My Kin Two

soooo i just recently bought a Kin Two Sharp off of ebay and it wants me to set it up on start up but when i try to enter my email address it says
CONNECTION PROBLEM:
"Can't reach the Windows Live ID service right now. If you cancel setup, you'll have limited use of your phone. Setup will continue the next time you turn on your phone."
I have tried multiple emails and i used my windows live zune hotmail and xbox live emails and NONE of them work i have 3G and i can easily connect to the internet on my phone and even go to Windows Live.com but it just wont let me set my phone up all the way and i CANT even go to Kin.com because the website is shut down i dont kno what to do pleaseeeeeeee HELP.!!!!

Hello!
I'm sorry that you are having problems connecting. We need to get this fixed! Are you connected to WiFi when this happens? I would recommend trying a master reset.
MasterReset
Tap Settings
Tap About Your phone
Tap Erase Phone Data
Tap to erase all your personal data from the phone. This is a drastic measure as it erases all your sign-in information, settings, contacts, favorites, photos, videos, music, and
messages from your phone. You will be asked to confirm.
Let us know if that helps!
Katie H
VZW Support
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Kin two...piece of JUNK!!!

My husband upgraded a little over a year ago to the kintwo and we've had nothing but problems ever since!!! It constantly freezes and if it does freeze while recieving a text or a call that message is lost! The camera is great when it works. Because of these problems I gave my husband my upgrade because he uses his phone a lot for work and needs something thats reliable and I took this phone because mine was old and getting warn out now i can make and recieve calls but no one can hear me the battery will only charge to 10% and its very slow!! Because my husband used my upgrade I'm out a phone and we still have to pay the bill I have an old alltel phone that I tried to hook up but now verizon won't connect those phones!!! And of course I can't even upgrade on my husbands line because its only been maybe a year and 4 months so we aren't due for an upgrade for at least 6 months!! What am I supposed to do Verizon....pay my bill even though I don't even get to use my phone? We've been with verizon for years and now your just going to screw us?....NICE!! Anyone looking to get a kin DON'T!! They are such a piece of crap they won't even last you til your next upgrade!!!!!!

Hi, melam!
I apologize to learn of the concerns you are having with the Kin Two! I would be happy address the concerns regarding freezing with calls and messaging. Does this happen on each call and text, or specific contacts? Have you performed any resets on the device or reverted the phone back to factory settings? We do have options available to you, if you wish to get another device, but are not yet eligible to upgrade. Check out http://goo.gl/K0zsd for more details. Keep me posted.
Thanks,
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Kin two m- PLEASE REPLY WITH HELP IMMEDIATLEY!

I downloaded the Zune software on my computer for the KIN two phone. I downloaded and am using the free 14 day trial. I plugged my phone in with the USB cable, and dowloaded some music. Then i unplugged it, and all the pictures from my cell phone are on thE COMPUTER! and now all the pics on my phone are gone. I tried to download them back on to my phone, but it wont work. PLEASE HELP!!!

I have a third theory concerning your difficulty with transferring pictures [back] onto your phone.
I observed a behavior about the Zune software and the Kin that I found a little exasperating.
I wanted to transfer some video clips through the Zune software to the Kin. As you can see in the photo provided by fisharefriends in the post dated "01-13-2011 11:39 PM" in this thread (link), in the lower-left corner of the screen [while using the Zune software] there is an icon of the phone. During this time, the screen of the Kin says that it is connected to the Zune and that to disconnect it from the Zune that you should swipe your finger.
After I had transferred a few videos, I wanted to evaluate right away their playback on the Kin and then resume transferring videos through the Zune to the Kin.
After I swiped the Kin's screen, I could use the phone in a normal manner. Since the Zune software was still running and since the Kin was still connected via USB cable, I was ready to transfer some more videos. But the icon of the phone was no longer in the lower-left corner of the screen of the Zune software -- therefore, the connection between the Zune and the Kin appeared to be severed. After attempting this and that, finally the only way I could think of to restore the connection was to unplug the USB cable and re-plug it. Voila! The connection was re-established.
But this was a pain-in-the-neck way to do things. So here's what I found out I could do if I wanted to temporarily sever the connection so that I could temporarily use the Kin in a normal manner ...
- don't swipe the Kin screen to sever the connection; instead, close the Zune application but leave the USB cable plugged in
- now you'll be able to use the Kin in a normal manner [such as to evaluate the files that you hope were successfully transferred]
- when you're ready to re-establish the connection between the Zune and the Kin, re-launch the Zune software. It'll detect that there's a Kin [still] plugged in via USB cable, and the icon of the Kin will be in the lower-left corner of the screen of the Zune software.
So that's a long way of saying that during your attempt to transfer photos, even though the Zune software is presently running on your computer and even though the Kin is plugged in that maybe what the problem is is that the connection has been severed and you will need to unplug the usb cable for a few seconds and then plug it back in to re-establish the connection.

Is there a spot for a phone charm on kin two?

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I have found a spot that looks like you could be able to but when they designed the back cover of the phone they forgot about it. When you take the back off your phone there will be a spot on the cover that is shaped like a "T" and that is where you would drill if you wanted to. you could possibly take a drill or some thing to the back cover and make it work. But I decided to leave it alone on my phone because I have a case and I don't want to mess my my case. I hoped this helped.

New Kin two won't sync to my computer?

My computer recognizes my Kin two phone but it asks for installation hardware which didn't come with the phone. It then says it was unable to install the new hardware. In which case, Active sync won't recognize my phone. Anyone else have any problems syncing their phone?

Yes! It's kind of weird. The phone seems only to sync with ZUNE. If you go to MY COMPUTER even when it's synced to Zune you will not see the phone. As far as I can see you have to sync videos, music, photos and podcasts via Zune. At least Zune is free! And it works pretty well compared to Media Player.

Kin Two Battery Life

Just wondering if this is normal. I just got the Kin two and have to charge it every night. I just text and talk. I have not even used the camera within the past day or the video/ wi fi- nothing. The battery takes 4 hours to charge. Is that normal? should i turn my phone off to charge it? or can i leave it on ?

My battery usually lasts about 2 days with heavy use and wifi on all the time. If I keep it off and don't do much talking and maybe a few text messages then about 3 1/2. With wifi on at home and and heavy web use, then about 2 3/4 days.
As for battery charging, I'm not sure how long. I just charge it over night or plug it in in the morning and let it charge. I haven't really paid much attention to how long it charges.
Though I was told by Verizon (though how reliable they have been with knowledge recently, I'm not sure how good this information is.) that you can charge it every day even if it doesn't need to charge or if you need it before it's done charging that it won't hurt the battery. Apparently batteries these days don't carry a memory anymore so you don't have to charge them for 24 hours when you get it, you can charge it or use it until the battery dies etc.
If you think something is up with your battery take it into Verizon and they can check the battery. The one good thing they are good for is if your battery is bad or even if you think your battery is bad, they will give you a new one. Heck when I had the Intensity II and had bad battery they were ready to give me a new phone all together not just a new battery. So go in and they can check it out for you.
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Is there any way to retrieve deleted texts messages from KIN TWO M?

is there any way to retrieve deleted texts messages on KIN TWO M?

Unfortunately, no, not unless you had them backed up somewhere (like with bitpim software). Once the texts are deleted from the phone, they're gone.

Speeding up turn-on of KIN two-M

Does anyone know how to delete all the teenage photos that come on when you turn on the Kin Two-m? It just takes too long for the thing to boot up ... and I'm not 13, so the silliness of the photo array is, well, silly......

I was also hoping there was a way to get rid of all those goofy photos when powering up or down. Who are these people anyway???

Kin one or kin two can't decide?

Hi
I am getting the kin one or two phone
but I can't decide which one to get.
I been watching reviews on both of them
I think I want the kin two but with the kin two do u need a zune pass
can you use itunes instead or get music from itunes onto the phone?
That's my major problem
Thanks

With either phone you do not need the zune pass subscription, however, you will need to download the zune software(free) on your computer and transfer your songs from itunes to zune, and then, to your KIN. As for which one to choose, I love the design of the kin onem, but the features on the kin twom are a little more high end so I personally chose the two. It has an 8 mp camera versus 5, records hd video, and has stereo sound. Also, it can store 8 gb of info versus the 4 the one can. Other than these differences, the phones are the same.

Kin Two contacts search disabled

Can someone please tell me why I can't search my contacts any more? Every time I go in to do it, my Kin just sits there with the search word, doing nothing. Is this a setting change?

No, it's not a setting change that I'm aware of. Whether you have the Kin Two or the Kin Two M, you can access from any Home screen by typing a contact name to open the "Search" box or you can press the "SEARCH" key on your keyboard. Is this your process?

Kin Two Music library..

Okay, I just got the new Kin Two and I have downloaded Zune for my music. It is showing my phone synced with Zune and i uploaded all my current music but every time I try to drag it to the icon on the left corner to sync it, it is not syncing. I says "1 song loaded" and nothing is on it! Can anyone help me as to how to sync my music library from Zune on to my phone?

gawin05 wrote:
Okay, I just got the new Kin Two and I have downloaded Zune for my music. It is showing my phone synced with Zune and i uploaded all my current music but every time I try to drag it to the icon on the left corner to sync it, it is not syncing. I says "1 song loaded" and nothing is on it! Can anyone help me as to how to sync my music library from Zune on to my phone?
A first troubleshooting step would be to uninstall and reinstall your Zune software to ensure the software has not been corrupted as this may cause your sync to fail.

Kin Two software

Are there any KIN Two software upgrades? Thanks!

Hi sandi72276! Thanks for inquiring about pending updates to the KIN TWO operating system. At this time, we have no word of any pending changes to the software on your phone. If you have other reasons to inquire about the function of your KIN TWO, I am available to you. Have a great day!

Any games for Kin Two ?

I just received my Kin Two phone today and while I like it, it has NO preloaded games and I can't seem to find any games for this phone, however, Customer Support tells me there ARE games you can download for this phone. Does anyone know what games you CAN download for it ? OR is there a website that you can download games for the phone ? Ready to return it if there isn't =( Thanks for any info =)

Sorry, you were misinformed. There are no games for the Kin. Another short-coming of Microsoft, who designed the phone to be targeted at the teenage and young adult audience, and didn't even include games (among everything else they got wrong, when the phone was a smartphone and even when the firmware was re-written as a feature phone). They truly have a failing marketing department and should take a lesson from apple or google. Or even Verizon! apart from their decision to force data plans on the phone that was targeted for the younger audience..like they expected parents to afford/consider data plans, or for the Kin even to compete with the iPhone, Blackberries, or Android phones, and i guess even these days, the windows phones.
But rants aside, i'm sorry it is a deciding factor for you to return it, but i hope you find a phone that you will be satisfied with.

Tip for slippery KIN two

I added some heavy duty velcro to the back of my KIN two - the rough "hook" part - a strip about 1.25" wide - I added to the back of the phone. I then made a loop of the softer "loop" material ( about .5 " wide strip) in a shape similar to a coffee mug handle. ( Note - this velcro came with adhesive backing on it )
The soft loop handle is detachable, and gives something I can keep in my fingers while using the phone - the rough part cures the slippery feel of the phone, and it was all scrap material that I had on hand.
Hope that this low tech solution helps out !!

I added some heavy duty velcro to the back of my KIN two - the rough "hook" part - a strip about 1.25" wide - I added to the back of the phone. I then made a loop of the softer "loop" material ( about .5 " wide strip) in a shape similar to a coffee mug handle. ( Note - this velcro came with adhesive backing on it )
The soft loop handle is detachable, and gives something I can keep in my fingers while using the phone - the rough part cures the slippery feel of the phone, and it was all scrap material that I had on hand.
Hope that this low tech solution helps out !!

Interested in Original Kin Two (not TwoM)

I would like to get an original Kin Two, not the TwoM. It needs to be in extremely good condition. I've been keeping an eye on eBay, but if anyone has any other sources, please let me know. Thanks!

Original TWO, huh? Welp. Craigslist/eBay might be your only hope for the hardware. If you want the SOFTWARE for the KIN TWO (not m model), here's how:
1. Get a TWOm.
2. Activate it.
3. Before you put ANYTHING on it, turn it off.
4. Hold R and B on the keyboard.
5. Turn on the power while holding R and B.
6. You will see it say "UPDATING MODEM-DON'T REMOVE BATTERY". Let it do the magic and reboot..
7. Enjoy KIN OS 1.0!
Source: Wikipedia

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