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Yes, I'm still getting the random reboots. Biggest problem with mine still is that it crashes when charging. The bigger the charger power, the faster is crashes. If I trickle charge from USB, it's okay. I've found a 0.8A charger that is okay most of the time.

I've just noticed that the July update from Google has been released recently. Fingers crossed. When I say 20C I mean ambient temperature here in the UK... the phone itself gets *way* hotter. I know phones get hot when the CPU is stressed but my phone was sat by my side here outside (in the...

What did you do in the end? My Mi A3 is currently in the fridge because the temperature has gone over 20C in the UK and it's crashing continually.

Same here - totally unstable even after June 5th update. Right now my phone is not responding. It randomly rebooted about 15 mins ago, still didn't response, manually restarted it, came back up but is now not responding again. I can't have this level of instability with my business phone. Going...

Ended up here because my Mi A3 is becoming increasingly unstable. It rebooted three times around lunch time. I've just installed the May 2020 update and it's already restarted once already :( I'm going to have to consider returning it - my mobile is my main business phone too so can't have this...

This must be a generic flaw with the Mi A1 as mine is doing exactly the same. I suspect it's the USB-C port itself as it's got steadily worse over the months. I have an Outlook task to remind me to backup my phone using FreeFileSync. Everything is backed up anyway to the cloud but I do like to...

Bluetooth headsets It sounds like that whilst the Mi A1 is a fine device that's excellent value for money, it's Bluetooth implementation isn't perfect. It works fine in my car (Seat) but I've got a cheap pair of in-ear headphones and I too have the problem with the sound spluttering and...

Don't normally rave about devices but after umming and ahhing for months whether to get this on import or wait for Motorola to fix the camera on the G5 Plus, I finally went for it. Never have I been happier with value for money. Bought it for the camera as my old HTC One M8 (which simply stopped...

Appears to be some confusion over charging but there was some misleading (not quite fake) news last year that the Oreo update changed something. One of the beta's appears to have accidentally enabled quick charge (often called fast charge as well) but Xioami disabled it because they hadn't...

Ever since upgrading to WM6.5, I keep accidentally switching between email accounts when scrolling vertically through my list of emails. The left/right gesture is triggering when scrolling vertically. It's very annoying as you have to switch back and then scroll all the way back down. It's like...

Since I rebooted the Diamond2, it worked pretty well and didn't crash again. The iPhone really does get preferential treatment when it comes to apps :-) Microsoft really dropped the ball on this one - apps & WM in general that is, not just CoPilot. Cheers, Rob.

I've just installed CoPilot 8 after removing CoPilot 7 from the Settings control panel. I must say, it's a little bit flaky - it's crashed many times since installation although re-powering seems to have helped. Cheers, Rob.

Sync over wifi was removed from ActiveSync a while back for security reasons: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/11/08/wifi-did-you-do-that.aspx Also, Direct Push only works over mobile wireless due to the power drain over WiFi. Or something like that. Cheers, Rob.

Finally an answer from the Microsoft mobile forum. It's a setting on the pictures and video applet to display a slideshow when plugged into a PC. The reason I couldn't find it was because you have to scroll down the menu to find the options entry. This is one (of a few) things I don't like about...

The longer you have the TD2, the less you "play" with it and therefore the better the battery becomes. Never base battery consumption in the first month of getting your new toy :-) Cheers, Rob.

It is improved in WM6.5 but still not 100% perfect. Also there's a bug in the schedule feature. I've just been to Egypt on holiday and most definately changed my ActiveSync to "Manual" for both peak time and off-peak as I didn't a) want to run up £7.50/MB roaming or b) be bother by work emails...

Yes please... I was about to post the same issue. I think the precedence in WM6.5 of using mobile wireless over WiFi is the wrong way around if the WiFi signal is strong. In my house, my WiFi is strong everywhere but 3G comes and goes. It's darn annoying to get the message about "No...

I find the D2 battery life on WM6.5 much improved. I seemed to be always charging it but now, it's less critical. Also, with all transmitters turned off, the lifetime is pretty good. My phone was on for a week on holiday and the battery was 90% by the end of the week having turned the mobile on...

Anyone else noticed this? tmail.exe crashes more often that I'd expect it to for a core application? Is tmail.exe a core WM6.5 program or is it something added by HTC? Cheers, Rob.

This must be in there somewhere! How do you configure the D2 to always use the speaker? When I've got the D2 in the cradle on my car dashboard, I want to be able to answer a) by tapping the entire screen (none of this sliding malarkey when driving!) and b) always use the speaker as this is...

SMS character count Noticed this when abroad in Egypt this week when I wanted to keep a much closer tab on how many characters there were in a message so I could keep the number of expensive SMS messages to a minimum. When you compose a message from scratch, you get a counter saying "34/160"...

Isn't this becoming a non-problem with better browsers? Outlook web access is now a very feature rich JavaScript based client - won't that run from anywhere? Cheers, Rob.

Actually, the "General" topic is a better place for this so asked question there. How do you delete a post? Cheers, Rob.

This is a serious question although I appreciate it could be taken as a troll. Should Microsoft start again with their mobile OS? I know why they have kept compatability with older software but I personally think this is hurting them more than throwing away backwards compatability. Look at...

This is a serious question although I appreciate it could be taken as a troll. Should Microsoft start again with their mobile OS? I know why they have kept compatability with older software but I personally think this is hurting them more than throwing away backwards compatability. Look at...

I think there was a lot of shuffling around the Zune group although I thought this was mainly the hardware side, i.e. Microsoft getting out of the MP3/mobile hardware market. Cheers, Rob.

Yup - I've seen all of these. Does seem a little buggy...

It's not an error as such - all it means is that your Diamond2 is discharging faster than it can charge. The reason it tends to occur more when connected via USB/Sync is that a) the charge power via USB from your laptop is lower than using a dedicated charger and b) ActiveSync keeps the screen...

The automatic lock is on Settings, All Settings, Lock. Just had a look and there's nothing on there that looks like slideshow. Actually, the slideshow appears before it locks full-screen but then it tries to even peek through when locked. I've been looking around and wonder if it's something to...

Anyone? :( There must be a setting in there somewhere to automatically start slideshow when idle? Cheers, Rob.

>How? Does it automatically re-arrange icons after which is used most? Nope but after one has spent a bit of time moving those icons to the top that you use most, it sorts itself out. The upper half of my icon menu is now pretty much the icons I use most of the time. Cheers, Rob

>USB2 spec is nominal 5V and 500Mah. This isn't USB charging - when in a cradle, it's like charging from the mains charger. The cradle has it's own power supply. I haven't got a problem :-) My post was just to confirm that a) the Diamond2 always runs off the battery even when plugged in to the...

And also, even when the device locks itself (automatically), the slideshow is still trying to run. I've got the <<SLIDE>> icon on screen but every few seconds a bit of slideshow tries to peek through the top 1cm of the screen. All very bizarre... Cheers, Rob.

Err, all of a sudden my Diamond2 appears to be showing a slideshow after a while when in the cradle. Lucky there's nothing embarassing on there as it's in a cradle in an open office ;) Is this a feature and how do I turn it off?? Mystified why it's started doing it as it never did it before and...

I always suspected that when the Diamond2 is plugged into USB, that the phone continues to run off battery and is simply re-charged. This means that if you have programs running that are consuming the battery faster than it trickle charges, it was possible that it would never fully re-charge...

Battery information Mine too. Cheers, Rob.

Press and hold on the icon. The options seem pretty limited but after a couple of days, my menu is sorting itself out into a usuable list for me. Rob.

I'm hoping that Microsoft & HTC keep on the ball with all of these and release a series of fixes ASAP. Cheers, Rob.

Having played a bit with the CoPilot Live 7 trial, it's not the end of the world. CoPilot looks pretty good to me, is a reasonable price and uses far less battery than my old copy of Garmin XT. Cheers, Rob.

Am I right in thinking Garmin don't have a product anymore for Windows Mobile devices? Can't find anything on their UK website. Cheers, Rob.

The honeycomb menu is growing on me. Rob.

No contest for me - 6.5 is much better. Lots of incremental and small changes make the overall experience much better. Rob.

I think battery charging is faster esp. when in a cradle. Before, I could leave my phone in the cradle all day at work and it would never fully recharge. I had got into the habit of turning it off. Quite why ActiveSync insists on keeping the screen on I don't know. However, with 6.5, the green...

Can't re-send failed SMS messages This was a problem with 6.1 as well but they appear to have made it even worse in 6.5. When an SMS message fails to send due to no signal, you get a message saying so. The message then ends up in draft messages. Now first of all this is pretty poor design...

Afraid I'm getting the opposite - much better battery life. As an aside, previously I was using Garmin XP satnav and haven't got around to re-installing it yet so thought I'd give CoPilot a whirl. Downloaded the maps and tried it on a 30 min journey tonight. Worked pretty well but the battery...

Ahh but at least there is a fix via the registry. Never really dabbled in other phones from Nokia or Apple - do they offer this level of tweaks? Cheers, Rob.

My battery life certainly feels much better. I've been messing about with WM 6.5 for about an hour. In the past, my battery would have taken a hammering. So far, it's at 80%!! That's *way* better. I like it - it's so much more responsive. Okay, so it's not a radical change and there are still...