Received Desire from Mobilephonedirect.com ??

[chowhuskylass]

My sim arrived and my old numbers transferred fine just waiting for interwebby but i can send messages and make calls

 

[Tye]

A parcel is sitting on my bed now, shame i've still got another 6 hours and 40 minutes at work...
I'm hoping that because it is a PAYG T-mobile handset that I can just slap in my contract T-Mobile sim and go.

 

[pinkism]

I got mine Monday and I love it!

 

[brownie1111]

Parcelforce dropped mine off this morning complete with 4GB SD card and car charger, calls and txt's OK but no internet and on calling T-Mobile because of an error when registering on My T-Mobile they said the phone isn't registered to me yet.

Called Mobilephonedirect and spoke to a helpfull chap Ian who explained approx. 700 Desire units have been shipped from the backlog and as a result they are manually registering each phone, Normally they would register them prior to delivery but due to the backlog they have concentrated getting them out of the door first.

No hassles as it's connected through wifi no problem.

He said hang on for approx. 12 hours, sounds reasonable enough.

Had the same Virgin icon for the default internet browser on mine, deleted it and created a new internet shortcut revert back to the default icon.

 

[mephisto]

I ordered mine yesterday morning and it has just arrived this afternoon via parcel force so it looks like they have cleared backlogs and are living up to the next day delivery as offered. Its just gone on charge, its my first android phone, never even used one before so i hope it lives up to all the hype and i have no problems getting it working.

 

[hystryxen]

just got my phone, I can confirm HTC Desire on T-Mobile PAYG sold by Mobilephonesdirect.co.uk is indeed unlocked to all networks!!!! I'm using vodafone right now....hahhahahahahha..i'm in geek heaven!!

 

[jimmyb79]

I received mine today - also unregistered. I rang T-Mobile and asked them why I couldn't access the internet, and the helpful lady there registered my account over the phone. She had no record of where the phone was purchased, what tariff it was on or anything...I had to tell her what tariff I'd purchased the phone on...

I get that there was a backlog, but what is the use of an unregistered phone!

I'm all sorted though, and anyone else having this issue should just ring T-mobile direct and ask to speak to the customer registration department.

 

[BigRhino]

Mine was waiting for me when I got home from work, working on an old Vodafone sim no problems, didn't get the car charger but the phone more than makes up for it!

 

[channelsurfer]

BigRhino I'm glad yours arrived ....... But as far as I'm concerned MPD are a bunch of unprofessional cowboys!! (would liked to have used a few other choice descriptors)

Was promised categorically for the past 2 days that the phone was on it's way, but of course nothing arrived on either yesterday or today and every time I called them they took my details, put me on hold and never came back ..... to say I'm pi**ed off is an understatement. I've had the thing on pre-order since Mar-10 on an 18mo T-Mobile contract.

But what can you do? I'm sure they don;t give a toss about a lone voice railing at them .... so I've just got to grin and bear it - hopefully it will turn up tomorrow!

Anyhow, rant over and I'm going up the pub to partially drown my sorrows

 

[damuffinman]

I've sent them an email yesterday since I put in my pre-order on the 26th, still haven't heard anyhting from them and my status is still "Pending Stock".

Probably have to give them a call tomorrow morning...

 

[damuffinman]

UPDATE: I hope they didn't do a runner on me, no reply after I sent them an email over 2 days ago, no one is picking up the phone even though it's 11AM in the morning (office hours)...

 

[Stoo]

i had to wait 2 days for it to register, all good now tho everything is working fine

 

[Stoo]

brownie, how you change internet to stop virgin media home page???

 

[brownie1111]

brownie, how you change internet to stop virgin media home page???

To remove the icon, hold ya finger on it for a second or two, then drag to delete at the bottom of the screen. The press +, select add application, scroll down to and select internet., internet globe now appears on the desktop.

Select globe to open browser, press menu, press more, scroll down and select settings, top of the page you see an option to set your homepage.

 

[Tye]

I received mine yesterday morning althuogh I only got to play with it last night (Damn work!)

I bought a PAYG T-Mobile handset, slapped my contract T-Mobile sim card in there and everything has worked perfectly out of the box.

What an amazing phone!

 

[Jack10]

I received mine yesterday morning althuogh I only got to play with it last night (Damn work!)

I bought a PAYG T-Mobile handset, slapped my contract T-Mobile sim card in there and everything has worked perfectly out of the box.

What an amazing phone!

Told you things would work fine

 

[Tye]

Yes thank you Jack10, I had to ask on here because when I sent an e-mail to MPD asking the same question the guy who responded told me that it would not work as the PAYG sim card is locked to the phone and I would need to buy a sim-free handset. I'm glad he was wrong and you was right =)

 

[dabcabc]

I'm still waiting for my sim to be activated - latest news is they're finally doing it today or tomorrow morning... not particularly pleased with the service! Luckily it's unlocked so I've put my old sim in there for now, but means no mobile internet till it's set up.

 

[BigRhino]

Update...The vodafone sim that came with the Desire was finally activated today, 9 days after delivery, glad I had that old sim now!

 

[nx1977]

9 Days?

I'd be going mental! Best hope your contract only started when the SIM when live, and you've not been paying for 9 days you couldnt use it!

 

[raider5]

I bought my Desire from MPD and like many the sim wasn't activated. Rather then going through MPD I just called 150 from my phone and had t-mobile activate the sim direct. They said it would take an hour but 30mins later everything was working and I got a welcome text from them.

Would recommend calling 150 for anybody else with the same issue