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

Originally Posted by i3onk

I believe that is PZP (Pocket Zen Phone)

Originally Posted by jonazen

iLauncher will let me do that also. You can create as many icon folders as you like, and you can optionally pick one to be displayed on the icon tray at the bottom of the screen. Just haven't decided what I want down there yet...

Originally Posted by jonazen

Yup - that's PZP. There's a default appearance, but this is the skin set that I like. There are a dozen different skins on the PZP website, and you can also create your own pretty easily as well.

PZP is an excellent phone "profile" manager, and since you can use shortcuts (.lnk files) to invoke your different profiles, you can name them something meaningful, put them somewhere in your Program Files path (I created a PZPLinks subfolder under Program Files), and MS Voice Command will find them and figure out how they're pronounced on boot up. I named mine "Loud", "Office, "Home", "Car" and "Discreet" --- so now I can fire up Voice Command and tell it to "start Loud", "start Car", etc, and it switches the profile for me immediately. Incredibly convenient, for example, to walk into a library or a meeting, hit the Voice Command button and simply say, "start Discreet" and have my ringer silenced and vibration turned on.

Killer app combination for me....

Originally Posted by jonazen

Also read somewhere that there's a utility that lets you put a lock/unlock icon in the bottom icon bar, so you can remove the lock Today item...might check that out as well to clean up the desktop a bit more...

Originally Posted by i3onk

I think I am getting rid of agile for good at least until they come up with a better version. Im going to try aim 2.0 for now. Wish there was another option to log me onto aim, yahoo and MSN all at once though.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Last thing for tweaking will probably be to try out OMAP clock tomorrow along with Smartskey. But I've got to say, this device is getting really sweet!

Originally Posted by jonazen

iLauncher will let me do that also. You can create as many icon folders as you like, and you can optionally pick one to be displayed on the icon tray at the bottom of the screen. Just haven't decided what I want down there yet...

Originally Posted by hiokispunja

That looks good! What's that today plug-in in your top bar? I like it....

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

hiokispunja Aloha! Show and tell time.. Here is a little different look for you.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Now its my turn



This is the Dinarsoft taptext I was talking about. Each item on that menu adds text into messages/emails, or into logon boxes on a website.



This is the Dinarsoft HandyLauncher. The multicolored icon next to the comm icon at the far right is what activates it. This is the menu that comes up with a single tap.



This is the menu that comes up with a tap and hold.



And 1 more. With my Wisbar skins on.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

You finally gave me a real experience for you on PZP and libray.

But I got to agree with I3onk on this. If I go to a library, a church or a meeting, where vibration is required, I just simply hit the comm mgr button and bingo on Vibrate. Now I know you know that, so you must have other reasons why you use PZP. But it must take even a little resource. But to me the only two profiles I care for are sound on [or] vibration mode.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Yup - I could accomplish "discreet" (my silent mode w/vibrate) using the comm mgr button. But there's a bit more to the others that I've gotten used to:

- Loud: I created this profile for times when I'm outside or in a noisy environment. I have it set to use an abnormally loud and attention-getting ringtone in combination with turning up the volume to max AND having vibrate turned on. (bluetooth off). Loud, insistent, repeating alert for incoming email and messages.

- Home: Mellow ringtone that doesn't make my cats fluff out and cling to the ceiling, medium volume, and vibrate off. (bluetooth off). Mellow alert for incoming mail and messages.

- Car: Bluetooth automatically turned on, ringtone and volume similar to home: non-jarring, medium volume. Mellow alert for incoming mail and messages.

- Office: Audible, but pleasant and non-intrusive ringtone (like the gentle "bing-bong" tones you might hear in a hospital -- three different tones, but all generally like this, for phone, email and messages. Low volume, vibrate on, bluetooth off.

It's nice that I can change all these combos just by hitting the VC button (I've set it to btn #3) and saying, "start Car" or "start Home", etc.

Just the way it's fun to change backgrounds, themes, etc -- I really like being able to control the audible part of the phone also. PZP also lets me have the profiles switched automatically according to Outlook appointments or on a schedule. For instance -- I could instruct PZP to switch to "discreet" automatically when an appointment begins with a category = "business" (just an example), and automatically switch back to "office" afterward. I could program it to switch to "discreet" at 10:00pm, and back to "home" or "loud" at 7am... loads of options.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Wow I didnt realize that PZP was such a functional tool. I think I tried it once for a few minutes and realized that I didnt really need it. Now I think I WANT it though LMAO.

Originally Posted by tknospdr

I just uploaded a 6.8MB file to my MDA and I can't find it to move it to my storage card. It should be in 'My Documents' but I don't see it anywhere. How can I find it?

Originally Posted by jonazen

Yup - I could accomplish "discreet" (my silent mode w/vibrate) using the comm mgr button. But there's a bit more to the others that I've gotten used to:

- Loud: I created this profile for times when I'm outside or in a noisy environment. I have it set to use an abnormally loud and attention-getting ringtone in combination with turning up the volume to max AND having vibrate turned on. (bluetooth off). Loud, insistent, repeating alert for incoming email and messages.

- Home: Mellow ringtone that doesn't make my cats fluff out and cling to the ceiling, medium volume, and vibrate off. (bluetooth off). Mellow alert for incoming mail and messages.

- Car: Bluetooth automatically turned on, ringtone and volume similar to home: non-jarring, medium volume. Mellow alert for incoming mail and messages.

- Office: Audible, but pleasant and non-intrusive ringtone (like the gentle "bing-bong" tones you might hear in a hospital -- three different tones, but all generally like this, for phone, email and messages. Low volume, vibrate on, bluetooth off.

It's nice that I can change all these combos just by hitting the VC button (I've set it to btn #3) and saying, "start Car" or "start Home", etc.

Just the way it's fun to change backgrounds, themes, etc -- I really like being able to control the audible part of the phone also. PZP also lets me have the profiles switched automatically according to Outlook appointments or on a schedule. For instance -- I could instruct PZP to switch to "discreet" automatically when an appointment begins with a category = "business" (just an example), and automatically switch back to "office" afterward. I could program it to switch to "discreet" at 10:00pm, and back to "home" or "loud" at 7am... loads of options.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Oh how hard I work for technology gadgets

Originally Posted by tknospdr

I tried that, it doesn't find the file. I know it's somewhere because the phone is complaining about low memory.

Originally Posted by jonazen

One of those "ah ha!" moments, when it suddenly strikes you that it's not clear whether you own the technology, or the technology owns YOU...


Gort, Klaatu barada nikto!

Originally Posted by jonazen

For me it's sort of like electric car windows. When I grew up (back around Fred Flintstone's time), many cars still had manual crank windows (and no - we were past steam engines by then). I remember people thinking that electric windows were self-indulgent, goofy, error-prone and unnecessary. But once you get used to them, crank windows seem positively primitive.

I had been SO used to profiles on the last few Nokias and Sony Ericsson phones...my MDA felt weird without the capability. Then I loaded up PZP, and it did, admittedly, take a while before I got a feel for everything I could do with it. But I got it tuned and tweaked, and use it MANY times a way with Voice Command. Then...I just started taking it for granted...until yesterday, when I had my MemMaid 1.6 adventure in which 3 Today plugins disappeared on me after I ran the basic and advanced cleaners (aaak!). One of the disappearing plugins was PZP. I looked at the MDA, realized that it would be clumsy to change profiles now, and the phone felt positively naked and crippled. It was at that moment that I realized just how much I depended on being able to swap profiles in a second using VC and PZP...

Sure. I don't NEED it. But I REALLY want it, and would REALLY miss it if it were gone...

Originally Posted by i3onk

m at a bar getting my hammer on, when I look over and see a poster saying free internet. turn on the wifi and away I go, lol. Just decided to try out omap while I was her, waiting for my turn at pool.
got it up to 288Mhz, tcpmp showed it at 270Mhz. was stable. watched half an episode of southpark on the phone. turned it up too 300Mhz. tcpmp showed it at over 280Mhz but when I started tcpmp it froze. it never restarted from being clocked too high though.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Interesting. @ 300Mhz it shutdown on me. Maybe I'll try that again.

Update: I know TCPMP shows it less then reported??

Originally Posted by ilvla2

How much more does it cut the battery life at that speed though?

Originally Posted by i3onk

I was shocked too. The highest I have heard people clocking it at is 240Mhz

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Also had a real estate Today Screen delema after Spb Weather. That darn scrawl bar came back. So I had to make all my Spb Plus icons small, and use the 7 day weather forecast (it gives u smaller icons), then scrawl bar went away. I even had to remove a game icon, and I guess I can't have more than 10 icons now (or) scrawl mosnter will appear.

Originally Posted by changogrande

If you're just looking to make the scroll bar narrower or not as tall, you can do that in SK Tools/System Tweaks. Also in Tweaks2k2, but I think you can only do the width with that, not the height. I haven't needed to try it, so I don't know how well it works with either one.

If you're trying to resize the window itself, doesn't Wisbar let you do that?

Originally Posted by changogrande

If you're just looking to make the scroll bar narrower or not as tall, you can do that in SK Tools/System Tweaks. Also in Tweaks2k2, but I think you can only do the width with that, not the height. I haven't needed to try it, so I don't know how well it works with either one.

If you're trying to resize the window itself, doesn't Wisbar let you do that?

Originally Posted by i3onk

he just wants everything to fit on his today screen without there being a scroll bar. With pocket breeze you can change the pixel count to make it smaller.

Actually I think it was Jonazen that mentioned the lockdevice for the tray.

But since he did suggest it I figured I would find it for you Here you go.

http://www.savefile.com/files/3190096

Originally Posted by i3onk

he just wants everything to fit on his today screen without there being a scroll bar. With pocket breeze you can change the pixel count to make it smaller.

Actually I think it was Jonazen that mentioned the lockdevice for the tray.

But since he did suggest it I figured I would find it for you Here you go.

http://www.savefile.com/files/3190096

Originally Posted by phatman8118

I have my apps set to run at 252mhz when initiated and back to 180mhz when closed. no problems at all. been like that for a few weeks now.

Originally Posted by djayrage

Yes the weather plug-in will update over Wi-Fi.
Also check out www.pdagold.com for a few different sets of Icons & themes for the plug-in.

Also a few pages back someone said there weren't any alternatives to OZ (built in IM junk app) besides Agile or AIM (few years old) but he forgot to mention IM+
Yes it is $40, but I think it works better than the alternatives.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

For the life of me I did not expect such a hassle. I tried doing this 45 minutes before we left home, and realized this was not going to be a simple task. First I better get weather working on mine before figuring hers out. I had to leave home without it working. I thought, stupid me I guess that all I had to do is download this thing and bingo weather at your service. But as soon as I went to Florida, there was not template for weather. I went to California, and got a russion template, but was able to get weather in major cities like NYC, etc. What a hassle, I have lived in NYC, SFN, and now Tampa. I guess it's not big enouph to include a template? Spb site on this issue, got to admit, only flaw about them, was absolutly no help on how to get weather in States with no Templates. I had to google searches to see what I needed to just get weather Well as u can see another learning curve, but finally figured it out. I even had to figure out the City Code?? Finally it was just my zip code?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

My questions to u Jonazen is, can we use Spb Weather over Wi-Fi?
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Yes -- I just tried it -- works perfectly. In general, I've found that it follows the same general Internet connection rules as any "connect to the Internet" application such as PIE -- it uses whatever the current -- or fastest available -- connection is for the Internet. So -- if your USB cable is plugged into a PC that has Internet access, it will connect that way. If not, but you have WiFi turned on, it will establish a WiFi connection and connect that way. If neither the USB or WiFi connection are available, it will use GPRS/EDGE. I did all three today, and they all work beautifully. When I was sitting on the train on my way to NYC this afternoon, I did a tap/hold on the weather today item, and selected "refresh all" (that's "all cities" - in my case two: Princeton and NYC). I immediately got the popup showing that GPRS was connecting...and a couple of seconds later I could see the little connection animation on the left of SPB Weather spinning around -- after a couple of seconds, the forecast high for the day change by a degree, and the tiny connection animation stopped.

[QUOTE=MadDogX007]
I really don't like Active sync, it gives me issues, and it did again today on a System I dedicated for MDA. I tell you ActiveSync sucks on this device. On my iPaq it never gives me issues? Thank goodness for SKtools too, cause it ActiveSync duplicated all my calendar stuff and other things, thank goodness for Duplicate appointment utility. but anyway, I really don't use ActiveSync anymore, except when I am screwed with needing an application install that does not give me cab file. Even then I may use my wif'es PPC to intall it just to get the cab files.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Also had a real estate Today Screen delema after Spb Weather. That darn scrawl bar came back. So I had to make all my Spb Plus icons small, and use the 7 day weather forecast (it gives u smaller icons), then scrawl bar went away. I even had to remove a game icon, and I guess I can't have more than 10 icons now (or) scrawl mosnter will appear.

I guess there is always a trade off, like I3onks PocketBreeze which has that neat feature to reduce the size of the scrawl window, forgot what u call it. I don't think Spb Pocket Plus offers that. But the trade off for me was, that PB did not show links on Today Screen emails, and I could not link to browser on email period, until I loaded Spb Diary which shows links on today screen and link me right to browser.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Out of all this crap I documented here.. Can you use Spb Weather over wi-fi instead of sync??

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

I now also really love the idea from I3onk to place the locking icon on the Tray Launcher, if possible?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

What's the setup for plug-in over wi-fi? I m not sure I see one except the area for sync, or proxy, I don't use a proxy. Shed any light?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Before I do anything hre. Tks for link to lock, but is it the actual lock app, or is this something else to place it on the tray launcher. I will assume it's the actual lock.exe so that I can just place it with tray launcher.. If this is correct, can this lock be used on another ppc besides MDA?

Updated: O.k answered part of my own question, its a cab file. But can I use this on a WM2003?

Well answered another questions. Tried running lock on my iPaq 2003 and it would not run, so this is only good for WM5 I believe. Oh well all good for me!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

What r u using to set the MapClock to run at Mhz when initiated?

Originally Posted by jonazen

Just installed the LockDevice cab, searched the net and found a nice lock icon to replace the one that comes with it, and turned off the LockDevice Today Item. Bingo! More Today room, so I could increase PocketBreeze to 130 pixels vertically!

Originally Posted by eep02b

Is the MDA able to have video's as ringtones?? If so, what format do they have to be in??

Originally Posted by djayrage

Yes the weather plug-in will update over Wi-Fi.
Also check out www.pdagold.com for a few different sets of Icons & themes for the plug-in.

Also a few pages back someone said there weren't any alternatives to OZ (built in IM junk app) besides Agile or AIM (few years old) but he forgot to mention IM+
Yes it is $40, but I think it works better than the alternatives.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Yes -- I'll have to find it -- somebody wrote a tiny program that call the SHUTIL.DLL that is normally used to provide the function, and they have it set up as a tray icon. That way you can turn off the Today item. I learned today that it's a bit of a pain having the Today Screen lock item -- anywhere you click in it's portion of the Today screen locks the device, and when I was on the train, it was hard to always be that precise about where I was tapping! I want to turn off the Today lock device item, and place it on the icon tray instead.

Originally Posted by 1) Go to [URL=http://www.pdagold.com/themes/list.asp?tp=11

PDA Gold[/URL]

2) Scroll down to the "Weather Network" template (or your could use the WeatherChannel template too -- further down the page -- Weather Network works fine for me, but I imagine WeatherChannel process is virtually the same).

Originally Posted by jonazen

I reduced PocketBreeze on the Today screen to 100 pixels verticallly, and everything you see on my picture (earlier in the thread) fits nicely now. But as you see, I'm not using any large icons on the Today screen. It looks nice -- but I still want to experiment -- I know with a bit of tweaking, I can get the screen navigation better, and easier to manage with one hand.

Originally Posted by jonazen

So far ActiveStink hasn't duplicated any items, but I do NOT like the way it eats resources on the PC and the MDA -- they both bog down when it's syncing. Happily, though, all seems normal when it's done.

I've been reading people's comments on the beta for ActiveSync 4.2 -- in general, it sounds like it's fixed a lot of issues that people were having. You might want to check it out?

Originally Posted by jonazen

No need for any special setup -- see my post above. It simply uses the same rules as any app that attempts to connect to the Internet: fastest available connection first:
- if USB/network connect available, use it
- if not, but if WiFi available, use WiFi
- if none of the above, use GPRS/EDGE

Nothing special for you to set up...just works automatically...

Originally Posted by jonazen

Just installed the LockDevice cab, searched the net and found a nice lock icon to replace the one that comes with it, and turned off the LockDevice Today Item. Bingo! More Today room, so I could increase PocketBreeze to 130 pixels vertically!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

How did u replace the icon. I like the one that comes with MDA, but the cab one is o.k. but wish I had better one. But how did u replace it.??

Updated: This is a nice lock icon, do u hve icon? And how did u replace it?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Jonazen.. Actually update on my zip code. I went to weatherchannel and looked up Atlanta, then on Spb Weather went to custom and selected template WeatherComForecasts..., and entered that US code from weatherchannel for Atlanta, refreshed and it did it all via wi-fi. Also it seems you can enter a either code or zipcode. Cause for Tampa I entered my zipcode instead.

Originally Posted by nyvram

I just spent the last 3 1/2 hours downloading & playing with wisbar advance. *sigh*. There goes another $10. How in the world can you live without this?? I hadn't 'gotten it' as to how nice this makes navigating on your phone.

Originally Posted by nyvram

You guys are killing me

I just spent the last 3 1/2 hours downloading & playing with wisbar advance. *sigh*. There goes another $10. How in the world can you live without this?? I hadn't 'gotten it' as to how nice this makes navigating on your phone.

Ok, so I just deleted TodayTime & vsSmallIcons since I no longer need to go to the programs screen..they're in the dang wisbar dropdown. SHEESH.

I also am sticking with Mike Armstrong's 'devicelock' which I posted about in the 'stupid questions' thread as I don't like having a tray at the bottom of my screen at all and devicelock is kind of cool..you can assign it to a button (i used the 'button 4 hold' which is currently reserved for voice recording)..as well as have it fire up an app (SPB full-screen clock?) when you lock your device. Here's the link if anyone is interested:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=45953


Finally, I just installed pRSSReader:

http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/

And put it at the top of my today screen and have it set to cycle through stories. I set up several local feeds as well as the obligatory CNN & engadget and I must say its pretty cool already. Nice today-screen plugin and I like seeing headlines scroll across the screen.

So..i've managed to avoid the ugly scrawl bar and my today screen is basically:

- pRSSReader
- spb weather
- spb pocket plus
- spb diary

They all fit very well on the screen without looking too crowded. (Yes, I know..I need to install a screen-capture utility so I can show you what it looks like).

I'm DONE and I'm pretty happy with my TODAY page

(for now..or at least tonight...well..maybe just one more tweak..)

Originally Posted by nyvram

They all fit very well on the screen without looking too crowded. (Yes, I know..I need to install a screen-capture utility so I can show you what it looks like).

Originally Posted by The Trooper

wow I've missed a lot in a couple of weeks, I see a load of nice Today screens!

Here's how mine looks:

Originally Posted by robpet2

I downloaded the prssreader from pdagold I think, and everytime I try to add a site for the feed it says invalid format.... how do yo set up a feed to show--- I'm stuck

Originally Posted by jonazen

*sigh*

Really doesn't matter WHAT today plugins you have with a background image like that...

wow... think I'd find that too distracting every time I tried to use the phone.

Originally Posted by The Trooper

Ahh

Originally Posted by The Trooper

wow I've missed a lot in a couple of weeks, I see a load of nice Today screens!

Here's how mine looks:

She doesn't look to good covered with icons...


Good thing that could be changed...


Ahh


These are the tabs:
Pocket Plus
PocketWeather
Agile
Device Lock (built in)
Phone Dashboard
Wireless (Wi-Fi, BT, Network)
Tasks
Notes
Messaging

Pocket Plus is awesome!!! Specially when used with PB
As you can see from the screenshots (which are screenshots of screenshots ) I prefer big Icons, sort of. I have TCPMP, Opera, Device Lock (from XDA dev), Texas Hold'em, Memaid, and Voice Command in big icons because those are the most frequently used. The rest are just there just in case..

What are you guys using to get the icons on the tray? I'm trying out phm traylaunch but so far I don't like it much.

By the way, is anyone getting misleading signal strength when using Wisbar? As you can see there it shows no signal but if I remove it I get full bars

Originally Posted by thaSLAB®

I would suggest Pocket Screen Capture, if you dont mind output files in .bmp format. Its free, and does the trick very well. It takes a snapshot 5 seconds after you click OK, on the pop-up....I was glad that I realized that I could navigate thru screens while the pop-up was still on the screen. LOL.

I'm going to try pRSSreader on my today screen. I had tried JournalBar before, but it didnt quite meet my likings, decent app I guess, but was over-priced.

I pretty much have the same components as you on my today, in addition to the SPB ToPlay plug-in.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Wow...an RSS reader! I have to check it out!

Now that you're playing with Wisbar Advance...maybe you'll join me in considering WAD (Wisbar Advance Desktop). Haven't done it yet, but I'm intrigued...

Anyway -- alarm going off in 4 hours...better get some sleep!

Originally Posted by jonazen

Wow...an RSS reader! I have to check it out!

Now that you're playing with Wisbar Advance...maybe you'll join me in considering WAD (Wisbar Advance Desktop). Haven't done it yet, but I'm intrigued...

Anyway -- alarm going off in 4 hours...better get some sleep!

Originally Posted by i3onk

I noticed today how this guy has his Ilauncher in the tray, the WHOLE thing. Not quite sure how he did it. I havnt had a chance to read back into the forum yet. Love the way it looks though. Not to sure if I like the photo contacts on his today screen. I would think I would tap them on accident alot since I dont use the device lock.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Sorry to switch away from Angelina...(it wasn't easy!)...

SBSH just put out a new production version 5.1 of PocketBreeze (think it came out on May 1, 2006).

The release notes sound good -- more compact, faster, bugs fixed, and it has some new features such as context popup menus, and much better D-Pad navigation options. Excellent new release as far as I can tell in the first hour of experimenting with it.

Definitely feels faster and more responsive, and with the new D-Pad control, I'm already finding that I can navigate it better with one hand than before (and let's not get any Angelina jokes mixed up with this comment!). Seems very well thought out.

BTW: as a completely off-topic aside: anyone here plugged into the New York City news scene? I was in NYC yesterday and witnessed a horrendous accident at 32nd and 7th around 3:10pm. A car spun out trying to make an abrupt left turn onto 32nd from 7th (he was trying to avoid a taxi that had just stopped dead in the street), jumped the curb and plowed into a bunch of pedestrians. I was across the street, but from where I stood I'd guess there were two people seriously injured, and one that looked like an instant fatality -- I can't be sure, but it sure looked like the bumper or wheel of the car struck this guy's head, and I saw a spray of something go up in the air as the guy went down. I was hoping that it was just something like a cup of coffee that went flying, and not a headful of brains. Anyway -- there's NOTHING in the news about this at all, but it was awful, tied up the intersection at 32nd and 7th for at least an hour, and was right across the street from Penn Station. You'd think there would be SOME mention in the news!?! Please let me know (or pm me so we don't have to take this thread totally off-topic) if you have any clues about this, or know how to find out about it. Thx - Jon

Originally Posted by jonazen

BTW: I love the top and bottom bars on that skin -- are those Wisbar skins? Looks really good. I'm also curious about iLauncher sitting, complete, in the tray. I wonder what he used to do that?

Originally Posted by jonazen

I was thinking about device lock tonight while I was in the car...glad you reminded me about that....

I just realized that I'm halfway to achieving something with device lock that I've wanted to do for several weeks -- use Voice Command to turn it on and off. Now that I've got the tiny exe to lock the phone (the new link in the icon tray calls it, and it in turn makes a call to the "shutil.dll" that WM5 normally uses to lock and unlock the phone), I can use Voice Command to fire it -- meaning that I can lock the phone by voice! So -- the only thing that's missing is to come up with a comparable exe to unlock the phone. Shouldn't be hard at all -- just have to find the call in the "shutil.dll" to do this and create the teensy program to make the call. What's neat is that the Voice Command button (I've assigned it to #3 on my MDA on the upper right) remains unlocked when the entire rest of the phone is locked. SO...I can tap the button and say, "LockPhone" or "UnlockPhone" (assuming that's what I name the exe's). Too cool! This is an experiment for tomorrow (Wed) if I have time...


BTW: I love the top and bottom bars on that skin -- are those Wisbar skins? Looks really good. I'm also curious about iLauncher sitting, complete, in the tray. I wonder what he used to do that?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Interesting observation. I am getting a lower reading on my Wi-Fi Companion than I used to, I wonder if WA2 has something to do with this.

So let me see, in observation of your very cute MDA. You have Pocket Plus, good choice, and PB is where?? The icons on the left?

I like the way you minimize things, what are u using exactly?
Also how does your memory look about know (RAM).

With all the crap I got going lately, which I love, and would not live without, I am getting about 17.70MB's on soft reset. If I use my utility "SKRam Up" after soft reset, it takes so long on screen to finally get me back a little more, something around 19MB's. But on soft reset something is immediately hugging my memory. Hugging..? get it... Like hugging your MDA

Originally Posted by jonazen

I was thinking about device lock tonight while I was in the car...glad you reminded me about that....

I just realized that I'm halfway to achieving something with device lock that I've wanted to do for several weeks -- use Voice Command to turn it on and off. Now that I've got the tiny exe to lock the phone (the new link in the icon tray calls it, and it in turn makes a call to the "shutil.dll" that WM5 normally uses to lock and unlock the phone), I can use Voice Command to fire it -- meaning that I can lock the phone by voice! So -- the only thing that's missing is to come up with a comparable exe to unlock the phone. Shouldn't be hard at all -- just have to find the call in the "shutil.dll" to do this and create the teensy program to make the call. What's neat is that the Voice Command button (I've assigned it to #3 on my MDA on the upper right) remains unlocked when the entire rest of the phone is locked. SO...I can tap the button and say, "LockPhone" or "UnlockPhone" (assuming that's what I name the exe's). Too cool! This is an experiment for tomorrow (Wed) if I have time...


BTW: I love the top and bottom bars on that skin -- are those Wisbar skins? Looks really good. I'm also curious about iLauncher sitting, complete, in the tray. I wonder what he used to do that?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

I am looking at ILauncher now. I may also go back to one of my first backups, cause I need to try something different for RAM purposes.

He echoed one of his iLauncher tabs to the shell tray. But I'm just looking into this.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Well HOLY CRAP, welcome back Trooper, lol. Been a while.

Originally Posted by The Trooper

To lock it I just use Voice Command and say "Start Device Lock" and it works but I can't unlock it so if you find a solution to this that would be awesome





Yeah WA2 gives me erroneous signal strength all the time, however, Voice Command is very reliable and I ask it rather than rely on what the screen indicates (while WA2 is on). I use PB v5.0.12.2 to minimize it...the icons on the left, when I get a chance I'll update it and see what's new/better about the new version. My RAM is after soft reset 17.52MB WA2 not loaded but after it loads 15.57MB.
Where can I get this "SKRam Up"? Does it really help free up RAM?

By the way WAD sucks, it made my MDA slow down significantly (no overclocking). It takes longer to load after soft reset, it takes longer to load, and it takes up a lot of RAM (ok not that much but still a little more than it should).

Originally Posted by i3onk

Thats not just one tab, I know how to do that. His WHOLE ilauncher is in there. He is using the verticle tabs instead of the standard ones.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Well your RAM isn't much better then what I got going. I don't use WAD, I prefer Spb Pocket Plus. From what I see here from others, it does not matter whether you use PB, Ilauncher, Spb Pocket Plus, Diary, weather apps, Launcher apps, Skins, WA, etc., were all getting about same RAM results, one way or another.

The SKRam Up comes bundled with SKTools. It is not an actual application, it's intalled with SKtools.exe, and loads seperate from all the sibling apps SkTools loads. It is a lnk shortcut with a command line, I believe to SKTools.exe. Right now SKRam UP has been taking a long time for me to run. I may reload everything again, and try ILauncher, for my Tray Launcher. Not sure, everything running good for me, but want to experiment getting more RAM somehow.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

I like that idea!

Originally Posted by The Trooper

I forgot to mention this before. I have an unread Hotmail message that doesn't appear in my Inbox nor can I make it dissapear, why this happened is beyond me at this point. Anyone else experience this?

Originally Posted by The Trooper

SPB PocketPlus is what I'm using with PocketBreeze and it works awesomely. What you mention of RAM seems pretty accurate, before I didn't have Photo Contacts PRO and it was almost the same.

By the way Photo Contacts Pro is awesome, it shows a photo of the person calling you in the full screen! Not like the merely visible one you get by default.

I'll give SKTools a try and see how it works

Originally Posted by i3onk

I have had issues with hotmail as well. The problem that I have noticed is when you delete it from you phone, it isnt actually deleted from the hotmail server. So when pocketmsn does another update it returns. I never had the issue of not being ablt to open it though. What I did to deal with this issue is to remove pocketmsn from my today screen. I still have hotmail in my email options so I can send/recieve whenever I want. This works well for checking out the mail i want to ercieve. If I have mail that i want to add as just though, I still need to log onto the website and add it to junk from there.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Yeah its little things like that which made me go back to OEM TMO ROM. Still wasnt able to get back to the OEM EXT ROM though. Dont quite understand how to do that, without an RUU.

Originally Posted by i3onk

OK Just talked to the guy about his ilauncher tray. He actually removed the tray altogether. Said he is running an app called space, which gave him the blank space in the middle of his today screen, which inturn moved ilauncher further down into the tray areea.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

That is so weird. You mean to tell me after the bckups of the upgrade, it has not way to restore OEM, and it did not create an RUU kind of backup? Weird.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Weird now. I am not sure I want a space on my Today, I have no spaces left, if I load all back again.

What does this mean then..Another feture of iLauncher is the ability to echo one of your iLauncher tabs to the shell tray. The shell tray is circled in the image below, and it has my APPS tab echoed there:

Look at this site, it shows exactly what he has, without the arrows to access more icons, I guess, but similar to Tray Launcher..

http://www.mobilegadgetnews.com/ind...showtopic=11508 Got down a little till u see feature.

Originally Posted by i3onk

I have had issues with hotmail as well. The problem that I have noticed is when you delete it from you phone, it isnt actually deleted from the hotmail server. So when pocketmsn does another update it returns. I never had the issue of not being ablt to open it though. What I did to deal with this issue is to remove pocketmsn from my today screen. I still have hotmail in my email options so I can send/recieve whenever I want. This works well for checking out the mail i want to ercieve. If I have mail that i want to add as just though, I still need to log onto the website and add it to junk from there.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Well I loaded iLauncher v2.2 and frankly could not get it to run. The setup was more complicated than it was worth, and after I3onk telling me I need a spacer app on my today screen to get iLauncher on Tray, I went back to my last backup to get up and running ASAP.

We can change configurations on our desktops all day long, but for the most part nobody gets better RAM management. I was very happy with what I had. I think Im going to stop looking for solutions to get more RAM on MDA, and just enjoy what I got. As soon as it's possible I am just going to upgrade to another HTC Device that has 128MB Ram, cause I got spoiled and need everything on the desktop just the way I have it.

I am very happy with Spb Pocket Plus, Spb Diary, Spb Weather, Tray Launcher, WA2 the skin and theme, so why am I still looking to screw this up for a tiny bit more RAM.

I guess this is just another inpulsive need for constant change, truth is, in the end every nut here is going to upgrade device, cause were power hungry group, yet we are all looking fabulously good!!

Originally Posted by i3onk

Ok well Im more than a little disappointed in Ilauncher. While i thought the setup was going really well, once I got the tab I wanted into teh tray and the battery meter on top, i wanted to remove the rest of it from my tiday screen. Well, it took away everything. The battery meter, the today screen plugin and the tray tab. So Looks like I am going back to SBP pocket plus and tray launcher.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

VoIP and MDA News Brief..

Today I had a nother fine experience after troubleshooting of course. I got Vonage VoIP working on my PC with the HT820 Stereo Headset. As I posted earlier, the HT820 is paired with the Dongle on PC, and the MDA. So when a call comes in on the MDA, I get interrupted via HT820, even while listening to music on PC! When a call comes in on VoIP I have to pause Windows Media, not sure why, since call from MDA works nicer with HT820, but the idea works great both with MDA,VoIP on PC, and HT820.

I selected Vonage over Free Bee Skype, cause I have Vonage VoIP on home phone and works great, and cause using Skype as my PC VoIP would mean the other person on the other line would hve to be using Skype. I can't see myself calling clients on MDA to tell them to download Skype, they would think I am some sort of nut. Vonage is not a Free Bee VoIP but cheap. My home phone line is 24.95 with free unlimited calls anywhere including Canda, and Puerto Rico. Now the PC VoIP is only 9.99 for a 2nd line, plus tax, around 12 bucks monthly. Plus Vonage lets me call whom ever I want irrelevant to whether or not they have Vonage.

On this Vonage VoIP over PC only, you download an application that runs like dialer on your desktop, pretty cool indeedo.

I AM NOT PROMOTING VONAGE BELIEVE ME, just wanted to give u my experience with MDA using HT820 and PC VoIP.

However, because of my little experience with iLauncher last night, where I had to hard boot my device, cause it kept freezing on login screen, but restored successfully, after praying a lot! That's what I get for messing with something that worked in the first place using my true and reliable Spb Software lol. Afterwards I did not try re loading again the Tornado A2DP Streaming Stereo and still got all the features described above working, with the exception of ring tones music from MDA to the HT820, of course if I loaded the A2DP again, I would get that stereo feature back, cause the A2DP does work, non the less Im leaving A2DP out, as I posted earlier, the Stereo Sound of the Tornado A2DP sucks anyway compared to the supplied Stereo headphones for MDA. And although I get the beeps on the HT820 I can still hear the ring music tones from MDA on desk.

Just food for thought troops..

Originally Posted by indelible

I flashed my MDA with the 2.17 rom and I now have midlet manager, but I can't get any java games to work. I'm trying to play the online games hosted by Yahoo.com but when I go to play a game, the page just loads without the game. Is it possible to get these games working? Also, is there a tweak or another browser that enables the "save as" function? I would like to download/save some videos.

Originally Posted by jonazen

This is an area that's really not explained very well -- but what you need to understand is that there's a difference between the "applets" that comprise games such as those on Yahoo, and "midlets". Both are written in Java, but the way that they're run on your system differs a bit, and the size is generally very different. Midlets are designed to be small and lightweight -- appropropriate for a mobile device. The game applets at sites like Yahoo are generally in the vicinity of 300KB to 500KB, and once they've downloaded to your pc, many of them start up by fetching image and sound files as well -- the entire download can wind up being 750k or more. Something huge like that would NOT run well on a mobile device that only has a total of 128k.

Originally Posted by The Trooper

jonazen: What version of PZP are you using? Linkey to download?

Originally Posted by indelible

Oh, ok, thanks, so it's not possible to play internet based java/flash games on the phone. Can anybody answer my question about the "save as" function? Thanks!

Originally Posted by The Trooper

jonazen: Thanks!!! Its free too...great! Any issues with it that I should know of?

Originally Posted by nyvram

Speaking of Flash..I haven't messed with it..what is the deal w/ the mobile-version of Flash? Do you have to pay for it or something? Does it work within pIE?

Originally Posted by badazzTL

I'm not sure if this has been answered yet, if it has, just point me to the right page:
Anyways, my girlfriend just got her MDA yesterday and we are on the family plan with unlimited text messages for 9.99. We don't have data on our plan though (we got rid of the data plan with the sidekick II). She is signed onto AIM and it's working, so is AIM basically using text messages? If not, how is she able to use AIM if we don't subscribe to data? Also she is not connected to my router and wi-fi is turned off, so I know she's not using that (or anyone elses) connection. Sorry if this is a stupid question, I just don't want to get a bill next month for some outrageous amount. Thanks for any input.

Originally Posted by badazzTL

I'm not sure if this has been answered yet, if it has, just point me to the right page:
Anyways, my girlfriend just got her MDA yesterday and we are on the family plan with unlimited text messages for 9.99. We don't have data on our plan though (we got rid of the data plan with the sidekick II). She is signed onto AIM and it's working, so is AIM basically using text messages? If not, how is she able to use AIM if we don't subscribe to data? Also she is not connected to my router and wi-fi is turned off, so I know she's not using that (or anyone elses) connection. Sorry if this is a stupid question, I just don't want to get a bill next month for some outrageous amount. Thanks for any input.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Don't know yet. I've seen links for mobile Flash, but haven't tried it yet. Also don't know if it's a PIE plugin. I'll check soon...unless you find out first and post back here!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

PIE supports Flash, but I believe you have to download Macromedia Flash Player. This link has the install version and the Cab file. I have gone to sites with flash but without the plug in you will not see them.

http://jcvlending.com/maddogx007/index.html

Originally Posted by i3onk

OK I have a question for you MadDog. How is the sound quality on the HT820.. I am a gamer and I am really getting sick of being tethered to my PC with the damn headset wires. Do you think the HT820 can pick up the sound good wenough for me to effectively hear the enemy around me?

Originally Posted by i3onk

I have had that flashplayer activex app since the day I got started on this thing. It doesnt seam to work right for me. I go to websites with flash buttons and such and they dont work. Maybe someone else will have better luck with it.

Originally Posted by The Trooper

MadDogX007: sell me your HT820! I'm being dead serious too. I want to test them out 'cause I just got the A2DP update...

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

I3onk. On another note. Does ur SKRam UP take long time to get u more ram? Sometimes its faster but for the most part, sometimes it's so slow I soft reset, and still have to use it. I believe Spb Weather is taking some chunk, cause I cant get better then 17 mb or lower. And once I start playing around with stuff, my memory drops saddly... Does anyone else have this issue??

Originally Posted by The Trooper

MadDogX007: sell me your HT820! I'm being dead serious too. I want to test them out 'cause I just got the A2DP update...

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

What A2DP updated are ye talking about bro. Not the Tornado?? Share that bro. Link LInk....

Update: Are you talking about A2DP for the Wizard and new one. Link bro. i will test them for u! And report the truth!!

Originally Posted by i3onk

Yeah I have the same issue. Sometimes its long sometimes short, Most of the time though it take a while to release some ram for me. I have reset a few times also thinking it just froze up. Sometimes it has frozen up on me. Not sure why. I was having this prob when I didnt have weather installed.

After trying my new method of installation, I boot up with 21.49M of ram and I have about a 1 minute 18 second boot up time. I am quite pleased with the way everything is running right now. I actually only have one more app to install and thats smartskey. Im not using it to OC Im just going to use it to keep sddaemon from duplicating its notifications. Everything else on it is turned off. Watch that kill my ram like 2M lmao. Later on tonight I will create a complete list of everything I have installed on my MDA.

Originally Posted by jonazen

I may try out that SKRam tool -- I'm finding that something is leaking too much -- by the end of the day, I'm down to about 10mb available. I start right after reset at about 20.5mb free... BTW: startup takes about 2 mins for me right now. Not sure what's adding to that -- if it's Wisbar, PockeBreeze or the skin sets (LOTS of images getting loaded). I have to experiment with ContactBreeze also -- that might be a hog, but I thought I had it set to only load up on demand, not at boot up. I'm still questionning that piece -- not sure if it's worth it or not. If I could get it loaded up with one hand, and have the half-screen large-button keyboard to pop up without having to use the stylus first, it might be worthwhile, but I haven't found a way to do that yet. Having to use the stylus to bring up the thumb board is a bit silly. Jury's still out on this.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Set the contact breeze for static and as far as the KB for getting to your contacts, set it to full mode all the time, that will come up with the KB. You can also set it to scroll with the D-pad and to bring up the dialing options with d-pad center button.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Excellent! Thanks! I hadn't worked my way through CB options yet -- that makes a huge difference. Having FULL as the default and using D-Pad scrolling is perfect. I also set the default D-Pad enter action to bring up the dialing menu - so it offers a popup of all the numbers the selected contact has. Now it's truly one-handed! Great - thx! I've also set it to static -- we'll see how much time it adds to boot up, and how much time it saves during the day when I bring up CB.

Originally Posted by The Trooper

Yeah the Tornado one from the XDA dev site
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=48535

I don't have a C.C. I'm 18 and wouldn't want one either

I'll see if I can find some on ebay, thanks for the tip!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Good for u on the CC for now. Unless u run into millions or win the lottery, one day you will seek a credit rating. Believe me! In my business, if you don't have credit, it worse then if you had bad credit! So build good credit!

Forget about the Tornado it makes the HT820 sound terrible on the MDA. It's not designed for the MDA/Wizard. I tried it, tested it, and believe me, it falls short of any decent stereo sound. I tested it against the Headset included with MDA, at different sound intervals, and the mini jack headset put it to shame. I started to blame the HT820 at first, until I used it with Dongle on PC and realized it was Tornado's A2DP. Sorry bro, but Tornado even claims it's not for the Wizard, but it works. Sure it works, but sounds like crapola mono, the stereo seperation is very bad compared to the mini jack headphones.

Don't waste ur time. Read up a couple days ago, see my entire results on the Tornado A2DP and the HT820, I even posted my results on XDA with all respect and gratefull for the Tornado Cab and thier hard work, but on MDA not worth it. The HT820 on the other hand is worth it!

Originally Posted by jonazen

I may try out that SKRam tool -- I'm finding that something is leaking too much -- by the end of the day, I'm down to about 10mb available. I start right after reset at about 20.5mb free... BTW: startup takes about 2 mins for me right now. Not sure what's adding to that -- if it's Wisbar, PockeBreeze or the skin sets (LOTS of images getting loaded). I have to experiment with ContactBreeze also -- that might be a hog, but I thought I had it set to only load up on demand, not at boot up. I'm still questionning that piece -- not sure if it's worth it or not. If I could get it loaded up with one hand, and have the half-screen large-button keyboard to pop up without having to use the stylus first, it might be worthwhile, but I haven't found a way to do that yet. Having to use the stylus to bring up the thumb board is a bit silly. Jury's still out on this.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Good for u on the CC for now. Unless u run into millions or win the lottery, one day you will seek a credit rating. Believe me! In my business, if you don't have credit, it worse then if you had bad credit! So build good credit!

Forget about the Tornado it makes the HT820 sound terrible on the MDA. It's not designed for the MDA/Wizard. I tried it, tested it, and believe me, it falls short of any decent stereo sound. I tested it against the Headset included with MDA, at different sound intervals, and the mini jack headset put it to shame. I started to blame the HT820 at first, until I used it with Dongle on PC and realized it was Tornado's A2DP. Sorry bro, but Tornado even claims it's not for the Wizard, but it works. Sure it works, but sounds like crapola mono, the stereo seperation is very bad compared to the mini jack headphones.

Don't waste ur time. Read up a couple days ago, see my entire results on the Tornado A2DP and the HT820, I even posted my results on XDA with all respect and gratefull for the Tornado Cab and thier hard work, but on MDA not worth it. The HT820 on the other hand is worth it!

Originally Posted by The Trooper

Thanks for the heads up! I actually still want to buy them for the future...and to try them out on my BT dongle. I mainly want to break necks at campus whenever A2DP comes out for the MDA!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

That's the only rason I would keep them. With Dongle sounds great on PC. And soon enouph someone on XDA will actualy come up with a good version of A2DP for the Wizard. If not someday TMO may finally get off their behind and give us official upgrades.

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Buyer be ware! AIM from TMO does not require the DATA pkg to work. I can tell you this. I added 200 text msg for my 15 yr old, the simple pkg, she got on AIM and without knowing charged up a ton. When we called TMO they let us no matter what if u use IM you are charged per txt msg. So my little girl learned. Then when I got the MDA I forgot about this, besides my phone number had no txt msg service, only my daughters. I got on AIM one night, the IM that comes with TMO OEM ROM version, to talk to my girl, and she immediately reminded me that I was being charged for txt msgs even if I did not have the plan on my phone. So I called TMO to verify this, and they said, yes sir! If I use AIM I will be charged per txt msg, so I was better off getting the plan on my phone. They are smart cookies bro..

Of course Im a little smarter. There is a way around it, but TMO will not be able to assist you with this. Use the Internet version AIM 2.0 that uses Wi-Fi. That is how I do it, I use Free Bee AIM 2.0. You can get it here scrawl down till you see it. It's a free version.

http://www.jcvlending.com/maddogx007/index.html

Originally Posted by i3onk

I think Im going to pick up a pair of the ht920's and a BT donggle for my PC. If the Games sound good on it, Im all over it. I love my dsp500's but hate the wire.

Originally Posted by i3onk

OK took a while for savefile to come up for me, here you go guys, vista lite with the new startmenu button

http://www.savefile.com/files/9259514

Originally Posted by badazzTL

Wow thanks for the heads up. That is kind of manipulative of T-Mobile. After all, they describe "Unlimited Messages for Families" as "Send and receive any type of message you want, in any combination you want. Text, IM, picture, or video messages--it's up to you! And the best part is one bundle covers up to 5 subscribers on the same FamilyTime plan so you only need to buy one!"
Just out of curiosity, how much do they charge per AIM message? This is rather shady of t-mo

Originally Posted by nyvram

"All downloading has been disabled because of maintenance
Downloading will be online again shortly"

I'm not impressed with savefile.

How do you use this? Does it work with wisbar or how do you replace your existing? I guess once I see it it will answer those questions.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Off topic............Does anyone here do DVD backups? If so, what do you use to convert your DVD's to avi? I want to add a couple of dvd's to my MDA. Deathrace 2000 being one of them. Talk about a true classic.

Originally Posted by badazzTL

Wow thanks for the heads up. That is kind of manipulative of T-Mobile. After all, they describe "Unlimited Messages for Families" as "Send and receive any type of message you want, in any combination you want. Text, IM, picture, or video messages--it's up to you! And the best part is one bundle covers up to 5 subscribers on the same FamilyTime plan so you only need to buy one!"
Just out of curiosity, how much do they charge per AIM message? This is rather shady of t-mo

Originally Posted by nyvram

"All downloading has been disabled because of maintenance
Downloading will be online again shortly"

I'm not impressed with savefile.

How do you use this? Does it work with wisbar or how do you replace your existing? I guess once I see it it will answer those questions.

Originally Posted by robpet2

does anyone have a link to skram??

Originally Posted by i3onk

SHould help your boot up since it wont load them until you go to it for the first time. AFter that, they will already be loaded and you shouldnt have to worry about it. Jona, also, if you havent yet, go get the updated version of PB. Its great man. You can add custom tabs(I added pocket weather and my IM+ to it. You can add any today screen app to a tab on the new PB. You can set it to verticle tabs instead of the default horizontal. Just al around alot better. Seams to load faster than the previous version too.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Thx...I installed the upgrade for PB yesterday. Definitely snappier, and I saw some of the new features. Have to play some more - might have time tomorrow. Getting a little bleary-eyed tonight. Not sure how much longer I'll last before hitting the sack...

Originally Posted by nyvram

Stop it guys! I turn around and sneeze and when I look back at the screen there's 100 new posts on this thread. You're killing me..must..read..every...posting.

Ok, now I've gone & added to the post count too. At this rate we'll hit 3k posts in this thread by tomorrow night.

Originally Posted by i3onk

You should like it man, this is the first time since MadDog hooked me up with it that it has been down. the link is still thereso dont worry, they will be done with the maintenance soon and then you can get the file.

As fasr as installation, just unzip the file then put it in your lakeridge\themes folder. Then you go to settings and choose vista lite and away you go.

Originally Posted by nyvram

IS this the same VISTA LITE theme I saw posted on the lakeridge forums?

Since savefile is still down I can't get to it and I'm itching to see what it looks like. ANy pics you care to share while I'm waiting?

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

I tried PB and liked it, but could not get links from email. It seems the email on today screen have no links, where as Spb Diary has the links. I3onk and I had discussed this, not sure what happened with him on this, but Pocket Outlook would not bring up the browser when you clicked on a link either, it would bring up error. However, when I loaded Spb Diary I not just got the email links on the Today screen, but when clicking on them, it brings up the browser (Opera for me) automatically. That was what sold me.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Sorry to beat this to death - I know we've touched on this in more than a few posts. But I'm having trouble locating them now, and the posts I'm finding aren't giving me any concrete answers.

I've got SPB Weather installed as a Today plugin. Looks great, and there are various skins available too to make it even prettier. I finally resolved the issue of which template to use. Seems that the WeatherNetwork template was pretty good -- but did NOT provide extra info such as humdity, windspeed and changes in temps forecast throughout the day. (you're supposed to see that kind of extra info when you tap on a day in the weather display). I searched a bit, and it seems that on the PDAGold website where there are about 10 templates offered, the one called "W_Channel" is really for the Weather Channel as a data source. When you read the explanations (very skimpy) for the fact that SPB Weather only includes a template that points to a Russian weather source, and then consider the fact that this template is called "W_Channel", it's easy to infer that there must be some silliness going on with WeatherChannel threatening SPB with some kind of licensing or trademark infringement legal action. ANYWAY - the W_Channel template is excellent.

I come back to the question, though, of "auto update over GPRS". I could have sworn that my install DID update itself a few times over the first couple of days. But for the past 24 hours, no matter WHAT I have my options set to, it will NOT auto update over GPRS -- I have to request the update (which works just fine!). Was there ever any resolution on this question???

With that in mind, I also started to look at SBSH Weather, Fizz Weather and WeatherPanel as potential alternatives. WeatherPanel certainly has a ton of features -- but I've read that it's HEAVY, downloading LOTS of info, sometimes tying up a device. Also - the lone developer seems to show his face perhaps once a year, so support is meager at best.

SBSH Weather sounds good, but I can't tell if it will auto-update over GPRS. Anyone able to comment on this? (i3onk - you have this, don't you???).

Thanks for any thoughts on this!

Originally Posted by The Trooper

Yeah the Tornado one from the XDA dev site
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=48535

I don't have a C.C. I'm 18 and wouldn't want one either

I'll see if I can find some on ebay, thanks for the tip!

Originally Posted by ascssmith

Do you have the new t-mobile MDA (USA version) ?
I was told this rom wouldn't work on ours?

Originally Posted by jonazen

Sorry to beat this to death - I know we've touched on this in more than a few posts. But I'm having trouble locating them now, and the posts I'm finding aren't giving me any concrete answers.

I've got SPB Weather installed as a Today plugin. Looks great, and there are various skins available too to make it even prettier. I finally resolved the issue of which template to use. Seems that the WeatherNetwork template was pretty good -- but did NOT provide extra info such as humdity, windspeed and changes in temps forecast throughout the day. (you're supposed to see that kind of extra info when you tap on a day in the weather display). I searched a bit, and it seems that on the PDAGold website where there are about 10 templates offered, the one called "W_Channel" is really for the Weather Channel as a data source. When you read the explanations (very skimpy) for the fact that SPB Weather only includes a template that points to a Russian weather source, and then consider the fact that this template is called "W_Channel", it's easy to infer that there must be some silliness going on with WeatherChannel threatening SPB with some kind of licensing or trademark infringement legal action. ANYWAY - the W_Channel template is excellent.

I come back to the question, though, of "auto update over GPRS". I could have sworn that my install DID update itself a few times over the first couple of days. But for the past 24 hours, no matter WHAT I have my options set to, it will NOT auto update over GPRS -- I have to request the update (which works just fine!). Was there ever any resolution on this question???

With that in mind, I also started to look at SBSH Weather, Fizz Weather and WeatherPanel as potential alternatives. WeatherPanel certainly has a ton of features -- but I've read that it's HEAVY, downloading LOTS of info, sometimes tying up a device. Also - the lone developer seems to show his face perhaps once a year, so support is meager at best.

SBSH Weather sounds good, but I can't tell if it will auto-update over GPRS. Anyone able to comment on this? (i3onk - you have this, don't you???).

Thanks for any thoughts on this!

Originally Posted by eep02b

I know this has been asked already, but what cases does everybody have their MDA in?? I recently misplaced the OEM case, and need to get another but i want to know what everybody's experiences are with other cases after having the MDA for awhile...

Originally Posted by eep02b

Can anybody help please with this??

Originally Posted by The Trooper

Nope I have the Custom 2.17 ROM. In order for that A2DP mod to work you have to have a ROM with AKU2 on it.

Originally Posted by eep02b

Can anybody help please with this??

Originally Posted by nyvram

Great find!

This is the link

http://www.pdagold.com/themes/detail.asp?t=14490


Jon..delete the 'tmp' file in the windows/appmgr/sbp weather and see if it works after that. The GPRS started working for me after I killed that file...when I opened that file it was scrambled but I could make out something like 'GPRS Provisioning' in the file headers so I'm wondering if it got an error one time when it was syncing and then spit out that file & just isn't smart enough to delete it so that it will keep working. The GPRS connection seems so fragile with this program.

OHMYOHMYOHMY!

SO MUCH BETTER! Humidity..wind...day & evening forecasts...I *HEART* WeatherChannel.

I didn't even pick up on the fact we were using 'the weather network' before...very subtle but important difference.

As it synced automatically just now when I changed sources I'll have to give it an hour to report back if its connecting correctly going forward.

PS One more comment...this time I had to put in the ZIP CODE instead of the city code from below for it to be accurate.

Originally Posted by nyvram

YEs, auto update is indeed working. I had forgotten all about this & just now pulled the MDA out of my pocket & it updated at 2:50 CST.

Originally Posted by nyvram

let me ask you this..did you make all the crazy changes to the new weather template, etc *AFTER* you soft reset? I'm also at 8.7MB free down from 13MB this morning. I wonder if a clean reset after all the changing stuff around might help? If this continues..then I wonder if the larger data download is somehow getting 'stuck' in memory partially..that TMP file worries me a bit that this app isn't cleaning up after itself the way it should...

I'll do a soft reset now and report back in a few hours.

Originally Posted by jonazen

Re: your PM - yes. Response here are fine...

Re: soft reset and SPB Weather - unfortunately, I already did a soft reset when I found my MDA down to about 9MB. Right after reset, I was at 20MB (approx) - within 2 hours, I am down to 13MB.

Originally Posted by nyvram

I got busy..but just now I looked down & I'm at 17.2M and that is after at least *one* refresh at 4:13PM. I have 3 cities included in my listing and I'm set for 5 days (does that matter? WIll this thing feed 7 days?)

Memory issues aside..I find it very cool that I now get 3 forecasts for the current day I'm on (morning, afternoon & evening). Tmorrow is showing 2 forecasts..and the other 3 days 1 forecast each.

Originally Posted by i3onk

I have also noticed a bit mem leakage somewhere since installing pocket weather. Guess I will set it to manual updates and only do it when I need it. I dont need up to the minute weather info so I can live with that.

Originally Posted by robpet2

does anyone have a link to skram??

Originally Posted by eep02b

I know this has been asked already, but what cases does everybody have their MDA in?? I recently misplaced the OEM case, and need to get another but i want to know what everybody's experiences are with other cases after having the MDA for awhile...

Originally Posted by i3onk

OK here is the list of all of the apps and location of where they were installed on my MDA.

With all of this I have:
23.73M of Storage RAM left
917M of minsd storage left

Originally Posted by i3onk

This is a good site to get some cases too. Personally I still use the case that came with the phone.

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

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Well I got to take my hat of to you bro. After all the crap u installed and still got 23.73?? Impressive. I would like to see wht u get with WA2 loaded, cause i can't live without my skin and sound now..

But once I get my 2G card I may mess around with it a bit more, cause RAM, well that's like gold

Wht did u mean by memhoggers? elborate more on that..

the other thing is, Im just not convinced, yet, that loading things like Spb Pocket Plus on ur Card would make a big difference, cause they need RAM. Is there a difference in Memmad runnings tasks with some of these. lets compare.

For example, I posted these a while back in another part of board.
Here is my list of running processes.

I have noticed the run processes that take up most RAM are MS Voicecommand takes up 1.71MB, but at the top of the heep is Gwes.exe which takes up 1.81MB RAM, it looks for me as follows:

Running Processes:
gwes.exe 1.81 MB
VoiceCmd.exe 1.71 MB
Filesys.exe 1.69MB
cprog.exe 1.58MB
shell32.exe 1.22 MB
device.exe 1.9 MB
WisBarAdv2.exe 411.81 KB
services.exe 263.76 KB
connmgr.exe 107.81 KB
sddaemon.exe 75.90 KB
MemMaid.exe 39.90 KB
PimHelper.exe 11.90 KB
srvtrust.exe 7.90 KB
WIFIICON.exe 3.90 KB
WiFiTray.exe 3.90 KB
CapNotify.exe 3.90 KB
TrayLauncher.exe 3.90 KB
NK.EXE 0 Bytes

This is before Spb Weather..
What u say bro..

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

your site is great for accessories too, but if u just want site dedication to cases, these guys ordered mine, although they don't carry it specifically.


http://www.cases.com
http://www.cases.com/xdaminis.

Originally Posted by i3onk

Those are some nice cases. The reason I prefer the style that came with the phone, is I pull mine out hundreds of times a day, litterally. Standard case is the fastest way for me to do that, do what i have to do and get it back in its case.

Originally Posted by i3onk

The reason I loaded most of my apps on my minisd was just to save space on my device. thsi will elave me room for taking pictures and videos without worrying about running out of space.

When I say mem hogs, I am talking about the apps that run on the today screen and at startup. SBP pocket plus, pocket breeze, contact breeze, pocket weather. These are the things that Kill my boot time. The nonmemhogs are things that only eat ram when I turn them on.

Some things I know we cant control, although I would like to know what the hell they are, mainly speaking of, gwes.exe. Do we REALLY need it? I dont know, lol. Probably!

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

Thats very true bro, but I am a bold man! I deleted the darn thing, and my MDA locked up seriously. Till I reset..

Originally Posted by jonazen

Not sure what to think. Did a bunch of refreshes while hooked up via USB. Then a bunch via GPRS. My memory seems to have stablized for the moment at 16.54MB, and doesn't go down any more with subsequent refreshes.

*sigh*

SOMETHING is leaking now...and whatever it is was NOT leaking prior to the install of SPB Weather! But I can't draw a direct connection here any more.

Originally Posted by i3onk

HAHA, should have googled it before deleting it. Guess thats why we have backups though

Originally Posted by i3onk

HAHA, should have googled it before deleting it. Guess thats why we have backups though

Originally Posted by MadDogX007

O.K. I googled it. hahahaha, little too late but what the heck BRO

According to MSDN, its Graphics, Windowing, and Events Subsystem. GWES loads display drivers, printer drivers, and touch screen drivers.

I guess it' safe to say we should not delete it...