Vodafone Smart ultra 6 Owners Thread- apps, tips & tricks

Alanstrainor

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Its a great phone, good camera, excellant battery stamina but I'm thinking of selling mine and going back to my faithful galaxy note now I got a battery for it, just so I get get some finances back, some big bills coming into the house at the moment I got to pay! Where would be a good place to try sell it without losing too much if I were to sell it? CEX would give a pittance, adverts.is is full of people wanting to give you rediculous offers on stuff or just time waste and not serious about buying and eBay charge commission, I suppose that leaves done deal I suppose. Anyone know of another good selling site or have an idea what price I should put it up for?

I'd have to wonder if it makes any sense at all selling. These phones are cheap to buy brand new (150€ on amazon + unlock). So you might get 100 for it, which I'm not sure will go very far in terms of bills etc...

Pangea

How do you delete the vodafone message plus app?

DopeTech

Pangea wrote: »

How do you delete the vodafone message plus app?

Can't uninstall it without root access if I remember correctly, you can disable it though and set another app as your default messaging app.

Pangea

Few Qs

How do you get rid of the vodafone bloatware?
Is there any way to have app list in order by most used?

Im also having trouble at the moment setting up my eircom email with email app.

honda boi

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Its a great phone, good camera, excellant battery stamina but I'm thinking of selling mine and going back to my faithful galaxy note now I got a battery for it, just so I get get some finances back, some big bills coming into the house at the moment I got to pay! Where would be a good place to try sell it without losing too much if I were to sell it? CEX would give a pittance, adverts.is is full of people wanting to give you rediculous offers on stuff or just time waste and not serious about buying and eBay charge commission, I suppose that leaves done deal I suppose. Anyone know of another good selling site or have an idea what price I should put it up for?

Looking to pick this phone up soon. Let me know how much u selling for

Alanstrainor

Pangea wrote: »

Few Qs

How do you get rid of the vodafone bloatware?
Is there any way to have app list in order by most used?

Im also having trouble at the moment setting up my eircom email with email app.

You can disable the vodafone apps. Go into settings/Apps and find the apps you dont want any more, and just click on them and hit disable.

I use Nova launcher which has features to keep your most used apps at the top of the app drawer list. However, you should just put them on your desktop tbh...

Pangea

Alanstrainor wrote: »

You can disable the vodafone apps. Go into settings/Apps and find the apps you dont want any more, and just click on them and hit disable.

I use Nova launcher which has features to keep your most used apps at the top of the app drawer list. However, you should just put them on your desktop tbh...

Great thanks for that.

Is there a way of getting apps to install to SD by default?

Pangea

Which sms app does everyone use here? the Blue Messenger or the green message app? Bit odd that theres two.
Three if you include the vodafone one.

Alanstrainor

Pangea wrote: »

Which sms app does everyone use here? the Blue Messenger or the green message app? Bit odd that theres two.
Three if you include the vodafone one.

I use messenger. I don't like the green, hangouts app.

eman66

Any way of getting an unlock code without a PayPal acc?

DopeTech

eman66 wrote: »

Any way of getting an unlock code without a PayPal acc?

Give a mate with a PayPal account €3! Or try your local Chinese phone shop but you'll pay more.

PurvesGrundy

I got this phone today in the post. It's little use to me until I get a nano sim, which will be a couple of days arriving from 48go. It's a crap situation as my old phone is broken and now I am un-contactable.

By the way, does anyone know the best way of opening the sim tray on these without doing any damage?

crabbypaddy

PurvesGrundy wrote: »

I got this phone today in the post. It's little use to me until I get a nano sim, which will be a couple of days arriving from 48go. It's a crap situation as my old phone is broken and now I am un-contactable.

By the way, does anyone know the best way of opening the sim tray on these without doing any damage?

Theres a pin tool in the box to open it. Nano is easy enough to cut with a decent scissors, scalpel or stanley knife. Plenty of templates online. its roughly 9mm x 12mm if you cut it too large you can sand off the last few tenths of a milimeter. http://www.gosoftworks.com/GoSoftWorks/NanoSIM_files/nanosima4.pdf

PurvesGrundy

I also purchased the unlock code that was given in the initial post on this thread. Does this only arrive during normal working hours into your message box?

Andy From Sligo

Pangea wrote: »

Which sms app does everyone use here? the Blue Messenger or the green message app? Bit odd that theres two.
Three if you include the vodafone one.

I use handcent, (well its called Next SMS now on play) with the SGS3 skin - great app, and can have repeating notifications amongst other features - much better than supplied stock app

Andy From Sligo

i cut up my sim card with a pair of scissors to nano, but now im thinking of selling my smart ultra 6 - I got a battery for my old samsung galaxy note .... so then had to get an adaptor from nano to mini sim so I could use the cut up sim to use in my galaxy note phone - I wish all phones would keep the same blasted SIM size especially these bigger phones why do they need a bleeding nano sim if they are a big size phone anyway? - its not as though the phone isnt big enough to take a standard size SIM !

PurvesGrundy

Managed to cut my SIM to shape perfectly and phone is up and running, so thanks everyone. Just one or two more questions; firstly, how do you edit APN settings to enable your data?

Also, the phone informed me that I am 'roaming' and I am wondering is there something I need to do to change this?

_Kaiser_

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

I use handcent, (well its called Next SMS now on play) with the SGS3 skin - great app, and can have repeating notifications amongst other features - much better than supplied stock app

I used to be a big handcent fan but it just became increasingly slow and bloated with each update These days I'm using Textra

While it doesn't have all the same features it's much faster and worth the few quid (IMO) to get rid of the ads if you stick with it.

shanemkelly

I had this problem a few months ago but it disappeared of its own volition, unfortunately it's back now.
It happens when bluetooth is active (and not necessarily when it's connected to any paired device) and is especially annoying when connected via bluetooth. Firstly I get the following message;

Unfortunately, the process
com.android.bluetooth has stopped

If I ignore the message, bluetooth connectivity will continue for a short while but eventually disconnects & then reconnects.
If I "OK" the message, bluetooth disconnects immediately and then reconnects.

This could happen every 10-15 seconds.

Anyone heard of this?

I've restored the phone but it keeps happening.

shanemkelly

I had this problem a few months ago but it disappeared of its own volition, unfortunately it's back now.
It happens when bluetooth is active (and not necessarily when it's connected to any paired device) and is especially annoying when connected via bluetooth. Firstly I get the following message;

Unfortunately, the process
com.android.bluetooth has stopped

If I ignore the message, bluetooth connectivity will continue for a short while but eventually disconnects & then reconnects.
If I "OK" the message, bluetooth disconnects immediately and then reconnects.

This could happen every 10-15 seconds.

Anyone heard of this?

I've restored the phone but it keeps happening.

Edit: BTW, I'm using the phone as purchased, i.e. no ROM mods etc...

digitaldr

Chomp SMS all the way!

Pangea

Got this phone for my father but We have noticed that some people arent geting his text messages, and it says delivered on the message too. Contacted vodafone and they resetted his sms profile, but it happened again today.
Im beginning to think its something to do with the phone?

Pangea

Got this phone for my father but he noticed that some people arent getting his text messages, and it says delivered on the message too. Contacted vodafone and they resetted his sms profile, but it happened again today.
Im beginning to think its something to do with the phone?

Pangea

Pangea wrote: »

Got this phone for my father but he noticed that some people arent getting his text messages, and it says delivered on the message too. Contacted vodafone and they resetted his sms profile, but it happened again today.
Im beginning to think its something to do with the phone?

Get him to try using a different SMS app, see if it's related to that

Pangea

Basil3 wrote: »

Get him to try using a different SMS app, see if it's related to that

Thanks I have a feeling this might be the cause He enabled the Vodafone plus app a week or two, but I have since disabled it incase that was the cause and I disabled the green SMS app, using the messenger the past few days but same problem

StereoSound

Im gonna be relieving myself of this phone soon. I've taken an interest in my oneplus 2 now so I'll have my ultra on adverts soon. I'll put a heads up here first before I advertise it incase anyone is interested. I'd probably take €100 for it and its unlocked.

Pangea

Basil3 wrote: »

Get him to try using a different SMS app, see if it's related to that

Now that I think of it when we he started using vodafone messenger plus app some text messages were going into that app, and not into the other sms apps. Im sure the problem lies here somewhere.

DopeTech

Pangea wrote: »

Now that I think of it when we he started using vodafone messenger plus app some text messages were going into that app, and not into the other sms apps. Im sure the problem lies here somewhere.

Well that would be because they will only go into whatever your default app is.

Have him try google messenger as the default sms app in case its anything hangouts related. Are the people that are not getting messages from him on a different network?Is it intermittent? Are they getting some messages from him?

Pangea

FrostyJim wrote: »

Well that would be because they will only go into whatever your default app is.

Have him try google messenger as the default sms app in case its anything hangouts related. Are the people that are not getting messages from him on a different network?Is it intermittent? Are they getting some messages from him?

Yes its the messenger he has been using the past few days, didnt realise it was a google app. He sent a text this morning to a fellow vodafone number was not recieved by the reciever, it seems to be intermittent, as a few texts later on were recieved ok. So yes they are getting some messages from him.

Google hangouts? Just had a look and signed out of that, didnt realise it was running.

DopeTech

Pangea wrote: »

Yes its the messenger he has been using the past few days, didnt realise it was a google app. He sent a text this morning to a fellow vodafone number was not recieved by the reciever, it seems to be intermittent, as a few texts later on were recieved ok. So yes they are getting some messages from him.

Google hangouts? Just had a look and signed out of that, didnt realise it was running.

Is data roaming on?