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HTC Touch Diamond all gussied up and official {Engadget Mobile}
May 6th 2008 1:32PM That's nice.
New AT&T site touts carrier's software, hardware freedom {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 21st 2008 6:19PM This is pretty straight-forward:
1. Call AT&T's international support group,
2. tell them that you'll be traveling overseas and want to use a local SIM in your handset,
3. give them your IMEI, and they'll give you the unlock code for your handset.
ASUS P750 secretly packing VGA resolution? {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 13th 2008 8:07PM You are a tool.
This has nothing to do with Windows - it's Asus' choice to run it at 320x240 (if it is indeed a VGA part.)
Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for Samsung BlackJack hits today {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 30th 2008 12:07PM I've tested SMS, MMS, and Internet services in the 3G area that I live in, and in the EDGE area that I work in, and all are still working after 9+ hours.
For me, the real test will be if they continue to work after several days.
The one thing that I did notice was that ActiveSync briefly flashed a connection error message when I did a manual update after arriving the EDGE area. But the error message went away in about a quarter of a second, and was replaced by a normal status indicator. So it seems like the radio isn't making a seamless switch between modes.
I'd seen a quasi-similar problem with the original WM5 firmware, but that one required me to re-boot the phone in order to get incoming calls and data after going from a 3G-to-EDGE areas, though I could still make outgoing calls. That was annoying as hell.
Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for Samsung BlackJack hits today {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 30th 2008 1:23AM Holy monkey, thank God for Google.
Finally got everything working. The Internet connectivity issue is fixed by going to...
Settings -> Connections -> Menu -> Advanced
and setting BOTH Internet connection & WAP connection to "MEdia Net"
Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for Samsung BlackJack hits today {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 29th 2008 11:18PM SMS works, but now I've lost connectivity to the Internet. Same exact problem that happened to my wife's i607 about 2 days after being upgraded to WM6.
Sigh...
Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for Samsung BlackJack hits today {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 29th 2008 7:03PM Okay, I got SMS & MMS to work again, for now (SMS was also working the day after I originally upgraded, but it stopped a few days later, so YMMV.)
I did a hard reset of the phone, and let it re-format itself. You can do this by:
1 - turn off the phone,
2 - push the nad-pad in the UP direction,
3 - turn on the phone,
4 - press 1 at the prompt, followed by "y" to start the re-format
5 - reboot the phone
6 - test the crap out of the SMS
Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for Samsung BlackJack hits today {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 29th 2008 6:04PM Just got off the phone with Samsung tech support (888-987-4357) and explained the problem to them. Here's an overview of what unfolded after that ...
The L1 technician did some research, came back and said the the OFFICIAL release date of the WM6 upgrade will be 02/04/2008, and that the version released on that date would resolve the SMS/MMS issues.
L1 suggested that I re-install WM5 in the meantime to regain SMS functionality. When asked where I should procure the WM5 installed, since the Samsung website no longer has any links to the WM5/ATT build, he said, "his supervisor said that the WM5 firmware from Microsoft's site." I asked for a URL on the Microsoft site that linked to the Samsung-specific version of WM5, and he tried to find it, gave up, and transferred me to L2 support.
L2 technician said the L1 guy was full of crap regarding the 02/04 date, and that the WM6 build that was released is all that there is. He suggested downgrading to WM5, then reinstalling WM6. Unfortunately, L2 couldn't provide a URL to download WM6, and he didn't know what might happen if I attempted a WM6-to-WM6 reinstall. Said the only other options are to send phone in for Samsung to reflash to WM5, or ask an ATT store tech if they can reflash it to WM5.
End of call.
Bottom line - if you have a copy of WM5 updater for the i607, downgrade, try WM6 again, if it still has problems, re-downgrade and live with it.
Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for Samsung BlackJack hits today {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 29th 2008 4:54PM Yes, I just went through the WM6/SMS problem with both ATT's customer service and tech support and they can't figure out what's going on with it.
The tech said that everything's provisioned properly on their switches, so it might be a bad SIM. I went to the local ATT store, had them replace my SIM, but the problem still exists. The store techs tried several things to see if they could ID the cause but no luck. Right now, I have a ticket open in their engineering group to get this looked into.
Will post a follow-up if anything changes.
Samsung's 64GB SATA II SSD drive hands-on {Engadget}
Nov 8th 2007 2:39PM I'd be more than happy to test this for you - purely out of altruistic reasons, of course.
