920SH Owners' Thread!

Originally Posted by riel

Your battery might be totally drained. Plug it into the wall charger until the red light goes out, then try again.

Originally Posted by markol

the seller forgot to send the charger that i bought T.T

Originally Posted by markol

COOL IT TURNS ON NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my dad thought of an ingenious way to boot up the battery.. he used another charger that was same voltage.. and used a positive/negative wire and put one end to the charger and the other end to the ends of the battery..

it got enough charge to boot up the phone.. and now i'm charging through usb =)


... but the sim hack i got is kinda weird.. he told me it was a hyperSIM.. but it came in one of those PSS sim paper case things... and on the back it says 256M... which from what i heard.. it's a pirated version?........ i think i got jipped

Originally Posted by KBoardBox

Buyer beware....

Remember, currently it's the iNEX HS128 chip that we want on our SIM hacks.

Originally Posted by johnmoon

My PSS got the inex hs128, its written in really small letters

Originally Posted by markol

actually they posted on their website that they've been using the 128 cards before... but have been having problems with dropped calls, etc... so they said that they started looking for another solution.. which is the 256 one that they sell now... they know that people claim this to be the "pirated" version.. but he claims he hasn't had any customers complain about any problems.. so they've been selling that until now...

btw.. do you guys notice that your signal bars keep jumping occasionally from 1 bar to 3 bars to 2 bars, etc...??

also.. there's a briefcase next to the signal icon on my phone.. but i've already done a "reset all" and it's still there.... ?

Originally Posted by riel

Try doing this:
Settings -> Network Settings -> Select Service -> Manual -> GSM

Since you're in Toronto, you don't need the 3G. This will save you batteries, and also this change in network might get rid of the briefcase.

Originally Posted by riel

The signal bar issue is probably only because you are receiving signals from Rogers only on the 1900MHz band, and not the 850MHz, which is the cause of the unstableness.

The briefcase is a symbol of roaming. Don't worry about that.

Originally Posted by m0shim0shi

hi everyone,

i got a brand new 920sh in black ^^
anyone interested?

Originally Posted by markol

yeah, i've already done that.. but it's still there =/.. oh well

Originally Posted by KBoardBox

Restart the phone. The briefcase disappeared for me after I did that.

Originally Posted by aw614

dummy phone on a dock lol

Originally Posted by Manchungster

Anybody know of a place in Sydney, Australia that I might be able to pick up a 920sh?

Originally Posted by KBoardBox

Yeah, there's another free one that "printing" lol

Originally Posted by 4x4xfar

somebody (the bay area) states that with 3g network, his hypersim is able to unlock all functions on the 920sh!!! Can somebody confirm that...
Is there a 3g network in Montreal with rogers??

Thanks, waiting for my black 920sh from Kuro, but it takes for ever to come in this village....

Cheers,

Eric

Originally Posted by Reevsaj

Could you pay for some of them if you wanted to? or is it Japan only?

Originally Posted by 4x4xfar

somebody (the bay area) states that with 3g network, his hypersim is able to unlock all functions on the 920sh!!! Can somebody confirm that...
Is there a 3g network in Montreal with rogers??

Thanks, waiting for my black 920sh from Kuro, but it takes for ever to come in this village....

Cheers,

Eric

Originally Posted by Shindokaku

Hi, I've been thinking of getting a 920SC, but I have a few questions before I make my purchase. I'd like to know whether or not this works in the GTA area. Specifically on the Fido service. I'm on a prepaid, so I also want to know whether or not it works with GSM sim cards. I understand that you would need the HyperSim to unlock the features, but I am wondering if the basic functions such as the phone, caller ID, texts, camera, video, etc. are available, or if it would be needed to use the phone. I really want this phone for the 5mp camera, so any information before i drop the money for this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Shin

Originally Posted by SeedDestinys

btw i got a respond fromt he seller, "Hi, it is fully unlocked the frequency" when i asked if its fully unlocked.

Originally Posted by SeedDestinys

btw i got a respond fromt he seller, "Hi, it is fully unlocked the frequency" when i asked if its fully unlocked.

Originally Posted by KBoardBox

lol wtf? Engrish.com much? hahaha Sounds like he means that voice calls are fully unlocked on all frequencies (dependent on network, of course).

Originally Posted by gunadz

So yeah...

Is it sad that I haven't even gotten my 920sh yet and I'm already jumping up and down for accessories for it?

BTW, does anybody know anything about the SHEBG1 desktop charger? I'm trying to get my hands on one... but the only one on eBay is like 50 bucks.

Originally Posted by gunadz

Ah... I wish Rinkya were cheaper. 40 bucks for a 10 dollar item... plus shipping? Ugh. Makes me want to cry.

Originally Posted by gunadz

So yeah, my Chinese skills aren't up to par... Does anybody know if anything new has come out of that blueshow forum regarding a software unlock?

Originally Posted by yangj08

Nothing new except for the fact that apparently additional hardware is required to access the internet settings menus, and this software "partial unlock" is approaching release. Oh, and someone is apparently saying that there will be a mainland China release of the 920SH (and even a model number- SH9010C- I'm still skeptical), but that's not really relevant.

Originally Posted by gunadz

Well, the partial unlock is good news then... right?

Originally Posted by SeedDestinys

i too is a bit skeptical about the sh9019c, china just doesn;t have the majority market, and everyone in china is about nokia. also i don;t think theres a 3g network or at least even if there were, its shanghai and beijing. but after saying all this, the olympic is coming up and it might be possible for a sh9010c because the olympic could possibly open up a market for mobile tv in the chinese mobile industry.

Originally Posted by kurokun21

http://bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Prod...?ProductID=4837

It is true

Originally Posted by riel

I've heard that awhile ago too.. that China is all about Nokia. As yangj08 just said, it is not true, but is it still the majority? What kind of Nokia's do they use? N-series or lower end models?

Originally Posted by yangj08

BTW- on Blueshow (the Chinese forum sometimes referred to here) a few people are noticing that 920SH phones made in 2008 are showing "中国製" ("made in China"). Never thought that Sharp would outsource production of a "flagship" phone to China.

Originally Posted by yangj08

Most of the Nokias I see are either N-series or cheap, bargain-basement models. It appears that for the middle end most people prefer other brands.

BTW- on Blueshow (the Chinese forum sometimes referred to here) a few people are noticing that 920SH phones made in 2008 are showing "中国製" ("made in China"). Never thought that Sharp would outsource production of a "flagship" phone to China.

Originally Posted by SeedDestinys

SH9010C
Phone
Tri-band GSM Dual mode Mobile Phone
Company Sharp Corporation
Company URL http://www.sharp.co.jp/
Geographic Availability Asia, North America
Support URL


question for yangj

on the site you posted i says that the sh9010c is also going to be available in north america, do you think thats is actually possible that sharp is expanding into the north american market?

Originally Posted by SeedDestinys

SH9010C
Phone
Tri-band GSM Dual mode Mobile Phone
Company Sharp Corporation
Company URL http://www.sharp.co.jp/
Geographic Availability Asia, North America
Support URL


question for yangj

on the site you posted i says that the sh9010c is also going to be available in north america, do you think thats is actually possible that sharp is expanding into the north american market?

Originally Posted by SeedDestinys

but if its gonna be made in china is it a bad thing for us. cuz i am guessing whether the unlock would be easier for the chinese hackers. cause you know how the chinese do business.

Originally Posted by riel

Hmm seems like it, but can we be sure that's a picture taken of a 920SH? Since we can't see anything besides the screen.

Originally Posted by yangj08

I'm almost sure that's not a 920SH. I'm guessing it's one of the Chinese models that's about to come out (SX862/SX-T92/SH9010C). Dunno which one, though (SX862 is due to be out in March -promotional materials coming out on the 4th- so it's most likely that one).

Originally Posted by tk_chan

is that anyway i can turn off that "latest provisioning and update" option in 920SH? its annoying every time i press menu, it always pop up

Originally Posted by johnmoon

Once you see the msg gone, then thats the time 920sh price will go sky-rocket
and we will be able to use every features in it like 904sh except gprs / mms

Originally Posted by gunadz

So... I just got my 920sh and had a real scare. I applied my hypersim to my card (cut the hole out ofr the chip etc etc... But after I inserted it, the damned thing refused to come out and I had to grib it by the chip on the card X-x

Anybody have any recommendations for what I should do? I don't want to break my hypersim!

Originally Posted by vengence_angels

i wanna do a video ringtone for my 920sh..

anyone out there knows how to do it?..

Originally Posted by AL9999

That pic Yang posted up there is almost certainly a Chinese version of the 920SH... I've gone through it and key features from the JP version - user dictionary and software update - are missing, while the menu is only three tabs (connectivity missing, probably on the main menu replacing something like FeliCa).

Look forward to the 4th.

Originally Posted by AL9999

I don't think Canada uses FeliCa anywhere, that's why your phone didn't respond when you tried it.

I do think it's a longshot Sharp would've kept the FeliCa technology in the phone. There has to be much widespread support from all the key players in the field for the technology to practically work, not just from Sharp. In HK's case you'd need SmarTone-Vodafone's support and you'd need the support of the transport operator who runs that Octopus card system. Even in Japan, it was JR East who developed the Suica card system, and its adjoining Mobile Suica keitai counterpart, not Sharp or any of the operators.

I don't think the world is going to see m-commerce on the scale of Japan's osaifu keitai (mobile wallet) level until NFC gets off the ground. They just announced yesterday or the day before that NFC has finally been approved on as a standard, so we should at last see some of this stuff take off. NFC is backwards compatible with both MIFARE (Europe's system) and FeliCa, so NFC enabled phones should work with the HK Octopus card system, amongst other things.

Originally Posted by Dark.eeyore

I haven't done a really througal indepth test. I can tell you that the suica system and the octopus system are different. I have both cards and I tried. HongKong couldn't read the suica card at all and Japan couldn't read the octopus card at all.

It may be possible to get the phone to work with octopus but you are going to have a few problems.
1. the media lock
2. probally a lot of programing manipulation to change the suica to octopus
3. something else somewould would know better than me.

Just my two and a half cents.

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now about me. Got my 920sh in a really nice brush steel; makes me feel like i'm driving a rolls royce phantom - without actually having to be pompus. The screen quality is jaw droping. I use it as a picture viewer. Plus being able to type japanese really motivates me to learn the language. i noticed that most japanese phones have an English to Japanese (and vice versa) dictionary. I couldn't find one on the 920sh. It has a user dictionary, but that is just a record of common japanese words people type; especially in translating it to kanji.

Does anyone know if it is possible to put in a English to Japanese Dictionary in the tools?

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about pss sims. Could someone clarify this for me. with a pss sim I can't run 3g, nor mms, nor modern sim cards. I am being told that the modern sim cards run a higher voltage and the pss sims can't keep up with the increased voltage. Can anyone clarify or verify this for me? Or did I just get a crappy pss sim with my 920sh?

thanks guys

Originally Posted by chokonen888

I used to be on here when I got a 902SH waaay back in the day, had a 904SH until today (was in Los Angeles but living in Tokyo now) and being in Japan, had to upgrade...add another 920SH user to the list.

BTW, wtf is up with Softbank and that BS monthly keitai fee for their new phones. Would have been like $400~$900 to get one direct whereas I got mine off Yahoo for $200...when I was in the shop today transferring my data from my 904, I asked them and the only answer they could come up with was if my phone breaks, they won't replace/fix it for free...will hell, by the time this thing breaks, I'll want to buy a newer model anyways.

Originally Posted by riel

Which carrier are you with Dark.eeyore?

Originally Posted by chokonen888

BTW, wtf is up with Softbank and that BS monthly keitai fee for their new phones. Would have been like $400~$900 to get one direct whereas I got mine off Yahoo for $200...when I was in the shop today transferring my data from my 904, I asked them and the only answer they could come up with was if my phone breaks, they won't replace/fix it for free...will hell, by the time this thing breaks, I'll want to buy a newer model anyways.

Originally Posted by KBoardBox

Doesn't sound normal to me lol...reminds me of the Jewish Sabbath phone that shuts off on Saturdays...haha

Originally Posted by KBoardBox

Aww, I'm not quite right, but here it is lol:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/...osher-phon.html

Originally Posted by KBoardBox

Aww, I'm not quite right, but here it is lol:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/...osher-phon.html

Originally Posted by jon_jai

dats soo cool
so u plug that thing to an outlet to charge it?

Originally Posted by markol

you plug the phone's wall charger into the bottom of the thing to charge

there's actually a solar-powered charge version too.. but it doesn't last as long as this one on one charge

Originally Posted by SeedDestinys

o man thats cool, how much u got ti for and where?

Originally Posted by slardar

Wide Screen Movie (Lord of the Ring) on the 920sh!! Freaking awesome!

Originally Posted by yangj08

How did you do that? Or are you borrowing an active USIM?

Originally Posted by johnmoon

To all: thats a picture nice one slardar

Originally Posted by slardar

sorry, just a small joke. its just a picture

my 920sh is just like any 920sh out there, absolutely not media-unlocked yet.

just to cheeer everyone up!

Originally Posted by AL9999

Probably annoyed more people than cheered up...

Originally Posted by johnmoon

I will get the 920SH HK ver. when its available...
just cant stand with a with AMAZING screen that cant do anything but display wallpapers

*still missing my three 920sh's...my babies*

Originally Posted by slardar

Please accept my sincere apology if i offended anyone

Originally Posted by slardar

is the sh905i a worthy contestant of the 920sh? is its screen as good as the 920sh?

Originally Posted by slardar

3.2" or 3" they are both awesome! compared to the tiny Notia and all other normal phones

i wonder whats the screen sizes of the next generation of jap fones be like..
3.2" is already very huge for a phone as big as the 920sh..

Originally Posted by thasheik

5" with 1080P resolution

Originally Posted by slardar

lol maybe the psp will become a cell phone in the future. Haha..

Originally Posted by slardar

lol maybe the psp will become a cell phone in the future. Haha..

Originally Posted by thasheik

Originally Posted by kisske

hmm..seems pretty bland to me.
Even the colour is boring lol..And what's up with the keypad having only single letters on them??

Originally Posted by yangj08

And now, the moment you've been waiting for- the WX-T92.

Notice that TV's been dropped and replaced by SIM Toolkit (poster in that thread says there's no antenna on the back but another says that the TV function's being worked on and that the picture is of a preproduction model). Oh, and you just get a (relatively) boring cream color only. (Actually, it's pink, but much lighter than the Softbank version).

Release date? August/September is what people are throwing around. Hope Smartone-Vodafone's a bit quicker than that.

Originally Posted by aw614

maybe video through 3g/hspda?

Originally Posted by riel

I think I am one of the most consistent 920SH users here, and last night I had the scariest surprise from my phone ever since I got it in mid-January: Insert USIM-MEP

The wallpaper jumped back to the default iceberg and plane pictures.

Turned the phone off, turned it back on; back to normal.

Hope it stays this way.

Originally Posted by AL9999

Well that's interesting, enlightening to see those pictures.

So for the WX-T92, digital TV doesn't exist at all; the antenna's been removed. Instead, 3G streaming? Well, I guess if they've already got (what they think is) a decent mobile TV over 3G offering, it isn't half bad because it can be around the same quality as 1seg anyway. SmarTone seems to be doing QVGA streaming now apparently, so maybe FarEasTone is either doing it or planning to do it too.

But, a release 5-6 months away? Are you sure? The phone's already been approved by the FCC more than a month ago, so if they make major changes to it they're going to have to resubmit their application to them.

Not to mention in 5-6 months the 920SH/SX862/WX-T92 is going to be a year old already.

Originally Posted by slardar

yeah i was unable to register too. seems interesting. lol..

those official free themes kinda sucks. lol

Originally Posted by KillTime111

wonder when the site will let people register again.. mEh.
yea the offcial ones are kinda.. bland HahAh, i find myself switching from 'pop up wind' and 'space opera', and occasionally 'picnic'.

i found this thing that shows how to write your own thf files.. but cant find the right coding to do so.. maybe if can get the One-Piece one then can figure out.

Originally Posted by slardar

those cheaper ones are probably the "fake" ones. not that reliable perhaps. but if its a good deal, i will try them anytime

Originally Posted by slardar

if i read correctly, due to some restriction of the unlock, it is not released yet

1) users have to get that special card (at 3:17 of the video. i dont know what is it, looks like a normal simcard) which cannot be used on another phone. (as demonstrated in the video where the other 920sh is still media locked when the card is placed in)

2) users should not plug in the battery and switch on the phone when the special card is not in it.

3) users should not do a master reset on the phone

for point number 1, it seems like it is 1 card per phone and the card cannot be used in other 920sh (media functions will still be locked)
If t
sorry for my bad english

Originally Posted by 903_rulez

by watching the video - YESSSSSS its unlocked it looks like u need two 920sh to do it, man does it look like i have to fork out some more cash hope not

Originally Posted by yangj08

If anyone's interested, here's some photos of the HK version, the SX862. Better or worse than WX-T92?

Take a look at the specs too.

Originally Posted by johnmoon

Reevsaj: it should, theres really no special features on 920sh compare to 903sh other than 1seg
(I mean software, not hardware wise)

-MP3 Play
-Media Player on 3.2" Aquos Screen
-MP3 ringtone maybe?

Im so getting it (will wait for for the price to be around 500~600CAD though)

Originally Posted by johnmoon

Reevsaj: it should, theres really no special features on 920sh compare to 903sh other than 1seg
(I mean software, not hardware wise)

-MP3 Play
-Media Player on 3.2" Aquos Screen
-MP3 ringtone maybe?

Im so getting it (will wait for for the price to be around 500~600CAD though)