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Sony Ericsson W960i Discussion |
lorsban
Joined: Jan 31, 2008
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Hi everyone,
Does anyone else have a problem with text input where when you want to put a space, you get a "#" or some kind of weird symbol?
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mange69
Joined: Oct 07, 2002
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From: Sweden
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On 2008-03-30 15:43:31, maherladsak wrote:
Hi.
The thread has become too long now to do a search. I just really need help for my wife's w960 that we just bought last night.
We want to get rid of the 3 triangles that appears on the screen's left, right and bottom areas when typing while maintaining the ability of the hard numberpad to type texts.
There are only 2 options to choose, and choosing the otherone wont allow the keys to type letters but numbers only.
Cheers
I'm not sure I understand what U want to do. When U have the triangles U are in handwriting mode. Write numbers above the "line" between the left/right triangle, and letters below. On the "line" the letters will be in capital letters. When U are in this mode the hardware buttons is in multitap mode. If U press and hold * the triangles will disappear and U can't write on the screen with the pencil any more, but the hardware buttons is in T9 mode instead. I hate that one can't have both T9 and handwriting mode at the same time.
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gola
Joined: Jul 17, 2007
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From: South Africa
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how slow is the w960i? 'cos apparently it's painfully slow... 
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Nipsen
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..hm. Do you mean slow as in "slow, and not instantly responding every time, and sure could be faster". Or do you mean "slower than wm/s60/usual phone UI"?  |
gola
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lol. i meant ''slower than wm/s60/usual phone UI" ...is it?
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Nipsen
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Depends on who you ask, it seems. Load- times for programs are slower, because of the processor. And you'd expect context- shifts to be a bit slower, too, but I can't tell if they are.
Of course, then it's the message- application. Which tries to pull up every kind of resource from the phone before getting into the compose- window. And which will have a (deliberately programmed) stop on the menu when you try to "show messages", even if it's just one. And that makes it feel sluggish beyond belief.
But for everything else, since you can have every program you have open at all times.. it's not a problem. I.e., in UIQ you'd worry about battery and connections out you don't know about. On S60 and wm you could be worrying more about whether any programs are going to hang the phone (which of course can happen on UIQ as well. But not "randomly", or "only after I've been fiddling a whole lot with the phone" - which somehow is fine for a lot of users..).
Still.. I think that what makes a lot of people very unhappy about UIQ is that the speed isn't consistent. Or that it's quick some places, and waits and flashes a few seconds elsewhere. s60 is different that way - through the menus, you have the same nokia instant before something happens (without that having much to do with how "fast" the framework is). But that obviously agrees with some people, that the menus are more polished, more than the UIQ "..the menu is a program, so the first time you open it, it takes three seconds, the next time it takes less than one", kind of thing. Not that SE's idea to run a lookup on the menu every time you opened it helped much (was changed in the latest p1 firmware, after being carried over from the m600...)
But I'm still impressed by how peple manage to figure out that UIQ is so incredibly slow compared to everything else. Imo, most of that would never be mentioned if just one UIQ device had a 600 Mhz processor that would offset any of the bad programming solutions (like on the other line- ups). Then you'd have reviewers going (to paraphrase an n70 review I read) "oh, it's not /slow/, look at the other phones, the UI is really slick - just not on /this/ phone - but that's not a minus, because the UI is not /slow/", etc..
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gola
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lol, thanks alot nipsen. I guess it's just normal for that speed then...
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Nipsen
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Sure. But the SE "walkman animations" thing, and the bundled message- application, as well as some other pre- installed apps, are not well programmed or scaled for lower speeds than what the emulator runs on..
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gola
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not good.i'll try it out before/if i get it...
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M-Tuning
Joined: Mar 01, 2008
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Got it 2 months now.
And my phone has never had a crash.
I think it's pretty fast too, as long if you keep the right things running in the background (see task manager) |
IRFCA_WDG-3A
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Help...I cant seem to use animated wallpapers on my 960i and none of the installed themes are animated either...doesnt the 960 support animated standby? lf it does then how do i enable it? Or do i need a FW upgrade? |
NightBlade
Joined: Jul 29, 2007
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On 2008-04-06 19:58:27, IRFCA_WDG-3A wrote:
Help...I cant seem to use animated wallpapers on my 960i and none of the installed themes are animated either...doesnt the 960 support animated standby? lf it does then how do i enable it? Or do i need a FW upgrade?
No, I don't think it supports .gif images as wallapper. |
Rookwise
Joined: Mar 22, 2004
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The W960 doesn't support animated wallpapers. I've had my W960 since February and so far its not crashed or let me down. If I have any complaint its that the battery cover has gone squeaky
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defiantbeast
Joined: Jul 11, 2007
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From: Philadelphia USA
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I swapped out the w960i battery for the p1i battery to overcome the squeak and for the extra juice. |
M-Tuning
Joined: Mar 01, 2008
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On 2008-04-07 06:09:13, defiantbeast wrote:
I swapped out the w960i battery for the p1i battery to overcome the squeak and for the extra juice.
Does it fit?
Otherwise I might buy one too.
And how's the battery life with the p1i battery? |
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