Comments on: Samsung D900 review - A Critique

By: Chanelle

Chanelle — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:45:47 +0000

heyy, I have a d900 and on it there is a icon at the top of the screen, its red and blue and pops up two bars icons away from the bluetooth, No idea what it is can anybody help?

By: sam

sam — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:20:52 +0000

hey.. does any one know how to turn of da sound whenva u touch a button on the d900..i find dt very iritatin n wnt it of..

By: Charlie Pearce

Charlie Pearce — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:31:44 +0000

…and I can see it annoying people in my office if I’m away from my desk for half an hour!

By: Tarkan

Tarkan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:02:17 +0000

I am shocked that even the newer 900i model still has not corrected this problem.

Samsung really need to go and use their phone in the real world and then they may realise the need for this.

By: Charlie Pearce

Charlie Pearce — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:00:50 +0000

I have just worked out that you can set the incoming text tone to repeat every minute or every two minutes. Not ideal though.

By: Charlie Pearce

Charlie Pearce — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:12:05 +0000

I bought a Samsung 900i on Sunday (my final shortlist was that or a Nokia 6300), and I’m also pretty disappointed about the lack of indication of missed calls/texts. I rarely fiddle with my phone - it’s usually on my desk or in my pocket unless I’m using it - so if I’m not next to it when somebody sends me a text I’m not going to realise until the next time I send one myself. At least with my six-year old Nokia 3410 I’d instantly notice the “Message received” at the top of the black and white screen when walking past - as you say there’s absolutely no indication on the 900i…

By: Tarkan

Tarkan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:10:06 +0000

Thanks, I am glad the review helped!!

I learnt early on to keep the battery topped up, I do think that for phone like this you really need some sort of alert for voicemail and missed calls - as you say maybe on the next model.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:55:44 +0000

“the audible alert loudness is for some strange reason controlled by the key volume”

Thank you so much for this information!! The alert was driving me crazy. Like fmac says, the phone will make these alerts probably every minute for AT LEAST 24 hours in the case of my phone (D900i). But I’ve turned the key volume to zero and now there’s no noise. I am happy I wish it mentioned this in the manual…

What does drive me crazy is that you can’t run the battery down faster once the low battery alert starts without spending money (ie. calling someone). I tried to run it down faster by taking a photo, using the MP3 player or playing games, but it doesn’t let you do any of that. Just the annoying “Battery low!” I KNOW IT IS!!

Argh. But mostly, I love my phone. Just a few issues that’s all. And the worst one has now been resolved! Thanks again

The answer to this question:
“I looked in Menu > Settings > Sound Settings > Message tone , only changed the repetition for text messages - not voice mail or missed call.
On the message tone menu what other choice are there?”
is that you can only do this for text messages or email on the D900i. There should be voice mail or missed call (especially as the screen is totally off in standby mode) but alas, neither. Maybe on the next model…

By: Tarkan

Tarkan — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:13:54 +0000

Maybe the firmware has been changed on the 900i , my phone after owning it for over 1 year, still only has a low battery warning for less than 2 hours before powering down.

I looked in Menu > Settings > Sound Settings > Message tone , only changed the repetition for text messages - not voice mail or missed call.

On the message tone menu what other choice are there?

By: fmac

fmac — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:50:18 +0000

My phone (I have the D900i)will beep low battery for almost 24 hours before turning itself off! I personally can’t stand the low battery nagging, so how do I get rid of it?

Which is weird because there is a setting for missed calls/texts and you can change how often it alerts you. It’s found it Menu > Settings > Sound settings > Message tone > after you pick what tone you’d like, you can change the repetition for once, every 1 or every 2 minutes. Hope this helps.

By: Tarkan

Tarkan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:48:15 +0000

Sounds like you have the bluetooth enabled which is the icon you describe.

It does sound like you have a faulty phone or battery, but before you get worried about it try the following.

press menu / applications / bluetooth / activation and set to off. This will remove the blue icon.

Then charge the battery up and then time how long it stays on, opening the slide up every hour to check the phone is still on.

Also you can also try doing a phone reset which can be found Menu / settings / reset settings.

Good luck, Tarkan

By: Abdul Hakim

Abdul Hakim — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:39:38 +0000

salam , hi

well with my phone i got only one serious problem.

i bought my D900 7 month ago
i think its still new and never felt off

the problem is my phone starts to turn off by its self indeed the batt is high i mean the batteries bars are full but i dont understand why it stat to turn off by it self , which i got very important calls to be missed.

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one thing more a blue ambulence kinda light icon appear on top some times which never went away.
i have read the menu the icon information is not mention there.

so kindly reply me on that problem’s i will be thanks full.

regards hakim