And this is just a nice little edit if you have a storage card since IE is such a storage hog. Ignore the last step that tells you after you did the reg edits to delete the old programs folders in the Windows directory. They won't delete on our phones, but it will in fact start sending all data to the storage card instead.
Before I get up on my soapbox for my personal review, a couple of foundational points in which I base my observations.
1. This is my first smart/pda/phone
2. I've used it 30 days
3. I do not try to run my company or my life on it.
I don't think anyone who is a first time buyer of this type of phone would have any of the issues that you, in this audience, have articulated as worthy of returning it.
Slider and battery issues aside my biggest gripe is more about the OS and carrier then the phone itself (More on that in a second).
I really think the form factor is amazing as I find it very comfortable to talk on for an extended amount of time (Finally an engineer was required to use it for a week sans bluetooth).
I wish the keys were larger but feel it's more a matter of holding your tongue just right and soon I will be able to text at 10 words a minute just like the rest of you thumbnuts.
The 2 soft keys are the worst issue that I have using the phone, the ones on the keypad are ok but the ones on the slideout are not in the right position which makes their use cumbersome.
The Camera: Ok I admit I could care less about taking a picture of everything in my life but that's mostly cause I forget I am always carrying a camera. Should a disaster happen in front of me you can be sure I'll take some money shots but they will probably have an orange tinge to them because everything else does. One other thing there should be a pull-out cheat sheet under the camera (like desk phones) that tell you how to use all the controls cause you ain't gonna remember all of them
As well built as it seems to be I am afraid of dropping it because I don't think it would stand the same type of abuse as my old LG-VX8100 (The Rock).
Add-ons: Oh my god everytime one of you guys mention the latest or greatest little ditty I got to go run, download, and install. Now I have a bunch of programs that I'll never use, taking up, god only knows how much memory.
Speaking of which, do you really have to use the task manager to force the release of memory back from all the programs started?
Bluetooth: Haven't bought one for this phone so don't know yet.
Now about Verizon: siiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh
So enough about the phone my last comment are about the OS.
I'm a WinTel guy and as such I am accustomed to things not working as advertised. Windows products hang at some point. Always have and I suspect always will and this will happen more/less dependent upon the equipment running it.
Last but not least thanks to all of you in this forum who put up with us newbies like me trying to find the call button.
And this is just a nice little edit if you have a storage card since IE is such a storage hog. Ignore the last step that tells you after you did the reg edits to delete the old programs folders in the Windows directory. They won't delete on our phones, but it will in fact start sending all data to the storage card instead.
Doesnt receive all txt messages and long ones take a while
I have owned the SMT5800 since March and so far I have mostly loved this phone. I have had a few problems with txting from the start that haven't gone away like I had hoped. First, I used to be able to receive very long txt messages (longer than 160 characters) on my old LG phone. On the 5800 it's hit or miss and sometimes I get only part of the message and then an additional message that says the previous message was truncated. Other times I dont get the txt at all. And yet other times it will come across as multiple messages just fine. And when someone sends me a long txt it can take up to an hour to receive it, which backlogs any other txts from coming through. The other problem I have is there are times when I dont get a txt message at all. It doesn't matter if it's short or long and there doesnt seem to be any rhyme or reason to it (from different people/carriers, times of day, location I'm in, etc.)
This is very frustrating because I send/receive over 2400 txt messages a month.
Has anyone else been having this problem? Did you discover a solution?
I've seen this problem before. I don't text that much so I haven't had to deal with it. The problem occurs because of the long text messages. Standard text messages are limited to 160 characters. Some phones will allow sending a longer message and assumes the system will split the message into multiple 160-character limit messages and deliver each one separately. A glitch occurs when this process doesn't work and the message doesn't get split. Their system keeps trying to send the full message to you, which won't work since your phone can't handle it so it gets an error message and keeps trying. Eventually it will give up, but until then you cannot receive any new messages. Sometimes the new messages will get saved and delivered when the error clears, other times it just erases the message.
I don't know of a fix for this problem. Standard text messages were not meant for that so I wouldn't expect a fix from the carriers. You'll just have to live with it.
Other times I dont get the txt at all. And yet other times it will come across as multiple messages just fine. And when someone sends me a long txt it can take up to an hour to receive it, which backlogs any other txts from coming through. The other problem I have is there are times when I dont get a txt message at all. It doesn't matter if it's short or long and there doesnt seem to be any rhyme or reason to it (from different people/carriers, times of day, location I'm in, etc.)
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