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Originally Posted by jonazen
Maddog - thanks - good info re: apps. I don't have that much loaded yet. What I am using includes:
- MS Voice Command of course (downloaded and purchased). Fantastic - must-have feature for me - would NOT be without it going forward. - Resco File Explorer, and as i3onk mentioned, it includes an excellent registry editor as well as an FTP addon (haven't tried the FTP piece yet - no need so far). - PocketZenPhone - as I mentioned earlier, this is an excellent phone profile manager - very highly recommended. It's lean, quick and feature-rich, letting you define anywhere from 2 to 7 profiles for your phone, each of which can control things like ringtones, volume, vibration, screen/light flashing and combinations of these such as "vibrate", "vibrate then ring", "vibrate AND ring", "ascending ring volume", etc -- and you can generally set a lot of these combinations for a load of different types of event notification, such as incoming phone call, incoming email, incoming SMS, new SMS, missed phone call, new email, etc. With PZP you can invoke its profiles via a menu, via icons on a today plugin (totally skinnable) and a popup menu from the task tray. - Wisbar Advance 2 - very nice, powerful, skinnable - PocketBreeze - all my PIM/PDA info right from the today screen - skinnable - ContactBreeze - plugin for PocketBreeze, enhances contact manager, including giving you an oversized virtual keypad that pops up on the lower half of your screen when you're searching for a contact - makes it easy to find people just by tapping with your thumb while using the phone one-handed. - iLauncher - lets up set up icon bars in your today screen. I've got one that takes up very little today screen real estate, and I can have bar show any one of a number of pages that I can define (e.g., games, music, programs, documents, ringtones, etc). - Memmaid - quick, easy and effective way to keep your environment cleaned up - recovers memory, clears out dead-wood, locates duplicate notification queue entries, clears out bad registry entries and left-over mess from failed uninstalls. - Pocket Screen Capture - freeware that does a great job of capturing the screen to an image file. Tiny, free, and works just right. - IBM J9 MIDP 2.0 version 5.7.2 java midlet manager - lets me use midlets such as the satellite view from google local. - Registry Wizard from xda-developer.com - great way to toggle a good selection of registry tweaks from the default setting to an "optimized" setting. If you want to skin the user interface, there are a couple of folks - probably "Juni" being one of the very best (if not THE best?), who come up with gorgeous "skin sets" that offer unified themes, with coordinating skins for multiple products - so one skin set, for example, will include matching skins for five or six different products that you might use together on your phone. Makes for a great looking user interface. I also like the idea of skinning "dial pad" -- the default pink rectangels that WM5 displays (at least in the T-Mobile version) are too small, and blah. With a dial pad skin, the whole thing looks SO much better when you go to dial a call. ZPhone skins look good, and there are a few others out there as well. Worth doing a google search for these...and I'll be doing some experimentation myself as well. That's it for now. Can't load anything more to be resident in memory, but I'll be looking at other progs that I can run on demand -- lots of room on my miniSD! Excellent phone, great experience and utility, and I only expect it to keep getting better as I learn more and tweak it more. |
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Originally Posted by iamthekiller
I'd like to know this as well - also for text messages.
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Originally Posted by turk.o
hey maddog, thanks for the informative post, two questions:
1) Which AIM app do you use exactly, i haven't found one that works halfway decently yet. 2) what FTP applications have you found? the only one i could locate so far was the FTP part of Total Commander which, as far as I can tell, is not fully functional in WM%> thanks |
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Originally Posted by ajnino
Hi:
I wanted to know after you make a rom backup to your Sd, how do you format the sd card in order to use it again.  |
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Originally Posted by djayrage
After trying out a bunch of stuff... here's a rundown of what I'm currently using (after my 4th hard reset).
I also use MemMaid - takes the garbage out for me when needed. Battery Pack Pro - Has a lot of usefull tools that are easy to use and are easy to get to. One of the best is the lil' red X that it places where "ok" usually goes allowing you to really close running apps instead of minimizing them. TomTom Navigator 5 - Took some tweaking to get it to work properly with my Bluetooth GPS reciever (purchased off of Ebay), but once I got I working it is awesome. Resco File Explorer - better and easier to use than the built in file explorer. Resco Registry Editor - do I really need to explain why?  Age Of Empires Gold - (plus the extra scenerios and campaigns). Very addicting stategy game. Battleship - Anyone else have it and wanna play a vs game? Striker X - Classic! And awesome graphics as well... SBSH Pocket Weather - I have not tried other weather apps, but I do not see the need to do so since this does everything I need. Pocket Breeze - Very cool app to keep everything organized. IM+ - Allows me to be signed in to Google Talk, AIM, YIM and MSN all at the same time (although it is slightly on the expensive side). Also I am using the trial version of Agenda Fusion, seems like a really cool PIM so far, but not to sure if it is worth the purchase yet. |
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Originally Posted by turk.o
hey maddog, thanks for the informative post, two questions:
1) Which AIM app do you use exactly, i haven't found one that works halfway decently yet. 2) what FTP applications have you found? the only one i could locate so far was the FTP part of Total Commander which, as far as I can tell, is not fully functional in WM%> thanks |
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Originally Posted by The Trooper
MadDogX007: Great solution for the BT audio + VC! I am currently using the same method as you are!!! (Except I have VC UK 1.5)
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goto "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OEM\VoiceCommand\Path". Change the default value from "\Windows\SDDialer.exe" to "\Program Files\Voice Command\VoiceCMD.exe". |
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
I m glad this helps cause it took a lot of frustration of my life.. Starting with Microsoft and why the heck they could't support this in the first place!
I tried it today all day, it worked like a charm. I made calls, and after hangup MVC would stop. Since you only need it to use MVC to make outgoing calls, u don't need to use this all the time. But when u do, one button, I held it down, Bt SoundON, quick release, press again, and bingo MVC over BT. I love it. I know keep the BT SoundOFF.exe file on my first menu item, incase I need to turn it off, cause it only turns off MVC after you make a call, or get a call. Try loading BT SoundOn, before a game, you will get sound via BT too. Great game sound tool if your in area where u want to look busy, but ur really playing a game. Good |
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Originally Posted by The Trooper
I'll try out the game thing later.
I'm now trying to find a way to not use Button 4 (Hold) to activate BTAudioOn and Button 3 for VC. The only thing I can think of is to assign them a Voice Speed Dial to activate them and then use them....I'll give it a shot and see what happens. Earlier I was listening to WMP through my BT headset and it sounds decent considering its Mono. EDIT: I found something in the MDA FAQ about using it directly instead of the built in dialer and it works! |
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
Not sure cause button 3 defaults to camera. I would rather keep that as camera. Glad MDA has so many buttons. Are u using button 3 for something else?
It just seems logical to use button 4 for MVC, and Button 4 (Hold) for BT AudionON. It makes this procedure simple. You hold button 4 to trigger BT soundON, let go, then press button 4 to trigger MVC via BT. The entire procedure becomes simple this way. It's almost scary as if it was designed to do just that, if necessary. Why would that not work for u? As far as sounds over BT using BT SoundOn, sure, it's going to be mono at best. The whole purpose of the feature is to get sound on BT for private reasons. I had SkyForce going on BT the other day in an office waiting, and this game has really great stereo effects. I had to lower the speaker level on MDA, and got the BT sounding pretty decent for mono. At least I could hear the effects without disturbing anyone. |
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Originally Posted by The Trooper
Actually it was Button 4 and 4 Hold I was using I just confused them
I could've tried the SkyForce with BT sound on but I had to uninstall it to install VC, however, the SNES emulator I have sounds awesome over BT I know have something to do during WEX-101! I'm now using that redirect in the MDA FAQ (the one I posted in the edit before) and it seems to be working well...except for the inconsistency after the call but the remedy to that is easy. I use one of the following: either I hold the Button #4 or I activate BTAudioON through VC (I placed it in the Start menu) by just saying "Start BTAudioON". I am satisfied with the mono sound for now but whenever the infamous A2DP comes around I am sure as hell going to get BT Headphones I have noticed though that since I did that redirect from SDDialer.exe to voicecmd.exe it hasn't been recognizing accurately some of my commands maybe because there was other noise or something... |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
OK now that Im home form work.
AEbutton--lots of options for remapping your buttons. Can map a button to work on single click, double click, tripple click and press and hold. All four having different functions for the same button. Pocket Breeze and Contact Breeze--lots of functionality for your calendar, tasks, notes, messages, special events and of course your contacts. SBP pocket--Same as ilauncher. Just a few tabs to have quick access to any apps and files that you need, as well as your favorite web pages.(ilauncher is actually from the same company that makes the pocket and contact breeze so I may just switch to that for simplicity. pocket weather--quite possibly the most comprehensive weather plugin for y our today screen. Totally cusomizable and shows you everything from the 5 day forcast to sun up and down times and the thing I found neat was the tabs that gives you the most recent earthquake activity in the area that you are monitoring. resco explorer--with the ftp and registry editor addins. As I said before, I run a few game servers and am always needing total access tot he servers via FTP. This app is perfect for that. memmaid--for cleaning up all of those pesky memory eating files and registry keys that are no longer needed. Hell I ran it this afternoon and cleaned up about 7M worth of space from my storage memory. IBM J9 MIDP 2.0 version 5.7.2 java midlet manager for use with google local, which I actually find to be a very handy app. Games..right now Im only playing virtual pool mobile. Im only using the trial version but thats all I need. I dont need to play in a bunch of different settings. Has 9 ball and 8 ball. Maddog, I tried installing the Wi-Fi companion and have had issues with it. Keeps giving me an error on install that reads in short: it cant find that WLAN tools or too few resources to run the app. Verify installation of WLAN tools and try again: Well I know I have enough resources, and have never installed WLAN tools. After looking through some websites I have found that there is an extensive list of WLAN tools to be had. What are you using? |
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
Can I attach a file to u via this board?
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Now that you're not using sddialer anymore, you can remove the call in the startup folder to the sddaemon -- I haven't personally noticed a difference, but some people claimed that this improved their experience with Voice Command. Also never hurts to remove things that you don't need that are using resources!
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Now that you're not using sddialer anymore, you can remove the call in the startup folder to the sddaemon -- I haven't personally noticed a difference, but some people claimed that this improved their experience with Voice Command. Also never hurts to remove things that you don't need that are using resources!
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Originally Posted by shackk
There is a size and file type limitation but yes you can attach files.
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
Its interesting u mention that. Cause when I soft reset, I get this msg sddaemon on top bar, and it was bogging me. I will remove it.
Hey let me ask u a question. When u soft boot the MDA, does it take a long time to reboot for u? Cause man, I can reboot a table top pc faster and the MDA is still rebooting. Drives me crazy to have to soft boot. Also do u have a file in startup called CapNotify? What is it for? |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
OK now that Im home form work.
AEbutton--lots of options for remapping your buttons. Can map a button to work on single click, double click, tripple click and press and hold. All four having different functions for the same button. Pocket Breeze and Contact Breeze--lots of functionality for your calendar, tasks, notes, messages, special events and of course your contacts. SBP pocket--Same as ilauncher. Just a few tabs to have quick access to any apps and files that you need, as well as your favorite web pages.(ilauncher is actually from the same company that makes the pocket and contact breeze so I may just switch to that for simplicity. pocket weather--quite possibly the most comprehensive weather plugin for y our today screen. Totally cusomizable and shows you everything from the 5 day forcast to sun up and down times and the thing I found neat was the tabs that gives you the most recent earthquake activity in the area that you are monitoring. resco explorer--with the ftp and registry editor addins. As I said before, I run a few game servers and am always needing total access tot he servers via FTP. This app is perfect for that. memmaid--for cleaning up all of those pesky memory eating files and registry keys that are no longer needed. Hell I ran it this afternoon and cleaned up about 7M worth of space from my storage memory. IBM J9 MIDP 2.0 version 5.7.2 java midlet manager for use with google local, which I actually find to be a very handy app. Games..right now Im only playing virtual pool mobile. Im only using the trial version but thats all I need. I dont need to play in a bunch of different settings. Has 9 ball and 8 ball. Maddog, I tried installing the Wi-Fi companion and have had issues with it. Keeps giving me an error on install that reads in short: it cant find that WLAN tools or too few resources to run the app. Verify installation of WLAN tools and try again: Well I know I have enough resources, and have never installed WLAN tools. After looking through some websites I have found that there is an extensive list of WLAN tools to be had. What are you using? |
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
I just uploaded this for u, here is the link http://www.savefile.com/projects.php?pid=932601
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Now that you're not using sddialer anymore, you can remove the call in the startup folder to the sddaemon -- I haven't personally noticed a difference, but some people claimed that this improved their experience with Voice Command. Also never hurts to remove things that you don't need that are using resources!
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I just removed it right now. Also its not all the time...not most of it either.
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Originally Posted by jonazen
I haven't timed reboot from soft reset, but it DOES take a while. The add-ins also slow this down. I'm pretty sure, for example, that when MS Voice Command initializes, it has to scan your phone book as well as the entire directory path starting with "Windows\Start Menu" (and everything below), and build an internal pronounciation table from all the contact names in the phone book and the program and lnk file names in the path. I'm pretty sure it does this -- I know, for example, that when you add program or lnk files in the start menu path, VC doesn't know about them until your soft reset -- so I'm guessing it goes through the same process for your address book too. Parsing and analyzing the names in real-time wouldn't be practical on a device like this, so I'm convinced it must be preprocessing them. I have about 200 names in my address book -- it yours is much bigger, it could take longer to process.
CapNotify is a program that, I believe, runs in the background that works along with the registry mod to show when your keyboard is in caps or lowercase mode. The reg key is: HKCU\ControlPanel\Keybd\EnableIndicator ...and you would set it to "1" to display the caps indicator (or the "dot" when you're using the "alternate function" shift key -- bottom left on kybd). |
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Originally Posted by kdenninger
Wifi companion won't run on mine either.
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Originally Posted by turk.o
hey maddog, thanks for the informative post, two questions:
1) Which AIM app do you use exactly, i haven't found one that works halfway decently yet. 2) what FTP applications have you found? the only one i could locate so far was the FTP part of Total Commander which, as far as I can tell, is not fully functional in WM%> thanks |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
have it hacked to 802.11g with registry wizard. Havnt tried to see if there is a difference yet. I dont use wireless in my house. I have my whole house wired. Wired each room to the router. Had too many probs with the last wireless router disconnecting so we decided to go with wiring the house to the router. The next door neighbors have wireless but havnt checked to see the speed. Ill check that and get back to you.
Havnt hasd the problem you are dealing experiencing with the dialer. 9 times out of 10 I use voice to dial so I rarley see the dialer. When I do connect my call I x out of the phone app and turn off my screen so I dont have to worry abotu disconnecting the call witl the phone is in my pocket. |
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
Registry Wizard, is that like Tweak2k2?
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Yeah for the most part. I use it in conjunction with tweaks2k2. I get three uses out of tweaks2k2 and I only need one to get the settings out of it that I need, so I dont bother registering it. If I have to hard reset i get another 3 uses. LOL. registry wizard has a few different reg hax so I like to use them both. Tweaks2k2 has more but reg wiz has a few different ones
Reg wizard: http://forum.xda-developers.com/vie...der=asc&start=0 |
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
Hey bro from NJ ur back. I got family in NJ. Originally from Staten Island.
I got a Netgear G wireless router, and have to return the darn thing. For 39 bucks it seemed like a deal, but for reasons I still can't figure out, it will not assign me an IP in DHCP mode. It's weird, if I get close to the router, when signal is almost 100%, I get the IP, but when I go to other side of house, signal is still good about 49%, but don't get IP. So hooked up my old DLink 802.11b and no problems. Weird. I dissabled everything on that G router, left it un incrypted, still no IP assignment. What do u think, before I return it. Also is there any fact to this. If you hack the registry and change the defaults 802.11.b to 802.11G, does it really make a difference? Cause we have a 200MHZ CPU? Cause here is the observation I made. Using Wi-Fi Companion I can see I'm connected at 11Mbps on b only router. But when Im connected to the 802.11G there is no rate in Mbps for it. One reason is the Wi-Fi rate only goes up to 11Mbps, and I guess it does not know what to make of faster speed. Whats ur feeling on this and the CPU when accessing the Internet in G. Food for thought troops |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Yeah for the most part. I use it in conjunction with tweaks2k2. I get three uses out of tweaks2k2 and I only need one to get the settings out of it that I need, so I dont bother registering it. If I have to hard reset i get another 3 uses. LOL. registry wizard has a few different reg hax so I like to use them both. Tweaks2k2 has more but reg wiz has a few different ones
Reg wizard: http://forum.xda-developers.com/vie...der=asc&start=0 Going to wait a few hours to test the neighbors lan. Just got my new backup battery today (MDA sucks the juice out of these things) so Im going No charge up the backup before i do anything else on it. Oh here are a couple items I just purchased online and recieved within the past two days. New Stylus: I hate the one that came with the MDA. I am already on the spare. The first one stopped opening when I pulled it out of the phone. I keep one of these in my apron at work and one at home. Stylus: http://www.stylisource.com/detail.a...duct_ID=T1012BW Screen Protectors: I was afraid of scratching the screen so I got some protectors. They are OK. They have more of a, shall we say..mushy feeling...than the screen without them, but once the bubbles settle, makes for nice protection. There are some seriously lame and some cool accesories for the MDA on this site. I think I will be getting the MDA IV USB Cradle for my desk. Here is the link for the screen protectors though. Screen protector:http://www.thepocketsolution.com/Me...roduct_Count=13 If you are looking for a spare battery, I would go through www.T-mobile.com .They are $10 cheaper than anyone else I have found. |
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at the new MDA Vario II displayed at Celbeit coming out this year. I am happy to say that most features have not changed drastically enouph to upgrade any time soon . The RAM is still 64MB, the ROM is still 128MB, the 802.11G on the Vario II, is available on the Vario with a hack, bluetooth is still 2.0. The only real differences the CPU has gone from 200MHZ to 300MHZ, the unit is 3G, but in this country that's still long way off, I believe. The camara has gone from 1.3 megapixel to 2.0. It looks very similar in design, nothing seriously changed, still slide out KB, actually the Vario, I believe, has better looking style then Vario II. They slightly modified some bottons a bit, nothing drastic, just looks a little more boxier then the current MDA Vario which has smoother look.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Jonazen, I am impressed with the videos of the screen protector. very nice indeed. Not sure that would justify spending that much on only one sheet for me (probably should) but Im to leary of infomercials like that. Let me know how it works for you. If y ou feel it is definatly worth the money I may concider it.
Something I did Just purchase today. http://stores.ebay.com/LESSTHANBID_...3QQftidZ2QQtZkm I got the USB thumbdrive/card reader for the extra couple of bucks. the card is 120x as apposed to san disks 60x. twice the speed hopefully its nto a load of BS. wont know till I get it though weeeeee |
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Originally Posted by jonazen
i3onk (as in, "i3onk - i3onk on the head!" ?) -- I read a bunch of reviews of the invisibleShield before deciding to try it -- so far they're universally positive. Also - if it even lasts a few years (as opposed to "life"), it's probably worth paying $11 for it instead of having to peel off and replace another type of shield every 6 to 12 months. Also - assuming the company stays in business, your invisibleShield has a lifetime replacement warranty if it ever scratches or fails, and they'll send you a new one BEFORE you send in the old one. A bit pricey, but in the scheme of things it seemed to make sense.
I posted a few days ago that I had come across another company that claims to be using the same kind of film to make their shields, and they only charge something like $4.50. From what I can tell, the film is made by 3M, and is probably the same stuff (or very similar) used to make the invisible skins for the front end of cars to prevent dings and scratches (replaces the need for bras on the front of cars). So there's no magic about the material -- in theory, any company could decide to get it by the roll from 3m and go into business die-cutting it for devices like the MDA. I just think it's an excellent choice of materials. Note -- no guarantee that the cheaper company ("BestSkinsEver") is using the same film that ShieldZone uses for invisibleShield -- just the implication on BestsSkinsEver website. But it's plausible... The company selling the shields for $4.50 does NOT provide the "application solution" (which I believe is just slightly soapy water, which you can make up yourself with a bit of liquid detergent), and they don't include a lifetime warranty. They might be great, but it appears to be a brand new or home-based teensy business. Hopefully they'll make it and grow, but they're not as substantial in appearance as ShieldZone. If you want to take a chance and check them out, they're at: http://www.bestskinsever.com/servle...Cingular/Detail Re: the 120x miniSD -- WOW! Great price and speed! Please post about this when you get it -- looks like a great deal. |
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Originally Posted by djayrage
Battleship -
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Yeah for the most part. I use it in conjunction with tweaks2k2. I get three uses out of tweaks2k2 and I only need one to get the settings out of it that I need, so I dont bother registering it. If I have to hard reset i get another 3 uses. LOL. registry wizard has a few different reg hax so I like to use them both. Tweaks2k2 has more but reg wiz has a few different ones
Reg wizard: http://forum.xda-developers.com/vie...der=asc&start=0 Going to wait a few hours to test the neighbors lan. Just got my new backup battery today (MDA sucks the juice out of these things) so Im going No charge up the backup before i do anything else on it. Oh here are a couple items I just purchased online and recieved within the past two days. New Stylus: I hate the one that came with the MDA. I am already on the spare. The first one stopped opening when I pulled it out of the phone. I keep one of these in my apron at work and one at home. Stylus: http://www.stylisource.com/detail.a...duct_ID=T1012BW Screen Protectors: I was afraid of scratching the screen so I got some protectors. They are OK. They have more of a, shall we say..mushy feeling...than the screen without them, but once the bubbles settle, makes for nice protection. There are some seriously lame and some cool accesories for the MDA on this site. I think I will be getting the MDA IV USB Cradle for my desk. Here is the link for the screen protectors though. Screen protector:http://www.thepocketsolution.com/Me...roduct_Count=13 If you are looking for a spare battery, I would go through www.T-mobile.com .They are $10 cheaper than anyone else I have found. |
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
Thanks for the accessories site, where the heck was this a couple weeks ago. I got a leather case but paid more for it. I was killing myself on google trying to find an accessories site for the MDA, all I kept getting was UK sites and limited stuff. Good job. The screen thing sounds interesting, how does it feel to u?
Interesting product that Drypack. A few years ago went canoeing in river carrying what was then my Nextel, and my son rocked the canoe, and three of us went down, in streaming waters, all I can remember is trying to save my bag with phone, thank goodness my kids know how to swim, cause like an idiot I did not use a product like the Drypack. Here is a crazy solution if ur cell/pda/ppc drops in water for a few hours, and believe me, weird as this sounds, it worked. Although u have to apply this immediately! If ur cell/pda/ppc (no guarantee but better than nothing) drops in water (like river, beach) for a while, get small container ASAP, and emerge device in rubbing alcahol for one hour or so, then immediately place device in freezer over night. Crazy! Yes, but this came from an angineer in cell phones, and believe it or not, my nextel phone was dead on arrival after river and 3 days of not knowing what to do with it. After this solution, it actually got power and turned on. I was amazed! I simply felt I waited too long to try it, cause when I opned up the case the electronics were corrupted. Not sure what happens with this old tails remedy but alcahol, rubbing type, does something to restore the electronics, and freezing over night, well, im convinced from phone death to life, that had I applied it right away, would have given my phone life again. |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
as far as I know alcohol doesn't freeze. so I think by putting it in the freezer is keeps the water from soaking into the electronics even more, giving the alcohol more time to soak it up.
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For reasons I'm not sure, when I press and hold button 4 now, I get "Failed to enable BT audio" 
. Just when I thought my problems were over. Now not sure what next. If I recall the only thing I have done since my loading BT SoundOn and testing it, was, I insalled my favorite old school game Doom on the PPC. It took some time and energy, but something in me just wanted Doom, tested a bunch of non working Doom .exe files to eliminate the working one, which is how I feel at this mement Doomed 
. So many stupid little things on the WM5 that annoy me. Besides MVC and BT, why did MS not include a backup utility like iPaq does? I tried using SK Tools bckup, but it does not support WM5 yet, on complete backup feature. I had backed up my registry using another editor, and restored it, but BT SoundOn same msg, seems not to like something. So I am spending time backing things up, cause I got to try a hard boot just to see if it's not something else. Wonderfull drill, to see if all my backing up can restore me quickly. But I may have to buy a backup utilities, like I have had on my old T-mobile pocket pc, and my iPaq 6315.
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
Are we having fun yet?
For reasons I'm not sure, when I press and hold button 4 now, I get "Failed to enable BT audio" . Just when I thought my problems were over. Now not sure what next. If I recall the only thing I have done since my loading BT SoundOn and testing it, was, I insalled my favorite old school game Doom on the PPC. It took some time and energy, but something in me just wanted Doom, tested a bunch of non working Doom .exe files to eliminate the working one, which is how I feel at this mement Doomed . So many stupid little things on the WM5 that annoy me. Besides MVC and BT, why did MS not include a backup utility like iPaq does? I tried using SK Tools bckup, but it does not support WM5 yet, on complete backup feature. I had backed up my registry using another editor, and restored it, but BT SoundOn same msg, seems not to like something. So I am spending time backing things up, cause I got to try a hard boot just to see if it's not something else. Wonderfull drill, to see if all my backing up can restore me quickly. But I may have to buy a backup utilities, like I have had on my old T-mobile pocket pc, and my iPaq 6315.I just want to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Bill Gates for putting his name on the new OS's, while other nincompoops implement his ideas. Cause they managed to take away things from WM5, that WM2003 was succussfully doing. Like Media 10. What happened to a simple feature like "Play lists" and "organizing play lists". Why for the life of me does MS have to constantly change things, like changing furniture around in hellen keller's home. Why not leave things that work alone, and expand into new frontiers with new never seen features. Sorry man got to let out a little heat! |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
as far as I know alcohol doesn't freeze. so I think by putting it in the freezer is keeps the water from soaking into the electronics even more, giving the alcohol more time to soak it up.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Try this man. This may do exactly what you are looking for. Im pretty sure it will.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/abo...6/feb14.html?en Its SBP backup. I actually prefer their SBP pocket plus to Ilauncher, and remember seeing the backup utility on this site. Hope it works out for you man. |
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Originally Posted by lanwarrior
Yes, SPB Backup will create an IMAGE of your device. If anythign goes kabloey, just restore and it'll be back as before.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
actually yes. if you click the sbp icon on the top left of the app it will open the setting menu. go to tools and registration. will tell you how much time you have left on the trial. you get 15 days total from first run. it will also tell you how to register it. I love sbp pocket plus. its a great app.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
actually yes. if you click the sbp icon on the top left of the app it will open the setting menu. go to tools and registration. will tell you how much time you have left on the trial. you get 15 days total from first run. it will also tell you how to register it. I love sbp pocket plus. its a great app.
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Originally Posted by lanwarrior
Yes, SPB Backup will create an IMAGE of your device. If anythign goes kabloey, just restore and it'll be back as before.
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Anything u can share on that would be helpfull, cause I don't really want to cold boot just to see, but I don't want surprises if away from hotsync. I am that kind of person.
it did not work. He did not do his job and jepourized my family life! Anyway, call me crazy, but it made the point and his manager was shocked! Needless to say, they were very concerned about this guy. Imagine the liability on that!
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
Well I downloaded the PocketZenPhone but the Freebie ver 4.5. Not sure what to do with it, since it does not seem to add sound to incoming calls. What
about the v 5 or higher. What success have you had with this. Can u post. |
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Originally Posted by ilrosewood
I dig PZP but it did kill my GPRS functionality until I uninstalled it. That is, the latest beta did.
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for the extra $8 I got a usb sd card thubm drive. Man this made my day. Was a crappy day at work and now everything is A OK!
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Sweet!! Just gopt my 2G minisd today. I was afraid that the MDA wouldnt see that big of a card. NO problems at all
for the extra $8 I got a usb sd card thubm drive. Man this made my day. Was a crappy day at work and now everything is A OK! |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
I think the only thing BT is good for as far as two devices, is to transfer files. Resco file explorer actually has a menu option to send to a BT recipient. click and hold on a file, hit send to then BT recipient, then it starts detecting for another BT device. I send ringtones at work with this process all the time. As far as using BT as a little network device to connect two PPC's Im not sure, you may need to additional software for that.
Looks like I am going to have to get SBP backup if you like it that much. Having issues with contact breeze and some other issues with a couple reg tweaks I did and had to hard reset again. Takes me about an hour to get everything on my MDA and most of the settings setup before going into my voice dialing recordings and such. |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
My prob is my contacts wont show up now in CB. It worked great with the trial version but i registered and reinstalled and now it doesnt work. I posted in their forums, just waiting for some help from them.
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Frustrating - hopefully you'll get an answer soon. If so - please share back here. I'm still wondering if I chose the right tools. I'm finding now with Voice Command that I almost never have to go into my contacts list -- and I can just say something like "show John Doe" to have Voice Command open up the appropriate contact in WM5's own contact manager, or "call John Doe at work" to make a call immediately, never even touching the phone. I may not really need the overhead that something like ContactBreeze adds -- I noticed, for instance, that it takes quite a while when it first loads my contacts from pocket outlook, and one of the "tweaks" the ContactBreeze allows you to set determines when it does this load - 3 options as I recall, something to the effect of "once at startup", "dynamically" and one other -- they recognize that there's a tradeoff between responsiveness when you're using the app and the desire to kept ContactBreeze up to date if you make changes during the day.
Anyway - with voice command, I wonder if I really need contactbreeze at all now. Also - I like Wisbar Advance...but it may also turn out to be overkill. Jury's still out so far on that. I need a task manager for switching and really exiting apps (instead of just minimizing), I like having an easily accessible battery and memory meter, and it's nice to be able to skin the task bar. Just not sure if I can't accomplish all this using less resources, so I can get back some of the responsiveness of the device with nothing installed... |
The other neat thing is, if you lock it, MSVoicecommand still works on the assigned button. Another good idea. I don't know about u guys, but sometimes weird things happens to my MDA, like the phone dialer pops up, or Spb backup kicks in. Almost like something takes over the device, but it's only cause something was pressed by accident, especially my leather case, it's a tite fit and anything can happen with buttons. Good to know these little things, cause it makes ur life happy! 
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Originally Posted by UTmtnbiker
Just wanted to get a sanity check to make sure I'm doing this right and to confirm/deny if Salt Lake City is one of the locations where the proxy port doesn't work anymore.
I've been dickering with T-Zones and my MDA since I got it yesterday. No luck so far on internet, but I've gotten POP3 Gmail to work (dont' know if the two are related). Can I get feedback to make sure I'm doing it correctly. I've read the first couple of pages, with the setups and no luck so far. However, that being said, I've been screwing around with the configs so much I'm not sure what's what anymore. Settings>Connections>Advanced>Select Networks Programs that automatically connect to Internet should use: My ISP Programs that automatically connect to a private network: My Work Network Settings>Connections>Tasks My ISP Manage exisiting connections Tmobile (this is what I named the connection) Edit Enter name of connection: Tmobile Select a modem: Cellular Line (GPRS) Acces point name: wap.voicestream.com User name: <blank> Password: <blank> Domain*: <blank> Advanced Use server-assigned IP address <checked> Use IP header compression <checked> Server Use server-assigned addresses <checked> I also have a T-mobile GPRS connection that was set up by default on the phone. I've set up a poxy there, but still no go. When I try and use that connection, this is how I have everything set up: Settings>Connections>Advanced>Select Networks Programs that automatically connect to Internet should use: Tmobile GPRS Programs that automatically connect to a private network: My Work Network I've been dickering with T-Zones and my MDA since I got it yesterday. No luck so far on internet, but I've gotten POP3 Gmail to work (dont' know if the two are related). Can I get feedback to make sure I'm doing it correctly. I've read the first couple of pages, with the setups and no luck so far. However, that being said, I've been screwing around with the configs so much I'm not sure what's what anymore. Settings>Connections>Advanced>Select Networks Programs that automatically connect to Internet should use: My ISP Programs that automatically connect to a private network: My Work Network Settings>Connections>Tasks Tmobile GPRS Manage exisiting connections Tmobile GPRS (this connection was set up when I powered on the phone) Edit Enter name of connection: Tmobile Select a modem: Cellular Line (GPRS) Acces point name: wap.voicestream.com User name: <blank> Password: <blank> Domain*: <blank> Advanced Use server-assigned IP address <checked> Use IP header compression <checked> Server Use server-assigned addresses <checked> Proxy Settings tab This network connects to the Internet <checked> This network uses a proxy server <checked> Proxy Server: 216.155.165.050 (I've tried to put in the :8080 part, but it never sticks here) Advanced HTTP: 216.155.165.050:8080 WAP: <blank> Secure WAP: <blank> Socks: 216.155.165.050:8080 The only thing about using this second connection is I lose being able to get POP3 Gmail. Any tips, advice, helps, hints, etc, would be very much appreciated. I'm thinking they couldn't make this any more complicated...could they? |
It's been a while since I setup a proxy server, but can remember the port was important to know, ea., 8020.
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Originally Posted by MadDogX007
You know that Spb Pocket Plus really works very nicely. And I downloaded it by accident, thinking it was Spb Backup. I, like you, have come to the crossroads that too many utility/skins apps on this device can simply bog down the unit. How they are installed can also contribute to slowness of device. For example, I had Spb plus loaded and for reasons not sure, after any soft reset the icons would stay solid for a while, before allowing me to use them, but all else would work. When I started to reload everything using the technique I stated in previous post, Spb works great, and my system is functioning better. What I really like about Spb Plus, is you can costomize the tabs with icons you really use daily, right on the desktop. If you are using applications, you can always go to the today screen, open up something else, back to today screen, and click on icon for previous app, and you feel your really multitasking. I have looked at your applications after u posted them, and for the most part, I am feeling content with what I got, cause everything is working good, and the reviews on these applications, like Spb plus are excellent.
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Interesting. I really am NOT looking forward to a hard reset and reinstall cycle...but I may eventually give in and try configuring this with a few different apps. I did a few days of research before settling on the items I installed -- reviews were good, comparisons with the competition were good, and they looked like they had the functionality I wanted. But I really do think I've overburdened the MDA now. It's not really bad, but I think I'm pushing it to the brink of being too sluggish.
What I don't know is which of the apps -- and which combination of apps -- really causes the drag on the system. Is it Wisbar? or PocketBreeze? ContactBreeze or iLauncher? I know that MS Voice Command slows down the initial boot up -- but that generally doesn't happen during the day, and I really don't want to think of doing without Voice Command, so that's non-negotiable. Re: looks and skinning - if it turns out that other apps are better for what I'm doing, or if Wisbar is really putting a drag on the system, I can always live with a good WM5 theme to get a nicer look. Not sure what I'm going to do about this...enjoying the MDA, but I know I can get it configured better... |
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Originally Posted by tonkabui
i just got the eten dial pad and love it. however, i'm wanting to change the color of the dial pad. i got the cab from this thread:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=871390 as well as the colors, but i don't know how to install said colors. can someone enlighten me? thanks. |
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Originally Posted by tonkabui
i just got the eten dial pad and love it. however, i'm wanting to change the color of the dial pad. i got the cab from this thread:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=871390 as well as the colors, but i don't know how to install said colors. can someone enlighten me? thanks. |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Just DL'd and installed it. I like it ALOT. Definatley ALOT easier to dial with. I think I will keep this one. Thanx for the share tonkabui. Now that I have it, Ill look into the skins thing and let you know what I figure out.
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Originally Posted by The Trooper
Yeah when I found it I posted it there but be warned of the uninstall of this for it will delete the default one. Though this didn't happen to me, if you read that topic there is someone there who claims otherwise.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Well I have installed everything I had installed to my MDA onto my minisd. Only things I kept on the device is SBP pocket plus and Pocketbreeze. I have also deleted most of my themes(I had about 15 on the device) and left just the three that came with the MDA(it wont let me delete themes on the rom) and one other one that I added afterwards. It seams to have sped it up a bit. Apps open up faster, but the slow part is going back to the today screen. I think that is due to pocketbreeze, and SBP pocket plus with all of the icons on it.
I havnt tested the speed of most of the apps I just put on my card, but I do install my games on my card and they have always seamed to run pretty good to me. That was with my 256 60x minisd. The new one being a 2G 120x i think they will run just fine. My storage went from 8m to a little over 18.5M. On a seperate note, if anyone is ever needing a screenshot of their MDA http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=552 this is what I use. You have to be connected to activesync for it to work though. I am still looking for a standalone screenshot app that can be done without being connected to activesync. |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
thats a damn nice looking screen though. Thats wisbar that did that? Well after everyone talking about it I had to check it out for myself. I went and DL'd wisbar. Guess its going to take me a few days of playing with this thing to get the jist of it. I put it on my minisd so hopefully it wont slow me down too much. Looks like it is a little bit though already
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Yeah Unfortunatly I didnt read that part until I had already installed it. Lucily I like it and dont have to worry about it right now. HEHE.
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Loads of options with Wisbar, and lots of neat functions. Very appealing -- I'm just really hoping it's not too heavy for the MDA. Several excellent skins available for Wisbar (and PocketBreeze as well). Easy to find via google.
I haven't tried overclocking yet -- I'm considering giving it a try, as many people report that it improves performance with only a tiny hit on battery life. Also -- re battery life. Wow -- since upgrading to 2.17 ROM and tweaking my backlight settings, and also being more aware of when I have my BT and WiFi radios on or off, I'm doing MUCH better. Example: today was an easy day. I worked at my home office until about 9:30am, unplugged my MDA from the ISB cable and headed out for a meeting. Made perhaps six or seven calls today, most were less than 10 minutes, and 2 were closer to 20 minutes. I answered 3 calls as well and stayed on for perhaps 10 to 15 mins for each of these. I woke the phone up to change profiles 6 or 7 times today - at least. Consulted my calendar a couple of times also. Anyway - here I am at 11:40pm: phone unplugged for 14 hours, and although it hasn't be heavy phone use, it was typical for me. I just checked, and was blown away to see my main battery at 92%. Major reasons for the improvment: - ONLY have BT and WiFi on when I'm using them - 2.17 ROM - Changed backlight timout to 1 minute when I'm running on the battey - Put the phone to "sleep" after 3 minutes of inactivity Amazing...never expected to see the battery hold this much charge after 14 hours. |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Where did you get the ROM? is it a T-mobile ROM of someone else make it? Once I get it I may need a walk through on installing it.
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Originally Posted by The Trooper
jonazen: I removed my Wisbar because it was conflicting with Smartkeys and it slowed me down significantly. After uninstall I feel a great difference in performance, also in the long run I prefer performance over looks...
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Performance, though, is what keeps the long-term...ummm...experience good... 
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Originally Posted by Lampei
Is there any trick to installing programs onto the miniSD card (something I have to download to do it) or do I just copy the cab files to the card and install from there?
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Originally Posted by Lampei
Is there any trick to installing programs onto the miniSD card (something I have to download to do it) or do I just copy the cab files to the card and install from there?
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Originally Posted by i3onk
I am a little leary flashing with a non tmobile release. Would hate to not be able to go back to the original ROM, and void my warranty at the same time.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Well Im going to take a little more time to think about it.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Im doing a backup with sbp backup right now. Ill let you know the results.
Im glad you like the pcket plus. Definatley betetr than ilauncher, at least as far as I am concerned. |
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Originally Posted by Lampei
Is there any trick to installing programs onto the miniSD card (something I have to download to do it) or do I just copy the cab files to the card and install from there?
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Im doing a backup with sbp backup right now. Ill let you know the results.
Im glad you like the pcket plus. Definatley betetr than ilauncher, at least as far as I am concerned. |
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Originally Posted by jonazen
i3onk -- I hesitated and agonized over this for 2 or 3 days, and must have read dozens of posts about it.
One of the things you can do is to back up your current firmware to your miniSD card, and also keep a copy of the full T-Mobile distribution -- same as the one on your phone -- on your PC ready to fall back to. You CAN go back to the original ROM. So far, with all the posts I've read from dozens of people who have done this, the only issues seem to happen once in a great while when people don't take full precautions. Even then, it seems that they can recover by following a more conservative route on the second try (e.g., remove the miniSD, remove the battery, remove the SIM, replace the battery, use hardware buttons to put phone in boot loader mode, use separate CID Unlocker, reflash with stock ROM, reflash with custom ROM). Seems that 99% of the time such a complex process is NOT needed at all -- but for those few who ran into trouble, this kind of process DID let them recover. The ONLY people I'm aware of who might have more trouble did not CID unlock first. When you attempt to load one company's distribution on another company's branded hardware, CID locking is designed to block this based on the company code. Just their little way of trying to keep customers using the branded version of the firmware. Forcing a ROM overwrite from one company's branded firmware to another company's branded hardware without CID unlocking is asking for disaster. But this is totally unnecessary if you simply make sure to ACCEPT the offer to CID unlock your phone as the first step. I really was worried about doing this to my MDA, but after the fact, I'm really glad I went ahead and did it. It was SO quick and painless, and the phone simply works better now. |
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Originally Posted by tonkabui
i just got the eten dial pad and love it. however, i'm wanting to change the color of the dial pad. i got the cab from this thread:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=871390 as well as the colors, but i don't know how to install said colors. can someone enlighten me? thanks. |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
CID Unlock basically unlocks the phone so you can put someone elses ROM on it. T-mobile and other cell companies dont like you doing thast. They like their proprietary software. CID Unlock allows you to change the ROM and not have any issues with the phone stopping it. At least thats what I get out of evrything I have read.
I think Im going to pick up a copy of that mag you mentioned. On anotehr note, here is a little somethign I came across today. Looks pretty neat. Creating the shortcuts seams a litt,le tedious but definatly worth the trouble I think. I have installed it and it works just need to decide what I want to add to it, and see if it helps sp[eed up my device or slow it down more. http://forum.xda-developers.com/vie...bcde933b5a77345 I have been wondering if there was anything I could do with the tray |
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Originally Posted by jonazen
i3onk -- I hesitated and agonized over this for 2 or 3 days, and must have read dozens of posts about it.
One of the things you can do is to back up your current firmware to your miniSD card, and also keep a copy of the full T-Mobile distribution -- same as the one on your phone -- on your PC ready to fall back to. You CAN go back to the original ROM. So far, with all the posts I've read from dozens of people who have done this, the only issues seem to happen once in a great while when people don't take full precautions. Even then, it seems that they can recover by following a more conservative route on the second try (e.g., remove the miniSD, remove the battery, remove the SIM, replace the battery, use hardware buttons to put phone in boot loader mode, use separate CID Unlocker, reflash with stock ROM, reflash with custom ROM). Seems that 99% of the time such a complex process is NOT needed at all -- but for those few who ran into trouble, this kind of process DID let them recover. The ONLY people I'm aware of who might have more trouble did not CID unlock first. When you attempt to load one company's distribution on another company's branded hardware, CID locking is designed to block this based on the company code. Just their little way of trying to keep customers using the branded version of the firmware. Forcing a ROM overwrite from one company's branded firmware to another company's branded hardware without CID unlocking is asking for disaster. But this is totally unnecessary if you simply make sure to ACCEPT the offer to CID unlock your phone as the first step. I really was worried about doing this to my MDA, but after the fact, I'm really glad I went ahead and did it. It was SO quick and painless, and the phone simply works better now. |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
same version as you man
and changing the rom basically give you other options that tmobile didnt include and removes some of the ones they did. The biggest benifit though is improved operation. faster, less memory leakage, less battery drain. things such as this. Still not sure if I want to do this or just wait forever until tmobile releases their RoM upgrade. |
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Maddog - just as i3onk said -- better battery life, better WiFi (more sensitive, picks up WLAN's faster and connects faster), better radio, faster operation in general, less memory leaks, more stable.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Sorry man I have been wondering that myself. Still havnt figured it out
On another note though. Here's a screenshot of my today screen with the traylauncher running and full of shortcuts. I think I like it. Seams like it slows my reboot down a bit though. Doesnt seam to slow down anything else though. I now have 3 less tabs on my Pocket plus. I added a few things to the start menu that i have found I use but not enough to warrant putting them onto the tray launcher. Im still working on a couple of the icons. Sorry about the small size of the image. Damn forums would only let me upload a 14.6K file. they need to bump that up to about 25K. NM removed it and hosted the pic on my photobucket account. This link is to a full size image now http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d...k/display_1.jpg Now that I have that installed and setup the way I want (with exception to the two icons) Im going to do a backup then try installing agile messenger. Im really sick of the inconsistency of MSN and Yahoo connections on the bundled IM software. Well just broke down and ordered this today. http://www.thepocketsolution.com/Me...Product_Count=5 Sick of plugging and unplugging the USB cable in. Think this might make it a bit easier to connect and see the screen when I am plugged in. |
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Forgive me for being the perpetual skeptic ... but if the cradle doesn't connect to the MDA via the USB port, how DOES it connect? I don't see any other connectors or contacts that the cradle might use. Am I missing something? Or (he says with a sinister pause).....could it be that the photo of the cradle is missing something? Such as the little detail of a plug on the right side of the picture, connecting the cradle with the USB port on the MDA?
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Lol I thought that too when I first looked at the picture. If you look closely you can see that the MDA is recessed into the cradle. The mini USB connector is set into the recession of the cradle. so the MDA just slides into the cradle and plugs into the mini USB. I know the photo is a bit missleading, but im pretty sure that is the way it works. IT BETTER BE or im gonna have some issues with these poeple lol.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
As soon as it gets here, should be sometime next week. Ill take a pic without the phone in it and give you my review of it.
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Originally Posted by lanwarrior
Does anyone know where I can buy the charger powered using AA battery? It's like this one here:
http://www.thepocketsolution.com/Me...roduct_Count=20 But I don't want to buy the whole thing, I just need the battery charger. |
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Originally Posted by nyvram
FYI Here is the deal spoken about: $16.95 SHIPPED. ($10 for charger + $6.95 s/h)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sync-Charger-De...1QQcmdZViewItem |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
The only problem I see with having the AA baterypack charger is carrying it around. This is why I bought the spare battery instead. Hold a charge for almost two weeks and I can fit it in the little change pocket in my pants without bothering me a bit. Battery gets too low, just pull it out of my pocket, switch and away I go. Can charge them both when i get back home.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Well Just got the new version of cantact breeze and now my today screen is complete. I have it just the way I like it.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d.../TodayFinal.jpg Finally figured out how to make and add my own icons to the device as well. Makes it alot easier to choose the webpages I want from the shortcuts I made. |
). But then I catch myself - this is so Melissa sorts to the top of the list, yes?
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Originally Posted by atwnsw
2 problems w/ Internet : Anybody have ideas?
Internet Explorer Part A – When I use internet explorer w/ Edge, I find 2 issues. First , Yahoo says “I am currently using Internet Explorer 4.0. For the best experience using Yahoo, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version.” So, what do I do? Is it really able to run on my MDA? Or do I use something like OPERA which I am not familiar with? Internet Explorer Part B – When I use internet explorer w/ Edge, I will go to a website. It will appear to start downloading the information from the website as the “bar of progress” on the bottom of the screen appears to be completed. Then, when it appears that everything has been downloaded, nothing appears on my screen. It doesn’t ask me if it is a trusted website or anything. So, I don’t think it is a security issue. Any ideas? |
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Originally Posted by eep02b
Has anybody tried the new BETA version of Agile Messenger?? It just got released, and i was wonderin if anyone else had tried it??
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Originally Posted by Jay Raptor
Yep, seems to work just the same as the alpha version that has been out. Still wish it had the ability to view away messages. I have to sign on to AIM 2.0 (available for free on the UK AIM site) to view away messages.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
OK I love SBP Backup. there is another definate app that I need to register.
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Originally Posted by JVCX007
AKA MaddgoX007 here.... Just waiting for HOFO to respond.
I got msg from Spb backup support. it seems that little hidden file lsoma.db the one Spb backup logged on me, is a known bug on some units. I'm great for bugs man. Got a t-shirt once from a company for finding a bug. Is this an curse or blessing? On another note I did'nt get lsoma.db msg again on the new ROM 2.17 upgrade. Trully Spb Backup is great! I have been restoring lately several times, sometimes the restore gives an issue, but same restore will work again second time around. But Im weird anyway. |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
So you did the ROM upgrade 2? Was it pretty easy? You like it like jonazen does? How do I go about backing up my ROm and EXT rom before flashing the new ROM?
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Go for it brother. Are you under warranty with TMO? See I'm not, so my attitude is, if I need future repair warranty, im screwed, I guess, unless they come up with the official T-mobile upgrade, then I can run that instead. NOt sure how the T-mobile upgrade will run on unlocked device though? Hey I will deal with it. By time this things needs warranty I will probably be upgrading to faster CPU model. I believe in this little gadget and feel good about it's quality. This is a personal decision, no doubt. But upgrade process seems smooth. The RUU is smooth feels like TMO sent it to me. I hope this helps you man
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Originally Posted by JVCX007
AKA MaddogX007 waiting for re activation possibly this year?
Hey Jonazen whats up with the 2.18 version ROM now. And what's up with this A2DP? |
I had a late night - Tuesday is "martial arts" night for us - my daughter has a class she goes home - then I'm there with my son for his class, and he says while I practice. Just got home and got my son to sleep. Tough workout tonight, and my hands are already stiff - probably worse tomorrow - which ought to be interesting, as I've got two really important meetings up in NYC. Hopefully I won't need my hands much for them... |
Originally Posted by i3onk
Yeagh I am still under warranty. Only had it since the week after it came out. Im just worried about bricking it and not getting it replaced by TMO.
now, there were no issues with your sim working once it was unlocked right? That is another of my concerns, that my SIM will be ****, and that I wont be abler to use TMO network at all for emails, text or calls. I rely HEAVILY on my MDA for emaisl and texting. I make about 2 calls a day, and send at least 30 emails, over 100 texts, and post on about 12 different forums. (needless to say this gets me in alot of trouble at work ALL THE TIME!! LOL) I have read alot of good stuff about 2.17 and want the benifits that it has to offer. Im just a scared little ***** because this damn thing cost me so much money and dont have the cash for a new one. As far as the backing up. I already use my minisd for backing up with SBP backup. Since its a 2G card Im not really too worried about running out of space, so letting aWizard backup to my sd is quite alright. Also, do you have any problems with your apps that you have installed(ie...wifi companion and such) and does it still have pocket MSN and the IM software. I'm pretty sure I can get the OZ IM software online somewhere. |
I have been online with no issues, and getting email via outlook no problem. Your 2 Gig card will be WIPED OUT! The backup process relies on a dedicated SD card, I believe. That is why on that link I gave u, the guy talking about the process says, use a 128MB card as a sacrafice in case u need to restore ur old ROM for warranty purpose. |
Originally Posted by The Trooper
JVCX007: I'm not trying to scare people, as a matter of fact I encourage them to do the upgrade. I posted my experience in this thread http://howardforums.com/showthread....4&page=11&pp=15
I still don't know what went wrong, however, the reason why I posted it was so that people find a way to recover from the data crashes error if they encounter it. |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
I use the GPRS all the time as I am not always near a wifi connection. Thanks to wifi companion I am able to find a couple of networks near my work that i wasnt able to get ahold of before. Without it the device kept asking for a PW to gain access to the networks. With WIFI companion, I connecto to the no problem. Just hope my work doesnt catch on and realize I have been connecting to the wifi there or I am going to be major fired HAHA!
Well When I bought my 2G card I gave my daughter my 256M card for her phone. Maybe i can talk her into giving me her 128M for my backup card. You didnt say if pocket MSN was working though. I was pretty sure I read that the IMs (aim and yahoo) weren't working but I havnt read anything about pocket MSN. I am seriously leaning towards doing this. As long as I can get the device to reload the backed up TMO ropm and EXT ROM, Im ok with it I guess. Another little tidbit of info. I had that error where I got the three color screen after a reboot a few weeks ago. I couldnt get away from it. It kept going to just that screen. If you EVER need to do a hard reset and the device hasnt totally booted up yet, hold the comm button and the voice record button and hit soft reset at the same time. Continue to hold the comm and voice button until the prompt to hard reset comes up. Hit the green talk button and you are good to do. |
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Hey Dog! You've been busy tonight! Feel like I missed a party.
I had a late night - Tuesday is "martial arts" night for us - my daughter has a class she goes home - then I'm there with my son for his class, and he says while I practice. Just got home and got my son to sleep. Tough workout tonight, and my hands are already stiff - probably worse tomorrow - which ought to be interesting, as I've got two really important meetings up in NYC. Hopefully I won't need my hands much for them... Not sure re: the 2.18 ROM. At first, it sounded like only the Chinese version was available - which wouldn't have been much help to me. Thought I saw a post about the WWE version this afternoon (English), but I'm not sure - will have to go back and check. But I believe it's "a la carte" - no extended ROM features, so if we want the T-Mobile customizations we'd have to add those back by hand using individual cabs (I haven't tried assembling my own extended ROM yet). I don't know if there's anything new there at all. Also probably worth waiting for something later than .18... Actually enjoying the thought that there are enough companies putting out these Wizard variants (such as Dopod, QTek, K-Jam, T-Mobile, Cingular, etc) that we can probably look forward to updated ROM's coming out for a while. We may see several upgrades over the next 6 to 9 months. Before they stop coming out with new firmware for this model, I imagine we might see a 3.0 version with full-fledged A2DP stereo bluetooth, memory leaks all fixed up, uninstaller problems fixed and the roaming/preferred nets issue resolved -- maybe even before they get all the way to 3.0... Still no word back from Howard or any HoFo admins? Frustrating! Maybe if you scan this forum you can find a link to let you contact a moderator -- might be a starting point to get you in touch with somebody who can help with your username and email issue. |
After my ordeal with my darn flat, I had to replace 4 tires today, did not expect that. True the .18 is not enouph for me to flash again. I will wait for a better version, one that makes a bit difference on all topics u mentioned. But ur right about these devices, their HOT!! I don't care what name u give them, their made by HTC with different logos and cutom bootloaders. UTStarcom 6700 just came out with a version. It's that keyboard man, inginious, best I have ever used on ppc, and does not take away from a screen that is already smaller then expected. I remember when I got my MDA, my first reaction was weird, after iPaq 6315, i felt,man this is a small device I hope I can live with screen size. But it's the best PPC I have ever owned! Small in size, big in class. . First time I see someone else with one. So I pointed him to HOFO and XDA. Both these guys were just regular JOE's, u know email only. In conversatin with the 700W guy, he said, "I am not that into it, but can't live without it". But hacking is not something I would get into, he said. I said, what if you upgrded your wireless LAN to 802.11G, ur device can only communicate at 8011.b, but has the tehnology to use 802.11g, what would u do? He said, I'm not sure, I guess. I said, hack it baby!! U have the power of G not only B. The point was well made. . Even on the my-mobile.com site, if you log on, it shows ur phone, and support for it, but on top of that is a little link that says, "not ur phone", or something like that, you can change it and get the support links to it. Why cause TMO understand this, their in the business of SIMMS, not phones. They know people change phones all the time without their knowledge, and they could care less. But things keep popping up on me when I least expect them or need them. This causes me a little issue, need to lock device, and
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Originally Posted by atwnsw
I have installed 2.17, SPB Pocket Plus, SPB Backup, WM5NewMenu and have started to get the hang of it. However, like everybody, I am having some problems which I haven’t been able to fix. I am listing all of them and hope that individuals who have found solutions to some of them could help.
Internet Explorer Part A – When I use internet explorer w/ Edge, I find 2 issues. First , Yahoo says “I am currently using Internet Explorer 4.0. For the best experience using Yahoo, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version.” So, what do I do to either upgrade IE and get rid of this message or should I use something like OPERA which I am not familiar with? Internet Explorer Part B – When I use internet explorer w/ Edge, I will go to a website. It will appear to start downloading the information from the website as the “bar of progress” on the bottom of the screen appears to be completed. Then, when it appears that everything has been downloaded, nothing appears on my screen. It doesn’t ask me if it is a trusted website or anything and there is nothing to scroll down. However, the little lock on the top left corner of the page is "locked". Any ideas? If this is a secure website, how do I access it? Thanks.........Anthony |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
As far as your first PIE problem. You can use Tweaks2k2 to make PIE act as IE 6. That might take care of that problem. As far as Number 2 I have no clue.
I guess the version of Agile I was using before was an older one. I downloaded the newest version yesterday and I think I like it alot better. Another question. Is it ok to unlock CID and backup the ROM and EXT ROM without doing a ROM Flash? I thought maybe I would try and do this one step at a time. LOL I think I feel ok about unlocking CID and backing up the ROM and EXT ROM, not quite at the point where I am OK with flashing the ROM yet. |
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Originally Posted by JVCX007
Unfornately Tweak2k2 and PIE to act as IE6 does not take care of the problem. I hated that cause, I use Opera, and PIE for sites with flash, cause Opera does not support flash yet, but it's a much better, and faster browser. Well I could not use PIE on Movies.com cause I got same msg this guy got on yahoo. I tried the PIE tweak, still same. You know what solved it?? The new 2.17 ROM upgrade. I just tried PIE again on movies.com, and to my surprise, it worked. Movies.com did not ask me to upgrade.
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Originally Posted by atwnsw
I have installed 2.17, SPB Pocket Plus, SPB Backup, WM5NewMenu and have started to get the hang of it. However, like everybody, I am having some problems which I haven’t been able to fix. I am listing all of them and hope that individuals who have found solutions to some of them could help.
Internet Explorer Part A – When I use internet explorer w/ Edge, I find 2 issues. First , Yahoo says “I am currently using Internet Explorer 4.0. For the best experience using Yahoo, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version.” So, what do I do to either upgrade IE and get rid of this message or should I use something like OPERA which I am not familiar with? Internet Explorer Part B – When I use internet explorer w/ Edge, I will go to a website. It will appear to start downloading the information from the website as the “bar of progress” on the bottom of the screen appears to be completed. Then, when it appears that everything has been downloaded, nothing appears on my screen. It doesn’t ask me if it is a trusted website or anything and there is nothing to scroll down. However, the little lock on the top left corner of the page is "locked". Any ideas? If this is a secure website, how do I access it? Thanks.........Anthony |
It is the best browser experience in the market. Try it, it's free beta and works beautiful on MDA, and you will not have to pay for it for 2 months. You can also try NetFront, or Thunderhawk, for my money, FREE at moment, Opera is second to none. I can't do things with PIE I can easily with Opera. Opera has a bar at bottom of screen which shows your uploading web files, so that you know it's working fast, unlike PIE which has that annoying moving window, and u never really know what the heck it's doing and slow as molases. When I was going to movies.com with PIE I would get thrown into a screen to upgrade, to a better PIE, or other browsers, one of the recomendations was OPERA. http://www.opera.com/|
Originally Posted by i3onk
Thanx man, just downloaded it. Ill check it out.
Wish I knew what was taking up all the storagememory on my Device LOL. Im down to 4.6M. At least I still have 16.2 for Program memory. NM Figured that out, lol. I installed a couple of games to my device on accident. Dont know how I did that, lol, I put all my games on my SD card. I think Im going to start putting everything on my sd card. with 2G of space, lord knows I have plenty of room. Also to ask this question again(may have gotten looked over in the longer previous posts), Is it ok to unlock CID and backup the ROM and EXT ROM without doing a ROM Flash? I thought maybe I would try and do this one step at a time. LOL I think I feel ok about unlocking CID and backing up the ROM and EXT ROM, not quite at the point where I am OK with flashing the ROM yet. |
as to what the heck he was doing, but have not gotten reply, or I got to find post again. But I am seriously looking for answers. |
Originally Posted by i3onk
Thanx man, just downloaded it. Ill check it out.
Wish I knew what was taking up all the storagememory on my Device LOL. Im down to 4.6M. At least I still have 16.2 for Program memory. NM Figured that out, lol. I installed a couple of games to my device on accident. Dont know how I did that, lol, I put all my games on my SD card. I think Im going to start putting everything on my sd card. with 2G of space, lord knows I have plenty of room. Also to ask this question again(may have gotten looked over in the longer previous posts), Is it ok to unlock CID and backup the ROM and EXT ROM without doing a ROM Flash? I thought maybe I would try and do this one step at a time. LOL I think I feel ok about unlocking CID and backing up the ROM and EXT ROM, not quite at the point where I am OK with flashing the ROM yet. |
For those that are sending me private msgs, I like to elaborate cause Im originally from NYC like Jonazen, and ulness u tell me to shot up 
I am going to keep on talking. , well some of those books are requiring lots of experience to read these days, and I am embarresed to say, I feel like a dummy reading some of them , cold boot, like i3onk mentioned earlier, is a process which is different from soft booting (which is like reset on a computer) on iPaq's like the h6315, you don't loose what's on ROM, UNLIKE WM5 MDA where you will loose all your apps in ROM storage. So backups, like Spb Backup, are even more critical on WM5, cause it copies everything in ROM (like mirror). 
you loose Nothing in ROM! But on the iPaq you loose all your ROM storage. So which is better? If you loose your battery life, you loose nothing, or if you cold boot, you loose your ROM? There is good in everything, of course, but if you have good backups on your MDA, you still loose nothing on ROM? And you better have a new battery source. Folks, I like the idea of rather loosing nothing when you Cold Boot, like the iPaq. Or better yet, both is cleary the winner, loose nothing on battery life, and nothing on cold boot in ROM. But I rarely ever use up my battery life on these devices. If you like me, and I hope we have something else in common, I have car chargers for everything I carry. I don't get in my car without plugging things in. As a family we plug ourselves in the vehicle to all our little gadgets. I have one rule of thumb in my vehicle, you don't get in and play around with your gadget, unless your using car battery power, or don't complain to me, that your little life gadget is dead, and if I my MDA battery does go dead, hopefully I was smart enouph to have done full backups, and nightly custom backups of my contacts, email, yada yada. I find myself, messing with these devices, cold booting more than I like. MDA backups make up for it.
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Originally Posted by eep02b
has anybody experienced this?? When i connect to Wi-Fi, my MDA drops my signal for some reason, and when i turn it off, it does not pick it back up. When i connect to Wi-Fi, i can go into Settings:Phone:Network: and select find network and it will search for 2 to 3 secs and find me a full signal. Anyone know why this happens, and what i can do to stop it?? Could it be a conflicting program??
I've tried to do soft resets, but it still happens!!! |
not sure why this is since the roms are almost identical, but the newest qtek rom seemed to solve the issue.
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Originally Posted by shackk
what rom are you running? i noticed something like this with the imate rom for some reason, i just changed to the qtek rom and the wifi works flawlessly now
not sure why this is since the roms are almost identical, but the newest qtek rom seemed to solve the issue. |
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Originally Posted by shackk
what rom are you running? i noticed something like this with the imate rom for some reason, i just changed to the qtek rom and the wifi works flawlessly now
not sure why this is since the roms are almost identical, but the newest qtek rom seemed to solve the issue. |
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Originally Posted by eep02b
I'm running the OEM T-Mobile ROM. And by the way, has anyone gotten bluetooth recieve to work?? I have RegWizard, and have the Enable Bluetooth Recieve, but i still cannot recieve files.
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Originally Posted by JVCX007
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Jonazen did take this route???? We need your HELP and Assistance here buddy! 13onk! Remember i took the lazy road out to upgrade to 2.17 ROM. I used the RUU program, and it did not backup up Bootloader, Radio and Extended Rom. RUU did everything for me in one easy step. It unlocked and upgraded. But I believe Jonazen took the step your about to take. And frankly I am running the software to see what happens, but first I want to look at the 1.2 version and see the readme file, cause it's not the beta one. |
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Originally Posted by shackk
Here is a link to the Qtek rom page. ftp://xda-developers.com/Wizard/Roms/Qtek The 2.17v is located there.
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Originally Posted by jonazen
Hi guys - I was actually out earning a living today...much as I would have preferred being here and playing with the innards of my MDA. ("working in a coal mine, going down, down...").
Anyway...no - I, too, took the lazy, risky way out -- I did NOT back up the ROM first, and I ran the custom 2.17 installer, letting it do the unlock up front for me, and then load the qtek 2.17 ROM and then the select customizations that xelencin included. That was it - I didn't do anything else... |
I wonder if there is issue with calender reminder popops, while rebooting? reminder popups should at least wait for reboot sequence. Right? Thank goodness for Spb Backup, cause I may have to cold boot, and select custom restore and only restore system data, avoiding contacts, calender,etc, so that I can get back in system, then restore latest daily contacts, calender, and dissable that feature, bummer. with all this experimental crap I keep doing, I'm becoming a pro at cold booting & swiftly restoring. The only thing slowing me down, is that cut and past tutorial crap.
makes me feel alittle easier about the ROM flash, knowing I unlocked without screwing anything up
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Originally Posted by i3onk
Wooohoooo! Unlocked and Backed UP. Not a hitch. Took about a half hour but all is well.
makes me feel alittle easier about the ROM flash, knowing I unlocked without screwing anything up |
Go i3onk, go! |
Originally Posted by i3onk
Wooohoooo! Unlocked and Backed UP. Not a hitch. Took about a half hour but all is well.
makes me feel alittle easier about the ROM flash, knowing I unlocked without screwing anything up |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
LOL! Well maybe. Hey how long did the whole ROM flash process take? I need to time this between the interupting calls from the GF.lol
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Originally Posted by JVCX007
Yeah got to work to eat. I know the easy way is really the simplest way. I have been looking at the aWizard today, and tried changing my Splash.bmp, why not have something custom you know, but it would not work.
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Originally Posted by i3onk
I just tried the tool. It wasnt actually in the zip file, it was a link on one of the html files that you posted.
http://www.ppcsg.com/mobile/index.php/t71471.html The button tool. Works great. Got a splash screen now of my Dog( may he rest in peace) nose to cammera, looking at me like, WTF you doing man? lmao |
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Originally Posted by JVCX007
I checked that out, and started to run it, but my Zone Alarm Pro started to tell me this thing wanted to act a server and different modues were requesting this, so I abondened the whole thing, but it must be o.k. I am going to try it again. So did you upgrade yet?
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Originally Posted by i3onk
No not yet, still being a sissy about it LOL. Im getting there man. Took two big steps today in Unlockig/backing up and changing the splashscreen. Im off tomorrow, maybe tomorrow will be the day.
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Originally Posted by JVCX007
Between u and me man, I think u took the hardest steps. Cause after looking at aWizard, your braver man than me. The RUU process seems a heck of alot easier, just don't unlock in your case, since u unlocked alrady.
Hey, I have tried that darn splash utility. I created a bmp by taking the one on site and trowing into my paint program, but every time I do this, the darn splash utility goes into motion resets my MDA, but don't get nothing. I had named the bmp jay.bmp, but renamed it splash.bmp, and put it in same folder as the utility, whats up with these, what did u do? Can i name the folder anything, or it has to be the name the link says.... |
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Originally Posted by i3onk
1. I made a folder on my desktop and named it splash tool.
2. I put the splash_bmp_to_wizard.exe into the folder. 3. I used adobe phto deluxe to make my pic 240 x 320 and exported it file, and chose bmp. 4. opened it in paint to make sure it was 24 bit .bmp and saved it 5. I changed the name to splash and placed t into the splash tool folder I made 6. ran the splash_bmp_to_wizard.exe 7. it did some things and restarted my device and when it came back on the pic was now my splash screen. It was suprisingly easy. Granted my pic looked a little streched, but that didnt matter as a test pic. I will make it look right the next time. |
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