[7 Mozart General] FrozenLord:
Hi there,

I'm one of the lucky persons who already got their HTC Mozart 7 ;)

While I'm really enjoying this device and the features it offers, I wonder how some of the bugs or problems could slip past a decent QA...

I'm currently experiencing these problems (and some more, which are not as frustrating):

I've added my recent experiences in dark red so that you can get my results so far without reading through the thread :)

The device has to be restarted every 24 hours or so because it just ceases to function. I know it's time for a restart when opening any application (regardless of marketplace, music player, ...) just shows a loading screen and then returns to the main menu.

After getting my replacement Mozart - and not using the alarm application at all - this problem is gone. I can now use it for 4 days straight without the need to reboot or the sound ceasing to function.

The alarm clock is not able to use any 3rd party files. While this alone is no problem, it also misses a decent sound for waking you up. Everybody who possessed a HTC Windows Mobile device might know about those real horror wake up sounds that made you stand up and shut the device up within seconds. Now the new sounds are nice to listen to but those don't really wake you up as effectively... The real fun begins when you lie there for several minutes in some kind of delirium, fighting with yourself whether to stand up or not. The alarm clock simply closes after some (much too few!!) minutes and ASKS you whether you want to sound the alarm again...

My real problem with the alarm clock however is the volume. Normal alarm clocks (I used Windows Mobile in conjunction with GAlarm and I have used Android with several clocks) set the volume to a preconfigured level when sounding the alarm. The Windows Phone alarm clock doesn't... Which makes it effectively mute if you happened to set your phone to mute during the day and having forgotten about it in the evening.

The next problem is that my Bluetooth A2DP Headset (which worked flawlessly on Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5) somehow can't use its buttons. Each button press is simply ignored for whatever reason, forcing me to take out the phone each time I want to accept a call...

I also noticed that the music skips if the battery is running low. If you use a high quality source file (e.g. MP3 at 320 kb/s) which normally plays fine, it starts to skip / scramble every few seconds if the battery is running low. Running low means that the phone is about to display the warning to charge it or has already displayed it.

For some odd reason, I can't search my songs. If you browse your albums / artists / songs then these are sorted alphabetically and you should be able to jump directly to a letter when pressing on the square (just like in the contact view). Well, although my contact view works, pressing any letter here displays the whole alphabet (like in the contacts) but all letters are grey, meaning that there is no song / artist / album starting with this letter. Do I need to state that there in fact are items there that start with a letter?

This problem is purely related to the German language. I set my Mozart to English - just for the purpose of trying - and this feature is there and works perfectly... So just going to Settings and setting the language to English solved this problem. Which somehow makes you wonder how Q&A could miss that.

Do you know any solutions to these problems?