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Dashwire a WM must have...or not!
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Posted by: CA

It's a new service than stores your WM phones stuff on a web page. You can send and receive SMS's as if they were sent using your phone! There is a tour to check it out.

And much more, so what do ya think?

http://dashwire.com/

For me typing on a tiny phone is a thing of the past. Good riddens!

Posted by: phatman8118

seems cool. i signed up.. just waiting for an invite... anyone get invited yet?

Posted by: CA

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Originally Posted by phatman8118

seems cool. i signed up.. just waiting for an invite... anyone get invited yet?

Sorry, I guess they consider me a tester, I just signed in and it sent an SMS to my phone with a .cab and it was off to the races. Unless I'm mistaken(please can anyone else try it too)the link would of gone to your phone's contents.

But yes I think it will be a hit!

Posted by: CA

Sorry to bump my own thread, but this thing is excellent! I just took a picture with my touch and it immediately was on my Dashwire page, so I gmailed it to myself. Wow.

OK... coffee down now.

Posted by: damba98

Very cool indeed

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I just hope my invite arrives soon(!)

-Pedro

Posted by: Dashwire

Service is wide open now. You all should have gotten invites, but if not, head back to the site and sign up. Recently rolled out photo/video sharing, phone to phone transfer, status updates, media slideshow, and all sorts of other things. Still have work to do, but so far so good on the feedback front.

Posted by: Cowboyshootist

Installed it on my phone yesterday. Seems pretty cool. Not sure how secure the data is, however. It would be nice to be able to encrypt the data when it uploads to the site.

The Callwave feature is cool too. You can get your VMs sent to your home or phone's email account with a wave file attached.

Posted by: phatman8118

yeah, i have been using callwave since before dashwire, but i love that it has been incorporated into this project. best of both worlds.

Posted by: Dashwire

Any other suggestions for services we should look to integrate into the Dashwire solution? We're not going to be doing this for a while, but it would good to have to have a prioritized list to target for our development plan.

Posted by: Cowboyshootist

One thing that would be nice is to be able to use DashWire as a way to store info from the phone and then be able to delete the data from the phone to free up space. This would be especially useful for picture and video files.

Also what about data for other applications? I use an application called SmartMileage which holds all the mileage information for my car which I need for business purposes. It would be nice to have that backed up as well. Maybe there could be a way to specify a folder to back up to DashWire and the files in that folder would get copied.

Posted by: phatman8118

the one thing i like is the backup function. oddly, when i did it last time (a few days ago) some of the contacts did not have telephone #'s in them. just email address. outside of that, some people like to be able to get the old messages back on the phone. expanding what information can be synced back to the phone would be a great.

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Originally Posted by Cowboyshootist

One thing that would be nice is to be able to use DashWire as a way to store info from the phone and then be able to delete the data from the phone to free up space. This would be especially useful for picture and video files...

I believe that is how this already works. The website says "we have unlimited space, phones dont..." Havn't checked the profile on a compatible browser yet, but i believe all my info from the phone before the wipe is all there, including sms, mms, contacts, pics, etc...

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by Cowboyshootist

Right now, what you upload from the phone is stored on the web and will remain there even if you delete it from your phone. The only exception is contacts, functions as true 2-way sync (delete on phone, deletes on web). Other than that, you can delete the photos and videos on your phone and they'll still be up on Dashwire.

Interesting idea about application data backup. We actually already have something in our plans that will probably accomplish this, but the scenario you outlined is something I'd want to run by the team. Thanks!

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by phatman8118

the one thing i like is the backup function. oddly, when i did it last time (a few days ago) some of the contacts did not have telephone #'s in them. just email address. outside of that, some people like to be able to get the old messages back on the phone. expanding what information can be synced back to the phone would be a great.

Interesting. What types of numbers were they?

Getting messages back on the phone is something we're looking to do in v2 of our phone to phone transfer.

As for expanding info synced, what exactly do you have in mind?

Appreciate the suggestions!

Posted by: ayedipset

Thanks for the posts dashwire! Love the app

Posted by: phatman8118

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Originally Posted by Dashwire

well, it was all that were stored in the contact. could have been a mix of 1 or more of: mobile, home, home2, work... Come to think of it, i think it lost birthday, anniversary and some other such fields as well. i know all i had left was the one or more email address stored in the profile.

Synced: like the pics, videos, call logs... basically all the other info that syncs to your servers. with 3G being avail in more areas, transfer times should not be as much an issuie as with EDGE transfer speeds.

maybe even a small online file storage type of setup. depending on server storage size, you can allocate (just an example) 25mb of space per user, so that if you need to send someone a larger file, you can just send to "your storage" and then give the other party a link to download it.

Posted by: Cowboyshootist

Thanks for the feedback on storing pics on the site and deleting them from the phone. The obvious question is whether there is a way to retrieve those pics and/or videos back to the phone later on?

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by Cowboyshootist

Thanks for the feedback on storing pics on the site and deleting them from the phone. The obvious question is whether there is a way to retrieve those pics and/or videos back to the phone later on?

Ah...glad you asked (shameless plug coming).

We're testing our upcoming client release that will enable users to access the photos on their account even if they were long ago deleted from the phone. You can preview, view, add/edit/delete titles, make public or private, set as wallpaper, or share with friends - all from your mobile phone. For example, I now have access to 300 of the latest photos I've taken, even though a recent reset of my phone means I only have 20 of them on there.

The new client will also let you remotely update your status on Facebook and Flickr.

Should be pretty sick.

Posted by: Cowboyshootist

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Originally Posted by Dashwire

Sounds cool. I look forward to seeing the new client. Thanks

Posted by: 103degrees

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Originally Posted by Dashwire

This is pretty cool. You guys seem to be doing more each and every time I read dashwire.

Its not just about sync anymore, youre helping people use phones to full potential...pretty sick if you ask me.

Posted by: Dashwire

With all these compliments my self esteem is recovering from the early start up phases. Glad to hear we're doing something right!

Posted by: cmatthews

I just signed up last night, I have to say this is really a nice thing to have, now if at&t would just hurry up and get 3g at my location so the syncing part wouldn't take so long.

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by cmatthews

I just signed up last night, I have to say this is really a nice thing to have, now if at&t would just hurry up and get 3g at my location so the syncing part wouldn't take so long.

Initial sync will take some time (especially if you have a ton of photos and videos). Without 3G though, you can always connect via USB to dramatically speed up the process. Doesn't apply with the Q 9 series, but if you had Wi-Fi, you could use that to speed up the process as well.

Glad you're liking the service though.

Posted by: phatman8118

just had a thought, and im not sure if WM supports this, but here goes...

when you are installing adobe reader, just an example and may not be the case anymore, you have an option to only d/l while the connection is idle. just to not interfere with internet while using a slower tech like EDGE, would the dashwire software be able to do somrthing similar? (mainly during the inital sync, but also comes in handy if you take a bunch of pics and then try to do regualr browsing, or youtube, or similar data intensive apllications.)

Posted by: Cowboyshootist

I had one more thought about enhancements for Dashwire. It would be nice to be able to organize the photos and videos into folders on the site and then to be able to selectively "publish" those folders for people to see.

I am also wondering what happens if you have Dashwire on 2 different phones and you move your SIM card from phone to phone? How does it keep track of that, or does it? What happens if you put a new SIM into the existing phone?

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by phatman8118

just had a thought, and im not sure if WM supports this, but here goes...

when you are installing adobe reader, just an example and may not be the case anymore, you have an option to only d/l while the connection is idle. just to not interfere with internet while using a slower tech like EDGE, would the dashwire software be able to do somrthing similar? (mainly during the inital sync, but also comes in handy if you take a bunch of pics and then try to do regualr browsing, or youtube, or similar data intensive apllications.)

Interesting thought. I'll run it by our mobile developer and see what he thinks. Not sure we've considered a similar approach (though we're constantly thinking of ways to improve performance and add granularity to user settings). Thanks!

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by Cowboyshootist

I had one more thought about enhancements for Dashwire. It would be nice to be able to organize the photos and videos into folders on the site and then to be able to selectively "publish" those folders for people to see.

I am also wondering what happens if you have Dashwire on 2 different phones and you move your SIM card from phone to phone? How does it keep track of that, or does it? What happens if you put a new SIM into the existing phone?

Appreciate the feedback. Right now, users can choose to make all photos or videos public/private, or they can override default settings by selecting individual items to keep as private. In our next mobile client release (in testing now), you can actually update privacy settings on the go right after you've snapped a photo, as users will soon be able to access all their media from our mobile client.

As for your request, we don't support this (good idea btw), but there is a workaround. Simply expand your media tiles (click on the "+" in the top right corner of the tile) to access the media manager. From there, you can select all media and make it private by default (check box on right side). After that, you can create tags/albums for the photos (select appropriate photos and add album using functionality on right side), select the items in the album, and make them public or private by default. Doubt I was clear here, but you should get the drift.

As for more than one phone, this isn't a problem, as the SIM card has nothing at all to do with our solution. You can only have one phone actively hitting your account at a time (changing at some point), but as long as Dashwire is on the phone you're looking to use, you can move from one phone to the next. The only complication comes up with contact sync, but as long as you correctly choose the contacts you want to keep, you should be good to go.

Sorry for the long winded response...

Posted by: Cowboyshootist

Dashwire,

Thanks for the response. I'll check out the photo stuff as it sounds like it will do what I want as it currently stands.

The thought about the multiple phones and/or SIM cards is what if the phone gets stolen? This recently happened to me and when the theif inserted his SIM card into my phone his contacts synch'd with my corporate Exchange server and then onto my laptop. What an idiot.

In a way though, this might be a good thing. If someone steals your phone and they stick their SIM card in it you might get enough information synch'd back to Dashwire to figure out who stole the phone. You might even consider a security feature to send the new phone number to the Dashwire site along with any other information you might get like GPS location. I know there are applications that do this now but they send text messages to another phone.

Posted by: CPcrazyfly

basically the same thing Sidekick users get with the desktop interface with danger

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by Cowboyshootist

Dashwire,

Thanks for the response. I'll check out the photo stuff as it sounds like it will do what I want as it currently stands.

The thought about the multiple phones and/or SIM cards is what if the phone gets stolen? This recently happened to me and when the theif inserted his SIM card into my phone his contacts synch'd with my corporate Exchange server and then onto my laptop. What an idiot.

In a way though, this might be a good thing. If someone steals your phone and they stick their SIM card in it you might get enough information synch'd back to Dashwire to figure out who stole the phone. You might even consider a security feature to send the new phone number to the Dashwire site along with any other information you might get like GPS location. I know there are applications that do this now but they send text messages to another phone.

Location and helping consumers deal with lost/stolen phones are definitely on the radar. Some things we can enable users to control that are currently IT-only solutions.

Posted by: ReDRoVeR

How often does Dashwire sync after initial sync?

Its hard to do a conversation via text with someone if you have to manually sync the phone. At that point almost easier to use my pda.

Posted by: Cowboyshootist

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Originally Posted by CPcrazyfly

basically the same thing Sidekick users get with the desktop interface with danger

Isn't that Danger specific? Seems like Dashwire takes it a step further by 1) working with different phone types and 2) taking the backups "off-site" from my desktop machine.

Another problem with the personal desktop is that it is not easily accessible from the web. As a Windows Mobile user I do have Active Sync which gets a copy of my contacts and other stuff on to the desktop. Dashwire gives me a third copy that I can share with others if I want.

Last but not least what happens when you change desktop machines? How do you get all the data that has synched to the desktop over to the new machine? Is that automatic or do you have to manually move it over?

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by ReDRoVeR

How often does Dashwire sync after initial sync?

Its hard to do a conversation via text with someone if you have to manually sync the phone. At that point almost easier to use my pda.

It depends if you're set to automatic or manual sync. If automatic, Dashwire will sync whenever there's a change on the device (call, SMS, photo, video, etc.) or a command from the server (send SMS, add contact, etc.). If set to manual, then Dashwire will only sync when you hit update now.

If you're doing manual sync, then the SMS tile more or less becomes backup only, as you can't send out text messages from your Dashwire account (need a sync connection to do so). We're making updates to our sync logic to address this (and other issues).

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by Cowboyshootist

Last but not least what happens when you change desktop machines? How do you get all the data that has synched to the desktop over to the new machine? Is that automatic or do you have to manually move it over?

Solid points. Not sure if this last question was directed at dashwire, but just for clarification: As you know, dashwire is a web-based application so when you do have to change desktop machines it's very easy to access your information again without doing any kind of switching. We currently don't export your information onto your desktop, so it shouldn't be an issue.

Posted by: tacoma7583

does anyone know how to disable callwave? i activated it through dashwire and would like to go back to my reg. voicemail

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by tacoma7583

does anyone know how to disable callwave? i activated it through dashwire and would like to go back to my reg. voicemail

In Dashwire, click below the Voicemail (CallWave) Tile where it says Account. That should take you to their website where you can cancel the service. Here are the numbers I found there:

If you decide that the CallWave service isn't for you, please call Customer Care to cancel your account.

CallWave Mobile Premium subscribers: 866-470-1989
CallWave Fax subscribers: 866-392-0003

Hope that helps

Posted by: dzuchowski

The service is great and all but the problem i have is that i have a sprint mogul also knowen as the HTC Titan it has 64mb of system ram and 256mb of storage. my system resouces went from 55% to 73% after installing your software. I am running windwos mobile 6.1 I find the ram usage to be very high. I am running with the htc home plug in and sprint plug in and device lock on the phone so not much else othe rthen the standard htc memory manager that sprint has released as part of the rom.

Posted by: Dashwire

That's a bit abnormal that your system resources are taking such a hit. We rarely find that big of a difference. Try switching your device to manual sync and see if that makes much of a difference. If it doesn't, get back to us and we'll see if there's something more you can do to reduce it.

Posted by: ayedipset

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Originally Posted by dzuchowski

The service is great and all but the problem i have is that i have a sprint mogul also knowen as the HTC Titan it has 64mb of system ram and 256mb of storage. my system resouces went from 55% to 73% after installing your software. I am running windwos mobile 6.1 I find the ram usage to be very high. I am running with the htc home plug in and sprint plug in and device lock on the phone so not much else othe rthen the standard htc memory manager that sprint has released as part of the rom.

I told my friend to un-install and then re-install when he complained about his system resources increasing (he's a bit anal with that stuff). He called me up a couple days later and told me it was working great. So I might give that a try too.

Posted by: dzuchowski

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Originally Posted by ayedipset

But dashwire is the best one so far that i have seen. It has more features then plaxo i think. And its free and plaxo wants like 50 per year.

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by dzuchowski

Yeah I do a ##786# about 3 or four times in a day. And I still get it around 73% or so. I think that Dashwire needs more ram then 64mb. As a rule with my laptop if a program says it needs 1gb of ram i double or trible it because that is just the minum that it will work with

But dashwire is the best one so far that i have seen. It has more features then plaxo i think. And its free and plaxo wants like 50 per year.

Yep that makes sense. You'll have to let us know how Dashwire treats you when you get that phone upgrade.

Posted by: dzuchowski

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Originally Posted by Dashwire

Yep that makes sense. You'll have to let us know how Dashwire treats you when you get that phone upgrade.

hi i post on ppcgeeks as well under the same name.... i did get the touch and it is better, the only issue i think is how long it takes to update after you reboot, even if you dont take any pictures.

On my ppcgeeks post, i said i would like to see your contact syncing more like how windows live does it. They dont seem to use any system resources and when you make a contact you have a choice of windows live contact which is stored on your hotmail account or you can chose a outlook contact that is saved only to your phone and not backed up to your hotmail account.
granted dashwire has a better photo / video backup were it will do the backup automatically, but i just wish it would be faster to backup. I have over 300 pics on my memory card and once i had them on dashwire i deleted most of them on my memory card so that the backup may go faster. Say what about a backup of your entire system?

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by dzuchowski

Yep recognize you from over there. I gave your feedback to our dev team about the Window's Live suggestion. They're going to take a look at it. As for an entire system's backup, were working toward's that at some point. But we also want to be more than that to our users. That's why we have the picture strip, the connections to social sites, the sharing features, etc.

Posted by: tour4fun

I have a Cingular / ATT Treo 750. I downloaded and installed Dashwire this past weekend.

The text messages don't sync????

When my phone syncs how do I exclude the photo's etc. from my SD card from being included?

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by tour4fun

I have a Cingular / ATT Treo 750. I downloaded and installed Dashwire this past weekend.

The text messages don't sync????

When my phone syncs how do I exclude the photo's etc. from my SD card from being included?

By text messages not syncing do you mean they don't go from your phone to your computer or vis versa?

On the mobile client you can choose by going to menu/settings/choose information to sync.

Posted by: tour4fun

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Originally Posted by Dashwire

By text messages not syncing do you mean they don't go from your phone to your computer or vis versa?

On the mobile client you can choose by going to menu/settings/choose information to sync.

All the message on the phone don't download to my computer. If I make a new message on the computer, after the sync it doesn't show up on the phone. Messages made on the phone stay on the phone. Messages made on the computer stay on the computer. They are exclusive of each other.

I have played with choosing which items to sync, manual/auto and done multiple soft resets.

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by tour4fun

Try hitting sync now. The messages won't automatically upload to your computer unless you've synced. As for texts sent from your computer transferring down to your phone, this is not a feature we currently support. Something we've definitely considered doing in the near future though.

Posted by: Dashwire

@tour4fun

Was just curious if the sms issue was ever resolved? We want to make sure things are running smoothly for everyone!

Posted by: tour4fun

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Originally Posted by Dashwire

@tour4fun

Was just curious if the sms issue was ever resolved? We want to make sure things are running smoothly for everyone!

Thanks for checking back. No, even with multiple resets etc., I still couldn't get it to work. I could not get text messages made on my phone to ever be seen online

. Phone log, photo's, video's and contacts work, just not text.

I did play with all the settings from auto sync, manual sync to sync now. Changing what was to be synced - the whole list, parts and also just text.

Posted by: Dashwire

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Originally Posted by tour4fun

Thanks for checking back. No, even with multiple resets etc., I still couldn't get it to work. I could not get text messages made on my phone to ever be seen online

This is really frustrating and I'm truly sorry to hear you're still having issues. If you reach out to support I'm positive they can fix things if your up to it. Once again, I'm sorry your device and our service have not been functioning properly.

Posted by: dzuchowski

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Originally Posted by tour4fun

Thanks for checking back. No, even with multiple resets etc., I still couldn't get it to work. I could not get text messages made on my phone to ever be seen online

have you tried doing a hard reset of your phone and then installing dashwire. That can do wonders....

Posted by: Dashwire

Also, if you hit up our support alias, we can get you a pre-release version of our client that addresses most of the bugs in our current version (354). Might be worth a shot.