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@adnhk1
at the last FW i did not use the backup i started afresh as i was worried about corrupt data generated by the previous Firmware. Why try a reflash and input new settings
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Posted: 2006-10-15 11:58:00
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satisfied and happy user to think this is my first p series.
took the risk and bought it the day it was officially released/launched, aug 26, 2006 here in the Philippines.
I have read a lot of horrible stories (prior to Philippine release) and still went on with my purchase.
its been almost 2 months now and i am still in love with my p990i. I got few kernel errors and crashes and these issues didnt bother me at all. A restart will do for me until a more 'stable' firmware is released by SE.
i would consider myself as medium to heavy user, sending sms/mms, voice and video calling, wifi, taking pictures, some word and spreadsheet. And my p990i never fails me.
I usually restart my phone every morning.
Master reset and flip off since day one.
Tried Swiss Manager Free Edition, uninstalled and never looked back.
I am on Generic World2;
Phone: CXC162037 R7A001
Bluetooth: CXC162058 R4F01
Organiser: CXC162036 R3B01
CDA: CDA162007/2 R3B01
Again, im a happy p990i user.
I remember my first day with my p990i:
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=108358&start=4950[ This Message was edited by: antz88c on 2006-10-15 11:27 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-15 12:19:39
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im also a very satisfied P990i user. been always a p series user since P800 harharharharhar
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Posted: 2006-10-15 13:39:16
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Oops Jah, apologies, forgot to mention, I never use backup/restore for all my 4 generations of P series phones. Never trusted this feature for fear of it restoring some old sytem files and replaces the new ones. Hence for the past 4 years, all firmware upgrades for me means manual installation of all my applications, and manual restore of my contacts, calendar, jotter, etc.
edit: I am still hopeful that SE will eventually release a firmware that fixes these issues that some of us are facing currently. Else I really have to find a way to get my P990i replaced with a newer batch one to test it out, but that would be near impossible in my country
[ This Message was edited by: adnhk1 on 2006-10-15 13:39 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-15 14:36:49
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a question to all who felt that P990 had met their expectation:
Are you using any form of push mail, in particular Blackberry connect?
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Posted: 2006-10-15 15:59:57
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I know this is not the right forum, but just like adnhk1 i am experiancing the call log problem as well...latest firmware...if i remember correctly my p990 was the same batch as your Jah e.g. bought it at the same place....initlaly i thought the problem with the call log was that it did not add the number until the other person answered the phone, however this has been disproved since i have had 5-10mins conversations with people and still the number does not get added to the call log...
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Posted: 2006-10-15 16:58:40
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@ Gabster and adnhk1
I discovered with M600 that settings and other data are not deleted when you flash so I also do a Master Reset as well.
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Posted: 2006-10-15 19:54:00
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No, p990 was a disaster, a waste of money.
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Posted: 2008-10-09 22:45:28
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Coming from a feature phone (S700), I felt that it met my expectation if not exceeded it. I was even aware that the phone might be unstable out of the box but I was one of the lucky ones I guess and had minimal problems as the phone did almost everything it was supposed to do. The phone became stable with R6D23, a fw before the last one, But it still didn't do what was supposed to be it's biggest selling point-Multitask. That was why it got gunned down so badly as compared to P9xx and below. And to add insult to the injury, the RAM leaked like a shower in a hot summer's day, a lot and fast! I was happy with the phone because it gave me real and practical day to day solutions so didn't mind the delayed responsiveness. But after 2 years, it's starting to get to me, and X1 isn't giving me the Wow effect P990 gave me when it was announced. I have to disagree with hghautam when he said the specs were not up to scratch when it was actually quite advanced and the best specced phone at the time it was announced as opposed to X1 which is nothing to shout about at all. All in all, I think the project leader for 1st gen UIQ3 was a complete idiot for single handedly destroying SE's long standing good reputation with TS smartphones, simply by speccing in 64mb RAM which was obviously a big, big mistake that could've been avoided.
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Ericsson EH97, GA628, GF768, A2618s, T29s Sony Ericsson T68i, S700i, P990i, Z558i
P990i + WG1 R6E28 + 8GB Sandisk MSPD + BST-40
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Posted: 2008-10-10 09:04:41
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Well...I am on my second P990 now
... Had first one for two years, but decided to sell it after Jog Dial went berserk and the scratches became too visible. Was thinking about G900 for a while, but I am just sooo hoked on GDesk + SMP + qwerty + fairly big screen + Jog Dial, I could not make the change yet. Currently, I see no device that would completely be able to replace it, in spite of its shortcomings. ( P1's design didn't appeal to me...)
First year with it was hard though, I don't think it would have sticked with me if it was my main phone for calls - have a dumb phone for that. 128 MB of RAM to begin with, could have made it almost perfect
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Posted: 2008-10-10 13:46:30
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