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I am thinking about doing a hard reset because I noticed that Spb diary, weather and pocket plus cause my BT icon to disappear whenever I have all 3 installed and do a soft reset. I also keep getting an error message with my bejeweled 2 game. It keeps saying the game cannot be saved. I have the super Jam w/128 megs and did the bigstorage hack. Does anyone else have these problems-and do you think a hard reset will correct these issues?

entirely up to you..you may want to try uninstalling them one by one and see if performance improves...otherwise hard reset and start again is good too..it will TRIM some FAT off RAM now that you know which apps you want to install.

Good point. I guess what I am really asking is if anyone successfully has all SPB products - DIARY, WEATHER, POCKET PLUS - working on their Imate Jam or Magician without any problems, such as major slowdowns, BT icons disappearing, etc. I am doing my clean install now, but just wanted to know if it is even worth installing DIARY since I would prefer Pocket Plus and Weather over Diary if I can't have all three working well with the Jam.

Good point. I guess what I am really asking is if anyone successfully has all SPB products - DIARY, WEATHER, POCKET PLUS - working on their Imate Jam or Magician without any problems, such as major slowdowns, BT icons disappearing, etc. I am doing my clean install now, but just wanted to know if it is even worth installing DIARY since I would prefer Pocket Plus and Weather over Diary if I can't have all three working well with the Jam.

gadgetman901 said:
Good point. I guess what I am really asking is if anyone successfully has all SPB products - DIARY, WEATHER, POCKET PLUS - working on their Imate Jam or Magician without any problems, such as major slowdowns, BT icons disappearing, etc. I am doing my clean install now, but just wanted to know if it is even worth installing DIARY since I would prefer Pocket Plus and Weather over Diary if I can't have all three working well with the Jam.
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I've used PocketPlus and Weather before on my handheld..it works pretty well...only starts to lag when I have installed too many today plugins so I removed the PocketPlus but kept the Weather. But generally you'll find PocketPlus is a very popular plugin.

Well, so far so good. I have all three working now and when I did a reset, my BT icon showed up as well. It seems to run fairly smooth on startup. I unchecked the Pocket plus "fix 2003 duplicate alarms" and "suspend mode." I also did not install any of the extended rom files, except my tmobile settings. I made a backup using Sprite, just in case something goes wrong.

Oh, I forgot to ask if you received your Transcend 4GB card? I wanted to know if it is working well. It should be a good card for you.

Not yet...hopefully Monday or Tuesday...once I get I'll straight away test and post results

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 ;-)

Problem with WM5 on xda neo

Hi everybody,
I set up my xda neo with the o2 ROM upgrade and everything works very satisfactory. But there are a few things that bother me.
Most important the device does not show the today-screen after shut off, the amount of time is set and activated. I'm using PocketPlus today screen plugin with SPB diary.
Second the sound sceme is boring and I can't even play mp3 ringtones. Is there a way to correct this and maybe a freeware Ringtone-Sceme?
Thanks for the help
-Florian

Hi !
Go and search for "ringo" - with ringo you can give several sound schemes to User Groups and Contacts, as well as different SMS Tones and mp3 Ringtones....Perfectly what u need
Did you install the Latest Neo Upgrade given by o2online ?
I did never have a problem with the Today screen, maybe the Tool is broken ?

yes, the latest ROM-upgrade is installed.
Do you use pocket plus? maybe it interferes, have to try out and deinstall it...
another question: does your xda neo handle the camera-function well? Mine gets very slow and sometimes even freezes...

Hallo, I'm also use xda neo and I had the problem with spb pocket plus too. but my problem is due to I use the old version spb pocket plus 3.0.1.My neo couldn't be soft reset when I used spb pocket plus and always stuck at windows mobile screen. I think you use new version of spb pocket plus ,so Do you have the problem with soft reset? I'm diciding should I buy the new version or not.

pocket plus
I only have the Problem with the today-screen, which is not shown after x hours of inactivity. Reset and everything else works just fine. the spb pocket diary is a very nice extension, too.

list your TyTn software issues

I think we need a thread where we can post the software issues that occurs on our TyTn's.
1. I get a lot of flickering when using TCPMP
Solution: ......none
2. Spb pocket plus seems to slow down my device and cause ocational hangups
Solution: Wizbar and iLauncher

Sprite Backup 5.1 (for backup to PC) won't work with "Advanced Networking Features" turned on. It works fine with that feature turned off though.

I really prefer Pocket Plus over Wizbar, so if anybody can figure out a solution to this problem, which I'm having as well, that would rock!

Pocket Plus
If you go into the settings for SPB Pocket Plus and disable the Safe Mode feature, it will eliminate the problems you are experiencing.
At least it did for me! Good Luck.

hmmm... I've not noticed any Spb Pocket Plus slowness issues and I have safe mode enabled. I'm running v3.1.2 build 5372. What, specifically, are the symptoms?

1) pocket plus slowdowns here too!.. or any spb software for that matter
2) Agile messenger seems to sign me off when the device is in "power off" mode.. ie when I tap the power button to shut off the screen.
3) Most slowdowns seem to appear from Today Plugins

Facedanzr said:
1. I get a lot of flickering when using TCPMP
Solution: ......none
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See my comments here (and watch the thread for further developments):
http://www.corecodec.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=29&expv=0&topic=3046.0

Today plugins seem to slow the device down a bit.
SPB Pocket Plus seems to slow down the device a lot!
Using Wisbar advance (gotta love the cascading menu) and pocketweather and pocketbreeze currently, luckily they dont seem to slow the device.
Otherwise have not had much problems with anything.

Facedanzr said:
I think we need a thread where we can post the software issues that occurs on our TyTn's.
1. I get a lot of flickering when using TCPMP
Solution: ...... I noticed very bad flickering and "xvid/divx partitioned data or something"
I fixed this by selecting options--video--raw frame buffer
i think ati imageon not liking tcpmp
Also im SURE my v1605 came with msn messenger but somehow disappeared now i cant find it by looking in windows folder, have tried copying instmsgr.exe from another wm5 device and also tried installing pockey msn but didnt pay the £10 MS want for it..
I will try agile or imov but cannot see why i dont have this on device anymore and hard reset didnt bring it back either
additional: how can i send all contacts to my pc?
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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