3 weeks in, I'm not sure Touch Pro is for me

[cndm101]

copper rom with telus radio is amazing good battery life and i always have atlest 3 bars. but im with sprint duno how it would be on VZW

[shaggylive]

Originally Posted by bobby yarrow

1. Receiving calls. I fail to connect about half the time when receiving a call. I'm using S2U2, but that doesn't seem to be the problem (or at least uninstalling it doesn't seem to fix the problem). I've got the phone set to poll the towers more frequently to minimize VZW's ring delay, I can live with that, but when I press to answer I have dead air. Half the time I get the caller about a second later, and half the time the call is just lost. I've wiped back to clean, and, I don't know . . . maybe it's my particular phone, don't see a lot of complaints about this, but my phone doesn't work very well as a phone.

I'm pretty sure this problem was caused by advanced config or diamond tweak. I made a cab a while back to fix. you may want to run the cab after changing any settings in the aforementioned apps. (or just check the reg)

Originally Posted by shaggylive

ftp://ppcgeeks.com/Titan/Users/Shagg...dResume777.cab

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Planner\Settings]
"SuspendResume"="#777"

welcome to the site, and I gotta say that's a pretty good first post.

[Carla]

One of the other teachers at work has the Storm and she hates it sooooo much (lol)....So I would say no on that

[amw1972]

This is my second WinMo device...when I had my Mogul...I ran stock ROM and radio...and I dealt with the battery life and the lack of memory (no multitasking.)

Since I bought my TP...took me about a month to take the plunge into flashing a custom ROM...(Y4J's Clean) I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. No more bloat-ware, no more battery lasting half a day, and the phone was SOOOO MUCH FASTER. Flashing a new radio came later...and I was really skeptical...until my battery lasted me a day and a half (moderate use.)

Bottom line...flash...flash and you won't be sorry...

unlock your phone here

read up on flashing here

on the different radios here

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by gator352

Dump VZW and goto Sprint......

WTF??

How is "switching to Sprint" going to fix either problem the OP posted??

~John

[YouMayLose]

I dont no..I've flashed (running Mighty 4.16 and telus radio) I've tweaked I've pee'd on the phone and still my battery isn't great.. don't mistake as it is better than it was straight out the box..but the battery last long enough to hook the phone up to my tv and watch 1 movie from full charge to dead... not to mention it can be 100% charged and as soon as I unhook it. it loses 2%..and then down 10% in a matter of minutes..but will stay at 89 to 90% for a long while IF NO USE....

[amw1972]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

WTF??

How is "switching to Sprint" going to fix either problem the OP posted??

~John

they might have been trying to say switch to Sprint's TouchPro..since its NOT gimped...less "restriction" as to what ROMs to run...blah..blah...blah

[syanni85]

Originally Posted by gator352

Dump VZW and goto Sprint......

i agree 10000%... VZW will activate any cdma phone, so IMO your mistake was getting the crippled version of the touch pro...

[ca2l3vin]

Originally Posted by syanni85

i agree 10000%... VZW will activate any cdma phone, so IMO your mistake was getting the crippled version of the touch pro...

Originally Posted by bobby yarrow

1. Receiving calls. I fail to connect about half the time when receiving a call. I'm using S2U2, but that doesn't seem to be the problem (or at least uninstalling it doesn't seem to fix the problem). I've got the phone set to poll the towers more frequently to minimize VZW's ring delay, I can live with that, but when I press to answer I have dead air. Half the time I get the caller about a second later, and half the time the call is just lost. I've wiped back to clean, and, I don't know . . . maybe it's my particular phone, don't see a lot of complaints about this, but my phone doesn't work very well as a phone.

2. Battery life. At first I thought it was just impossibly bad, then after a few days of burning the battery all the way and recharging I thought it was almost ok, but I find myself afraid to make calls (let alone do something like GPS) if I'm away from a charger and want to keep battery life. Part of the problem may be where I live . . . my poor reception at home means I get a much longer battery run at work than I do at home. But say 90 minutes of talk time and 20 minutes of internet over a 6 hour period and I'm dead. This isn't enough to get me through the work day, let alone through the day (which for me is typically about 19 hours).
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First issue I would try switching to the standard windows mobile dialer. Seems to have helped with me.

Second issue why not try and extended battery from Telesales. Adds some bulk to the phone but works wonders for me gave me atleast another 5 - 6 hours boost to take me through the rest of my day. (Im willing to sacrifice I bigger bulge in the pocket for more productivity but thats just me.)

i agree 10000%... VZW will activate any cdma phone, so IMO your mistake was getting the crippled version of the touch pro...

VZW will activate any cdma phone? dont even know what to say about that for a minute. If you just read some of the other threads here you would know the trouble it takes AT THIS POINT. you would need to KNOW somebody that has the ability to put an esn in the database which not everyone even has access to in the company.

As for the crippled version mess lets not get into that again. There have been so many threads debating this and that lets not bring it here.

[freeza]

So everyone agrees that the Telus radio is better than Sprint 1.11.00F?