Customer Reviews

Nokia 6205 Dark Knight Edition Phone (Verizon Wireless)

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This phone has some serious issues which appear to be caused by very sloppy programming on Motorola's part.

Creating calendar events with reminders set to 30 minutes or more prior to the event will cause weird behavior:
-The phone will not remind you of the event, or will remind you of the event some 10 hour too late.
-The phone will spontaneously turn on during the night in some sort of overdrive mode and completely drain the battery - sometimes running the vibrate non-stop.
-The phone spontaneously turns off the vibrate+ring option and revert to ring only.

Regardless of the calendar setting, about one in 4 pictures taken will fail to write to the micro SD memory card.

In short - this is a piece of junk.

I'd also like to confirm the previous statement that the analog clock option is not available - despite the manual and all product photos implying it is.

I recently extended my 2 year contract with Tmobile and purchased a Motorola W450 or MOTO ACTV phone which I am not very happy with. My main problems with the phone are :

1. The manual states that the external display will display the time, battery strength etc but the external display turns off after around 20 seconds. There does not seem to be any settings in the phone to keep this screen on. This is useful because I can then use the phone as a watch as well. My previous Motorola v188 used to work like this.

2. The second issue is that there is no way to get the Analog clock on the external display that is featured on the front of the box! The clock option in the menu only has a digital and off option. This is not acceptable that a phone is advertised with certain features and then these features are not present on the phone.

3. The battery does not seem to hold charge well, sometimes I need to charge every day, other times it will go two days before a charge. I usually make 2-3 calls a day tops!

4. The keypad is not easy to use, hard to feel the buttons.

No luck getting the phone exchanged since the 14 days had passed! Would not recommend.

Absolutely horrible phone! Problems range from freezing up on occasion, to deleting my contacts and pictures on more than one occasion, to taking anywhere from 4 min to almost NEVER when sending outgoing text messages, and lets not forget the "pressing the button and the option you were trying to open cancels out" quirk that it has.

If there was any phone I would throw out the window of my car into the river, this would be it.

Motorola....WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!?

I have had 2 other Nokia phones in the past. They have a better reception range than most in "black-out" areas. It has the regular great features and I find the picture & video-taking quality great.
I only found 1 drawback and that is when texting, I don't have the ability to insert a line-break [return] to differentiate topics.
I still think it is a great phone!

I ordered a new Motorola ACTV from T-Mobile in early November '08. It would not allow entries to the on-board phone book. Its battery life was abyssmal, not lasting more than eight or nine hours with very light usage and no music playback. It also had an annoying tendency to delay the transmission of text messages, sometimes for more than 24 hours.

T-Mo exchanged it for another new unit which exhibited exactly the same behavior. Number two was swapped out for yet another that did the same thing, with the added feature of mixing up names and numbers retrieved from the SIM card. That one went back too and along came number four. Number four would not even allow basic set-up operations such as ring volume to be carried out. It would shut down and restart itself whenever these operations were accessed.

I can't count how many calls I made to T-Mo Customer Service and Technical Support over the course of two months with these four duds, and the time wasted is more than I care to think about. I even took one of the units to a T-Mo retail store to see if there was some secret method to get the darn thing to work properly - obviously with no success.

T-Mo CS adopted the stance that according to policy all I could do was continue sending units in for an exchange for the exact same model. Final resolution came when I called and asked for the names and mailing addresses of the CEO, General Manager and VP of Customer Service for the purpose of filing a complaint. I was finally connected with someone who had the authority to replace the ACTV with a Samsung and thus put an end to my frustration and aggravation.

Having gotten FOUR handsets that failed to operate properly, I can only conclude that there is a major flaw in the design or software. The T-Mobile Motorola ACTV should be removed from the marketplace. Save yourself some grief and purchase something else.

This is the worst phone I've ever purchased. I refuse to fulfill the next year and a half of my contract with this phone. It is software glitch heaven. The battery only lasts less than a day. It periodically deletes my ringtones. It wouldn't let me reinstall them. I had a replacement phone (same model) sent to me, and it seemed to be working fine for a couple of months, but then the same problems started. While sending a text one day, it shut off on me. Apparently, the battery was dead, even though it was reading a full charge while a was working on that text. When I started it back up after plugging it back in, my ringtones were gone and the battery was confirmed as dead. I sent the ringtones back to my phone. Unlike last time, it let me reinstall my ringtones, however, the battery problem was back, just like the old phone. I'll go to bed with it reading a full charge, and when I wake up, there's no charge left. Either I'm making sleep walking calls, or it has problems. I think it's a software issue, and that it really does have the charge, but the software is reading the battery wrong, because this replacement phone was working fine till a couple of weeks ago. I WANT A DIFFERENT PHONE!

I've had the same problems everyone else is exhibiting with this model. Having had two Motorola's before, and loving both, I couldn't understand why this phone sucked so hard. For instance- I downloaded a ringtone (I don't have Internet for my phone, otherwise I'd have made my own) and found I couldn't apply it to a phonebook contact because the ringtone wasn't saved to my SIM card. ...And as far as I read in the manual, I wasn't allowed and therefore couldn't save it to the SIM card. Lame.

I contacted the place where I purchased it and wanted to go back to my own phone, but was told I can't downgrade. So now I have a roughly 22$ paperweight, a 30$ VISA giftcard (from my rebate) and my nice old phone. Maybe there'll be something better on the market in two years when I upgrade for cheap/free again.

Positives:
--feels nice to hold
--reasonably sturdy
--looks reasonable

Negativs:
--alarm : must be reset everyday. you cannot program it to ring at different times on different days without creating multiple alarms and even then, you must remember to turn the one you want on. Every once in a while, the phone will fill the alarm list with copies of the alarm you created which is pointless and annoying

--battery : for a phone that doesn't do very much, this has extremely short battery life, needing to be charged every 1.5 - 1.75 days.

--music player takes forever to load music from the SD card every single time. You cannot do anything else on the phone while listening to music and the program "crashes" every so often after a few songs rebooting the phone.

--dropped calls, even in areas of good service... I can't prove it is the phone's fault but I had another t-mobile (very old) phone that did not drop similar calls.

--the phone crashes when interfacing with the pc via usb

--event reminder does not consistently send reminders. sometimes it works, sometimes not. What's the point?

--the phone has a mechanism where it switches from vibrate to ring when charging. This does not consistently work.

These phones are still available on T-Mobile's website, usually for free with any plan. Do not choose this phone under any circumstances.

I had a Dark Night version of the Nokia 6205, and I really liked its styling. However, about a year after buying it new the phone went into a power on, power off cycle that could not be stopped. I lost all of my contacts and photos. When I returned it to the Verizon store, they said they couldn't recover my data, and that Nokia was known to have this issue.

So, a warning to you all: back up your cell phone data, and stay away from Nokia phones, as they are 'known' to go into power cycle failure.

This is a terrible phone and I would give it a zero if I could.
I renewed my contract with T-mobile and was looking for a durable phone, which the ACTV W450 was advertised as. To my great regret, I got one for myself and one for my husband. I wish I had read some reviews first.

1. Terrible batteries - phone #1 - in the first few weeks, the battery kept running down even after having been charged a few hours ago. This happened so often that I took out the battery from phone #2 to use. Even now, about once a week, the battery from phone #2 gives out suddenly (i.e. going from full charge one minute before to completely discharged) in the middle of calls. We have to recharge it before making any more calls.

2. If the phone is flipped closed and a call is received, sometimes the screen stays dark (i.e. no phone # is displayed) so one can't tell who's calling before they flip the phone open - which automatically answers the caller. So I can't screen the calls. This seems to be intermittent and may be related to the poor battery life.

3. The SIM contacts (from my old phone) have to be individually transferred to the phone memory before they can be added to speed dial, etc. In fact, I'm constantly trying to figure out which # was added to SIM card and which to phone memory.

4. The buttons are difficult to feel - it's impossible to dial without looking at them.

5. There's no voice activated dialing, even when connected to bluetooth, which makes for hands free calling basically limited to receiving calls only.

6. The T-mobile offer it came with said it was "$50", i.e. I paid $100 and expected to get a $50 refund. Instead a few months later, we received a credit card offer with a $50 amount on it - no one at the T-mobile store mentioned that we were not getting a check but a credit card although we were there for an hour getting these phones! The only way you could tell how much was left on the card was to call a phone # or set up a web account etc. So we were constantly trying to charge down to the last dollar - it was such a pain that we threw the card away without using it up and I called the credit card company to cancel it just to make sure.