SonyEricsson V800

Talk time bit

I have had my phone for 72 hours now since the first full charge.

I have had to charge it fully twice in the 72 hours.

My total call meter stands on 1:08 hours. (Only voice as I cant make video calls yet.) (No vlive as I cant get vlive yet.)

I am slowly packing the V800 into its box to be returned tomorrow.
 
Obviously can't be right. 30mins talk time on a full charge? Even my i-mate betters that :)

On the E1000, we got more than 1 and a 1/2 hours video-talktime on a single charge. This from a phone that's not known for a wonderful battery life.

Retnox, your feedback on talktime per full charge on the V800? I know you still need to test it, but have you exceeded 30 min+ ?

You can also try and see what happens when you force the phone to 2G?
 
Talk time

Ironically, even though I've had the phone since Friday my call timer is sitting on 00:00:00 so also technically well within it's 7 day 15minute warranty. My first call would've been a video call with Big cheese.

Evidentely we don't use these phones for voice calls. I have already enquired about additional memory for the phone. (VC Brooklyn quoted me R699 for a 128MB! :eek: )

Data Counter is sitting on 2:30:20 :cool:

I do however claim exccesive Bluetooth, Infrared and USB cable use.

I also downloaded a newsfeed from Vlive! and was really dissapointed in the sound and video quality. I render better better vids on my PC (Ok, so the sound still sucks but I'm working on it) Have a look here. (Copyrighted material - the link will be depreciated soon) 4.31MB - 4:19 3gp clip

You know it's really much more fum makeing your own phone content instead of useing other services. You can make your own ringtones, wallpapers, themes, movies, music vids etc. Just download a couple of free apps and make yourself some stuff!

SE fans try these: http://lasyk.net/ and http://www.clubsonyericsson.com/ (for those of you that don't know these)
 
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Fully charged (five bars) 10pm last night.

Now 10 hours later:
Call timer still on 1:08 hours.

And battery indicator bars on 3.
 
Off to the batt cave!

Big cheese that does'nt sound right My phone only dropped one bar since yesterday. Maybe you should have a look at that.

I am slowly packing the V800 into its box to be returned tomorrow.
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What about the small print that indicates you can only do a return if you have less than 15 mins talktime and within 7 days?
 
Now 12,5 hours later:
Call timer on 1:25 hours. (17 minutes of calls since last charge)

And battery indicator bars on 1. And the 1 bar is red so i take it that the battery is on its last?
 
@ Big Cheese & Retnox,

Have you guys managed to get the camera digital zoom to work with stills and video?
The manual says up and down is supposed to zoom in and out, but when I try nothing happens...

I seem to remember reading on the Esato forums that there was no zoom in the V800 software, but IS activated in the Z800 firmware??? Then again, I also read that the V800 does not have pic caller ID & "Mega Bass", which I do seem to have *CONFUSED*.

Am I just missing something with the zoom?
 
The zoom on the video call is the up and down arrow, it can zoom up to 4X.

Still not able to make a video call yet.
 
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Now 13,5 hours later:
Call timer on 1:29 hours. (21 minutes of calls since last charge)

And the battery is dead.
 
V800 Help please

Knowledgeable guy from 155 helped me yesterday to connect my PC to the 3G network with my V800, thanks very much, he phoned me after they initially they could not get it to work, APN numbers are different for this phone for some reason…also some other tips – this was with the USB cable modem - Bluetooth modem not working yet….

Maybe this was resolved, but there was a camera zoom question earlier, if the photo quality is set to maximum you cannot use the digital zoom – not very good software functionality

I am using smtp.vodacom.co.za for sending e-mail form this phone, the incoming (pop) works fine but the outgoing fails, does anyone know what port to use for this outgoing smtp?

Battery life…. Was disappointed yesterday, however I was using 3g and Bluetooth a lot, today it looks better, I turned down the screen brightness, Bluetooth connected to my pc since 8:30 this morning and no bars gone yet + 10mins of calls + some e-mailing
 
V800 mp3 player

Oh, I forgot, I copied a mp3 sampled at 128 to the phone, it is approx 3.5 meg. When I play this file with the mp3 player on the phone it jumps every now and then as if it can’t process it fast enough. One time it actually stopped and said it is unable to play the file, the file was missing and only re-appeared after I turned the phone off and on.

Is any one else having similar problems?
 
Have you tried converting the file with the DRM packager?
 
I must admit I do not know what that is, where I can find that, I will try it out – however If the phone spec says mp3 player, should it not play mp3’s unconverted - the way my ipod plays them?

Currently I am trying to change the original mp3’s sampling rate, to see if that helps

Thanks for the help
 
OK, did the DRM to the file, copied it (.dm) to the phone and it does the same, the V800 won’t play it correctly, it stutters and leaves sections out. It does the same on external and internal memory – I will do the re-sampling and post the result
 
I re-sampled the mp3 file to 56KBits and now it plays fine no problems – I also tested other 128Kbit tracks – they also battle to play – from both the internal and external memory – not very good for the V800 mp3 sound quality
 
I'll look into the matter and let you know what my results are
 
I spent the afternoon at Vodaworld.

I did not make the out of box swap because my talk minutes were more than 15 minutes. (so don't test your phone for more than 15 minutes.....dumb?)

After some reasoning and I must add a good centre manager in "Boz Lazic" he swapped my battery.

Its now on the 4 hour initial charge. (I must add that also checking with SE, the phone must only be initially charged for 4 hours and then never more than 2 hours at a time. This prevents overheating, as this kills the battery.)

The Vlive problem is hopefully sorted.......155 did not in fact provision me for Vlive. You have to be provisioned for Vlive for the button on the front right to connect.

I have found that QuickTime plays the 3gp files fine on a PC.

Another thing....I was told to put the phone on 2G. This does not make sense, why did I then buy a 3g phone. Its got to do with the network and the coverage.
 
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