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Battery Life

I am using my P990 like I did my M600, execpt now I have discovered the wonderful world of FM radio, and I find I am getting similar battery life. This is is what I typically do and I have around 40% battery life before I charge overnight:

- BT on for about 12 hrs
- Music listening over 2 hours (inc a bit of FM radio)
- PIM about 10/15 mins
- web for about 20-30 minutes
- a few calls, less than 15 mins
- no wifi usage at all

Don't use scheduled email download normally but an hourly download for a day that I tried had little impact on the battery

FM Radio

When I use the radio my T-mobile signal indicator goes to zero or very low. And even after I kill the Radio (media player) process I continue to have a zero/low signal indicated. This could just be a problem with the indicator but when I tried to use the web app I had no connection. Anyone else notice this behaviour with the radio?

Flip Open/Closed

Found that if you start the Messaging app in FC mode when you try to use it in FO mode the menus are different - 'Delete Message' is missing

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[ This Message was edited by: Jah on 2006-08-23 08:43 ]
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Posted: 2006-08-23 09:41:49
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@jah

If you kill the messaging application with tasl manager the delete message command in FO mode reappears..Strange..
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Posted: 2006-08-23 09:58:31
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when I get an email the phone vibrates to let me know Iopen it ub flip closed mode

As its opening it and it says "busy"... if I open the flip to see the message full screen I get an error

Application: Messaging, Reason code: E32USER-CBase, Reason number 48

this is what I used to do on series so I don't think about it until its too late
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Posted: 2006-08-23 11:05:21
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@jah

No problems with signal strength when radio is on.. (Vodafone)

I have been playing a bit more with loading many applications at the same time. Most or all major applications can be loaded at the same time (even when some of the initial memory has been sapped away down to about 10MB from 15 MB). Messaging, calendar, contacts. media player...

The single big issue appears to still be the browser...(large or small cache). It just takes away most of the memory available, thus killing all other applications when switched on.. I think they have to do something with the opera browser...

[ This Message was edited by: Avantis on 2006-08-23 11:04 ]
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Posted: 2006-08-23 12:03:47
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@Avantis

Interesting result with the Radio, Masseur is also on Vodafone while I am on T-mobile. Perhaps its a T-mobile thing! Having said that the problem is not consistent as I did manage to surf yesterday with the Radio switched-on.

General - having a radio on a mobile has never really interested me until now. Found a really good reggae station on my way to London this morning!

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[ This Message was edited by: Jah on 2006-08-23 11:17 ]
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Posted: 2006-08-23 12:16:37
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no, I'm using my new t-mobile web'n'walk sim this week in the P990

interestingly I was doing much the same this morning on the train as I did yesterday and not a single crash.
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Posted: 2006-08-23 12:19:20
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The radio / music / video + HBH-DS970 implementation on this phone is an absolute winner..I think they have spent a lot of effort on the multimedia side of the phone and it shows..Not forgetting the still brilliant 2 MP camera and not-so-bad video..

Now then if the browser problem could be solved.....



[ This Message was edited by: Avantis on 2006-08-23 11:28 ]
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Posted: 2006-08-23 12:27:08
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I find it really annoying that you have to remember to close all running tasks one by one. My linux Motorola E680i was the same and I guess WM5 devices are the same. Why can't it be like Palm OS? Just by quiting the running app it closes? Sometimes you don't need to multi-task. I have a treo 650 and love the phone to death at its speed, software ability and one handed operation. I am soo tempted by the p990i but its seriously worrying me about all these problems and having to quit running apps.


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Posted: 2006-08-23 14:03:18
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@tboy2000

Multi-tasking has its benefits. I had a Treo 650 but had to sell it because it was not stable for me and BT and call quality was not on par with SE/Nokia. The P990 one handed operation now has improved with the flip closed functions. Jot is the same as Griffiti II but Agendus is not available for UIQ3. Also you'll miss the SMS tracking feature of the Treo on the P990.

@all

you must try the trick with watching a video and then letting the media player running. The acceleration of the user interface is astonishing!

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[ This Message was edited by: Jah on 2006-08-23 13:13 ]
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Posted: 2006-08-23 14:12:34
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Can anyone format their mem stick in the p990i??

I just tried 2 times and both times it crashed, first time it just hung and couldnt kill it with the task manager. So re-booted the phone etc then tried again..same thing but this time it crashed pretty badly...had to do a hard reset on it.

Anyone confirm this??
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Posted: 2006-08-23 16:13:32
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