Samsung SCH-A990

any experts out there that could help me out with this decision. i know the 990 is expensive, but money aside for a minute, which of these phones is the better phone?

sorry everyone, but i'm computer illiterate and any help would be appreciated. got two q's:

1) how do you transfer pics that were taken on the camera to a pc?

2) i tried sending my .qcp ringtone to my phone, but after i recieved it, i couldn't set it as my ring tone. it's just sitting in "my sounds", although i can't see it under "call ringtones" --> "my sounds".

any help would be greatly appreciated

Hey everyone, just bought a 1gb microSD card today, but when I try to take pics with the camera and save it directly to the card, it says "Trans Flash Not Present Save Failed", although the phone does recognize the card otherwise. Anyone have suggestions as to why this is?

I just purchased the 990, retiring the 970. the mp3 that worked on the 970 don't work on the 990. I spoke with Samsung today and they said that aac format should work but I haven't been able to get it to work. Anybody got any ideas?

1. Can you make custom ringtones without bitpim and GIN?

2. Can you play mp3s on the phone?

3. Can the phone play videos in 3gp format?

Thank you 🙂

I am eagerily waiting to get this phone at the end of August when I am eligible. However, my previous phone the v710 (which was replaced with E815), was very expensive when I first purchased it, but came down in price. I was wondering what time frame Verizon will have before they drop this phone's price. It seems that with the new Chocolate and motorola razr remake, it should bring the price down. Any ideas? Thanks.

How can anyone validate paying this much for a phone? It's not even PDA!!!!! I could understand if this was one of those SMART phones but come on!!! The camera is really not that much better than my 8000 or 8300 and the video quality is weak too. VZW I got two words for ya....

Whats the retail price gonna be on this phone if you want to buy it outright.
thanks if someone can let me know
jd

Why would you want to pay that much for a phone like that.. there is nothing special on that phone except for the camera. I have a kodak 4meg camera with 10X optical some and it did not cost me that much.. compare to the phone. If you have the lg 8300 or 8100 you can invest your money and buy one of those wallet size camera that fit in any pocket... they comes in 6mp.. And i can tell you that you will get much better pics when you are out with your friends at the club. But what i want to say is that there is no need to worry becuase that phone is not going to sell becuase you saw the first 2mp camera that verizon offer at the rediculas price... no body really own that phone.. i have seing several vzw phone out there on a daily basis but that...
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🤨 So I just got the phone yesterday in the mail and I just had it activated..So far its amazing..Im getting use 2 all the new things cuz I switched from a Nokia..Totally dif menu and more basic phone...This is really cool..2 many features I prolly wont use most of them..lol..But what matters 2 me is that it works good! I was just wondering if theres a way 2 voice record urself or create a ringtone from ur own voice? If any1 knows can they help me?

I just switched to the SCH-A990 from an LG VX700. With the LG, I could quickly switch to vibrate only and back to normal again by holding the * key for a few seconds. I cannot find such a shortcut with this phone, if I am missing it, please let me know.

Does this phone have a warning light? (that light that fashes on some phones every five seconds or when a phone is charged its green.)

I got a chance to use this phone at the VZW store and it's NOT worth $349 for new customers and especially not $519 full retail. Sure it's built great, the camera is excellent and it has a few gimmicky extras, but that does not make up for how truly boring this phone is. The QVGA screen is wasted on this garbage menu system. The entry level Samsung A630 has a more advanced interface than this phone. It really is a shame that there isn't even the flash UI on this phone. The A990 is truly powerful and has great potential, but it's sad to see how dumbed down it is. Hopefully there will be a non-Verizonized firmware leaked eventually which can make this phone into what it should be. If you're looking for THE phone, my advice is to wait a few mon...
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Can you light up the front lcd without oppening up the phone???

Not just this phone but other phones...
Does it matter to charge the battery to full the first time? Does this damage the battery in any way?
Just curious!!

It seems that I've read that 1) you have to pay verizon an extra $15 a month to use its music player, 2) The music player can only play .wma files. But 3) There is no headphone jack anyway.

Are any of these things true?

I would want to use this phone to listen to music, but not if it costs extra or there were no way to use headphones. Can anyone speak to that? And does the phone come with software that will convert your mp3s to wmas?

I had made this comment in an earlier post, but it's so frustrating, I thought I'd give it its own post. My old phone was a Sony Ericsson T610. It had its quirks, but I loved it. One thing it did which I now realize I'd taken for granted (since it was my first phone) was the fact that it knew where to route my calls: either through the bluetooth headset or through the handset. The a990 seems completely dumb in this regard. On my T610, if I answered a call using the button on the handset, the call would go through my handset. If I answered the call with the button on my bluetooth headset, it would route the call through my headset. I also had it set to ask me whenever I placed a call, where I wanted the call routed. I'd dial the numbe...
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The reception in my apartment is a little spotty, though its reception during my commute is enormously better as compared to my old T-Mobile phone: NO DEAD ZONE! Hooray! My (dumb) question is: is there some sort of thing I can install in my apartment to boost my signal, like some sort of mini relay antenna I can put on my porch? I'd like to be able to talk without losing calls (followed by 3 quick beeps) at home.

-hepcat

Does anyone have experience yet with synching your calendar, contacts, notes and photos between this phone and your PC?

I really like the form factor of this phone and it's 3.2mp camera but my real need is to synchronize data with my desktop.

I use Lotus Notes for my calendar, contacts and personal notes and have no illusions (well, maybe one small hopeful one) that this phone can synch with that but can it synch with anything? Will it synch via Bluetooth or by USB or both? What applications will it synch with; Outlook Express? Outlook? Other?

Is it easy to move photos stored in the phone's internal memory to the PC via cable or USB? Or do you really have to move them one by one to the card and put that in your PC?

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Hi,

This is my second ever cell phone and I switched from a T-Mobile Sony Ericsson T610. It's taking me awhile to get accustomed to the new interface and I have a few questions about things I can't figure out how to do. Maybe these are dumb questions, but these functions were extremely simple & intuitive on my old phone and I just can't figure out how to do them on the a990...

1. Can I make the alarms vibrate the phone? The only options I see are to set the phone to:

vibrate only (which still sounds alarms aurally)
alarms only
all sounds off

The alarm which goes off on vibrate only is the battery-low sound. I want to know when the battery is low, but I want the phone to be quiet at work!

2. How the heck do...
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