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Data Connection Button

Hi,
I sent back my first orange TYTN II because their GPRS internet kept connecting everytime I turned on the phone and also every so often for no reason (little connecting icon at the top of the screen kept coming on and the timer started to count). The lady on the phone told me it is meant to do that on PDA phones to speed up accessing the internet explorer and using the internet, after a week of phone calls lol but i'm not sure about this as a guy in an orange shop told me their's doesnt do that. I ordered mine online. Also if this was the case I wouldn't know how long I would be using their GPRS for? lol. Maybe its only an orange thing. I don't know this is my first PDA phone. I told them to disable Orange internet completely from my phone which they did but it still tried to connect and failed lol. I couldn't see any application trying to access the internet etc.
I recieved a new TYTN II after a lot of hassle. Everything seems to be working fine. The problem is now the "Data Connection Button" in the Communication manager doesn't come on at all and I am not sure whether it is suppost to or not. I gather this button is meant to turn off all data connections in one go. Does this include WanLan Wifi? as it doesn't come on when i active this. I cant try the orange internet again because i told them to disable it. I am thinking to call them up to re-enable this but i was just wondering if there is any point in doing this and if there is any point in this button apart from closing connections.
Another question I would like to ask is why when I go into my SMS messages and click on one to read does the scrollbar start at the bottom of the page. i have to scroll up to actually read the message which is annoying. Is there a setting for this? ><
Help appreciated thanks. ^_^

I doubt a faulty device was the reason for the GPRS connection. There are several things on the device that have auto update features. Siome of the things that can cause this are: WLM, HTC Home (Weather Page), Quick GPS, etc...
As for the Data Switch in Comm manager, that is only for data, 3G, GPRS, etc... There is a WIFI/WLAN switch in most kaiser models as well.
Unless you close all the way out of the email app, (end program, x-button) it will open where it last was. Selecting a method other than "Recieved" such as "From" or "Subject" can also cause the device to open if different positions.

Thanks for the reply GSLEON3,
I couldn't find any reason for why the GPRS was automatically connecting when I turned on my phone. I didn’t have any weather etc, it was doing it after I hard reset also. I noticed that it did it every time I turned on my phone however if I used my old sim card before they disabled it for the upgrade it started to do it randomly which was odd. Well it doesn’t do it on my new one so I guess I’m happy. Maybe it was the quick GPS ill never know now. I have installed the HTC home interface because I hate all the orange crap they put onto the phone.
“As for the Data Switch in Comm manager, that is only for data, 3G, GPRS, etc...” just to turn off these data connections? Or does this button speed things up or do something else when it is activated? Ah yes how silly of me about the Wifi. I was just wondering why my data connections button wasnt coming on and really i just want some kind of method for testing it apart from GPRS (dont have provider's GPRS activate) and 3G (video calls? do they come out of my minutes?). I'm confused.
When I click the little SMS button which is located more or less in the center of the home screen above the shortcut tabs it goes to the messages page. On this page I have the Inbox filter selected on the top left and the Received filter selected on the top right. At the moment I have 73 SMS messages going down in a list. When I click any of these to read them including newly received items which go to the top of the list I cannot read the actual message until I scroll up using the scrollbar. I have tried to play around with menus etc to see if it holds the position in memory but I have had no luck in making the bar stay at the top.
If I click the top left button and then click Today to go to the home screen the SMS application automatically closes anyway so it wont open where I last was or keep anything in memory. I think this is what you are saying to do. If I open to read any message and then go out to the list of SMS's it wont remember the scrollbar was last at the top when reading the message so keeping the application in memory will have no use as it resets to the bottom as I enter to read any message. I hope this is clear, sorry if it is long-winded.
Many Thanks

Nevermind I have found out why the message bar keeps going to the bottom in the SMS page. Its because of the "D-Pad Scroll Navigation" in the Kaiser Tweak application.
I will just assume that the data connection button is not required and not worry about it i think. Can't find any information about it.
thanks.

features i like about the kaiser

actually a couple features..I've got a hold of this phone for a week now...I had a wizard before this and I like how the kaiser has its own wifi button..not only that but I like how I can still be online..ie instant messenger don't get disconnected when someone calls and I answer..or is this feature only on 3g connections? I stay in baton rouge and highest speed I got was 768 kbit/s
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Hmm I've hag mine for 2 months now, and I still haven't found the wifi button

lol..
wi-fi button ??
you mean the button for IE ?

oops..sorry I have an att tilt and wifi button is fn+right arrow button..easily connects to last hotspot instead of going into wireless manager..

Ah, on the keyboard.... the Hermes had that too! Function & ok (both on slide keyboard) on the UK T-Mob Vario II version.
Think the other guys were thinking hard button, not on the slide out... But i'm pretty sure you could just as easily bind one of the hard keys to toggle wifi

Hidden writing & 3g stability

Hi
I went through all the threads and could not find any one discussing these 2 problems!
when setting up you mail account you can't see what you are writing!!!! and it seems that it is the same for most of the writing in the machine .....!! any Help please
2nd .. what is the best setup for getting a continuous 3g signal? my Nokia has it all the time! I can not make vedio calls
I am using ROM 1.35.456.3 and radio 0.93.25.ns26

Besides my HTC Touch Diamond, I also own a Nokia E90(for daily work) and a Nokia N95 8GB(when having family quality time, mostly weekends).
So far, I don't know of any HTC device to be only even close to Nokia's 3G reception quality. The E90 has full HSDPA signal reception, almost same with the N95 8GB in our bedroom, no problems here to check emails, get attachements ultrafast.
The Touch Diamond doesn't get a HSDPA signal at all(same place on my night desk) and if the "H" shows up(VERY rarely), it is only one bar and it falls back immediately to GPRS or EDGE when I try to download an attachment. Horrible 3G performance.
Regarding Touchflo3D and the "keyboard": I can't hide the feeling that HTC rushed things with the Touch Diamond. The reason could be the early introduction of the iPhone 3G, it could also be the fact that HTC needed a new "breakthrough" device for their carrier partners. If HTC would have put around 6 more months into Touchflo3D and hardware development, I'm pretty sure we would have seen a very nice product.
Touchflo3D looks absolutely stunning, no doubt about it. If it would work only half as good as it looks...well... I truely hope that during the following months and the additional pressure created through the new iPhone 2 and other interesting products from Nokia and Co., HTC will put more energy into Touchflo3D and hardware development. I wish Microsoft would use Touchflo3D as a benchmark for GUI design(not functionality!) because it really looks good, much better than Apple's iPhone "mini"OSX.
Right now, all early Touch Diamond adopters like us have to live with the flaws this beauty has. It is a stunning device but not even close to perfection. AT LEAST 6 months of software/hardware development are missing from this device, I know it sounds horrible and it is.
Lets hope that HTC and especially the steadily rising Touch Diamond developer community will find a way to improve Touchflo3D performance AND integration into WM6.1. Touchflo3D isn't fully implemented, it is more of a "cover" for WM6.1 and not a very thorough one. I just hope that some people will use this opportunity to embedd the Touchflo3D look even further into WM6.1, right now it looks like a halfbread "something", with that fancy Touchflo3D interface and that dusty WM original interface in one place. This needs to be changed.

P996 said:
Besides my HTC Touch Diamond, I also own a Nokia E90(for daily work) and a Nokia N95 8GB(when having family quality time, mostly weekends).
So far, I don't know of any HTC device to be only even close to Nokia's 3G reception quality. The E90 has full HSDPA signal reception, almost same with the N95 8GB in our bedroom, no problems here to check emails, get attachements ultrafast.
The Touch Diamond doesn't get a HSDPA signal at all(same place on my night desk) and if the "H" shows up(VERY rarely), it is only one bar and it falls back immediately to GPRS or EDGE when I try to download an attachment. Horrible 3G performance.
Regarding Touchflo3D and the "keyboard": I can't hide the feeling that HTC rushed things with the Touch Diamond. The reason could be the early introduction of the iPhone 3G, it could also be the fact that HTC needed a new "breakthrough" device for their carrier partners. If HTC would have put around 6 more months into Touchflo3D and hardware development, I'm pretty sure we would have seen a very nice product.
Touchflo3D looks absolutely stunning, no doubt about it. If it would work only half as good as it looks...well... I truely hope that during the following months and the additional pressure created through the new iPhone 2 and other interesting products from Nokia and Co., HTC will put more energy into Touchflo3D and hardware development. I wish Microsoft would use Touchflo3D as a benchmark for GUI design(not functionality!) because it really looks good, much better than Apple's iPhone "mini"OSX.
Right now, all early Touch Diamond adopters like us have to live with the flaws this beauty has. It is a stunning device but not even close to perfection. AT LEAST 6 months of software/hardware development are missing from this device, I know it sounds horrible and it is.
Lets hope that HTC and especially the steadily rising Touch Diamond developer community will find a way to improve Touchflo3D performance AND integration into WM6.1. Touchflo3D isn't fully implemented, it is more of a "cover" for WM6.1 and not a very thorough one. I just hope that some people will use this opportunity to embedd the Touchflo3D look even further into WM6.1, right now it looks like a halfbread "something", with that fancy Touchflo3D interface and that dusty WM original interface in one place. This needs to be changed.
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Would be interested to know which rom your using and which network your on???. Reason i ask is that im with tmobile and their 3G coverage is brilliant, with my n95 8gb i could easily get 3.5g access but seeing as im getting my Diamond tommorrow...if im going to have major issues getting a decent 3g signal then the phone is no good to me.

Ajebooo said:
Hi
when setting up you mail account you can't see what you are writing!!!! and it seems that it is the same for most of the writing in the machine .....!! any Help please
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Yep! anoying as hell. the only thing you can do is turn the keyboard off to see what you wrote, and then turn it back on to finish typing (the icon in the center bottom of the screen just in case u didnt know - but i'm sure u did!)
Or in some windows u can scroll the window down.
I tell you whats worse tho.. when you open opera and the HTC search page comes up.. you can't see what your trying either!

someone1234 said:
Yep! anoying as hell. the only thing you can do is turn the keyboard off to see what you wrote, and then turn it back on to finish typing (the icon in the center bottom of the screen just in case u didnt know - but i'm sure u did!)
Or in some windows u can scroll the window down.
I tell you whats worse tho.. when you open opera and the HTC search page comes up.. you can't see what your trying either!
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Thanks, Actually what I mean is not the words hidden behind the keyboard , try to setup an e-mail account and you will see what I mean.....> you can see the box , but the words are invisible -----the invisible words ... very unprofessional work , I can't believe this
the 3g coverage is great for my E90 , but for this Diamond it is only Edge ....

Ajebooo said:
Thanks, Actually what I mean is not the words hidden behind the keyboard , try to setup an e-mail account and you will see what I mean.....> you can see the box , but the words are invisible -----the invisible words ... very unprofessional work , I can't believe this
the 3g coverage is great for my E90 , but for this Diamond it is only Edge ....
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hmm i setup my email yesterday and didn't have that problem at all.
I'm using the UK rom 1.37.405.1

someone1234 said:
hmm i setup my email yesterday and didn't have that problem at all.
I'm using the UK rom 1.37.405.1
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I guess they fixed it between 1.35 and 1.37 ... it is really annoying ....
if anyone has upgraded ... please give me your feedback , I did not see this issue in any other thread.
and is there a solution to this bad 3g reception?

Ajebooo said:
I guess they fixed it between 1.35 and 1.37 ... it is really annoying ....
if anyone has upgraded ... please give me your feedback , I did not see this issue in any other thread.
and is there a solution to this bad 3g reception?
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the 3g reception is OK now , I changed the operator and it worked. strange it works with certain operators only .
left with the hidden letters problem

Opera browser on Tmobile stock ROM - not full screen!

Hi,
I have taken the plunge and got myself a Diamond - or rather a uk TMobile MDA Compact IV -
I have a small problem with it... when I am browsing the web using Opera, the browser always keeps the top and bottom bars visible - all the time. They never vanish, meaning that my web browsing is done on the rather small space in between them. I'm sure they are supposed to vanish whilst browsing and only return when needed.
Does anyone know how to fix this please?

xxxxchrisxxxx said:
Hi,
I have taken the plunge and got myself a Diamond - or rather a uk TMobile MDA Compact IV -
I have a small problem with it... when I am browsing the web using Opera, the browser always keeps the top and bottom bars visible - all the time. They never vanish, meaning that my web browsing is done on the rather small space in between them. I'm sure they are supposed to vanish whilst browsing and only return when needed.
Does anyone know how to fix this please?
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Maybe a simple answer but have you checked that auto full screen is checked in the display settings ?
On another note the stock t-mobile compact 4 is slow and buggy. I changed to SwiftBL WWE Diamond v5.0 and havnt looked back since.

Full HSPA reverts to GPRS every time I make a call

Please help me out with this, I'm getting very annoyed, upset and whatever else you can think of. Two days ago, I brought my Tilt into the ATT service center because of a problem, and they replaced it with a brand new Tilt. My older one was running 6.0 but this new one is running 6.1 WinMo, which I fear is the culprit here.
I get full HSPA bars here in NYC (kaiser tweak) under most circumstances, and it stays this way while I'm surfing the net and such but, whenever I make a phone call, it automatically switches to G ! ? There are times when it might go through with EDGE *the call*, but it's seldom. I never had this problem before the phone switch. It also happens without using Kaiser Tweak, with 3G. And while I AM able to use the phone with G, I feel that this might pose a problem at some point, and would like the phone to be able to reach its full potential or.. just be the way it was.
Help is seriously needed !
Doug

dougrb said:
Please help me out with this, I'm getting very annoyed, upset and whatever else you can think of. Two days ago, I brought my Tilt into the ATT service center because of a problem, and they replaced it with a brand new Tilt. My older one was running 6.0 but this new one is running 6.1 WinMo, which I fear is the culprit here.
I get full HSPA bars here in NYC (kaiser tweak) under most circumstances, and it stays this way while I'm surfing the net and such but, whenever I make a phone call, it automatically switches to G ! ? There are times when it might go through with EDGE *the call*, but it's seldom. I never had this problem before the phone switch. It also happens without using Kaiser Tweak, with 3G. And while I AM able to use the phone with G, I feel that this might pose a problem at some point, and would like the phone to be able to reach its full potential or.. just be the way it was.
Help is seriously needed !
Doug
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i think theyre still using EDGE / 2G for voice calls.. not all markets have switched to 3G/HSDPA voice

I too have the same issue. I'm not saying a problem, cause in my opinion it is not. When a call is made it switches back to gprs. It takes about 30 secs after the call to switch it back to hsdpa. It is probably a bug or perhaps a lack of your carrier.
BTW. I'm with T-mobile Holland, perhaps it is network related.

What I'm trying to convey though is that my other phone (which was exchanged because I thought the top of the slider was loose) did not behave like this. It kept its full H bars through every call. And the only difference between the two phones is that the previous one ran WinMo 6.0 and this one runs 6.1
They DO use HSPA here in NYC, you have to turn it on with Kaiser tweak in order to use it, though.
Doug

u nailed it 2 times on the head here..
kaiser tweak..and ur stock winmo 6.1
- kaiser tweak is an essential tool for a kaiser..never leave it behind after a flash and always enable ur HSDPA
- winmo 6.1 is a dirty dirty devil, what i suggest is to reflash and use a good radio..i live in Central New Jersey and im in and out of NY daily ( midtown / diamond district ) and i have yet to experience a dropped call!
im running the below mentioned rom and radio..give it a go..most likely u wont be disappointed!
Jstar

JstarLuvsTina said:
u nailed it 2 times on the head here..
kaiser tweak..and ur stock winmo 6.1
- kaiser tweak is an essential tool for a kaiser..never leave it behind after a flash and always enable ur HSDPA
- winmo 6.1 is a dirty dirty devil, what i suggest is to reflash and use a good radio..i live in Central New Jersey and im in and out of NY daily ( midtown / diamond district ) and i have yet to experience a dropped call!
im running the below mentioned rom and radio..give it a go..most likely u wont be disappointed!
Jstar
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Well, it's interesting. Paulbates over at hofo suggests (and I agree w/him) that it would have been silly for them to release a ROM which did this, and we'd see tons of threads here and elsewhere about it if it were the case. I only asserted though, that the radio version might not like the area in which I live yada yada..
As soon as the problem started however, I did install Kaiser Tweak, and enabled HSDA. It worked as usual, but the H disappears just as fast as 3G was disappearing, so it makes no difference. I'm also experiencing data connectivity issues on this phone for the first time ever. Last night, even with full E or H bars, as I tried to open Opera or PIE, I'd get an error saying I had no data session open and the web page wasn't available. I tried many different pages of course, so it was the phone.. This never happened with my other phone, and I'm really regretting having taken it back now.
P.S. as far as changing the ROM and radio, I'm very inexperienced (re: have never done it before) and will wait to see if changing the phone makes a difference first. I only wish they had given me an exchange phone with 6.0 on it. Even the guy at the shop said that a lot of people have been complaining about 6.1. Do you live in NYC btw ? If so, perhaps I will take your advice about changing the ROM/Radio myself. Only thing is though, I run Linux. I do also have a Macbook Pro.. Can I do it with either of those OS's ?
Doug

Oh this is so very annoying... I just brought the phone into the store and they replaced it again. The girl I dealt with was very nice, and went through testing it out, and agreed that it was indeed doing something it shouldn't be doing. She even swapped the SIM card, but it was still the same. I then got a new (refurb of course) and it seemed to stay on E in the store, but then I wandered outside into Bryant Park (where I am now) and the same ol' junk occurred.
The last call I made actually stayed on Edge, but that was about 1 of 7 calls. Not only that, but now my voice mail doesn't work either... It asks if I have an account, then prompts me to put in my phone number. When I do, it says it's not a valid account. I'm really regretting switching my phone over, big time.
I'm going to call CS and see what they have to say (yes, we know the network isn't solid right now, but we're "working on it") Yah...
This really puts me off, but if they can't do anything, I'll start messing with the ROMS. It's just that my download speed right now sucks, too. Can someone direct me to a mobile internet speed test, which is good ? I tried toast.net, but it's too slow to load anything on any of the servers. And speedtest.net requires flash, but those probably aren't very good for mobile phones, anyway.
Doug