Sprint HTC Touch - Bugs, complaints, etc.

[Pibe38]

Originally Posted by vladfan

Thanks for the suggestions. I will change my e-mail settings and see what happens. I am a Safety Director and need to get my e-mails as quick as possible but I will try something different in the settings. If anybody has any suggestions for the backlight please let me know. Thanks.

If it is a POP3 account you can do as suggested above. Get a free Mail2Web Exchange account and forward your POP3 address to the mail2web address. This will give you your work e-mail in real time and with less battery consumption.

Originally Posted by riironman

will the windows live hotmail/pushmail kill the battery also?

I don't know about killing it since I have not used it, but it's all about the time interval you use. The more often it checks, the more the faster the battery drains.

[sacto2b]

I have read posts that talk about automatic sync's and removing that option, but can somebody explain in easier terms for me.

[Procter]

I went to a Sprint local store and checked the demo Touch which was manufactured on 10/10/07. It also has "waterwave" on screen when pressing it. The store rep opened another new Touch and even on the start-up screen there was huge wave patten when pressing the screen. However, side by side compared with the Touch, the demo Mogul didn't have any water wave when I tried to press it. Does anyone care about this? This might mean that a lot of our phones' touch screen might be defective, and we'll get "smudges" or other problems later on.

Another thought is whether this is related to the touchscreen sensitivity. I've seen people reported that you can actually edit registry to change this. On my screen, if I just touch the screen, you can hardly find the wave or brightness change. Only when I press it a little harder, can I see it. For those who claimed that your screen has no such problem, can you please try one more time to press it a little bit harder to see if the screen is indeed OK? It's easier to see it when you press the weather icon and wait it to update info, or you can do it with a darker background or wall paper.

And btw, I just got a direct impression about the "sleep mode" problem everyone was talking about. With the phone lying in front of my desk, I missed my GF's call. Then when I pressed the power button, I got the missed call indicator and the notification. During the whole time, the phone didn't even ring. I think previously I just happened not to have any incoming call when the phone is actually "sleeping" not the "power save" status after I pressed the "power" button.

I think I'm gonna wait till the newest batch to exchange.

[sj808]

Originally Posted by Procter

I went to a Sprint local store and checked the demo Touch which was manufactured on 10/10/07. It also has "waterwave" on screen when pressing it. The store rep opened another new Touch and even on the start-up screen there was huge wave patten when pressing the screen. However, side by side compared with the Touch, the demo Mogul didn't have any water wave when I tried to press it. Does anyone care about this? This might mean that a lot of our phones' touch screen might be defective, and we'll get "smudges" or other problems later on.

Another thought is whether this is related to the touchscreen sensitivity. I've seen people reported that you can actually edit registry to change this. On my screen, if I just touch the screen, you can hardly find the wave or brightness change. Only when I press it a little harder, can I see it. For those who claimed that your screen has no such problem, can you please try one more time to press it a little bit harder to see if the screen is indeed OK? It's easier to see it when you press the weather icon and wait it to update info, or you can do it with a darker background or wall paper.

And btw, I just got a direct impression about the "sleep mode" problem everyone was talking about. With the phone lying in front of my desk, I missed my GF's call. Then when I pressed the power button, I got the missed call indicator and the notification. During the whole time, the phone didn't even ring. I think previously I just happened not to have any incoming call when the phone is actually "sleeping" not the "power save" status after I pressed the "power" button.

I think I'm gonna wait till the newest batch to exchange.

for surveying purposes

this "Waterwave" problem and sleep mode problem.... I dont have it

[meatlocker]

Originally Posted by sj808

for surveying purposes

this "Waterwave" problem and sleep mode problem.... I dont have it

Me neither.

[jaytv]

10/29 Manufacture, Taiwan made, no "waterwave effect" no sleep issues, either...

[Insoc]

Just got mine two days ago... Nothing loaded on it at all.

manufactured 8 NOV 07 (Using ##778#, what is that anyway?) I have had the sleep issue once already, wife called me, my phone never rang, and it would not wake up, required a soft reset...

P.S. No waterwaves...

P.P.S. I do not like the alarm at all. It beeps once, and then the notification pops up... It only beeps once every 30 secs I think. I need something that will beep until I turn it off...

[diomark]

I haven't seen anything in this thread about the microsd corruption issue

It's a major issue for me.. basically the FAT table gets scrambled from time to time..and if you accidentally do a write prior to rebooting, it tends to zap some of the files on there...

Details here in this thread - http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=11404


-mark

[RickR]

the touch weather on the main screen does not have my city for weather can that be changed?

everytime I go to the net I get sprint advertisments popping up how can this be stopped?

[EtherealRemnant]

Grrr... bluetooth volume is garbage!

I bought a Plantronics 220 yesterday to try out the bluetooth on this thing and I can't hear half the people who call me with the volume on max! >_<