This is an excellent thread, thanks. I just tried to downgrade the o/s on my 8700g from 4.1.0.194 (suncom) to 4.1.0.175 (Cingular). It all seemed to work fine, including telling me it was doing all the various things it was supposed to, but when it finished (even after a battery out reset), it is still at 194 and still shows the Suncom logo on startup.

Any thoughts as to what I might have done wrong?

Also, I'm trying this downgrade to see if it might solve my BlueTooth problem (although I don't hold out much hope). I’ve now been trying in vain to get this 8700g to correctly work with modern Bluetooth headsets, it works fine with old headsets (Jabra BT200, Parrot CK3100), but has a severe audio problem with modern units (Jabra BT250, Motorola HS500) where you can hear the audio in the background but it is drowned out by a repeating pulse of static, .5 seconds of loud static, then .5 seconds ok, then .5 seconds of static, repeat.

It seems to me that I might be dealing with a faulty unit, but the fact that this works with the older headsets just fine does make me wonder if this is software.

I did post on this in the BlueTooth forum but got no responses, so I'm trying here where the software gurus live. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

Ian