"Thad Touchton" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Phone wise, I came from T-Mobile where I had a Razr V3. I mostly use the
> phone in the car while driving on the Interstate. I rarely had a dropped
> call. Now, with the 8125, it will drop calls every couple of miles. It's
> not unusual for me to have 10 drops in a 30 minute conversation while
> driving. That is certainly the most frustrating part of this phone.
What is the ROM revision of the GSM Radio? (You'll see this when you soft
reset- a list of ROMs. If it's 1.x download the new ROM from HTC America's
website. (This, unfortunately, will require you reinstall all data and
programs, but it's worth it. A LOT of flakyiness, especially with the phone
was corrected in the upgrade.) If you alread have ROM 2.x I don't know what
to tell you about the phone. It certainly is a weaker unit in terms of RF
reception of any GSM phone I've used (prior to this I used Nokias primarily)
so perhaps you might be in a fringe area where your last phone could barely
hang on and this one can't?
> The stereo headset that comes with the 8125 is nice. I wanted something
> with a better microphone though. I went with a wired headset because I
> was under the impression you get better performance with wired as opposed
> to bluetooth. I had read that the sample rate for wired is twice what it
> is for bluetooth. It made sense to me.
Sort of, but we are dealing with a phone here, not an iPod. 8-bit sampling
(Bluetooth) is fine for telephony.
> I love the fact that this phone syncs with our Exchange Server. It's
> great to have access to all my contacts, calender, and email. However, I
> have a couple of hundred contacts which makes for a long list when trying
> to dial a number. My attempted solution was to create a category called
> 'Cell Phone' and assign just the contacts that I call regularly from my
> cell phone to that category. Then, on the phone I can filter my contacts
> for just that category. Brilliant! Not really. The filter setting on the
> phone is not persistent. So, every time I go to use the contacts list on
> the phone, it's an extra 9 button presses to get to the filtered view. Is
> there a registry hack that will make the filter setting persistent?
Not that I'm aware of. My solution for making this phone usable is
Microsoft Voice Command. It's a $30 or so program but made me go from
hating my MDA (T-Mobile's clone of the 8125) as a phone to liking it. It's
a speaker-independant voice recognition program that allows you to simply
speak commands to the phone- i.e. "Call (Name of Contact) at (home, work,
mobile, etc.)" or "Dial 123-456-7890". The phone speaks back your command
for verification and you confirm with a "correct", or "no." It works 100%
of the time in a quiet environment, and about 75% of the time in a noisy
one. (100% if you yell over the noise, but then you feel really silly
yelling at your phone in public!) I've come to the conclusion that voice
dialing is the only way to deal with this phone when you have a few hundred
contacts in it, or else I'd have to get one of my fingers converted to a
stylus by a plastic surgeon!
> The screen looses it's alignment on a regular basis. That's annoying.
And defective- my first MDA did this after about a month.
> I use 'letter recognizer' as my input method and find that the 8125 thinks
> I'm about a half inch to the right frequently. Sometimes it corrects
> itself after a few minutes. Sometimes I have to go through the alignment
> calibration. I don't know if this is a WM5 problem or an issue with a
> program I have installed.
It's a bad 8125. Mine eventually developed a spot the size of a dime in the
center of the screen that would not accept any input. Any press there would
register above, below, left or right of the spot, making any program that
required a tap there unusable, and all other programs to require a lot of
scrolling to avoid the spot.
Get your 8125 swapped out before the warranty runs out.
> There's a couple of web based things I can't get to work right either. I
> can access Delta Airline's web page for mobile devices, but the links
> don't work.
I just tried it and had the same problem. IE Mobile certainly has problems
with a lot of websites. I also tried mobile.delta.com with Opera's PPC
browser and it works fine.
> Another is Google Maps. I've loaded the software for the 8125, but it
> just doesn't work right. I can get a map of Nashville, but when I try to
> look at the traffic, it just locks up. Has anyone got Google Maps to work
> well with their 8125?
Can't help you there. T-mo chose not to include a Java runtime on their
version, so I can't run Google Maps.
> I'm interested to hear if other are experiencing the same issues I have.
Most of them, anyway! As I've said in other threads about this phone, while
it certainly isn't perfect, for me it's as close as any convergence (phone
and PDA) device has come. My biggest gripe has really been the amount of
tweaking and 3rd party programs I've needed to "complete" my MDA- Voice
Command and Opera are $30+ programs necessary (IMHO) to get the thing to
work decently as a phone and a web browser (which are two functions it
should have right out of the box!)
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