acg
05-28-2005, 07:00 PM
This (Qtek 9090) is probably my 15th PDA in 20 years BUT my first ever Pocket PC. Although its feature set is impressive, I am facing issues that render it virtually useless for me, so I really hope you can help me resolve them.
a. In less than a month, it has hard-reset itself 4 times. Two were before the firmware upgrade and two were after. I think WiFi has something to do with it. One was while I was browsing the web on WiFi and two were after unsuccessful attempts to turn WiFi on. I do keep a backup on SD, but all things stored in the PDA after the last backup are obviously gone each time this happens.
b. While WiFi is on, the thing gets REALLY hot. I am not talking a little uncomfortable here, I am talking almost painful to hold for a minute without changing hands. I had a Nokia 9500 and it didn't get hot at all while WiFi was on. Is this normal behavior?
c. ActiveSync with ExchangeServer... This is getting to be a real drag. I absolutely have to sync with my professional Outlook calendar which resides on the company's server. Before the firmware upgrade, it completely refused to sync with the server. After the upgrade, it synced once, but (i) it copied everything to my local PC's Outlook calendar as well (which is semi-OK I guess) and (ii) it never managed to sync with the server again even though it connects without a problem. When it does connect, it actually syncs with my local PC's Outlook calendar, and no! it is not the one I have chosen for it to sync with in the options tab of ActiveSync... I am at a loss with this. Does it have anything to do with certificates?
d. When it did sync with my professional calendar, it showed all the appointment subjects fine (in Greek as it should) BUT the comments within each appointment showed up as gibberish. I installed a whole bunch of fonts from my WinXP Pro desktop to /Windows/Fonts, like Arial, Helvetica, Verdana etc, but to no avail. As I was fiddling with this problem before the upgrade, I was toying with the idea of using a third party utility that would copy my professional calendar items to my personal calendar and sync with it (Private2PublicWare). This was not a stable option, but while experimenting I found out about the gibberish-in-the-comments problem. A workaround was to start the comment with a character in english and then switch to Greek. It worked. Now, after the upgrade, even this doesn't work anymore.
This is one hell of a phone/PDA combo with everything I need/want, but I absolutely have to fix those problems to keep using it. PLEASE help... I really don't want to go back to my old SE P910i (which incidentally works like a charm...) as ti lacks WiFi, has a small screen and no usable keyboard.
Thanks for your time and sorry for the long post;)
ACG
a. In less than a month, it has hard-reset itself 4 times. Two were before the firmware upgrade and two were after. I think WiFi has something to do with it. One was while I was browsing the web on WiFi and two were after unsuccessful attempts to turn WiFi on. I do keep a backup on SD, but all things stored in the PDA after the last backup are obviously gone each time this happens.
b. While WiFi is on, the thing gets REALLY hot. I am not talking a little uncomfortable here, I am talking almost painful to hold for a minute without changing hands. I had a Nokia 9500 and it didn't get hot at all while WiFi was on. Is this normal behavior?
c. ActiveSync with ExchangeServer... This is getting to be a real drag. I absolutely have to sync with my professional Outlook calendar which resides on the company's server. Before the firmware upgrade, it completely refused to sync with the server. After the upgrade, it synced once, but (i) it copied everything to my local PC's Outlook calendar as well (which is semi-OK I guess) and (ii) it never managed to sync with the server again even though it connects without a problem. When it does connect, it actually syncs with my local PC's Outlook calendar, and no! it is not the one I have chosen for it to sync with in the options tab of ActiveSync... I am at a loss with this. Does it have anything to do with certificates?
d. When it did sync with my professional calendar, it showed all the appointment subjects fine (in Greek as it should) BUT the comments within each appointment showed up as gibberish. I installed a whole bunch of fonts from my WinXP Pro desktop to /Windows/Fonts, like Arial, Helvetica, Verdana etc, but to no avail. As I was fiddling with this problem before the upgrade, I was toying with the idea of using a third party utility that would copy my professional calendar items to my personal calendar and sync with it (Private2PublicWare). This was not a stable option, but while experimenting I found out about the gibberish-in-the-comments problem. A workaround was to start the comment with a character in english and then switch to Greek. It worked. Now, after the upgrade, even this doesn't work anymore.
This is one hell of a phone/PDA combo with everything I need/want, but I absolutely have to fix those problems to keep using it. PLEASE help... I really don't want to go back to my old SE P910i (which incidentally works like a charm...) as ti lacks WiFi, has a small screen and no usable keyboard.
Thanks for your time and sorry for the long post;)
ACG