e71 issues (not many)

Ron DMC

Ok all, I know a good few of us have gotten ourselves this beauty of a phone, but there's a few things that have been niggling me a bit.

Overall the phone is fantastic. Email straight to the handset within seconds of receiving it, GPS and maps to figure out where I am. Lovely big screen for watching the odd video, and the brilliant qwerty keyboard.

First problem: Photos and Videos aren't appearing in the Gallery AT ALL when I save to Memory Card in the camera. Works fine when I have phone memory selected. Is there a setting within Gallery that I can't find. Anyone else have trouble with this? It could be that my memory card is a little bit corrupt so I might just try reformatting it.

Second problem: It's not really something that all that necessary to the phone itself, but it bugged me that I couldn't get it working. The Barcode reader in Tools has yet to successfully scan any barcode I've pointed it at. Is it particularly crap at sensing them or what?

strecker

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

Ok all, I know a good few of us have gotten ourselves this beauty of a phone, but there's a few things that have been niggling me a bit.

Overall the phone is fantastic. Email straight to the handset within seconds of receiving it, GPS and maps to figure out where I am. Lovely big screen for watching the odd video, and the brilliant qwerty keyboard.

First problem: Photos and Videos aren't appearing in the Gallery AT ALL when I save to Memory Card in the camera. Works fine when I have phone memory selected. Is there a setting within Gallery that I can't find. Anyone else have trouble with this? It could be that my memory card is a little bit corrupt so I might just try reformatting it.

Second problem: It's not really something that all that necessary to the phone itself, but it bugged me that I couldn't get it working. The Barcode reader in Tools has yet to successfully scan any barcode I've pointed it at. Is it particularly crap at sensing them or what?

barcode reader is for smart codes such as: http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:55kDIOThlIWV3M:http://www.bipolarplanet.com/~void/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/semacodebpmobi.gif

not any ole barcode you point it at
gallery works fine on o2 and voda E71 in our house, phone mem and memory card!

robinph

The gallery is reading from the memory card fine for me, you get a little sd card icon next to the images in the list view.

It's the funny square code that the bar code reader will recgonise but you don't see a huge number of them about, they are a big thing in Japan though apaerntly.

Oafley Jones

robinph wrote: »

The gallery is reading from the memory card fine for me, you get a little sd card icon next to the images in the list view.

It's the funny square code that the bar code reader will recgonise but you don't see a huge number of them about, they are a big thing in Japan though apaerntly.

Strange it's limited to them. They're called QR codes BTW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code

Random

I found the keys very small in comparison to some other phones. THe design on them encouraged my fingers to slide off and hit the keys around. Do you find this at all ?

gabbo is coming

Small keys, text messaging is not as fast as some non-symbians. It doesn't connect properly to my parrat easi drive hands free. Need to sort that out.

I find it difficult to get in to the gallery, though it works fine. Some areas are just not that intuitive. I guess it'll grow on me though...

Sparky

only problem i have noticed is that some contacts txt messages still stay as their number rather than showing their name.

seanybiker

Spankeh wrote: »

only problem i have noticed is that some contacts txt messages still stay as their number rather than showing their name.

Happens sometimes if ya have number saved in twice

strecker

Random wrote: »

I found the keys very small in comparison to some other phones. THe design on them encouraged my fingers to slide off and hit the keys around. Do you find this at all ?

Tbh, I like the keypad, and have no problem...except: I usually put my phones in some nice krusell cases for protection - that's what made my e61 last for all that time. But the case for the e71 makes the keypad just about unusable. The film sticks to the pad and the screen and pressing one key relults in a random event... Rubbish. But I can see how the pad could be difficult for big-gish fingers and or if it's your first qwerty. Mind you: use the treo pro for 10 minutes, and you'll appreciate the e71's keypad.
As to the slow gallery opening: the e71 has sh*t loads of ram so you don't need to close your fave apps... I hide gallery and musicplayer, i.e. minimise them - you can do the same with a new-message shortcut, and you should have zero lag! Make use of the ram. Still have 60mb + of ram...

gabbo is coming

Ok, I've had a 6310i, 3310c and a 6300 all connect sans problem to a Parrat Easi Drive. I mean I've used them *extensively* with the Parrat.


The E71, two days old, cannot maintain a connection for more than 3 seconds before it disconnects. Searching the web, it seems the E71 has tonnes of issues with its bluetooth implementation. If that transpires, i.e. I can't connect to the Parrat - it's getting a big fat 0 out of 10. Business phone my ass!

Gekko

there's a firmware upgrade just out that might fix this

strecker

gabbo is coming wrote: »

Ok, I've had a 6310i, 3310c and a 6300 all connect sans problem to a Parrat Easi Drive. I mean I've used them *extensively* with the Parrat.


The E71, two days old, cannot maintain a connection for more than 3 seconds before it disconnects. Searching the web, it seems the E71 has tonnes of issues with its bluetooth implementation. If that transpires, i.e. I can't connect to the Parrat - it's getting a big fat 0 out of 10. Business phone my ass!

I googled a bit, and my impression is the 'tonnes' of bt issues are limited to a number of devices: parrott and other car kits in particular. It seems to be more of a comnpatibility issue of those kits, afaik... my lady uses her e71 a lot with my samsung p2 mp3 player over bt... Paired, you can answer and make calls via the p2, and apparently that connection is rock solid - for hours. So, indeed, a fw update might help. Also: have you tried other bt devices? How does your e71 work with bt connections to laptops, headphones, etc???

itsmine

My E71 connects to my Parrot car kit no problem for both calls and using the Parrot external GPS with TomTom installed on the E71.

The 2 queries I have about mine are:
[1] The battery doesn't last very long - I get 1 business day max out of it. How does that compare to the rest of yours? I went back to the shop and asked and the guy told me that leaving bluetooth and push email turned on really drains the battery. But I upgraded from an E61 -> E61i -> E71 and the E71 battery isn't a patch on its predecessors. Did I get a dud battery, or is a 1-day life normal?

[2] I installed Nokia Email on the phone to download my Gmails and it doesn't push the emails any more.. It did it fine for the first month or so, then it stopped. Now it only pushes the emails to my phone when I select the synchronise icon... and even then, not every time. I couldn't get the builtin E71 email client to work on anything but the O2 email address. How are the rest of you having gmail pushed to your phones? I have 2 accounts (1 gmail, 1 O2), both of which I would like to receive on the phone.

strecker

itsmine wrote: »

My E71 connects to my Parrot car kit no problem for both calls and using the Parrot external GPS with TomTom installed on the E71.

The 2 queries I have about mine are:
[1] The battery doesn't last very long - I get 1 business day max out of it. How does that compare to the rest of yours? I went back to the shop and asked and the guy told me that leaving bluetooth and push email turned on really drains the battery. But I upgraded from an E61 -> E61i -> E71 and the E71 battery isn't a patch on its predecessors. Did I get a dud battery, or is a 1-day life normal?

[2] I installed Nokia Email on the phone to download my Gmails and it doesn't push the emails any more.. It did it fine for the first month or so, then it stopped. Now it only pushes the emails to my phone when I select the synchronise icon... and even then, not every time. I couldn't get the builtin E71 email client to work on anything but the O2 email address. How are the rest of you having gmail pushed to your phones? I have 2 accounts (1 gmail, 1 O2), both of which I would like to receive on the phone.

I have 2 yahoo and a gmail account that I setup using the built in email client. All 3 work fine.
Battery life on both our E71's (mi wife's got one too) is excellent. She has hers constantly connected to a samsung P2 mp3 player via bt, and mine is used so much for mobile internet it's ridiculous... I use om for hours at a time, use joikuspot to connect my laptop via wifi etc etc... I charge every 36 - 48 hrs, and more as a routine than out of need. Some mobile site tested e71, e.g., with a constant locked gps connection, and got over 14 hours out of it...beat every other device they ever tested. I think your battery may be a dud?! However, if your wifi scanning, bt, and email is on 24/7 you may be pushing it? I don't know, really! I check my email when I feel like it, not when a machine tells me to , and I'm not comfortable with having wifi and bt on constantly for a number of reasons... But battery on e71 beats my old e61 completely!
P.S.: on my wife's o2 e71 were issues with the email client as well! The wizard wouldn't set up anything but one O2 and one yahoo account. Set up your accounts manually!!! Trick to do that(so the wizard doesn't try to do it automatically): before you try to setup a new account, switch the phone to offline/flightmode. Then setup a new email account. The wizard won't be able to connect, and will then let you edit the account manually !!! Get your settings from your email provider!

TontoMurphy

Any Idea when the firmware update is out. Been looking for the last few weeks or so.. Plus, whats the product code on your phone if you did manage to update.

drunkmonkey

gabbo is coming wrote: »

I find it difficult to get in to the gallery

Go into menu, then into Modes..then down to home screen application, then into aplication shortcuts.....set the gallery up as one of the shortcuts and you'll have direct access to gallerys from the home screen....

citytillidie

Does anyone have any issues with signal loss? I am on 3 network in the North and over night lose the signal.

Ron DMC

citytillidie wrote: »

Does anyone have any issues with signal loss? I am on 3 network in the North and over night lose the signal.

UMTS or dual mode? If 3g coverage disappears you should only lose signal for a matter of seconds before GSM kicks in.

citytillidie

It is on dual mode the signal was gone this morning when i woke up had to turn off and on that sorted it out.

drunkmonkey

citytillidie wrote: »

It is on dual mode the signal was gone this morning when i woke up had to turn off and on that sorted it out.

I think they should write that in the instruction book, not many problems with a 3 phone that can't be sorted with a simple power on, power off...
I've only had to turn mine on and off twice since I got it...

I wonder how the voda and 02 heads are getting on with it, does it ever need to be rebooted?

strecker

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I think they should write that in the instruction book, not many problems with a 3 phone that can't be sorted with a simple power on, power off...
I've only had to turn mine on and off twice since I got it...

I wonder how the voda and 02 heads are getting on with it, does it ever need to be rebooted?

I have the voda one, my wife the o2. Hers occasionally has probs on dual mode when she has bad reception, but it doesn't require a reboot! Switching to gsm solves it. I have mine usually on gsm because here in Mayo, voda's 3g is a bit sketchy anyways. I turn on 3g when I know the signal's good and I have sth to download. Haven't had to reboot either of the 2! Opera mini can occasionally freeze when i'm getting impatient with long loading and press stop, but handy task man kills it without a reboot.

Ron DMC

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I wonder how the voda and 02 heads are getting on with it, does it ever need to be rebooted?

Well on meteor I've only ever had to reboot occasionally, either when installing something that needs a reboot or if I get a complete crash (which so far has only happens when I tried to use VNC - gave up on that since).

Otherwise it's been switched on 24/7.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

I'm also having network connection issues with my e71 on the 3 network. I bought the phone as an upgrade last week.

For some reason the phone will drop the network connection and I have to restart the phone to get it to connect again. I contacted support last night and am getting a new replacement tomorrow.

I wonder if this is specific to the 3 network/software and if a de-branding would solve the problem...?

Other than the above issue, its a great phone!

ambrose

strecker

kingambrose wrote: »

I'm also having network connection issues with my e71 on the 3 network. I bought the phone as an upgrade last week.

For some reason the phone will drop the network connection and I have to restart the phone to get it to connect again. I contacted support last night and am getting a new replacement tomorrow.

I wonder if this is specific to the 3 network/software and if a de-branding would solve the problem...?

Other than the above issue, its a great phone!

ambrose

yeah, who knows? could be 3's firmware? They all have to meddle...both o2's and voda's e71 dislike certain email addresses - but not the same. O2 killed certain standard s60 shortcuts (like starting web by holding space-key etc)...

robinph

I don't know how I did it but somehow I seem to have turned on predictive text on my E71 and cannot figure out where to turn it back off again. Predictive text is kind of pointless when I've got a full keyboard available and it coming up with daft suggestions for works that I've actually spelt perfectly fine is getting annoying now. It's got a couple of ~ next to the "Abc" in the top right corner which I think is the predictive text indicator.

Any ideas as to what I did and how to turn it off again?

Ron DMC

robinph wrote: »

Any ideas as to what I did and how to turn it off again?

Options -> Input Options -> Predictive Text -> Off

robinph

Ta.

Don't remember ever going through that menu, but at least it's silly suggestions are off now.

Matamoros

I can't open video clips on youtube. Any ideas?

elderlemon

what app are you using?

Matamoros wrote: »

I can't open video clips on youtube. Any ideas?

Matamoros

I just go onto the net and go to youtube and try to look at clips from there.

elderlemon

make sure your browser supports flash!

Matamoros wrote: »

I just go onto the net and go to youtube and try to look at clips from there.

Matamoros

thanks for your reply, when i try to look at a clip, real player comes on but then i get a message saying unable to connect or mostly " maximum number of connections in use. close an active connection first"

drunkmonkey

Matamoros wrote: »

I just go onto the net and go to youtube and try to look at clips from there.

I'm using the standard e71 browser, I just go to www.youtube.ie and can search and watch videos straight away...

can you go to any other websites, what browser are you using, what network?

TheAlmightyZeus

I prefer to use Mobitubia for watching stuff on YouTube. Its gives you the option to download the video and the quality is great, audio is a little bit out of sync on some clips.

As for the E71, I'm loving it! Haven't had any problems with it really and I got the hang of QWERTY keypad pretty quickly. Actually I'm posting this from my mobile right now. Very happy with the GPS aswell, satellites are very quick to connect and signal holds well. Call quality is excellent aswell.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Just wanted to give an update.
I had my e71 replaced but was having the same reception issues. Reception would just drop and not come back for hours or not without a restart. Fed up I decided to de-brand and updated the firmware. No reception issues since.
Happy days

dubmick

lads sorry to hi-jack this thread, I had a look at the E71 last night and was very impressed.

A few questions:

What is the wi-fi like? Can you set push email to work only when wi-fi is on? I think I'd mainly be only using email in work and on the sofa!

When I'm out and about I could use 3g for email. Is the minimum charge per day 99c with both O2 and Vodafone?

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

I find the wi-fi on the E71 excellent. Much better than on my N95 8GB. Yes you can set push email to only work on a defined wi-fi connection. But if you're going between networks you'll have to switch the connection each time.

Unless maybe you can get it to switch automatically when you use the "switch mode" feature?

elderlemon

Switch automatically between 3g and wifi? Go to the download folder on your phone and download smartconnect from birdstep. Its free and allows you to add the access points (3g,wifi etc) to an access group and then choose the access group in your mail client. This will then choose the best connection between whatever is in the group.

kingambrose wrote: »

I find the wi-fi on the E71 excellent. Much better than on my N95 8GB. Yes you can set push email to only work on a defined wi-fi connection. But if you're going between networks you'll have to switch the connection each time.

Unless maybe you can get it to switch automatically when you use the "switch mode" feature?

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Thanks elderlemon. I'm going to give that app a try myself.

Little Miss Cutie

Hi
Got the E71 yesterday on 3 and think the email set-up has gotten the better of me!

I can't figure out how to set up my gmail account so that the messages are pushed to my phone.

I downloaded mobile mail but while setting it up in the activation stage it stops and says there is an error (-33) has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks to anyone that can offer advice.

Gekko

anyone know how or if my E71 music player will play windows media audio files?

strecker

Gekko wrote: »

anyone know how or if my E71 music player will play windows media audio files?

Yes.
According to specs, anyways. Haven't tried it myself

jamesd

kingambrose wrote: »

Just wanted to give an update.
I had my e71 replaced but was having the same reception issues. Reception would just drop and not come back for hours or not without a restart. Fed up I decided to de-brand and updated the firmware. No reception issues since.
Happy days

I am having reception issues too with my e71, has your signal been good since?

strecker

jamesd wrote: »

I am having reception issues too with my e71, has your signal been good since?

Tell me. What network? My wife's o2 E71 has much worse reception than my vodafone one(hers loses signal even when full bars. Also browser loses connection more frequently etc), esp'ly when switching between 3g and gsm... And in the same locations, my old unlocked voda e61 works better with an o2 sim than her o2 e71... Also, btw, o2's e71 built quality not as good as vodafone's as I've noticed now. Screen is not flush etc...

jamesd

Mine is on the vodafone network - I tried the trick i read online that said to hold the phone with your 2 fingers half way up the phone instead of holding the bottom where the ariel is located and this seems to help the reception but it's a joke for reception.
My old nokia 6300 had no bother with signal, glad I got this phone as a €50 upgrade

elderlemon

I am on vodafone too and have no problems with reception. No matter how I hold the phone the signal doesn't change. I also find that the E71 gets much better reception than my old E61.

jamesd wrote: »

Mine is on the vodafone network - I tried the trick i read online that said to hold the phone with your 2 fingers half way up the phone instead of holding the bottom where the ariel is located and this seems to help the reception but it's a joke for reception.
My old nokia 6300 had no bother with signal, glad I got this phone as a €50 upgrade

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Still no reception issues since the firmware upgrade.
On the odd occasion there has been a few seconds delay switching between 2G and 3G.

silvine

Anyone here with an E71 have trouble with the phone book?

When I open it, it either takes 5-10 seconds to display the details of a contact or causes the phone to reset.

strecker

silvine wrote: »

Anyone here with an E71 have trouble with the phone book?

When I open it, it either takes 5-10 seconds to display the details of a contact or causes the phone to reset.

Nope.
do you have windows live messenger installed? That app seems to mess with contacts! Other than that I have no idea!

drunkmonkey

No problem with the phone book either,

When you save a new contact but they've already sent you a text, the text message dosen't update the sender information in contacts, any way you can get it to....had the same problem on an e65 and e51...tks

strecker

drunkmonkey wrote: »

No problem with the phone book either,

When you save a new contact but they've already sent you a text, the text message dosen't update the sender information in contacts, any way you can get it to....had the same problem on an e65 and e51...tks

Btw, can you guys move emails to folders? what fw/type e71? I can only move sms! No big deal, but on the e61 it was nice to move emails around...