did I buy a dud T-Mob sda2?

[Guest elGringo]

I've been having some t-mob sda2 trouble, some advice would be welcome please

straight from the box and the opera browser didn't work, that's the main "t-mob" branded button on the front, but I wasn't bothered so I ignored it, I've since downloaded opera and reinstalled it and it still fails on "missing libraries"

it won't make calls, about one call a day, it just hangs when I phone a friend, it then seems to time out after about 3 mins and returns an error, this is starting to annoy me

the whole activeSync thing, I really really don't want to run any microSft stuff on my home pc, I just don't and I totally begrudged upgrading to sp2, then installing their mail client (300meg? - errr why?) so that I could connect to it, so I'd like a recommendation for another syncer or some way of connecting to it? naively I thought I'd just be able to plug it in and it'd recognise it as a drive... ;)

the bluetooth stack doesn't seem to work too well either, it seems to take ages and not to recognise other phones, is there an upgrade or tweak I can do?

oh yeah, it doesn't seem to want to charge from my cigarette lighter either (original cable/other cable, two different lighter adaptors that I know that work)

final question,

what am I supposed to call it on this site when I'm searching? is it a 550? sdaII, sda2 is there some standard way or referring to it so that I can only look once for things I'm interested in?

any advice would be most welcome

cheers

Gringo :)

Edited August 1, 2006 by elGringo

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

The SDA II is very similar to the C550 (HTC Hurricane) the only difference is that it uses a different case which makes it look like the

SP5m.

Tmobile have an update for your phone so it may be worth seeing if you have that installed. This is the only update available for this phone.

Don't make the mistake of thinking you can flash your phone with the SP5m ROM as it is not compatable. If you did try it you will end up killing your phone.

[Guest elGringo]

The SDA II is very similar to the C550 (HTC Hurricane) the only difference is that it uses a different case which makes it look like the

SP5m.

Tmobile have an update for your phone so it may be worth seeing if you have that installed. This is the only update available for this phone.

Don't make the mistake of thinking you can flash your phone with the SP5m ROM as it is not compatable. If you did try it you will end up killing your phone.

cheers for the reply,

I tried this from this thread

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=243463

and your link's broken but I went via this (couldn't find a way to navigate to it from the t-mobile.co.uk site tho' so I'm assuming it's the UK site?)

http://www.tm-phonedownloads.com/sdas.html

but when I tried to install I got a:

"error 120: country id error n-n-38-38-38" which is weird as it's a uk phone and the site's uk too?

[Guest mikefirth]

cheers for the reply,

I tried this from this thread

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=243463

and your link's broken but I went via this (couldn't find a way to navigate to it from the t-mobile.co.uk site tho' so I'm assuming it's the UK site?)

http://www.tm-phonedownloads.com/sdas.html

but when I tried to install I got a:

"error 120: country id error n-n-38-38-38" which is weird as it's a uk phone and the site's uk too?

Hey,

I have exactly the same troubles with my phone, in terms of the T button and calls failing when you dial out.

Firstly, the calls thing, if it is the same as mine it comes up with "Operation Failed" ? It will carry on, I haven't fixed it or anything, lol.

I find the bluetooth is pretty good but it performs better for me when it is discoverable which is annoying.

When I first got the phone, it also kept resetting it's home screen and menu view back to the default of pink with a tmob background, grrr, but I fixed that by deleting an exe file which was being called when Windows started up.

The Tmob button can be re-directed to anything you like on the phone, BUT, it isn't really worth it to be honest because when you reboot, this phone flashes its settings back to a certain state, including putting the shortcut back to being to opera.exe...so useless.

The problem with these phones is that someone at T-Mobile is like a kid in a sweet shop, and when they get the prototype they customise the phone to such a shite level that it runs slow, has errors goes wrong and generally performs worse than if it just had Windows Smartphone on it.

Did you know you should have the Office Apps on this phone, Pocket Word etc? T-Mobile hide those up pretty well! You have a customised vers. of Pocket Outlook on there already though you'd never tell.

Why don't you want to use Activesync or "Microsoft Software" in general? I am ver y pro-Micrososft and ActiveSync works great...give it a go...you will be able to explore your phones memory via your PC and have a play :rolleyes:

For all these issues, I have finally got peeved, I complained to T-Mobile who took me relatively seriously, and I am now in touch with HTC who will do SOMETHING with my phone, if you want to call them theur number is 08712-230217.

Good Luck!!!

Mike