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Update on Verizon Wireless Samsung i730 Pocket PC Phone

27th October 2006

Update on Verizon Wireless Samsung i730 Pocket PC Phone

posted in Gadgets, Technology, Windows Mobile / Pocket PC |

i730I wrote earlier about problems I have been having with my Samsung i730 Smart Phone from Verizon Wireless. I have been trying to back it up but I have not figured out how to do it yet. In the previous versions of ActiveSync, there was a feature to backup your device from there. It seems that the backup feature is no longer a part of the latest version of ActiveSync (4.1.0). I tried to see if there is a utility on the device itself but I cannot find any. Apparently after I upgraded the thing to Windows Mobile 2005, the included backup utility Sprite Backup got wiped out.

So now it seems there is no way to backup my phone without buying a backup utility. Don’t you just love it.

I am sure I will get to backup the device some day so I can go ahead and get a replacement from Verizon but for now I seem to have fixed most of the problems myself by removing my 2GB Secured Digital card from the phone. I do remember reading somewhere that Samsung only recommends not using SD cards over 1GB in capacity. Argg! There goes my plan for using the i730 as a music player as well! Perhaps this is my excuse for getting a separate mp3 player :-) .

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There are currently 3 responses to “Update on Verizon Wireless Samsung i730 Pocket PC Phone”

  1. 1 On October 27th, 2006, Chinh Do » Blog Archive » Samsung i730 Problems said:

    [...] Update on Samsung i730 [...]

    posted on October 27th, 2006 at 3:16 am

  2. 2 On November 15th, 2006, cdo said:

    Update… I decided that I don’t really need to back up the phone because the important data is already on my desktop computer. I called Verizon Wireless again and after VZ guided me through the hard reset process, the phone seems to be working better. I have not had the backlight issue anymore since the hard reset.

    posted on November 15th, 2006 at 2:55 pm

  3. 3 On September 1st, 2007, Watch Live TV on Your Windows Mobile Phone/Pocket PC » Chinh Do said:

    [...] able to listen to the news while driving around, or even while at the beach. I have found that my Samsung i730 Windows Mobile phone, in conjunction with the unlimited EDVO data plan from Verizon Wireless, let [...]

    posted on September 1st, 2007 at 1:59 am

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