My experience with the Z2

Hi there!
I decided to register on this forum as to be able to share my personal experience with the Sony Xperia Z2 thus far.
To start i want to make it clear that i personally believed this phone offered a rather good experience at first, unfortunately like some other users i too started to notice the phone had its issues which needless to say take away from this 'great' experience it has to offer.
So lets begin.
The first Sony Xperia Z2 i received had a lot of issues, this one was a 14w20 version:
- The device had quite a few scratches on the sides OUT of the box, which nearly made it impossible for me to return it .......
- The MicroSD flap was not leveled and would stick out very noticeably
- The Camera lens was not centered
- The phone had gaps in the upper right corner and the lower left corner which were also very noticeable
- The phone would not record 4k longer than 2 minutes before it would heat up ( tried multiple times )
- The pictures would have a very strange colour to them, sort of neon'ish
- Charging was extremely slow, i specifically used your standard usb cable and i used the Z2 dock, neither had effect
- The back side would make a very annoying squeeking sound when pressed, even slight pressure would do so
- The WiFi would be terrible, since i travel a bit i tried it on different networks with pretty much the same results at home and at the office, my other devices have no issues whatsoever nor have they ever had any issues like this device
- The call quality was rather mediocre, quite a few contacts noticed during calls that they had to concentrate more in comparison to my other devices as to understand what i was saying
- The 'close cover message' which pops up once you open your flaps would appear out of nowhere, whilst my flaps were closed properly
To be honest with you there were other issues as well but i think the upper list is rather enough to understand the interest for a replacement.
And so i did, i had this one replaced for another one, i was barely able to convince my supplier to replace this one due to the scratches it had which they would not believe were present on the device out of the box.
The second Sony Xperia Z2 was also a 14w20 and.. unfortunately.. it too has issues :
- The gap issue is present on this one as well, same locations as aforementioned but a tad smaller
- Recording in 4k now has increased up to 4 minutes before it stops recording, i find this unacceptable
- The mechanism for open flaps is a good idea were it not for the fact that this device also keeps saying the flaps are open. When they are not I could configure it to stop notifying me but what if some day i go swimming and i believe the flaps are closed since the device does not say they are open and i take a dive? I find this very inconvenient ..
- Call quality has not improved, my contacts say it sounds muffled and after asking my partner to switch our phones and try calling i totally agree it sounds muffled and one has to concentrate as to understand what the other side is saying ....
- The WiFi issue is present on this device as well, now i noticed that i have to shut it down and power it back on again as to 'fix' the issue with streaming, i experience it on YouTube, Netflix, Facebook videos and others.
I also noticed that it d/c's often than not, i tried downloading a 10gb file as to see what happens and it literally stopped
more than i can count. My other devices do not have this issue... tried this at home and at the office as well.
- The battery charging issue continues on this one as well, to be sure that it is not related to the electricity at home i took the dock with me everywhere i went and charged it where i could, needless to say it did not matter at all
I encourage people to test their phones and decide for themselves and not just buy into what i am saying, remember this is my experience with it and yours can be different.
For me, unfortunately.. i will be returning this one as well and will consider purchasing something else but nowadays it seems personally that quality is hard to find..
/xiLuS

I'm far from impressed with mine. Very similar issues and also a cracked bezel. Unless my issues are resolved I'll be going back to an iPhone. At least if there is a hw problem they swap it out there and then. None of this sending away and being without you phone rubbish.

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My experience with the N97 - "my last Nokia"

Hi everyone,
I know this is a user-to-user support forum but I believe a complaint to be some sort helps users to decide whether the N97 is for them or not. Before you read on, this post will contain comparisons to competitors, so if you hate apples, feel free to ignore me! (Also I don't think users should stop harassing Nokia for what they have done to us - the more complaints the better. Igoring customers is not a very good corporate strategy. Eventually it will take them down - people buy Nokia for quality, otherwise they could buy a rip-off from ebay).
Just skimming over the posts shows me that I am not alone. So let me share my experience with Nokia and the N97. I am too tired complaining about this phone, at least I think my experience has made sure that no-one of my friends and relatives is ever going to buy a Nokia again.
When I bought the phone for then 500 pounds at the Nokia flagship store in London it seemed nice enough. Good camera, decent keyboard and features competitors could only dream of. Unfortunately, that's paperwork. For a start, the much advertised facebook application was completely disfunctional and taking into account that Nokia clearly tried to compete with the iphone (my apologies again for mentioning a competitor) frankly a lame joke. I know a firmware update has somewhat relieved the situation now, but I will come to that later.
Okay, so I have disabled the facebook application. Not a drama, surely the rest will work okay. But then after a week some of the pictures I took with the built-in camera weren't accessible anymore (broken image displayed). Again, I have another camera and I was hoping for a firmware update so I ignored it. I had now started using the joikuspot app to browse the internet on my linux box. Very nice. I started using email a lot on my phone but again was disappointed. I have a £165 ipod touch here. Without kinetic scrolling and an extremely bad UI design, by which I mean the icons and menus (ignoring the graphics flaws all the time) it is no match for the ipod, so what i did was to use joiku spot with my ipod touch. Before that firmware update the N97s browser was also still buggy so I used joikuspot for that too. I was now down to using my £500 smartphone as a wireless modem. What a shame. But I was still hoping for some kind of magic update.
Then finally, I found out about the firmware update. I had to open my phone, check the serial and visit the Nokia website. Unfortunately, the Ovi software and drivers supplied with the phone did not recognize my N97 properly. Something which I think was fixed with the firmware update (anyone seeing a circular dependency here? ) Furthermore, the built-in firmware update over 3G seemed to be disabled. So I made the journey back to the flagship store in London, explaining the problem. I was greeted by an extremly rude employee. Well, I think that's not really his fault, I guess he was just sick of all the complaints. Anyways, I told him that the 3G update was not working and he started to be really patronizing telling me that I wouldn't listen to him (he said it was "working" but "disabled"). Maybe I should have told him that I am a software engineer and that in 99.9% of the cases in which we disable a feature, the reason is that it is "not working". Anyways, he kindly allowed me to use one of their machines to update the firmware "at my own risk", which worked. At no point I have received an apology for the fact that I have paid Nokia £500 to beta-test their products.
Now of course, the firmware update has succeeded, but is all fine? Far from it.... As many report on this forum the N97s battery meter is faulty. Countless times, my phone has just literally died overnight. It even forgets time and date! This is more than bad - every phone I have had so far complained about a draining battery well in advance. I had to dig out my old phone to serve as an alarm clock again - the fact that the alarm clock itself is unreliable is a alltogether different matter... One time the battery died during the day - after doing nothing for 4 hours in my sports bag (started with 1 bar down). When I had to make a call that day, for the first time in I don't know how many years I had to use a telephone box. Progress?!
The firmware update has also barely improved the email client - just a few ui glitches solved. However, the biggest issue at the moment seems to be the weird memory organization. When I buy a phone I don't want to deal with something like the c drive problem. Reinstalling applications on the 32gb partition helps somewhat but why didn't Nokia do that in the first place? Has this phone never been tested?The phone is still way too slow.
I can't comment on the iplayer app - says it needs wlan to work. But the youtube player has crashed every time i used it. And by crashing I mean it took down the whole phone with it. I admit that my ipod crashed a few times too - in just under a year (~3 times). But the reset was straightforward every time. With the N97, the only thing that seems to help is to take the battery out!
Before I forget, the N97 doesn't even work as a phone. In a 30 minute conversation, the call got dropped 4 times. I don't know whether it was because of a calibration issue with the proximity sensor or a more serious problem, all I know is that this is unacceptable!
I am sick of the phone and Nokia's service. The joikuspot app ran out and asks me to pay... I have paid £500 pounds for the bloody phone already. The adobe reader asks me to pay... (somehow it ran out without me even using it). Maybe you see why I am getting angry now - the only use case that actually put the N97 on top of my old phone was gone. What infuriated me even more, is that Nokia bundles this software with the phone. It cannot actually be deinstalled! It just sits there merrily and takes up my hard drive space.
Last but not least, I have written to Nokia already, but not received a response! This is a Nokia forum with Nokia employees following the posts. I would be very, very, very grateful if Nokia could give me a refund. However, with them not even acknowledging the various problems I somehow don't see that coming. I'll probably have to sell it with a massive loss on ebay.
Cheers,
Will
P.s.: I have all the same small issues as the other guys here - slider lock at the side not working etc. You are not alone... Has anyone complained about the music player? I have 16gb of music on the phone and scrolling is impossible! The Symbian OS is so obviously not built for a touch screen that it hurts. Of course they don't put much music on the phones in the Nokia store so people only find out when they get home...
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hi ! the nokia n97 is a really an amazing device. It keeps up to the promise of live online 24 x 7. I discovered it and wanted to share. Still there are some unanswered questions and if any vetran could help would really appreciate.
i am an user from India. and have the n97 for about 3-4 weeks now. Practically I have been living online 24 x 7 as The list of unexpected issues that a nokia n97 offers seems unending, some of which i am narrating have made me scout on the web to try n search answers.Not that i will be able to action information you provide instantly. My new phone has gone for reparis(sic), so once its back can do that & will acknowledge your replies.
My Quests:
1. First things first! How to request for & get refunds for a Nokia Phone in India.
2. Is there a touch querty as an input method? like windows mobile ? Request Know How. I now seem to agree to the feedback on one of the blogs.. that nokia designers feel that the average size of user hands would be that of big people & fingers like a japaneese teen. The physical keyboard does not seem to offer any additional functions other than text input !
3. Predictive text where in the touch screen menu, the words dont get auto completed. This increases the number of taps/input strokes. Is the n97 intelligent & learn words from sms, contacts, emails. my blackberry does so. Request Know How & any options to edit custom dictionary. Auto Punctuation ? Am i expecting too much already ?
4. Single hand use of phone impractical using touch pad t9. Entering alphanumerics on the physical querty is a nightmare... Request Know how on tips & tricks.
5. Green tick yes or v button on top left of the text input screen. friendly again only for big handed people. Could this have been at bottom right. Is alternate screen for text input touch t9 available? Requested Know how.
6. Unnecessary taps additional taps alomost in all menus...for eg.. sending a biz card from n97 requires 5 taps... in the other mobile phone systems it can be done in 3 taps. Requested Knowhow for shortcuts.
7. Can In a nokia we get a view of the entire events as single thread.... No Provision for search display against keywords upon I can get call logs, messages - Here in Nokia, no search filters / advanced search and all searches results plotted to applications vs person/events. Requested Know How if it can be done like blackberry / windows mobile.
8. Copy & Paste across applications. eg. Select text from web page copy n paste on message application.... possible on Nokia...? Requested Know How
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10. Lag in picture display upon call. Number displays first and after few seconds lag the pic pops up. Is this normal & acceptable ? Other windows / rim devices show it instantly.
11. When will Nokia enable usage of Native clients like google talk, yahoo like blackberry, iphone ? Any know how on possibility of release. Any equal alternatives suggested for n97. Tried Nimbuzz, Fring, Ebuddy. Miss the chat message notification icon on home screen, notification on the chat messaging icon, sound, breathing lights.
12. Is there any planning for better email client? Likely Release dates?
13. The Java App for GMAIL on blackberry shows an indicator on icon in addition to customised alert setting tone & breathing light for new messages. Retreiving Emails is consistent & auto on other devices. The Nokia Does not seem to auto refresh + No Notification. How is it handled on Nokia ?
14. Can user friendliness be something where we can do actions with a contact or on contacts screen single view... e.g see contact on google map, Help on contacts screen/n97 help, lookup contact on server, filter by category. new address, new group, view, edit, delete, activity log (incl sms, mms, email, calls), call, sms, mms, email, send as attachment, send as im, add a custom ring tone, add picture, options - sort by, separators, sync settings, actions, switch
applications, exit. We have seen it on inexpensive phones. is it possible to be done on Nokia?
SOME OF MY STILL UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS Post upgrade to ver 12. Did you also face similar bugs/issues?
15. Contacts inaccessible – “Memory Full Error”. No other applications were active at the time of the error. Just unable to reach any of my 3500 contacts through the contacts options & do anything.
16. Pbk2 error upon selecting contacts in the messaging application.
17. Audio Delay upon receiving a call. No Sound upon connection of incoming call. Especially if picked up too fast.
18. Shows as searching for network constantly many times a day. We have 2 n97s & observed that both n97 almost have similar timing of network loss. Whereas, our other devices like blackberry do not show any weak signal signs.
19. GPS Lock. Keeps searching for GPS locks constantly i.e Drops connection to GPS network frequently.
20. Unpredictive battery talk time, standby & required Charge time.
21. Voice inaudible at other end, when using loudspeaker & especially during calls from moving vehicle.
22. Camera:
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b. Erroneous Time stamp on images.
c.Lens Cover Started to show minor scratch pressure.
23. Ovi Suite recommends erroneous updates for E.g Maps 3
24. Text Input touch t9 screen freezes / Hangs, especially when entering special characters like period(.), comma(,), exclamation (!) etc
25. Selectively & at random contact Name not displayed on Caller ID (sometimes)
26. Selectively Message & Message delivery display number, instead of stored contact names.
27. Sync Issue, All contacts not synced always.
How to sync "categories" field as stored in outlook or how to map custom fields to Nokia.
28. Format Mass Memory error, Unable to format. Unable to delete specific files.
29. The auto lock... When attempted to unlock with querty out .. it still opens in portrait mode ?
30. SMS Logs Not updated. e.g any sms sent before storing a contact.... after storing or adding
contact the number does not get automatically updated to the name. It reflects the number still in the logs.
31. Picture caller... The face is half cut ..Looks weird on most images... as the number is not transparent. In landscape mode there is enough space on the screen to put up the answer or reject buttons and displaying the numbers.
32. Browser will close on its own & return to menu or home screen.
thanks in advance for your time to stop & read. Pls do send any information that you think will be useful to me for making the n97 do some work.
NEW additions:
(tested on another n97)
33. Predictive Text :
Usage for auto word completion only on physical keyboard, when the Dpad down key is used it throws up options but the way the scroll is designed you can see the full word and one makes mistakes.
34. another strange behaviour is on the text input... this was on an email i was trying to reply. the stylus touch will paste the last keyed in word !! we wonder why.
35. and while showing off the second n97 we have (again 3-4 weeks old) - we were asked how much did we pay for this second hand unit - 50% off .. apparently the comment as the surface has got scratched very badly.
i hope the info is good use to others who want to take the risk of buying this device

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First, I receive very little software support for this model at all. x-app will not install on my non-Japanese Windows 7. Due to this, I have no ability to create playlists to transfer to my Walkman. Due to one neat feature of this Walkman I will describe below, it turns out that this is a minor inconvenience for me. I also downloaded the Content Transfer application from Sony of Japan's website. This utility does install and work on my version of Windows 7. It's more of a convenience app though. It does offer the ability to check for firmware updates for my Walkman. This makes the utility worthwhile.
I mentioned above the inability to create my own playlists for my Walkman. The Sensme feature makes up for this (to some extent) by creating random channels of my library I can select. The first channel of this feature picks songs based on the current time of day. For this reason, it is important to set the date and time of the Walkman. The random channel feature has not played a repeat song for me yet in all the time I have listened to my Walkman. I currently have 6,605 MP3 files stored with 5.61GB free, so I have a decent sized library. The Sensme random channel is nice, but it is not perfect. The 'Picks of The Day' channel usually plays moderate to up-tempo songs. This channel is featured from 10AM to 4PM every day. However, for some strange reason, Miles Davis' Flamenco Sketches from his Kind of Blue CD was chosen to be played on this channel. This song did not fit in with the mix at the time at all, so I'm not sure why it was selected. Other than this incident, the random channel feature plays songs of a similar tempo. It does appear that genre is ignored, so it's not unusual to have any type of song played in a mix.
I usually have the song shuffle feature turned on unless I am listening to a complete CD. This allows me to select a specific genre of music and hear a mix of only that genre. I can also select a specific artist to hear a mix of only that artist, and so on.
The video feature I do not use at all, so I cannot comment on it.
One complaint about this Walkman is the ear buds. These are constantly falling out of one ear. Also, the ear buds must be inserted fully into your ears to hear a full sound. If they are not pushed into your ear firmly, you will hear a sound lacking bass. I have to push the ear buds into my ear every so often, because they come out on their own. Any headphones will work with this Walkman, but for the built-in noise canceling feature, you must use the supplied headphones. Sony does not appear to sell headphones separately that are compatible with this noise canceling feature.
This Walkman does not appear to be an MPT compatible device at all. It appears to work only as a UMS device. At least if there is a way to configure it as an MPT device, I have found no way to do it. The difference between the two here is that some features are not available via Windows Media Player through Windows (such as playlist creation and transfer).
So far, I am impressed with this Walkman. I see nothing else on the market that compares to it feature for feature, size and storage capacity.

Thank you for your post and detailed observations which I'm sure will be very useful to anyone contemplating purchase of NW-A867.

My experience with the white 3g and genius bar(apple support).

I bought my white iphone 3g 2 weeks after the release. 2 weeks later i notices a couple of hairline fractures on the case. One between the screen and headphone jacks and another between the charge/pc plug in and screen.
I did some searching and found it was a common problem and people were upset about it. I didn't mind so much since it was barely noticeable and did not affect the phone. I used my phone everyday for work, school, and personnel. I had the same experience everyone else had with it slowing down on the contacts and the typing coming to a near halt.
I was grateful when apple released a firmware update to address these issues. I'm an understanding person who understands that early adopting can have its drawbacks.
So back to the problems I had.
About 3 weeks ago my phone started doing something really weird. I was walking to class and the thing would vibrate every couple of second. I took it out of my pocket and it stopped. I thought there is no way i was hitting the toggle switch to silent. So after handling it for a few seconds, I noticed that it would go into silent and right back out when ever I put small pressure the case in the back. Having to go to class, I just put it in my book bag and ignored it for now. After class I took it out and it continue to do this. I did a hard reset and it still did it. So weird. So I carried on and came home that night. The next morning it had stopped bugging out. So I thought no more about it.
About 4 days after this my phone starting really going crazy. It would go on and off with no touch at all. I would shut off all together and come back on. Volume would go up and down for no reason. After about an hour of doing this I took it the ATT store, even though I knew they couldn't do anything for it. The ATT rep was puzzled to as it continued to do this.
I called and made an appointment at the Apple Store in Knoxville TN with the Genius guys. Since Knoxville is a 2 hour drive and I went to school and worked I made the appointment for Sunday. After leaving the ATT store and going home to bed the problem ceased that night. The next morning was Sunday so I canceled my appointment, as I did not want to drive 2 hours oneway if the phone was working fine.
This weekend I went down to GA to visit family. Today, on the way back I stopped at the Apple Store. Even though I didn't have an appointment I spoke with a rep and he said they would work me in since I don't live close by. After waiting for about 45 mins they had a slot open up.
I explained to the genius tech the problems the phone was having. As he looked over it he saw a hairline fracture on the back just beside the apple symbol about an inch long. I never noticed it. Apparently the case had been putting pressure on a circuit board causing some weird things to happen.
He promptly pulled out a brand new iphone and put my sim card it it. After a couple of minutes updating the new phone and clearing the old one of data, I was on my way.
So I guess what I'm saying is that I'm glad Apple is stepping up and doing the right thing. They continue to work on the os, apple store, and provide great in store support.
Two thumbs up for the Knoxville Apple Store
-Jeremiah

Serial numbers starting with 5K are white box only. They could be refurbished or new, but are coming from a China plant according to the serial number checker.
I received a 5K white box replacement Friday, and its perfect. So if it was refurbished or new, this factory is doing a good job with them.

Please share your experience with the universal dock for iphone 3g

Hi There,
1. Can people share their experience of the universal dock with the iphone 3g adapter. My concern is that does the tight fit scratch the black lower back of the iphone plastic everytime we remove it or put it in? OR is there enough gap for the iphone to slip in and out without scratching.
2. Anyone having issues with the universal dock or does it work fine for most?
thanks in advance,
cheers,
Sunil

Thanks for your advice.
I recently purchased a universal dock for my iphone 3g. It works great. I just had one question. When my iphone is sitting on it for lets say 20 - 30 minutes. Then if i press the buttons on the remote. nothing happens! If I then press the home button while it is on the cradle then, the remote, it plays music. There after lets say if I stop stop the music through the remote and again press the remote button after a few minutes it starts playing. So what happens after a long time. Why do i have to press the home button on the iphone for the remote to work. Is that how it is supposed to work???
Thanks

Anyone with experience with the HP LP2475W?

I am thinking of trying the HP LP2475W and am wondering what experience folks have had with it. I have been trying a Dell SP2309W and haven't been totally satisfied with it, mainly due the colors and contrast shifting due to the TN panel. I am wondering how the colors look on the HP and any other observations about the monitor. I've read a couple of posts already but am looking for more user feedback. Thanks!

The new v.2 software for the DR HD100 allows you to record HDV files direct to Quicktime (720p30, 24 or 25). I upgraded yesterday and they work fine. The problem with importing HDV direct from tape though appears to be unresolved, allow up to 8 seconds of run in time at the head of each take!
In my humble opinion, at this level of production, the convenience of shooting on location with the JVC camera, with it's functions and ergonomics, far outweighs the compression problem in the record format. This camera operates like a scaled down broadcast camera as opposed to a scaled up handycam.
G5 2.7 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Creative, Is it worth it? (i.e. whats your experience with the Zen 16gb) and Firmware questi

After doing a sizable amount of research on the Creative Zen 6gb MP3 player, I was relati'vely comfortable with the product and decided to purchase it.
However, after browsing this forum for a few hours, I see quite a few things that trouble me about Creative in general:
"Real person" my (CENSORED) -horrible customer support
Creative Expects 3rd Quarter Loss, Sells HQ Building?
Message to Daniel_K -lack of product support/customer relations
and a countless number of other posts about hardware and software issues with the Zen
I really like the features built into the MP3 player (FM transmitter, voice recorder, Equalizer) and do not want to sell my soul to Ipod.
That being said, I wanted to see if there was anyone on this forum that actually liked their Zen and did not have issues with it.
I would greatly appreciate your positi've feedback as I hope that I will not have to spend countless more hours searching for and then researching a different MP3 player that fits my needs.
In addition, I was curious about the user interface on the Zen. I know that it uses ID3 tagging and that a folder directory cannot be used to view mp3s on the player (unless this has been added in a firmware update?, however I checked the site and did not see anything about this addition). How impeding is this ID3 tagging reliance if about 00 to 500 of my mp3s have incorrect tagging? as in, will I go crazy trying to retag everything because all I see if "Unknown" for all the data?
Yeah, that's about it for my long winded post...
Thanks,
Joe?

Just return from Mexico and found my Zen 4 GB player missing from a light finger baggage handler. I would not even consider, in a thousand years, of purchasing from the "fruit company" their overprice Ipod without a FM receiver. The Creative Zen rocks. Need I say more.

Is there anyone who has good experience with the E...

I'm a current owner of E72 with a multitude of problems which i'm tired out talking about. Anyway, I'm thinking of upgrading to the E6, because of it's price in my country and also because i'm familiar with nokia phones' symbian platforms. Initially i did not want to buy any nokia products anymore, but I want to give it another go because of the mentioned reasons and also due to my E72 frustrating me every other day. In addition, my few other options are android touchphones and i really dislike full fleged touchphones, not to mention their battery life. My other option is the Blackberry which has no front facing camera which i need making video calls, so I'm really looking at the E6. I've read so many horror stories in this thread that i'm really worried that i'll get a lemon, so I want to read some positive stories or some judicious pros and cons, before taking the plunge! Please help thank you!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I have owned my E6 for over 3 months and after the weekends new firmware (025) the phone now is almost perfect.
The audio quality for music is good and voice calls is the best that you can find, even in noizy environments.
Battery endurance is very good now, perhaps 80-100 hours in moderate use.
Also the former problem with backlight is now corrected by Nokia.
After the firmware the phone is very fast, I mean this cincerely. Also it seems that connectivity over 3G or WLAN is 100% perfect now.
The vibration is perhaps a little weak for men, but woman can feel it...I tested it various ways.... Nokia will solve this matter also.
Forgotten things, that is really good is removable battery, hot-swoppable memory card and the the feeling of handling the phone.
Not a single scratch or dust problem after 3 months...
The RAM-memory seems to be enough for everything I am doing.
The graphic and the 1GB ROM-memory certainly makes the Nokia E6 competent.
The qwerty is really amazing and the screen also, after experimenting with font magnifier (using 119%) and the size in the web browsers and of course the phone settings for font size have actually made this E6 excellent. It took me some time to be satisfied with the settings, but I am now more than happy with mine.
As said, the program RemindMe is useful for light indicators for sms/mms, emails and calls. That solve that issue to me and even if Nokia built-in will be better in the next firmware I stil wouldn´t quit the remindMe.
Finally, the camera is also more than good, the lack of autofocus doesn´t disturb me at all. I never take photos of small documents with the camera.
I have to say, just buy it after this latest firmware, and then add those applications that you need for productivity. The applications I use you can see here below.
I uninstalled the F-secure firewall/antivirus that caused some strange behaviors in early august, especially when I connected to a server with the built-in filebrowser (webdav).
PS Mine have never restarted and I can´t remember a hang. DS
Nokia 808 again (delight Belle), Nokia E7 and X7 ( again, all on Delight Belle...after some time on Nokia Lumia 925 (retired), 1020 (not that great)and Lumia 820 (Replaced my router at home, great for internet sharing).., N9 The best device ever (use it as much as Lumia 1020), Nokia 700 (Sport Phone/My Love :-) ) Nokia 701, Nokia E6 (Should have a follow-up from Nokia among with larger screen, NFC, Autofocus), Lumia 800 (Retired After 6 weeks), -Sports Tracker-Nokia Internet Radio-Handy Safe-Skype-Bambuser-Screenshot app pro-fMobi-ComingNext-Manual TaskSwitcher-jagiTimer-Easy StopWatch-Boldbeast-Equalizer-Financial Calculator-WiMP Music-YTasks-Davi-Thumbnail Folders-BizCalendar-Tiny7-Situations-nn reeder-Sport Timer-CameraLover-CameraPro-GrabRadio-LiveScore-Poddi-Gravity-SkyFilesPro

A very frustrating experience with the Verizon website(s)

My tale of woe:
I am downloading call data in "spreadsheet" format, here: https://nbillpay.verizonwireless.com/vzw/accountholder/mybill/VoiceDetails.action
I have multiple lines on my account. I start by downloading the data for one of my non-primary lines ("Line 2"). So far, so good. Then I go back and start downloading the data for my primary line ("Line 1"). But the site keeps giving me files with Line 2 data.
Click "View All Voice Details." I see Line 1 data.
Click "Download to Spreadsheet." I get a file with Line 2 data.
The same thing happens for every month in the record.
Clearly, there is a bug in the code for this page. I think, after spending time diagnosing it, I'll report it to Verizon so they can fix it.
Click "Contact Us" (https://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/contact/index.jsp ). This resolves to a blank page titled "Back Button - JSP Page" (http://www.verizonwireless.com/backbutton.html ), with some irrelevant JavaScript commands.
Try again. Same result. (I repeated everything in this story at least twice, to confirm the results.)
Finally, clicking around, I somehow manage to reach the "Contact Us" page.
I don't want any "self-service" options; I just want to submit information. "Send an Email" sounds good. I select "I receive a monthly statement," and click on the submit button.
This takes me to the "Find Assistance" page (https://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/contact/findAssistance.jsp ). There's nothing there about sending an email.
I click around some more. I can't find any place to send a message to Verizon!
Fine, I'll post in the forums. I go to community.vzw.com, and register for a new account.
I want to write my own secret question, so I select that option from the dropdown menu. There's still only one input field, which is odd, but I put something in it and submit the form.
The page returns an error indicating that not all of the input fields are filled in. Clearly, it's expecting me to fill in both a "secret question" field and a "secret answer" field, but there's no way for me to do this, because the page isn't showing the "secret question" field to me.
Fine, I'll use one of the preset secret questions.
Now I'm here, preparing a message to send into the ether of "forums," never to pass under the eyes of anyone working for Verizon. If I manage to post the message without triggering some new error, I'll be shocked.
Unbelievable!

Grothka wrote:
I would actually be concerned that it has to do with the browser you are using. This website is made to run on the latest version of Internet Explorer, with Firefox and Safari normally not having any problems. I can tell you that I ran through a couple pages after reading this post and didn't see any problems... I'm running Internet Explorer, you may just want to download the latest version, or clear your cache and try again.
Thank you, Grothka, for your prompt reply! I apologize for neglecting the thread myself.
Could you be more specific about which pages you "ran through?" I've just re-tested the problems I experienced on 2/27, and found that all but one still exist. I've summarized the three remaining problems below.
I use the latest version of Firefox.* While the suggestion that I switch to IE might prove an effective (and certainly well-intentioned) workaround, it is not a solution. Basic functions like sending an e-mail to tech support or registering for a new account should not require the use of a specific browser--especially now, when no single browser has even a majority user share (see http://bit.ly/gfja5z).
*(Technically, I'm running 3.6.16--I haven't yet moved to Firefox 4, which was just released on Tuesday.)
I've been a Verizon customer for several years, and have been happy with their wireless service. However, of the dozen or so companies I do business with on the web, Verizon's website has consistently been the slowest and most frustrating to use. The sequence of consecutive bugs I ran into on 2/27 finally motivated me to write something about it.
Here's the problem list:
1. https://nbillpay.verizonwireless.com/vzw/accountholder/mybill/VoiceDetails.action
Select a secondary line ("Line 2").
Click "Download to SpreadSheet," and save file as "File A - Line 2."
Change the date from the dropdown menu. Then use the same menu to go back to the original date.
The primary line ("Line 1") is automatically selected. Line 1's data appear on the main page, and when we click "View All Voice Details."
Click "Download to SpreadSheet," and save file as "File B - Line 1."
Compare File A & File B. They are identical files, containing Line 2 data.
2. https://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/contact/index.jsp
Under "Send an Email," select "I receive a monthly statement" from the dropdown menu, and click the submit button.
This takes me to the "Find Assistance" page https://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/contact/findAssistance.jsp, where I see nothing about sending an email.
3. http://www22.verizon.com/content/sso/signin.aspx
Click "Get Verizon Community User ID & Password" to open the registration panel.
Select "Write your own question" from the Secret Question dropdown.
There is no field available for writing the question--only one for the answer.

Has anyone had experience with the new moire slider under the adjustment brush in LR4?

There's a new moire removal tool under the adjustment brush in LR4. In the near future I expect to have photos that contain moire patterns. Has anyone used this tool yet? I'd like to get an inkling as to how effective it is.

There is an example of moiré on the Nikon Imaging site for the D800E.
http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d800/features01.htm
I was able to reduce the moiré significantly, but not eliminate it with the Lightroom 4 adjustment brush. I haven't found any software solutions that can completely repair moiré. The Lightroom 4 feature seems about as good as any I've tried.
Here are a few links you might find interesting:
http://unsharp-mask.blogspot.com/2007/08/moir-removal-in-photoshop.html
http://vimeo.com/23508129
http://www.dbphoto.net/techniques/moire/index.html

Any experiences with the HP OfficeJet Pro 8000 Wireless printer?

I'm thinking about buying it after reading the XL black ink cartridges yield 2200 pages. It's not an all in one. I don't need it, already have 2 of them. My Epson CX4800 constantly needs to have the print nozzles cleaned and has banding problems. I can clean them, get them clean, then in the middle of a several page job, it starts banding again or loses a color. How are the HP printers with this problem? All the friends homes that I go to that have HPs seem to print much faster than the Epson I have also.Thanks in advance.

Hi there,
Could you provide the community with a little more information to help narrow troubleshooting? What operating system are you using?
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