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MDA Tips, Tricks, Hacks, and Questions Thread!!!
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Posted by: megsydmom

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Originally Posted by eep02b

How did you get the $19.99 unlimited internet plan?? I've been talkin to CSR, and they told me that its not available anymore.

when i bought my mda, the rep called in to csr because the internet plan was not showing up for my account. the csr told him that he could only give me the 19.95 plan. lol we made sure that it wasn't for hotspots only and i said, alright, fine, give me that plan then.

well, the rep tried to edit my gprs to internet2.voicestream.com, but that wasn't working. i went home, still not working, signed on to mytmobile and found out that they had billed me for the VPN 19.95 internet. so i changed the gprs to internet3.voicestream.com, and it's working great.

but the 29.95 plan was not showing up for my account for some reason. don't know why, but i'm happy with 19.95.

Posted by: WRS2K

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Originally Posted by shackk

The other ppc version 2002 or 2003 works fine on the mda. I posted the other info about it a few pages back....search it up, but it does work and has been working on other devices like the kjam/qtek for a while now.

can i download it directly from my mda or must i have a pc and activesync it in? thx dude

Posted by: ilrosewood

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Originally Posted by mmeyer4663

Like I said, I do not have my MDA yet. How many and what adapters are listed? You probably only need to change one for dialup maybe. The WIFI connections adapter should be fine the way it is since you are not going trhough t-mobile network. Google does work via wifi, right?

Yes, it works fine via wifi. Just not edge/gprs.

There are quite a few (dozens) listed. Non are obvious. I did find one labeled cellular and tweaked it to 1450 there and still got no joy.

Posted by: ilrosewood

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Originally Posted by WRS2K

can i download it directly from my mda or must i have a pc and activesync it in? thx dude

Just use your own eyes and look on the site and see you have both options.

Posted by: AlphaShark

Has anyone gotten the keyboard indicator tweak to work on the T-mobile MDA?

Mine will not save the entry.

One of the best features of the HTC Wizard is its extractable keyboard. However, using the Shift and Symbol key can be quite confusing because it is not always obvious what the status of these buttons is. Here is the solution:

* Use Total Commander to navigate to \HKCU\ControlPanel\Keyb
* Create a new entry with the name EnableIndicator
* Assign the new entry a DWORD value of 1
* perform a soft reset

From now on, when you extract te keyboard, a keyboard status indicator will be visible. A C indicates that the Shift key is active, a dot indicates that the Symbol key is active.

Posted by: WRS2K

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Originally Posted by ilrosewood

Just use your own eyes and look on the site and see you have both options.

sorry man i'm new to this. i did see the .exe and .cab but still don't know which one to download using my mda. and which folder do i download to on my mda?

Posted by: mmeyer4663

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Originally Posted by ilrosewood

Yes, it works fine via wifi. Just not edge/gprs.

There are quite a few (dozens) listed. Non are obvious. I did find one labeled cellular and tweaked it to 1450 there and still got no joy.

Without seeing the complete list, I have no idea. All I can suggest at this point is to keep trying them until you find the one that fixes the issue, if there is one that will fix the issue.

Posted by: eep02b

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Originally Posted by megsydmom

Wow, that really good i hope that they let me get the same plan cause the area that i'm at has no edge whatsoever, and a total of 2 hotspots in the whole city, so that would be a lot better than paying the 29.95.

Posted by: TreMontana

finally got my hands on one- im sure i'll have a million questions but i'll read thru this thread again before i ask- one thing that i cant find tho is what screen protector to get-

i searched and went to the link in this thread but which MDA is this? there are 4-5 variations on the site....thanks and sorry for the newbie question but i searched and still didnt find it- these are my options:

T-Mobile MDA Compact
T-Mobile MDA II
T-Mobile MDA III
T-Mobile MDA Pro
T-Mobile MDA Vario

Posted by: WRS2K

once again how the heck do i installl agile on my mda? pls help

Posted by: eep02b

Quote:

Originally Posted by TreMontana

The US verson of the T-Mobile MDA, is just the "T-Mobile MDA". This is equivalent to the MDA Vario or the K-Jam.

Posted by: jondav

Got my MDA yesterday and used it for a day before I setup ActiveSync.

Everything worked fine prior to the first ActiveSync. After the syncing my MDA crashes when I tap to the "Sounds & Notifications" icon and than select "Notifications".

A soft reset will get the device working again, but it will crash again if I go to the "Notifications" tab. The same thing happens when in phone mode and I select "Phone>Options".

I have done multiple hard resets and all is well after the hard reset until I again try to ActiveSync and than the problem returns.

Is it just me? Any Ideas? Should we start a new thread for MDA Bugs?

Posted by: ilrosewood

WRS2K - be adventerous and download the cab and *gasp* click and see what happens... you will feel like Chris Columbus!

mmeyer4663 - thanks. Ill try a few more but are we sure this is an MTU thing? That just seems weird that only goole sites would be affected by that.

Also, I got the xhtml google page to load but nada past that.

Posted by: WRS2K

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

WRS2K - be adventerous and download the cab and *gasp* click and see what happens... you will feel like Chris Columbus!

mmeyer4663 - thanks. Ill try a few more but are we sure this is an MTU thing? That just seems weird that only goole sites would be affected by that.

Also, I got the xhtml google page to load but nada past that.

why you guys so hard on me when i admit i'm a beginner?

i did download the cab on my mda with explorer. all it does is shows me a page full of code. i have no option to click on any sort of .cab icon.

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by jondav

Got my MDA yesterday and used it for a day before I setup ActiveSync.

Everything worked fine prior to the first ActiveSync. After the syncing my MDA crashes when I tap to the "Sounds & Notifications" icon and than select "Notifications".

A soft reset will get the device working again, but it will crash again if I go to the
sorrtab. The same thing happens when in phone mode and I select "Phone>Options".

I have done multiple hard resets and all is well after the hard reset until I again try to ActiveSync and than the problem returns.

Is it just me? Any Ideas? Should we start a new thread for MDA Bugs?

sorry mate but that works flawless for me. try going into memory first and close all running programs and see if you can get to notifications sans crash

Posted by: ilrosewood

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Originally Posted by WRS2K

well because silly questions make threads like this 200 pages and thus worthles!

get cab and click on it in file explorer

Posted by: tontondavid

I'm surprised no one has complained about this MDA not supporting stereo bluetooth!!!!

Does someone know if the latest test ROM on the xda dev page supports A2DP?

Posted by: abubo

Anyone figured out how to get java running on the MDA yet? I would really like to get google local running.

Posted by: WRS2K

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

well because silly questions make threads like this 200 pages and thus worthles!

get cab and click on it in file explorer

don't get ur panties up in a bunch.

when I click on .cab on the site explorer immediatley takes me to the actual page and shows a bunch of code. I don't know how to dl the cab file as a file to a specified folder.

anyone who has the patience to just explain?

Posted by: WRS2K

also why is it that when I open for ex file exlorer or instant messenger or word... and I click ok to close or exit.... in memeory manager it shows that they're still eating up mem , the little amount the mda comes with? this seems to slow down the mda a bunch.

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by WRS2K

Quote:

Originally Posted by WRS2K

also why is it that when I open for ex file exlorer or instant messenger or word... and I click ok to close or exit.... in memeory manager it shows that they're still eating up mem , the little amount the mda comes with? this seems to slow down the mda a bunch.

Seriously man, go read up on pocket pcs before you ask such basic questions. Hell, read the first post of the thread even! You won't learn this stuff unless you go out and find it. If you don't learn it, you will be one of the people that "hates" this awesome phone. I've been around long enough to know this.

When you close out of a program in WM, you don't actually close the program. Its like you minimize it. Some applications support an exit function and there are applets to help manage such things. Also, as far as WM devices go, this ain't bad in the memory department by any stretch of the imagination.

Posted by: brightcell

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Originally Posted by WRS2K

Maybe because, OK doesn't really close apps

Get smartkeys (freeware) so clicking on OK will close apps.

Posted by: ilrosewood

Im curious if anyone else is getting the following error message while using Activesync...
"Unable to obtain a server assigned IP address. Try again later or enter an IP address in Network settings." Except ... everything works while connected via USB.

Some google searching shows that other people get it and just click ok and moved on.

Posted by: moschops

When the phone is closed how the heck do I activate the Windows Menu without pulling out the stylus or touching the screen? Its not documented and any number of attempts at multiple or combo keypresses failed. Seems like a useful feature to have - is there a hack to enable it?

And while I'm at it... why on earth isn't there a backup program for the phone? I know I can get data back with ActiveSync but what about all those registry settings??? Most PPC devices include a backup utility... sight.

Posted by: msquare

I can't get wi-fi to work on my MDA. I seem to be connecting to the network correctly. (It shows on the COnnections page and on the top of hte screen.)

But when I try to open any webpage, i get a page not found error.

It works just fine when I switch to GPRS/EDGE.

Am I missing a setting somewhere?

Posted by: jet3004

Okay...Importing contacts from SIM to the phone's memory?

Posted by: ZackM0rrisPh0ne

has anyone successfully configured the mda to work with goodlink? i have successfully installed goodlink, works great after installation, but after a reboot...my phone freezes up on a blue "windows mobile" screen...with the word "password" on the top left. the phone then does not respond to any key presses to enter any password. any ideas?

Posted by: true_atlantis

i have a few questions...

1. what does the 'increase performace' item do in 'XDA Developers Registry Tweak'
2. how do you download a .cab file in IE, there is no 'save' or 'saveas..' option anywhere
3. after installing the XDA Developers Registry Tweak i noticed that the bars of my service icon has been cut off right in the middle of the thing that looks like a Y with a bar over it, all the way to the right hand side of the screen. whats the deal with that?
4. my friend has the same sort of phone for Verizon, and has icons on the main screen, is that possible with the MDA?
5. is there a way to make it so when the divice goes into standby mode, when you open it, it will turn back on, so you dont have to press the power button?

Posted by: dadik

Ok Thx

Posted by: Scaw

Quote:

Originally Posted by tedya

Has anyone gotten the keyboard indicator tweak to work on the T-mobile MDA?

Mine will not save the entry.

You probably are not using the right method to perform the soft reset. That makes your device reset before the changes have been written back to the registry. Have a look at this article.

As an alternative, you could try XDA Developers Registry Wizard which includes this tweak as well.

Posted by: ustna

Has anybody "skinned" the dialpad yet? If so, what are you using and where did you get it?

Posted by: ustna

Quote:

Originally Posted by ustna

Has anybody "skinned" the dialpad yet? If so, what are you using and where did you get it?

Found some if anyone is interested.
http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/fo...opic.php?t=3440

I just installed the "blue reptile" skin and it looks MUCH better than the "default" one.

Posted by: shivers316

Quote:

Originally Posted by TreMontana

here's some awesome screen protectors for this version of MDA

http://pocketpctechs.com/main~unit~...HIELD%99+C2.htm

Posted by: ustna

Anyone using microsoft voice command able to voice dial through a bluetooth headset? I haven't figured it out yet.

Posted by: snoslicer8

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Originally Posted by ustna

Anyone using microsoft voice command able to voice dial through a bluetooth headset? I haven't figured it out yet.

On the MDA developer's forum there is supposedly a hack that, when activated, causes your bluetooth headset's talk button to act like the voice recognition hardware button on your device. There are success stories of it working with other WM5 devices, but none on the MDA yet.

I've tried, and I can't get it to work, nor can I get any of the "BlueTunes" type hacks to work (streaming mono audio to bluetooth).

Posted by: WRS2K

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

If it was that simple, your blood pressure wouldn't be so high.

Again, when I'm on my MDA and I click on the .cab link on Agile's site, the click action takes me to another web page with a bunch of code. I try to hold the wand and see if I can save file as like on the desktop, but again, it doesn't show that option. I know about the file explorer, but since the file isn't downloaded as a file and shown as an icon, it just ain't there.

With regard to the second comment, just because this unit happens to have more memory or better memory management than other WM devicies, since that's all relative, it doesn't make it "good". It's kinda like saying Roseanne Barr is better looking than most overweight women doesn't make her attractive.

The MDA is HARDLY an awesome device, but then maybe Roseanne is the best you can do.

Posted by: snoslicer8

Quote:

Originally Posted by WRS2K

Alright, I'll try to help you, since no one else seems willing. In order to install that .CAB file correctly, you need to download it on a desktop computer, so try that. I've not tried downloading a CAB from my MDA yet, so I can't speak to that effect.

Download the CAB to your desktop on your regular computer. Start up activesync with your MDA connected. On the activesync box on your PC, click "Explore". Navigate to "My Documents" in that explore box, drop the newly downloaded CAB file there, disconnect MDA, then use MDA File Explorer to navigate to "My Documents". Tap the CAB file, and it should install. Voila!

Posted by: WRS2K

Thanks, bud.

The reason why I didn't try that last night is because I use a Mac at home.

Posted by: snoslicer8

Ahh, ok. Well, for future reference, you can buy an SD card reader for USB and use it on your Mac. It shouldn't have a problem reading the card, seeing as Macs can read PC stuff. Then, you can download any CAB you want, put it on the card, then plug the card back into your phone and use the same explorer to find the file on the card and run it. The directory for the card is "My Device->Storage Card". Hope this helps.

Also, if your Mac has bluetooth, you can push the file over bluetooth from the Mac to the MDA. You'd have to do the regedit earlier in this thread to enable Bluetooth File Receive, though.

Posted by: kdenninger

Quote:

Originally Posted by snoslicer8

The Bluetunes hack does work on the MDA

Posted by: ZeroXOmega

Can WMP play MP4's on the MDA?

Posted by: snoslicer8

Quote:

Originally Posted by kdenninger

The Bluetunes hack does work on the MDA

DO SHARE! I installed BlueTunes, and it automatically assumed it was "enabled" when I opened it. When I try to disable it, it says "Cdial could not be started" because of blah blah blah and so on. How did you get it working???

Posted by: toledopirate

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Originally Posted by toledopirate

My MDA backlight settings did not work correctly yesterday. Under Settings/Backlight/Battery power I de-selected box "Turn off backlight if device not used for __" and I deselected the box "Turn on backlight when a button is pressed or the screen is tapped". Clicked OK, exited the screen and then came back in and selected both boxes. Now the backlight goes off at the proper time.

However, if I select the time interval for 3, 4 or 5 minutes, tapping on the screen won't turn the backlight back on again - I have to press the Power button. Selecting a timed settings below 3 minutes, like 2 minutes, 1 minute, 30 sec and 10 sec, and tapping on the screen when dimmed successfully turns the backlight on again.

Settings/Power/Advanced/On Battery Power: Turn off device is not used for X minutes

Of course, it would help to set this to > 3 minutes

Posted by: toledopirate

http://www.google.com/pda

Posted by: AlphaShark

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scaw

Worked like a charm, Thanks.

Posted by: ZackM0rrisPh0ne

so nobody here tried using goodlink with the device huh?

Posted by: toledopirate

Quote:

Originally Posted by true_atlantis

i have a few questions...

5. is there a way to make it so when the divice goes into standby mode, when you open it, it will turn back on, so you dont have to press the power button?

Sync up the times you set at Settings/System/Power/Advanced and Settings/System/Backlight/Battery Power

Posted by: gremlin000

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

Im curious if anyone else is getting the following error message while using Activesync...
"Unable to obtain a server assigned IP address. Try again later or enter an IP address in Network settings." Except ... everything works while connected via USB.

Some google searching shows that other people get it and just click ok and moved on.

I'm also having this issue. It doesn't seem to affect functionality of the ActiveSync however.

Posted by: olouie99

Quote:

Originally Posted by toledopirate

Sync up the times you set at Settings/System/Power/Advanced and Settings/System/Backlight/Battery Power

that only works for backlight not when it is "off" in closed position

Posted by: OneAboveAll

I love this thing, but I'm having issues with Active sync as well. Nothing syncs!!! Usually when I hook up a device it automatically syncs with outlook. I didn't get any contacts synced to my phone. Now I'm at work and I need my contacts and phone numbers. The active sync just runs and runs. I thought that you were able to give your profile a name when you first run active sync with your device. My profile comes up as WM_USER why is that? i've always given my device/profile a name. Then it keeps telling me that I have to have 32mb mini sd card to set up WM Player. Do I need this to set up WM Player???

Posted by: ronin4740

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

Step 1, download the .cab. Step 2, click on it in file explorer.

Thats it. It is as simple as that. Im sorry mate but if you can't figure out how to download something, I think your days are numbered.

Seriously man, go read up on pocket pcs before you ask such basic questions. Hell, read the first post of the thread even! You won't learn this stuff unless you go out and find it. If you don't learn it, you will be one of the people that "hates" this awesome phone. I've been around long enough to know this.

Sounds like he has the same issue I have - when I download a .cab file with PIE it loads the file into PIE rather than saving it.

So, for SOME of us, it's NOT just as simple as clicking on a .cab file, saving it then opening it in PIE.

I'll go find the answer to my problem and it's not a big thing for me as I can active sync .cab files to the MDA. It's more of a minor annoyance that something doesn't work the way I'd expect it to.

Posted by: dom89

i have another question. as i was installing programs i ran out of storage. now if i get a mini sd, will i still be able to install more programs. and for the memory, where it says "programs" is that supposed to be the RAM?

Posted by: AlphaShark

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneAboveAll

I love this thing, but I'm having issues with Active sync as well. Nothing syncs!!! Usually when I hook up a device it automatically syncs with outlook. I didn't get any contacts synced to my phone. Now I'm at work and I need my contacts and phone numbers. The active sync just runs and runs. I thought that you were able to give your profile a name when you first run active sync with your device. My profile comes up as WM_USER why is that? i've always given my device/profile a name. Then it keeps telling me that I have to have 32mb mini sd card to set up WM Player. Do I need this to set up WM Player???

This happend to me the first time also. I uninstalled AS and reinstalled. Then it worked like it should.

Posted by: shackk

Quote:

Originally Posted by dom89

i have another question. as i was installing programs i ran out of storage. now if i get a mini sd, will i still be able to install more programs.

yes you would be able to install about all of your programs to your sd, this would free up ram on your device and would help it run quicker. get a sd!!!

Posted by: shadowimg

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

Well aren't we smug and unhelpful. Since you're completely useless in your answer to them "oh just download the cab!" when the problem they are having is very obvious, I'll chime in to make up for it.

If you are clicking on a link in a webpage to a cab or such and your browser loads a page of code, it's not something you are doing wrong. Unfortunately, it's also not something you can work around in PIE (as far as I've been able to find, there's no 'save link as' option). The problem is the MIME type associations on the web server side not returning a type of application/cab for .cab/.CAB extensions.

My solution to this is I have a local webserver which I retrieve these files to with wget, and I have my webserver's MIME magics setup properly for cab/CAB extensions, so I simply fetch to my own server and then retrieve it from there. The other option would be to pull it down to your PC and beam it over with one of the various methods for doing such (activesync, obex, etc).

Posted by: metalzo

Quote:

Originally Posted by shackk

yes you would be able to install about all of your programs to your sd, this would free up ram on your device and would help it run quicker. get a sd!!!

Aside from the increased storage on the miniSD card, is there an advantage/disadvantage to installing programs on the miniSD versus the phone itself? Which runs faster?

Posted by: jondav

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneAboveAll

I just went through a major ActiveSync drama and think I know what you need to do. If you are switching over to the MDA from a previous PPC and a different version of AS, you need to first uninstall the previous version of AS before you install 4.1. Once the AS is deleted re-install from the CD and AS should recognize you new device by the name you have given it. It may also resolve some of your other issues. In my case I had an item in Outlook Notes that was completely crashing my MDA. It took several hard resets and a step by step sync of data until I found the culprit.

Good Luck.

Posted by: transmethyl

Quote:

Originally Posted by brightcell

Maybe because, OK doesn't really close apps

Get smartkeys (freeware) so clicking on OK will close apps.

Where can I get smartkeys? google is a bit overwhelmed...

Posted by: jondav

Quote:

Originally Posted by jondav

Got my MDA yesterday and used it for a day before I setup ActiveSync.

Everything worked fine prior to the first ActiveSync. After the syncing my MDA crashes when I tap to the "Sounds & Notifications" icon and than select "Notifications".

A soft reset will get the device working again, but it will crash again if I go to the "Notifications" tab. The same thing happens when in phone mode and I select "Phone>Options".

I have done multiple hard resets and all is well after the hard reset until I again try to ActiveSync and than the problem returns.

Is it just me? Any Ideas? Should we start a new thread for MDA Bugs?

Well I resolved my problem. I will post the solution here in case, for some bizare reason, this happens to anyone else.

It turns out that the culprit was an item in Outlook Notes that most have been currupted and was causing the crash.

I had to do a hard reset of the MDA and a complete uninstall/reinstall of AS on the PC. I then performed multiple syncs adding a catagory of data (i.e contacts, calendar, notes,etc) with each sync. My intial hunch was that the problem was with my Calendar data/alarms. But lo and behold it was notes.

I simply deleted all notes fromt he MDA and my issue was resolved..no more crashes. I then went back into Outlook and cleaned up my Notes by deleting a few things and renaming some others and now all is well.

Posted by: NeverBepeace

How do you permantly remove a program from your device? I cant remove total commander from my device. Any suggestions?

Posted by: Eric5273

Quote:

Originally Posted by shackk

yes you would be able to install about all of your programs to your sd, this would free up ram on your device and would help it run quicker. get a sd!!!

I keep reading people saying this, and this is not the case at all. You are living in the Windows Mobile 2003 world of yesterday. On Windows Mobile 5 devices, programs do not install to RAM, they install to ROM.

The MDA has 128 MB ROM, and 64 MB RAM. On a WM5 phone, RAM works the same way it does on a PC. When you do a soft resest, or you turn off the phone, anything in RAM dissapears.

On the other hand, ROM is the equivalent to hard drive space on your PC. Think of the miniSD card as an external hard drive on your PC -- it functions the same as the internal hard drive (ROM), but is not as fast. Also, in the case of the WM5 device, ROM is somewhat limited.

While you do need to leave some of your ROM empty for things such as cache files and temporary files just the same as you cannot fill up your PC's hard drive completely, this has nothing to do with RAM. RAM is only affected by how many programs you have running at the moment and has nothing to do with how many programs you have installed on your phone.

I would say that on a WM5 device, as long as you have at least 10 MB ROM empty, you will be fine -- that is plenty for whatever temp & cache files you will need. Just empty your Pocket IE temp files every once in a while and more space should open up. As a general rule, install programs you want to run quicker to the ROM, while other programs that are less speed sensative should be installed to the miniSD card. Also, even programs installed to the miniSD card will put some files on the ROM.

Posted by: Giedrys

Does anybody knows any application for MDA,similar to this:

http://my-symbian.com/uiq/applicati...dAuto=638&faq=2

Posted by: boom27

Quote:

Originally Posted by success2be

What is up with the MDA reception? I come home for the 2nd day with my MDA and it searchs for signal for 90 minutes before grabing between 1 and 2 bars?

I assume if it can't find a signal within ten minutes, it'll never find a signal. It looks like there is a problem with the signal searching algoritm.

Anyone confirming same problem with reception?

Yes, I can confirm the searching problem on the MDA. I came out of the Metro in DC and it kept searching for at least 90 mins and doesn't find anything. This is where I normally have 4-5 bars. However, if I go into manual select network it finds the network right away so something must be up with the auto search. Any ideas?

Posted by: Alex301

Ok, six pages and my eyes just went crossed. Ill try my best to chime in on some of the things that I remembered.

What I use for Push:

The only email that I use on my MDA, and in general is my Corporate Email (I do have gmail but it isn't utilized). Since we are running Exchange 2000, AES push email is out of the question. So I have signed up with a company called Intellisync. I pay $16 per month for their service. What it basically does is I have a redirector on my desktop, so I leave it running always with Outlook open. I also have a program running in the background of my MDA. Any changes to email, calendar, tasks is instantly pushed both ways. I don't do contacts since you get a more thourough sync through Activesync. I tried using T-Mobile Mycorporate, but since it uses pop3 access, there is no true syncing meaning it didn't delete emails on my device that I deleted in my Outlook, unacceptable to me.

Always on GPRS:

Yes I am utilizing this hack and I am sure it eats up battery life, however my device is in a cradle all day when I am at my office and cradled when i sleep at night so I haven't had an issue with battery outages. If I leave it out of the cradle over night I am usually at around 60% in the morning.

SMS Delivery Notification:

I am not sure why that isn't working, that was the hack that I looked up for you guys. Mine is done through Tweaks2k2 so I am not sure what else to tell you guys, some searching in the Pocket PC forum or at xda developers might yield some results for yuo.

Programs on device vs. Storage card:

Software on your device will work much better than the ones you put on your storage card. My suggestion is any Today plugins or utility software you decide to install, put it on the device. Games and non crucial software throw on the Storage Card to save space.

Posted by: Alex301

Removal of programs:

I hope that you have found teh remove programs from the Settings folders. However this sometimes results in a can't completely remove. I have found that this is due to parts of the program still running even though you have closed it. Perform a soft reset, than run the uninstaller and it should work better.

Voice COmmand and BT headset

Yes there is a way to get this to work, it is a hack. Go to the Pocket PC forum here at HoFo and look in the sticky for Kjam Hacks, tips tricks, or something like that. I believe it should be in the first 10 pages or so.

Posted by: tgenius

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

Ok, six pages and my eyes just went crossed. Ill try my best to chime in on some of the things that I remembered.

What I use for Push:

The only email that I use on my MDA, and in general is my Corporate Email (I do have gmail but it isn't utilized). Since we are running Exchange 2000, AES push email is out of the question. So I have signed up with a company called Intellisync. I pay $16 per month for their service. What it basically does is I have a redirector on my desktop, so I leave it running always with Outlook open. I also have a program running in the background of my MDA. Any changes to email, calendar, tasks is instantly pushed both ways. I don't do contacts since you get a more thourough sync through Activesync. I tried using T-Mobile Mycorporate, but since it uses pop3 access, there is no true syncing meaning it didn't delete emails on my device that I deleted in my Outlook, unacceptable to me.

Always on GPRS:

Yes I am utilizing this hack and I am sure it eats up battery life, however my device is in a cradle all day when I am at my office and cradled when i sleep at night so I haven't had an issue with battery outages. If I leave it out of the cradle over night I am usually at around 60% in the morning.

SMS Delivery Notification:

I am not sure why that isn't working, that was the hack that I looked up for you guys. Mine is done through Tweaks2k2 so I am not sure what else to tell you guys, some searching in the Pocket PC forum or at xda developers might yield some results for yuo.

Programs on device vs. Storage card:

Software on your device will work much better than the ones you put on your storage card. My suggestion is any Today plugins or utility software you decide to install, put it on the device. Games and non crucial software throw on the Storage Card to save space.

Alex its hard to keep track of things.. where is the reg hack to have GPRS on always? Also, will it re-connect once a phone call ends?

Posted by: Jrewerb

I am trying to download a 10 meg file and I'm getting error message that I don't have enough storage to complete the download... I've previously downloaded similar size files and deleted them... I have a 512 card with a few small ringtones on it so space there shouldn't be a problem.... Can I change the download location? I can't find any setting's to do this...

Posted by: 1badmf

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

Removal of programs:

I hope that you have found teh remove programs from the Settings folders. However this sometimes results in a can't completely remove. I have found that this is due to parts of the program still running even though you have closed it. Perform a soft reset, than run the uninstaller and it should work better.

Voice COmmand and BT headset

Yes there is a way to get this to work, it is a hack. Go to the Pocket PC forum here at HoFo and look in the sticky for Kjam Hacks, tips tricks, or something like that. I believe it should be in the first 10 pages or so.

If you don't want to do reg hacks you can use this.
http://www.burling.co.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=151

I did, it worked great. Voice Commander over bluetooth isn't as great but it works most of the time.

Posted by: metalzo

I believe the posts on this page has the Voice Command via Bluetooth hack you're searching for:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...28&page=3&pp=15

Posted by: metalzo

Is the T-Mobile US Shipping ROM available anywhere as an executable like the other ROMs on XDA's FTP? I ask because the only one I've been able to find is just a bunch of archived files from a dump and not an easy to flash executable. If anyone has a link for this I'd greatly appreciate it.

Posted by: Alex301

metalzo:

Noone has posted the T-Mo US full ROM yet, I believe only the Extended ROM is up there, but it is only a matter of time.

A

Posted by: shackk

alexsocal, do you have any pros/cons about the rom(s) your running right now?

Posted by: Alex301

tgenius:

This is how I think it should go for always on GPRS, let me know if this works:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\GPRSAutoAtt ach

Dword should be 1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\GPRSAutoDet ach

Dword 0

That is my configuration, if this doesn't work than I am looking in the wrong place. Let me know.

shackk:

I am running a Qtek test ROM right now, the official release of this version from Imate and Qtek is supposedly in the next week or two. The main differences is that these include A2DP and AKU2.0. Also, from what I have seen, I have a higher version Radio ROM than the T-Mo USA. The other main difference is that my Extended ROM is much leaner than the one from T-Mo since it doesn't include all the customizations. Since I haven't had the opportunity to play with the T-Mo US ROM I can't speak to performance, but the one I am using is quicker than the previous 1.6.x ROM that I was using.

Alex

Posted by: shackk

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

shackk:

I am running a Qtek test ROM right now, the official release of this version from Imate and Qtek is supposedly in the next week or two. The main differences is that these include A2DP and AKU2.0. Also, from what I have seen, I have a higher version Radio ROM than the T-Mo USA. The other main difference is that my Extended ROM is much leaner than the one from T-Mo since it doesn't include all the customizations. Since I haven't had the opportunity to play with the T-Mo US ROM I can't speak to performance, but the one I am using is quicker than the previous 1.6.x ROM that I was using.

Alex

Thanks for the input.

Posted by: Alex301

Dialpad Skins

Here is site that I have download Dialpad skins from. They come as a .cab file for easy installation. I suggest the main memory version.

Zombie Nexus

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by WRS2K

If it was that simple, your blood pressure wouldn't be so high.
The MDA is HARDLY an awesome device, but then maybe Roseanne is the best you can do.

Lol. Internet = Serious Business.

Quote:

Originally Posted by toledopirate

http://www.google.com/pda

Yes, when you go to google.com, google re-directs you to that site since you are using PIE. When I do a search or anything else really, I get no joy. /pda /xhtml /goatse , it doesn't matter. Imagines.google.com , video.google.com, news.google.com - no love.

Quote:

Originally Posted by gremlin000

I'm also having this issue. It doesn't seem to affect functionality of the ActiveSync however.

The more I search the more I see that 1) A lot of people have this IP address issue and 2) I have yet to find a fix and that 3) Since everything works, we all just ignore it and move on. Bah to that.

Posted by: kdenninger

Quote:

Originally Posted by snoslicer8

I have three little programs - toggle, on and off - they run and exit.

The "on" and "off" work - as they do on the SDA - but they're not perfect. Once "on" the transmission STAYS on until turned off, which isn't great - but its better than nothing.

Posted by: kdenninger

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneAboveAll

Turn OFF the Contact Sync then turn it back on.

Its a bug in ActiveSync.

You can rename the device (and should)

Posted by: ronin4740

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

Voice COmmand and BT headset

Yes there is a way to get this to work, it is a hack. Go to the Pocket PC forum here at HoFo and look in the sticky for Kjam Hacks, tips tricks, or something like that. I believe it should be in the first 10 pages or so.

Mebbe I'm just lucky but it works without any hacks on my MDA with a Logitech Bluetooth Pro headset. Unfortunately it looks like this headset is no longer in production...

But, for me, all I have to do is hit the talk button on the headset and the Voice Command application opens. I hear the beep in the headset, speak the command and it connects.

Posted by: evilninja

Anyone attempted to remove the tmoble logo branding right below the screen yet? Can it be done with finger nail polish remover?

Posted by: werk

Quote:

Originally Posted by evilninja

Anyone attempted to remove the tmoble logo branding right below the screen yet? Can it be done with finger nail polish remover?

I've heard rubbing it with a sugar cube will remove it.

Posted by: OneAboveAll

Quote:

Originally Posted by kdenninger

Turn OFF the Contact Sync then turn it back on.

Its a bug in ActiveSync.

You can rename the device (and should)

Turn OFF the Contact Sync on my PC settings? How do I rename the device, its alwas asked me the first time I plug in for a name. Thanks for the advice my friend. I'll try it when I get home.

Posted by: JR Rapeyastacks

When I click on a link to a .wmv or .wma file I get the same page of code that somebody else was talking about. How do you get the "Save as..." pop up to open...I did it once...but have no idea how. Thanx.

Similar to right clicking "Save Target As..."

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by JR Rapeyastacks

When I click on a link to a .wmv or .wma file I get the same page of code that somebody else was talking about. How do you get the "Save as..." pop up to open...I did it once...but have no idea how. Thanx.

Similar to right clicking "Save Target As..."

As someone else said, you are running into a server that doesn't have its mime types setup properly. Download it to your pc and get it over via AS or mini sd.

Posted by: shappy0869

Is there anyone with an MDA that got it working out of the box with no problems or isn't running into performance or usability issues? I am just curious.

Posted by: kaptainsunshine

Quote:

Originally Posted by werk

I've heard rubbing it with a sugar cube will remove it.

Are you serious or do you just want somebody to end up with a sticky phone?

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaptainsunshine

Are you serious or do you just want somebody to end up with a sticky phone?

Shush. Let him give a try. Maybe lick the sugar cube first.

Quote:

Originally Posted by shappy0869

Is there anyone with an MDA that got it working out of the box with no problems or isn't running into performance or usability issues? I am just curious.

Mine has been hot and ready to trot.

Posted by: metalzo

Quote:

Originally Posted by shappy0869

Is there anyone with an MDA that got it working out of the box with no problems or isn't running into performance or usability issues? I am just curious.

I think with a device like this and us being early adopters, you can't expect it to work quite the way you want it right out of the box. But for me the customizability and tweakability of the device is one of the major draws. You have to expect bugs to come up but in the end I think it'll be worth it.

Posted by: djayrage

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaptainsunshine

Are you serious or do you just want somebody to end up with a sticky phone?

That does work, there's a long thread about it over in the Pocket PC section here on HoFo, it might even be a sticky, not sure been to busy trying to keep up with everyone's posts in here and on the other MDA/SDA threads...

Posted by: kdenninger

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneAboveAll

Turn OFF the Contact Sync on my PC settings?

Yep. ActiveSync has done this since 4.0 with every device I've connected to it - it SAYS its syncing contacts, but actually does not unless you shut off the contacts in the sync options and then turn it back on. Once you do that it will "remember" and work correctly.

Quote:

How do I rename the device, its alwas asked me the first time I plug in for a name. Thanks for the advice my friend. I'll try it when I get home.

Go to Settings->System->About; the "Device ID" can be set there.

Posted by: HoOn

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

Dialpad Skins

Here is site that I have download Dialpad skins from. They come as a .cab file for easy installation. I suggest the main memory version.

Zombie Nexus

Thanks Alex!

Those are nice dial pad skins but my fonts on the top of the dialpad is in BLACK which is hard to read. Its not like the ones on their screenshots. Do you guys know how to change the color of the font to White?

Thanks!

- John

Posted by: shackk

Yes the sugar cube does work to remove the logos, I did it with my kjam when I got it. Dont lick it first

Also ironically there is a post on the home page of www.modaco.com if you would like to read more about it also.

Posted by: AlphaShark

Quote:

Originally Posted by shappy0869

Is there anyone with an MDA that got it working out of the box with no problems or isn't running into performance or usability issues? I am just curious.

Mine. No problems whatsoever.

Posted by: evilninja

Quote:

Originally Posted by shackk

Yes the sugar cube does work to remove the logos, I did it with my kjam when I got it. Dont lick it first

Also ironically there is a post on the home page of www.modaco.com if you would like to read more about it also.

At first I thought it was a joke also. Good to know that sugar cubes may work better than Acetone (nail polish remover). I removed the logo on the t610 a long time ago with acetone, and it seemed fine. So both methods work.

Posted by: The Trooper

I have been using aim for a couple of hours and it took a toll on the 400 txt messages I have:

so with the built in messenger you are charged messages!

i just found a free endless trial of IM+ that I will be trying out...I'll inform after I'm done!

Posted by: thenewnoise

I am pretty disappointed with the battery on this. I have been using it for about 5 hours today, only sending text messages, and the battery is already 25% gone

Posted by: shackk

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Trooper

I have been using aim for a couple of hours and it took a toll on the 400 txt messages I have:

so with the built in messenger you are charged messages!

i just found a free endless trial of IM+ that I will be trying out...I'll inform after I'm done!

Its been posted numerous times that the built in client runs using sms. Sorry you found out the hard way. Download agile messenger, its free and it uses data not sms.

Posted by: The Trooper

Quote:

Originally Posted by shackk

Its been posted numerous times that the built in client runs using sms. Sorry you found out the hard way. Download agile messenger, its free and it uses data not sms.

Its fine by me I was just testing it...I will call up the store where I bought it and notify them of this for I was told "Don't worry everything used in the messengers (built in) are charged as data and since you have unlimited there should be no problem"

Like I said before I will try out IM+ and see how it is!

Posted by: true_atlantis

has anyone used a VNC viewer on the MDA yet? if so, which one, and what did you think?

Posted by: MinisterStanley

Quote:

Originally Posted by shappy0869

Is there anyone with an MDA that got it working out of the box with no problems or isn't running into performance or usability issues? I am just curious.

I purchased mine on Tuesday morning and have had no performance or usability issues. It is not fast, but I can deal with that. The only time I have had to reset are when making changes to the registry. I have installed about 4 apps with no problems.

Posted by: ShooBaDoop

Here's a small list of IM options that I've found. I just downloaded and tried out all three using the SmarterChild bot:

Packaged IM app. that comes installed -
Slow. Dog slow. Gets the job done, but, instead of interpreting HTML in messages, it just spits it out to the screen making IM messages very difficult to read. But, if you're a very patient person, it's good. This one *does* use up your text messages. So beware.

Agile Messenger -
Being as they don't have a WM5 version out yet, I downloaded the one for PPC 2003, I think. I'm hoping when they do finally release a WM5 version it will fix some of the problems I'm seeing. Switching to/fro landscape-portrait has some issues. Most of the time, in landscape view, it cuts off about 1/3 of the screen. This limits how much of the message you can read. Also, I noticed that the "status" on the Today screen seems to disappear and reappear randomly when switching landscape and portrait. The first time I ran it, several names didn't appear next to the icon in my Buddy List. However, if I tap and hold over the icon and select "Get User Info" it would tell me who it is. But I had to remove, readd, ask them to send me a message before the name would start showing up. Sometimes that messed up my Buddy List.

The IMs themselves deal with HTML better in the sense that it just doesn't show it. It doesn't handle carriage returns in an IM all that well. For example, when receiving an IM from SmarterChild, it should display each item (ie 1. News, 2. Weather, etc) on a separate line. Instead it jumbles them all together on one line, making it very difficult to read. The plus side is the graphics are better implemented, you can change your "status" for each IM service individually and you can change the sound of a new IM (in Sounds & Notifications).

IM+ -
$39.99 for an Instant Messaging program?!? C'mon! And the "Settings" sucks...only check boxes for the following: Sound alerts, Notifications, Send by Enter, Keep alive, Save history and Background mode. That's it! You can't change the sound alert sound. No option to vibrate. And the icons at the bottom of the screen must have been created in MS Paint by an 8-year old. IM+ also has the same problem with not displaying HTML and grouping separate lines together. The d-pad works like the Tab key; instead of scrolling up/down through the message box, it just tabs from one button to next.

On the upside, Agile Messenger and IM+ are both much faster than the packed IM app. in my testing and it's my understanding that they don't use up your text messages.

If AgileMobile would put a rush on releasing Agile Messenger for WM5, they could easily sweep the market...and not to mention it's free.

I still haven't decided which of the three I'm going to use until something better comes out. The first one is out just because of speed. But IM+ and Agile both suck at the moment.

Your mileage may vary.

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by thenewnoise

I am pretty disappointed with the battery on this. I have been using it for about 5 hours today, only sending text messages, and the battery is already 25% gone

So you still have 75% battery left? I know with my 6600 if I used it straight for 5 hours doing damn near anything, I would have been damned happy to have any life left on it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Trooper

so with the built in messenger you are charged messages!

Quote:

Originally Posted by true_atlantis

has anyone used a VNC viewer on the MDA yet? if so, which one, and what did you think?

I just did a google search for pocket pc vnc and used the first and second ones I found. Both worked fine, as does RDP.

Posted by: thenewnoise

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

So you still have 75% battery left? I know with my 6600 if I used it straight for 5 hours doing damn near anything, I would have been damned happy to have any life left on it.

.

I haven't been using it for 5 straight hours. its has been unplugged for 5 hours and i have used it on and off for text messaging. no where close to 5 straight hours

Posted by: werk

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

So you still have 75% battery left? I know with my 6600 if I used it straight for 5 hours doing damn near anything, I would have been damned happy to have any life left on it.

I agree...that would be 20 hours of off and on usage. Pretty good, IMO.

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by thenewnoise

I haven't been using it for 5 straight hours. its has been unplugged for 5 hours and i have used it on and off for text messaging. no where close to 5 straight hours

Even then, making wild battery claims with out mentioning what your backlight level is set to, what your time out is set to, etc. is kind of silly.

Im at 85% after day's use (9a to 4p), ~ 20 minutes of phone time according to the log, checks exchange every 5, and some web browsing, backlight off @ 30 seconds, one notch away from powersave on the backlight setting, wifi off, bluetooth on, all 20 minutes with a bluetooth headset.

Posted by: Alex301

HoOn:

I ran into the same problem with those Dialpad Skins when I was running the T-Mo UK ROM. HEre is the fix for it in the registry.

1) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\Dialer\Port rait\text\texcolor
2) Change Base to Hex
3) DWORD Date enter from Hex Color Chart

Follow the same steps for Landscape as well as for call in progress, forget the exact name for that key.

Here is a link to Hex Color Chart so you can choose which colors you want...

Hex Color Chart

Posted by: thenewnoise

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

the backlight is set to the lowest it can be without it being off and to turn off after 30 seconds. Turn the device off if it has not been used for 1 minute. I do have active sync running every 5 minutes and I haven't done any web browsing.

I guess i just compare the device to a normal phone where after 5 hours if you sent and received about 50 texts you wouldn't have lost 25% of the battery

Posted by: Alex301

Ringtones by Contact:

Kind of ran into this one by accident. On your device go to the contact you want to assign the Ringtone, select edit, you should see a drop down menu for Ringtones.

Posted by: djayrage

Thanks for the round up of the IM'ing applications. I was planning on using IM+ since Agile is not fully wm5 compatible, but will have to ponder it over a lil' more now.

On another topic, has anyone been able to find a 2GB minisd card anywhere that is in stock and shipping for a reasonable price? I ordered myself one from Fry's (outpost.com) over the weekend, and they notified me today that they will not have any in stock and available to be shipped until April 2nd.

Posted by: mwenn1

Quote:

Originally Posted by shappy0869

Is there anyone with an MDA that got it working out of the box with no problems or isn't running into performance or usability issues? I am just curious.

No problems here, everything works fine for me. I haven't installed any new software or made any registry hacks though.

Posted by: The Trooper

AlexSoCal: I downloaded some dialpad skins but I can't see them, I installed them on the mini sd card how do I change them?

EDIT: I think I got it to work!

Posted by: ShooBaDoop

Has anyone gotten their GMail connection to work properly? I noticed that I'm not the only one that can receive a new email from GMail, but it seems to disappear on the phone after the next Send/Receive. Has anyone found a workaround or fix for this by any chance?

Posted by: ronin4740

I asked earlier but didn't get a reply... With regards to the built in RDP client is there anyway to get it to connect to a non-standard TCP port? I've tried <server address>:<port> and <server address> <port> with no success.

TIA

Posted by: Alex301

My Next Device...Time to start saving pennies!

Posted by: The Trooper

how do install this? http://www.zombienexus.net/portal/G...?SEC=3&CatID=77

Posted by: Alex301

Trooper:

Those Skin suites are designed for devices that are running Wisbar Advanced or Pocket Breeze today screen plug-ins. If you are running either of those apps, then i am sure it comes down to downloading and installing.

A

Posted by: The Trooper

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

Trooper:

Those Skin suites are designed for devices that are running Wisbar Advanced or Pocket Breeze today screen plug-ins. If you are running either of those apps, then i am sure it comes down to downloading and installing.

A

Thanks I didn't know that...I will be trying to get a copy of those to see if it works

Posted by: olouie99

Quote:

Originally Posted by djayrage

Thanks for the round up of the IM'ing applications. I was planning on using IM+ since Agile is not fully wm5 compatible, but will have to ponder it over a lil' more now.

On another topic, has anyone been able to find a 2GB minisd card anywhere that is in stock and shipping for a reasonable price? I ordered myself one from Fry's (outpost.com) over the weekend, and they notified me today that they will not have any in stock and available to be shipped until April 2nd.

newegg.com has one in stock. i just ordered this morning

Posted by: olouie99

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShooBaDoop

Here's a small list of IM options that I've found. I just downloaded and tried out all three using the SmarterChild bot:

Packaged IM app. that comes installed -
Slow. Dog slow. Gets the job done, but, instead of interpreting HTML in messages, it just spits it out to the screen making IM messages very difficult to read. But, if you're a very patient person, it's good. This one *does* use up your text messages. So beware.

Agile Messenger -
Being as they don't have a WM5 version out yet, I downloaded the one for PPC 2003, I think. I'm hoping when they do finally release a WM5 version it will fix some of the problems I'm seeing. Switching to/fro landscape-portrait has some issues. Most of the time, in landscape view, it cuts off about 1/3 of the screen. This limits how much of the message you can read. Also, I noticed that the "status" on the Today screen seems to disappear and reappear randomly when switching landscape and portrait. The first time I ran it, several names didn't appear next to the icon in my Buddy List. However, if I tap and hold over the icon and select "Get User Info" it would tell me who it is. But I had to remove, readd, ask them to send me a message before the name would start showing up. Sometimes that messed up my Buddy List.

The IMs themselves deal with HTML better in the sense that it just doesn't show it. It doesn't handle carriage returns in an IM all that well. For example, when receiving an IM from SmarterChild, it should display each item (ie 1. News, 2. Weather, etc) on a separate line. Instead it jumbles them all together on one line, making it very difficult to read. The plus side is the graphics are better implemented, you can change your "status" for each IM service individually and you can change the sound of a new IM (in Sounds & Notifications).

IM+ -
$39.99 for an Instant Messaging program?!? C'mon! And the "Settings" sucks...only check boxes for the following: Sound alerts, Notifications, Send by Enter, Keep alive, Save history and Background mode. That's it! You can't change the sound alert sound. No option to vibrate. And the icons at the bottom of the screen must have been created in MS Paint by an 8-year old. IM+ also has the same problem with not displaying HTML and grouping separate lines together. The d-pad works like the Tab key; instead of scrolling up/down through the message box, it just tabs from one button to next.

On the upside, Agile Messenger and IM+ are both much faster than the packed IM app. in my testing and it's my understanding that they don't use up your text messages.

If AgileMobile would put a rush on releasing Agile Messenger for WM5, they could easily sweep the market...and not to mention it's free.

I still haven't decided which of the three I'm going to use until something better comes out. The first one is out just because of speed. But IM+ and Agile both suck at the moment.

Your mileage may vary.

Is Agile still free? on thier site it says they charge...

Posted by: metalzo

Can anyone confirm that a 2 GB miniSD card will work in the MDA?

Posted by: olouie99

Quote:

Originally Posted by metalzo

Can anyone confirm that a 2 GB miniSD card will work in the MDA?

I will know soon enough when I get mine early next week. If not it will go on ebay and I will order a nice 1GB card.

Posted by: shackk

Quote:

Originally Posted by olouie99

newegg.com has one in stock. i just ordered this morning

Just ordered mine from newegg as well $100 is not too bad with shipping.

Quote:

Is Agile still free? on thier site it says they charge...

Yes, its free.

Posted by: msquare

How do I set the email client to delete messages from the POP server once they are retrieved? This is fairly standard functionality for a mail client, but couldn't find it anywhere.

Thanks for the help.

Posted by: olouie99

Tmobile CS has some of the worst replies by e-mail. I e-mailed them asking when Java would be supported as it was advertised on the site and in the product literature. I got this reply today (no changes have been made - this is really how they sent it to me - my last name is Louie not Loui haha)

"Dear Mr. Loui,

Thank you for taking the time to contact T-Mobile. We do apologize for the inconvenience.

When we advertise JAVA for teh device, by that we mean that you are able to browse JAVA enabled websites. This does not refer to JAVA applications. Third party applications are available for this device over at www.handango.com.

If you have more questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at anytime or by calling us at 1-800-937-8997. Remember, you can always visit http://support.t-mobile.com for some excellent self help options.

Thank you for choosing T-Mobile, we appreciate your business. Have a great day!

Sincerely,

Frank"

Posted by: zebradude

hello

I was lucky enough to purchase an MDA on
tuesday and so far I really enjoying the device but I ran into a little issue and was hoping someone knew how to fix it.

I get a pop up box informing me that a running script is slowing down my machine and if I want to abort the script. I have noticed this so far when I am going through this forum.

how do I fix this issue so I do not run into this in the future?

Posted by: olouie99

Quote:

Originally Posted by zebradude

hello

I was lucky enough to purchase an MDA on
tuesday and so far I really enjoying the device but I ran into a little issue and was hoping someone knew how to fix it.

I get a pop up box informing me that a running script is slowing down my machine and if I want to abort the script. I have noticed this so far when I am going through this forum.

how do I fix this issue so I do not run into this in the future?

not sure, but HoFo has known issues when being viewed wirelessly. You should check out the threads in the smartphone forum. that might help.

Posted by: msquare

Quote:

Originally Posted by msquare

How do I set the email client to delete messages from the POP server once they are retrieved? This is fairly standard functionality for a mail client, but couldn't find it anywhere.

Thanks for the help.

I found the answer... it gets deleted from the server when you clear it from the Deleted Items folder on the MDA.

Posted by: OwensStr8Clowni

Any AIM programs yet that actually work ?

Posted by: dom89

Quote:

Originally Posted by OwensStr8Clowni

Any AIM programs yet that actually work ?

i am using the UK AIM. works almost perfectly

Posted by: Alex301

Sluuuuugggggish:

Ok tinkering with my MDA and trying out different things my device has bogged itself down. And I blame all of you...just kidding. Oh well, time to wipe the slate clean and get it up and going again.

A

Posted by: ustna

Any free backup programs??

Posted by: gmangda

Ok this is weird I'm not sure what I did but I had the time diplaying in regular format on the upper right hand corner of my screen. Now I have a small clock appearing there and not for the life of me can I change it back.........It's just annoying. Anyone have any ideas on how I get it back? I've searched and can't seem to find any info on changing it

Posted by: OwensStr8Clowni

Quote:

Originally Posted by gmangda

Ok this is weird I'm not sure what I did but I had the time diplaying in regular format on the upper right hand corner of my screen. Now I have a small clock appearing there and not for the life of me can I change it back.........It's just annoying. Anyone have any ideas on how I get it back? I've searched and can't seem to find any info on changing it

Click and hold it until it shows ANALOG or DIGITAL

DOM89 can u link me to the AIM program cuz The one I download wont work saying it cant find the internet HOST

Posted by: Alex301

Ahhh, ok, a nice fresh device, just need to install my MMS .cab and Intellisync and I am good to go.

A

Posted by: gmangda

[QUOTE=OwensStr8Clowni]Click and hold it until it shows ANALOG or DIGITAL

DUH!

That was simpple enough.....thank you!

Posted by: tgenius

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

Ahhh, ok, a nice fresh device, just need to install my MMS .cab and Intellisync and I am good to go.

A

Alex.. I've gotten mixed reviews from co-workers..everyone has the WOW factor..but there are actually people complaining its TOO big! It's a PDA.. not a Razr....ya know?

Posted by: Alex301

tgenius:

You made the point, it isn't a razr. I came from a Blackberry 8290 and that thing is a frisbee in my opinon. I personally have no porblem with the size. Fits perfectly in your pants pocket. It is lighter than I orginally thought it would be.

Once you get the device set up the way you want and you get familiar with using it I am a huge fan. So much a fan I am currently saving up for it's replacement due out later this year.

A

Edit: I can't stress this enough, once you have played around with all the software and settled on what you want to keep. Perform a hard reset to wipe it clean and install the keepers, you will get better performance that way.

Posted by: goatcheese47

Can someone please specify is this is true/false?

The reason why I'm going to return the phone today after using it for 5 days is that there is NO way to view in a list the time you have sent / received / missed calls. So if you miss a call and click "Missed Calls" from the home page, the phone will display a list of all calls you have missed with NO way to sort it based on most recent or oldest. So you have to guess which phone number from your list was missed. You can click on any number to see what time it was received but this can be unweildly in a list of 50 or so numbers. The same hair-pulling functionality also goes for the list of all calls as well. So painful.

Does this person not know what they're doing or is it true? I can't imagine it being true.

Also, does anyone know where I can see a picture taken with the SDA?

Posted by: true_atlantis

how do you manually get to the comm manager, like if you press the top left button? i want to change that button to 'ok' but i dont know how to get back to that manager without the button

Posted by: Alex301

goatcheese47

From the phone application select call history. All calls with an icon of a phone with a red exclamation point are missed calls. Green arrows up are sent and I believe yellow arrows down are answered. They should each list the time the call came in or went out. Furthermore, from this view you can select menu >> filter >> missed calls.

Hope this helps,

Alex

Posted by: jondav

Quote:

Originally Posted by true_atlantis

how do you manually get to the comm manager, like if you press the top left button? i want to change that button to 'ok' but i dont know how to get back to that manager without the button

There is a smal icon for comm manager in the lower right corner of the today screen and/or you add assign comm manager to your start menu.

Posted by: goatcheese47

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

goatcheese47

From the phone application select call history. All calls with an icon of a phone with a red exclamation point are missed calls. Green arrows up are sent and I believe yellow arrows down are answered. They should each list the time the call came in or went out. Furthermore, from this view you can select menu >> filter >> missed calls.

Hope this helps,

Alex

Great, looking good then. I knew this guy had to not know what he was doing they wouldn't put out a phone with such poor software. But my final question is, are the the organized? that seemed to be his main complaint.

Posted by: The Trooper

sweet I am now tethering and its awesome...according to speakeasy I get 154kbps download and 40kbps upload which is good enough for me!

Posted by: HoOn

Hey Alex!

Thanks a lot for that registry fix! I was trying to find it earlier today.

It works perfect now! Thanks again!

- JOhn

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

HoOn:

I ran into the same problem with those Dialpad Skins when I was running the T-Mo UK ROM. HEre is the fix for it in the registry.

1) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Security\Phone\Skin\Dialer\Port rait\text\texcolor
2) Change Base to Hex
3) DWORD Date enter from Hex Color Chart

Follow the same steps for Landscape as well as for call in progress, forget the exact name for that key.

Here is a link to Hex Color Chart so you can choose which colors you want...

Hex Color Chart

Posted by: OwensStr8Clowni

My MDA had a Dead Pixel on the Screen, So today I called a local tmobile store and just exchanged it for a new 1 since I HATED LOOKING @ THE DEAD PIXEL. lol

Posted by: olouie99

dang agile doesnt work with my t-zones plan. i guess my ports are blocked :-(

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by thenewnoise

I guess i just compare the device to a normal phone where after 5 hours if you sent and received about 50 texts you wouldn't have lost 25% of the battery

Does this LOOK like a normal phone to you?

Quote:

Originally Posted by goatcheese47

Can someone please specify is this is true/false?

The reason why I'm going to return the phone today after using it for 5 days is that there is NO way to view in a list the time you have sent / received / missed calls. So if you miss a call and click "Missed Calls" from the home page, the phone will display a list of all calls you have missed with NO way to sort it based on most recent or oldest. So you have to guess which phone number from your list was missed. You can click on any number to see what time it was received but this can be unweildly in a list of 50 or so numbers. The same hair-pulling functionality also goes for the list of all calls as well. So painful.

Does this person not know what they're doing or is it true? I can't imagine it being true.

Also, does anyone know where I can see a picture taken with the SDA?

1) Check the SDA thread maybe?

Second, crazyness. You can view received, missed, and outgoing calls easily. And then you can filter them. And they show you when they came in with the most recent being on top. And you can store a huge **** ton of them too. ????????

Posted by: eep02b

Has anyone found a awesome case for the MDA?? I was wondering how the Krusell Cabriolet case was for it.... Well if anybody has any suggestions, let me know please. My MDA comes in MONDAY!!!!!

Posted by: shivers316

Thank God I finally figured out how to copy mp3's from the card to the phone and use them as ring tones...I'm not sure if it was mentioned in this thread cause I didn't wanna look for it for hours, but if anyone is having trouble with it let me know.

Posted by: stupidkansas

What format did you use for the ringtones? .wav or .mp3?

Also, this is a bit picky, but I was looking at the little camera inside the glass and it appears to be off center, meaning the center of the lens isn't in the center of the protective glass piece. Anyone else's this way?

Posted by: shivers316

Quote:

Originally Posted by stupidkansas

What format did you use for the ringtones? .wav or .mp3?

mp3...sync'd them to the minisd card then copy and pasted the files from the card to the rings folder

Posted by: dom89

Quote:

Originally Posted by stupidkansas

What format did you use for the ringtones? .wav or .mp3?

Also, this is a bit picky, but I was looking at the little camera inside the glass and it appears to be off center, meaning the center of the lens isn't in the center of the protective glass piece. Anyone else's this way?

yup, mine's is too

Posted by: Alex301

shivers316

To save space much needed space on your device, you don't need to copy the mp3 to the rings folder. As long as the mp3 is in the root directory of your storage card you will be able to select it as your ringtone.

Cheers,

Alex

Posted by: deemota

Anyone experience significant difference in speed using internet2.voicestream.com or wap.voicestream.com or vice versa? At first my wap wasn't working but now it is. Just wondering which setting I should stick with?

Posted by: mmeyer4663

Anyone get www.google.com working?

Posted by: deemota

Quote:

Originally Posted by mmeyer4663

Anyone get www.google.com working?

I use www.google.com/xhtml and it works pretty well most of the time.

Posted by: Alex301

I am using internet3.voicestream.com (for vpn access) and my benchmark averages 150kbs when I test.

A

Posted by: deemota

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

I am using internet3.voicestream.com (for vpn access) and my benchmark averages 150kbs when I test.

A

can I use that even if I dont have a VPN? Also, what link are you using to check speed?

Posted by: Alex301

deemota: I use the vpn because that is the internet plan I have, it is no different cost wise than your traditional internet plan. I actually don't need the vpn but that is what I ended up with.

You can check you speed at www.dslreports.com/mspeed. I get faster transfers with larger files, guess it needs to warm up, ha! The highest transfer I have seen (haven't run it that much) has een 196kbs.

A

Posted by: mmeyer4663

"In regards to Java, T-Mobile has not taken anything away and will not have the ability to add support for Java or similar services. Any updates to the operating system will have to come through Microsoft."

Posted by: deemota

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlexSoCal

deemota: I use the vpn because that is the internet plan I have, it is no different cost wise than your traditional internet plan. I actually don't need the vpn but that is what I ended up with.

You can check you speed at www.dslreports.com/mspeed. I get faster transfers with larger files, guess it needs to warm up, ha! The highest transfer I have seen (haven't run it that much) has een 196kbs.

A

thanks alex. I seem to be getting around the smae speeds with both settings.....I only get 79kbs in NYC.

Posted by: snoslicer8

Quote:

Originally Posted by mmeyer4663

"In regards to Java, T-Mobile has not taken anything away and will not have the ability to add support for Java or similar services. Any updates to the operating system will have to come through Microsoft."

This is bologna. The Java Midlet Manager is a standard inclusion in the WM5 distribution. Therefor, T-Mobile would have had to KNOWINGLY remove the files from ROM, IN ADDITION to making sure there were no registry entries for file assosiations, etc. The T-Mo engineers knew exactly what they were doing.

Posted by: olouie99

Quote:

Originally Posted by snoslicer8

Yeah the did, but CS has no clue. The ppl working the phones dont know the difference between JAVA VM and java on the "webpages enabled with java" (how the person I talked with phrased it". haha

Posted by: FiReBReTHa

what page is the wifi G edit on?

Posted by: success2be

When I hold down either the up or down direction pad when viewing the phonebook, alphabets start scrolling, but when I lift my finger, nothing happens.

What does the scrolling alphabets mean?

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by success2be

When I hold down either the up or down direction pad when viewing the phonebook, alphabets start scrolling, but when I lift my finger, nothing happens.

What does the scrolling alphabets mean?

It never takes you to the letter you stopped on? Its how you can use your phone one handed and scroll through the contacts.

Also, I've switched to wap.voicestream.com so my MMS works. Google works ... sometimes. I start with google.com/xhtml and its a crap shoot.

Posted by: success2be

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilrosewood

Nope, it doesn't go to that letter. Am I supposed to activate an option? All my contacts are on SIM, maybe it only works for contacts stored on ROM.

Posted by: ilrosewood

Quote:

Originally Posted by success2be

Nope, it doesn't go to that letter. Am I supposed to activate an option? All my contacts are on SIM, maybe it only works for contacts stored on ROM.

Possibly so. For me I just scroll to the letter, let off and Im at the top of whatever letter I stopped on. If you are syncing to outlook, move those contacts off your poor old sim. You are effectively backing up every time you sync.

Posted by: moschops

Overall my second and third days with my phone were better than the first - heightened by some quite long periods at work listening to the radio streamed over GPRS/Edge - sweet.

However when I get home to my WiFi network all isn't as well. My WLAN is Netgear based, 802.11b/g with WEP-128bit but what I experience is the following:

a) If I have a GRPS/Edge network connection or any app using the network at the time I enable WiFi I can never get a WiFi connection

b) I often get a message that I've assoicated with the access point, but not got an IP address. If I reenter my WEP key manually it usually connects in a few seconds.

c) I had a situation today where the connection manager wouldn't let me disconnect WiFi - I'd click on it and it would come back as still connected. Eventually I quit the CM and re-ran it and it said WiFi was disconnected. However when I checked the batter level a few hours later it was at 25% when it had been almost 100% before - I think WiFi was still on

a) and b) have been happening since I got the device - its REALLY frustratiing to keep re-entering the keep, especially since WM5 wont let me copy-paste it from a text file - doh!

c) was first noticed today and I have to admit last nigh I did the 802.11g hack and got it to work - I set my home AP to G-only and I could still connect. My bandwidth test didn't show any significant speed increase in network connection, however I was going out over the internet vs. doing a local d/load. I'm not convinced the G registry hack had any impact on the machine - but it was useful for me as I know quite a few APs are now in G-mode only (including my own until I got the MDA). Or could it be that there are bugs/power issues if you use G???

Posted by: moschops

I found a program AEButton Plus that let me re-map my device buttons - in particular I was able to make double-click of the top-left email button bring up the Windows menu - great stuff. I discovered two problems with AEButton Plus:

a) this s/w needs registering after 14 days
b) it nukes the conneciton manager button until you hard restart.

a) wouldn't be a problem - I think you should pay something reasonable if you think its worth it, but if you don't you should be able to uninstall have the machine returned to normal. Since mine has already zapped the CM button I had to use its own functionality to remap a double click of the top-right IE button to fire up CM. When the demo license expires I'll probably have to hard-reset - boo!

So just a warning - please be careful if you try AE Button Plus - you may loose button funcationaity. Fortunately for me even though my CM button no longer works as expected, if I hold it down for a while it puts the phone into vibrate mode as before so at least is not COMPLETELY broken.

YMMV!!!!

Posted by: The Trooper

I could never get the internet2.voicestream thing going so I just kept the wap.voicestream one and its working like a charm!

Posted by: Scaw

Quote:

Originally Posted by FiReBReTHa

what page is the wifi G edit on?

Find the tweak here:

http://htcwizard.westlands.org/2006...ard-and-80211g/

or find Registry Wizard, which includes the WIFI 80.11g tweak here:
http://htcwizard.westlands.org/2006...our-htc-wizard/

Posted by: tippymn

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scaw

Find the tweak here:

http://htcwizard.westlands.org/2006...ard-and-80211g/

or find Registry Wizard, which includes the WIFI 80.11g tweak here:
http://htcwizard.westlands.org/2006...our-htc-wizard/

I opened my registry and I do not have the "dot11SupportedRateMaskG" does that mean my MDA does not have 80211g installed?

Thanks
Tippy

Posted by: jptsr1

is there any way to move the scroll bar to the left of the screen?

J.

Posted by: HoOn

Quote:

Originally Posted by success2be

Nope, it doesn't go to that letter. Am I supposed to activate an option? All my contacts are on SIM, maybe it only works for contacts stored on ROM.

I just tried that on my MDA with the same results!

On another note, can you guys recommend a good video player for the MDA? Is Pocket DVD a good app to try?

Thanks!

- JOhn

Posted by: jon01

there a way to move the start button to the bottom like on a normal windows desktop? there a theme i can use that does this?

Posted by: ShooBaDoop

Quote:

The Trooper
sweet I am now tethering and its awesome...according to speakeasy I get 154kbps download and 40kbps upload which is good enough for me!

Can you direct me to the page you used to set it up? Or, if you did it on your own, can you list the steps required? I tried to tether to my laptop (BT enabled) last night and couldn't get it. Any help/advice would be appreciated

Posted by: kdenninger

Quote:

Originally Posted by HoOn

I just tried that on my MDA with the same results!

On another note, can you guys recommend a good video player for the MDA? Is Pocket DVD a good app to try?

Thanks!

- JOhn

TCPMP will do what you want.

Posted by: ronin4740

Quote:

Originally Posted by tippymn

I opened my registry and I do not have the "dot11SupportedRateMaskG" does that mean my MDA does not have 80211g installed?

Thanks
Tippy

Just add it as a DWord and give it a value of 1. I believe the hardware for all of these phones is the same.

If it helps I did this and have had no adverse effects from adding the registry key

Posted by: ShooBaDoop

Quote:

Originally Posted by olouie99

Is Agile still free? on thier site it says they charge...

Here are a couple of quotes from their press release concerning cost:

Quote:

Starting July 2005 we will begin charging a small monthly license fee for the use of Agile Messenger.

Quote:

The date that we start billing will be different for different countries, again depending on our agreement with the mobile operators, but for most users the billing will start within the coming two weeks.

Quote:

Alternatively you may purchase the software for a one time fee of $19.95 with your credit card by clicking here

As of right now, I haven't seen any notice to pay for it and it's still available on their website as a free download. However, if they do begin charging T-Mobile US customers, the $19.95 is still $20.00 cheaper than IM+, which is a lot less feature-rich and has a worse user interface.

I don't work for them, so I can't give you any more detailed information than that.

Posted by: OneAboveAll

Damn it must just be me. I still can't get Active Sync to work. Nothing works, I've uninstalled and reinstalled about 5 times. Reinstalled Outlook as well. Do I need a memory card to sync? I still have yet to sync. I have all the requirements on my PC. Nothing seems to be working. If I can't get this to work tonight, it goes back to T-Mobile on Monday...Active sync keeps running and running but nothing is copying over, its not syncing. It runs for about 5-10 mins and gives an error. I used 2 different data cables/USBs as well. I'm fed up and at a loss...someone talk me out of having to call Microsoft for this issue.

Posted by: tbrown801

Quote:

Originally Posted by OneAboveAll

Damn it must just be me. I still can't get Active Sync to work. Nothing works, I've uninstalled and reinstalled about 5 times. Reinstalled Outlook as well. Do I need a memory card to sync? I still have yet to sync. I have all the requirements on my PC. Nothing seems to be working. If I can't get this to work tonight, it goes back to T-Mobile on Monday...Active sync keeps running and running but nothing is copying over, its not syncing. It runs for about 5-10 mins and gives an error. I used 2 different data cables/USBs as well. I'm fed up and at a loss...someone talk me out of having to call Microsoft for this issue.

Try this:
Uninstall any previous PDA syncing software
Uninstall Activesync
Reboot Computer
Turn off firewalls
Disable virus software
Disable antispyware software
Reinstall Active Sync - DO NOT plug in the MDA until it tells you to.

This worked for me. I have hundreds of contacts, and tasks so the first time it took 4 hours to sync, but sunsequent syncs took minutes.

Posted by: OneAboveAll

Quote:

Originally Posted by tbrown801

I'll do this today when I get out of work. What a pain. Thanks, I did some of this last night, of course not in that particular order. When I had my HP 6315 and my SX66 PPC active synce was a breeze. I wonder if its just windows mobile 5?

Posted by: gremlin000

Quote:

Originally Posted by success2be

When I hold down either the up or down direction pad when viewing the phonebook, alphabets start scrolling, but when I lift my finger, nothing happens.

What does the scrolling alphabets mean?

I have the same problem with this big letter feature. There's no result from scrolling to any letter.

Posted by: maiki

Quote:

Originally Posted by olouie99

My T-Zones works fine with my MDA. Look at the offical thread and see others have it working too. You need to do the proxy settings on it. Posted over and over again in the huge thread or just google for how to tether a phone to laptop on bt. the settings will work, but ports will depend on your location. some have fully open, but mine are somewhat disabled here in nor cal.

Google local also works for me, but not sat maps. cant get e-mail to work thorugh outlook, but web access works.

Now i just gotta find a decent browser as IE is pretty bad.

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/for...pic.php?t=42017

(great thread on Pocket PC browsers)

Posted by: mrpena

Battery:

Okay, something is seriously wrong with my battery. I left the house at 9:15am with a full battery, fresh off the charger. I've made one phone call and thats it, my battery is now at 65%.

WTF!?!?!

my backlight is set to near nothing, i've got the screen to go off in 30 seconds.. so i dunno wtf is going on with it.

Posted by: WRS2K

So I loaded up the Pocket PC 2002 edition of agilemobile onto my MDA... works ok, but i'm having trouble having it reconnect automatically after a phone call.

On the SK2, it'd dropped the G and reconnect automatically on the background but on the agilemobile... it either has trouble connecting when i do it manually or it just does not connect and sits disconnected to AOL AIM.

Is this just something I need to deal with since it's not the WM5 version (not yet released) or is anyone else out there having better luck than I with a tweak or something?

Posted by: dom89

i am having a different problem with ActiveSync. I am having the problem where it does not sync. To put anything I have to go into the file explorer. But what i am having problems with is that ActiveSync is always on in my phone. I close it and a few secs later it starts up again. Anyone have any ideaS?

Posted by: mrpena

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrpena

Battery:

Okay, something is seriously wrong with my battery. I left the house at 9:15am with a full battery, fresh off the charger. I've made one phone call and thats it, my battery is now at 65%.

WTF!?!?!

my backlight is set to near nothing, i've got the screen to go off in 30 seconds.. so i dunno wtf is going on with it.

without doing anything but checking the battery, its now down to 45%

bluetooth is on, wifi is off, no programs running in memory.

Posted by: WRS2K

how do i get agile mobile to function like aol IM on Sk2?

If i'm logged onto agile aol, i get a phone call, it disconnects just like on sk2. yet sk2 reconnects nicely in teh background the agile either stays disconnected or sometimes reconnects automatically.

i got pocket pc 2002 installed since wm5 is not avail. is anyone else running into the same issue or is this just expected since it's not the wm5 version?

Posted by: Alex301

mrpena

Not sure what is causing the drain. i would do a soft reset and see if that doesn't correct it. If not maybe we can figure something out.

A

Posted by: SAVAGE WAYZ

Who made the switch from the SK2 to the MDA?? I just bought my MDA yesterday and noticed that I don't get better reception at home than I do with the SK2. Is anyone else experiencing worse reception that what they previously had??

Posted by: SAVAGE WAYZ

Also, does it matter which SIM card I use? I first started with the one that came with the MDA, then switched to the one from my SK2 just to see if it made any difference.

Posted by: mrpena

Quote:

Originally Posted by SAVAGE WAYZ

Who made the switch from the SK2 to the MDA?? I just bought my MDA yesterday and noticed that I don't get better reception at home than I do with the SK2. Is anyone else experiencing worse reception that what they previously had??

I did, i'm wondering if i should have just gone with a treo650 since i work with a mac.

Posted by: OwensStr8Clowni

Can anyone help me out with a AIM program, the 1 on the MDA is slow

Posted by: Alex301

Owens:

AIM alternatives has been discussed at length already. If you have issues with a specific alternative than please be more specific. And yes we all know the included AIM app is terrible.

A

Posted by: MinisterStanley

Does anyone know if there is a hack to set the block recognizer as the default input method?

Posted by: mystic11

Quote:

Originally Posted by dom89

i am having a different problem with ActiveSync. I am having the problem where it does not sync. To put anything I have to go into the file explorer. But what i am having problems with is that ActiveSync is always on in my phone. I close it and a few secs later it starts up again. Anyone have any ideaS?

I'm having the same issue but am not sure if it is suppose to do this or not. I have tried to go into the "schedule" setting of ActiveSync but it is not highlighted for some reason. I'm wondering if this drains the battery?? Any help?

Posted by: shackk

My thoughts on the Tmo Rom are that it is very slow (compared to my KJam) out of the box and very quirky. Certain programs come right up but others, that come preinstalled on the device take about 5-15 sec to open and if you attempt to do something while the program is opening then the device locks up and a soft reset is required. Other items such as changing sounds/notifications is also slower than the original kjam rom as well. Overall it works but not anywhere near as fast as it could.

I have not been able to test many programs as I am waiting for my sd card, but the mozilla browser seems very slow, pie is ok but does not allow rendering of some wap sites like hofo (this has been discussed but i am unaware of a fix). Agile works, again as stated the included aim app does charge for sms, and agile uses data. The way you start up the program (landscape or portrait) is the way it will stay viewing wise otherwise you will see a blackout on your screen, but until a new version comes out this suits me just fine and it is quick enough for me.

This is short I dont have a lot of time to write a longer review but if you have questions postem and I can try to answer, but imho I am dumping this rom as soon as the new imate/qtek one is released as I do not see this one getting any better even with the hacks I have added. The device itself I am still very pleased with and wont be ditching it anytime soon.

Posted by: thenewnoise

has anyone checked into extended batteries? so far i have found this:

http://www.gpsforless.co.uk/product_details.php?id=2969

the standard battery really sucks