gkamieneski's Posts

Phone was left to charge overnight and never moved above 90%.  It has always done so before after 3 or 4 hours of charging.  Given that my 1st Kin TwoM also suffered from power problems, I seriously doubt that this model will last for contract life.

Here is an update to the Kin TwoM battery problem I was having.   VZW sent a new battery and I put it in the phone and successfully charged to 100%.  However, the phone would come on but shut right off.  Obviously a short somewhere and in my opinion it was either in the slider or the back button.  Sometimes I could get it to stay on but then hit the back button and it would immediately shut down.  When they said they were sending the battery, VZW said if that doesn't work, we'll send out a "new phone".  So when I called again with no success from the new battery, the new tech support person said they would send out a "new phone".     Well the new phone turned out to be a FRU and when I called to complain that they said they were sending a "new phone" and that I had only activated the Kin TwoM originally on 12/1/2010, they said they were only obligated to provide a new phone within 30 days.  The RFU is working now as it should, but I feel I was lied to and my expectations were that I would be supplied a "new phone" not a FRU with a history of someone else's problems.  If my Dell laptop died a month after receipt, I would expect a new replacement.  Given the trouble that my first Kin TwoM gave, I don't have much confidence in this FRU.  I can only hope that it will make it to contract end so that I can change carriers ASAP!  VZW has demonstrated quite well that they do not deserve my business.

Best that you know that turning the roaming off will not stop you from using data from VZW.  You need to request a data block either directly or do it yourself.  You can also disable data from the service menu.

I believe people are making this phone harder to use than it really is.  Just go to the Settings tile, select EMAIL, then under accounts select Gmail.  Other pre-configured choices are Windows Live and there is an Add Account choice.  Numerous posts here and on the Microsoft Answers forum have given the link to the Kin TWOm manual.

Make sure you are shaking hands with the correct protocol.  It is possible to be using WPA2 (AES) on the router while trying to use WPA-PSK on the Kin.  Some routers can help out by supporting the combination of the two at the same time.   If the problem is past the password handshake, i.e. unable to get an IP address or open webpages, consider increasing the number of leases your DHCP server is providing and look to make sure you are not employing MAC address security, or if you are, to act accordingly and add your Kin's MAC address to the table.

No, that's not it.  The one I am speaking of was like a portal with icon represented choices of new, sports, etc.  It was what you get when you first try the browser on the Kin.  Anyone not get far in their customization that still has this page?  Doesn't matter if you are blocking data and running WiFi only, this was the default home page.

If it helps at all, I can tell you I have data blocked from My Verizon and also from the service menu on the phone itself.  Neither seems to have an impact on my WiFi connectivity and I wouldn't expect it to.   Another thing I can tell you is that my take is that the antenna is very insubstantial on the Kin TWOm.  Going into a Borders bookstore I had to move around quite a bit until I got access and walking down a street the Kin doesn't pick up half the hotspots that my Windows Mobile phone or Ipod Touch did.

I know how frustrating these WiFi connectivity problems can be, but 9 times out of 10 it is not a hardware issue.  Not that this is your case, but sometimes people forget extra security measures they have in place.  Two that I can think of is the limit to the number of DHCP leases allowed by your router configuration (unable to find DNS server, made me think this may be the case) or explicit limitation of wireless devices to MAC addresses.  E.g., on my network the first thing I have to do to allow a new device to connect is to read the MAC address for the device and enter it into the router config.

Implementation of WEP really involves 4 encryption keys, so often WiFi devices have problems shaking hands with WEP.  I do agree with level 2 support that this is a problem for you or your internet provider to solve, but going to WPA is probably your best way to go.  You've already proved that the antennas and adapters work by connecting without security.   Having activated my Kin TWOm several times now as I activate a Moto Krzr K1m at times, I can tell you that online activation sometimes takes more than 1 try.  Sometimes I have to do the *228 thing more than once.  It is what it is....

Not too common to see WEP used anymore since 802.11b and it is nowhere near as secure as WPA or WPA2.  Try setting the router to one of these and the phone should be able to accommodate you with the same encryption.

I can tell you that there is no way that has been found yet to turn Data off on the Kin.  I can't speak to whether the phone defaults to WiFi first when available though.   The thing to do is to ask for a data block from Verizon or now you can do this yourself by going into My Verizon.  Thereafter, you can check your data usage on My Verizon to confirm.