Following on from the issues here about being charged for international text messages, I've just checked my online bill - and it appears I've been charged for 8 international text messages to '0014252461806' at 17p each

I'm gonna send off an email to M@Metrics right now and kick up a fuss ....

I'm also gonna un-install their software from my PDA until they sort the problem ...

Cheers

Lycrawearer

P.S. Why is Paul still promoting this heavily on the front page ??? Come on Paul ....

I flashed my XDA Orbit to a custom WM 6.1 rom a couple days back .. re-installed the M:Metrics package, but it ain't working on my machine ... yet!!

Lycrawearer

I've gotta agree with the others, and I 'll ask the same question that I asked here in this very same thread - on Aug 14th ...

Why is MoDaCo still promoting this right on the front page ??

Why am I so concerned ?? Because as my previous posts back in Aug state - I still have not received my 6 monthly payment - although M:Metrics records indicate that payment was sent - I most certainly haven't received it ??? Why do M:Metrics insist on sending out cash in the post ? Hardly secure is it ? If they have sent my £30 then it looks very likely that my postie has had it

I've emailed M:Metrics a few times, but apart from 1 response from someone in there support team, I haven't heard a dickie-bird more.

Very very poor show, and why (given all the other negative comments on the same subject) is this still front page news ???

Come on guys ... sort it out ...

Lycrawearer

Well a bit of digging gives the following info ....

M:Metrics Ltd
130 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
W1D 5EU

Still no payment .... and although Paul has posted saying M:Metrics are monitoring their support email addresses I've gotta say that they obviously cannot be bothered replying. My emails to them haven't bounced back either - so they have been received at their end.

What with the non-communication and also the apparently random payment (in cash too) - I suspect that M:Metrics are having a few financial problems. Wouldn't be surprised to see an announcement shortly saying that they have gone bust or similar.

I wonder if the ASA would be interested in their promises and advertising ?

Cheers

Lycrawearer

Well I've emailed Paul but he hasn't read my PM yet - either he's busy or is ignoring it (maybe because I titled it M:Metrics) ...

Still no payment or emails from M:Metrics either .....

To be honest this is a pretty poor show .... and I think that MoDaCo/Paul should not be promoting this on the front page of this community - I'm just wondering if anyone has a snail-mail address or telephone number for them ? Time to do a bit of digging me thinks, see what can be found. If anyone has any info then feel free to post here or email me.

Paul - if you're out there -- or even any other moderator ... a response would be nice - or are you all going to let M:Metrics continue to scam us and make false promises ?

Thanks

Lycrawearer

Just out of interest I wonder what Paul's view on this is ?? Paul - any comment ??

I received my first (sign-up) payment within days .... then the 6 month payment was also dispatched on time

However it's been 7 months now since the last payment .... the application is still installed on my phone, and is still transmitting data. With all the negative comments from various posters I'm beginning to wonder if M:Metrics are still going ...

Paul - can you make enquiries, and see what is going on ? If M:Metrics (MobilePanel) are going down the pan, then I don't think that MoDaCo should be advertising/promoting them on the front page ...

Cheers

Lycrawearer

Wondering if some kind souls can give me some (very basic) help ...

I'm using the Chromium Smartphone skin by Juni (in it's entire form) and simply want to get it to display the Fizz Weather plugin ....

I've tried adding the code below but it doesn't work ... any idea's as to what I'm doing wrong ?


This was taken from a post in the SBSH forums here.

Annoying thing is that I had it working before on my Lobster, then thanks to the TV facility not working I had to hard-reset it, and can I get it back ?!?!?

Cheers

Mark

P.S. Would upload the standard Chromium xml file but it appears that I can't - sorry !

And although Virgin will unlock for free (subject to the £30 credit etc) .... my mate - who also has a Lobster - has found this site

http://www.unlocktelecom.co.uk/index.asp

Would you trust them ? Personally I'm not convinced .... to be able to claim to unlock any phone for £3.99 ?!?!?

Cheers

Lycrawearer

Getting the following error this morning when I go to the sign-up page;

"We're sorry but you do not qualify for this particular Smart M:Panel survey. Thanks anyway."

Temporary problems I hope ?

Cheers

Lycrawearer

I like it - installed smoothly as well.

One request (personal preference) - I use Fizz Traveller's homescreen plugin to display the weather for my town. Can this be incorporated somehow - perhaps at the expense of the apps or tasks tab ??

Cheers

Lycrawearer

Not sure if anyone knows this but NovoSec have released SmartFilter v1.3 which apparently supports WM5 and QVGA devices ...

Although the new version will install over the top of any old versions - I found I had to uninstall, reboot & then install ...

Evrthing looks fine, so thanks to NovoSec

http://www.novomobile.com/smartfilter.php

Cheers

Lycrawearer

Hey nice work Doc !

Suits my SPV C550 down to the ground - shows weather & appointments just like I'm used to on the old XDA Exec.

One question though ... any chance of ditching the thermometer icon/feature and perhaps having a signal strength indicator ?

Cheers

Lycrawearer

On the left hand side of the phone (as it's facing you) there's a couple of sets of buttons (recessed into the side) ... top one does Internet Explorer (on mine anyway), and the lower 2 increases or decreases the earpiece volume.

Cheers

Mark

Call timers under Start, Call History, Menu, View Timers ... not sure about SMS Counters though !

Cheers

Mark

Well I'm almost there

Have de-certed / unlocked, installed the Blueness Theme (one cool item) and various other bits of software.

Still having trouble with the O2 MMS settings - having used the data settings repository I got GPRS set up ok - but can I find where to enter the O2 MMS server bit ??? Anyone does this before successfully ??

Cheers

Lycrawearer

scar45 ...

What an excellent theme ... top marks for the time & effort that you have put into this !!!

A couple of questions though;

- Installed this on a C550 (QVGA screen) and it's not quite right - the images don't quite stretch to the bottom of the screens, and as a consequence the various text labels aren't aligned. Also the info from Smart Monitor at the top of the screen sometimes goes outside of the relevant box (ie is too long) ...
- After tweaking the xml - I did manage to align the text at my end, but find that the Task plugin doesn't function - I guess as a result of the tweaking etc .... not a major problem though.
- Like the others I would have preferred the calender details to be displayed rather than the tasks ...
- You're right about the 0.9.5 plugin being better - the later version has a problem with text colours.

Overall I'm extremely happy - like I said an excellent theme, but wondered if any updates were forthcoming - especially with the size / calender issue ?

Merry Xmas BTW !

Cheers

Lycrawearer

Mmm - what about the Imate ROMS ? Can I use any of them ?

Cheers

Lycrawearer

Okay - back to using a Smartphone at last. Makes a change from using a brick of an XDA

If I wanted to 'tweak' the ROM of my newly purchased C550 (have de-certed & removed sim-lock) then is this possible ? Are there any other ROMs worth looking at ?

Thanks ...

Lycrawearer

Have you tried Secure Inbox for smartphones @ http://www.airfagev.com/forum_view.asp?msg_id=50710

Freeware as well !

Cheers

Lycrawearer

Be careful ...

I signed up to this 'trial' in May ... so far my June bill & also my July bill have had GPRS data transfer charges on.

A quick call to Customer Services and they have refunded them, but they can't explain why. Using the 'orangeinternet' APN (as part of the settings they sent me).

Strange thing is this also happened on my wife's PAYG account ... again they credited the charges but it hasn't happened again on hers.

Maybe there is a billing problem somewhere ?

Lycrawearer

So that's why they had a stall in Superdrug @ Plymouth last weekend ! They didn't look very busy though. Mind you - when I visited their store in Birmingham a few weeks ago, I was the only customer there - and this was on a Saturday afternoon (peak time) ...

I didn't buy one though ... what worried me was that the salesperson couldn't even get the handset to work in the shop - so what chance did I have getting it to work @ home ?

Lycrawearer

Morpheous - is this right ?

I just changed the tariff on my SPV to the HSCSD plan @ £10 month (seeing as I've sold my SPV), and also cancelled my SPV promo pack - the kind lady offered me 3 months free GPRS access. This was earlier this week, and I've still been using GPRS on that sim ....

I also rang Orange about another matter the following day - and confirmed with the operator that I had indeed been changed !

Lycrawearer

I suspect that people will have problems cancelling their contracts early because of this price hike !

Why ? Because Roaming (and it's prices) are classed as an additional service, and not part of the main service that you agree to / connect to ! Remember - to activate roaming you have to call & request it - and it's subject to credit checking etc ...

So Orange will allow you to cancel Roaming, but not your contract because of these charges :-(

HTH

Lycrawearer

There is one .. take a look at

All-Locations GPRS Counter for Smartphone

Lycrawearer

Wahey .. it's 15:34 and GPRS has suddenly come back !

Bet the network is going to get 'hammered' now :-)

Lycrawearer