THE PDA2K is a TERRIBLE MACHINE!
SSSoo many bugs....
1) BLUETOOTH JUNK
Bluetooth (after their so called patch), still headset causes it to turn on repeatedly draining your battery in no time. So unless you are connected to a powersupply, the bluetooth headset is useless cause I have to turn off the bluetooth anyway (if I want battery). Yes, I know it's been discussed many times, it still amazes me everyday.
2) ALBUM MOVIE PLAYER DOESN'T WORK AFTER BLUETOOTH PATCH
yep, I've made many tests, clean hardreset machine with no bt patch = I can record video and playback video (MP4) with no problem. Now after installing the BT patch, clicking on the ALBUM app or clicking on PREVIEW after fliming a video in mp4 will freeze the machine for about 5 seconds, and then soft reset it automatically. I've hard reseted twice to check and it's obvious the BT patch ruins it. Mysteriously, it sometimes does work even after the patch. I just wanted to show off my machine today and got laughed at (with good reason!) by a P900 user.
3) CASE IS USELESS
The case that comes with the machine is a joke, it pressed all the buttons even if you almost don't touch the case. They should have left alittle padding. Locking the keys is a must.
4) MORE BLUETOOTH ISSUES
I get repeatable bizzare errors of "memory problems" with bluetooth, and I need to reset the machine (ain't it great?). I also got twice a message about my BT expired.. LMAO. more resets. I actually thing about mapping one of the primary front keys to do a soft-reset.
5) BUILT-IN FAX SOFTWARE IS RUBBISH
A friend of mine tried it numerous times with no success. At clubimate they told him it doesn't work properly. (So why the hell did they put it there?)
6) POWER BUTTON TOO NEAR THE STYLUS
Happened to me several times that when I try to pull out the stylus, it pressed the power button and poweroff the machine. (bad human engineering here)
7) MORE BLUETOOTH MANIA
Amazingly the BT Headset (I tried 3 different models) cannot function for voice recognition, recording or hearing prompts. Seems the driver doesn't support it. If it did, the voice recognition with my Logitech new headset could have been better. Car BT hands-free also don't work for anything else than strictly during a conversation. I almost purchased a Motoroal Handfree BT Car set because I thought I could also use to hear navigation with my GPS Navigation software. I can't gear prompts cause again, it only functions during the conversation, lously.
8) TERRIBLE MICROPHONE DURING CONVERSATION
I've had several people complaining about not hearing me at all while I use the PDA2K directly (no BT headset). I have to should and hold the machine funny close to my mouth. Oh, and setting the microphone AGC gain control to Enable, does NOTHING for increasing microphone sensitivity, it only works for voice recording/notes taking.
9) OK, SO AT LEAST SET THE MICROPHONE AGC ENABLE FOR NOTES TAKING RIGHT? WRONG!
For taking voice notes or recording conversation, setting the microphone to AGC is a must or else you will hear almost nothing. So you Enable it out of no choice... But OOPS.. Now you find out the Voice Recognition software (Both Microsoft Voice Command or Fonix Voice Central) will disable it back, voice recognition software don't work well with the AGC gain enable. So.. you have to choose here Notes taking? Or voice recognition?
I have the machine just about two weeks and already got tired of it. It is a game, it's not a professional machine that you can actually work flawlessly with. Like a delicate toy, far from being a sturdy trusted pocket pc. Don't get me wrong, I'm a gadget freak, and I am willing to 'eat it up and shut up' but this is just to much. I've had a Cassiopeia E-125 for 4 years !!!! And Wwoooff.. ONLY now I can truly appreciate the Casio, 4 years and worked perfectly even though I dropped it many times, slept on it once, hit it by mistake and so on. Never failed me, and I didn't even knew what the Reset button looked like!
I'm truly disappointed... You get many features, but you pay the price of total instability and absolutly horrible amature like support from the HTC guys. No matter how many bugs other can find on iPaqs such as the 6315, I doubt it can reach to the extent this machine has.
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goodbye
Well, since 3 of your 9 are bluetooth and 1 is the case, I think that says good things for the phone that you couldn't come up with any more...
I have the Sprint PPC-6601, which is basically the same phone with no wifi, but with fast 'vision' internet access...
I notice the bluetooth issues too. I have the zenphone profilier, and only turn bluetooth on when I am actually using it, in the car, for instance...
Other than that, I haven't had your issues. Power button seems fine to me. Callers report hearing me loud and clear, and I can hear them extremely well (it's the first phone I've had that can be made 'too' loud...)
Fax/Album/Recording. Haven't tried the fax. I use Resco for Album and recording, as the internal apps are really just 'lite' programs.
For my money, this is a great phone, and I'm very happy. Will be 100% when the get bluetooth working properly..
- Regards,
Ben
ben1000 said:
Well, since 3 of your 9 are bluetooth and 1 is the case, I think that says good things for the phone that you couldn't come up with any more...
I have the Sprint PPC-6601, which is basically the same phone with no wifi, but with fast 'vision' internet access...
I notice the bluetooth issues too. I have the zenphone profilier, and only turn bluetooth on when I am actually using it, in the car, for instance...
Other than that, I haven't had your issues. Power button seems fine to me. Callers report hearing me loud and clear, and I can hear them extremely well (it's the first phone I've had that can be made 'too' loud...)
Fax/Album/Recording. Haven't tried the fax. I use Resco for Album and recording, as the internal apps are really just 'lite' programs.
For my money, this is a great phone, and I'm very happy. Will be 100% when the get bluetooth working properly..
- Regards,
Ben
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Actually, I found dozens of similar complaints at the clubimate forums (as well as here) In particular, the so many BT complaints, microphone. I've used WINCE ever since it was version 2 16-gray scal on an old casio with 8mb of ram (gee that's history), I just wish HTC could have made a good job of actually making all the features work. The potential is super, and I guess (and hope) that most of the bug can easily be fixed with a decent programmatical procedures. You'll see dozens of complaints at the clubimate forums, lots of disappointed customers. Only HTCs fault for not making enough QA (or some say none)
To use the fax you have to have it enabled by your mobile provider (if they provide it at all)
You sound frustrated....sell it now and move on... Oh thats right there is NOTHING else like it out there.
When they get the bluetooth issues solved (and Im sure they will) you can then rebuy it.
BlueTooth is going to stuck until Microsoft can integrate a decent stack into the OS. It shouldn't be the job of the phone manufacturer to have to do that.
But it should be their job to properly QA it prior to selling it to their customer base.
Hi
I see all your issues and a load more. This device has the capability to be excellent. I hope that they fix the bugs promptly, and that the manufacturers take the bug fixes, and release appropriate updates shortly after.
Currently, O2 are sending out standard replies to all queries regarding this device (O2 XDA IIs) basically they say 'if you're not happy, send it back for a refund'. This is exactly the same as I got when I phoned them.
They keep offering to replace it, but that will not help to solve a software issue!
They did (eventually) fix most of the issues on the XDA II (although bluetooth still does not work correctly on that device either). I hope that the IIs gets the same treatment (with working bluetooth as well!)
Perhaps we should just ignore new releases, run 1 release behind... When the XDA 4 comes out, buy the 3, buy the 4 when they ship the 5 !!
We, the consumer are partly responsible for the manufacturers rushing products to market well before they are ready I suppose.
I checked out the reviews of the XDA IIs (and its friends) before I bought it, they did not have a bad word to say about it. All I can think is that the reviewers, either A) never even clapped eyes on the device, or B) never used it in anger, or C) were only allowed to review it if they said nice things about it. If I had seen a review that listed all the problems, then I would have waited a while --> and probably bought the Motorola MPx instead (which is probably just as bad, and ships with a *stupid* 32MB memory!!)
Nigel
I wish more companies were like Nebula-Electronics.com They released a freeview card 2 years ago, and have been improving upon the software ever since and offering it to customers for free. Their releases are spot on, they respond to bug reports, and they *beta* test the software with end users before they actually release the new version.
The nebula is is the best bit of software/hardware that I have ever bought... Unfortunately, most companies are not like nebula and simply move onto new hardware products without first having fixed the issues in old products.
Nigel
I bought a PDA2k from eXpansys USA, and was NOT able to repro the problem with the video camera. I was able to take video and play it back without any problems at all.
Perhaps you have a truly defective unit. Can you try returning it under warranty?
When the MPX finally ships, (which must be soon as Motorola have finally officially announced it last week and said it will be available to Asian markets this month and Europe Q1 2005) I think we're really going to see what a buggy device can be. I can't see that it's possible to run any software concurrently with wifi or bluetooth with only 32Mb of RAM and wm2003se taking up more than a third of that from bootup.
Still, the form factor is the appeal of the MPX and I can't wait to get one.
Not long ago my girlfriend bought the SE Xperia Arc. She chose that model because video-recording is important for us. And it did record video nicely, with good audio as well.
Arc was too big for me though, so I bought the Neo, which turned out to give me way too low audio in video-recordings.
So I waited for Ray, which sadly also turned out to give way too low audio in video-recordings.
Then yesterday we updated the Arc, and now it also gives way too low audio in video-recordings.
Here is an example of what I mean: dewfall.dk/compare2.mp4
Earlier example of Arc with the old firmware and the Neo I tried: dewfall.dk/compare.mp4
So what I would like is some way to be able to adjust the microphone input gain level in video-recordings.
Can this be done?
(I don't know a whole lot about rooting and custom roms. I've only played a bit with rooting and roms on my T-mobile G1, but that was a long time ago now).
I've searched this forum a lot, and it seems that most people have the problem the other way around. Their mic records too loud.
So the Market has apps like Volume+ and VooDoo and Mic Gain, but as far as I understand they only work with a certain rom, which aren't available for Xperia Arc/Neo/Ray yet, I think.
Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Hi, I just recently acquired the Mi6 after 2 years with an iPhone and I'm just glad I went back to Android. But after trying the ROM that the phone came with and Xiaomi.eu ROM I can't control the volume of bluetooth devices like iPhones do. After a short search on google it seems it has to do with the AD2P bluetooth protocol and I can't seem to find a solution. I have come across several apps that set the volume level, like profiles for any given bluetooth device but it's not what I need, the thing is if I want to change the volume I would need to set the full volume on speaker everytime I use it, which is kind of annoying. I tried disbaling the "Absolute Volume" option in the Developer Setting on both ROMs but neither worked. So I came here looking for suggestions.
apparently we are the only 2 people on earth who care about this. unfortunately i have no answer for you and am still struggling with this on my s7edge. i do find it funny that there are far more threads about people having issues DISABLING absoulte volume control when it's already not working and is disabled lol.
I've been trying to find a solution for about 3 years now without any success on the MIUI ROM. Other custom ROMs do not have this issue and the media and Bluetooth volume is linked. So I guess the only solution right now is a custom ROM.
Connect, change device name to start with ABS-DO-ENABLE, don't play anything, reboot everything, connect, done
Hi all,
I have MI 10T and recently I bought xiaomi's TWS 2S headphones. I noticed that when screen is locked, audio becomes very bad on Spotify (ie). Same thing happens sometimes even if not in locked screen.
Output is distorted, and generally is a bad experience. On the other hand I've tested the headset with other devices (ipad, mi note 3, Samsung S71) and audio is perfect. So my best guess is that there's something wrong (hopefully) at Bluetooth software.
I've changed Spotify to no battery restrictions, and set it to autostart. Didn't help. I also visit developer settings and tried to change the audio codec from default to something else. There I noticed that's not possible. Whatever change I do, when I exit dev's page it returns back to default values.
Any other had Bluetooth problems?
I'm on 12.0.15 stock global.
teoB_Glar said:
Hi all,
I have MI 10T and recently I bought xiaomi's TWS 2S headphones. I noticed that when screen is locked, audio becomes very bad on Spotify (ie). Same thing happens sometimes even if not in locked screen.
Output is distorted, and generally is a bad experience. On the other hand I've tested the headset with other devices (ipad, mi note 3, Samsung S71) and audio is perfect. So my best guess is that there's something wrong (hopefully) at Bluetooth software.
I've changed Spotify to no battery restrictions, and set it to autostart. Didn't help. I also visit developer settings and tried to change the audio codec from default to something else. There I noticed that's not possible. Whatever change I do, when I exit dev's page it returns back to default values.
Any other had Bluetooth problems?
I'm on 12.0.15 stock global.
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I also had this issue, changing the sound effects preset from smart to video/music/voice works for me but just for a while, i have to constantly do this everytime i re-open the music app.
Seems like there are very few user experience this since its been more than 6 month and no one have answer for this weird yet annoying issue, sad
Hi all
I and two other people I know using this phone have the same problem. This must be considered as a bug now. Xiaomi support acts like a fool and gives the same answers all the time. I am also afraid this might be a hardware issue. When connected to headphone and playing music, hold the phone 60-70 cm away from you and cover the camera area with your palm, and you will see it dissconnects.
If anyone installed a custom rom to 10t, can they please tell us if this problem exists or not?
Greetings everybody!
Recently my older Melomania 1 Bluetooth In-Ears got damaged while working (left one) and I bought a pair of Huawei Freebuds Pro because of the very positive feedback online.
Now I ran into a problem. While listening to DnB or german stuff (257ers ) there is no problem at all (or I don´t recognize the problem due to the lack of drum-set) BUT when I get into real stuff like metal and rock, I notice a very uncomfortable noise when the crash of the drum-set is played. I don´t run into this problem with my Xiaomi Redmi 9A, so the Freebuds are ok. Farther my Melomania 1 didn´t run into this problem either. Unfortunately I am not able to explain the noise exactly...sounds like the random sound an old TV makes, but much higher pitched.
Settings are all on Standard in the dev options. I played around a bit, but it didn´t get better. A full reset did´nt work either. I disabled the dts-option while plugging in a wired in-ear...nothing
Hope you can help, thanks
Edit: Nubia RM5G Stock Global 7.15
facing same issue, did you got any solution ??