I am sure I read it somewhere that says the Defy has FM radio ...

How soon? Within a week?

You overclocked the Defy?

My Defy should arrive today! Going to start learning about android.

Bought from the same place Sanosizo bought it from. Should not be a pirate one.

Dip in water yes, throwing maybe not ...

Clove UK.

Package just arrived.

Ordered on Sunday but have to give them an authorisation code for the transaction since first time buying. Hong Leong have no idea how to help me out hence the delay.

I gave them ID confirmation instead.

Overall took 2 business day once they post my order.

A recommended UK store.

Amazon UK won't ship the Defy to Malaysia, so once I saw Sanosizo bought it already I just have to ask him.

Now need to unpack.

RM 1466 without tax, pass through custom without any charge. I bought it with the defy car dock so the price for the handset only should be around RM 1342.

The online shop will help you out if you failed to get it resolved here. Well it is a procedure I already knew since I have bought stuff online while I was in UK.

For me good service is more important.

Should have a niche group of people wanting this, other smart phones will still dominate the market in my opinion.

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Added on December 10, 2010, 3:21 pmYeah, lucky to get the price drop but I did not win the contest for the Defy ! not lucky enough.

UK is quite reasonable in their pricing because they do drop down prices very often. DVD movies, games drop down in price in just a month or so and the price drop is significant.

BTW, your android knowledge seems to be good, I too wish to replace motoblur but this is my first android phone.




This post has been edited by jiangchen: Dec 10 2010, 03:21 PM

Do I have to root the phone first?

Thanks, will be a steep learning curve for me.

Hi Sanosizo,

Have you heard the speaker problem of the Defy? seems to be pretty serious everywhere.

https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/41152?tstart=0

It was all over the net yesterday also, makes me worry because I have just bought it.


Btw, are we being charged when using the GPS? I have no idea how to switch off Assisted GPS ....

Sanosizo, I myself am worried as well, have to send back to UK if any problem arises.


Sorry if I am a bother, if we are not connected using wifi, any activity like connecting to email and so on will be using HSPDA, 3G and we will be charge?

I think I got too exited the first few times using the phone and I think I use those feature quite a few times, shit, will be charge ...

Sanosizo,

How did you found out people who bought it from Clove suffer from the speaker problem? mind sharing?

I am not a lucky guy but not so bad luck either, good luck to both of our Defy I guess.


Yesterday my speaker sounded a little weird, maybe it was too loud so I turn the volume down and so far it is still fine after a few time testing it. Hope nothing happens. So far have not been using the audio jack, used once only, having too much fun learning the android OS and playing Angry Birds !

I am also pondering the idea of a bluetooth headphone, but with so much wireless wave around us and close to the ears I am not sure if it is a good idea for the long run, maybe don't use it too often.

But then again, if using the audio jack do create this problem a bluetooth headset is a great idea, and we can avoid the hassle of closing and opening the plastic flap all the time.

If the problem do arise and Motorola Malaysia does cover the repair for Defy bought outside of Malaysia it will be great news. If not I will just send back to Clove and claim warranty.

Quite worrying considering we do not know whether our phones are plagued by this problem or not and any day it could happen or it may not.

I browsed through the forum again and yes I saw one guy who bought from Clove got the issue.

Well I should not have brought this matter up, now we all have to worry.

What is SBF?

Sanosizo,

Thanks for the explanation. Heard you mention flashing your Defy before last time you brick it. Where do you acquire the SBF file anyway?

I think this might interest you if something does happen to our Defy,

http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/MOTOROLA-DEF...ight/false#M494

It is the US version phone but I hope it is software issue.

Seems weird Malaysia's Defy no Motoblur. I have tried launcher pro but the plus version have to pay. Have to set up a Paypal account and get my house's wifi running first.

Thanks for the link Sanosizo.

Sanosizo,

Is rooting then deleting some Motorola bloat ware considered voiding the warranty?

Is your phone still considered under warranty then?

Actually I want to terminate some service that runs in the background like news, weather, feed and all that. I have close their app but they seem to be running in the background each time I restart my phone.

And 3G and so on will kinda immediately download some data if I enable them.

So far I have disable all mobile data, I just want to make sure next time if I do enable some form of GPRS and so on they won't download data without me knowing.