Noob needing some direction...

[LocalHero]

Originally Posted by nitrous9200

If your old phone can beam contacts via Bluetooth, that's the easiest way to do it. Hopefully you can make it work because BT can be very iffy/temperamental.

I'll try that. Loading contacts is a bear in this phone or I haven't figured out the best way to do it yet.

Originally Posted by nitrous9200

You can disconnect the data connection by tapping the signal strength icon and pressing Disconnect in the bubble. You will see the arrow icons change into a cell tower and go white. There are two CAB files attached to this post that you can install on the phone which will automatically disconnect the data connection after being inactive for one or five minutes. Also, if you are connected via WiFi, that connection will take precedence over the EVDO data so it will not be used. You can tell by looking at the color of the signal bars; if they are gray, the data is inactive, white means it is active.

When I tap my signal icon the bubble gives me options for wireless manager and Settings. In wireless manager I can turn the phone off but not just the data connection, right?
Is there any reason not to just leave the wifi on all the time so as to never use evdo when I have a wifi connection? Kills the batt? security issue?

I don't see files attached to your post....

[mzimmer74]

Originally Posted by LocalHero

I'll try that. Loading contacts is a bear in this phone or I haven't figured out the best way to do it yet.

I very rarely set up contacts directly on the phone. Instead, I set them up in Outlook on my computer and then sync, making sure that contacts are one of the things that sync. If you don't have Outlook, I think you can also use Google and sync your contacts (and other things) through that. I'm not sure how to do that as I've never tried it, but I would imagine there are plenty of guides out there on it. The only problem with using Google would be that it would use up some of your "limited" available data. Just something you might look at.

[LocalHero]

Originally Posted by mzimmer74

I very rarely set up contacts directly on the phone. Instead, I set them up in Outlook on my computer and then sync, making sure that contacts are one of the things that sync. If you don't have Outlook, I think you can also use Google and sync your contacts (and other things) through that. I'm not sure how to do that as I've never tried it, but I would imagine there are plenty of guides out there on it. The only problem with using Google would be that it would use up some of your "limited" available data. Just something you might look at.

I don't have near as many contacts on Google as I do on my phone. Lumber yards, sub contractors, etc.
I'll have to put them in by hand I think. I got the two phones to recognize each other via bluetooth but I could never get it to say "connected" for some reason.

Right now I'm trying to get the microsd card working. It works fine in my old phone but doesn't seem to be recognized in the omnia. Under the "hard Reset" menu it only says "Not Install" and the format button is greyed out. I formatted the card in my old phone...maybe I need to format it via my pc?

[mzimmer74]

Originally Posted by LocalHero

I don't have near as many contacts on Google as I do on my phone. Lumber yards, sub contractors, etc.
I'll have to put them in by hand I think. I got the two phones to recognize each other via bluetooth but I could never get it to say "connected" for some reason.

Right now I'm trying to get the microsd card working. It works fine in my old phone but doesn't seem to be recognized in the omnia. Under the "hard Reset" menu it only says "Not Install" and the format button is greyed out. I formatted the card in my old phone...maybe I need to format it via my pc?

What is the old phone you have? Would it be able to hook up to Google? I ask because if it can then you could use Google Sync (http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/) to upload from your old phone to Google, and then use Google Sync to download from Google to your new phone. Even if not, I'd think it would be easier to manually add all the contacts into Google and then use Google Sync to get them to the phone than it would be to manually enter them into the phone. Like I said, however, I don't personally use Google Sync so not sure how good it is.

[LocalHero]

My old phone is a Straight Talk Samsung R451c. Not a smart phone and I'd be surprised if it could sync with google.
You're probably right about loading info into google then syncing it with the phone. I've got the most impt contacts loaded at this point. I might try that with the rest of them.

I just formatted that micro sd in my pc so I'll see if that works in the omnia now.

[LocalHero]

Blue angels are putting on an air show here and keep flying over!

[LocalHero]

formatting worked. Card is now recognized but spb shell can no longer load as a critical component is missing....
How could something have gotten on that card when omnia wouldn't even recognize it? I guess I have to re-install spb shell.....wonder if I'll lose all the settings I've worked thru already. *@#%^&%

[mzimmer74]

You should be able to safely reinstall and not lose your settings, however, if you are worried about it, there's a trick to backing up and restoring your settings, but it involves the registry so not sure if you would want to try it or not. If you do, what you have to do is backup the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Spb Software House 2\Spb Mobile Shell\Widgets\" portion of the registry using some registry editor. Then, after you reinstall (and if you've lost everything), simply restore that file you created with the registry editor and it should all be back.

[LocalHero]

I'm not confident enough to to do that yet but spb seems to have come back. I formatted the card using the omnia thinking that might be important and it seems to have brought spb back. I have no idea how/why that happened...

[nitrous9200]

Whoops, sorry about the mistakes. That's what I get for posting when I'm only half awake!
The disconnect button is not on the signal strength meter, it's on the data icon (to the left). Here's a picture:

You will see that come up when you tap the icon to the left of the signal meter.
The CABs will definitely be attached to this post. Installing either one will cause the data to disconnect after one or five minutes of inactivity. Note that the data is only inactive when there is no data being transferred, so this won't reduce your data usage. There is an application called NoData at modaco that will allow you to actually disable your data connection if you desire. I've never used it but I'm pretty sure it works with the Omnia.