Guest joolsca Posted February 19, 2004 Report Posted February 19, 2004 You seriously ought to think about flashing your phone to the generic Motorola ROM.
Guest phonesmarts Posted February 20, 2004 Report Posted February 20, 2004 wow, equis...you must hate the phone...more cons than pros thats a bad sign...
Guest jimmymacv Posted February 20, 2004 Report Posted February 20, 2004 Joolsca -- what do you mean flash the phone to the original Motorola ROM - what is that and what does it accomplish? Jimmy
Guest joolsca Posted February 20, 2004 Report Posted February 20, 2004 It's the generic Motorola flash that is making it's way around the Net. It gets rid of a lot of the AT&T software glitches and removes the AT&T customizations.
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted February 20, 2004 Report Posted February 20, 2004 Not really worth doing as it's an earlier version leaked (stolen from moto) As for No6 in your list that the way the OS is designed to work, they may be in the back ground but they are not using much if any cpu time. As I have not had any of your other problems on my phone the fisrt thing to look at is a hard reset as you may ust have a lot of clutter causing your problems. This can happen when new users start to install everything they find. ( we all went through that stage :) )
Guest phonesmarts Posted February 20, 2004 Report Posted February 20, 2004 Really? the MS stuff that came with the phone doesn't beg up much CPU time? it really doesn't matter if you have Binary's Task Manager, or and task manager. About the generic flash rom...it isn't worth it. i haven't flashed it myself (too scared... :oops: ) but it really doesn't do much except rid the phone of m-mode (for att users). perhaps a new rom would come out (hopefully with sp2003!)
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted February 20, 2004 Report Posted February 20, 2004 Really? the MS stuff that came with the phone doesn't beg up much CPU time? It's one of the requirements of the Smartphone format, certified apps should not have an exit option but when not used should not hinder the running of the phone. Even though we know too many apps can efffect the physical memory :).
Guest cjoprey Posted February 20, 2004 Report Posted February 20, 2004 Can I just say this - I used to have a Nokia 7650 and only recently upgraded to the Mpx200... And I've not had ANY problems with it... I'm a S/W developer and as such I did install the file manager and registry managers before anything else, but all in all I can safely say this is the best phone I've ever owned (and the first non-Nokia - I must say I'm converted!) But the biggest observation from reading all the forums / websites / docs seems to me to be that the US based AT&T version of the phone is the one causing all the bad reviews... All the Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone ones love it. Any possibility that it's to do with the AT&T branding b*ggering up the phone? Just my 2p's worth...
Guest joolsca Posted February 20, 2004 Report Posted February 20, 2004 Well I DID flash my AT&T branded phone with the generic ROM and I don't seem to have the major problems that have been described by some of those who haven't tried it. I'm using the phone on Fido in Canada, so I didn't want the AT&T firmware.
Guest actionj Posted February 21, 2004 Report Posted February 21, 2004 smartphones are basically computers and any one person can create or cause about a million different possible problems on a phone. I troubleshoot computers for a living and people bring a computer I built for them in and say it's broken or sucks. What really has happened is they looked up porn all day and got spyware on their comupter or plugged a cord in the wrong spot, etc etc. so what I am saying is that it's hard to trust user reviews when buying smartphones because there are so many possible scenarios where somebody could have a problem. I am careful of what i install on my mpx200 and I watch movies, listen to mp3s, print word documents from my phone, browse the internet and do a hundred other things I never would have thought I could do with a phone and experience no bad slowdowns or crashes.
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted February 21, 2004 Report Posted February 21, 2004 And that's the down side to not having application locks, and being able to install applications that have not been checked. It can leave your phone open to viruses. It's only a matter of time before a virus will be made as they are already around on symbian OS :)
Guest phonesmarts Posted February 22, 2004 Report Posted February 22, 2004 *gulp* V-v-viruses? :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Guest samandiain Posted February 26, 2004 Report Posted February 26, 2004 The speakerphone is spot on. Much better than the orignal SPV and excellent for use in the car. There's a working speakerphone option? I couldn't get that to work - i presumed it was a missing feature that hadn't been removed from the list - just like camera. possibly it's cos my last mpx was junk - i'll try it on the new one. Iain
Guest phonesmarts Posted February 26, 2004 Report Posted February 26, 2004 yeah, there is a speakerphone. just hold the "Call" key (the green phone) and there should be a parabolic speaker object that appears on the top. its pretty good in terms of quality. is there any smartphone that utilizes the "Push-to-Talk" feature?
Guest kapitan jackal Posted May 11, 2004 Report Posted May 11, 2004 dummy question. does the mpx200 captures video? tnx
Guest abatis Posted May 12, 2004 Report Posted May 12, 2004 My MPX captures video with the CM35D camera http://www.gaborvision.com.tw/products/Vie...ewTakeCM35d.htm I won the camera (EDIT link removed) The vids play with the built in Media Player. Very easy to do. I am running the ATT firmware on this phone and downloaded the drivers from the above gaborvision site.
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