sanyo 6400..*****een question...

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:58:20 GMT, "tmc" <[email protected]> wrote this
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>ok so i picked up one of the sanyo 6400's, sweet ass phone it is, a little
>bit longer then my 4900, but damn it's thin, im actually afraid to put in my
>back pocket in case i sit on it cause it might crack in half or something...
>
>anyways, signal strength seems a little less then my 4900, but better then
>the 8100 i had, im reluctant to update to prl 10019 from the 10017 that it
>has in it, cause it only seemed to make things worse for my
>4900...anyways...on to my question...
>
>anybody else notice when the backlight is on, i only seem to notice it when
>it's green, that the display fluctuates, like kinda dims on and off every
>second or so a little bit looks kinda like it's flickering, like when i make
>a phone call, or start using vision, i jus wondered if anyone else noticed
>this...or if it's a bad phone...also is the up arrow (the little circular
>pad in the top / middle of the phone) supposed to be not lit up, like it's
>not lit up at all, looks black actually and the rest is lit up fine...
>
>other then that everythings fine, just a couple little quirks i guess, for
>50 bucks i dunno how much i can really complain, fer a phone that was a
>couple hundred like a month ago...jus wanted some input, cause i hate going
>back to the sprint store, waitin in line, for an exchange or whatever...
>
>thanks...
>

That's normal, as my 6200 does the same thing. Mine seems to flicker
as you describe whenever it's communicating with the network (not all
the time, but it seems to flicker every couple of minutes or so when
idle (but not every two or three seconds when its talking to the tower
to see if it's being paged by the network). Also, I believe the
up-arrow key is just designed to not have a backlight associated with
it because mine, too, is that way, as was my old 6000 not too long
ago. So, in other words, you're phone is A-OK. And, what a deal for
fifty bucks! Good luck...

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tmc wrote:

> anybody else notice when the backlight is on, i only seem to notice it when
> it's green, that the display fluctuates, like kinda dims on and off every
> second or so a little bit looks kinda like it's flickering

My 6000 flickers too.

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:58:20 GMT, "tmc" <[email protected]> wrote:


>anybody else notice when the backlight is on, i only seem to notice it when
>it's green, that the display fluctuates, like kinda dims on and off every
>second or so a little bit looks kinda like it's flickering,

I haven't had any flickering problems with my 6400.

[email protected] wrote:
>>anybody else notice when the backlight is on, i only seem to notice it when
>>it's green, that the display fluctuates, like kinda dims on and off every
>>second or so a little bit looks kinda like it's flickering,
>
> I haven't had any flickering problems with my 6400.

It not very noticable under most lighting, I only notice it when
the room lighting is low. Actually, I never noticed it until
someone brought it up. That's for the Sanyo 6000.

My wife has a 6400. I still have an old Sanyo.
The problem that I have with her phone is that
the "font" (in computer terms) that it uses
draws the characters *so thin* that it is hard
to read. The characters on my old Sanyo are "normal"
width -- no problem reading.

Is there a way to change the font on a 6400?

I got this from the online manual at Sanyo's site:
http://www.sanyo.com/wireless/handse...ne_guide_e.pdf

There are four font size settings for the message notification and browser.
To change the font size, follow these steps:

1. From the Standby mode, press Menu OK to display the main menu.
2. Highlight Settings and press Menu OK.
3. Highlight Display and press Menu OK.
4. Highlight Font Size and press Menu OK.
5. Highlight either Notifications or Browser and press Menu OK.
6. Select your desired font size.
> Press [Preview] (right softkey) to display a font size example.
7. Press Menu OK to set the selected font.

Hope this helps.

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"ll" wrote in message...
My wife has a 6400. I still have an old Sanyo.
The problem that I have with her phone is that
the "font" (in computer terms) that it uses
draws the characters *so thin* that it is hard
to read. The characters on my old Sanyo are "normal"
width -- no problem reading.

Is there a way to change the font on a 6400?