Am I the only one that wishes to go back to his MDA/8125?

[dialekt]

while I absolutely love this phone - Tytn/8125 ...I'm trying to completely weigh out what exactly it is that I love in a phone. First and foremost I loved coreplayer. it worked awesome and flawless everytime. With the tytn the skips are apparent. I'm on Bootloader 1.09, south africa rom, and the 1.20 radio. I hear this player has an issue with the ati imageon. I could be the guy that waits for the issue with the video player to be solved..or I could act on it now and actually be content with a cheaper device. the skipping jerkey video is probably my only real gripe. this phone is feature packed multimediawise and its gonna be a shame to let it go..but video on my pda is priority and if I'm gonna pay 500 bucks it might as well work without any workarounds. as silly as it may send, but that's the life of a picky phone freak coming from the blackberry 8700, pearl, mda, nokia e61, samsung blackjack, t mobile dash, and even the sidekick 3.

there are so many tweaks that make the mda rock too. especially the page up and down tweak for the volume slider etc. ill miss being able to mms with the palm messaging program but who cares? I guess ill settle with a significantly cheaper device until the next big thing comes out - iphone, blackberry 8900. its been fun. but I'm selling this phone to a lady friend of mine. I guess I should probably try ad figure how to downgrade to the latest cingular rom from this point. is there anything specific I should look out for? technically I could just throw the cingular extended rom cab files in there and she should be fine. but will that void any chance of being taken care of if she took the device to a cingular store? (by the way..its a cingular 8525)

[lewcamino]

Am I the only one that wishes to go back to his MDA/8125?

Short answer, you are the only one. I wrote a long review a while back but heres a recap.

List of what I don't miss...
The over all slowness of the 8125.
EDGE is teh suck, now that 3G is here.
The speakers were very trebbley (if thats a word)
I could not get iGuidance to run for crap on there.
The slider... even with smartkey, its a slider.
Could not play worms, its a favorite bed time game.

Thats a short list and I probably cant even remember half the stuff i use to hate about that device.

Later, Lew

[ahfunaki]

I could not get iGuidance to run for crap on there.


I've never had any issues running iGuidance on my MDA...

I can't wait to get an 8525 though...

[dialekt]

I guess so ....just as a simple game may be your favorite thing to play...videos are my favorite..to each his own. It was fun for about a 2 days. But furthermore I think I'll catch the next device. Time to go hunt the Molski treasure.....

[lewcamino]

On a side note, movies play absolutely fine on my tytn with TCPMP. I have the south African (or wtvr) rom and I skipped the ext rom install and only installed what I wanted from it. I do not get the screen shake issue anymore.

As for iGuidance, pre 3.0 was awful on the 8125, slow to start and slow running in general. I know that there were many issues fixed since then but at the tiem I had my 8125 there was not 3.0 yet, only 2.3.1 or something.

Later, Lew

[dialekt]

And after one day....I have bought another 8525. I guess I'll have to really search hard and hope this ATI IMAGEON and Coreplayer issue gets fixed asap. Audio skipping after seeking as well.

[phealy]

while I absolutely love this phone - Tytn/8125 ...I'm trying to completely weigh out what exactly it is that I love in a phone. First and foremost I loved coreplayer. it worked awesome and flawless everytime. With the tytn the skips are apparent.8525)

I had a similar problem - try setting your playback method to directdraw in TCPMP. Fixed it right up for me.