What program do I need to use that will enable me to have tasks on the today screen with a new line for each one ? All you get with the built in is no of active tasks ie 1 active task.
I would like something like
take dog for a walk.
remember to buy dog to take for a walk
watch some tv
etc...
Is there just a little today plugin you can get rather than one of those whole packages that does loads of stuff ?
spb diary will allow this, but it also extensively changes your diary contacts and notes features.
alternatively, i use calendar entries for this, tick them as private, show calendar for all upcoming events.
TaskPlus should do the job..I havn't tested it out on WM2005 but don't see any reason for it not to work.
You can get it here http://freewareppc.com/utilities/taskplus.shtml
This maybe a little off topic here, so I'll keep it brief.
I've had an X7500 for about a month, and there's a lot of things I really like about it. However, previously I've been using the Palm OS for nearly 10 years and I'm finding some things really, really, painful. Mostly WM5 related I think.
Is anyone else going through this? Can anyone recommended resources which may help?
Thanks
this is the best resource right here...
i have had a treo 680
what are you having trouble with ?
OK, for starters (and because this is the maximum pain right now).
How many entries do you have in the Calendar?
I have kept a PDA based diary for nearly 10 years. It has everything I've ever done and everyone I've ever met, in about 6500 entries, which results in a Palm datebook file of 1.4MB.
Porting this diary to Outlook results in a PST file of 37MB... Attempting to ActiveSync this to the X7500 results in 'Device Full'.
So, what gives? The sync settings for Pocket Outlook imply that there are some issues about the number of entries the device can reasonably hold (by defaulting the sync to 2 weeks). But I'm used to having my whole diary at hand.
How can I keep my not very large (1.4MB) diary, on a device which appears to want to increase the data space requirement by a factor of 40?
I should comment, that the Palm->Outlook port was done using code to access the Palm/datebook.dat file that has been in production for >5 years and new code to interface the Office Outlook 11.0 Object library. It seemed pretty straight forward to do, but I wouldn't rule out as the cause.
Hence, my question: "How many entries do you have in the Calendar?"...
Regards
Since 1998-
Palm Pilot 5000, Palm IIIx, Palm V, Palm m505, Sony Clie TH55, HTC x7500
i have no where near that many... but that is odd that it got so large...
now ur port program could be the problem... what i recommend is try syncing directly from palm to outlook and see if that solves your problem...
thats what i did...
but again my calendar is nowhere near your size...
tell me how that works out for you?
i know outlook tells me to archive stuff every now and then...
I've now found out that the Pocket Outlook file in \pim.vol, so I can search a bit and, surprise, surprise, it turns out to be quite a common problem for those people who have a lot of entries in their diary.
Sigh... The X7500 is a really nice device, but with a questionable 'phone and a PIM that baulks at a large calendar (and when was a database with 6,500 entries large; or 1.4MB of plain-text too much).
There's something inherently wrong with WM5/PO as a PDA (imo). Now where's that Linux thread...
Thanks & regards
I can only suggest that you convert as many as you can into recurring appointments.
Midget_1990 said:
I can only suggest that you convert as many as you can into recurring appointments.
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Thanks for the idea...
But why would it make any difference? It'd be quite an easy mod to do, but it takes hours to sync all the entries, so I'm a bit averse to any further experimentation.
My current thinking is to set ActiveSync to restrict the x7500 to only current entries and access my history via the web. It's far from ideal, but if it works out then I can stay on one device, which is the whole point of course.
Thanks & regards
Hi all Xperia owners,
As a owner of this hyped phone, it has comed to my greatest astonishment that the Panels cannot be "used" concurrently.
For example:
If I wished to activate the multimedia panel to listen to some MP3 while at the same time do FaceBook panel , there is no way this can happen.
Or, whats the point of just staring at the FM Radio panel when I could be viewing some photos in the photo album while having my favourite FM Station running in the background?
To further add salt to wound, Sony did not bother to put these programs to be executable from the native Windows/Program folder.
Am I missing a point here from Sony as in this multitasking windows environment, they have decided to make their Panel technology run serially? Or maybe i did miss out some important settings ?
I agree with your statement above, panels are not multitask-friendly. My guess is that it was an attempt from SE to make their winmo distro more stable, preventing these processes from overlapping each other and taking up memory. I've noticed that the video playback performance is better on the Sony media experience panel than coreplayer (go ahead flame me) although not as flexible. Something similar happens with the popular iPhone, if you've ever messed around with one you'll notice it's basically unitasking, one app at a time, the only apps you can multitask with are the ipod and phone, but rarely crashes.
Actually, I was thinking about this. I, like many people, thought that the panels would just sit there, with nine different apps running side by side. Obviously this isn't the case. Could it be that this is just the first stage in the panel interface, a kinda test run? What about the next Xperia? X2 or X5 or whatever it's gonna be. Maybe it'll deliver what most people expected from the panels...
I think you guys are missing the point of panels.
If that's the case, you don't need panels, you just need applications running concurrently.
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I think you guys are missing the point of panels.
If that's the case, you don't need panels, you just need applications running concurrently.
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I personally have found the SE media panel to be the most useful of all. For everything else that I don't demand high system priorities for, just run them as regular apps concurrently.
zenkinz, in your opinion, what's the point of panels? Please read my post above about what I think they are for (stability and performance).
if they were there would be much much less ram and cpu juice left
the arm cpu's are not as powerfull as computer cpu's
so believe me if they were you would suffer
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Which in actuality proves my point that the Panels are nothing more than fancy graphics or multiple "todays" screen.
Any WinMo/Symbian device today without Panels can definitely do Media browsing and FM Radio/Music and MORE without the slightest sign of sluggishness while Xperia with its powerful processor and available RAM lacks multitasking due to its much talked about "Panels"?
Strip its Panels and a slightly longer (but not wider) display , Xperia does not even come close to the Touch Pro with TF3D, G-Sensor, better sound and built quality
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Which in actuality proves my point that the Panels are nothing more than fancy graphics or multiple "todays" screen.
Any WinMo/Symbian device today without Panels can definitely do Media browsing and FM Radio/Music and MORE without the slightest sign of sluggishness while Xperia with its powerful processor and available RAM lacks multitasking due to its much talked about "Panels"?
Strip its Panels and a slightly longer (but not wider) display , Xperia does not even come close to the Touch Pro with TF3D, G-Sensor, better sound and built quality
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The Xperia was designed by HTC based on SE's standards. What I did with mine was flash it with one of the cooked roms in the roms section which gave me the TF3D and it's pretty fast. I also added the panels, but for the sole reason of the SE media experience panel which I like for playing smoother video. In the end, it's all software, and it doesn't lack multitasking, only among panels. The rest is all good old winmo.
yeah, panels are a disapointment, the should let do some multitasking or at least run panels as an application (facebook one for example).
anyways, I think we currently have a "beta" rom in our xperias, since it's from august/08... maybe next mont we get a big update... let's hope...
this, or just a cooked rom without problems
The thing about Panels is that they allow you to change the look and feel of your device. On one hand i have a simple Today screen, on another i have the detailed today screen... then i have an SPB screen... and now we have Touch HD's TF3D as a panel too! Soon... we'll have more panels, like a home screen that allows you to navigate with ease (navigation panel). The main point is that regardless of the panel of your choice, you have access to all the windows mobile software along-side it.
I think panels are a really powerful feature of the phone! And as far as multi-tasking is concerned... you can run media player or the more famous core player and write messages, etc. and work with your selected panel of choice without much lag. And this to me is very powerful. not taking into consideration the likes of iPhone, but going straight to Symbian... Symbian too is powerful, but i consider windows mobile to be further ahead. What you can do with symbian, you could do with a simple windows mobile phone without panels or TF3D or gadgets and so on...
In my opinion; Xperia delivers what it set out to do... a powerful experience. Sure there are lags at certain times... but overall it is the perfect windows mobile device!
Sure two panels don't run simultaneously... and it would be awesome if in a future update we do get something like that... but overall it works great!
rpereira said:
I personally have found the SE media panel to be the most useful of all. For everything else that I don't demand high system priorities for, just run them as regular apps concurrently.
zenkinz, in your opinion, what's the point of panels? Please read my post above about what I think they are for (stability and performance).
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the point of panel is to offer different "theme" of Today screen based on your primary usage of your phone at that particular point in time.
It's always good to have quick access to your next appointment, or tasks, but really you probably only do that when you are in meeting, or while you are working. When you are at outside office hours, you probably be spending time listening to music, watching video, or just simply idling. You may get a new email notification, or have to reply an incoming sms, but after taking action for these sporadic events you will be back to the 'Today' screen that offers you the theme you are in..
That's why I came out with the idea of Car navigation panel, where I need not worry about fumbling with new email notification, or having to switch to media player to change albums, as I can always go back to 'Today' screen easily.
In anycase, that's just my view (or maybe how I like to think that way), because if it's meant to be a concurrent active desktops, you might be better off with just running the programs and using taskmanager to switch from process to process.
I'm very happy with the panels too
maybe the real questions is one of expectations
if people belived they were getting 9 pda's they could switch
between it would likely be an disappointment
but it's not likely to be the last with these pda phones
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Which in actuality proves my point that the Panels are nothing more than fancy graphics or multiple "todays" screen.
Any WinMo/Symbian device today without Panels can definitely do Media browsing and FM Radio/Music and MORE without the slightest sign of sluggishness while Xperia with its powerful processor and available RAM lacks multitasking due to its much talked about "Panels"?
Strip its Panels and a slightly longer (but not wider) display , Xperia does not even come close to the Touch Pro with TF3D, G-Sensor, better sound and built quality
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to each his/her own.
I find Touch Pro no better than my Xperia. TF3D is just a flashy interface that offers limited function. The tabs acts like a panel, but there's so limited you can do within the tab (e.g. music player, stock quote or photo browser, they are just plug-in rather than full blown application)
TP is also nowhere near (imho) to Xperia in terms of performance (Xperia is so much responsive and fast), design (curvy body versus brick design) and keyboard ergonomic (many would disagree, I go for overall experience over total number of keys)
Just my own opinion only
Rudegar said:
I'm very happy with the panels too
maybe the real questions is one of expectations
if people belived they were getting 9 pda's they could switch
between it would likely be an disappointment
but it's not likely to be the last with these pda phones
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agree, and also, it's one thing about providing 9 active panels with 1 glance (as some folks are frowing over lack of the capability), it's another being able to consume all the information offered by all the 9 panels at one go, not to mention the miniature fonts you have to handle ..
Makes sense. If i were depending on my navigator to show me the way while driving, it would really suck to get random notifications from other programs, so I think your panel idea will be quite useful.
I'm also sideing with the "Panels are good" guys.
I love the versatility that they give me, and am just patiently waiting to see what comes out of the Panel Development Competion, S.E. are supposed to be running.
I have had as many as 5 different UI's set up on different panels, as much to test them out, as to give me different screen "looks" when i felt like a change.
My latest way is to use different panels as "software themes". Like, I can set up a multimedia panel with all my video, and audio players shortcutted into it. A navigation panel, with all my sat nav style apps set up .
etc. etc.
It can only get better, in my opinion.
I do think 50% of people are missing the potential of Panels, tho.
i dont mind the panels too much. however what i am unhappy about is that sony ericsson advertised the panels as being active. therefore theoretically you could press the xpanel button and the 9 panels shown would update in realtime. currently the panels are little more than shortcuts to some fancy apps or homescreens
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The thing about Panels is that they allow you to change the look and feel of your device.
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Couldn't agree more and I am satisfied w/ the panel too.
One important fact many people forget about is WM as of right now has a max limit of 32 processes (including background that run your phone). Some tricks can be done to workaround this issue but there's still a limit and the OS will close some of the non active processes if you reach that. It doesn't matter how fast your CPU or how many ram you got.
I'm coming to believe that the applications runing on Panels are just on top of another layer instead of running straight on top of the OS.
iPhone and BB have no problem filling the "desktop" with icons that are no more that a call to the program. Functionally they are more efficient to reach any where that even Touchflo 3D
What's the purpose to have a whole panel to run a program. That's stupid. for exmaple FM radio or FaceBook.
The Panels are not more that an ill conceived idea, with some BS marketing ideology behind them. All they did was destroy one one best smartphones ever built.
Where are they? I thought they were supposed to be getting released yesterday (31/3/2009) but they arent there, only the On The Road panel...
new panels were the spb weather, and traveler (pay),
If you believed that SE would keep to a deadline this clearly must be your first SE phone (that said, betas of the panels can be found on these forums).
lol... i had P800, P900, M600 and P990... just never took notice of dates till the x1...
SPB panels were out a few days before 31st, and they werent new, i already had them, just new to the SE Panel Gallery.
I'd get em off the forum, but i dunno, ive had too many problems with software on my x1, still got faith in it, but treating it like a fragile object, as it breaks easily *meh*
Looks like the Skype Panel is available at the SE Panel site.
i don't know how download skype panel in se site couse links to external site poit to the main page of skype.. so... has anyone a solution?
skype download on mobile browser points to Skype site.
skype download on PC browser causes error:
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Message from webpage
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System message is:TypeError: 'caption' is null or not an object, functionToCall: fdController.selectContentItemInContentListing( 36405 ), stateBeforeError: ts=1238599136077;promotionId=0;applstate=contentlisting;contentCategoryId=800;filterId=4;genreId=-1;startIndex=0;phoneId=11472;contentItemId=0, stateAfterError: contentCategoryId=800,filterId=4,contentItemId=0,genreId=-1,startIndex=0,phoneId=11472.
Current time is: Wed Apr 1 16:19:50 UTC+0100 2009
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grrrrrrr
im hoping someone can help.
I would like to increase the amount of appointments shown in the agenda view of the calender app in sense 2.5.
currently it shows one weeks worth of appointments making it difficult to see anything you have planned in a weeks time without selecting the date you wish to view. I think it would be good if the whole months appointments were displayed within the agenda view. can anyone help me out with this one?
I don't know how to change the Agenda view, but I use the homepage for mine and I can see up to 31 days in advance, although you can only see five at a time. So it's not really what you are after, but it would be a nice idea to be able to scroll and see all upcoming appointments.
thanks for the response kalavere. I already use this app and it works great as a quick option for todays appts.
however im still after viewing many appts in the agenda view. the n1 displays all appts in its calender for easy viewing at any time.
wm is supposed to be a business based os compared to android. for those who have loads of appts surely this frustrates them as much as me?
You know it didn't bother me, but it does now you have mentioned it. It can be annoying to have to come out of Agenda and go into Month and then choose the day you are after, it's not easy to see at a glance what's up and coming over a set period of time.
testarossa said:
thanks for the response kalavere. I already use this app and it works great as a quick option for todays appts.
however im still after viewing many appts in the agenda view. the n1 displays all appts in its calender for easy viewing at any time.
wm is supposed to be a business based os compared to android. for those who have loads of appts surely this frustrates them as much as me?
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Not as much as the lack of data encryption on Android. Our IT department won't support android without it!
You can access a list of your appointments/tasks through outlook.