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Old 11-19-2004, 09:41 PM
mbranscum
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Kris... here is a quote from the review I was talking about along with the link. I have experienced these same problems. I do not have the 220 anymore. Has anyone else had these problems???

http://www.mobilegadgetnews.com/inde...ewtopic&t=5615

Bluetooth:

We have Bug sign. Repeat, we have bug sign. Sigh. I hope motorola fixes it up a bit. Here's what I found:

(a) When randomly using the car kit, headset and then handset, sometimes the phone would 'forget' it had a microphone. The caller would hear nothing at all. Swap to another bluetooth device or engage the built in (all too quiet) speakerphone and then turn it back off, and the microphone would come back. This is the most annoying bug on the phone. You have no idea that the microphone isn't working until you get callers going "HELLO? HELLO?" and hanging up on you. Luckily this is avoidable if you're good about not using multiple bluetooth devices at the same time and making sure only the one you want is turned on when the phone goes to seek it (like during an inbound call event).

(b) The bluetooth car kit is a grabby mo-fo. Even if you tell it to turn off completely, when the phone rings if it's in range it'll pick up and take over. The only thing that stops it is if you manually initiate a call from the HS810 headset so it's the active profile before a call comes in. I really can't recommend this car kit. :/

(c) When your battery is below 75% and your phone is idle more than 30 minutes it will arbitrarily turn the bluetooth radio off. However -- it will still leave the bluetooth icon on the title bar on! You have to go to the Settings/Bluetooth menu to see that no, it's really off... and manually turn int back on again so your devices can find it once more. If you keep the battery >75% this doesn't seem to happen. I suspect there's a 'battery saver' bug here; some programmer has it shut off or stutter the radio to save battery life and screwed up the code. This wouldn't be so bad if either it turned the radio back on when a call came in or you flipped it open -- or if nothing else, it told the truth and turned off the bluetooth logo on the titlebar when the bluetooth radio shut off.
 
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