Hi everyone, I am newbie need your help.
I am using MDA Pro, last time I tried to install Pocket Informant (trial version) and when it asked me whether to choose PI as default PIM program I has ansewred "yes"
After using it for 2 hours, I decided to uninstall it but the problem happened. The softkey pointed to calendar is now no longer function, It say smt missing. I have to point to "calendar: on the Start menu. I also cannot see the Calendar shortcut from Program group. What can I do to solve it?
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Re-Install Pocket Informant, open the program go to tools and settings and un-tick the "Make Default PIM" then uninstall.
I have found for WM5 for calendar, contacts and tasks.
Pocket Informant : http://www.pocketinformant.com/index.php
Agenda Fusion : http://www.developerone.com/agendafusion/index.htm
Super Calendar : http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/sc_overview.html
I am currently using the today Plugin for calendar and tasks "Today Agenda" (http://tiews.info/index.php?show=software/todayagenda&lang=en) which is compatible with Informant and Agenda. I have not tested it with Super Calendar yet.
Questions :
1) Calendar tool with least memory stamp ?
2) Least buggy ?
3) Which is BEST ?
Other tools found:
Calendar Today Plugin: http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10
Calendar Today bar: http://www.omegaone.com/pocketpc/calendarbar.html
Today Task plugin: http://software.forest59.com/taskplus.aspx
Financial Economic Data into Calenda (USA Only)
http://www.syncpak.com/aboutus.html
Re: Calendar Software Tools : Which is easiest on my memory
Digs said:
I have found for WM5 for calendar, contacts and tasks.
Pocket Informant : http://www.pocketinformant.com/index.php
Agenda Fusion : http://www.developerone.com/agendafusion/index.htm
Super Calendar : http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/sc_overview.html
I am currently using the today Plugin for calendar and tasks "Today Agenda" (http://tiews.info/index.php?show=software/todayagenda&lang=en) which is compatible with Informant and Agenda. I have not tested it with Super Calendar yet.
Questions :
1) Calendar tool with least memory stamp ?
2) Least buggy ?
3) Which is BEST ?
Other tools found:
Calendar Today Plugin: http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10
Calendar Today bar: http://www.omegaone.com/pocketpc/calendarbar.html
Today Task plugin: http://software.forest59.com/taskplus.aspx
Financial Economic Data into Calenda (USA Only)
http://www.syncpak.com/aboutus.html
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Only one I can comment on is Agenda Fusion.
I ditched it after taking far too long to open upwards of 5secs - and was too much to bear if needing a quick TODAY check or quick "Need a phone number" fix.
I also disagreed with the fact I paid for v7 and then had to pay an upgrade fee for v8 that "apparently" solved some compatibility issues with WM5.
Havent tried any of the others - sorry.
Matt
Sometimes when the TODAY AGENDA is Running and I change My TODAY SCREEN (wallpaper) The Aganda goes into "Updating" mode and does not update itself for a long time.
The other features work perfectly all right . It is just This Agenda which does Not show any entry.
I have tried HARD RESETTING the device and Fixing The Today agenda Right in the beginning.
The problem is STILL there.
ANY SUGGESTION?
I use the in-build PIM and SPB Diary as today plug-in. Very stable and surprisingly fast. Since most of my calendar/task/mails are now done on the today plug-in, which PIM to use at the back does not bother me anymore. SPB Diary can be installed in external storage hence save on the internal memory.
Depending on how heavy your schedule is.
I've used `Pocket Informant` before and its layout and stuff are pretty good. I came from a Palm5 device and if you heard, Palm5 agenda stuff are pretty impressive and this Pocket Informant is almost as good.
However, Pocket Informant is relatively slow on startup (not much on a memory issue, just start up). However, once you got it started up and sitting on your taskbar, you can access it instantly. I would recommend that if you have heavy schedule.
For my case, I use Pocket Breeze together with the built-in PIM (of WM5). Since I have `medium weight` schedule, I'm pretty happy with PBreeze on my Today screen. Since I can set PBreeze to display my stuff appearing 7 days in advance, I don't usually go into the built-in PIM to check on my stuff. PBreeze has also direct links to your appointment/task for which you can then edit them. And I have the WM5-new-menu program that can create new task/appt easily, I hardly use any sort of PIM (e.g. Pocket Informant).
Anyway, these software has trial period, give it a go and see if you like it.
hanmin said:
Depending on how heavy your schedule is.
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Well frankly speaking My Schedule on Appointments is Not so heavy, Just 3-5 entries a day.
Yes I have tried SPB diary But SINCE MY ADDRESS BOOK has 2800 or more Contacts that does take time to load up...
I have tried A New software (FREEWARE) Calender Plus the Link of which I got from here only and thats just working Fine Now...
Calendar Today Plugin: http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10
I have tested Super Calendar and Agenda Fusion.
Agenda seams to much calendar for me.
Supper Calenda is lite. It enhances the Month and Year view compared to the WM5 standard calendar. Does not do tasks or contacts.
Todays Agenda is the BEST today plugin, and seams to work ok with Super Calenda.
I have found Ulti Planner at : http://www.birdsoft.biz/upmain.htm
which is lite on memory and covers calendar, tasks, contacts. Also has text in month view.
I have a Hermes running Pocket Breeze and Pocket Informant 2007, however I don't seem to be getting any alarm notifications / alerts for calendar events..
Cant seem to find a setting in these apps. I am setting on alarm on the acutal event but it never notifes me.
I am also using phoneAlarm, can this be disabling them?
I have check under Sounds and Notifications and all is ticked for events/notifications.
Any ideas??
Thanks
Mark
Does anyone have any idea on this? If so could you please give me some pointers
Thanks
Mark
Could this problem be related to the "Notification Queue"????
Help.. I keep missing meetings..
Have you tried checking your notification queue for duplicates and/or out of date entries.
You can try scarybear checknotifications, memmaid or sk tools for this (prob there are others too)
Try this first, see if there are any duplicates or out of date entries. Delete all these, soft reset and then try again.
I use a combination of the above tools as I find that they often find dups or out of date entries that the others miss. Try checknotifications first (free), and see if this helps.
I still find that the known alarm problems with windows mobile persist into WM5. I use Tweaks2k2 to alter the wake-up settings. You can also get an alarm fix from Burr Oak software - its free the last time I looked. Look for "Wakeup Tweak Installer. I assume this is the same programme I used to use before I got Tweaks2k2.
Try uninstalling all non-core apps and see what happens. ie PI and phone Alarm. Clearly there is a conflict with 3 programs all having a go at alarming you, ie default calendar, PI calendar and phoneAlarm.
I have never had a problem with any alarm notifications, but then I am just using the default calendar.
I use a MDA Vario II (from t-mobile) and, begining with a couple of days before, I get no reminders to appointments anymore. I suspect that it is happening since I have instaled PocketBreeze 5.0.11, but i am not sure that PocketBreeze is the cause.
Does anybody else face the same problem? What can be done, except a hard reset (I am not so thrilled by the ideea to install everything again)?
Have you tried checking your notification queue for duplicates and/or out of date entries.
You can try scarybear checknotifications, memmaid or sk tools for this (prob there are others too)
Try this first, see if there are any duplicates or out of date entries. Delete all these, soft reset and then try again. Don't delete anything if you don't know what it is (unless it comes up under duplicates).
I use a combination of the above tools as I find that they often find dups or out of date entries that the others miss. Try checknotifications first (free), and see if this helps.
Hello marisa,
thank you for the hint, it seems to be working now. To be true, I already bought SKTools yesterday, because I found some other post with a similar problem. But I only ran the "Invalid Registry Entries" and "Invalid Registry Values" utilities, being afraid to delete anything. But after your post I ran the "Notification Queue" utility and checked all entries that refer CALENDAR.EXE And for all birthdays there were duplicates.
How do they got there? I initially synchronized the calendar in my old PalmVx with the Outlook (there I had the birthdays as normal appointments, not in contacts). Than connected my MDA per USB and ActiveSync to my PC. I manually inserted all the birthdays in the Outlook's contacts, causing Outlook to automatically create a duplicate "all day event". Than I deleted the birthday appointments which I get from the old PalmVx. In all of this time my MDA was automatically synchronizing with Outlook, so practically when I deleted the entries, they also were deleted from the MDA's calendar.
Now the question: since Outlook, ActiveSync and Windows Mobile are all Microsoft products, why weren't the duplicates also deleted from the Notification Queue? Why the garbage that needs to be cleaned with 3rd party tools and hours of searching posts on forums? Whatever.
Thank you again anyway!
PS: so PocketBreeze was not the cause.
They don't call it Active Stink for nothing you know!
Regarding Pocket Breeze, Spb Diary, Ilauncher and Pocket Plus, I don't know if these have anything to do with the problem.
I would say they must do, as most of these problems seem to occur when or shortly after people have installed one or any of them (or similar).
However, there are some people who get these problems with just the standard pre-installed software.
I personally think it's the interaction of Activesync, the native operating system and these today plugins which sets up something unexpected.
It could also be that people install both (many versions) of one of these in order to compare them, and decide which to buy, and they interfere with each other.
I have even had both version installed at the same time (but only one activated) for quick comparison. So, it's really hard to apportion blame for this. The other day I actually had to remove 2 identical templates, which had the date 2999! How's that for weird?
Never mind. All's well now, and that's the main thing.
Hmm, i must say that PocketBreeze was installed while I was performing the previously described birthday synchronisations. Whether it had any blame - I don't know. Uninstalling PocketBreeze was the first thing to do by trying to solve the problem, didn't help, the damage was already done. What I know is that I will install it again, because it sure gives me a much nicer overview. And that I will watch the Notification Queue closely from nowone
billl said:
What I know is that I will install it again, because it sure gives me a much nicer overview.
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I don't think Pocket BReeze is related to my problem with appointments and alarms, I've had it installed all along and the problem only started very recently.
marisa4755 said:
I use a combination of the above tools as I find that they often find dups or out of date entries that the others miss. Try checknotifications first (free), and see if this helps.
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I'm using MemMaid but I'm still a bit confused about the entries that appear in the notification queue.
Can I safely delete any entries that relate to calendar entries in the past without this actually deleting it from the calendar itself?
Also, I have a load of entries in the queue that start:
\\.\Notifications\NamedEvents\SCRIPT:0x0
The detail for these shows a date and a (fairly random) time. Most are in the future (and generally in the early hours of the morning.)
Can anyone tell me what these entries are?
thanks
Mark
Markmat
I'm no expert, but my rule of thumb is:
If I don't know what it is/does then I leave it alone.
there is quite a bit of 'stuff' that has to run at various times to make the system run properly - that's when these phantom notifications are supposed to get cleared up, but don't. So, leave these alone.
Regarding the calendar entries, it's just the notifications which come up under memmaid's notfications check. So, if 3 months ago you had a dentist appointment and set the reminder for this to a day before say, and for some reason that notification didn't get dismissed and now you see it in memmaid, you can delete this. It won't delete the appointment, just the notification which is of no use to you now anyway and is confusing your system.
Bill, I think I know what happened with your duplicate birthday stuff.
Are you using Pocket Informant? or another 3rd party diary application? Maybe even Pocket Breeze itself.
Basically, I think you have 2 applications creating calendar events from contact birthdays. One is Outlook, the other is one of the ones I've mentioned. The solution is to turn it off on one or the other.
I already solved my problem by deleting the double entries in the Notification QUeue.
I was using PocketBreeze. I currently uninstalled it, but I will install it again and test your theory.
What do you mean by turning Outlook off? I use the Outlook on my PC to create appointments and I expect ActiveSync to upload them on the MDA by synchronization, even if the one managing them there is PocketBreeze. And backwards, when I create them with PocketBreeze on the MDA - i expect them to be downloaded on my PC by synchronisation.
Do you mean that there is also the preinstalled so called Outlook Mobile on my MDA which conflicts with PocketBreeze? Shouldn't this be the main concern of the PocketBreeze developers, to ensure that their software is not producing redundant double entries?
Anyway, if you mean turning off the preinstalled Outlook Mobile on the MDA, how exactly should I do it, where do I find this setting?
Sorry Bill, I haven't been very clear.
I think there is a special extra function in Outlook and also at the same time in some of these other pocket pc diary applications which create birthday calendar entries from contacts.
I am fairly certain that Pocket Informant does.
I am not suggesting that you don't sync with Outlook, just that one of the third party applications may be creating a duplicate using this extra function and so is outlook.
In Pocket informant there is an option to turn this extra function off, so then you only get the outlook ones. Hope that explains better.
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In the Pocket Informant manual it explains this quite well when discussing options:
Apply Contact Birthday/Anniversaries
If you save anniversary and birthday information with your contact data, this option can read and enter the events into your calendar for you. However, because Outlook will do the same, it is recommended that you leave the option turned off if you synchronize with Outlook, in order to
avoid duplicates or performance issues.
Nothing to be sorry about
I understand now what you mean, thank you for the explanations. I will search the PocketBreeze's options for a similar setting.
And probably I will take a look at the PocketInformant too.
Hey guys. I had to use sprite back up about two times this week to restore some settings. Since then I noticed that I have duplicate programs like Word, Power Point. I think this is killing my Memory. Any solutions?
bambu456 said:
Hey guys. I had to use sprite back up about two times this week to restore some settings. Since then I noticed that I have duplicate programs like Word, Power Point. I think this is killing my Memory. Any solutions?
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when you restore in the future you can chose on the left soft key to change to advanced mode.
then when you click on restore and you chose your back up file you get a list of items that you can check and uncheck and break it down to your settings, reg system settings, storage card etc. uncheck the items you do not care for like the programs. also try downloading htc data back up. it gives you the same options as sprite but i find it more user friendly, next time u back up with sprite, check what you want, like outlook contacts, email etc that might help. hope that helps
thanks man