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anggira dhita

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I just made the switch from a BB 8700g to an unlocked E61. I am loving the phone, but have a couple of little issues. When I try to open a spreadsheet (381 kb) it takes a minute, and then says there is not enough memory. I have the doc stored on a sd card with plenty of memory, plus the phone has over 60mb of available memory. It tells me to close programs and try again, but I dont think any programs are open! Is there a solution to this?

Also, I use the BB service, and everytime I get a phone call it beeps and tells me the packet data connection is on hold, and then beeps again after the call to say it is active - can I turn this off?

Is there any way to get the phone to prefer WiFi over my edge connection? Also does anyone know if you are actively browsing via wifi can calls still come through? They cannot on GPRS/EDGE. Thank you for your help!
 
ignore elfguy.

1. The spreadsheet memory issues are somewhat normal. To find out what else is running, press and hold the menu key (blue swirly). Hit the "c" button to kill anything you don't need. This memory is different than other memory. Think like your computer has a hard drive and it also has RAM. Both kinds of memory, but entirely separate.

2. The data connection on hold thing is just a "friendly" reminder. You can't turn it off.

3. In your browsers (both the services and web) you can select a default access point. if you have setup your wifi as an access point, then you can select this as a default and it will automatically use that. Same for most any app that uses data, except for java apps.

4. Can't say on wifi + a phone call. Check your settings, with GPRS/EDGE, calls are supposed to take precedence, as is obvious with the packet data connection on hold message. How do you know you're not getting calls?
 
The calls only dont come through if you are actively downloading information. If you go try and open a large web page, and while it is downloading the page call yourself, the call will not come through. If the connection is idle it will though. I will experiment with the wifi.

Please dont make fun of me, but how do I configure it as an access point?

The holding down the menu button is a great thing to know - THANKS!
 
1) spreadsheet might be too big for little symbian to handle...(macro heavy?)

3) or set it to also ask for connection and you can pick the type of connection you want.. wlan, rogers, cingular etc...

4)you can wifi and call at the same time i don't it all the time.
 
Come on you know it was funny

And really how is it not true. I love the N73 but there's a world of difference with even my old 6620. The speed, the crashes and the out of memory errors are daily occurances. I simply cannot open a 1 meg PDF and scroll to the bottom. It's not possible, even with nothing else running. The program closes with an out of memory error. Same thing when I try to view a couple of complex web pages. Same thing if I try to delete more than 3 or 4 messages at once, the messaging closes. To me that's critical flaws that should have been fixed. And from hearing people talk about the N80 or any recent Symbian device it's the same thing. That's why as I've said in the past, I wish they would stop adding new features and fix the bugs and memory issues 1st. The 48M in this device should be more than enough to view a 1M file or a couple of messages.
 
lol i love reading these posts... the n73.. is really hurting for a firmware update though.. i'll try some pdf's on my e61 and see how it goes....
 
I've deleted up to 300ish sms messages at one time no problems. Yesterday I deleted 43 email messages at one time with no problem. I don't view PDF's on my phone, so I could care less.

I've also got updated firmware, though.
 
Well I have the original fw and I can't delete 20 POP3 email headers I downloaded. The app simply closes down. I only heard of a minor fw version update, didn't think it had many changes in it? Still, if you use your phone somewhat and say you don't get out of memory errors or app shutting down I'd love to know how you do it.
 
yeah the updaet only fixed the gps bluetooth bug, as far as i can see.

if you download the emails entirely, not just the headers, then you can delete with ease. i don't bother with headers, anyways. just pull the whole thing up, imo. but then again, i have unlmiited data, too, so i could care less.

i use my phone ALOT but i use a moderately simple theme (i'll add a link later, it's called tribal, i think i got it from e-series.org) don't pull up office docs on my phone (no use for that, personally) but i do heavy browsing and gps, and a ton of sms. i very rarely get memory errors, but i have noticed that if you try whatever it was you were doing again, that message itself was enough to clear out some memory. kinda weird. i've yet to have this phone restart on me, though.
 
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