N86 issues

[lyndonsandie]

Hi,
I've had my N86 for around 2 months now, and while I like the idea of what it can do, I'm rather dissapointed when it comes to the phone delivering what it can do.

There are quite a few bugs that seem to be cropping up regularly, for which, most seem to need the battery taking out to cure.

First up, has anyone had problems with Sandisk 16GB (class2) memory cards? As I set everything possible to save to this in preference to phone memory, this could be the root cause to most of my problems...

The first problem I encountered was messages not being readable. just could not click on then while in the menu, and in some cases, couldn't even delete them. The solution for this for a while was to press options, then listen, then stop it as soon as it started reading it out, then I'd be able to access the message. Soon enough, though, the phone would come up with a warning beep and say "check voice settings", so that bodge wouldn't work.

Next problem is that sometimes the FM transmitter fails to work. It says feature not supported. the bodge for this being to set the standby theme to horizontal icon bar, then turn the phone off, then back on. It will then work for quite a long time (measured in days not hours) before you need to do this again.

Third problem is every so often the phone will freeze up on whatever you were doing, and if you had the screen sideways at the time, then the screen will stay sideways. No amount of tinkering with the sensors settings will cure this (I find). So for me the bodge for this is to take the battery out, which means pulling the crystal case off the back, which more often than not, breaks tha lugs off that so I have to buy a new one.

Another problem was when it came to loading up my memory card with music. I took the memory card out, put it into the computer, transferred songs, put back into phone, and it worked fine for around a week or so before it seemed to "lose" all the tracks I had put on there, even though, when looking through the memory card on the computer they were there.

Sometimes when I try to access messages, or contacts, it slows to a crawl, each button press followed by a pause of around 5 seconds before said screen comes up.

As well as that, whenever I have a call I get breaks in the sound from the earpiece every few seconds, making calls annoying and impossible. Seems fine on the loudspeaker though.

And finally, when using N-Gage, I downloaded a few trial games to try out, and the last one I tried showed the downloading progress bar, but when it fully downloaded it, it didn't ask me if I'd like to install it like it did with the rest, but merely carried on as though I had never even downloaded a game at all.

Then, not a fault as such, but more of an annoyance, is there no way to make a video call other than to save the person's number as a "video call number" as well as say a "mobile number" that is already is in the under? And even then it says "video call not supported by network", when it actually is.

Is there any way to sort all these annoyances out, or am I right in looking at my old dust-gathering 6230i as a superior replacement for the N86 which so far has been nothing but hassle. I've already formatted the momory card, and had to do the 3 button reset and updated software to 11.043, but it hasn't sorted anything.

Thnaks in advance,

-Lyndon

[lyndonsandie]

that's a beast of a post, sorry for it's length.

[jApi NL]

Bugs should be fixed by next Firmwareupdate . I get the impression you are a heavy user . So maybe it's not bad to take care of the functioning memories . Here is a thread . Many ideas work also for N86 (similarity) : http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum...ht=Save+memory

Regards jApi NL

[Liam548]

I dont think it is an issue with the C drive memory although I understand the phone in question above is down to around 40mb on the c drive??

Id be interested to know what it has out of the box.

You should be able to set everything to memory card with no issues. The phone is capable of using any of the 3 memory sources.

Can someone answer the question regarding the call type. On other series 60 phones (earlier models) you simply go to the number ansd press options then you get the option of voice call, video call, internet call, send message and then which type of message etc. Is the N86 not like this??

Also the app on other earlier series 60 devices called "Internet Tel" which has a globe and yellow phone symbol and is my primary app for internet telephone calls on my n95 8gb after downloading and installing truphone then uninstalling it is simply not there on the n86. Despite installing the SIP settings from the other site you mentioned.

screenshot of said app on n95 shown below its the app on the bottom left of the screencapture that I am referring to. We simply want to get truphone installed, removed and then use the in built VOIP features of the n86.

Is there a screencapture app that will actually work on the n86 too as screensnap doesnt...

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help.

Any ideas on this?

Liam

[Liam548]

anyone any ideas please?

[GordonShowers]

Sorry lyndonsandie, I can't help with any of your issues. It'll come as no consolation to you to know that I use a Sandisk 16GB class 2 card with no problems. Is your phone branded to a network? Maybe it's branded firmware that causes your problems.

Originally Posted by Liam548

You should be able to set everything to memory card with no issues. The phone is capable of using any of the 3 memory sources.

There is one issue. If you use the mass memory (internal 8GB) or external memory card then whenever you connect the device to a computer in mass memory mode or PC Suite mode the phone will be blocked access to those memories. Which means that any apps that are running from mass memory will be stopped abruptly and any ringtones used directly from the mass memory will no longer sound, and you'll get the default tones if someone calls/texts etc.

So be selective in what you install to mass memory, and NEVER install apps there that will run continuously.

Originally Posted by Liam548

Is there a screencapture app that will actually work on the n86 too as screensnap doesnt...

ActiveFile does screenshots under the Tools option. Works perfectly on the N86! I think you might need the version with extended capabilities, I can't remember. Link: http://alietan.com/

[Liam548]

its a sim free UK model purchased through Nokia.

[kenrunnerlu]

the paper is so long;and i have no idea!

[lyndonsandie]

Just an update.

I recently tried sending a text message, and it was showing the progress bar, which I know should only be a few seconds before it says "sent". Only this time it didn't. It stayed on the screen, and no buttons worked. So I left it for 5 minutes to see if it would send and be OK afterwards. It didn't. I tried holding the power button to turn it off, but that didn't work. So i regrettably had to take the battery out.

Upon turning it back on I was greeted with a main screen that didn't have any shortcuts (navi keys or whatever you want to call them) like "messaging" or "clock" and the shortcuts on the directional button in the middle didn't work either. Pressing the menu button got me to the menu, where I selected "messaging" but it said "messaging already in use". Then a couple of errors notices came up soon after this.

I've taken the memory card out (which the text messages were saved on), and since got my phone working again.

Which leads me to think its either the memory card itself that's causing a lot of my grief, or the phone has a problem accessing and using memory cards.

Has no one else with an N86 come across anything like this?

[ziggyball]

Liam548, have you tried this:
SIP VOIP Settings for S60 devices

[widehead]

Originally Posted by lyndonsandie

Has no one else with an N86 come across anything like this?

No problems with mine. Try a new memory card.