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Activating loudspeaker on K700 before receiver picks up |
znawfal
Joined: Mar 17, 2003
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To Sony Ericsson engineers:
I just bought a new K700 and since I have just switched from Nokia, I noticed that, unlike nokia, it is not possible to activate the loudspeaker before the party being called picks up.
This is sometimes very important. In a Nokia, you can turn on speaker while the phone is connecting.
I noticed that the K700 has the right soft key disabled while the phone is connecting/calling. This key could be used for this purpose, hopefully in a future firmware update....
Just my opinion,,,, other than that it is GREAT phone |
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*Jojo*
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@znawfal - In behalf of the Sony Ericsson Engineers Team . . . We will take into consideration your suggestion here dude  It has been a common problem for most of the SE K700/i owners here the cons you just raised  Rest assured that the forthcoming SE fone models will not be encountering the problem you just made mention here  ! Good thing you also used Nokia fones, to make notice of such comparisons  !
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Sammy_boy
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Yes, it's a shame you can't do that, or at least do it with one keystroke, like in Nokias where the right soft key turned into the 'loudspeaker' button. As far as I know, the only way to do it is you have to press the joystick in for it's menu, and scroll to the loudspeaker button. Any other ways anyone knows about?
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StoneRoses
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Yes, this is very annoying, please include this feature in the new firmware for K700 (not only in the new model).
Usually, SE phone have good user interface, most of useful features are in the right places, except this one.
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daxrizo
Joined: Jan 07, 2003
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while we are on the K700 subject, I just bought mine and love it except for two reasons
1. battery life is absolutely WORTHLESS when using bluetooth, which I do every day. MY t610 was FAR FAR better than this piece of junk
2. the housing is very weak, it creaks and creaks on the back cover.
Does anyone know how I can fix these two problems? I already removed the pieces of rubber from inside the housing cover.
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Ewok^
Joined: Jul 30, 2004
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Removing the peices of rubber makes the battery cover slip... |
Zzombie
Joined: Jun 20, 2003
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I believe the R520 had a automatic speaker option, turn it on and move the phone to the ear and the volume would go down, put it on a table and the speaker activated again...
The alarm was also set to snooze just by moving the hand over the phone...when was that...eeeer...year 2000?
The same year Nokia did its best to sell funny coloured shells to schoolkids...gee
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mers
Joined: May 05, 2002
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I use a folded up tissue between the battery and the back cover to stop it from creaking, other have suggested a piece of cardboard. Both work wonders.
A very neat thing you can do is cut a piece of cardboard about the size of the battery to stop it from creaking. Then put a SIM card on the cardboard and stencil around it with a pencil. Use a sharp knife and cut out the stencil from the cardboard. Your cardboard creakiness-remover now doubles as a spare SIM card holder.
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p800_london
Joined: Aug 21, 2004
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lol. thats a gd idea |
decoy7
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On 2004-08-25 02:46:36, Sammy_boy wrote:
As far as I know, the only way to do it is you have to press the joystick in for it's menu, and scroll to the loudspeaker button. Any other ways anyone knows about?
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same as before but press the joystick in and press 5.
one key access to this feature is definitely an oversight. |
vijith555
Joined: Oct 25, 2003
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From: Kingdom of Bahrain
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To stop the creaking noise on the back cover of the K700i what I did is remove the bottom rubber pieces only from the back cover leaving the top 2 rubber pieces on the cover..and now i dont have any loose cover or creaking noise..i remove and put on the back cover a lot of times in the day and no probs..it is rock solid now..those cardboard pieces and other stuff i tried before only gives temporary effect..after u remove the cover and close it again then prob starts..what i did worked perfect.. |
KevMac
Joined: Oct 22, 2002
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It's either incompetance or a serious bug that stopped SE making loudspeaker activation a one keystroke item.
I mean somebody in SE must have said through the phone's evaluation: "Hey maybe we should make it easier to turn on the loudspeaker".
Or then again maybe not. |
masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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you can do it in two key presses so whats the big deal that its not one keypress?
sure it would be nice if it was one keypress but ...
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StoneRoses
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I use speakerphone mostly when driving, so if SE made it easier to turn on speaker will difinitely help. Press the joystick key is not quite easy when driving.
The ability to turn on speaker while connecting via left softkey is very useful IMHO.
Does GPRS work during voice call? For me it does not seem to work(although the phone try to connect when I press Onlne key during call). If GPRS is not available during call, SE can use Online key as the shortcut key for speaker phone. |
Mikey MTC
Joined: Aug 01, 2004
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How do you get to the speakerphone in two presses? For me it's three. You need to answer the call with one key, then press the joystick to open another menu and then press 5 to get to the speakerphone option.
If you press the joystick first, it answers the phone the normal way and you've lost accces to the menu that has the loudspeaker option in it.
Also, is there an easy way to get to the loudspeaker if the K700 initiates the call?
You can't help but think that the whole loudspeaker thing was a bit of an afterthought in this phone. There's no mention of it at all in the manual. |
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Posted: 2004-08-24 23:51
