes' aka Orange SPV M3100 which I had over the last year and a half or so. Thanks to XDA I knew this phone inside out as it developed problem after problem after problem. I'd keep buying broken phones on ebay and using them for parts, I could dissemble the damn thing with my eyes shut at the end. It was futile up until the beginning of this year though, as finally it gave up the ghost and I was out of parts. That's when I knew a HD2 was in order. Don't regret the Hermes one bit though as it was a great device for learning plenty about both the hardware and software sides of these glorious things!
[Off-topic] SMS92:
^Talking of MWg, they disappeared all together this year. Their devices were known to be beyond all realms of buggy and the eXpansys forums (their UK seller) were full of people demanding fixes. I actually have a 501 and 503g sitting here which I guess I should put on ebay sooner rather than later! I managed to get hold of an MWg employee some months ago who gave me the software to fix the god forsaken IMEI mismatch issue that plagued the 501, so if anyone has one of those devices (unlikely!), I might be able to help you out!

I liked the 501 but it was so friggin slow it was unreal. The 503g was a step backwards in just about every department, even looks! The one I have is running an old radio and get this - you need a separate cable to flash with a new radio. Do I have this damn cable? Of course not, so I'm screwed as the things are nowhere to be found! Great product in theory, but they should have just released the damn thing to xda-developers and let this site develop for them as they were USELESS at creating a working WM ROM.

Parts for MWg phones are virtually impossible to get hold of unless you fancy giving eXpansys about £100 for a battery cover.

Ubiquio 501 and 503g:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/08/ubiquio_501.jpg

https://www.samstores.com/_images/products/htc.jpg

Awful.
[Off-topic] imperiallight:
Nokia 3210, what a classic phone! I also liked the SPV C500.
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Going to have to be my upgrade to the Sony Ericsson T68i from the Ericsson T68 OH my was this phone just shocking, 11 refurbs in 9 months i went through maybe o2 just got annoyed with me and kept giving me the same phone back i never no lol, but this phone never worked for me turned itself off constantly, deleted my contacts and texts. :mad:
[Off-topic] fiktion:
My first phone, a Samsung a670. We actually had to have the internet to use text messaging through Sprint's ShortMail. It took SO long to send a text on that thing.

Samsung Glyde, a phone I used while my HTC Vogue was on the fritz, it was my brother's old phone. I told him not to buy it as I had heard horrible things about it, but he didn't listen. The touch screen was the biggest piece of garbage I have ever had the opportunity of using. You'd touch one thing, and something else across the screen would open!
[Off-topic] Flippy125:
iPhone 3GS
[Off-topic] orb3000:
+1.............

:D
[Off-topic] jriv:
for me by far was the the blackberry curve 8320 the damn wheel would always pop off went through 5 phones in a year and the damn insurance was a $100 deductible everytime
[Off-topic] sheennick123456:
for me it has to be the nokia n gage

my first phone

you look like an idiot holding it sideways while talking

nevertheless it had some awesome games and was a great smartphone otherwise
[Off-topic] M_T_M:
AHHH! The Primeco phones!!

For my it was these two beauties From Primeco USA. You had to pray before you could even make a phone call that wuold last for more tha a minute before droped call :mad:
[Off-topic] Kev007:
considering that it's dimensions are 77 x 43 x 17 mm, the Panasonic GD55 is hands down the worst phone ever. not only can you press the buttons 1 to 9 with one finger, they also got stuck. it was impossible to type a text message without loosing functionality in at least one button.
[Off-topic] michyprima:
Well. The worst? iPhone! (lol)

anyway...

In the middle we have nokia 3650

this fuc**** stupid damn keyboard is so unuseful for writing that drives some one crazy. LOL

Which I liked instead...

typing SMSs were nicely fast on it!

And a phone like this would never dead lol

And my HD2. I love it. The best phone I ever used.

Oh. Forgot. I don't like my raphael too. It is slow. The battery life is bad. The keyb gets unusable and you will need to press more on buttons.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] StokoE:
Hi All,

I have seen it on here before but I cannot for the life of me find it again :(

I have put my sim in a new phone RAF300 Vario IV and my contacts are not working 100% when i get a sms.. Sometimes peoples names display and most of the time they are just showing +44******** etc.

Can you point me in the right direction please.

Thanks in advance
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] StokoE:
Surely someone knows about this.. Saves me saving 2 types of contacts in the phone +44 and 079 etc etc..
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] StokoE:
xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-513160.hta

After a couple of days searching i found the fix here :)
[HD2 General] jeeeeeeright:
Just recieved my new HD2 a few days ago.

Almost immideatly I realized that I've been tricked into buying a useless piece of plastic!!!

NO JAWBREAKER GAME!!!!

This is nothing short of a disaster. I've been a jawbreaker addict since I bought my first wimo phone 6 years ago (hp ipaq hw6115).

Is there a place I can download the original jawbreaker game (googling this only gave em a bunch of unattractive clones)?
[HD2 General] prezza66:
It should be there. On my HD2 there was no Jawbreaker in the games option but i found it hiding in Windows through file explorer. Note that the name has changed to bubble breaker.
[HD2 General] guardm:
Good find. I was kind of unpleased with it not being there too, but it was definitely NOT going to make me not want this device.

Now how can I put it where it should be---------> in the games category? This is the US release, if it matters.
[HD2 General] jessepatty:
Go into the Windows directory and touch and hold the bubble breaker icon

when the option window opens click "Copy".... go find the games folder and touch and hold anywhere in the folder and click "Paste shortcut" when the options list opens.

Now you have a shortcut to the game in your games folder.....
[HD2 General] guardm:
Thanks. Worked for me. Note that the Games folder does not jump out at you;

once the bubble breaker short cut is located (under Windows waaaaaay down the list)

1: Tap and hold

2: Select copy

3: Go waaaay back up to Start menu Folder/Programs/Games

4: Tap and hold on any white area of the screen

5: Select paste

hope this helps others with this issue
[General Topics] SMS92:
Hi all,

Just wondering if backing up my Swype custom word list before a flash is as similar as copying the Program folder? I see the dictionaries and a 'userdata' folder are in there which I assume Swype writes to when you enter a new word?

Don't really fancy having to type out all my custom words again after my next flash!

Thanks
[General Topics] Zoskalon:
Bump to the top.
[General Topics] Heart1010:
No one until now :(?!
[S740, S743 General] grahamkdt:
Hi guys... my wife has a Touch Diamond 2 (Topaz) which she would like to swap for an S740 (Rose). She can't get on without buttons! Anyone interested, please PM me. Cheers :)
[S740, S743 General] thewhitewankstar:
where are you located i have a like new rose with the box and everything
[S740, S743 General] grahamkdt:
Ooops...

Sorry my friend, but it's gone. Thanks for posting anyway ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Creativus:
Hi guys,

I was looking for antithief app and I couldnt find something like that. HD2 got g-sensor so we can use it as a watcher.

You could put your phone on the desk and start that app and if somebody pick it up g-sensor turns on the alarm horn. What do u think guys?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ProjektFuze:
^^ i think the whole idea is a little unconventional.... i would much rather just put my hd2 in my pocket... as opposed to turning on a "alarm" and leave it on a table....

yea.. now that i think about it.. the whole idea is quite useless... if you can turn the alarm on.. you can just as easily take it with you....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] chalid:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=473840
[Nexus One General] Grimms:
Will there be any Windows Phone 7 Series for the Nexus one?

Would be nice to test the new OS on a phone. Hope some of XDA's talented developers would look in to this when the time is right :)
[Nexus One General] melterx12:
one word: no.
[Nexus One General] faraz1992:
Windows Mobile sucks....sucks hard....
[Nexus One General] pvillasuso:
+1000000

:eek:
[Nexus One General] diversificationied:
I hope someone pulls through and does it, althought we are short one hardware key to match up the win7 requirements.

I don't really see it being an issue getting on here, alot of the hardware will be on other phones so drivers should be around.
[Nexus One General] Grimms:
Yes Winmo sucks, but I hope the new 7 series will do something with this, and if it becomes a good mobile OS i don't want to buy a new phone.. I love my N1 and i think it could be fun to play with.:)
[Nexus One General] maxh:
As far as becoming a good mobile OS, it's not off to a good start. No multitasking, no copy/paste, and today I saw someone say that Microsoft has disallowed development of applications that rival native applications. Seriously, are they retarded? Those are some of the worst things people complained about with the iphone.
[Hero CDMA General] samsoccer7:
My phone doesn't seem to be vibrating on SMS or when receiving email (gmail notifier). It used to, but I don't remember when it stopped. If I put the phone in vibrate only mode, and use test notification, it also doesn't vibrate.

It does vibrate when I receive calls. There is haptic feedback on the dialer. When I ask the phone to vibrate (moving the rocker all the way down) it works. It also vibrates with the alarm. On start up, I also get that short vibrate as "htc" comes on the screen. So I think the vibrate feature is working, but not all the time. I'm pulling my hair out here and not sure what to do. Should I reflash the rom? Should I wipe and restart?

I am using freshrom 1.1 with the gumbo custom kernel. I had been using chompsms which wasn't vibrating so I switched to Handcent, which also isn't vibrating. Weird maybe??

EDIT: FIXED! Thanks for the help DirtyShroomz. Sound Manager did the trick.
[Hero CDMA General] DirtyShroomz:
Download sound manager, hit menu-vibrate settings and turn on notifications vibrate
[Hero CDMA General] adamboyd83:
Thats pretty weird. I have used both of those programs and never had a problem. I know in Handcent there is a check box for vibrate. I just switched to chomp and mine is still working.
[Hero CDMA General] samsoccer7:
Wow. It worked, awesome. Thanks!

Interestingly, under Sound Manager's vibrate settings, the ringer setting was still on, but the notification setting was off. I guess this means it was somehow inactivated but this is the way to get it back. Excellent.
[Hero CDMA General] DirtyShroomz:
Same thing happened to me, I went months without vibrate
[Networking] Smokie365:
Hey guys.

Let me first state how good I think the site is... Im new to winmob and cant get enough of this site.

Im having the above problem. My phone set itself up for 02 ireland automatically but I just cant send or recieve mms messages.

my OS version is 5.2.21869

Manilla Version 2.5.19211619.0

Rom Version 1.48.405.2(71294)WWE

Radio 2.05.51.05_2

Also am I running the best setup for my phone? I just flashed the first original rom I could find...

Thanks in advance..
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[HD2 General] ncohafmuta:
Just got my HD2 from t-mobile yesterday.

Got 2 issues and wondering if:

1. it's common (so i know it's not just me)

2. there's a fix

#1 Screen rotate doesn't work on most apps or main menu or home screen? So far i've only seen it work on SMS and opera (haven't set up my mail yet).

This would be disappointing that my xv6800 can do this, but not the HD2.

#2 When typing an SMS, if you rotate screen when the keyboard is open, the keyboard closes and I have to reopen it.

Thanx for any insights or help.

-Tony
[HD2 General] MidnightDraven:
#1, not without tweaks.

#2 correct.
[HD2 General] rp-x1:
Hi,

Try installing this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=427805

It has totally changed the way I use my HD2 as it allows rotation of pretty much all apps.
[HD2 General] ncohafmuta:
thanx for that, i'll give it a go.

-Tony
[General Questions and Answers] clsifford:
i have tried 3 different versions of MSVC on 4 different ROMs on my Tilt 2, and not one of them announces the text messages. they all announce emails, which i find strange, but not text messages. this is the exact opposite of what i want it to do. i've got the settings set up correctly. i've been using this program for a few years. i've pretty familiar with it. i've been using it long enough that i am comfortable changing the registry settings to adjust the TTSAnnounce speed and the volume of the announcements. does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing it not to work?

i've even gone so far as to add a new key in the registry called "SMS" and copy the settings in it so that it is just like the Email registry key (which works on the announcements), and my text messages are still not announced.

any help would be greatly appreciated. like i said, the settings are correct, so don't bother posting for me to highlight messages, click options, etc. it's already done.

thanks in advance for any assistance anyone might be able to provide.
[General Questions and Answers] joennie:
I have exact the same problem just like yours. HD and Xanny gridleo 3.0rom, I cannot fix it either.

anyone? thanks.
[Android Software Development] sutty86:
hello there,

got both of these phones and obviously dont need two,

so im thinking about selling one,

i do prefer the keyboard on the g1 but dont really like the display compared to the g2

had fastrom on the g1 and villian on the hero

which one should i keep?

Suggestions

which is more futureproof?
[Android Software Development] spamcakes:
Imho neither is really futureproof, if you see the hardware in the recent android phones.

That said I love the keyboard on my G1 and there's no way in heck I'd trade up for a phone without one.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] jcase:
You need adb working.

Download http://www.multiupload.com/SVHPN9AINF into your tools dir of your sdk (/home/jcase/android-sdk/tools/ - c:\android-sdk\tools\ something like that)

go to command line, and change your dir to the tools dir of your sdk

cd /home/jcase/android-sdk/tools - or something like that

run adb push

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/

reboot phone. This will override the boot animation in /system/media

Enjoy.

-jcase
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] zifnab06:
yay! first post

and install. works. +1 rep.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] drew630:
Thanks Jcase will try when I get home
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] Chevelle1768:
Any way to backup the original incase I would like to go back?
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] zifnab06:
adb shell rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip will do it.

the boot process looks in /data/local/ THEN in /system/media. So, if you remove the one you put in /data/local, the original is STILL in /system/media, and is displayed.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] mattoxic:
Would this work for the Nexus boot animation as long as we change the name of the zip to bootanimation.zip ?

here's the link to the nexus one: sendspace.com/file/0qwx4v
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] derekm2j:
why is it that enevthough I am rooted i get this error when attempting to copy to /system/media?

C:\Users\Derek\Documents\Droid root\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media

failed to copy 'bootanimation.zip' to '/system/media/bootanimation.zip': Read-on

ly file system
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] jcase:
mattoxic,

if its in the right format it should

derekm2j,

mount it as read/write

mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

or push to data/local
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] derekm2j:
thanks a million my linux is a little rusty. now why would it say no space left on device? I know I dont have to do it this way but the blasted thing is telling me no. Therefore, i want to do it this way.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] Chevelle1768:
Ok, this must be for 2.1. Cause I am on 1.5 and it will not work. I keep getting the same boot screen.