I have my phone on a belt clip at all times, at home or away. It's only ever gotten warm on the two occasions my 3G connection has died.

I tend not to reset very often. But doubt that's related since it's worked for months in that same way. I've reset frequently since it started playing up again. But it doesn't help.

Well my Vario III's 3G connection has just died again. GSM works fine but 3G just dies when trying to get on the internet.

What interests me is that the circumstances for this happening are identical. This happened to me first, shortly after getting my Vario III. I was away from home for a week in a place that had really bad phone signal. On returning home, 3G was permanently dead, and with my phone in 3G mode it was draining a full battery in less than 8 hours.

After getting a replacement handset everything was fixed. Months of happy use ensued in places with decent phone reception.

Now I've just got back from a week in Cornwall. Mullion is a lovely place, but phone reception is terrible. Anyway, after a week of little or no phone signal (3G or otherwise) my 3G is now dead again. Once again the battery is drained in 8 hours or less if I leave 3G on.

I do wonder if the lack of 3G signal for so long has damaged the phone in some way? I noticed the phone getting very warm sometimes when I was down in Cornwall.

My workmates Vario III is fine. His SIM in mine doesn't do 3G. My SIM in his does do 3G. So clearly not a network issue. Somehow, being without a 3G signal for a week has killed my phone!

It still works fine on GSM, but it's damn annoying.

Anyone else experienced similar?

Got it on my T-Mobile Vario III. Bit of a cheek in my view. I can see me installing one of the alternatives.

Great idea! So which UK network will give me 600 texts / 300 mins + 3GB data allowance + use my phone as a laptop modem + instant messaging for £28.50 a month with a HTC Kaiser?

I've seen other reports from people that have sent their Kaisers off for repair. I'm led to believe by a friend inside the industry that most HTC's get their entire motherboard replaced. So new ROM, new Radio chip. So I think I'll take my chances. If it comes back and still doesn't work then I have more to support my case. If I don't even try a repair I doubt I'd have a leg to stand on.

I disagree with that. If it was a weak 3g signal then my colleague that sits next to me would have the same problems at the same time as me on his Vario III. In fact his works perfectly.

I did a SIM swap, his into my Vario III and mine into his. His still worked fine with my SIM (happily connecting up as HSDPA), but my Vario III still would not pick up the 4 bars worth of 3g signal that his was getting. To me this clearly says it's a fault on my Vario III and in this case has nothing to do with the strength of the 3g signal.

I've rung T-Mobile and I'm going to get it sent off for repair. Sadly I'll have to wait a week before I do that cos I'm going away on business and need my tomtom, which won't run on the crappy phone they want to give me as a temp replacement.

My Vario III has exactly this problem. Am going to a T-Mobile shop today to try my SIM in one of their Vario III's to see if it's the SIM or the Phone or the Network that is at fault.

I installed that app on my Vario III. When I go into comm manager now I only see 1 button. What's going on?

Same problem here started last week (Sunday / Monday I think) and is still ongoing. If I drop the phone to GSM only it works. As soon as I set it back to Auto, the 3G icon appears, but I lose all of my connections. No phone, no text, and certainly no 3G.

T-Mob said there were problems last week but they were fixed. Not for me they weren't!

I have a 6GB Sandisk. On day 2 I found it had decided that none of my installed apps were present. So I formatted the card as FAT32 on my Vista PC and it's been working fine since.

Tried installing it on my Vario III. Get a message telling me my trial has expired. This is wrong, since this is a brand new phone and is the 1st time I've tried to install it. This seems to be a very common problem judging by the MykeSoft forums with no known fix as yet.

Oopsy.

I got the Vario III on the Flext 25 + Web n Walk Plus tariff. Should've been £37.50 per month but I kept my existing 25% discount so it's costing me approx £28.13 a month instead.

Very happy customer indeed!

Perfect. Thanks.

Has anyone found an MSN Messenger client for it? It seems really stupid that I'm paying extra for the privilege of being able to use Instant Messaging (on top of web n walk) and it's not even installed!!

I couldn't wait so I've just paid the $10 upgrade fee.

Sprite backup is a lifesaver, but the number if times I've woken up to a dead battery because I left it locked was starting to get very annoying.

Thanks for the heads-up Paul!

Any word yet on a release date?

I can't wait for T-Mobile to pick this up.

Definitely gonna be my next phone. It's time my Mio A701 was replaced with something 3G and Wifi enabled.

Installed and seems to be working okay. At least my T9 Input Pad is working a lot better than it used to. No problems so far.

Thank you. That's exactly what I was looking for.

Does anyone else remember seeing a piece of software that let you control your Pocket PC from your desktop?

The one I'm thinking of let you simply slide your mouse pointer off the side of your monitor screen and then you could start controlling your PDA with it. It looked great.

Anyone?

I think I'll have to come to the next event. If you make it worth my while Paul.

Wow! What a difference!

This is fantastic. My internet performance has shot up.

I'd always put the slowness down to being on GPRS (I'm on T-Mobile web-n-walk unlimited).

This has made a huge difference.

Thanks Paul.

Fantasico!

This happened to me as well. It turned out that SPB Pocket Plus was sucking up too much system resource and was preventing Tengo Thumb from loading. Although nearly anything that starts running before you start Tengo Thumb can have this effect. I'm now really careful what I install to prevent it happening again.

Perfect, they have this listed in the Mio A701 section. Battery Extender
Thanks

I'm looking for an emergency charger for my A701 for when I'm out and about walking. I've seen them for other phones. You just pop in 1-4 AA batteries, plug it in and it charges your phone.

Seems like a great idea to me. I have loads of 2500mAh AA batteries at home which would keep my phone going for ages on a nice long walk if only I could find a decent emergency charger.

I got one off eBay but it was crap quality and broke far too easily. Did the job for a couple of days though.