Hi all, I've been reading for ages on o2's xda iis or the blue angel and the probs all are having here in the uk but not once have I heard of or seen of anyone having this kind of trouble with the orange m2000. Are there any m2000 owners out there who would like to give some feedback on the issue and let us know if you too are swamped with problems. I personally would like this device to use, but really don't want to go out on a limb when the wind is already blowing. :mrgreen: As far as pda's and phones go, I'm not a whiz and certainly don't want to have to pay for something just to have to do a rom update, as well as take things off that shouldn't be there to start with...like the o2 rubbish I keep reading about. I'm thinking I'd be better off with a nokia 6630 or maybe the o2 xda ii i, but then, I have never been fond of nokias, and don't want to use a stylus all the time... the 2s would have been the answer (I think), or it is the only one that's really appealed to me in function and looks...so now I'm wondering what about an orange m2000, unlocked, using on o2...can you get manual settings to surf the net? any problems with the 2000?
I've got the M2000 and it has exactly the same problems as all the other Blue Angel's, it's just less popular (party cause Orange don't tell anyone they sell it).
I'm now waiting for Orange to send me a replacement because mine is fastly becoming unusable. It's fine most of the time (aside from the usual problems), but when it crashes, a soft reset doesn't work and I have to remove the SD and the SIM card for up to an hour before I get get it to work again.
I know other people with M2000's who don't have these problems so I've hopefully just got a dodgy phone.
Edited to add that while the M2000 doesn't look as pretty as the XDAIIs, Orange don't put on any of the O2 extra rubbish that O2 do which is good. And the phone can easily be unlocked so you can use it with anyone.
to be honest the only problems that i've ever had with my IIs were all down to the 02 active stuff. once i got rid of that and upgraded to the latest rom (think they all ship with this now anyway) it's been trouble free
I had and XDA IIs which I purchased only 2 weeks ago and it never worked properly. I never even got round to installing any useful software. Twice it hard reset itself while I was opening pictures to send as MMS’s. And I had to soft reset it at least once every day. I even removed the 02 active crap but it was still unstable. The other thing with the IIs is the screen. WHY CHANGE IT! My old one is great but the new one has an awful rancid look and you can’t see it at a slight angle, you have to look straight at it.
I’ve sent it back now and am going to try the IIi in the hope that the faster processor and bigger memory make the device more stable. I’m back to using my XDAII now which I have no trouble with at all, its just old and a bit broken.
m2000
Hi guys, thanks for the response...think I'm going to go with the nokia 6630 for the pic quality, real player, and 3g connection. Might check out the o2 xda ii i, but really wanted a keypad. However, I've got plenty of time to see if there are any bugs in both. have you guys checked out howardforums.com? there is lots of useful stuff on there too. Also, I'm wondering about the o2 magician or xda mini. they say o2 is not releasing them here but they are supposed to be pretty good. anyone know about those?
Well I have both ( and all other versions of XDA's as well.. as we have lots).
I personally prefer the Orange m2000, as we got a free memory card and none of that god awful O2 active built into the rom. Seriously.. that O2 active is such a negative thing to my users. (wake up O2 - the XDA2s / M2000 is geared towards business users with their own apps. they seriously do not need or want a damned instant install popup spam menu.
XDA 4 / M5000 / HTC Universal wont be availble till end September.. So its a case of waiting.. (mines on preorder )
The O2 Active stuff is V.V.Easy to remove so I wouldn't worry about that to much and just go for the device you like the look of the most and can get the best price on
just bought an orange spv c500 and im well impressed.. a little hard to operate at first because of the buttons.. been used to touch screen for so long ive forgoten what buttons are for but it does everything my XDAII can in a smaller package. still trying to sort out the gprs settings because its an oarange phone but apart from that..... o2 canstick the XDAIIs where the sun dont shine. :wink:
btw does anyone know the o2 gprs settings for and orange spv c500?
c500
Hey, why didn't you send me a pm? You're not gonna believe this. Was on ebay the other night and got a c500 myself. Figured why not give it a shot as I'm familiar with the spv, and also know a lot about the e200, but know nothing about the c500. A guy I work with has 2 e200's, 1 has a switchboard problem and the other, is working on a switchboard problem. I figured out the settings for the spv as well as the spv e200.. Have you ever heard of Modaco.com? go there... look for gprs settings repository or something like that. Loads of settings are there...but the catch is, you have to mess around with them and tweak them to make them work, but it can be done. took me 3 weeks one time of thinking, and pulling my hair out...but eventually was accomplished. This guy that has 2, one is on orange and the other is on o2. The c500 might be different, but if you are willing to work on it with me...so am I. I'll have to send the phone to HTC first to get it fixed as it has a cracked screen (lcd) and outer, but apart from that it's perfect. This is strange...but cool. I think....
hi, im using xda iis and all i can see is plain white.. no images..
i tried doing a hard reset but i can hear the (ting) sound but it still display no images only plain white screen... somebody please help....
Thanks
Sounds like you are stuck in the bootload process.
I have seen mine stuck for about 3 mins, then it came back to life.
best thing would be to try and refalsh it.
Wiki has roms and there is an aplicction (mitty I think) for hard cases. Never needed to use it so I am not sure about how it works or if I spelt it right.
lol ive seen that plenty of times due to upgrading
just place ur xda iis into its usb cradle download the rom and run it then w8 30mins till congrats then hard reset just a no wm2k5 does work on xda2s but no cam.....lol
Hello all can i say i love this site it has helped me out over time and i would like to thank you all so THANKS!!
Well i have had my xda for nearly to years and recently i think its starting to die first of all i had a problem with calls i could not hear anything nor could anyone hear me. I found out that if i plug my charger in it worked fine. Then i noticed that it wouldn't charge if i left my bluetooth on. OK if that's not bad enough it has now started to reset its self if left alone for a couple of hours. Could it be missing me??? Could any one help me?? if not ill try to swap it for a hard drive for my xbox 360 lol. Many thanks again
The best way - hard reset, if will not help - change the CE Rom.....thats what i would do.....
thanks
cookie25 said:
Hello all can i say i love this site it has helped me out over time and i would like to thank you all so THANKS!!
Well i have had my xda for nearly to years and recently i think its starting to die first of all i had a problem with calls i could not hear anything nor could anyone hear me. I found out that if i plug my charger in it worked fine. Then i noticed that it wouldn't charge if i left my bluetooth on. OK if that's not bad enough it has now started to reset its self if left alone for a couple of hours. Could it be missing me??? Could any one help me?? if not ill try to swap it for a hard drive for my xbox 360 lol. Many thanks again
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There are symptoms there that suggest a battery or battery connection problem. Hard reset by all means but if problems persist, I think I'd be trying a new battery.
Mike
mikechannon said:
There are symptoms there that suggest a battery or battery connection problem. Hard reset by all means but if problems persist, I think I'd be trying a new battery.
Mike
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arrrr i did notice that on of the lugs on the top of the battery was missing and the battery isn't sitting rite many thanks. While I'm typing know any place to get cheep batteries???? Many thanks again
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Hello, I will start by saying despite my aged condition i have only recently (in the last week) been seduced to the ownership of any sort of mobile phone. I have one that works fine. But in my investigations a friend offered and gave me a XDA exec (O2) mainly to stop me moaning about the silly way text messages are entered with out a Qwerty keyboard. Unfortunately the phone seem to be dead. Or at least in a coma (as it has some life signs).
The symptoms are, White screen, not much else, odd times my eight year old got the keyboard lights on and thats about it, plain white screen. I have investigated the net for answers and tried. Reset (power, back light and reset), taking out battery and replacing, taking out the battery over night, i investigated 02's web site which i found of very little help, the user manual there etc presupposes some sort of information on the screen ! I seized on the idea that a Rom Upgrade might help but all links to that i have found are dead.
I installed Activcync to my PC and the phone syncs up allowing me to see that there is indeed things on it the windows files etc. Which gave me hope that it isn't totally dead.
So any suggestions? can i do anything with this impressive looking paperweight?
you prob get more results reading and writing in the forum for the device in question
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=280
as more people who own and or know anything about that device would be reading that forum
oops..will do thanks