Nokia 6131 Review

It's learning little tips like this that make this forum so great! And also further my favorable impressions of this phone. The more I find little features like this, the more I love the 6131. I never held the power button for more than a sec when the screen is greyed out to discover this. When I'd get the "keypad locked" message, I'd just let up on the button. If I wanted to look at the info, I'd open the flip and wait for the keypad lock to unlock, then check the status info. Now I don't have to! While the screensaving info is nice (the minimalist info dimly floating around), I never found myself using it much, as the lighting was too dim, my eyes too bad, or just took too much concentration and effort. So this is definitely a plus! Thanks Charlyee :clap:

 

Aw man, 2 weeks with the phone without a vmi (voicemail icon) problem, and now I've had 2 problems in the past 3 days: the icons will not go away after I've deleted a voicemail.

I didn't think this would bother me when I heard of this problem, but it does. You never know if you have a new voicemail or not b/c the one won't go away. I have a Cingular 64k sim (living in TX).

Also (and it seems as though this occurs when I have the vmi problem), holding down the #1 key to check voicemail does *nothing.* It doesn't connect me to my voicemail.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm thinking of selling it & buying a 6126 from amazon. Has anyone heard if the 6126 has the vmi problem or not?

thanks in advance

 

I'm sure that you tried powering off the phone, etc. You might want to call Cingular and explain the problem. I had the same problem years ago, and they cleared the VM flag. I think this is a network problem related to the phone, so the 6126 probably will not help since it is not supported by Cingular either.

But try Cingular. They will not kill you for having the 6131. The fact that it worked before is a likely sign that this is a simple fix. People with VM issues, don't get any icon at all!

vf

 

Thanks for the replies viewfly & charlyee. I didn't know the problems were having to do with the icon not showing up. Hopefully ya'll are right, and this problem can be fixed then.

Yeah, the only solution right now, which is a pain, is leaving myself a voicemail & then deleting it. It deletes my vm along with the old icon. This is a rather annoying fix though.

I'll give Cingular a call Tuesday when I'm off. I've had this happen before also, and the problem eventually went away on its own I believe. I don't remember calling Cingular about it.

Thanks again guys. Ya'll are awesome!

 

Yes, I've had to do this everytime the past 3 days when someone leaves me a voicemail.

 

Hi,

Ok i have some questions about the nokia 6131 hope someone can help me ...my problem is with the bluetooth ....can motorola phones connect or send music files or even pics to the 6131 because i have one of these 6131's and anything i try to send i'm getting operation failed.....is it that moto's and the 6131 cannot send files to each other or is there something wrong with my 6131.........

so can someone plz help me

 

Okay, today my 6131 arrived 1 day early. So that is a great start I say, the phone is a nice phone and felt good in my hand. I like the rubberized edges and backing. I power on the phone and for some reason I could not get past 1 or 2 bars of signal strength, my 6230 seemed to do better than that.
I would have kept the phone and gave it a chance, but I am sending it back for the biggest issue which is customer service. I called Worldphone twice because the manual is in every language but English.
The first rep says to go to the Nokia site it is only 2 pages, yeah right how do you have a manual for a phone and be only 2 pages?
So I hang up I had much bigger issues going on today, I check the Nokia site and there is no 6131 on it there was a 6126 but the manual was 185 pages long which I am not printing out.
So I call back a second time and the other rep says they do not have the manual in English, I ask why they would send a phone to a USA address with a non English manual, she could not answer it. What was funny is she asked me what language it was in, I said everything but what I understand.:lmao:
Anyway I do not want to be long winded, but the bottom line is Worldphone is sabotaging a sale because they cannot fullfill a simple request.

 

Well, with a little convincing and much help and patience form a good friend I am going to give the phone a chance. I found the manual on the UK site of Nokia,so I can live with that.

 

I got the same result as you Charlyee, trying to send a 640 x480 photo from my V555 to the 6131. The BT made the connection, but the transfer failed.

However, I tried a BT transfer of a photo from the Nokia 6230 to Nokia 6131 and that worked.

Must be some protocol problem between the moto and nokia.

vf

P.S. I know both the moto and nokia phone BT photos fine to a PC. That may be a workaround for the poster: use he pc as an intermediate step to move files over. I've done this before because it is quicker.

 

Hello everyone.

I have a quick question. I have a Nokia 6126 and ever since Sunday night I've had the "voice message" yellow envelope icon displayed on my phone. I've checked my messages, but it still stays on the screen. Now what bugs me the most is that when I get a new message, it no longer notifies me! Now I am just stuck with this icon here and no way of knowing whether I actually have messages or not.

Can anyone help me? I used to have this problem with my old Nokia, but it would clear itself up once I received a new message. But I've had no such luck with my 6126.

Thanks!

 

I'm sure it's Halloween. Should be fixed by tomorrow. :wink:

 

See the postings by Maverick22 above. Same problem.

 

Good catch Charlyee, I missed that one. Yes, the VM icon is a white/grey paper scroll looking thing. Looks like this: @___@

The Yellow envelope is for an SMS. Text message.

Hope the OP reads yours reply

 

Yes, yours is probably a correct description. I wasn't thinking of a tape recorder, but a more quaint image of a New England town crier, standing with his parchment paper scroll unrolled, announcing the news of the day.:wink:

 

Hey Charlyee, sorry for the late reply. My computer's been in & out of Best Buy. Anyways, the voicemail icon is now working fine now. I'm just crossing my fingers & hoping the problem doesn't come back.

Thanks for the concern.

 

I'm glad to answer any questions, Charlyee...no need to say sorry. I'm usually the one asking the questions & don't have many answers, so I'm glad to help when I can.

I didn't have to do anything. The problem was just fixed after those few days (I guess it lasted about 4 days or so). Haven't had a problem since then though! The love I had for the phone is back again!

 

Charlyee and Viewfly, I've read that the VM icon problem has something to do with what kind of SIM you have. I recently had my SIM replaced and I now have something weird happening on my V635 where the VM indicator works perfectly (goes in and out when it is supposed to) but in addition to that I receive a text message with the @^ symbols after checking my VM. I guess this is the message from the network instructing the phone to clear the VM flag. Although the phone clears the VM icon correctly, I am now receiving the @^ as a text message. Doesn't bother me much since the VM indicator works correctly.

So, since I am assuming on both your 6131 phones the VM indicator works correctly, I am just curious what kind of Cingular SIM card do both of you have? I used to have a first generation 64K SIM card that was not 3G. The one I got now is a 3G SIM and it says 64205O on the side where the gold contacts are. What does yours say? Is it 3G or not?

 

My SIM card is orange 64K more than 2 years old. Certainly not 3G. I read over at HoFo that some of the CA guys were trying 3G SIMS in hope that it would help. But it didn't.

But in those cases, it was not the VM flag clearing, but they were not getting any VM icons at all.