So this is a RANT!!!
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Can anyone explain why what is supposed to be the most advanced phone ever from both BB and VZW can not make a call from an SMS screen like every other phone ever made????
RE: I get a text that says "call me right away"
What do I have to do with ANY OTHER PHONE???
1) Hit the send key and maybe decide which number for the contact that SMS'd me to call them back at (mobile,home,work...) DONE!!!!
On my STORM...
What do I have to do???
1)Exit the SMS.
2)Go to the contacts
3)Look up the person (we all know how long that takes to do with no flick scrolling)
4)Select the number of the contact to call them on (home, mobile...)
5)Hit send
This is ridiculous!!!!!!!
BTW. There is a shortcut. If you call it that. When on the recieved SMS screen you can hover your finger over the contact's name. Then click it (you won't know if you did it right or not because there is no indication that it has been selected). Then open the menu, and OMG there is an option to call that contact.
I left out the best part....
Try to do this while your driving. Good luck and I hope you have Air Bags.
I am hating my Storm more and more each day. The apps are nice and though I have done my fare share of leaked OS installs that were much better than .75, I'm an inch or so away from switching to another device. One I can actually use as to communicate with.
One last gripe. I can not activate on BES with this phone wirelessly. It tries for days killing my already overworked battery. I end up turning the Radio on and off and magically it moves a bit further through the activation but never finishes. Seriously... WTF.
This thing is clearly not ripe and should have been left on the tree until it
was. Both RIM and Verizon should be ashamed of this joke of a device and more so should at least release an OS that works. It's been 5 months since the release. I truly feel that WE, as consumers, have not squeaked enough to get oiled.04-07-09 01:56 AMLike 0 - do us all a favor before one of us storm lovers flame you. switch your phone i really hate people that put sh!t up like this really bare with your phone or drop it really no point your a peeon we dont care to hear from.04-07-09 02:02 AMLike 0
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Can anyone explain why what is supposed to be the most advanced phone ever from both BB and VZW can not make a call from an SMS screen like every other phone ever made????
RE: I get a text that says "call me right away"
What do I have to do with ANY OTHER PHONE???
1) Hit the send key and maybe decide which number for the contact that SMS'd me to call them back at (mobile,home,work...) DONE!!!!
On my STORM...
What do I have to do???
1)Exit the SMS.
2)Go to the contacts
3)Look up the person (we all know how long that takes to do with no flick scrolling)
4)Select the number of the contact to call them on (home, mobile...)
5)Hit send
Lol at this, you just answered all of the above with the next paragraph
This is ridiculous!!!!!!!
BTW. There is a shortcut. If you call it that. When on the recieved SMS screen you can hover your finger over the contact's name. Then click it (you won't know if you did it right or not because there is no indication that it has been selected). Then open the menu, and OMG there is an option to call that contact.
Mine gives me the blue highlighted bar...
I left out the best part....
Try to do this while your driving. Good luck and I hope you have Air Bags.
Isnt it against the Law to use a phone while driving ? Surely pressing BB key and call contact isnt hard to do with one hand. Even if you are using handsfree.
I am hating my Storm more and more each day. The apps are nice and though I have done my fare share of leaked OS installs that were much better than .75, I'm an inch or so away from switching to another device. One I can actually use as to communicate with.
Not trying to be a d1ck or anything but come on. Think about it, your getting so fustrated because your lazy moaning about having to go a few extra steps which take what maybe literally 2seconds to do; saying its a poor communication device.
Bigggggggg +104-07-09 03:08 AMLike 0 - patches152BannedFYI...if you "touch" the caller ID info at the top of the sms, and hit "bb button" it will give you a menu option to "email/pin/call/sms/mms xxxxxxxx"
or you can just hit "send" and call that person...
anyway, we found nemo so the movie can end already04-07-09 03:13 AMLike 0 -
- for goodness sake its a cell phone not actual computer it has limits, why dont everybody that hate the storm so much strap a laptop on their side if you want it to be so damn fast and better and more perfect -i feel much better now04-07-09 10:34 AMLike 0
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Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com04-07-09 10:49 AMLike 0 - I knew there was a way to do this. I accidentally did it weeks ago, but couldn't figure it out the other day... It's kinda hit and miss on .113 on whether or not I'm actually selecting the contact. (Doesn't light up blue)
EDIT: It only lights up when there's not more than one message in the thread.Last edited by Joel S.; 04-07-09 at 11:25 AM.
04-07-09 11:19 AMLike 0 -
All is well, just play with your phone and figure it out more instead of ranting04-07-09 11:27 AMLike 0 - 04-07-09 11:30 AMLike 0
- Sweet.
I woke up and figured out that lots of posters on this forum are brainwashed.
For those of you incapable of noticing where I posted this thread let me remind you..... In the RANTS and raves section.
Unless someone removes the word RANT so all of the BRAINWASHED STORM owners can be the only ones that post... give it up. Everyone on here knows that this phone is not ripe. And as much as I HATE APPLE, and believe me I do, the iPhone blows this phone away and the very second that Verizon lowers their nose and accepts that fact I will be first in line to get one.(unless this phone is actually fixed by then)
I have a phone for a simple reason: to be able to communicate. (which is not so easy on this phone)
I also like having features and gadgets so it was an expected move to try this phone. The fact that I was compelled to, in the first week of ownership, learn how to upgrade OS's and a week or so later learn how to make my own Hybrid OS's is nothing more than proof that the phone is so unacceptable the way it comes out of the box.
As for the negative responses to my post... I guess you have the right to your opinions. (as brainwashed as they make you appear)
As for the responses to my post that suggest solutions to my issues....
that is why I made the post in the first place and thanks to each of you who feel my pain and took the time to suggest solutions. I thought that's what this place was for..... helping each other.
I have not completely given up yet but as I said "I'm about an inch away".
I want this phone to work not almost as good as the other phones I have had. It should blow away the others and it is up to us posters here to demand that VZW get their S**T together and release an offical OS NOW not in 5 or 6 more months from now. It's been 5 months. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS!!!!!! Vodaphone released a new OS the other night. I believe:
http://forums.crackberry.com/f86/950...nguage-180560/
VZW needs to do the same. We deserve it for all the crap we've been through.Last edited by rpmgsxr; 04-07-09 at 11:42 AM.
04-07-09 11:37 AMLike 0 -
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com04-07-09 11:38 AMLike 0 - Sweet.
I woke up and figured out that lots of posters on this forum are brainwashed.
For those of you incapable of noticing where I posted this thread let me remind you..... In the RANTS and raves section.
Unless someone removes the word RANT so all of the BRAINWASHED STORM owners can be the only ones that post... give it up. Everyone on here knows that this phone is not ripe. And as much as I HATE APPLE, and believe me I do, the iPhone blows this phone away and the very second that Verizon lowers their nose and accepts that fact I will be first in line to get one.(unless this phone is actually fixed by then)
I have a phone for a simple reason: to be able to communicate. (which is not so easy on this phone)
I also like having features and gadgets so it was an expected move to try this phone. The fact that I was compelled to, in the first week of ownership, learn how to upgrade OS's and a week or so later learn how to make my own Hybrid OS's is nothing more than proof that the phone is so unacceptable the way it comes out of the box.
As for the negative responses to my post... I guess you have the right to your opinions. (as brainwashed as they make you appear)
As for the responses to my post that suggest solutions to my issues....
that is why I made the post in the first place and thanks to each of you who feel my pain and took the time to suggest solutions. I thought that's what this place was for..... helping each other.
I have not completely given up yet but as I said "I'm about an inch away".
I want this phone to work not almost as good as the other phones I have had. It should blow away the others and it is up to us posters here to demand that VZW get their S**T together and release an offical OS NOW not in 5 or 6 more months from now. It's been 5 months. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS!!!!!! Vodaphone released a new OS the other night. I believe:
http://forums.crackberry.com/f86/950...nguage-180560/
VZW needs to do the same. We deserve it for all the crap we've been through.
If this was a simple question it shouldn't be in the form of a RANT.Last edited by Lowsol94; 04-07-09 at 01:06 PM.
04-07-09 12:29 PMLike 0 - I WORK vw store more then likely the BES problem is the data package if you have the smaller one you cant wireless sync. and secondly if you can use a desktop then the storm is a breeze, so by the longwinded reponse and whining you're doing, i mean "ranting" you have no problem with a desktop. and also try closing stuff before you just hit end i have seen sooo many people come in with a slow blackberry because they have 20 things still runnning. so from what i see its the user not the phone04-07-09 12:43 PMLike 0
- To the OP- all this thread has proven is that you are incompetent and cannot even operate even the most basic functions of your phone. Several people have told you how to do what you couldn't as outlined in your silly rant. If you actually have a point to make I suggest you do it soon. Or just shut your yap and learn something instead of spouting off a bunch of nonsense and criticizing the device for not being able to perform a simple task......that it can do easily.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com04-07-09 12:59 PMLike 0 -
- That doesn't mean it is smart or safe. In my area a woman just got sentenced to 6 years in jail for causing an accident and killing someone while texting and driving.04-07-09 01:52 PMLike 0
- man up and face the fact that expecting a cell phone to be more than that is idiotic - warning do not try insult me again04-07-09 01:58 PMLike 0
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