List of Siemens S35i bugs

Preface

These are known bugs for S35i phone. It is quite possible, that they arrives also in C35i and M35i. There are two international versions of phone currently on the market: 05 and 12. Version 13 appears to be slovene compilation. A short time it appears to be 07 version in Slovenia too, but it was short after that removed.

Many of the bugs I found on www.s35i-world.net/software.htm. This page is in German and if you preffere German I've sent them all bugs, that are not on their page also.

Bug list

V05 V12 V13
01. Calendar does not reminds to upcoming event S,?,? -,-,- ?,?,?
  Normaly only first event is ignored. Next events seems to work fine.      
  One solution is to enter second alarm fast after first. Another solution I found is to re-edit and re-enable appointment event that does not remindes properly. Then it should work fine.      
         
02. Only last seven numbers are observed in phonebook S,M,C S,M,C S,M,C
  Because of that caller is not properly identified with name if two callers has the same last seven numbers. In Slovenia this could occur quite possible because of too short number.      
         
         
03. Voice memory S,-,- S,-,- ?,-,-
  After recording handy turns occasionaly off      
         
         
04. SIM read error S,?,? -,-,- ?,?,?
  Occasionaly phone reports SIM read error to Swisscom SIM cards and also with the roaming of Viag users to T-D1 (internal German roaming from 1800 to 900 net).      
         
         
05. Labyrinth hangs on S,?,? ?,?,? ?,?,?
  In some rare cases Labyrinth game hangs on.      
  Do not play Labyrinth, but if your handy has already hanged on, take accumulator out of phone and back in and then turn the phone on.      
         
06. Bad sort order of SMS S,M,C -,-,- ?,?,?
  SMS are not arranged by date (as promised in the instruction) but by storage number on the SIM card.      
         
         
07. Display contrast S,M,C -,-,- ?,?,?
  No possibility to set display contrast      
         
         
08. Handy swithes off after Phonecode S,?,? -,-,- ?,?,?
  Handy occasionaly switches of itself after input the phonecode.      
  Often works if handy is connected to the charger at input time. As said by Siemens it also works if right display-key is pressed a little bit longer.      
         
09. No Bussines Card -,M,C -,M,C -,M,C
  No bussines card as promised in instructions      
  Call the nearest Siemens branch office and tell them they are liers then forget the Busines Card.      
         
0A. 'Automatic' switch off S,?,? S,?,? ?,?,?
  Occasionaly some phones switch off without user intervention (some of them don't even like it).      
         
         
0B. Unwanted date and time change S,?,? S,?,? S,?,?
  Sometimes the date and/or time is changed at switch off/switch on. Usualy the date 1.1.2000 and time 0:00 are set. Date and time are reset also when battery is not in the phone for few minutes.      
  Do not switch off the phone if it is not needed and leave the battery in phone.      
         
0C. Incorrect battery status S,?,? -,-,- ?,?,?
  Sometimes battery is shown as empty though it is still full or near-full.      
  Switch off then on      
         
0D. No phone function available -,-,- S,?,? ?,?,?
  The phone switches off and there is no possibility to switch it on.      
  Returning to version 05 or using the phone as decoration.      
         
0E. Unwanted tones from phone S,M,C S,M,C S,M,C
  Phone sounds tones by dialing or empty batery even if all tones are switched off.      
         
         
0F. Phonebook sort not fully implemented S,M,C S,M,C S,M,C
  Phone sorts only phonebook entries to first space or to sixth character. After sixth character entries are sorted by location number.      
         
         
10. Lazy autodial S,M,? -,-,- ?,?,?
  Occasionaly autodial dials only three-times. After that the "No service" appears and corresponding sound is heared from the speaker.      
         
         
11. Phone does not respond to keys S,?,? S,?,? S,?,?
  It seems to function, but does not respond to keypress      
  Take the batery out of phone for few moments and then back again. Switch the phone on.      
         
12. No easy way to enter WAP favorite S,M,C S,M,C S,M,C
  It is not possible to mark current page as favorite. The favorite page should be entered through menu.      
         
         
13. T9 and Slovene language S,M,C S,M,C S,M,C
  Slovene language does not work with T9. Siemens Slovenia takes 8000 SIT (cca. 80 DM) for translating for phones not bought in Slovenia. The translation is not worth of it's money until Siemens assures us T9 entry in Slovene langugage too.      
         
         
14. T9 Word entry S,M,C S,M,C S,M,C
  The new entered word is shown only with a renewed input.      
         
         
15. No direct way to see WAP favorite page S,M,C S,M,C S,M,C
  When WAP favorite is choosen and connection to be made, the mobile operater page is shown instead of your favorite page. Quite expensive in Germany where each minute costs at least 0,39 DM.      
         
         
16. Reedbook entries in SIM card are not obeyed -,-,- ?,?,? S,?,C
  The VIP entries that are stored in SIM card are not signaled with VIP ringing.      
  Store VIP entries in phones phonebook also.      
         

If you have met another bug in ?35 family, please inform me. Don't forget to include version number and phone type (S,M,C or A).

Legend:
Very dangerous bug. Service required to resolve the problem if the bug occurs.
Dangerous or very irritating bug. Software patch that resolves such bug should be available immediately.
Missed promised function or not so irritrating bug. Should be eliminated in next release of sotware
Wished function or small bug. Siemens should do their best to resolve it in some of the next versions of software.

Conclusion

Because of 0D bug at the present moment the version 05 is still recomended to use. As it seems from current point of view Siemens works as Microsoft (they remove some old bugs and bring us some new ones). I sincerely hope that Siemens will prove me, that I'm wrong.

Despite of these bugs is Siemens S35i still quite good debugged phone. Have you ever seen list of bugs for Nokia 7110?

 

 

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