Hello newb here, want one bit of advice on my new phone

[Guest e100spv]

hi,

great site, i recently ordered an spv e-100 which should be here by the end of this week. everywhere ive searched for spv this site returns in the results. had a look around and used the search for a lot of immediate questions i had about the phone and found out all the answers.

This topic is more general though. im aware that the early spv's had a lot of issues with software/firmware. i can see there are plenty of seasoned smartphone users on here so i wanted to ask, if theres one piece of advice youd give on owning /using a smartphone what would it be ..?

also is there a usenet binaries group for smartphone software?

[Guest Will]

What A Great Idea!! I've stickied this to make more people post.. :!:

If you are doing something with the phone, read about it first, read the screen/help files on the application, and read the thread about it on here.

And if it says, do not unplug/reboot now/press this.. DO IT! :shock: don't think you know best, you usually don't :)

Will

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

Hmm my best advice would be to take frequent backups, because it will go wrong at one point or another...

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest crafty]

My advice is to decert. Simple as that. Sure it's a bit scary but opens your phone up to become truly Smart!

8)

[Guest FrankyG]

Buy a 256Mb SD card and reader :!: Right now, I'm copying 100Mb of Music onto my card, a 2 min job. Also got a couple of hours of French lessons, all my programs and funky ringtones/alerts on the card. Bigger IS better :wink:

[Guest skinnertim]

My single biggest tips would be to install a) smart explorer (or similar) and :) task manager (or similar) - these are essential programmes to a) allow you to navigate the file structure of the phone when not attached to a PC and :o to see what is running (and turn programmes off) so you don't end up with a snail in your hand instead of a phone (Get this MS - virtual memory management does not work - comprendez?)

Both of these are available free for unlocked phones from www.monolithix.org (and elsewhere)

Have fun! :wink:

[Guest MECX]

Skin up and show off---get some sweet ringtones---pocketMVP stick some porn on your phone :) :o

[Guest superflysi]

After arguing the toss with Orange over £100 quid monthly phonebilss and my T68i being a pile of s*** they are sending me a new E100 .... if anyone is after one hurry as they running low on stocks ........

cant wait to start playing

(sorry MECX sent you pm by accident)

[Guest MECX]

(sorry MECX sent you pm by accident)

awww i thought i was popular--welcome and have fun when you get it :)

[Guest drblow]

If you are using Windows media player alot for playing mp3's etc - download the excellent playlist creator from monolithix.

It will create a playlist file in your programs menu, & when you click on that, media player will open 100 times faster than it usually does!! :wink:

[Guest ridpath]

The two main newsgroups for the Smartphone are microsoft.public.smartphone

microsoft.public.smartphone.developer

As for the one piece of advice, well that's a bit more tricky! Few things:

- regularily switch your handset off/on, at least once every two days keeping the battery detached from the handset for thirty seconds or so.

- look at http://msmobiles.com/article.php/37.html for Smartphone FAQs

- get some cool software from www.handandgo.com (select Smartphone)

Enjoy!

ridpath

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

regularily switch your handset off/on, at least once every two days keeping the battery detached from the handset for thirty seconds or so.

Err why? never done that in 9 months of having the phone and would not

recommend it either :? The only time the battery gets removed is when I

have run an update or made the phone freeze by messing around with it.

PS Welcome to the site :)

[Guest Pixeled]

Hi :)

I'm new to this site, and I also came here by searching (google) for SPV and Smartphone. I've also ordered a SPV, and I should receive it within one or two weeks. I've read through this forum a few days and found some things that will really come in handy.

Buy a 256Mb SD card and reader :!:  Right now, I'm copying 100Mb of Music onto my card, a 2 min job. Also got a couple of hours of French lessons, all my programs and funky ringtones/alerts on the card. Bigger IS better :wink:

I think this would really come in handy! ;)

Where would one get such a card? Is it for sale online (since I also ordered the phone online) or should I just visit the local phone shop?

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Where would one get such a card? Is it for sale online (since I also ordered the phone online) or should I just visit the local phone shop?

Look in www.ebuyer.com or ebay

Prices start at around £45 + delivery for a 256MB card

[Guest Pixeled]

Thank you for your reply, but I couldn't find it there.

I have found another site though, the CoolSmartPhone Shop.

Now this leads to another issue :)

I'm very interested in buying a flexible keyboard, but at the site of the manufacterer I read the SPV needs his ROM updated. I searched for a ROM update for Dutch SPV's but I couldn't find one! Is it not yet available, or do Dutch Orange users just use other ROMS (such as the English)?

[Guest PsychoDave]

Hi there

You don't need to update to use the keyboard you can just apply the part that installs the driver. Check here for more details.

Hope this helps,

:)

[Guest Pixeled]

Thanks a lot! :)

I still haven't found out were to get just the drivers (I didn't completely understand the thread) but I will!

[Guest simonbratt99]

The orange update option should be in your programs list, no 6 on mine. i just got my phone and did it, and there was a keyboard update to do.

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

The only problem with running the keyboard drivers is that it will re-cert your phone :) so you need to unlock it again.

[Guest simonbratt99]

luckly its soooo easy to unlock on the orange web site, like i did :)

[Guest sgannon]

Before you even consider buying software, download GnuBoy, SPV-Man and SPV-Invaders. Hours of gaming fun for free! You'll need to de-cert your phone though, so I guess this is really the second thing you should do.. :wink:

[Guest simonbratt99]

wow your right, spv man and invaders are cool, thanks for pointing them out.

GnuBoy? do you need to download roms too? if not where are the emulator games?

si

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

ROMs for the GNUboy etc cannot be posted on this site due to our

copyright rules, you have to find them for yourself I'm afraid.

[Guest gdb]

Does anybody now how to unlock a spv

;)

[Guest simonbratt99]

unlocking can easyily be dont on the orange website