One of the top 3 reasons I got this phone was the ability to play movies. I have been trying to transfer and play movies for almost 4 hours with this phone this morning to no avail. The problems are as follows.
1. When I Active Sync (by drop and drag) a movie to the storage it is taking me almost the same amount of time to watch the movie for the transfer to complete. The movie "300" (in .avi format 750-800 mb's) took almost 2 and a half hours to transfer - ridiculous. I stopped it near its completion because I was irate.
2. I then did the mass storage transfer with a 400 mb movie in .mp4 format. Took ten minutes tops. HOWEVER, upon playback it was choppy, i could not not fast forward and it grinded both the WMP and Touch Player to a halt.
3. Final attempt. I did the mass storage - again. This time with a .avi file which "used" to work on my last Omnia (will explain this in a sec). A 900 mb file took a 1/2 hour. not bad. Instead of trying to open it in TP or WMP I used the Divx player that I downloaded.
To my surprise it played. HOWEVER, it would not sync with the bluetooth earphones I bought specifically to listen to movies and music.
Then I tried to FF in the movie and it read: :seeking" for 5 minutes and then crashed.
Full disclosure: I have an older computer so there are no high speed ports to make transferring extra fast. With that being said, this is not my first Omnia. I had another one, but it had missing pixels so I took it back. That one though, when I did and active sync with movies, took, at most, 40 minutes for a 800 mb movie AND the movies played in TP, WMP AND Divx. I know the problems that I am having now do not have to exhist because did not on the other phone i recently took back.
Has anyone had this problem too? If so what remedy is there. This is a make or break issue with me and this phone.
(I did not see this problem when I did a search so I don't know if it will be moved)