My HTC Cha Cha

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Overseas trip with ChaCha

Visited Taiwan last week.

Switched on my ChaCha upon landing. Since I fixed service provider in my home country, I needed to perform an auto search to allow my phone to see the service providers there. There was a menu popped up with the VPN settings etc and I suspected I pressed the wrong button. Thus I repeated the whole sequence.

Apart from the above menu, the roaming experience (voice only) was similar to my old HTC. That is, when I tried to call a local number, the phone would ask if I really want to dial local or to call my home country etc.

My Taiwanese colleagues were impressed I got this phone so soon :)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Cannot install any more applications!!!!!

I've downloaded 36 applications, and moved 21 of them to the SD card.

Now the phone has only 11MB internal memory free, refusing to application updates etc.

I understand some applications must install in the internal memory, however I am still disappointed to see the internal memory filled up so soon. Anything I can do to free up more internal memory? I am already clear the memory regularly and restart the phone on daily basis.

SMS issue: Jumps to top of thread while replying to SMS

Noticed sometimes while I am replying to an incoming SMS, as I type, the screen will jump to the first SMS of the thread.

Another behaviour (lesser of an issue) is that the dictionary seems disabled sometimes when replying to SMS. Not always. It might depend on how I start replying to the SMS.

Anyone has the same problem?

Sunday, July 10, 2011

"B" key is not sensitive

While sending SMS today, noticed the key "B" requires considerable more pressure than other keys to register a key press.

Will be calling Singtel to see if I can swap the unit (still within 7 days).

Skype does not run smoothly

I encountered two problems with Skype on ChaCha.

First, the main items are not shown properly on the main screen. Only half the words were shown.
Second, on WiFi (nominal 10Mbps), the test call had terrible audio quality. The audio was broken and barely understandable.

NB I have not tried test call on 3G data.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Getting connected

As I need to have my mobile number ported from M1 to Singtel and it is not going to happen today, I tried to connect my ChaCha to the home wireless router.

First thing is of course to turn on the WiFi on the ChaCha and let it scan for the wireless router.

Surprise!!! ChaCha cannot see my wireless router.

Actually my TD2 also couldn't see the wireless router (it was able to do that some months ago).

My router is working fine as my notebook and my wife's Omnia 7 can see it.

Eventually I decided to log onto my router and see what can be tweaked.

Apparently a few months back (or maybe longer) I changed the channel frequency on my wireless router in order to try to improve the reliability with the wireless connection. Set it back to the default, and yee-haa, ChaCha is online!

Next was to setup my gmail. Just follow the instructions on screen and it was a breeze to setup.

Tried surfing the internet. Speed is good and comparable with surfing on the PC.

Again, when I go to this particular site which I mentioned Java is needed (ref at the shop),

the same warning message was displayed on the web page that my browser is not Java enabled.

Went to www.java.com/en/download but not sure which version to download. It only showed options like Windows/iOS/Linux/Solaris. Android is not explicitly listed. Nevermind, put this as a ToDo.

Logged onto Facebook using the pre-installed Facebook App. The screen looks just like viewing the messages on a PC, with the added feature that the messages will snap to the screen top/bottom properly as you scroll up and down. I like this feature - not sure what will happen if the message is very long. Lucky most of my friends write one-liners :)

Clicked the Market widget and downloaded Skype, Angry Bird, and YouTube. All seems to work fine.

Good start!