The Unofficial Speak Out Wireless Canada Consumer Page - Topic: Samsung Gio - advice

Adrian on Samsung Gio - advice

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:56:04 -0700

Thank you Bridonca, I am not a heavy user, is more like for randomly calls now and then. I set up a price in my mind, for about $50. I will see the coming sales or maybe a future trip to US will help, if I browse for one of these suggested in the link.

Thank you iamdrumming, I will try to source one of those; I think they have been replace with the new model, as it does not show up on BB or FS...

Cheers

iamdrumming on Samsung Gio - advice

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:10:07 -0700

I bought a Plantronics M50 and love it. It's the best Bluetooth I've had so far.

bridonca on Samsung Gio - advice

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:11:29 -0700

I pretty much wrote off the Gio as a crappy phone, to be blunt. Seems to be the case for most low end Korean phones. Pretty impressive Android device for the price though. I honestly did not even bother with the speakerphone, mainly because I already had some decent bluetooth gear so I why waste my time with the Gio brick?

I have a drawer full of junky bluetooth headsets. That Motorola headset does not inspire confidence. A good one costs a fortune, but it is worth it. You can get them on sale every so often. I would wait for one of these. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/.....586,00.asp

Adrian on Samsung Gio - advice

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:25:27 -0700

Thank you Bridonca for the examples. Is your Gio having the same issue (low volume on the income calls when is on speakerphone)? Is this an issue with the Gio's?
As for the bluetooth, I am thinking to go with a much cheaper option:

http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/pr.....e63401en02

It will solve the low volume issue and for that price, I can't complain.

Cheers

bridonca on Samsung Gio - advice

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:34:12 -0700

I have personally success tested the bluetooth of the Gio on a Xlink-cell Bluetooth Gateway http://www.amazon.com/Intellit.....B000S1W7ES mainly because all brick phone suck as phones. I have also used the Gio with the BlueAnt Supertooth Light Bluetooth Speakerphone http://www.legitreviews.com/ar.....cle/546/1/

I could adjust the volume on with the BlueAnt, and also with the XLInk, with the right phone.

There might be a chance your Gio just does not like your car's bluetooth implementation.

Adrian on Samsung Gio - advice

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:52:03 -0700

Regarding the Gio, I am pretty happy with the phone, however there are couple of things that I would like to have a solution for,but I don't :
- no idea why when phone is on speakerphone the volume is so low?! I have the volume to the max, but still does not help; is there a solution for this?
- is there a way to connect the phone via bluetooth to the car speakers(similar to a TomTom ) ? So then the volume wouldn't be an issue?
- is there an app that can compensate and help with the above?

Thanks for your input!

Cheers,

rainforest on Samsung Gio - advice

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:03:30 -0700

Hi
My Samsung Gio is still having its screen black out so am selling it and making sure the buyer is aware of this condition. – will be posted on the buy sell

Thank you all for your kind help

rainforest on Samsung Gio - advice

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:03:53 -0700

Thank you Bridonca what i meant was under settings there is accessibility and under that there was something which said power key ends calls and i checked that box now
It say the power key to end calls when screen is on. This will not turn off screen.

i will see if this works i dont know how to get the apps from the play store.

Previously i went into securities and it said to set a password to keep the phone in the unlock mode. Thats why i asked you about it.

i know i had that same feature in my sony ericsson phone. and it asked for a password this way no one could get into your phone.

Thank you very much for all your kind help.

I have unlocked this phone and concerned if i download and dont do it properly i do not want to reset my phone to the original.
This has happened to me once before.
Thank you again

bridonca on Samsung Gio - advice

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:27:44 -0700

no lock is and app you can download for free at the play store, just search for no lock.

I am not sure what you mean by a password, no lock just gets rid of the slide to unlock screen, which I personally have no use for.

rainforest on Samsung Gio - advice

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:13:23 -0700

Bridonca - thank you i found the location and securities under settings.

Do i need to set up a password to keep it unlocked not sure i would remember the password later.

rainforest on Samsung Gio - advice

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:07:22 -0700

Thank you bridonca for your response.

Mind my ignorance where is the lock screen button, i have seen it in other phones - do we download a program? please let me know

appreciate your kind help - am not very good with cell phones

bridonca on Samsung Gio - advice

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 10:06:07 -0700

Not really a fix per se, but I use a program called no lock, which gets rid of the lock screen. so when it blacks out, it is just as simple as a button press to get it back running. I never did see much point of a lock screen anyway.

rainforest on Samsung Gio - advice

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:33:15 -0700

Hi
I was wondering if anyone has come across why samsung gio phone goes suddenly into a black screen.

I changed the screeen timeout to 2 mins .

Also when it goes blacked out i press the centre button to see if the screen comes back up but it does not and then i have to keep pressing the on/off switch to bring it back on.

Anything i can do to fix this problem
thank you for your time.

rainforest on Samsung Gio - advice

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:00:43 -0700

Chimpanzie "computer ? what has it anything to do with computer ?"

am not sure i explained myself well...

Thank you for your posts - rogers has call manager so one has to go online and do the blocking and as i could not even see the numbers on my screeen they said i should use chat and they wanted to do some remote viewing and wanted my permission to look into my computer as to why it is not allowing me to input the blocked nos.

They said i must do it online only

Yes it is a pity that we could not do it directly from our phone itself.

Thank you to you and WetCoastGuy for helping and the others on the forum

WetCoastGuy on Samsung Gio - advice

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:10:24 -0700

chimpanzee said:

not on my ray either. based on google, there are apps doing this(requiring root) so it is most likely not stock android feature.

just make you wonder how come a smartphone is not smart enough to have this basic feature, apple included. No wonder people keep on saying iPhone is just a computer with phone function tag on(i.e. who cares according to Jobs).

Looks like this feature is particular to certain flavors of Android by the phone manufacturer. I use a Samsung Galaxy W, which has it right out of the box and no need to install.

In versions prior to Android 2.2 you could add the number to Contacts, select the number and edit its information to automatically send calls or texts from that number to voicemail. Not sure whether your flavor of Android still has that option.

chimpanzee on Samsung Gio - advice

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:11:07 -0700

not on my ray either. based on google, there are apps doing this(requiring root) so it is most likely not stock android feature.

just make you wonder how come a smartphone is not smart enough to have this basic feature, apple included. No wonder people keep on saying iPhone is just a computer with phone function tag on(i.e. who cares according to Jobs).

chimpanzee on Samsung Gio - advice

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:04:15 -0700

computer ? what has it anything to do with computer ?

rainforest on Samsung Gio - advice

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:23:35 -0700

WetCoastGuy i tried but my phone does not have some features to block numbers

I also phoned my service provider as i have call manager which was added just yesterday, and they said to go on their chat website and they told me to give them permission to connect with my computer to see if anything is blocking these features

I did not feel comfortable and then they said that they would add the numbers - i do want to learn how to do it as much time is spent being on the phone with them

Anyway i will go to another computer terminal and try it out - perhaps my computer is blocking some info coming in. - as on my computer i cannot see the numbers being blocked.

Thank you again

rainforest on Samsung Gio - advice

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:48:48 -0700

WetCoastGuy - thank you i will try that am not sure what is an android phone and a smartphone all that i know it is a smartphone (i think) dont understand the hi-tech terminology.

Even this morning i got a call at 3.18 am it is international as i am sure they are - daytime.

i will try what you suggest and will write back.
thank you

WetCoastGuy on Samsung Gio - advice

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:05:54 -0700

rainforest said:

Thank you chimpanzee i phoned my service provider and after being on the phone for 1/2 hour she said she will do it for me – very kind but we got cut off – hopefully it is taken care off.

I thought that there may be other ways of doing it – as i have learnt alot from this forum.
thank you again

Assuming you are using an Android phone, you can add the number to your Contacts and then tap on Menu or Settings and select Add to blacklist. Voila, no more calls.

Some Android users need several other steps to get to the Add to Blacklist.

You have to go to Settings > Call > Call rejection > Auto reject mode, and finally set “black list”