hmmm
anyone brought their camera to the beach for a snap yet?
im planning to do that when i get mine:)
but i wun be submerged in water so there may only be splashes:)

Not too sure about the max storage for smses. I think it should be the same like other S.E phones. About a hundred smses should be the limit but again storing too many smses really makes the phone lags.

Updating the phoneware requires the user to go through the same procedures be it your phone is an ap or ori set. Just dont understand why u ppl find it hard/different to update to update your phoneware if it is an ap set.

R3DA029 phoneware is a little bit smoother and quicker in terms or performance. I never experienced any crash or restarts after I upgraded to R3DA.

I now have more than a hundred sms'es in my inbox, arranged by date and it hardly lags.

No, it is not that easy for AP sets, because most AP suppliers have replaced the CDA codes on their phones with bogus/fake codes for whatever reasons(maybe so you would pay them more for updating phonewares?), in my case, mine was replaced with 12345678_chi_blabla. The CDA are the set of codes show up halfway when you're updating your phoneware, if SEUS detects a bogus code, it tells you your phone has the latest phoneware and stop the process, same goes when updating via the phoneware itself.

That said, to update these AP sets requires you to change your CDA to a real one, you need to find out the real CDA for your reign to not lose your current setting(eg: the chinese input) after updating, and changing the CDA requires the use of thirdparty software that could BRICK your phones if you mess things up, it is quite easy if you know what you're doing though.

Besides, my crappy streamyx connection took more than 3 hours to download the new phoneware, putting my phone in coma during that period, didn't dare to cancel the process in afraid of bricking the phone. :S

I start noticing that now, yes the latest phoneware does seem a lot smoother and quicker, and I haven't get a reboot/crash for a while.

This post has been edited by Kellicros: Jan 3 2009, 01:44 PM

Oh I understand your predicament. Thats why I normally stick to a few reputable AP phone suppliers namely COMSAT or TELSTRA coz they would supply phones which are normally for our ASEAN region. Even if it is an Europe set, you can ask their service center to flash and in most cases they have already flashed it themselves before distributing the phones. Their prices are notably a bit more expensive (maybe Rm30 to Rm100 more) but its definitely worth paying for especially if you were to get a set with an ASEAN CDA. This can save u a lot of time and of course headache too.
Streamx connection is crappy. But as I were updating the phone (yes...it took about three hours too), I was browsing through the net and didnt face any problems. Maybe it was because of S.E Update Service own lag. Being a loyal S.E phone supporter, my other phones dont seem to face these kinda problems last time when I updated them.

I got my phone from TELSTRA and yet, it came with fake/bogus CDA and old RBA phoneware, I believe the CDA was changed when they converted the phone from another region. My phone came with ASEAN phoneware too, so in order to retain everything, I needed to look for the ASEAN CDA codes to change to.

I dunno, in that 3 hours of waiting, I was wondering what would happen if my connection suddenly goes off, or if there is an electric blackout.

EDIT: Here's a silly question about the Media centre, how do you separate Photos and Pictures listed/shown in the Media Centre? Pictures I copied from PC always got mixed up with my Camera Album, I am wondering how do you get them into the "Pictures" section instead,

This post has been edited by Kellicros: Jan 3 2009, 03:50 PM

guys, i'm planning to buy an AP set from telstra also. how much you bought it last time?

also what is this CDA thing? how do i ensure those telstra people help me to update the firmware to R3DA029 so that it wont crash?

any way to chk it out?

Bought my phone at RM735 without any gifts.

I believe the CDA thing is region code that the Update Service detects and download the phoneware of the correct region accordingly. Just ask them to do it, I am pretty sure they would be glad to help, since they are earning from you anyway. I didn't ask because I thought flashing the update is an easy task.

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Goes into "Service Info" then "Software Info", the phoneware version is at the first line, I remember my phone came with R3CA030, which is an older version.

This post has been edited by Kellicros: Jan 3 2009, 10:02 PM

where u bought ur phone? from low yat? which shop ah?

I bought mine from this guy:
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=462924&hl=

There are a few reputable dealers here which sell the phone at good prices with equal good service. Do check out the marketplace in this forum. I also found out that some lyn dealers' price is even lower because some are part timers and dont have a shop, therefore they could sell at lower price.

thanks guys for the tips

I heard there is a newer phoneware for C702, R3DA032, anyone has more info on it?

This post has been edited by Kellicros: Jan 4 2009, 03:15 PM

R3DA '032' is the code for the region the phone belongs to. Previous fw is R3CA. So it should be the same fw but for a differant region.

Anyone tried the GPS function of this phone with TrekBuddy? I'm considering to get this phone but not sure whether the GPS function works well or not.

Trekbuddy works according to TOMEI-R, I haven't tested it myself because I can't find any KL maps for it.

Yup..Trekbuddy works fine with C702. But DO NOT expect full functions from a full fledged GPS software such as Garmin Mobile XT. The Maps you can download from TREKBUDDY website along with Penang and Singapore maps.

new user of c702 speedy black here...
the thumb kinda pain presing the buttons...(the up down left right one...)

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Added on January 16, 2009, 2:32 pmi browse through the forum here and you'll said that the latest firmware is R3CA032. But my phone is installed with R3CA037. I guess that's is latest for now. As for R3CA038, it only support Israel language. So R3CA037 is the best because it support all language

This post has been edited by eLL_lAzyPiG: Jan 16 2009, 02:32 PM

Actually, the latest firmware that is downloadable via SEUS is R3DA29, which is newer than R3CA037 and 038. And if you're updating via SEUS, you can have any language you want provided you got the correct CDA code, eg, having a APAC-ANZ(ASEAN) CDA code on your phone will give you the latest firmware with all ASEAN languages.

I want to ask how much could this be in Sabah. Thanks

Does this handphone include any M2?