I have an XDA Stellar with Windows Mobile 6.0 with a Bluetooth headset – Sony Ericsson, HBH-GV435 and I had a problem playing Windows Media files. When you pressed the play button on the headset, the Voice Speed Dial was automatically activated, the last thing I want to do when I want to listen to some music is that the phone dials somebody and will not play the music. Well, I have found a fix that doesn’t require changing the registry.

1. Open Communications Manager and turn off everything except bluetooth and the ringer.
2. Turn on your bluetooth headset and press the dial/play button many times in quick succession, about 15 times until a pop-up message box stating … Phone – Operation failed.
Prior to this it will have attempted to dial a number several times; but as the phone has been turned off in Communications Manager, no actual connection is made.
3. Assuming you have had the ‘Operation failed’ message, turn off your bluetooth headset and then turn it back on.
4. Turn on your Windows Media Player and press the Dial/play button on the headset

Viola. Hope this works for other headsets. A reset restores the condition that activates Voice Speed Dial program on the play button being pressed on the headset.

My XV 6700 (that I just purchased) from Verizon has the annoying habit of starting the voice tag and voice speed dialer program at End Call no matter how I end the call (usually with Blue Tooth). I’ve tried resetting the phone and that works for awhile but soon it’s back to it’s old tricks. Cannot see anything on the settings or program groups that link voice speed dialer to End Call but perhaps I pushed the wrong button and accidently paired them. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Kit Hill

I just got my insurance replacement phone and am feeling ambitious. I want to attempt to modify the firmware a bit to display my own custom logo on startup instead of the goofy Verizon one. However I’m not sure how to go about this. I tried using ResHack, but that only works on the actual app you want to mod, and the best thing I have is the autoinstaller for the firmware, which only lets me modify the bitmaps for that application. Does anyone know how to go about modding the firmware?

I had the same problems that Stu mentioned. Thanks for the help John. I did a second load and my device came back.

Someone else asked about a hard pause for voice mail dialing. I use the “w” in my voice mail phone number and id will wait for you to press enter.

Had the same problem as Stu Gisburne upgrading my buddys phone for him but the phone was not really off if you look at it in biright light it says USB at the top and Com1 at the bottm (the screen light is just not on) i just ran the install again without it being connected to active sync and were it gets to the point where it says your old version it was blank so i hit update anyway it put the new fermware on bingo bango it worked

My XV6700 has the latest firmware which includes the Voice Speed Dial. That works better for me than the voice recognition dialers. My voice must have poor sound quality since the voice recognition dialers never seem to understand my command. Vhe Voice Speed dial is Bullet proof.
1. After recording about 60+/- voice tags it runs out of memory. When I check memory, I have tons left. Is there only an allocated space for Voice Tags?
2. the Lock Device function is nice to use, since unusual things happen when the unit is carried around in the belt pouch. I can answer calls W B.T. in locked mode. It will not let me call out using Voice Speed Dial.

Is there any method for increasing the memory for Voice Tags?

Is there a registry fix to enable Voice speed dial when device is locked?

The device lock function seems to do more than just disable the buttons. Is there another add-on that would just disable the buttons?

Is there a third party Voice speed Dial program that will use other memory locations?

I’m having the same problem w/ playing my music on my bluetooth headset. I made the registry change, it worked for about a minute then it stopped. any other ideas anyone?

Can I program a hard pause for my password on my voicemail?

I disabled the voice dial and was able to listen to music via my BT headset again. However now the music stops going through the headset after about 5 sec. Does anyone know how to change anything to stop it from doing that?

I had the bricking issue, too. I looked on PDAPhoneHome and found a solution. Disconnected frrom the computer, and holding down POWER, RECORD and pressing RESET will put the phone in bootloader (?) mode. It says “SERIAL” on the display. Then, when connected to the computer, it immediately changes to “USB” and then you can do the upgrade AGAIN. On the second try it revovers. I found this while ON THE PHONE WITH VERIZON. THEY didn’t know about this and they were ready to send me a new phone. Stupid me.

You CAN disable voice dial. What you have to do is alter the registry.

1. download a registry editor…I used “PHM RegEdit”.
2. Go to the Key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/OEM/VoiceCommand

3. Change Key “LanuchApEnable” from “1″ to “0″
4. You can STILL use Voice Command by assigning a button on the PDA to bring it up.

Have a new xv6700, generally ok, but the hands free volume is barely a whisper. All settings are set as high as possible but compared to my treo you need a real quiet room to use hands free.
Any fixees out there? otherwise there may be a good used 6700 on ebay. I use the hands free daily and this doesnt cut it.

I did the upgrade works great, but I found something I hate. I use to be able to play sound thought my BT headset, but now when I try to move sound to the headset, Voice dial comes up. Can the new Voice Dial be deactivated?

I recieved and error message after the radio stack were updated and during the cd rom update. The recovery part of the program did not work. I rebooted my computer. I pressed the soft reset key on the phone and then pressed my device firmly into the cradle. The device seems to stick a bit and may not be all the way in. Then I went ahead and ran the apache update program again.

Ken, you can activate Bluetooth DUN using the same hack as before the MSFP update.