Help! How to convince my frustrated sister new to PPC to stick with Diamond.

[tboy2000]

My sister recently got the O2 Ignito - her first ever Windows Mobile phone. Now I have been a Windows Mobile user for many years and love it because of all the apps out there and primarily the XDA community and its onging development.

Anyway, she is finding the phone so slow at times and it virtually stops to a crawl or freezes where she needs to reset. She is finding this increasingly frustrating and annoying that she says she is fed up with it and wants to return it. I told her to bear with it and it will take time to get used to a new OS and how it works. She knows about making sure to close apps so they dont run in the background. I know the long term benefits of Windows Mobile and this is why I want her to persist with the phone.

The thing is I don't know why the phone is slow. It has the latest O2 1.93 rom. I have applied and undid some of the touchflo speed tweaks to no avail or difference. The refresh rate of the icons appearing on the screen one by one is quite noticeable when you open the programs menu.

What can I do to speed up the phone and convince her to stick with it?

Thanks!

[surur]

Cant say why your xda is slow, but it may still be a good idea to flash with the stock rom and get rid of O2's junk,

Surur

[Addicteddddd]

the o2 stock rom is actually pretty quick, so i don't see what the problem could be, has she installed lots of software etc? maybe a hard reset may be of help

[tboy2000]

Well she hasn't installed a lot of software. I have :) But what is the point of having a WM phone if you can't install stuff on it?

I have no idea why it slows down too.

[nin0]

Mine used to go super slow & almost stop after using the Youtube application. When I upgraded Adobe flash player to newest version for ppc, the lagging stopped. I have since removed the newest flash as the keypad kept popping up on websites that displayed a flash file & got annoying, but reverting to the old version didn't cause the lag to come back, so everything is fine now :)

After seeing an Iphone in action I think they seem to run a lot smoother & more user friendly, but then you can't install your own apps & extras so easy on them. Maybe an iphone would suit her better?

I like ppc because its easily customisable, if the iphone wasn't locked up to hell I probably would have gone for one of them instead.

[rscreen]

this is my first windows phone (i have a 5yr old pda just for sat nav, which now i have a diamond seems fast when using start menu etc).

Although i do like my diamond, i am disappointed with its speed and generally how flakey a windows phone is. Its like going back to windows98.

I saw used a mates iphone before i got the diamond and though the nicer screen res and the smaller device would beat that hands down. but now i've used the iphone since it seems really nice and quick and flowing to use. but yeah u cant add as many apps

[KukurikU]

this is my first windows phone (i have a 5yr old pda just for sat nav, which now i have a diamond seems fast when using start menu etc).

Although i do like my diamond, i am disappointed with its speed and generally how flakey a windows phone is. Its like going back to windows98.

I saw used a mates iphone before i got the diamond and though the nicer screen res and the smaller device would beat that hands down. but now i've used the iphone since it seems really nice and quick and flowing to use. but yeah u cant add as many apps
that's all? can not add apps? lol! copy/paste, multitasking, 3G......see how many ppl are happy with their iphone::D
http://www.ihatemyiphone.com/

[marios96]

Maybe if you installed an app that she likes... There are several games outhere, or maybe an app to watch TV over 3G or WiFi.

Did you try one of the themes out there? I made a purple-pink theme for my gf's Diamond and she loves it. Try something similar...

[tboy2000]

Actually I installed the pink girly theme and the red vodafone theme. She now prefers the black htc theme. Also I installed apps and games that she would like and find useful. She thinks by adding lots of apps it will slow the phone down but I tell he then what is the point of having 4 gigs of storage? Just for music? She tells me it gets extremely hot and lags a bit. It does. I played with it.

I hear some people disable touchflo for a speedier phone. Its a shame, its a lovely interface so why remove it?

Am confused. For example with SK Tools there are optimizations for performance, stability and memory. Initially I did it for performance. Now I changed it to stability. Surely all free are imposrtant so I don't know which to choose. Also in TF3d Config and Diamond tweak apps, do the optimizations really work? They say they speed up the phone but at the expense of memory. But if you then get low memory wont this lag the phone? So then what's the point of applying the tweaks if they use up memory.

Anyone advise the best tweaks to apply so the phone is not slow? I would hate for her to return it.

Thanks so much!