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verizonfreak1

01-12-2006, 10:22 PM

amartins02

01-12-2006, 11:52 PM

Go to www.howardforums.com they have an extensive disscussion going on at the moment. If your in high school I suggest getting this phone through Sprint because the EVDO data plan is cheaper. That is unless you want the black one or have money to burn.

Unregistered

01-18-2006, 10:59 PM

Can anyone tell me if it can take normal wear and tear? Like having it in your pockect all day. thanks

Crossblade

01-19-2006, 08:14 AM

You'd better use a belt-carrying case for it !

If I was able to get one - I would ! :) I'd love suck a Pocket PC, too.

So my opinion is - get it.

Unregistered

02-22-2006, 08:22 PM

does anybody know anything about the new verizon pocket pc vx6700. I would really like to know if it can stand normal wear and tear like havin it in a pockect all day. Also is this phone really big because i am in high school and want to use it during classes to text and such. I know the price is high but I am willing to pay becuase I love the features!!
Thanks :)

HEY I HAVE THE VX6700 AND I LOVE IT.THIS IS THE BEST PHONE I EVER HAD IF YOU GO TO HANDANGO.COM YOU CAN BUY A PROGRAM CALLED RINGO MOBILE. WITH THIS YOU YOU CAN USE THE MUSIC ON YOUR SD CARD AS YOUR RINGER AND YOU CAN SET INDIVIDUAL RING TONE FOR DIFFERENT CONTACTS IN YOUR PHONE. TRUST ME IT IS A GREAT BUY. ESPICALLY BECAUSE.YOUR STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL

verizonfreak1

03-04-2006, 12:26 AM

Thanks soo much!! I got the phone and LOVE it!! I also got the evdo unlimited data package and it works great!!

Unregistered

03-08-2006, 09:51 PM

Unregistered

03-21-2006, 09:54 PM

This phone makes the list of the top three worst products that I've ever owned.

The other two are the 1982 Oldsmobile diesel and the 1971 Triumph spitfire.

I am thinking of going back to the Verizon store and throwing it through their window.

I previouly owned two vx6600's which totally crapped out. The last was replaced under warranty with the vx 6700. It's hard to believe, but it's even worse than the 6600.

For instance, the 6600 had a button on the "phone" screen that called up the speed dial page. On the 6700, you've gotta touch a SMALL menu button, then a tiny "speed dial" item to pop up the speed dial screen. Not too speedy at all.

Once you make a call, the dial pad goes away and a useless screen appears.
If you want to use the dail pad for say a voice mail system or to dial someone in an automated system, you've gotta touch another tiny spot at the bottom to get the dialpad back.

The whole thing is quirkey and very unstable. The hard buttons are hard to use on purpose, but easy to set off by accident. Windows mobile 5 does not intergrate with ACT! contact management software unless you buy a seperate piece of software.

All in all, I gotta guess the people who designed this thing are on crack.

Buy anything else.

Unregistered

04-10-2006, 08:37 PM

Act contact manger is a no. What is the software that will cure the ill?
Help!

Unregistered

04-26-2006, 03:10 PM

Speaking from personal experience - The 6700 is as fragile as a glass Christmas ornament. If you drop it 2 feet, it will be totalled. And it cannot be repaired for much less than the cost of a new one. It is obvious that the standard cases that snap over your belt are being sold to put your investment at risk. They are not fit for sale and are actually intended to eventually destroy your phone. Also, don't look to Verizon for help - their response was "We only sell em, we don't make em." If you buy a 6700, you need one of the aluminum cases and you will need to add a safety chain. Even better, Case makes a padded suitcase that may actually protect it to some degree.

DeaselX

05-01-2006, 03:50 PM

No it cant take a drop. if you buy it get the insurence ..there is a deductable of $50 and you get a new phone in 3 days.. I keep it in my cargo pocket all and have no problems..stylis is great for quick tex...and key pad is actually very nice..though you really cant tex while driving, (not that you should anyway)..enjoy..anyone beat 1157 on bubble breaker?:)

Unregistered

05-10-2006, 12:53 PM

64 MB doesn't seem like much to run Win mobile 5, is it expandable?

Crossblade

05-11-2006, 05:40 AM

the phone has slot for memory card to store your media files, programs, and documents...

verizonfreak1

05-18-2006, 07:12 PM

I have had the phone for about 5 months and it was great when it was new. This phone has really takin a beating as well i have dropped it many times and only a small amount of cosmetic damage. The phone really has some great features such as internet explorer and pocket office. I do feel that the screen is kinda small. Anyway when i got the phone it was GREAT but now I have to exchange it because my touch screen just stopped workin on day! :mad: Also when you open the keyboard the screen takes to long to flip. The battery I find also dies extremly fast. I hope when i get a new phone all that will be fixed.

Unregistered

05-30-2006, 07:12 PM

I have the 6700 from Verizon and I like it. I have had just about every phone that verizon has put out. I like the features of the phone and if you change the system registry on the phone, you will have a lot more functionality.

Unregistered

06-15-2006, 11:52 AM

I have had a 6700 from verizon for several months. As an IT director, I have had to overcome several challenges with these phones as we have a number of them amongst our staff now. I thought I would share with you some things we have found out that cause you to have have some issues.

1) Memory expansion - the 64mb base memory is meager at best. You can expand the memory easily with a Mini-SD card. I have a 1gb card in mine. There are several issues with using an expansion card however. The 6700 will recoginze the card automatically, but each time it goes to 'hiberbnate' it will drop it's connection to the card. That creates a problem in that if you have any applications running that are accessing files on your card, those applications will not work properly again once you bring the 6700 out of hibernate again. The operating system is faulty in that it does not attempt to reconnect to the card, it only knows that connection was broken. For instance, if you are reading a book with MS reader and the phone hibernates on you, bring the phone back up will result in an error message statinng that the book is no longer accessable after you page ahead a few pages. In the MS reader instace of this issue, you will need to go to Settings/system tab/memory/running programs tab and stop the application. Then you can restart ms reader and establish a connection to the card again. This happens with most applications on the unit. The real issue here is that the connection to the memory card was lost but the phone kept the application itself running in memory. If the application was shutdown when it hibernated, the issue would go away, but you would have to restart the application each time. Closing applciation does not stop the application from running in memory. The only way to actually stop applications is to go to Settings/system tab/memory/running programs tab and stop the application. That is a faulty OS, no question about it.

2) Some applications cannot see the memory card at all. Such as if you want a nice mp3 ringtone, you are forced to place the ringtone file in a main memory location, not on your card. It will not work any other way. This severly limits the ringtones you can use or the number of tones you can have at any one time.

3) The buttons on the phone are poorly placed. The camera button in particular is really bad. You will nearly always inadvertantly press this button when trying to remove the phone from it's sync cradle. Then you have to wait 30 seconds for the software to start so you can shut it back down. Then of course you aren't really shutting it down as you can't without going to Settings/system tab/memory/running programs tab and stopping the application. This will cause the phone to run slower and slower over time until you pitch the phone at a concrete wall.

4) If you attempt to use the remote email sync via the cell phone data access line (in Verizon's case), the synce will work for several days perhaps, but then becomes unstable and will start to fail to sync. It will throw a number of very misleading messages that will suggest your settings are wrong. The trick to corecting these faults once they happen is to reset the phone by poking your stylus in the rest hole in the bottom left hand corener of the phone (to the left of the sync/power cable plug). This will reset the phone and keep your settings and resolve the mail synce issues in most all cases. The real issue here is that phone simply messes up the settings over time and has to be reset. All of the 6700 we have display this problem.

If anyone has found any resolutions to these issues that we have not, I would be very interested in hearing them.

Unregistered

06-15-2006, 07:03 PM

Anyone know how to get the VX6700 to dial extra digits on calling? For example, I'd like to have it automatically dial my voicemail password once it connects. I've had multiple phones that have this feature in the past but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to work on this phone.

Thanks

Unregistered

06-18-2006, 02:38 PM

If you need some hacks or mods head on over to http://www.ppcgeeks.com/ You wont believe what you can do with these Pocket PC phones

Unregistered

07-13-2006, 01:22 PM

go to start, phone, then menu, speed dials, highlight the default vm speed dial, then menu, edit. at the top add a p (lower case), or as many seconds as you want for 1 second then the vm password and that should do it for you. hope that helps

smartphoneguru

07-19-2006, 09:53 AM

nice place!

i have the mda which is almost like the 6700! which is also really nice

Unregistered

07-30-2006, 10:19 PM

I am in the market for a smartphone and cannot buy Palm products as I have Windows XP Media Center. (Palm does NOT support Media Center edition). Does anyone know which WinXP editions this smartphone is compatible with? Thanks

DUKE

08-11-2006, 08:18 AM

Does anyone know how to make the slide out keyboard light up automaticly when it is activated?

Unregistered

09-21-2006, 11:40 AM

i am in the market for a smart phone, i have an axim x51v that finally started working great afetr i dwnlded the latest OS version (#12) from dell website. WM 5.0 i guess sucks. it took them 12 editions to fix all its defects.
well i want to combine the gadgets in one (phone PDA pager). it seems the vx 6700 is a poor choice based on the reviews i am reading. i heard the palm windows version also has many problems.
should i get the palm 650p or 700p

Unregistered

09-27-2006, 05:23 PM

I am looking to buy VX6700 model. What functionalities are you referring to when u say "you change the system registry on the phone, you will have a lot more functionality" .

Will greatly appreciate a response.
Thanks

I have the 6700 from Verizon and I like it. I have had just about every phone that verizon has put out. I like the features of the phone and if you change the system registry on the phone, you will have a lot more functionality.

rc1

11-07-2006, 07:45 PM

I have had a 6700 from verizon for several months. As an IT director, I have had to overcome several challenges with ...

1) Memory expansion - the 64mb base memory is meager at best. You can expand the memory easily with a Mini-SD card. I have a 1gb card in mine. There are several issues with using an expansion card however. ...
- I have not had this problem. I use a 512 M card all the time.

2) Some applications cannot see the memory card at all. Such as if you want a nice mp3 ringtone, you are forced to place the ringtone file in a main
- My phone rings plays a Johnny Cash song that is on my card...

3) The buttons on the phone are poorly placed. The camera button in particular is really bad. You will nearly always inadvertantly press this button when trying to remove the phone from it's sync cradle. Then you have to ...
- Must be how you hold it - I've not done that. I do get frustrated that shutting down is not shutting down. There are some 3rd party apps that fix this.

4) If you attempt to use the remote email sync via the cell phone data access line (in Verizon's case), the synce will work for several days perhaps, but then becomes unstable and will start to fail to sync. It will throw a ...
- Again - not seen this.

Perhaps you have the older version of the firmware. Maybe you just need to upgrade it.

Now - I do have an instability problem - see another post.

rc1

rc1

11-07-2006, 07:48 PM

My XV6700 will 'lock up' often if I"m in an area where I'm connected using WiFi and then leave. IT seems to get hung trying to get to the wifi.

Only fix is poke the reset hole.

ANy thoughts?

Jan

11-26-2006, 08:06 PM

You are sooooo right about the camera button!

I have the xv6700 and have experienced problems with what an in store representative identified as bad speakers. The phone will go into what appears to be pause mode during a call. At times the interruption is brief but is becoming more frequent. The phone was replaced but the problem is occurring again. On some occassions, the phone will actually disconnect and automatically dial the last number.

Also, Microsoft does not appear to have an auto update feature for Windows mobile 5.0 or Internet Explorer for pocket PC on their website. Some of the websites I use for work are no longer accessible using IE for Pocket PC.

pcsoftball

06-26-2008, 09:57 PM

Ok so when i recieve messages i cant see who they are from how can i fix it?

pcsoftball

06-26-2008, 10:34 PM

Ok so when i recieve messages i cant see who they are from how can i fix it?

i actually should say when i recieve text messages i dont know who they are from.

if you find out let me know i would appreciate it.. i have came so close to tossing the phone many times across the room trying to figure it out.

tigger22002002@yahoo.com
that is me email that you can respond to me at.. thanks

VZWTEK

07-16-2008, 12:19 PM

"My XV6700 will 'lock up' often if I"m in an area where I'm connected using WiFi and then leave. IT seems to get hung trying to get to the wifi."

Fixed with the newest Software release. UTstarcom's homepage to download the self extracting file.

"Ok so when i recieve messages i cant see who they are from how can i fix it?"

Do you sync with activesync often?
Its some kind of error that is attributed to activesync storing the contacts in outlook.

Unregistered

07-16-2008, 11:24 PM

well i got a vx6700 and in the start it was a pain in the ass cuz i didnt have a evdo plan so it suckes ani still dont have one but i love the features like wifi is the shit i get online almost everywhere and u can download a program that u dont need the password to connect but i have wonder i got a 4 gig memory micro sd card would it work on it ???

VZWTEK

07-16-2008, 11:31 PM

Thats a no go, with the most current software release, I think the max it will read is 2GB, but I'll double check when I get back to work.

Unregistered

10-22-2008, 05:10 PM

I accidently put my phoe on private so when i call someone it show private, can someone tell me how to remove it