I dumped my three year old Sony Ericsson P800 for a sleek, chic O2 XDA
Atom in March 2006.

It was a dream device and I enjoyed discovering myriad of features as
this was my first PPC. My main usage is as a highly used phone (more
than 6 hours per day on long conference calls) and PIM applications
(calendar, contacts etc). I hardly play games, I only have Scrabble
loaded. O2 Plus is my today plugin, I don't use any other. I have a 0.5
GB miniSD card on which I load podcasts or videos, though I watch
rarely.

I started facing a number of problems that I haven't been able to
solve:

1) If I set up the SETTINGS > SYSTEM > POWER > ADVANCED > ON BATTERY
POWER TURN OFF DEVICE IF NOT USED FOR 2 MINUTES; it is supposed to turn
off the screen. If a call or SMS comes it is supposed to come alive.
This never worked for me. Invariably the screen would fail to
come back alive and I'd need to poke with stylus to Soft-Reset the
device. As a result my screen was always on. Expectedly battery life
was very very low. This is my biggest grouse.

2) The WiFi stopped working one day in July. It used to work very
well and I was using Agile Messenger with my home network for few
months. That day, it just crashed as I turned it on WiFi and surfed for
sometime. The screen turned kind of white and a mix of colors. I tried
a lot of things after that including flashing the May ROM, old ROM and
so on. No avail. Nowadays if I turn WiFi on it may work for sometime. I
may even be able to connect to O2-Connect or the web. But crash it
will. And after that the WiFi option also sometimes disappears from the
Wireless Manager. It reappears after a number of reboots. Practically
WiFi has become unavailable.

3) Browsing using pass-through with ActiveSync using the Internet
connection on laptop never worked for me. Tried many tweaks but never
got it working.

4) 2 and 3 above mean I have no working Internet connection on my
Atom. I used GSM dial-up networking through my ISP account. But it is
so **** expensive. Haven't tried out GPRS yet (no idea how well
Airtel's Mobile Office GPRS in Bangalore will work with Atom).

5) Recently, I have been experiencing silence on my phone during
calls where I can't hear the other people talking whereas they can hear
me. I tested dialing into same conference with Atom and another Nokia
set. On the Nokia there weren't any silences while my Atom had multiple
silences of couple of minutes each. This has made my Atom practically
useless for the phone function.

I'd be very happy to try out any suggestions that you may have. Before
I totally give up on it.

XDA Atom
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