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
