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Originally Posted by skrump
Chris-
That's a well thought out list of issues you've put together! I'm curious as to what you find, as I agree with you on a lot of the points. I'd love to find a better MP3 player as well, however I think I may be stuck with Windows Media Player. I'm using it to play Rhapsody subscription tracks, and I'm under the impression that other players won't be able to handle the subscription DRM...
Some of the trouble I'm finding as I try out some of these apps, such as the pcketcm app you suggest syrguy, is that they don't play well with the Omnia's screen rotation. More than once I've found that these programs work great in portrait mode, but as soon as you tilt your phone into landscape mode, the program crashes. I assume this just comes with the territory considering the Omnia is such a new device, and time will bring us more polished apps...
How's Google Maps working for you? I love that program, but right now I'm hitting the bug where it doesn't recognize the Samsung Keyboard for entering text/#'s. The workaround is to use the horrific Microsoft keyboard, which sucks. I'm hearing of plenty of other folks having this same problem on the Omnia, and have been watching the Google message boards for any sign of a fix...
Finally, unless I missed it, did you or anyone come up with a way to turn off the "Battery is now fully charged" Alarm? The one fix I read for that was to replace that alarm audio file with a file of room noise, but I don't know what exact audio file my phone is using for that alarm...
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* I tried Pocket Music and found it was a good program but - hey maybe it's just me - but the EQ was so tiny I could not even use it with my stylus. It was also rather large and cut out when other programs were running.
* I have found many programs have trouble with rotating the screen. When reading the support forums on many apps, that is something I often see. Many developers seem to be aware of it and are developing patches...
* Google Maps worked really well for me and was a lot of fun. It had trouble finding my location...not sure why... perhaps it is because I live in the mountains but VZ Navigator does find me here. Overall, I was happy with it and found it worked like a paired-down version of what you see on your PC. I did not have any trouble with my keyboard...
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It looks like a lot of these issues can be taken care of with a lot of messing around with patches and settings. I'm willing to continue pulling out my remaining hair getting this to work right but the pink camera problem is a hardware issue........and I'm having a tough time getting Verizon to believe me or Samsung to acknowledge my existence. My theory is that there are batches of Omnias with defective CCDs. I think they should replace them...