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PocketCM Noob help

i searched a ton of the threads and have found a lot of these questions asked, but not answered. so please if anyone can help me i am clueless with this. i dont like to touch registry stuff unless i absolutely have to, but i am willing to DL other programs like SIPChange to get stuff to work. anyway:
1. i am able to send texts via PocketCM which i think is awesome, but when i get a text, my phone no longer vibrates like it used to be4 PocketCM took over. is there anything i can do to fix this?
2. related to that one, can i make PocketCM my default text app? cuz it still pops up as new text notification and if i hit reply it goes to the WM default one
3. since ive been screwing around trying to solve these myself... i held down the phone icon, bringing up a new set of tabs, and went to the one all the way to the left. that brought up the default contacts page. now when i click on contacts on my screen, it brings that up instead of the incredible PocketCM! this is heartbreaking since i want PocketCM to be my default everything. even if i restart PocketCM it now defaults back to the Windows Contacts page...
any help at all is appreciated, thanks in advance

put this command inside the settings.ini of the skin (.cmt) file.
bring_pcm_to_front_on_sms=0
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1. Not sure without looking into it further.
2. On my device I disabled the new text notification. Its now setup that whenever a new text msg comes in it goes to the pocketcm sms screen. The most recent msg's are at the top. Not sure how to change the reply button though.
3. Happened to me.. did a soft reset and it was back to normal again. Give that a try.
Also pocketcm has a forum on their site (www.pocketcm.com). Might wanna try there if you don't get the answers.

c_shekhar said:
put this command inside the settings.ini of the skin (.cmt) file.
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I cant find the settings.ini file in my programs folder, and im using PCM 0.15.

Knockz said:
2. On my device I disabled the new text notification. Its now setup that whenever a new text msg comes in it goes to the pocketcm sms screen. The most recent msg's are at the top. Not sure how to change the reply button though.
3. Happened to me.. did a soft reset and it was back to normal again. Give that a try.
Also pocketcm has a forum on their site (www.pocketcm.com). Might wanna try there if you don't get the answers.
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3. soft reset worked! thank you.
2. thats a good idea ill do that and if anything it will trick me into thinking that PocketCM is my default
1. soft reset actually fixed this too, but im wary that it might change...
as for shekhar, what issue is that addressing? making PocketCM the default text app?
thanks a lot for your help

SMS-Chat by iwindowsmobile!

Hi!
I, like many else have been looking for a good SMS-program with threaded SMS capability.
It looks like the waiting time is over, Vito Technology has finally released SMS-chat!
http://www.iwindowsmobile.com/
I have been using the app for 3 days now, and i really love it. Nice animations, fast loading time and even replaces the ugly "new sms" bar that pops up when new sms arrives with a new good looking one.
The app works seamless with FunContact, that also can be downloaded from the same place.
Too bad it ain't freeware though.... but I'm buying it!
Anyone knows how to assign the SMS-icon on PointUi to the SMS-chat app? I've added a shortcut on Favourites, but thats 2 touches on the screen, not 1, LOL

could someone create a .cab of the free trial? i'd love to try it, but cannot install via activesync
Cheers!
looks good btw

- edit - worked it out for myself lol - i've attached the files if anyone else wants them. Not sure which ones you need to install, so attached both
View attachment SMS-Chat.cab
View attachment SMS-Chat_VITO.cab

mugglesquop said:
- edit - worked it out for myself lol - i've attached the files if anyone else wants them. Not sure which ones you need to install, so attached both
View attachment 69391
View attachment 69392
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Thanks so much!

There is currently a problem with this app...
Your SMS audio alert disappears!
I uninstalled it because I believe my vibrate disappeared too. Something to do with the fact that all SMS messages are diverted to a different Inbox (If you uninstall, remember to move all your SMS messages back into their correct folder.
Vito assure me that the vibrate works correctly and the audio alert will be fixed in the next version.
Shame they didn't work when it was released! An easy thing to check you'd have thought

Could it be skinned?
Looks a little bit ugly

With PocketCM you get threaded txt and its skinable for free....
MM

Is it just me or do most of the apps on that website remind you of the pocketcm framework by tene. Which are freely available and easily skinnable

I agree
Not exactly "organic" like a conversation is it?
I tell you, those guys (and girls) at Apple are absolute genius designers. If it wasn't tied to O2 I'd have bought an iPhone.
I reckon 70% of these forums are purely down to programmers doing their best to make the WM devices look like an iPhone.
Getting there slowly and it's keeping everyone occupied at least
PocketCM is still looking very promising so I'm looking forward to version .20

Thyraz said:
Could it be skinned?
Looks a little bit ugly
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That's my thoughts too, but I couldn't see any options for skins when I had a quick play with the trial. It's a shame, because it looks like a great program otherwise.

i think its skinnable
its just that all the icons arent seperate
they're a couple bitmaps in the bin folder with a couple icons together

When a new message arrives the bubble notification is popped up in the center of the screen even if the phone is locked. Can this be disabled? I mean when you want to read the message click the left soft key in order to pop up the notification and read the message. Any hints? Does this program have settings? I couldn't find them...

Uninstalling
I made the bummer of installing this program and would like to revert back to WM6's standard SMS application. However, since all my messages are removed from the standard application, I'm a bit eary of doing this
Where are these files located, and where do I have to move them?
Thanks in advance
davehutch said:
Your SMS audio alert disappears!
I uninstalled it because I believe my vibrate disappeared too. Something to do with the fact that all SMS messages are diverted to a different Inbox (If you uninstall, remember to move all your SMS messages back into their correct folder.
Vito assure me that the vibrate works correctly and the audio alert will be fixed in the next version.
Shame they didn't work when it was released! An easy thing to check you'd have thought
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Look i your folders in SMS and you'll see...
...the messages have all been moved to SMS-Chat and its sub-folders.
Just highlight all the messages in a folder, hold-click and "move" them back into their original place.
(Inbox and subfolders)

Look in your folders in SMS and you'll see...
...the messages have all been moved to SMS-Chat and its sub-folders.
Just highlight all the messages in a folder, hold-click and "move" them back into their original place.
(Inbox and subfolders)

I installed SMS-Chat to the storage card, but there is no "messages" folder in the applications folder

Not there...
...in your Messages app.
Normally txts go into your SMS/MMS...Inbox.
After SMS-Chat installs, more folders are created.
Move them out of the SMS-Chat...Inbox and back into your SMS/MMS...Inbox
Move your SMS-Chat...Sent itmes back into your SMS/MMS...Sent folder
Same for Drafts
Finally delete the SMS-Chat folder and you're done

message date/time stamp
Did the date/time stamp on your messages get preserved? On my device all the messages are labeled today's date with the time i ran SMS-chat for the first time.
This defeats the purpose of threaded messages as all of them are organized by time and they all have the same time.

I asked this in another tread. I was wondering what thoughts were here.
Is there a reason why non of these chat programs (other than palm) integrate with the phone as a default? In other words how come developers are not making the program so that when I hit messages that sms-chat starts?

davehutch said:
...in your Messages app.
Normally txts go into your SMS/MMS...Inbox.
After SMS-Chat installs, more folders are created.
Move them out of the SMS-Chat...Inbox and back into your SMS/MMS...Inbox
Move your SMS-Chat...Sent itmes back into your SMS/MMS...Sent folder
Same for Drafts
Finally delete the SMS-Chat folder and you're done
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Thanks a million! You're a saint!!

htctoucher Touch Theme, PocketCM

Here is a simple theme for PocketCM to match the graphics of the HTC Touch
Attached is my skin for the keyboard (post #2) and my theme for the contact app (end of this post)
Go HERE if you want to see the screenshot in your browser instead of in a .zip (it is too large to upload here as an image)
Bubble update:
............Post #9 Gradient with arrows (GA)
............Post #10 No Gradient with arrows (NGA)
............Post #11 No Gradient No Arrows (NGNA)
Slight update:
.............fixed battery icon when depleted
.............fixed unreadsms icon
.............changed cell signal graphic
Hints about this Contact theme:
............ to go back a page, hold the upper right hand corner (where the OK icon is)
............ to exit when the OK icon is visible in the upper right hand corner, tap (do not hold) that same corner
There are three versions - the only difference is the sms panel view:
............ htctoucher Touch.zip (in the preview this is the screenshot with nothing written in the smsbox)
............ htctoucher Touch sms box.zip (in the preview this is the screenshot with "Old SMS Box" written in the sms box)
............ htctoucher Touch smspanel.zip (in the preview this is the screenshot with "Old SMS Panel" written in the sms box)
If you want this with an index on the right like the HTC Touch default contacts has, check out post #6
And there you have it!
Enjoy!
htctoucher
I may be updating the SMS Panel version to have my usual bubbles from my 16 variant theme (not sure yet)
I am not sure what the cell signal icon looks like.. as I havent tested that yet (it is small so that the titles of the pages can fit within the given space)

htc touch keyboard skin
And here is my keyboard skin
There are two versions
1. with (first screenshot) - you can see that next to the letter "a" and "l" there are faux letter buttons (they do not do anything when pressed, but give the keyboard more of a complete feel)
2. without (third screenshot) - this does not have the faux letter buttons, as you will see when comparing the two screenshots
to get your keyboard to have the same layout and look exactly the same, drag both files in whichever .zip you choose to use into your PCMKeyboard folder on your device, and then choose those files in the keyboard's options menu
enjoy!
htctoucher

wow very cute.. lol thank you very much

Cool, thanks. I am going to try it out as I am always in search of the 'prefect' virtual keyboard.
I am like Indiana Jones....and the valley of the QWERTY typos.

man i love this keyboard. u make the most pimped keyboards and pocketcm themes bro.

Index
Here it is with an index:

Why is it that when the letter confirmation image ("feedback") comes up, the letter is half cut off? For example when i press r, the little "r" image comes up above the letter to let me know that i am pressing "r", however that image is half cut off, so that i only see half an r. Is this normal? This didnt happen with the skin i was previously using. I am using the .skin and .layout file.

KyleMac said:
Why is it that when the letter confirmation image ("feedback") comes up, the letter is half cut off? For example when i press r, the little "r" image comes up above the letter to let me know that i am pressing "r", however that image is half cut off, so that i only see half an r. Is this normal? This didnt happen with the skin i was previously using. I am using the .skin and .layout file.
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Have you tried reloading the keyboard after selecting both the layout and the skin? That happened to me too after switching from one of my other skins, but I just reloaded the keyboard and that fixed it
hope that helps!
htctoucher

Fresh2Death said:
man i love this keyboard. u make the most pimped keyboards and pocketcm themes bro.
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Glad you like my themes!
For those interested here is this theme theme (indexed and not) updated with my usual bubbles
screenshots can be found here (different theme same bubbles)
Enjoy!
This post is for Gradient Arrows (GA)

This post is for No Gradient Arrows (NGA)

This post is for No Gradient No Arrows (NGNA)

Number of characters in SMS and first line of notes and OK-Button
Hello htctoucher,
i really like your theme!
But there are some little bugs i've noticed:
1: The "characters left" (160/160) in the SMS Chat doesn't seem to change while typing. Only after a "pop-up" of the PocketCM-Keyboard apears over it, the display at this place is changed. Maybe its a bug of PocketCM.
2.: The first line of the contact-notes seems to be covered by the infobar.
3.: The OK-button in the contact-notes doesn't work. To get back to the contact details screen, I've to wipe over the screen.
I'm using PocketCM V0.21
and PocketCM Keyboard V0.14
Thanks for your reply!

Where do i extract this theme?

Just wanna add that I think your themes are awesome. Been using them for 5 mins and love the look and layout.

Plattendoktor said:
Hello htctoucher,
i really like your theme!
But there are some little bugs i've noticed:
1: The "characters left" (160/160) in the SMS Chat doesn't seem to change while typing. Only after a "pop-up" of the PocketCM-Keyboard apears over it, the display at this place is changed. Maybe its a bug of PocketCM.
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This is known bug, but easy to work around. The character counter is accurate for about the first 50 or so characters, after that you may notice it stops counting. If this occurs, just click on the sms bubbles to hide the keyboard. The counter will update. Then you can click back into the SMS Box to start typing again. It doesnt bother me that much and i like that it is above the box where you type, but havent found a fix.
2.: The first line of the contact-notes seems to be covered by the infobar.
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I was not aware of that, if I get time I will update this theme to fix that. In the mean time if I interpret what you are saying correctly, I am sure you can just hit the enter key on the keyboard a few times until you can see what you are typing!
3.: The OK-button in the contact-notes doesn't work. To get back to the contact details screen, I've to wipe over the screen.
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For some reason this is like that on all the themes, I suspect it is a bug with the application. Pressing "OK" saves the notes, but does not exit them. If you want to save what you have written, press OK, then Cancel. If you want to discard your changes only press Cancel.
hope that helps!
htctoucher

trouble2000 said:
Where do i extract this theme?
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Do not extract.
Download the .zip file you want to use and just place the whole thing in your PocketCM Contacts folder on your device, but do not take any of the files out of the .zip!
tell me if that works
htctoucher

robp said:
Just wanna add that I think your themes are awesome. Been using them for 5 mins and love the look and layout.
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thanks for that!
it's great to hear when my work is appreciated!
thanks
htctoucher

This is nice, I don't know which one I will use! Great work HTCTOUCHER (as always)

Wonderful job, but don't work with my HTC Diamond and his VGA screen... (((

im havin trouble installing the skins and themes...can u help me out???

shortcut to contact

Hi
Is there a way to create shortcut to contact so when I press it I can view my contact?

Hi,
create a new tex document and rename it to Contact.lnk
write in Contact.lnk:
21#:MSCONTACTS?outres.dll,-10000
MfG
Starbase64

thanks but...
Thanks but that's not what I am looking for.
I want to view a specific contact (e.g. home or work etc.)

A contact name or a contact type?

a contact name.
when you go to contacts and press any contact name you can view it's home number mobile address etc.
I just want to go to that window in one press.

yairlanz said:
a contact name.
when you go to contacts and press any contact name you can view it's home number mobile address etc.
I just want to go to that window in one press.
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There's an idea, lets make a new app and call it "1Contact", that would go great on my "1Pod" or "1Phone".
Have you tried one of the many, many, many today plugins like "Picture Contacts" or "Spb Phone Suite"?
Those will put a picture of the person on your today screen so you can just touch it to make a call.

nite, i think you're missing something here.. it's not HIGH TECH!
it should have an "i" before the 1..
we bring you, straight from www.pointlessppcfreewareforpeoplewho'reunawareofgoogle'sexistance.com
i1Contact!... woohoo
ill be gentle.
if you use HTC Home when you put a face contact if you tap and hold you get the contact's window with all details.
that was me being gentle.

nir36 said:
nite, i think you're missing something here.. it's not HIGH TECH!
it should have an "i" before the 1..
we bring you, straight from www.pointlessppcfreewareforpeoplewho'reunawareofgoogle'sexistance.com
i1Contact!... woohoo
ill be gentle.
if you use HTC Home when you put a face contact if you tap and hold you get the contact's window with all details.
that was me being gentle.
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See nir, it's not too hard to add some constructive comments to your "FUN" posts
I forgot a bout HTC Home, but you would have to press a tab on that first, Spb Phone Suite would probly be as close to a "One Click" app that he's looking for. After all, one less click on the phone equals one more click available for the Playstation or XBox.
PS: You gonna register that domain or can I!

go for it man.. we already have 1 pointless freeware to put there.

Try go2contact
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1908414

Thanks man
That's exactly what I need
As for the funny guys above - I've heard some Joke forums are looking for you. Good luck.

Stock SMS/MMS changes

Hi,
I just did my first steps in Android programming. And what is better to learn by improving something that you dislike?
So I changed a very tiny thing: the SMS/MMS app's "Send" button.
It now shows from the beginning the remaining letters of an SMS. All this appears on the "Send" button now (below the "Send", just like the text when you send an MMS).
I put a screenshot of before/after into the attachment, so please take a look and tell me what you think. Does this make sense? Should I make something of this configurable? Any further suggestions?
I did this primarily to learn a bit about Android, but now I'd like to go further. So any comment welcome
My thanks go to olearyp from the CM IRC channel
Cheers
Chris

Love it! Big help, for sure. Is it for the black background mod/CM MMS app?

drod2169 said:
Is it for the black background mod/CM MMS app?
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I've looked at the patch, and it should require minimal massaging to apply to irrenhaus-based messaging apps. Most of the actual message entry code appears to be unchanged or nearly so from the AOSP version.

Message code is indeed completely unchanged.
I'd like to know if you think that I should add preferences for this like enable/disable it or configure the number of letters before it kicks in. But maybe that would be too much for such a tiny feature.
EDIT:
Now I see what you mean with black background mod: The thing that is on my mobile and enables me to activate a "fullscreen" keybord which disables the "remaining letters" display completely. I'll rebase my changes against CM sources. They are currently against the original ones.
Thanks for the feedback so far!
Cheers
Chris

Patch available
The patch is in the review now, if anyone wants to take a look on it. I'm a new user so I can't post links yet, but it's on the CM reviewboard as number 686.
Cheers,
Chris

nice work ^_^

Nice work papillon81, very usefull

Hopefully they can put this in a nightly.

Can you implement an option that let's you choose with which app you want to send the sms, when pressing the send button or the button for new message?
I use websms for sending sms, but want to use the stock sms app for reading. It's a bit annoying to go back to homescreen and than open the websms app everytime.
Best implementation would be that when you press new message it just asks, if you want to use stock sms app or websms (if installed). For the send button in the message threads it would be nice that it asks and when websms is chosen, it copies the typed text and the recepient to websms (if possible).

Well, the best option would be to use the stock SMS app for reading and writing and supply different backends so that you can send SMS via your provider as well as via an internet service.
The patch is still in review, so if you like it, comment on reviewboard, too
Chris