According to The Times, the £8ppm unlimited bundle might be about to become officially available:

Times Online

although at the moment it's not on the Orange website, and c/s don't seem know about it ....

Cheers

Ian

My M2000 used to keep "losing" the SD card on an almost daily basis, and once wiped it completely with no warning at all.

Read somewhere that there was an issue with SPB Pocket Plus, and earlier HTC designs (although not apparently the Blue Angel), which could cause them to lock up if you had a today-screen counter showing the SD card usage/free space.

I was using the SD counter, so decided to remove it anyway, and since then it's only lost the SD card three times (in about 3 months) and has never wiped it again. Might be worth trying if you're using Pocket Plus too.

Ian

There's also no problem with using the alarm while the M2000 is "off" either - I do this all the time, and with flight mode switched on too it can go through a night losing 1-2% of battery power (sometimes doesn't even drop at all) before the alarm wakes it up on a morning.

Ian

If you got into Settings, Personal, Input, Word Completion, and turn off "Replace text as you type" it won't autocorrect anything. Don't know whether it's possible to just stop it doing the ' character though.

Ian

If you're using Windows XP, Microsoft have a document at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

which describes how to setup a PC for ad-hoc wi-fi with Internet Connection Sharing. Once the PC is done, the M2000 should detect the network automatically (once wi-fi is switched on by tapping on the icon in the bottom right of the home screen), prompt you for an encryption key (if you set one up on the PC), and then ask if the network connects to Work or the Internet.

Never had any problems with the Internet option, but Work should allow browsing of shared folders on the PC and doesn't seem to work for me.

Ian

From what I can remember:

Phone
Charger
Battery x 2
Cradle
Stylus x 2
Case
CD
8Mb SD Card (which was blank)
Manual

No doubt there'll be something I've forgotten!

Ian

My M2000 didn't change either - had to do it manually.

Weird thing is, it must be aware of DST, because if I change the timezone from GMT London-Dublin, to GMT Casablanca (which doesn't operate DST) the time goes back an hour.

Ian

My e200 used to have this problem a lot, but the M2000 has been fine so far (touch wood), sometimes takes about 30-40 secs for it to reconnect to the network though - and for some reason Voice Command seems to turn flight mode on/off quicker than the icon does.

Ian

I've not had any problems with it either - only thing I've spotted with the "X" is that it won't detect and close ActiveSync, but everything else has been fine.

Would also be nice if it supported ClearType, but I think this has already been raised with SBP and is planned for a future release

Ian

Has anyone ever had this before - took the SD card out last night and put it back in again (admittedly making a bit of a hash of it, and taking about 6 attempts before it properly locked into place), and it had been erased.

Before I took it out there was about 150Mb on it, but when finally got it back in it was totally blank (no messages about reformatting it or anything). I've swapped cards around before with no problems - only difference those times was that I always got the card in properly on the 1st attempt.

The card was out of the M2000 for about 5 secs in total (I'd installed the sbp Weather plugin to it, and it has a habit of losing it's icons every so often, so I wanted to see if removing the card and re-inserting it would help).

Ian

Does it only recognise certain numbers, or numbers in certain formats? I can say "Dial " and it gets it spot on, but if I say "Dial 150" it will never get it right - usually attempts 123 or 111

Mike

There's no application locking on the M2000 (not that I know of anyway). You do occassionally get messages on installing software saying the App was designed for a different version of the OS - usually because it was compiled under an earlier version, but just OK that and they normally run fine.

Ian

The M2000 defaults to GPRS Class 10 (3 slots for downloads, 2 for uploads), and I changed mine to Class 8 (4 download, 1 upload) as I rarely complete forms, etc on it so I'm more interested in speed of downloading.

It does seems quicker today, but I'm now using it within a different geographical area, so can't confirm whether it's down to the settings, or the local GPRS access.

Has anyone else changed this, with more reliable results?

Ian

I've got the same options as in the 1st post, and Orange GRPS Internet is the selected one. Settings for this are:

Name: Orange GPRS Internet
Modem: Cellular Line (GPRS)
Access Point: orangeinternet
Username/password/domain: all blank

In GPRS settings, I've got PAP authentication, class 10.

The USB dongle I've got is a Belkin one. Used their software to setup a profile on the PC (UI is odd, becuase the option appears to be greyed-out but works when you click on it...!) - just gave it a name, and set it for Peer-to-Peer. Didn't activate encryption though, so it's not secure.

Turned on M2000, detected it immediately, but wouldn't connect to Internet.

The two things that then needed changing:
1) On the PC, go into Network Connections, and enable "Internet Connection Sharing" on the advanced properties of the connection to your ISP (not the WiFi connection)
2) On the M2000, in Connections, find the "Programs which connect to a private network should use..." setting, and either add a new connection, or edit the "My Work" one. On one of the tabs is a box saying "This network connects to the Internet". Check this, and it should all work OK.

There's something wrong with this dialog though, because every so often it loses the setting for "this network connects to the internet" on the M2000 and you have to go back in and re-check it.

Hope this helps - I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the speed of browsing/streaming once it's all working...!

Ian

OK, have got the M2000 using the PC's (XP Pro) internet connection for internet browsing and email via a USB WiFi adaptor (not a router).

How do I get the M2000 to be able to browse shared folders and open a Terminal Services session - it looks as though I need to setup a VPN, but no matter what settings I change I either get a dialog which says "Connecting to 192.168.0.1..." and never does, or get prompted for user and password to access the PC and then get message about error in VPN server.

Any ideas?

Ian

Have changed the battery on mine OK too, as a test. Killed everything using the standard Control Panel task list, put it into flight mode and standyby and wasn't especially quick at swapping them over.

No problems at all (of course, when I really need to do it in anger it'll probably hard-reset on me!)

Yep works fine.

Haven't tried ActiveSync yet but mail and browsing work OK- until the "This network connects to the Internet" box unchecks itself and they stop!

Thanks for the info

Ian

Currys sell USB WiFi adaptors for about £30 - but on the box it says that a router is also required to setup a WiFi network.

If all I want to do it is ActiveSync via WiFi and use wirelessly browse the internet from the M2000, using the PC's ntl cable connection, do I need a router or will the adaptor be sufficient on its own?

Thanks

Ian

I'm using the trial one too, when I try to sync via passthrough it just says "Please establish an Internet connection", despite the fact there's one open already.

Weird!

Has anyone managed to get this to sync via passthrough? It works fine over GPRS, but won't connect via passthrough (which seems to be working ok as IE and Outlook are both using it fine)?

Cheers

Ian

Worked pretty much OK with mine.

I only use it for Contacts and Appointments, and it restored them with only one (very minor) issue - All Day Appointments on the E200 were restored on the M2000 as timed appointments running from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59 (no idea why, as the M2000 calendar supports all-dayers too)

Ian

Finally got my M2000 yesterday, and it's running:


Operator Version 5.31.1.124
ROM Versn 1.31.00 WWE
ROM date 12/13/04
Radio Versn 1.06.02
Protocol Versn 1337.38
ExtROM Versn 1.31.124.WWE

BT v1.0.0 Build 3500

Mines lower than that, usually in the £35-40 range. Maybe that's why I couldn't get it free (they told me in November I could, then changed their minds in January).

Not that I'm too bothered, at least I've managed to order one now!

Just got a text message from Orange saying the M2000 is back in stock, so called retentions, explained that I was on the outbound callback list but they hadn't got round to me yet - they checked on the system and it is indeed back in stock.

Wallet now £115 lighter, shiny new M2000 on its way!