Motorola V600

This phone is all that it's cracked up to be!

For about $570, the FEDEX box came with:
V600, matching Moto Bluetooth Headset, an extra V600 metal cover (metallic green), USB cable and CDROM.

Overall, a good value for the bundle of goodies. (I was also willing to pay a little extra for it right now, as I'm leaving for Asia in a few days and absolutely had to get a new phone.)

This phone was FedExed from Hong Kong. It came with one piece of paper in Chinese, and the packaging on the headset was in Chinese, but all of the manuals are English.

The place I ordered it from:
http://www.plemix.com »

The one caveat. It didn't come with a SIM card (which may or may not be normal for a sim free model... 😛). So I used both my wife's...
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Hey everyone, well I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but my phone has been buggy. Its just my luck so I'm guessing everyone else's has been fine.

The other day I was recieving an incoming call and as I tried to answer it, the phone screen went to white and the phone froze.

Today my "call end" button wouldn't work until I took the battery out and put it back in. I couldn't even power the phone off with it. I couldn't end my calls either.

And just a few minutes ago I opened it up to a white screen again, then it started flipping, said NO SERVICE and then went right back to normal.

Anyone experience anything similar? Rather than pay the Hong Kong return shipping prices, Motorola said I could ship it down to Texas and they wou...
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I'm not interested in the headset bluetooth capability. I wanted to know if I can send pictures and mp3 files from my mac g4 powerbook to my v600 via bluetooth, which my mac has. Or is the v600 only compatable with NT computers running windows 98 or newer?

thanks again

I have a Hong Kong V600, I entered the Mmode setting from ATTWS and it works fine, but the MMS setting are not working ☹️ I Tried the setting you posted and it still does not work... ANY HELP would be greatly appreciated.


Quest

I will be receiving my V600 Monday morning? However, I am concerned about the phones lack of Infrared ability? Bluetooth technology isn't as wide spread as I would like it? Does anyone have any thoughts?


Spencer, which car charger can I purchase that will work with the V600? Remember, I don't have any old equipment that I can recycle.

to anyone out there (Cassie I know you can answer this from your review and at least one of your posts):
I'm aware that the tools cd and usb cable work only for NT machines running windows 98 or newer, but am I wrong or once the settings are made, one CAN transfer graphics and sounds (mp3s) from a mac to the phone via bluetooth or is that not possible?

thanks

How do you get rid of these sounds ?

When I want to quietly turn on my v600 it sounds like a flippin pop concert !

and why does it make a loud sound when you activate 'silent', cant work that out......

This message is for anyone left who didn't purchase their phone from Plemix already. I know you don't want to hear that the phone is coming soon. But it really is. I work for AT&T and we were shipped all the launch materials today to arrive in our store on Monday. When that happens it usually means the phone is only about 2 weeks away. Cross your fingers!!!!

At 10:40AM FedEx delivered. I LOVE it. All I had to do was pop in my Cingular SIM card and done.
I've put in all my settings and my first call was as clear as a land phone.
I just can't remember how to find my firmware version. Can anybody walk me through it?
Thanks

ok.. mixed feelings on this..

i managed to get PST, i got the firmware and flex files from http://v600.cjb.net/.

i installed phonetools from the cd first. this had the usb drivers with it.

i installed PST next. then the PST patch.

i ran multiflashflex.

first i upgraded the firmware. i made sure overwrite, master clear and master reset were all checked (the other box wasn't).

took about 10 minutes. phone powered off after it was done. i turned the phone back on.

then i upgraded the flex. again overwrite, master clear and master reset were checked. took about another 10 minutes. phone powered off when done.

when i turned the phone on it asked if i wanted to personalize it and dropped me into the personal prefs menu.

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Can someone tell me what the difference is between a JAR and a JAD? (I know what a JAR is, what's a JAD?) And how do I install them to my phone from my PC?

Thanks!

The caller ID on my V600 won't show the name of the person calling if the area code isn't included

For example :

Joe Smith is in my phone book under 1.818.555.1234

If Joe Smith calls, the phone displays this 555.1234

Likewise, if I dial 555.1234 the callers name does not diplay - however if I dial it exactly like the phonebook entry - 1.818.555.1234 - it will show as Joe Smith.

Is this possibly because I copied the phonebook from my T720 instead of entering all of the numbers from scratch - or is there a setup step that I missed.

My T720 would show the name of the contact regardless of the format of the phone number - what gives ?

I finally got my v600 today but it has the Cingular software on it. I have T-mobile software and inserted the SIM and it works but I cannot connect to the internet or any wap sites. I tried setting up the t-zones in web sessions from a thread in Howard Forums but it doesn't work. It says that Connection Unsuccesful Try Again Later. Can Anyone help me out with this. I need my t-zones!! Is there anyway to get T-mobile software on the phone. Does anyone know the latest S/W Version out. I have: TRIPLETS_G_0B.09.26R and my FLEX is: GS9V600CIN02NAOFB. Cassie I saw in an earlier thread that you are running a Cingular phone but using T-zones. Did you run into this problem...and do you have the same S/W and FLEX as me? Please help me.....Im d...
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So, FedEx came today with a shiny new V600 - so far I love the phone (although I haven't used it too much). Just popped in my AT&T SIM and, thanks to Cassie, with a few minor adjustments, was up and running.

Here's what might be a dumb question - sorry if I should know this already - what is the best way to get my contacts (from my POS T720) to the V600.

I have an old SIM from another phone - do I just copy to the SIM, place it in the V600 and then add them - or is there antoher, better way to do this. Will MPT work with the 720, and can I place all the contact info on my home computers drive and then sync the V600.

What's the easiest way ???

thanks cassie for posting your setups.. i used the second set and it seems to be working for me now. i can surf mmode! 🙂

Go to:

http://support.attws.wdsglobal.com/ »

then from there go to:

Configure Your Device (go) >
Configure mMode WAP Service (go) >
Select Mobile Device (v600) >
Submit Mobile Device Number (your v600's ph. #) >
write down the PIN

Then AT&T will send your v600 a message, "READ" it, the v600 will say "Browser Update is required", select "UPDATE", enter the PIN from above, then mMode should be automatically added to your phone ...

Now you have to make sure mMode is the "default" ...

on your v600, go to:

Main Menu > WebAccess > Web Sessions

then scroll down until you see "mMode GPRS" and have it selected, then use the menu to "Set Default"

Then you should be all good to go 🙂
Cassie

😁

I missed FedEx delivering but I went and picked it up after hours. Here's some quick notes.

The whole thing was in a large box. The phone was in a small Motorola box. The headset, faceplates and cable/cd were in plastic containers. The whole thing looks like it was picked up off of store shelves and bundled up. I imagine it was. There was also some bubblewrap in there wedging everything in place.

It came with a blue coverplate. 🙂 In the box was a light silver coverplate. The blue one is a dark blue. Also in the phone box came the wipe-stick that Cassie mentioned. That will go unused. Haha.

The phone is a little heavier than I expected, but it feels very solid. The battery came with a full charge. I slipped in an activated AT...
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HI all -
I need advice/help. I live in NYC, don't have an account with ATTWS or TMOBILE, have account with Verizon. Here is my question:

- if i purchase from Plemix, how easy is it to have an account opened with either provider and utilize the V600?

- am i limited in functionality by selecting one of the providers?

- with all the correspondence flying around on setup MMS, etc., what does it all mean.

thanks in advance. 😳

i can't seem to get grps mmode set up.. was wondering if you could email me what you did? address: [email protected]

thanks cassie!


everyone:

i'll be setting up a web site on my phone experience and what i did to set everything up (at least for AT&T) this weekend.. will post the url here when i'm done.. hopefully it will help others out.

I just got a V600 to replace an old cell phone that is several years old, was bigger, did not use a SIM card and had a battery that attached to the exterior of the phone. I tried to insert the battery so I could charge it up and wasn't sure if the black plastic quadrangle needed to be taken off or was part of the battery. From looking at the picture in the manual it appears not to be present, and I thought this was some type of protective cap that I remembered batteries coming in, and I took it off. When I've tried to place the battery in I see sparks go off and it starts getting real hot. Did I err in taking the black surrounding piece off? Is there something particular I could be doing wrong that's making it spark and get hot? I can'...
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