I have a Omnia 7 with a very recent firmware so the published generic codes on the internet don't work to unlock the phone. Phone is currently locked to orange and they want 20 quid to unlock it. I tried a few of the cheap online lockers but they have only come back with generic codes to temporarily unlock the phone which don't work and anyway I want a permanent unlock solution.

Anyone know a free or fairly cheap unlock solution for the Omnia 7.

Thanks,

Al

I bought one of these phones yesterday and the main 2 things I use MS Operating system devices on have been discontinued.

a) Activsync does not work so I can't sync my works calender up from OutLook

:P Cab files don't work, in fact I can't even transfer any files apart from Video and Music using Zune.

I'm very unhappy.

Tearing my hair out!

I've been flashing devices for years and never had a brick. Now I've got one and as far as I can figure out, it's not my fault!

Standard retail unbranded ROM (got the phone through an employee discount scheme direct from a distributor). Got the nodo update and it failed with the usual problem.

Built a jig using a micro-USB breakout and it went straight into download mode. Applied the Samsung boot fix which seemed to work but now, the phone is in a constant reboot loop. I get the Omnia 7 logo cycling endlessly - even when I use the jig.

Vol up + camera + power does nothing except go straight into this loop. Vol down + camera + power either goes into download or reset, the image is on screen for a fraction of a second before it goes into this damn loop again so I can't see which.

Anything else I can do before I try to deal with the distributor or heaven forbid, Samsung directly?

Thanks for even the smallest crumb of hope

Cheers

I am considering buying this phone, but there's something I found on youtube while I was searching for video samples:

a comment says:

"shazad13

It is not a frame rate problem....if you keep the camera stationary and capture a video of a moving object/people....you will notice no frames are dropped.....the problem is due to the abnormally high speed shutter speed....Samsung really need to fix this in a firmware update." -3 months ago

Are there any fixes for this yet?

At home I have got a DLNA server running with all my media on it that I use to stream to the PS3, computers, TV etc, just wondering if there was a way that I could see the DLNA server from the phone so I could play music that way, rather than syncing it via Zune?

Had a quick look around and can't find an app that will do it, but perhaps I am missing something?

Cheers,

Rupert

When viewing this forum on my Omnia 7, I get a large white rectangular box at the top of the page partially covering the word windows. Do others have this issue or is it just my phone. I should mention that it appears only on this site.

Thanks

Jamie

My Samsung Omnia 7 doesnt remind me, when a Person in my Contact List has Birthday. Thats not so nice ... but why? Is there really any Reminder?? I cant believe it. Hope, anyone can help me...

Got my i8700 yesterday, got it unlocked last night but when i connect it to windows 7 64bit it does not install a driver, it is listed as other device/i8700 and says The drivers for this device are not installed.

any ideas?

cheers.

Just got my Omnia 7 and very much liked its ui, and how smooth it works, but to my disappointment i cannot access windows marketplace here in u.a.e. I got a phone with a T-mobile logo at the back.

Thanks in advance.

Nearly every time when I call someone, he/she can't hear me at all (but I can hear correctly), and I need to call again. The second call always works well. As you can imagine, it's extremely annoying. I am quite sure this started only 2 days ago, and it worked well 2 weeks ago when I bought the phone.

It's a non branded phone, French version.

Any clue on this? Thanks.

Antoine

Is it just T mobile being slow? :) I had thought as T mobile and Orange are linked they would have rolled out the updates at the same time.

Has anyone in the UK on T mobile had the official updates?

I know I can get my phone unlocked and updates through other sources but I am not in a position to do this.

TIA

Since having my Omnia 7 i have never seen H come up for the signal ...get 3G+ ...is this the same thing and samsung cannot be bothered to change it to H ??

Had Dell venue pro and that had H come up where my omnia has 3G+ ...guess they are the same .

Any help most appreciated

Karl

Thanks a lot!

Got an issue using my Omnia 7 with headphones (usually while at the gym so lots of movement).

I've got two different sets of headphones displaying differnet issues:

* Samsung supplied headphones - work OK but on occassion the volume will be turned down to zero. Turning the volume back up while the headphones are plugged in doesn't work, it sticks at zero (although you can see the volume indicator flick between 1 and zero which imples it's turning up but being turned straight back down). If you unplug the headphones then the volume turns up but as soon as you plug the headphones back in then it returns back to zero.

* Sennheiser headphones - with these plugged in the songs pause, moves to next song, goes to previous; they are all over the place! Also, a few times I've plugged these in I've had a high-volume buzzing noise - I've had to reset the phone to get rid of this.

It's rather odd behaviour and doesn't happen all the time with either headphones. The Sennheiser are my preferred choice, but they seem more problematical and with the issues I've had with the Samsung-supplied ones there seems little point in purchasing new headphones at this stage.

Has anyone else had any issues? If not, then I'll return the unit for replacement but felt it was worth checking here first!

Thanks

Paul

I just ordered myself an Omnia 7 but already having doubts..

should I have gone with the Galaxy S?

I'm really gonna miss swype...

I'm especially looking for/trying to remember the one for entering some sort of settings menu, where you can adjust - among other things - the behaviour of the screen backlighting control (dimming, default et.al.).

Thank you sooo much!

This morning i'm having some trouble with my Omnia 7 as you can see in the quick photo attached.

In the upper green box it's written:

Arm9 FATAL error or Force RAM Dump Mode !!

if the error message exist, ARM9 FATAL error!!

Connect the device to PC and Dump Memory

MOD fs_pm.c 01988

DebugDump Base offset = 0x2e75d400

this is not my main phone and i'm using it to test WP7 , I never used anything on it except Zune ...

I downloaded "I8700_WP7_Downloader_Ver_7.03_For_Retail_Device__Product_Force_Select__.exe" and some roms to overwrite phone content

this software detects the phone correctly but cannot copy Roms on it , it says "this device is not retail device"

If someone got a solution how to dump its memory and completely erase it , in order to flash it with some of the ROMs that I have or any other exit to this situation.

Thank you ! :lol:

The phone connects to the WiFi OK, and it would appear that the Zune software picks up the wireless network correctly (the PC is wired, but connects to the same network as the wireless). I have put the phone on charge and left it, but nothing seems to happen - what should I expect, does the Zune software start when the phone connects to sync over the wireless?

I did notice that it was mentioned somewhere that WiFi syncing does not work on a 'Work' network - what is meant by this, I am running a domain at home, could that be the problem?

Cheers,

Rupert.

Has anyone seen the 16gb model anywhere in uk ?