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Sanyo 5300: Messaging and Voicemail Alert
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Posted by: ziptydo

I don't know anyone else with a 5300, so I'm hoping some of you might be able to help me with this.

I downloaded a tone that consists just of a single beep for voicemail and messaging alerts. Under Settings -> Sounds -> Alerts, I've set voicemail and messaging to once (as opposed to repeat alert or off). Whenever I get a text message of any sort, the tone goes off six times. Same with voicemail alerts.

Setting the alerts to "repeat alert" also results in the alert tone going off six times. I'm thinking that the phone is repeating the alert regardless of whether its set to once or repeat. Has anyone else had a problem with this?

Posted by: Aurora

Well...I'm thinking that the ringer, which is just one beep, keeps playing for several seconds. For example, it's kinda like one of the normal ringers...when the phone rings, it keeps ringing and ringing until the voicemail picks up... But since most of the ringers that come with the 5300 are long, it doesn't start over and over...

I take it the alert for voicemail and messages is played for several seconds, and if the ringer is really short and doesn't cover a time-span of several seconds (as would a normal ringer) it will play that ringer several times over that original time-span.

Then again I might have misunderstood your question... The repeat alert ringer on and off is to tell your phone whether or not to repeat the alert several minutes after (and this repeating several minutes after the last alert is done about 3 or 4 times) the original message alert is sent.

sry that my post is confusing...I tried my best.

Posted by: ziptydo

Aurora,

Thanks for the explanation... It makes better sense to me now. I thought the repeat option determined whether the alert tone would repeat or not during the initial alert. I didn't understand that it meant that the phone would sound the alert tone again a few minutes later.

The manual that came in the box doesn't say a lot about the phone, though someone directed me to the Sanyo site for a more thorough manual, so I'm going to go through that to see if there's more I haven't discovered.

Thanks again!

Posted by: Truehorn99

I think it is an over priced piece of ++++. The pictures are horrible and grainy. When you try to zoom it is evern worse. when you don't zoon they look to far away. ANyone else notice this? If not, tell me what I am doing wrong. Sprint took 3 weeks to activate my data and, the buttons are to small and don't light up enought. The A-500 is much better IMO, I liked the idea of the camera and being able to send pictures but I can't get that feature to work on mine either. I guess i need a support group

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Posted by: lgmayka

My photos look reasonably good even indoors without flash. With flash or outdoor, they look even better. Have you set the default resolution to High (480x640)? For an individual photo you can also set the Quality to Fine instead of Normal.

The zoominess of the lens is quite appropriate, I'd say, for the camera's presumed primary purpose: to take a photo of a new acquaintance across the dining table. ;-)

I agree that the buttons ought to light up a little more, as they do on the A500. Some people have actually changed the lamp (LED?) that lights the buttons, but I'm sure such surgery voids the warranty.

Why can't you send pictures? The best feature of the camera is the ability to *immediately* send a photo to an email address, to a Vision phone, or to the Pictures inbox on Sprint's Web site. What error are you getting?