ringing?

[Magicman_007]

I searched and could not find any info on this, so sorry if it has been asked before.

When my ear piece is plugged in to the unit, the ringer will not ring (produce sound) through the speaker, it only rings (produces sound) through the ear piece. Is there a setting I am missing? Or, has anyone else had this problem...thanks!

[cruisin-thru]

That is normal, when you plug in the earpiece sound is diverted to the earpiece and the speaker is dead, once you remove it the sound will return to speaker, why would you want sound through the speaker while using the earpiece?

[Magicman_007]

Thanks for the reply. I must not have asked the question very well.

I do understand that the sound is diverted to the ear piece while it is plugged into the phone. And I understand that voice needs to be because you want to hear what people are saying.

However, many times I carry the phone in my pocket with the earpiece plugged into it. When it rings, I can not hear the ring because the ringing sound is also being diverted to the ear piece.

If you take a look at the Handspring TREO or other non PDA phones, the ringer will ring through the normal speaker reguardless if the ear piece is plugged into the phone or not. This enables you to hear the phone ring if you have the ear piece plugged in. Only the voice sound is diverted to the ear piece, not the ringing sound.

The feature of being able to hear the phone ring while the ear piece isplugged in is important to me. It appears that it is standard on other phones and I was looking to see if there is a setting, hack or ajustment to make this happen on my phone.

Sorry for the long post and not explaining it well the first time.

All the best.

[Biso007]

That would be so nice ... I miss this feature in my old Nokia 9210 where there was a "Headset" profile that you can customise.

There is a bit silly solution for this I use it when I 'm in the car. Keep the headset jack a bit loosy ... don't make it firmly connected to the XDA. This way the ringer will come through the XDA but you will get the sound in the headset but only in the right channel :lol:

I don't mind it since I don't use the 2 earpieces for only phone calls ... only for MP3 files :lol: ... hope that will help

[nickpope]

Sorry I am without my XDA for a few weeks, so I can't tell you what to do, but I can offer you hope! You can make the phone ring through the XDA when the headset is plugged in.

Head over to www.pdaphonehome.com and search through the forum there.

[Magicman_007]

Thanks for that, I did go over there and could not find the subject, so I posted the topic there. Thanks again!

[Magicman_007]

UPDATE....Updating the ROM to version A.20.17 fixed the issue

[Magicman_007]

UPDATE # 2 Now I upgraded to WM2003 and I am experiencing the same problem...Any suggestions?