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- April 30, 2008 – 3:35 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
If you are like me, as soon as you start using Instant Messaging (Octrotalk, Windows Live Messenger, IM+, Palringo) on your Windows Mobile Device – your battery life goes out the window. I’m talking, 12 hrs max. That is not a good thing for a mobile device where you need it to last at least a full day, if not multiple days. The problem is that IM networks need to remain connected – a ‘heartbeat’ signal is sent over the network to ensure the client is still online, and so that if you receive any instant messages they are delivered to you, well, instantly. The reason text messages do not eat up battery life is because the cell phone network does not require your phone to have a heartbeat data connection to the cellular network – if a text message is sent to you, your phone picks it up when….
Categories: Cell Phones,Other Technology,Programs,Windows Mobile
Tagged: battery, battery life, cell phone, instant message, mobile, Windows Mobile
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- March 8, 2008 – 6:05 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
When I bought the Nokia N800 a key feature is not only the ability to surf the internet with Wifi but also to pair it with your phone via bluetooth and access the internet anywhere. have a Cingular 8525 (I guess now an AT&T 8525) which has 3G internet available, but it did not work out of the box with the N800. To begin with some definitions, there are 2 ways that you typically connect to a phone for internet. Bluetooth DUN (Dial Up Networking) and Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network). Bluetooth DUN is the “old” way to connect, and some of the updates Microsoft is pushing out to their Windows Mobile devices are disabling it. Unfortunately, this is the way that the N800 uses to connect to the internet. To fix this problem, some maemo hackers put together a package called “maemo-pan“. This package enables the ability to connect….
Categories: 8525 / Hermes,Cell Phones,Hardware,Linux,N800,Software,Windows Mobile
Tagged: 3G, 3G internet, AT&T, Bluetooth, DSP, internet connection sharing, Internet Sharing, internet tablet, microsoft, Nokia N800, shared internet, Start internet sharing
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- January 3, 2008 – 8:13 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Downloading a CAB file to install onto your Windows Mobile device can be a pain – after downloading the cab file to your desktop, you need to first copy it to your device, then find the cab file to install and then proceed to install it. CABviaActiveSync is a simple, free program that adds a context menu to automatically parse the cab file on your desktop and install it via activesync. This can save you a bunch of steps and is incredibly handy if you are like me and are always installing/uninstalling programs to check out. Download CABviaActiveSync from Modaco.
Categories: Cell Phones,Programs,Software,Windows,Windows Mobile
Tagged: activesync, cab, install
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- September 5, 2007 – 10:30 am
- Author:
- By Dave
This happened on a few of my accounts – specifically the IMAP accounts on my Windows Mobile 6 device. Apparently this was a problem back with Windows Mobile 2003 but it seems to have resurfaced in Windows Mobile 6. Even though all messages in an account are read; the “1 unread message” message still shows up on your Today screen. This happens when the internal unread message count becomes de-synced with the real message count. Instead of polling the server for unread messages, Windows Mobile keeps an internal database/registry key with this number. This problem also manifests itself in having “-1″ unread messages or another off-count. Luckily, it is pretty easy to fix. Download this program from freewareppc. Transfer and run the .exe from your device. It analyzes your accounts and fixes the internal database “unread” count.
Categories: Cell Phones,Windows Mobile
Tagged: 2003
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- August 17, 2007 – 12:05 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
Meebo, which I have recently been turned on to, yesterday released an iPhone client which is basically a web interface to their chat website (which integrates AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, gtalk, and more). It looks great, take a peek: That is great that they are developing this and I applaud them for their efforts of releasing updates on mobile devices. Now, maybe I have iPhone envy, but wouldn’t it make sense to release this for Windows Mobile since the market share that Windows Mobile has is MUCH greater than iPhone? According to Gartner, Windows Mobile shipped a little over 3 million devices in the 1st quarter of 2007 alone (and that number does not even include “Smartphone” devices). iPhone, according to their own estimates [MacNewsWorld], will sell a million units by Sept 30th. I asked Meebo about their plans for Windows Mobile. Here is the response I received from Sue: As….
Categories: Cell Phones,Other Technology,Webdesign,Windows Mobile
Tagged: Internet Explorer Mobile, microsoft, Nintendo, Opera for Wii, web app, web code, Web Interface, web interfaces, Web publishers, Yahoo!
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- August 1, 2007 – 9:16 am
- Author:
- By Dave
If you can access the internet fine using PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer) on your Windows Mobile device over Edge or 3G, but when you switch to Wifi Internet Explorer always times out (It says “Loading…”) – then you are probably dealing with the dreaded “hard coded proxy” problem. In this situation you have Wifi wireless enabled and Opera and other internet applications work fine – but PIE will not work. The issue is that PIE is trying to connect to the internet via a proxy, however if you are using WiFi there is no need for this and the proxy server can not identify you since you are not on AT&T’s (Cingular’s) network. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] The default setting that forces the proxy to be used is: 1"EnableAutoDetect"=dword:00000000 Change to: 1"EnableAutoDetect"=dword:00000001 Do a soft reset on your device and PIE should now be able to access the internet again!
Categories: Cell Phones,Windows Mobile
Tagged: AT&T, Internet Applications, Internet Explorer, Internet Settings, microsoft, proxy server
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- August 1, 2007 – 8:56 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Windows Mobile 5 did not seem to have an easy way to have YouTube mobile videos (3gp files streaming over rtsp protocol) play to your phone. However with Windows Mobile 6 Professional and HTC’s “StreamingPlayer” software – playing YouTube Mobile videos, at least through PIE (Pocket Internet Explorer) is easy. If you don’t have HTC’s StreamingPlayer – check here. After installing the software, you may also need to modify your registry in order to allow rtsp streams to be opened by the player. Here is a link to the registry entries you need to make – again courtesy of XDA-Developer’s forum. Save the above text to a .reg file, and import to your device (for example, using RegEdit for WM6) Hopefully if all went well – when you visit http://m.youtube.com, and click play video, the HTC player will launch and play the video. After the video is done the player….
Categories: Cell Phones,Configurations,Television,Windows Mobile
Tagged: Internet Explorer, streaming video, wireless account, YouTube
