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Animated Today

Ive just been trying out Animated Today 3 (which seems to work great), and I was wondering if anyone has any other animated themes, the ones that come with the program are OK, not whay you would call inspiring.
I wonder if there are any sites about for them, there seems to be alot of sites that charge for them, but there must be some free ones (as there is on normal Today Themes), or perhaps someone has some good ones.

http://www.free-computer-wallpapers.com/pocket-pc.htm
http://www.pocketpcmall.com/product_info.php?products_id=177&SID
http://www.pocketpcthemes.com/animated.asp
google give more hits on such a search then even sheep fullfrontal nudety!
http://www.google.dk/search?q=pocketpc+theme+animated&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=da&btnG=Google-søgning

Whoah! They look like resource hogs to me!
An animated Today screen must be one very distracting accessory for your PDA...

yeah
but you must admit, its really nice to look at on your desk, its like "its a life"

i cant help thinking well and now saying
batt time killers

No problem
Its not such a problem when it is in the cradle

yeah but unless it's a cradle in a car with gps and such then
if it's in the cradle all the time then why have a pda at all?
mine is only in the cradle to sync with my computer and to charge
otherwise it's in my pocket
it is called a Pocket Digital Assistant

Rudegar said:
yeah but unless it's a cradle in a car with gps and such then
if it's in the cradle all the time then why have a pda at all?
mine is only in the cradle to sync with my computer and to charge
otherwise it's in my pocket
it is called a Pocket Digital Assistant
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For what its worth I think it's Personal Digital Assistant but I take your point

ups yeah now that i think of it, that makes more sense
otherwise my midget accountant who also fit in my pocket
would also meet those requirements
but he don?t offer any digital options as of yet

Craddle to craddle
My one goes from office craddle to car craddle to home craddle and at night I use it as a very good mp3 player and to play games on it. that is what you do when you travel 5 days a week
I feel like its my buddy, I do everything with it

night I use it as a very good mp3 player and to play games on it.
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you listen to mp3 and play games while or insted of sleeping ?
I feel like its my buddy, I do everything with it
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what ever you do dont take showers with it that is unless you gotten hold of some water resistant solution
i try to use mine to remember all those rather insignificant things I always forget 15.3 sec's after being told them
and to replace my not anywhere near flawless system of getting peoples phoneNR's writing them on a small postIT without applying any name put it in my pocket and take it for granted that when I get my hands of that postIT next time I?ll be able to remember who the nr is for
and also keep sheep and goat porn on
and to brag by showing people it can play
quake and tomb raider (even if it does take a soft reset to get out of that game )
and of cause mp3 player and to replace my old cell phone of cause
and my trusting old hp48 calc that is when I get the software running under mw2003 L
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Some things are still missing
Now i keep using my HP19BII, cannot live without that.
But i am still looking for that trail version of voice command, because in the dark its pretty difficult to switch that mp3 player off, and would also be easier to check e-mails.
And yes its very easy to quickly dot things down which you'r wife tells you to remember (like birthdays etc) , and things to take home from the airport

Ive used it today for the first time away from its charger and although it does eat up memory abit(alot with some Themes), and perhaps a few % extra on the battery, it seems OK.
Ive had it running on the Today screen and started up a game, and it makes no difference to the game play (which version 2 did) - I think when there is another program being used and it not displaying the Today screen it stops all animation.
It quiet a pointless program really, but it shuts up all those people with a Samsung phone

lummac said:
I feel like its my buddy, I do everything with it
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I dunno bout all that :?
Rudegar said:
i try to use mine to remember all those rather insignificant things I always forget 15.3 sec's after being told them
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its seriously insane, but that is wut i use it 4 too, that actually is of any real "assistance" to me
Rudegar said:
and also keep sheep and goat porn on
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...4 this one...I just replace the goat with extreme
Rudegar said:
and to brag by showing people it can play
quake and tomb raider (even if it does take a soft reset to get out of that game )
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i brag about games on it too, but i try to keep the bragging down to a minimum :wink: especially wen i bust out all my NES, SNES, SMS, GEN, GBA roms lol

I test it tonight
I going home now, and will test it tonight, if i still have a working mda2 in the morning it will stay onit, if not, i will kick it off, simple test, great results

I keep it on
Tried it last night, and it doesn't eat my battery power, so it can stay on my mda2
Now i will be looking for some nice animated today screens. Pitty however that other background like in mailbox etc do not change, or are there other programs out there to change those backgrounds

Problems with the magician?

Hi guys. I post quite a bit in the Blue Angel section of this forum.
My BA is probably the worst device I have ever used in terms of both software and hardware issues. I'm surprised they're allowed to sell it.
My question is, Are there any common problems with the iMate Jam?
Like anything alot of these devices suffer from? 76% of BAs have the 'no sound in call' problem, and alot seem to have the whictling screen/serious bluetooth issues. Anything like this on the Magician I should know about before buying?
Cheers -Mike

Hi, ive had my Jam since middle of jan 2005, and my GF got one soon after so i have had two to play around with, and ive been reading forums fairly extensively since then. I have used roms 1.03, 1.06, 1.11 and i am now runnin 1.12 without any major problems. i have seen a few people complain of various sound issues, which I believe are either a hardware fault (such as a loose mic), or are resolved with Roms 1.11 or 1.12, or even just a hard reset (i have experienced low volume from loud speaker which was solved by a hard reset). Alot of people complain of the not reconnecting gprs issue which i have also experienced on roms 1.11 and 1.12 (it was one of the deciding factors for me upgrading to 1.12) it seems to happen where it tries to send two connections at once and times it self out, I find it to be intermittent, and resolved with a soft reset. Bluetooth has been more troublesome I must say and I only use it for handsfree, so I cant comment on AS connections. I use Buzz_Lightyears SwitchIT software (Buzz you RULE) to turn my BT on/off from my today screen. ROM 1.06 had major issues with BT and required a patch, which helped somewhat with the issue. roms 1.11 and 1.12 very occasionly have issues with BT which again are usually sorted with a soft reset, and once working will stay working untill a soft reset causes them to not work, and a another soft reset is required. BT has issues with being out of sync with the GSM radio i find eg. if BT is on while the radio is off and i soft reset i usually get an issue with BT. Photo Caller ID is intermittent i find, which is possibly because of having the photos in storage space, I'm not really sure and to be honest is not a huge problem anyway.
So yeah there is common problems across the Jam/magician range. however I love my Jam and wouldn't swap it for any other device on the market because for a convergence device which runs an MS operating system (blue screen of death!!! MS are far from perfect) I find 98% of the time its stable and does more then I need. is it perfect??...no, should it be?? we all wish...

Cheers dude! I think I will get one. So long as we're not into Blue Angel territory of 5 soft resets required a day, no sound during calls, random hard resets and bluetooth when it feels like it.
OOH, whats the battery life like?

mike freegan said:
OOH, whats the battery life like?
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well Imate manual reckons talk-time of 3-5 hours, 190 hours standby, and once it switchs off with flat battery warning you got 72 hours before it hard resets . anyway heavy use will see you charging it at the end of the day (I usually just sync when i get home). with a few short calls over a weekend it will usually last the weekend. And as your probably aware li-ion batteries like to be charged.
Speedn

As expected I suppose. I don't understand why HTC devices have such turd battery life compared to sony ericsson devices and such.
Does anyone know if it takes Blue Angel handsfree or Himilaya handsfree?

mike freegan said:
As expected I suppose. I don't understand why HTC devices have such turd battery life compared to sony ericsson devices and such.
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It's like comparing an Toyota Prius to a Porsche (the Ericsson being the Prius). They both do the job with style, and they are both fine technical achievements. But one of them will drain your gas account a little bit faster than the other.

Hi, ive had my Jam since middle of jan 2005, and my GF got one soon after so i have had two to play around with, and ive been reading forums fairly extensively.......................................................I find 98% of the time its stable and does more then I need. is it perfect??...no, should it be?? we all wish...
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Totally agree...
to mike
If u know how to tweak ur magician and deal with it..it will turn into a killer device...
even with the bad quality of the camera, U can manage to take great photos... and with some phtotoshop editing they will be really awesome..
battery life us very good...especially when listening to MP3s ( basically, it consumes 10% of the battery for every hour with the screen off, and using high quality headset)
I use my JAM mainly as MP3 player and a medical reference
BT is good for sending files only as well as hands-free, other profiles are not available...
memory isn't that small, with the proper tweaking, u can get up to 32 MB of free RAM after a soft reset....of course compared to ur Blue Angel, this is very low, but I believe it is more than enough for me -as a JAM user -
if u need to know any thing else, please ask
cheers :wink:

I'm very happy with my O2 Xda II mini. It does everything I need it to do. I have not had any sound problems at all. The only issue I had after a ROM upgrade was the GPRS cannot connect problem, which has now been resolved by downgrading just the CallerID program.
Aside from that, I feel it is a killer device.

Cheers for all the help guys!! I really appreciate it. Think I'll give the magician a go

About Magician Probs
For the list of probs, I get two number for incoming calls: the caller and a private number?!? But this is just a very little prob.
In a thread I've described that my magician simply won't start when is cold. COULD SOMEONE TRY THIS MESS IS SERIOUS!!!
And for the prob of the GPRS: ok, but I don't have CallerID and DON'T want to install it. MUST I install I to eliminate this prob?
I love my magician. Is my wonder machine...

If you do not stop the extrom from installing after a hardreset, CallerId will be automatically installed on your device. For some reason HTC have chosen to name the link in the start menu "Photo Contacts" instead of CallerId.

If you want a more Blue Angel like device (with regards to size and features of the Blue Angel) I would recommend the Alpine. I'm personally not using it because I prefer the smaller size of the Magician but the Alpine is full featured and from what I read from some other users in germany, almost bug free. Especially bluetooth is said to work great, better than (and with more profiles due to the Widcomm stack) the Microsoft Stack of the Magician. It also features the 1,3 MPix camera, a good display, WLan and a faster processor (500 MHz). If you prefer the bigger devices and don't need the keyboard, I think the Alpine rocks.

I've had the Orange SPV M500 variant for about a week now and it's been absolutely flawless.

No no, I decided to skip the installation of CallerID (in the italian devices is called Identità Visitatore -huh?-) but I'm not sure if it's needed to resolve the GPRS prob -downgrading-
Oh, I've got another prob: u MUST know a good program like MortRing to set the ringtone OR windows keep resetting to the standard one.
There are plenty of little probs: to set up the jam correctly, there is the need of a decent regedit and personal experience...

I know the great majority of you chaps think it's wonderful, so please don't take this as a trolling, it's just my opinion.
I've had the orange m500 for 5 days now, and I've had enough. As a windows pda it's fine. Quick, small, nice screen, decent battery life.
As a phone it is awful. The whole interface seems like such an afterthought. You would imagine that it would be easy enough to do basic phone things without having to take the stylus out, but you can't. For example, if you go into the contact book, then click on a contact but get the wrong one, there is no way to go back up a level using hardkeys. You have to click the X in the top corner, which is fiddly to say the least.
That's just one small problem I've had out of quite a few, but it's become quickly obvious to me that a quick and easy-to-use phone is more important to me than an all-singing windows pda, so I have arranged to return it. If your priorities are similar to mine, I would urge you to look elsewhere.

you should try "mamaich's contacts", adds a contact button right to the phone dial pad, and lets you use HW joypad to scroll through your contacts and pages...Its like the missing link I swear. true one handed dialing.
it's found on this board, and is free.
Speedn

Prophet warming up + battery consuming very quick (update:RS w/SD adapter card issue)

Hello.
I have a prophet for about 3 years now and WM6 PT coffee room for about 6/7 months.
This weekend, after a great beach afternoon hearing mp3 with it, next day it starts to consuming battery very quickly and warming up very quickly when connected to USB (at both home and office links) and when talking on a call.
I would like to know if someone experienced same symptoms and if you think this is a battery issue or mobile hardware issue. As far as I can test, is not battery warming up, is front of the mobile, like lights/speaker surrounding zone, data display and buttons.
I don't know if I should waste money on a new battery or purchase another mobile.
Any help/experience will be appreciated.
Regards and many thanks.
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psousa said:
Hello.
I have a prophet for about 3 years now and WM6 PT coffee room for about 6/7 months.
This weekend, after a great beach afternoon hearing mp3 with it, next day it starts to consuming battery very quickly and warming up very quickly when connected to USB (at both home and office links) and when talking on a call.
I would like to know if someone experienced same symptoms and if you think this is a battery issue or mobile hardware issue. As far as I can test, is not battery warming up, is front of the mobile, like lights/speaker surrounding zone, data display and buttons.
I don't know if I should waste money on a new battery or purchase another mobile.
Any help/experience will be appreciated.
Regards and many thanks.
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battery issue~~~~
The reason is, music playback is a kind of " high " battery consumption,
old battery is not healthy enough to handle such continuous electrical flow,
so, getting tired faster then the youth....
e.g. I am always easy to get tired (old) but my daughter keeps jumping around (young)

use win 5

Thank you for your suggestions. Curiously, using wall charger, mobile does not seems to heat. Any way, after all night long connected to wall charger, it charges only 70%.
USB is not charge quick enough. It semms not charging by USB. I think I'll try to wait one more month until my cell network to have PDA to change by consumption points.
Regards.

No more suggestions or someone with same problem?
Regards.

psousa said:
No more suggestions or someone with same problem?
Regards.
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New battery...
Also, this isn't really "Prophet Mobile 6"...

Unfortunately is not battery issue. I've switch today to another battery and there is warming up when connected to PC USB (not at wall charger) and when talking on a call. BAttery consumption is very high (some times, others seems stable).
It is possible to be software?
Regards.

psousa said:
Unfortunately is not battery issue. I've switch today to another battery and there is warming up when connected to PC USB (not at wall charger) and when talking on a call. BAttery consumption is very high (some times, others seems stable).
It is possible to be software?
Regards.
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You could try a different ROM, but it may be the charging circuits in the device...
BTW, I'm moving this thread to the "Prophet" fora...

l3v5y said:
New battery...
Also, this isn't really "Prophet Mobile 6"...
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Yes, it's a prophet. And yes, with mobile 6 running.
If you own a prophet with a possible software issue and these 5 topics:
Prophet
Prophet upgrading etc.
Prophet accessories
G4
Prophet mobile 6
Where do you post something like this?
As moderator, feel free to move it to best topic.
Regards.

In fact, it seems it's really a Prophet + WM6 issue.
I moved to WM5 yesterday. No more problems. I've waited until today morning to use old battery layed on office. I've changed it 1 hour ago, connected to USB and no problems at all.
I'll move to WM6 again at the end of the day. Maybe some piece of software (some controller driver, or something). Don't know.
I'll post further details in order to help other users.
Regards.

psousa said:
Yes, it's a prophet. And yes, with mobile 6 running.
If you own a prophet with a possible software issue and these 5 topics:
Prophet
Prophet upgrading etc.
Prophet accessories
G4
Prophet mobile 6
Where do you post something like this?
As moderator, feel free to move it to best topic.
Regards.
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I think it's more to do with Prophet... So I moved it
It sounded like more of a hard ware issue. The Prophet Mobile 6 is more for ROM development.
What WM6 ROMs where you using?

You right. It seems rs (with sd adaptoer) card. That's why it's so hot rounding speaker zone.
But it seems S200 hardware issue, not card, since I can read car perfectly from a SD USB pen. It's already causing some problems for about 6 or 7 months: I need to take SD out and put in again to read it. Seems S200 lost connection to card after some time.
I'll investigate further details when have some time

I am experiencing a very high battery drain now (5%/h). Possible reason: I've installed n my WM5 Opera Mobile 9.5, Music ID, Skype and QIP, which I've never done before. I've performed a hard reset an hour ago, let's see how it behave tomorrow.

Some new questions for X1 owners

Hi folks,
Here are some questions that I haven't seen answered elsewhere. Very interested to know the following. Would prefer someone who has actually tested on a real X1, as opposed to what *should theoretically* work:
1. Does the supplied headset allow volume and music track control?
2. Does the standard 3.5mm port allow a wired headset which has additional volume and music track controls?
3. Can volume and music tracks be controlled remotely via a bluetooth headset?
4. Does the RDS radio require the headset to be plugged in to act as an aerial?
5. Can the radio work with a bluetooth headset?
6. Can the radio volume and stations be controlled with a bluetooth headset?
7. Does the phone play audio tracks encoded in AAC+ (in addition to AAC)
8. Has anyone tested my freeware Quicken-compatible personal finance program, see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=440922
Best regards,
Malcolm

4. Does the RDS radio require the headset to be plugged in to act as an aerial? - Yes.

1. Does the supplied headset allow volume and music track control?
No. Only one button on it.

1. Does the supplied headset allow volume and music track control?
A:NO, theres just an answering button.
4. Does the RDS radio require the headset to be plugged in to act as an aerial?
A: Yes. The Radio must have a headset plugged in to act as an aerial. It won´t start without it.
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I have another quick Q for those lucky Xperia owners out there (mine was shipped today from eXpansys!):
When you first received the phone, did you FULLY charge the battery before turning it on once?
The reason I ask is because I know Li-Po batteries like to be fully charged before their first use, however I am puzzled because as soon as I plug the mains into my HTC Uni, the phone boots up.
Just wanted to know the answer to this question to know if I can tear right into the phone after unboxing, or if I have to wait the ungodly wait of 4-5 hours to fully charge the battery before using.
Thanks guys!

And please if some Xperia owner can answer 1 question for me.
Does the Xperia have Smart-Dialing?
Thanks in advance for answering.

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And please if some Xperia owner can answer 1 question for me.
Does the Xperia have Smart-Dialing?
Thanks in advance for answering.
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If you mean when in the phone app typing 07123 brings up all those who have 07123 in their number, or typing 2783 brings up arte..... then yes.

scar45 said:
When you first received the phone, did you FULLY charge the battery before turning it on once?
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Put my battery straight in (couldn't wait) however the status showed it to be pretty much fully charged anyway.

3. Bluetooth - Nope. I have a SE DS 980 and it don't do pants!
Will try it with Jetware installed... and then let you know.
4. Yes. Headphones in.. and Radio comes up.
5 & 6
Nope. The headphones have to be in.. to enable radio...
8. No.. because people who have paid 600 odd GBP for one of these things.. really has more money than sense.. so any Financial personal software is wasted on us. We just pee money.. so we don't care...
We love the yanks for screwing the worlds economy!!!

scar45 said:
When you first received the phone, did you FULLY charge the battery before turning it on once?
Just wanted to know the answer to this question to know if I can tear right into the phone after unboxing, or if I have to wait the ungodly wait of 4-5 hours to fully charge the battery before using.
Thanks guys!
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As artesea wrote the battery is loaded. So I just plugged it in and powered it up. Who can wait?

Question - Disable Phone and have the touch be JUST a GPS/PDA?

Hi Guys,
Just a really quick question here. I have my telus HTC Touch still... I recently moved down to the states and now how the HTC FUZE. My Touch is still in great shape and I was wondering what your idea's were on how I could go about making it into a PDA with GPS running Tomtom or something like that.
I already have tomtom and what not installed on there (I used it tons when I was up in Canada) I just dont need the phone features really! So if someone could give me some direction on how to permanetly shut off the phone features that would be great. Like I said. I like the thing as a toy still so to have it still be usefull instead of sitting in a drawer would be ideal. Maybe leaving it in the car as a GPS unit or something.
Thanks!
Aaron

Just disable the phone, turn on airplane mode.

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Just disable the phone, turn on airplane mode.
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I'm thinking more along the lines of having even the buttons remapped so that the phone pad wont pop up. So when you press the call button tom tom is launched or if you press the hang up button another gps program is launched.. that way in order to actually GET to the dial pad I would have to open it up through the programs or something.
Is this even possible? Does anyone know how I would go about doing that?

You could use a program like AEButton plus

I'll try that out. That said.. I've discovered that my touch wont start up the GPS antenna. I left it sitting on the dash of my car as I was driving around. The service with telus is long since done and there was originally a hack on the phone that got it to get a gps signal in about 5 seconds from a cold start. It dialed into some server and bang.. worked perfect.
Now that I have no actual phone service on the phone it CANT dial into that service and there for it wont get a GPS lock. It's weird that the GPS antenna is tied directly to the cell antenna though. Kind of a downer cause now I literally do have a paper weight.
I DO have an external bluetooth antenna I could use but its a serious pain when compared to just being able to start up the phone and have GPS work.

im running the nfsfans rom 1.04 with the 3.41 radio not the newest version 1 back
i baught delorme for like $20 CAD a long time ago werks like a charm and looks and werks waay better on WM than on the computer!!?? weird eh!
I have no service with my telus vogue
all werks good!!
ae button will remap buttons for whatever function you like just dunno if it werks for the vogue......used it for other hardware before.
best of luck in the US from us here in Ontario!!

The Fuse already has a GPS & can run TomTom.

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The Fuse already has a GPS & can run TomTom.
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Yes I know that.. and I use the GPS... But I still have my touch so figured I would turn it into a standalone PDA/GPS unit..... So I have another one for when a friend comes down to visit in florida. Save them some cash on renting a GPS unit from the car rental place... or a second one so I can let a friend borrow it, or just as a back up! Who knows! Two is ALWAYS better then one right?