MDA Tips, Tricks, Hacks, and Questions Thread!!!

Originally Posted by hiokispunja

Wondering..

Does using a picture as your Today screen background slow everything down?

Originally Posted by jonazen

Good night... I'll ponder this more tomorrow. Don't know when I'll actually get to it...but I'll try to at least plan what I'm doing in advance...

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

And I have to get up at 5am daily, boy you young guys?? And I know and feel your all a lot younger.. good nighteeeee

Originally Posted by jonazen

No...doubt that I'm younger.....just not too bright about getting enough sleep.

Let's see... I grew up watching shows like Fireball XL5, Diver Dan, the original Superman, Dennis the Menace, Captain Kangaroo, Wonderama (with Sonny Fox)...that should sorta bring my century into focus...

Originally Posted by jta

Does anyone know of a way to disable the "Connecting to GPRS..." popup message?

Originally Posted by jonazen

No...doubt that I'm younger.....just not too bright about getting enough sleep.

Let's see... I grew up watching shows like Fireball XL5, Diver Dan, the original Superman, Dennis the Menace, Captain Kangaroo, Wonderama (with Sonny Fox)...that should sorta bring my century into focus...

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Maybe I am not alone!! Good shows

O.K. lets compare wrinkles for a moment.. My kindergarden school took a trip once to see the Verazzano bridge being built. My first computer was an Apple IIe. . I can remember when the Beatles landed at JFK on Black and White TV, or may be just my parents couldn't afford color, who knows.. They were on the Lawrence Welk show . I went to a concert in Staten Island to see an unknown group called "Deep Purple". I remember what it felt like to actually hear Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd for those who are scratching their heads} for the 1st time ever ). Here's a riddle for you old man.. When I missed a Movie at the theater, that meant never ever getting the chance to see it again? Answer in next post

Originally Posted by hiokispunja

ooohh..bad experience. after my hard reset and re-installs, i started downloading skins and themes for the wisbar. i installed one, but didn't like that fact that when I would open up for the keyboard the task bar would change colors and lose its icons...then we closed up..it would stay that way. I also noticed that it really really slowed down my device. the only things i have on my today is spb PP and spb diary integrated with weather. so that's not much. with tweaks2k2, i set it to keep gprs always connected..but it can't seem to find the signal. so the stupid searching pop-up keeps coming up all the time. guess i'm gonna have to do another hard reset and re-install without the wisbar...

any help with vjtraylaunch app. still couldn't find it at all last night. Mahalo.

Originally Posted by tknospdr

Wow, you're old like Grampa Simpson!
I saw Star Wars when it was first released at a drive-in theater when I was 6, I've been addicted ever since (new movies not withstanding).

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

lol Hey there is something to be said about WISDOM!! You don't just wake up with it

Originally Posted by jonazen

We were on vacation in Wellfleet, MA (near Cape Cod) when "I Want To Hold Your Hand" hit the charts in the US. I missed the debut on Ed Sullivan...but my parents probably didn't want me staying up for it...

How about the World's Fair in Flushing Meadow, NY? We only went once...

Not sure about your movie question...except that I don't remember popular movies coming to TV anytime near to theater showing, and there was no option to "buy a tape". Wasn't until many years later (out of college) that I actually got to compare VHS and Betamax side-by-side -- and of course, I chose the "better" technology - Betamax...(and we all know the end of that story!).

Hey - I was in high school when the FIRST MacDonald's restaurant opened in NYC - it was a few miles north of me, in Riverdale (northwest Bronx). Manhatten fought the idea of fast food for a couple of years, and finally lost. I vividly remember the first MacDonald's opening in Manhattan (my great aunt, who was a bit batty by then) called and tried to make a reservation for dinner...).

Yup - my parents used to watch Lawrence Welk. I still have our original copy of Harry Belafonte's first album (mono, of course). Ummm...let's see... I remember being horrified when a quart of milk went up to 25 cents at the "milk machine" in a nearby apartment building.

My first Apple was a II Plus, and about 1 or 2 years later, I got an Amiga 1000, because I never believed that the silly IBM "personal computer" would be as sophisticated.

Color TV? My parents never had one until I was 18... Also, we thought the white walls on our car tires were really neat, and shoulder harnesses in cars didn't exist yet -- you were lucky if your car had lap belts...

Hey - I've got a good one: I first learned to program on an HP 9100A, and it featured a total of 3 registers (actually a 3 level stack) and it's display was a row of fluorescent orange "nixie tubes". It wasn't until the summer I graduated high school that one of my friends was lucky enough to get his hands on the new HP35, and I wound up with a relatively inexpensive "Bowmar" calculator (4 function plus exponential notation).

Originally Posted by hiokispunja

ooohh..bad experience. after my hard reset and re-installs, i started downloading skins and themes for the wisbar. i installed one, but didn't like that fact that when I would open up for the keyboard the task bar would change colors and lose its icons...then we closed up..it would stay that way. I also noticed that it really really slowed down my device. the only things i have on my today is spb PP and spb diary integrated with weather. so that's not much. with tweaks2k2, i set it to keep gprs always connected..but it can't seem to find the signal. so the stupid searching pop-up keeps coming up all the time. guess i'm gonna have to do another hard reset and re-install without the wisbar...

any help with vjtraylaunch app. still couldn't find it at all last night. Mahalo.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Here you go bro.

Originally Posted by i3onk

NP man, glad I could help.

Maddog, did you check out my new startmenu button? what do you think?

I think you are right about the battery icon. I think Im going to start stripping icons from other themes, and make my own lol. God Im bad. HAHA!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Is there a link to ur start menu? I got a new skin cause I really like the icons. I threw some into a paint menu and changed some color to fit my theme. Im not home right now, so ill post it later and see what u think. Good sound on this one. The only isszue i have is some of the icons are not as functional as i would like.

I was having problems with BT today, a little concerneed, cause got everything looking so good, but if BT cant work efficiantly may haave to revert back to good backup and test. The other concern is RAM. Ever since i got started with wisbar and themes plus skins my ram has gone down drAstically. I usually have to resett to recover about 18MB whixh is w less than i had. But as i start usinf device something starts eating away at my RAM

Originally Posted by i3onk

Old
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d...yfornowhaha.jpg

New
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d...startbutton.jpg

Originally Posted by henrykahn

I have a few question they may have been answered in the last 100+ pages but I dont have time to look through them all.

1. Anyplace where I can get free games, ringtones, themes, wallpapers for the MDA.

2. What are the features available through tweaking and are there "STEP BY STEP" and i mean step-by-step instructions on how to do so?

3. I need a screen protector and mini sd card for my device and a leather cover.... any suggestions?

Thanks very much in advance.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Here you go bro.

Originally Posted by i3onk

As far as free games, I doubt you will find anythign free worth playing, with exception to DOOM and pocket quake. Most things for the device need registering.
No need for free ringtones. You can create your own out of mp3's that you probably have on your PC. Try an app called mp3 cutter to size down those mp3's.

Tweaking is kind of a trial and error kind of thing.

minisd card
http://cgi.ebay.com/2GB-MINI-SD-MIN...QcmdZView Item

MDA accessories
http://www.thepocketsolution.com/st..._iv_accessories

Originally Posted by henrykahn

I have a few question they may have been answered in the last 100+ pages but I dont have time to look through them all.

1. Anyplace where I can get free games, ringtones, themes, wallpapers for the MDA.

2. What are the features available through tweaking and are there "STEP BY STEP" and i mean step-by-step instructions on how to do so?

3. I need a screen protector and mini sd card for my device and a leather cover.... any suggestions?

Thanks very much in advance.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Yeah I got the card in like 3 days. Was nice fast and works great

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Get my post on my upgraded skins. I like your start up icon.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Yeah I do man. I like the new skins, look great. Im playing with my newones now. The ones I just bought lol. Mixing them and some of my other skins to create the perfect skin lol. This is going to take a couple of days.

Nite man, talk to you tomorrow.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

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yeah you can get into this, even build your own. It's not that complicated. I opened up some guys text file, who was very open about how he created his skin. He said, he used parts of other peoples skin, and even gave a file that you can actually change the names of the .png, or bmp files to your own. So I suspect if you buy the software, or maybe the one you gave me, which I have not looked at, you can create your own.

I have done lots of web designing in my life, so not a big deal, though I am not the greatest artist when it comes to graphics. That is where the time is. I remember a saying once, a "good artists is a good pirate" . I have been a good modifyer of graphics, by the time I am done, they become something different. So pirating is a relevant thing to me. Now it's getting tougher with Flash. These days there is always someone selling a cheap flash tool or a template. I use so many in expensive tools, lkie Flash4D, http://www.introwizard.com/downloads/flash4d.php about 40bucks, other little tools that create any kind of flash buttons, what ever. If I need a complete flash site, I simply use monstertemplate.com. These guys are awesome artists, complete sites go for 30-60 bucks, if u don't want the original taken off site (then it's costs moolah 1200). Although the chances of someone having ur site after customizing and modifying, is like winning loto. I pay 40 bucks bro that's it. http://www.monstertemplate.com/ . I have Macromedia and Flash that I have been playing around with for many yrs. So I know enouph to change things. I'd rather just look around for some skin that some guy has 10 hrs into, and modify it a little, like this one I now use, cause the guy already did a great job. Also the sound effects he used are so very cool on this one. The device seems like it's a little alive with cute sounds even when background screen goes out.

But again bro my only pet peeve, if any, on what were doing to these devices, is the sacrafice of RAM. That's why I will gladly upgrade the MDA to 128MB, but so far not available with tech shops, or maybe upgrade to a similar device with lots of RAM, and give this one to my wife, who is a smaller person then me and uses my old iPaq 6315 now.

Great mag article on upgrading.... http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archive...ram.asp?404=was

Originally Posted by i3onk

Ok memory allocation wasnt in tweaks2k2, anyone remember where it is? lol I forgot.

Originally Posted by jonazen

i3onk - MemMaid *shows* a page that's supposed to let you reallocate memory between program storage and main memory. There's a slider, and it's a nice idea...but it doesn't work in WM5. The allocation is controlled by Windows, and I don't believe there's a way to modify it (at least it hasn't been found yet!).

I was actually hoping that either MS or some creative soul would figure out how we could take full advanage of the huge capacity of something like a 2GB miniSD, and use that for some of our expansion purposes, freeing up "main memory" as much as possible. I guess that might be a bit dicey, as you probably wouldn't want critical parts of your OS living on a memory card that could be popped out at the touch of a button.

Originally Posted by i3onk

WOW! I just had a really wierd incedent. After getting everything reinstalled after the hard reset, I went to hit the link in my tray launch to get me to this page. Well it didnt work. I checked my favorites and all my favorites were gone. I was like WTF? Well I did a full backup, then did a system file restore from an old backup. Had to copy my favorites from there and then do a full restore of the backup I just made. What a pain in the butt just to get my favorites. I dont know where they went of what happened to them. It was truley very wierd.

You guys might want to make a copy of your device favorites somwhere on your pc. Save you the hassle of going through what I just had to go through.

Originally Posted by jonazen

i3onk - MemMaid *shows* a page that's supposed to let you reallocate memory between program storage and main memory. There's a slider, and it's a nice idea...but it doesn't work in WM5. The allocation is controlled by Windows, and I don't believe there's a way to modify it (at least it hasn't been found yet!).

I was actually hoping that either MS or some creative soul would figure out how we could take full advanage of the huge capacity of something like a 2GB miniSD, and use that for some of our expansion purposes, freeing up "main memory" as much as possible. I guess that might be a bit dicey, as you probably wouldn't want critical parts of your OS living on a memory card that could be popped out at the touch of a button.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

To all you newbees in MDA land, here is something I did just for you, with proper credit for my friends here. Just in a days 20 minute fun!

I will say this. I have found out that if you replace Skin bar icons or change their colors, those which give you radio phone signals, or battery charge, will not work, unless u know what ur doing. I had to bring back the radio signal icon, cause nothing worse than an icon that serves no purpose. I now only change colors on those icons that are fixed in nature.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i...07/enhance2.jpg

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

To all you newbees in MDA land, here is something I did just for you, with proper credit for my friends here. Just in a days 20 minute fun!

I will say this. I have found out that if you replace Skin bar icons or change their colors, those which give you radio phone signals, or battery charge, will not work, unless u know what ur doing. I had to bring back the radio signal icon, cause nothing worse than an icon that serves no purpose. I now only change colors on those icons that are fixed in nature.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i...07/enhance2.jpg

Originally Posted by hiokispunja

I like it. My MDA actually slowed down when I had the WisBar Advance skins and themes so I stopped using it. I had the same stuff on my Today screen as you except for the Traylaunch..i'll hook that up tonight. What AIM client are you using? Aim.exe from your ftp? I tried it out, but it wouldn't stay connected in the background. hmmm...back to the drawing board..

Originally Posted by i3onk

Yeah the black and white skin I just bought has some nice sounds too.

Nice article. I am going to keep the pocket pc techs website bookmarked. I think that will be a worth while upgrade.

I think Im going to try a new method here. Im going to do a hard reset. First thing after the hard reset is going to be making a fresh back up of the device after a hard reset(although I think doing a hard reset actually goes faster than restoring from a backup) so I may not do that lol. Im going to install everything I can (if not everything) on my 2G minisd and then use tweaks2k2 to ajust my memory allocation. Take away some of the internal storage and give it to the main memory. wont stop the memory leakage, but it should give me more time before it gets really low and needs a soft reset.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Whee doggie! (another reference to a distant past that most on this board never knew existed!). Thanks Maddog for the mention, but you and i3onk have really kept at it while I faded out a bit - work, clients, negotiations, interviews, etc. - would rather be working on theme sets for the MDA! (so...do you remember "wheee doggie!"?, granny's cold cure? jethro learning his gazinters? ellie mae?).

Other trivia references from back then:
- Zante Misfits
- To Serve Man
- Next stop, Willoughby
- Talky Tina
- "Jeepers, Mr. White!"
- Jay North
- Hugh Beaumont (he played "Ward")

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Originally Posted by hiokispunja

I like it. My MDA actually slowed down when I had the WisBar Advance skins and themes so I stopped using it. I had the same stuff on my Today screen as you except for the Traylaunch..i'll hook that up tonight. What AIM client are you using? Aim.exe from your ftp? I tried it out, but it wouldn't stay connected in the background. hmmm...back to the drawing board..

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

I wish all u guys would post jpg screen shots of ur today screens and other stuff, I really like looking at what others are doing, and it is very interesting to me. I used to work with guys who loved computer Mods (computers with cooling systems), and cases that looked like skeletons, common boast your stuff man!! http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/...ase-mods-part-1

Here is a little screen capture utility I bought for less then 5 bucks, and has 5 star rating, simple to use, just assign a button to it, when u want to capture. I wish we can all post pictures right on the screen here. Common were having fun! Let us see your stuff. http://www.handango.com/PlatformPro...d=48250&R=48250

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

I wish all u guys would post jpg screen shots of ur today screens and other stuff, I really like looking at what others are doing, and it is very interesting to me. I used to work with guys who loved computer Mods (computers with cooling systems), and cases that looked like skeletons, common boast your stuff man!! http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/...ase-mods-part-1

Here is a little screen capture utility I bought for less then 5 bucks, and has 5 star rating, simple to use, just assign a button to it, when u want to capture. I wish we can all post pictures right on the screen here. Common were having fun! Let us see your stuff. http://www.handango.com/PlatformPro...d=48250&R=48250

Originally Posted by i3onk

Everything Maddog said in this post is correct. We are here to help man. Who knows maybe they will make us admins of this thread or something soon LOL.

Maddog, I love the Borg Cube PC mod. That is so sweet.

This is the screenshot app I use. Its free and gives you 5 seconds to get ready for it.

http://www.cetoolbox.com/PocketScreenCapture/

Originally Posted by jonazen

Wait! There's a free screen capture utility that works perfectly well:

http://www.cetoolbox.com/PocketScreenCapture/

Download and enjoy!

Originally Posted by jonazen

Wait! There's a free screen capture utility that works perfectly well:

http://www.cetoolbox.com/PocketScreenCapture/

Download and enjoy!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Yes this one is a bit more sophistacated than mine. Cause u don't have to use up a designated button to take picture. But I already bought mine, and can live with it, cause I assigned it to the #4 hold button which use to be record, then BT SoundON that I don't use anymore for MSVC with my BT H500 motorola.


Hey on another note. Do you get this? I think this is a feature of Wisbar. I noticed a very cool thing, when I open up an application, like word, or excell, or commander, what ever, an icon of the current application is placed above left corner, next to start menu. At first was not sure why, then clicked on the current app icon next to start menu, and it swapped over to the second running app, giving me a neat way to multitask. I used to have to go to Today screen, or the start menu to multitask, but this way it's quicker, faster, and Wisbar does not seem to care what application ur running, unlike start menu, which will not show u active app, unless it's in the start up, and even then it's not perfect. Very cool indeedo..

Originally Posted by hiokispunja

I like it. My MDA actually slowed down when I had the WisBar Advance skins and themes so I stopped using it. I had the same stuff on my Today screen as you except for the Traylaunch..i'll hook that up tonight. What AIM client are you using? Aim.exe from your ftp? I tried it out, but it wouldn't stay connected in the background. hmmm...back to the drawing board..

Originally Posted by i3onk

lol who knows man.

Well I think installing wisbar on my minisd may have been a mistake. I seen to be having problems with it. MDA is locking up when starting it and such. Guess Ill uninstall it and put it in ram instead.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Another thing about those running app icons next to the start bar. If you want to close one, just click and hold. When you let go it will close

Originally Posted by I Am Mr Fly

can any tell me which IM client is good so i can download it. i tried to download agile, as someone told me its the best... but i get an error message. is there any other one... if so whats the link.

Originally Posted by I Am Mr Fly

is there a program, so it can let me use it for msn, aim, and yahoo, and any other one? i was told agile, but when i click to download it, i get an error saying its not compatible. some said verichat.

Originally Posted by i3onk

I am assuming you have an MDA. So here is the agile I use.

http://www.savefile.com/files/4139644

Its a good app. Works great.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

I3onk, just curious do u have the .cab one, instead of the .exe cause I have not been using hot sync for while now..

Originally Posted by i3onk

Yeah here you go

http://www.savefile.com/files/7298955

Im actually backing up all my cabs now for minisd storage. Im sick of going through this clusterscrew of folders I have all my apps in.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

O.K thats interesting, loaded agile and noticed gray bar back on today screen, wondered why? Then noticed Agile messenger stopped statement, so got dissable agile from being on my desktop. interesting..

Originally Posted by i3onk

No, I dont mind it deleting the cabs from the temp directory when Im done installing. I just collected all of my cabs now from my actuvesync and program files, folders of my PC. Was a bit tedious, but wont have to worry about doing it again. I like using activesync though for my contacts, appointments, and my favorites. And my Avantgo updates for me every morning, so i can get my news on the way to work

Originally Posted by i3onk

Agile messenger stopped just means you havn't signed on yet. When you sign on you will get a number of contacts and a number of new messages in the today screen spot. The only thing I have noticed is sometimes after a reset its not on the today screen, but its box is still checked in the today settings. I just start the today settings then close it, and it returns.

Yeah Im not on right now, getting ready for bed.

xmpp is jabber i think I dont log onto that. I dont have any buddies on my googletalk so I dont use that right nwo either. googletalk doesnt always log in for me anyways so no biggie. icq, aim, msn and yahoo work great though.

Well Im off to bed now. Talk to you guys later. G-night.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

I guess that's true, I just don't use things that way much, but it makes sense if u use it that way. but what do u do, if your away from home or activesync, and something goes wrong, and need those cab files? Still keep them in your SD? or not?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

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I already removed it from today screen, just included as shortcut in spb plus. I guess u like it on today screen cause u get notifications of whos online, or something?

Originally Posted by i3onk

That's why I am going to keep them on my minisd now with 2G worth of minisd space, I can afford to have them all on my card along with my ringtones, message tones, shortcuts, icons, pictures, and favorites.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Just tells me how many buddies are online and if there are any messages.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

too late i clicked ok. and it's downloading?

Well it wants to remove old version, but can't so i wants to know if it's o.k to continue intallation, lets see....decions, decisions.. instaling amuupdate.cab, but as expected could not. Weird with WM5 nothing loads without removing, and frankly I can't remove anything. So I guess I am stuck with old version, and that's o.k. Now for me to install new version, cause I can't remove nothing from this, my only weird issue with 2.17. I would now have to go back to my last big backup, before agile, and load the new one again. But Im happy with the versin u sent me, the heck with it.

Nigthy nigthy

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

If I have a yahoo account for email, can I use that?

Originally Posted by i3onk

does it delete cabs just from the temp folder or any folder that the cab is installed from?

Originally Posted by i3onk

wierd, it should have removed the old version by itself before installing the new one.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

It's no news to me, cause I hve had NO luck what so ever un installing anything with 2.17. Bottom line! Unless it's my MDa system conflict? But why would it be when all is running excellent! It's just weird. Unless u have tried this already and it does not happen to u with 2.17, or Jonazen with 2.17, or anyone else with 2.17, but no one here is communicating about their experience removing softwarte with 2.17. We all seem to be cold booting or for the most part restoring backups.

So Im on my own. But as long as I have successfull backups in three different levels, sort of speak, I don't feel threatened by this issue.

I don't like being hostage to any particular process, like what if hotsync does not work. I easily get around it, and im also looking at the dongle sync idea, since I have one, but have not figured out what to do with it, yet. Again, I don't get news the way u do from activesync before work. Active sync serves a purpose, but hate relying on anything, or anyone for that matter.

Although I give credit where credit is due, and u have been very good at responding, plus you are a guy who seems to come through, I don't know u personally, but already admire that about u, cause I am same with people in everyday life. I am always there, as u can see I believe in people, but most are out for themselves, unless they need something from you, and that is true in life, coming from a guy that has lived, as long as my guy Jonazen!

It's a funny thing to me about people, I am self employed, have owned businesess for over 20 yrs, and still find time. Figure?

Originally Posted by jonazen

So - I won't have much time to play here for a while. When I do, I think I'll be making some changes:

- planning on adding Wisbar Advanced Desktop and creating multiple virtual desktops -- I like that idea

- will be working on my own, lighter weight skins. I like Juni's work a lot, but I think I can come up with lighter weight stuff that ought to load faster (I think)

- may drop iLauncher once I have WAD installed - should be redundant I suspect.

- Might do a hard reset first just to make sure things are completely cleaned out first.

- will also look into trying your strategy of taking incremental backups between installs, to make recovery easy if anything fails.

For now, though, gotta put all this fun stuff on hold.

For those who celebrated - Happy Passover. For those celebrating tomorrow, Happy Easter. For those who are about to rock - we salute you!

Originally Posted by mcd

Can anyone elaborate on the port80 proxy settings for unlocking access to the web via gprs on T-mobile's network?

Originally Posted by ilvla2

Yeah, too bad the closest hot spot to me is 50 miles away Their hotspots are way too far apart and too few for much of NorCal (at least for everything north of Santa Rosa and Sacramento). It's weird too for us here in Mendocino County, there's a brand new Starbucks here in the Ukiah area (8 miles south of me) and it has no HotSpot, yet Fort Bragg, a town of 5500 over on the coast just west of me has one at their Starbucks, go figure.

Originally Posted by eep02b

ok, i have a question. I have RegWiz so that i can recieve bluetooth files. The only thing is that i still cannot recieve bluetooth files. And if i am recieving them, then i cannot find them. Where do files recieved over bluetooth go?? Is there anything else that i have to do to unlock bluetooth recieve besides have RegWiz??

Originally Posted by i3onk

I was actually playing with the wisbar desktop last night. I think I may have to switch to it as well. It is a really nice app that does everything i need it to do. Best part is my pocketbreeze/contact breeze wont go to waste. I havnt figured out a way to remove the today screen apps from a page yet so until I do, I am going to need to come up with a plan on how I want my pages layed out. I have had some issues with it though. I think those may have been my fault. After creating a page with some today screen apps, I also added them back to my today screen. For some reason when I used the messages app on my today screen to check a text message it shut down my WAD. Its going to take some playing around with. Glad I made a fresh backup yesterday before playing with it.
One nice thing about it, you can lock it into landscape mode. Dont know if I want to use it that way, but it was kind of neat to see it.

Maddog! Where do I go about getting this reg hack to keep my cabs from deleting after install. Right now I copy them from my installs folder into my temp folder then install them from there letting them delete. Pain in the *** to go through all that though.

Happy Easter to all of you aout there and Happy Passover to my fellow Jews.

Originally Posted by eep02b

ok, i have a question. I have RegWiz so that i can recieve bluetooth files. The only thing is that i still cannot recieve bluetooth files. And if i am recieving them, then i cannot find them. Where do files recieved over bluetooth go?? Is there anything else that i have to do to unlock bluetooth recieve besides have RegWiz??

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Easy bro, u keep mentioning it, surprise u missed it, tweak2k2 under system tricks/collection 5 Do not delete CAB files.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Hey! Not that old yet!

I like your approach to backups, and taking them at various stages of installation so you can "fall back" to step prior to the most recent install so you don't have to keep starting from scratch (that gets old FAST).

I've found uninstalls generally bad WM5. I can't recall ANY of them working 100%. I've had to go in after the fact and manually remove directories, registry entries, links in the startup folder, etc to complete an uninstall. While I find it tedious and annoying, it's not so bad by comparison to Windows XP -- even when an uninstall "works", there's often ALL sorts of garbage left behind - muck in several places in your registry, DLL's strewn throughout your Windows and System32 subdirs, etc. MS have NEVER gotten the uninstall concept right on any platform.

2.17 is at least as bad as the prior version in this regard - maybe worse.

Also - I'm finding that the phone does NOT boot up consistently. Really seems to be a timing issue. This may be a result of installing some things to the memory card and others to internal program storage -- I've read that the storage card may sometimes be slow to initialize. What's irritating is that results are NOT consistent. Sometimes -- most of the time actually -- everything boots up just right. But sometimes, PocketBreeze may fail to start up at all. Last night, I got a boot up message telling me that PZPTools.exe (pocketzenphone) failed to run -- but then after the dust settled, it was running just fine (???). A couple of times, Wisbar loaded up, but apparently couldn't find all the skin files fast enough, so a couple of spots on the screen had the default images instead of the custom skins I had installed -- but the next time I booted, it loaded everything just fine.

I also had my own business -- for the past 13 years. Just now in the process of considering joining up with a larger firm. The big concern now is actually that I'll probably have LESS time to myself -- or at least less ability to determine WHEN I take the time for myself. That has always been the luxury of running your own business (for me at least). Always put in lots of hours, but when and where I chose. That's my biggest hesitation when considering outside employment. But the spots I'm looking at really look good, and could be reason to make the jump. If it doesn't work out, I can always come back to my own business again. We'll see what happens...

Biggest reason I can't play this weekend is all the company here. My brother and his family are here now (staying several days). We have 16 people here tomorrow for Easter, and getting the house ready now. Tonight, I'm ducking out for a few hours with some friends to watch the UFC fight (#59 "Reality Check"). Tonight should be good -- but the next one, 60, should be fantastic with Royce Gracie and Matt Hughes. btw: speaking of "old" -- I'm still practicing martial arts a few times a week, currently with a fantastic jeet kune do instructor; karate, kung fu and several years of aikido prior to this. My wife isn't thrilled and wonders why I like pounding on sweaty people and getting thrown around, but I love it -- we mix in lots of different styles and techniques from classic arts - karate and kung fu, grappling and jujitsu, sticks (filipino kali and escrima), indonesian styles like ****ao and Silat, weapons and more. Keeps you young! Whenever Dan Inosanto swings out East with a seminar in the Princeton or Connecticut area, I make a point of attending -- at 70, he's still one of the best, and a 2-day seminar with him, 6 hours on Saturday and 6 hours on Sunday, is a fantastic experience (Dan was Bruce Lee's partner for years, and primary training partner, introducing filipino martial arts into Bruce's Jeet Kune Do).

So - I won't have much time to play here for a while. When I do, I think I'll be making some changes:

- planning on adding Wisbar Advanced Desktop and creating multiple virtual desktops -- I like that idea

- will be working on my own, lighter weight skins. I like Juni's work a lot, but I think I can come up with lighter weight stuff that ought to load faster (I think)

- may drop iLauncher once I have WAD installed - should be redundant I suspect.

- Might do a hard reset first just to make sure things are completely cleaned out first.

- will also look into trying your strategy of taking incremental backups between installs, to make recovery easy if anything fails.

For now, though, gotta put all this fun stuff on hold.

For those who celebrated - Happy Passover. For those celebrating tomorrow, Happy Easter. For those who are about to rock - we salute you!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

It's no news to me, cause I hve had NO luck what so ever un installing anything with 2.17. Bottom line! Unless it's my MDa system conflict? But why would it be when all is running excellent! It's just weird. Unless u have tried this already and it does not happen to u with 2.17, or Jonazen with 2.17, or anyone else with 2.17, but no one here is communicating about their experience removing softwarte with 2.17. We all seem to be cold booting or for the most part restoring backups.

So Im on my own. But as long as I have successfull backups in three different levels, sort of speak, I don't feel threatened by this issue.

I don't like being hostage to any particular process, like what if hotsync does not work. I easily get around it, and im also looking at the dongle sync idea, since I have one, but have not figured out what to do with it, yet. Again, I don't get news the way u do from activesync before work. Active sync serves a purpose, but hate relying on anything, or anyone for that matter.

Although I give credit where credit is due, and u have been very good at responding, plus you are a guy who seems to come through, I don't know u personally, but already admire that about u, cause I am same with people in everyday life. I am always there, as u can see I believe in people, but most are out for themselves, unless they need something from you, and that is true in life, coming from a guy that has lived, as long as my guy Jonazen!

It's a funny thing to me about people, I am self employed, have owned businesess for over 20 yrs, and still find time. Figure?

Originally Posted by i3onk

OK well then Im a little dissapointed. I dont have thast option in my tweaks2k2. Hmmm. Wait I know, I bet you are using the beta version arent you? I know you like those betas. LOL Ill check it out now. I think I had a prob with it the first time I used it and it sent me to bootloader. Ill try it again. WTH I have good backups now hehe.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Oh I almost forgot. MadDog, You have to take a SERIOUS look at the wisbar desktop. You think you like your SBP Diary now, how would you like a FULL SCREEN page dedicated just to Diary. I am going to do some serious tweaking with this when my daughter takes off with her friends in about an hour.

Originally Posted by i3onk

I want to thank you for thoese comments. I like to think I do what I can for people whenever possible, and try even when its not. I see you ar the same way. With the two of us on these boards, and Jonazen when hes not to bogged down with work, we should be able to handle anyones issues that may arrise. I think we are close to becoming MDA gods. HAHA! Ok not gods, I havnt gotten into writing my own ROMS yet, but you never know, maybe we can figure it out between the three of us and collaborate on the best TMO MDA ROM ever released lol

I dont know why I have such a different Tweaks2k2 than you but I am glad I got the new one. There were a couple different options in there that I didnt have on my old one. Im going to test the cab thing right now with TenGo keyboard app.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Like your california governor Arnold Schwartneiger, or what ever, would say, DO eett, DO eett. And then post ur jpg images so I can see in detail!

Originally Posted by eep02b

ok, so how am i supposed to recieve files with the MDA?? i've tried to recieve them before, and could not recieve them. I was told that bluetooth recieve was not part of the bluetooth stack. is this incorrect??

Originally Posted by i3onk

Oh I almost forgot. MadDog, You have to take a SERIOUS look at the wisbar desktop. You think you like your SBP Diary now, how would you like a FULL SCREEN page dedicated just to Diary. I am going to do some serious tweaking with this when my daughter takes off with her friends in about an hour.

Originally Posted by eep02b

ok, so how am i supposed to recieve files with the MDA?? i've tried to recieve them before, and could not recieve them. I was told that bluetooth recieve was not part of the bluetooth stack. is this incorrect??

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Like your california governor Arnold Schwartneiger, or what ever, would say, DO eett, DO eett. And then post ur jpg images so I can see in detail!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

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I wont lie especially to you bro, I checked it out, and it did seem like an interesting application, but had just bought Plus and Diary, and felt, man I don't mind buying them, but don't like opening up window and throwing money into the street, unless someone can use it, and find it a blessing.

Post pictures, cause I am intersted in your results, but not sure I wnt to jump on the wagon so quick. Unless you impress the living crap out of me with it.

Originally Posted by i3onk

OK man here you go.

1- make sure you are set to discoverabel in your bluetooth settings.

2- the sender wants to go to the file they want(im assuming they are using a standard cell ie...razr) copy it, then they will some options and they will choose bluetooth

3- they will see your phone popup on their screen as a bluetooth recipient and they will choose you

4-they will send and you accept the recieve.

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Ok for those of you who havnt sent something FROM the MDA to a bluetooth device, you may have some problems doing it with the regular file explorer. There is NO option for it. You will WANT to get resco file explorer. (trust me it kicks ***) you go to the file, tap and hold tap send to then tap bluetooth recipient and then away you go. I regularly send ringtones, images, and video via bluetooth and it works great.



Going to take me a couple days to get it right, but then I will post screenies of my desktops. Im looking for the right background now. Which reminds me.

Anyone know how to extract the image from a theme(.tsk) file? I really want to use my present today screen image as my desktop background.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Man I just looked up Resco file manager. Nice piece of software, but where was it a few weeks ago, before I bought my reg editor, and other stuff that comes bundled with Resco??

Originally Posted by henrykahn

how do I update my internet on my mda to ie 5.0? I hate to be asking so many questions I was a master at my moto rzr I used answer other peoples questions but I needa learn things on the mda

Originally Posted by tonkabui

for everyone using opera, does it take a while to boot up? once loaded, the program works fine, but that initial launch for me takes almost a minute. am i doing something wrong?

Originally Posted by i3onk

Check this thread. I think i remember seeing a few things in it about that.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...71&page=8&pp=15

Originally Posted by robpet2

I know this sounds like a stupid question but can you buy stuff off websites using your mda using a credit card?

Originally Posted by tknospdr

And a question of my own. Does anyone know of a way I can update my ROM with my Mac? I've installed VPC 7.1 with XP SP2 and all security updates and ActiveSync 4.1 but it won't see the phone. When I go into device manager it says that the driver is installed correctly but fails to start up.

Originally Posted by robpet2

LMAO OFF AT THIS FLOMAX COMMERCIAL - thanks for the reply just wanted to make sure b4 I send my cc info over the web.

So far I think I will purchas sbp pocket plus, not sure about spb backup ( 19.95 for just that one application ) I think I might be safe aslong as anything I download I copy to sdcard, and computer and put all my contacts on my sim..... what thing or reasons would you use sbp backup? ( still looking for more programs - already put macromedia flash 7 back on. ) or is tweaks2k2 better- don't want to download something or buy it if it isn't worth it

Originally Posted by tknospdr

What's the dotted line at the top of everyone's screen?

Thanks,
David

Originally Posted by i3onk

Thats SBP Pocket plus battery meter.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Well here is a pic of a few of the virtual desktop pages I have created so far. I just threw these together so I can show a pick of what its like..

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/i3onk/MyWAD.jpg

Still have alot of work to do before I create the real one.

Originally Posted by tonkabui

for everyone using opera, does it take a while to boot up? once loaded, the program works fine, but that initial launch for me takes almost a minute. am i doing something wrong?

Originally Posted by mcd

______________

my understanding is that the only difference between T-mobile's USA $6/month GPRS email service and the $30/month unlimited web access is that there are some ports blocked from the $6 subscription, and that this can be gotten around by using a proxy. can anyone shed any light on this?

Originally Posted by robpet2

arghhhhhhhhh
had to do my first Hard Reset and lost everything - Be carefull what programs you install on the mda - but one good thing is I have plenty of free ram now
but no apps yet

Originally Posted by robpet2

LMAO OFF AT THIS FLOMAX COMMERCIAL - thanks for the reply just wanted to make sure b4 I send my cc info over the web.

So far I think I will purchas sbp pocket plus, not sure about spb backup ( 19.95 for just that one application ) I think I might be safe aslong as anything I download I copy to sdcard, and computer and put all my contacts on my sim..... what thing or reasons would you use sbp backup? ( still looking for more programs - already put macromedia flash 7 back on. ) or is tweaks2k2 better- don't want to download something or buy it if it isn't worth it

Originally Posted by i3onk

Trust me, you want to get SBP Backup. It is by far one of the best purchases I have made for my MDA yet. You think you have the apps you want, and you think you have it setup the way you want. Im here to tell y ou YOU DONT!! LOL You are now addicted, and will be for some time to come. The more neet things you see the more you will want to try out. Backup will save your butt man. Takes about 10 minutes to backup and same for restore.(give or take) I do a backup after every successful install of an app, Just in case> If you have an issue while installing the next app, just hard reset then hit the executable for the last backup you did. You will be right back wehere you were before everything went to crap. Ther is actually no reason to hard reset before restoring either. Thats just if you get into serious trouble. See the ting about SBP backup is, you dont have to reinstall all of your apps and contacts. (not to mention if you use active sync you dont have to worry about your contacts, they will be sync'd in from outlook.)Your apps and contacts are already in the backup. Is always nice to have the cab files backedup on sd or you PC just in case though.

I didnt botehr paying for tweaks2k2. I do a hard reset right now a few times a week. After all those hard resets I have learned what tweaks I want out of it. I get them all on the first run and dont have to worry about the two more trial openings. not to mention, once you get them down and backedup from a good install, you wont need to use it again anyways.

WOW! Look at me, Im starting to type novels like MadDog HAHA!

Ok well Mine are more short stories compared to his :P

Originally Posted by henrykahn

how do I update my internet on my mda to ie 5.0? I hate to be asking so many questions I was a master at my moto rzr I used answer other peoples questions but I needa learn things on the mda

Originally Posted by robpet2

okay just finished getting mda back to life, added phoneskin, added opera..... opera is okay on some sites but if you try to use it one howard forums it takes a year to load halfway and just stop... PIE seems to work a little better to me so far.... plugin for sbp pocket plus makes the mda work like a good mp3 player.... and I still have good ram left....

any good recommendations on programs or apps that are not in the last 144 pages?

I know this was discussed but how can we change the calculator skin.. I got the sbp extended theme but the calculator still looks the same...

Originally Posted by i3onk

Well here is a pic of a few of the virtual desktop pages I have created so far. I just threw these together so I can show a pick of what its like..

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/i3onk/MyWAD.jpg

Still have alot of work to do before I create the real one.

Originally Posted by eep02b

I have a question, on most GSM phones, there is an option in the menu for hiding your caller id when calling. Like on the Moto Razr, you go into (if i'm not mistaken) in-call setup, and caller ID, and just click Hide ID. Is there an option to do this on the MDA?? If so i can't find it. Can anybody help?? And i have the original T-Mobile Rom on my phone.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Ok well, I think I may just go back to wisbar without the desktop. after working with it for a few days and watching it performance, I am a little disappointed. I have found myself doing more softresets than ever, on a regular basis. While it is a wonderful app, it is just too buggy and a big resource hog. If there was more memory to play with I may concider keeping it, but after a reset, I find myself starting with 17M of RAM. This is in no way enough RAM to have to start with. I love the app, but it just isn't feasable to use it right now. Maybe after a 128M upgrade I will try it again. For now though, it will sit in a folder on my PC awaiting it's return.

Originally Posted by henrykahn

Alright now that I know how to do the basics I need to know the latest rom and the best rom for my mda. I also need to know where to get the Original Shipped ROM from tmobile for warranty purposes. They say if you tamper with the software the warranty is void. So...

I have heard about the Qteks being the best but i dont know.

Originally Posted by robpet2

scratch my previous post dissing opera.... opera kicks PIE a$$ all down the street ..... it acts just like your on you pc.... if you use yahoo mail for example you can actually delete email.... might have to do a hard reset and add this to my backup...
forgot to do backup since installing spb diary and but i ( can you choose what programs to back up )

Originally Posted by i3onk

most of us in this thread use 2.17 ROM. we are still debating weather it is the best or not. we are all having different issues with it. As far as your OEM TMO ROM, if you get a program called awizard(dont get the beta) it will CID unlock your phone and make backups of all of your TMO ROMS. You will need to unnlock before flashing new ROM anyways, so this is the best way to go. I am at work right now so I don't have the 2.17 link handy, but I am sure someone else can post it.

Originally Posted by robpet2

dammit i guess i will just wait till i have to do a hard reset cause i forgot to do a back up after i installed something that was worth keepin. so the spb backup doenst keep apps? so that means that i will have to re-install everything...

Originally Posted by mcd

______________

my understanding is that the only difference between T-mobile's USA $6/month GPRS email service and the $30/month unlimited web access is that there are some ports blocked from the $6 subscription, and that this can be gotten around by using a proxy. can anyone shed any light on this?

Originally Posted by i3onk

most of us in this thread use 2.17 ROM. we are still debating weather it is the best or not. we are all having different issues with it. As far as your OEM TMO ROM, if you get a program called awizard(dont get the beta) it will CID unlock your phone and make backups of all of your TMO ROMS. You will need to unnlock before flashing new ROM anyways, so this is the best way to go. I am at work right now so I don't have the 2.17 link handy, but I am sure someone else can post it.

Originally Posted by robpet2

thanks bro about the tip on the back up...
what do people on this thread think about opera 8.5beta on MDA.. cause it has its good and bad things..
GOOD THINGS
1. multiple pages on screen ( tab browsing) similar to netscape
2. displays faster(loads faster) than PIE
3. looks more like you are really using your PC than a mobile browser

SOME BAD THINGS
1. when switching from portrait to landscape you web page looks crazy and the layout goes crazy
2. howard forums looks better on PIE. on opera it looks generic
3. sometimes a page loading seems unresponsive but it is actually still trying to load it...

On a another note... does anyone have any links to some good streaming media

and can you use RSS feeds directly to MDA

Originally Posted by i3onk

Open up your phone dialer and go to menu and options. Go to services. Its in there.



MadDog, that Icon on the bottom right next to doom, is gfdoom lol, and yes I got them from your site. Just havnt had time to play them yet. Had issues with quake2 so I need to set it up again.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Ok well, I think I may just go back to wisbar without the desktop. after working with it for a few days and watching it performance, I am a little disappointed. I have found myself doing more softresets than ever, on a regular basis. While it is a wonderful app, it is just too buggy and a big resource hog. If there was more memory to play with I may concider keeping it, but after a reset, I find myself starting with 17M of RAM. This is in no way enough RAM to have to start with. I love the app, but it just isn't feasable to use it right now. Maybe after a 128M upgrade I will try it again. For now though, it will sit in a folder on my PC awaiting it's return.

Originally Posted by robpet2

dammit i guess i will just wait till i have to do a hard reset cause i forgot to do a back up after i installed something that was worth keepin. so the spb backup doenst keep apps? so that means that i will have to re-install everything...

Originally Posted by robpet2

thanks for the input on sbp backup. I did read all the other 143 pages in this thread, but it takes a while to read them on the mda ( can't get online at the time on my laptop ).... I took the advise a got the spb Backup and the pocket plus and sbp diary... cost me 50 bucks soit better be worth it.... but its all good.... I got my mda almost back to where it was b4 the hard reset... I think it was the wififodum or whatever its called that kept messin my mda up.... the hard reset did fix the msword error that someone else was getting........
bout to install my dialer skin again and do another backup...

but one question - when you need to restore from a hard reset using the backup, you have to use the pc or restore from sdcard???

Originally Posted by jonazen

I wanted to try WAD to go along with WA2, but haven't even had time to think much about doing this over the last few days. A bit disappointing to hear about your experience with WAD, although I was wondering if it would be a resource problem. The virtual desktops have to "live" somewhere, and the plugins have to be loaded and running whether or not a virtual page is showing at any given time (it would kill performance to have to load a virtual page and its plugins on the fly when you show the page). So -- this HAS to be heavier than the Today screen by itself, and HAS to be heavier than Today screen plus Wisbar (without WAD).

I'm also concerned because you saw this resource consumption without even going in for a fancy or complex 3D desktop of any sort - your background was simple enough so that it should have been very compressable. More complex images would eat even more resources. I love the idea of virtual desktops -- just don't know if the resource trade-off will be worth it...

Originally Posted by i3onk

OK here is aWizard for you man. It's really weasy to use.

http://www.savefile.com/projects.php?pid=617948

And here is link to the xdev forums where you can get the TMO 2.17 ROm upgrade.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=44631

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Sorry for ur experiences, but your and mine on Opera are two different sides of the world. I get nothing of what u said, My landescape works beautifully, especially with HOFO. Franckly I don't like PIE very much. The only pet peeve, if any on Opera, to me, is that it does not support flash on PPC, yet, on beta version. But I got no issues with it at all, and based on the reviews I have read http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/in...=3&p=478&more=1, it is arguably one the best browswers in the market today for a PPC, and growing on the PC platform too. So my feeling is, as always, you can please some of the people some of time, but no all the people all of the time mentality.

There are several other products browsers, thank goodnes for consumer markets , that you can try. NetFront 3.2 is considered also arguably one of the best. I bought NetFront 3.2 for WM2003, but soon found out it did not support WM5, yet, so stopped using it for now. But it supports Flash on WM03, lots of features. Keep it in mind, cause it will support WM5 very soon.

And there is Thunderhawk, it is also considered a top notch browser. I like this one alot too. I tried this browser, the landscape mode is beautiful, cause the comany who designed it, is also a font corporation, but what detered me from keeping it was the charge is high, and if u really like it, they use proxy and charge a small monthly fee.

Thunderhawk Review: http://www.mobiletechreview.com/sof...thunderhawk.htm
Try thunderhawk: http://www.bitstream.com/wireless/

What do u think I3onk. I got u going on Opera, what is your personal experience on the MDA with Opera?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Remember on Quake 2, the issue may come if you name the file anything else but "quake", cause it looks for the game file in quake/ID1. And it has to be on the root, like the SD card, not like game/quake/ID1. It should work, that has been my only issue.
Great game, a little slower than gfDoom, but awesome feeling and sounds.

The question I had on WAD is how do you get to the virtual pages from the desktop?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

You see bro, i downloaded WAD installed it, and ran it, and felt, may be this is not for me, without wasting too much time with it. It is not as reliable as Spb Pocket Plus, and as easy to use. It gives the effect it is a nice feeling, but it may totally defeat the purpose of having ur stuff to look at on the Today screen daily. If I have to go to a virtual page to see Spb Diary, for example, i might as well go to the contacts virtual page, instead of using Diary on virtual page? Anyway, you crack me up , cause your a trooper man!! You will give any darn thing a try and give it the best shot. But like u already in the 15 minuts I spent on it, felt, I was glad to restore my entire enchalada back to Spb Plus and Diary, plus my the great Tray Launcher, you turned me on too Bro

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Say whaaaaat!! Hey Spb Backup will be the best investment you will ever make bro. It backs up everything on MDA, makes a mirrow image of your PPC, every darn thing on the device, with the exception of your SD card. So if you utilize the 40 or so MB's on Flash, it will backup every app you installed. I for example, have loaded all my neat apps I like in Flash with keys, etc., so that if I need to restore, I get everything back like a mirror, don't skip a beat. You may want to also hack the registry using tweak2k2 or if your brave, use a regeditor, before loading the rest of your apps in flash, then do ur first backup. Cause sooner or later, it's not a matter of if, but a matter of when, like now, and u will be happy to have that self extract file which will put you back on top of your game plan, without too much trouble.

The key fact about backing up is to do several on different stages, so that you can always go back to a stage that u know looked and worked well. Like when I tried WAD the other night, I went back to my 1st stage with just hacks and flash apps, then loaded WAD. Once I figured WAD may not be for me, I then went to my 3rd and final stage backup and restored the way it was, like a mirror restore. I did not skip a beat and was up and running as if nothing happened in less then 10 minutes

Originally Posted by henrykahn

actually Iam not going to do anything right now but once I get my phone exchanged ( making a buzzing noise during call ) I will then upgrade,reflash, etc. and make it custom. I just want to gather the information and be ready

i3onk seems to be a master at this so can you give me a yahoo addy or something and i can seek your mentorship.

Originally Posted by jonazen

I think this may have to become part of my approach. As you'll remember, I've been "thinking" of making a bunch of changes to my installation over the last several days, but haven't had the time. Well NOW, for some reason, I think my installation may have made the decision for me. Even when I do a reset, my MDA is acting differently than it did a week ago. Some apps aren't consistently starting up correctly, and now when I use Voice Command to change profiles via pocketzenphone (PZP), the PZP icon display doesn't change properly and I can't really tell easily whether the profile has changed or not. A couple of other odd behaviors as well.

So...I'm thinking that something I've done may have scragged the current install. It would be GREAT if I could simply fall back to one of several prior backed up configs - perahps one without PZP installed, or without ContactBreeze or PocketBreeze. But no...I don't have any backups like that to roll back to.

So many it's time for me to follow your lead...if I have to do a hard reset and reinstall apps, I should do take incremental backups along the way this time.

Do you store all your various backup versions on a single miniSD, or on your PC? (sorry if I missed the details in your earlier posts). I've got a 1gb miniSD in my MDA now (2gb ordered a couple of days ago). Wondering if perhaps I should use the 1gb to hold several backups, and then swap in the 2gb for "everyday use" (music, data files, email attachments, browser cache, etc).

Suggestions?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Who are you? Are you someone we knew

Originally Posted by i3onk

Each backup will probably cost you about 14-15M of space. I have my 2G card and just keep them in a folder called backups. I dont have all my backuips on my minisd though. I just keep the last two that I have made. I have the other three, One from when I have OEM TMO ROM (Just in case i ever have to go back to it for whatever reason), one from 2.17 install, and now i have the last two from when I went with the 2.17 ROM with the 1.12 radio ROM. I know what apps i like to run now so I dont do a backup after an install of every app. I just install all the apps then get my ringtones set, message tones(ie..special ed saying I GOT MAIL!! when I get an email HEHE) and things like my voice dial recordings and such.Then I back up and go on from there.

Originally Posted by jonazen

So...it can do a restore right off an image on the miniSD and avoid the need for a hard reset and app reinstalls, right? That sure would be nice...

Originally Posted by robpet2

oh yeah I purchased spb backup, and diary( cool app ) and also got the plugin for windows media player( so my mda acts like a ipod on crack) now I just need a damn 2gig sd card ( bought the 256 - trying to be cheap at the moment) but that I see all the things this mda can do I'm ready to invest a little bit more....

People I run into say "you spent 250 (also getting another 50 bucks back frm rebate ) dollars on a phone" , and I'm like pump yo brakes - this a pocket pc not a caveman sidekick.... this mda can do more tricks than david coperfield....

good utility to get is memmaid for the newbies ( frees up the ram on mda - if you surf the web alot , you definitely need it )

what's up with the streaming media site people.!!!!!!!!!!!
hook me up

Originally Posted by i3onk

Yep the image is an exe file so you can restore at anytime. no issues at all.

On anotehr note, another one of my trial periods past. Resco file explorer. I just got done purchasing it from handango. Instead of just getting the explorer with the reg editor and the ftp addon. I got the multi pack for $10 dollars more. Also includes the resco keyboard pro which trial anded for me yesterday. Also has a nice picture viewer and editor. Came with resco sticky notes too, but I dont see myself having a use for that. The reg resco explorer with reg editor and ftp addon was$25, the keyboard is another $20 So i think I got the better end fo the stick lol. Now I just have to update my cab install forlder, install them and do yet another backup LMAO.

Originally Posted by robpet2

I know this is a dumb question but what folder do I need to put mp3's in to act as alerts for voicemail, etc....

and where can I get special ed ( I got mail) and others like it,... I'm looking for some stuff from family guy, and family dad, and king of the hill, and dave chapelle show....

Originally Posted by i3onk

You can only use mp3's for ringtones. You will add them to windows\rings

Message tones are in .wav format and they are in the windows folder.

I make my own ringtones and message tones. The best way to find the files you want is to google them or to try and get them from a P2P app like limewire. I use an app called mp3 cutter to make my ringtones and message tones smaller.