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SPB Diary

Is anyone using SPB Diary on the Universal, I have it running on the Orange M5000, but i have a problem with it. It runs fine but then the icons down the left hand side that let you change to contacts/calender etc dissapear. As soon as these dissapear every second the program memory goes down by 0.03MB until it is all gone and the phone locks up.
You can even go into memory and watch it ticking down. To resolve the issue i can turn off SPB Diary and start it up again, but thats only if i catch it before all the memory has gone, and this does not free up the memory that has been used.
Has anyone seen this before or got a solution, i really like the program, but obviously won't be able to continue using it if it has this problem.

I Use SPB Pocket Plus (current beta) but did use the released version.
I personally dont like Diary much unless as a plug in to the SPB PP application, to keep the tabs across the top simple and efficient and not take up to much real estate.
I also use SPB Weather, and also run it as a plug in to SPB PP.
I have never encountered the problem that you are referring to, even when I did run it as a seperate application by itself.
Do you have the latest release?
Also note that I dont think it promotes Diary as being WM2005 release, it just happens to work.

I too was a user of Spb Diary. Switched meanwhile to SBSH Pocketbrreze with Contactbreeze and iLauncher. The perfect combination IMO
Cheers
hrb
See here
http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?act=idx

Yes i have downloaded the latest build, as far as i'm aware, and this is apparently compatiable with Windows Mobile 5

Well i went for SPB Diary as i was buying SPB Finance at the same time so i got a small discount, for the same reason i did not test the software before buying it!
I will probably look at breeze if this fails to work out.

Pocket Breeze has far, far more options, and infinitely better support via the SBSH Forums, However, it is currently slower than SPB Diary (especially for screen rotation). Hopefully the new release of PB due out soon will solve this issue though...

I must say i was quite impressed with Pocketbreeze after looking at it on their site, I've had a response back from SPB support that hinted towards the fact it may be because i have installed it onto the SD Card, can you install pocketbreeze onto the SD Card with no problems?

ianlarner said:
I must say i was quite impressed with Pocketbreeze after looking at it on their site, I've had a response back from SPB support that hinted towards the fact it may be because i have installed it onto the SD Card, can you install pocketbreeze onto the SD Card with no problems?
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You can install it to SD-card and it will work fine. However, it will put a couple of smallish library files in main memory, and they should stay there, otherwise you may have problems with the Today screen when the Universal is turned on - since the SD-card will be powered down and take a while to power on again.

Issues with Jamin Screen Alignment

Hi Friends,
I om really sick of correcting the screen alignment every 2 hours.
please tell me there is a cure/fix to this issue.
In my extended rom I have deleted the following
SKYPE
Smart Dialling
Anti Virus
Backgammon.
The 3rd party softwares that I use are
Tweaks2K2
Ewallet
Worldmate Pro
SPB pocket plus
SPB Finance
Pocket Breeze 5.01
Pocket calc
Sprite Backup
Pocket Mechanic
SPB Imageer
Personal Vehicle Manager.
PLEASE HELP ME
Thanks
Ahmed

To be honest if it really is every two hours I would back it up, hard reset the thing and make sure it doesn't have problems in an out of the box configuration.
If it is ok then I'm afraid you will have to deal with the fact that you are going to have to incrementally load your software to determine what is causing the problem. For reference Ewallet is the only software in common with my configuration and I have zero issues. Also I don't use skype and deinstalled the AV as well as the Backgammon software.

I had this program before.
I was using OmapClock and adjusted it to 252.
Now I set it to 240 and have no problem

Actually I still have this problem even when I didn't overclock it
The only program I have the same is SPB Pocket Plus on that list.

wow! great to hear someone else has this problem. you guys think this is software related and not hardware? i bought my dopod818 (but is on jamin rom) from another country. so its gona be hard for me to have it replace for now.

story said:
Actually I still have this problem even when I didn't overclock it
The only program I have the same is SPB Pocket Plus on that list.
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I'm also having the same issue and I also use SPB Pocket plus.

I'm good
I don't experience any funky screen alignment problems. I did however, with my Cingular 8125 (HTC Wizard) but now with my prophet I'm good. I have a ton of apps installed and overclocked to 240 (225-227 actual).
I do know how annoying this can be. I would do the backup and hard reset to see what your out of box status is. I'm sure it's a 3rd party app problem.
I too use SPB Pocket + so that may not be the problem. I did have SKYPE on my Wizard and not on my Prophet so it may be SKYPE or a combination.
I also did a lot of ROM swaps on my Wizard and so far none on my Prophet so that me be a factor.

Pocket Breeze freezes MDA

Hi everyone!
I've got a strange prob on my Universal. It is a german MDA Pro flashed with the german Qtek ROM 1.30 and Radio 1.09. I've installed Pocket Breeze 5 withe some Plugins as Contact Breeze and iLaucher and Pocket Weather. My PIM is Pocket Informant.
All these are installed on SD.
Whenever I activate Breeze it works absolutely perfect. Then I switch the Pro off and switch it on again after a while. It comes to life and before it actually shows the today-screen it freezes and I have to reset
iLaucher, Pocket Weather etc. are deactivated when using PB of course. On the other hand these work as normal Today-plugins .... Installing PB to the internal flash didn't change anything.
Deactivating Breeze as today-plugin immediately solves the freeing problem ... !!!! ?
I didn't notice this behaviour with the T-Online ROM Version 1.20 / radio 1.06.
Another strange thing I found is that the Universal seems to automatically end some programs when going to 'sleep'. This concerns Pocket Informant and Flexmail 2006 and Dinarsoft Handymenu. Several other progs are not affected.
This is really weird and I'd love to have PB back to life sinece it ideally does what I need. I wouldn't like to change back to the 'old' T-Mobile ROMs.
Any idea is very much appeciated!
Thanks for your help
mikrolinux ;-)

http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showthread.php?t=88161
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Hi Pernod99!
Thanks for the info! So I'll play with different install-targets.
I'll keep you posted with the things I'll (possibly) find out
Thanks again!
mikrolinux

Damn you got me excited, i thought macromedia release a pocket pc version of their Breeze software, now that would be good.

Hi Ahrjay!
I suppose we're talking about different 'Breezes' ;-)
The Pocket Breeze here is Pocket Breeze from www.sbsh.net It's an Today Plugin integrating PIMs, Mailers, Meters and stuff.
Sorry for the false alarm
cheers
mikrolinux

Hi Pernod99!
Well this seems to be the solution. I've reinstalled PocketBreeze, Contact Breeze and iLauncher to the devices flash
and soft-reset the MDA. Since then it seems to run as desired - fast and stable so far.
It seems PB doesn't like to be installed on SD, this concerns it's plugins as well. It urged me to reset the device frequently
until even the last PB-plugin had been removed from SD and shifted to the systems flash-mem.
There is an option inside PB that determines how Plugins are called. This usually is set to dynamic which means that the
plugin is initiated on first use after a reset. So everything runs pretty smooth until you call an application PB has to init from SD
-> crash after wakeup.
Setting the above option other values such as static doesn't alter anything since PB always has to init theSD and often crashes,
presumably due to timeouts. So PB and everything it has to init have to be installed to the devices flash for proper operation.
Thanks again for your help!
Have fun!
mikrolinux ;-)

Today screen painfully slow Spb plugins?

Aquired my o2 exec 2 days ago. After installing Spb software, Today screen is very cluttered, scrolls very slow and occasionally freezes for a couple of seconds. any advise for a fix please?
-thanks
installed programs: (order of install)
tomtom navigator 5.1 (sd vers)
flash player
realone player
pocket music
sktools
resco file explorer
resco registry
Spb pocket plus
Spb finance
Spb weather
Spb time
also tonight tweeked reg for password lock
(kept locking when running tomtom)
Thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=43970&highlight=tomtom+password

de-install spb and find another tool to do the functions you need.
had the same thing in several program-combi's and install-order

that bad huh.. i looked around and found Spb connected issues..
thanks

I use all pda soft by spb, I find it great. the problem you mentioned used to afflict also my 9000, but it has been 99% solved after installing the last pocketplus version (should be 3.1.2) which fixes the memory leak and looks like its a lot faster than the others. on the other hand, it is slow while loading the today plugin only after a soft reset or when you modify it, since it has to cache again all the icons,tabs and so on. apart from those events in my 9000 its rare delays are fairly acceptable if compared to an absolutely stable software, which is perfect in my opinion!

My MDA pro was very slow when I had the battery indicator used on my today screen. Removing it solved my problem. Maybe yours too...???

I also use the latest versions of SPB and of course the speed of your Universal will be slightly reduced. You are running some extra programs, but I find it working relativly quick. I still have 22mb of working memory left after a soft reset with all the SPB apps opened. Only SPB diary can take some seconds to load when you haven't used it for a while.

A good today plugin for calendar???

Hi guys...
I'm looking for a good today plugin for use in the TyTN in order to see calendar and task events... like Pocket Breezer or SPB Diary.
The thing here is that I would like to know if have had some experience with this apps in the TyTN; I really wont want to have problems with the stability/operation of the device.
In My old WM2003SE the Pocket Breeze was just perfect, but when I first try it on the TyTN I had some issues...
I just would like to know, in your experience...wich app would you recomend for have a good view of the calendar in the today screen.
Thanks in advace for sharing!!

Try Today Agenda - free & works well.

What issues did you have with Pocket Breeze? Have you tried the latest 5.2 version? You could post a question on the SBSH forum, they can usually resolve problems with you.
I have Breeze on my T-Mobile MDA Vario II and it works flawlessly.

I have use the V 5.001 trial version (cause I wanted to check if worked before buying it)... The main problem was that TyTN crashed too many times and i need to soft reset a lot; even after a soft reset sometimes still doesn work and had to aply a new soft reset.
I will give a try to the latest version as you said and also will use it without any other today plugin...I use to have Spb weather, skype, and the lock device in my today screen.
thanks for the comments...!!
any one else with another app that can try...??
thanks

I use spb Diary and really like it. As you have spb weather, you can integrate that into the diary as an additional feature too.

As baxter says try today agenda a very good plugin and its free. Many have even switched from PB to this.
see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=270288

I'm using the pack of sbsh apps, pocketbreeze, pocketweather, ilauncher, and contactbreeze on my 8525 without issue...
http://www.mobilitysite.com/forums/vbgarage.php?do=view&id=13843

As for me I would advice SPB Diary. It works stable on my HTC TyTN for 3 months. I also apreciated its "completeness" - it presents almost all PIM information in one place - calendar, tasks, e-mails, contacts.
Re stability - I understand it often depends on the app collection you install. The more install - the less stable system become , of cause it;s always possible to try different combintaions and find a good balance, but...
Good luck in search and try!
p.s. I also tried Pocket Breeze + Contacts and found these combination working a bit slower and giving me less features than SPB Pocket Plus + SPB Diary, IMHO.

I am also a fan of today agenda

I am using Pocket Breeze, iLauncher and Pocket Weather all together on a Tytn....works perfectly.
Be sure to install in system memory, not the storage card.
I have found the TyTn will occassionally freeze when these were installed on the storage card. Since moving to main memory I have been very stable.

digitalfx said:
I am using Pocket Breeze, iLauncher and Pocket Weather all together on a Tytn....works perfectly.
Be sure to install in system memory, not the storage card.
I have found the TyTn will occassionally freeze when these were installed on the storage card. Since moving to main memory I have been very stable.
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as a rule of thumb, anything that access's the today screen or is constantly in use should be installed to the main memory and not the card.. some will work just fine installed to the card, but if you find you are having issues with it then you might want to move it to the phone

I use Calendar+ from http://mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10
and it's FREE

shogunmark said:
as a rule of thumb, anything that access's the today screen or is constantly in use should be installed to the main memory and not the card.. some will work just fine installed to the card, but if you find you are having issues with it then you might want to move it to the phone
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Thank you all...
I think this was the problem; the trial period I used pocket breezer and SPB Diary I installed them in Storage card... so, now I will install in main memory; as some members have said, both app works just fine without problems so, now the point is just decide the one that looks better and gives the more info..
Also will give a try to the Today Agenda... always nice try the free ones.. ;-)
Regards!

Same here... calendar + rocks! Free, simple, small... can't beat that!

Cal+ works perfect for me too!

I used calendar+ and tasks+ for over a year. Switched to Today Agenda. Free and much better. Check it out.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-todayagenda-v0-9-21.html