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Alarms, Text's and Networks

As a recent Atom owner (using the new test rom) I was wondering if anyone might be able to help with a couple of questions.
Firstly, I was just wondering what people were using for their alarm's. At the moment I'm using the standard one which comes with the Atom and like the way you can choose multiple alarms for different days (seems a better idea than just the one setting using O2 media plus) but wouldn't mind being able to select a different alarm tones etc.
Similarly for text message alerts, is there any way/program to customize this away from the pre-set one.
Finally (sorry for so many questions) although I can seem to connect to my wireless router fine (for internet), I can't seem to access my desktop (to browse files, use stored media etc.). Is there a program I need to do this, or should I be able to browse to it from the file explorer ?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.

go to start, settings, sounds and notifications, Notifications
Use the pull down menu to choose different sounds etc.
For the alarm you go to where you set alarm and click the speaker it will give you choice of tones.
You can upload to your phone wav files to use as tones, search the net for what u want and upload to the windows/ring directory

Sooz ... thanks again, just trying to decide what sound will wake me up now.
Any ideas on the wireless network access thing ?

you need to have activesync installed on your pc download the latest one from Microsoft.com
once installed it will prompt you to connect the phone etc and away you go
there is an explore in active sync or just use windows file manager to get there, but you need to copy and paste items to phone not drag them
Cheers

Thanks for your reply, however I was looking for someway to browse the host computer from the Atom (to access shared media etc.) or alternativly see and control the desktop's screen (much like the old remote control tools).
Also how are you using activesync over Wifi ... I thought microsoft disabled this due to some sort of security concerns ?

Use Resco Explorer
If you want to directly connect to a PC share from the Atom, use Resco Explorer. It allows you to "map" to network shares and browse them directly from the Atom.

Thanks for that ... looks like quite a nifty little program (which has now replaced my standard file browser).
Don't suppose there's been any luck on being able to sync via wifi. Not so sure I understand why Microsoft had this removed but left in the ability to sync over bluetooth. Always thought wifi was more secure ? Odd.

Change the sync location of My Files in activesync to use storage card

I threw a few music files in the MY PDA folder under My Documents on my PC and expected them to sync accross to my Vario II. After connecting the phone it sent a couple across then I got a warning on the phone that 'Storage Memory is Critically Low'. Obviously the files had been synced onto the phone. Thought you would be able to specify to sync onto the phone storage card but there is no option for this anywhere.
Anyone know a way to do this?

if you set up the sync option for media player in active sync and then set up the playslists you want to sync in media player on your pc it will automatically set up the folders on your card and transfer the files. it does warn not to drag and drop onto the card of you want the sync process to work.

Cheers cdyat, but this was more of a test. For instance, what if I want to sync 30Mb of Office files with my phone. It would appear that I can't just put these in the My PDA Sync folder to be copied next time I connect, but I have to cut and paste from the relevant folders.
This to me seems ridiculous but I can't see an option to change the location to sync with the storage card anywhere.

You can only sync files, be default, into main memory. There are two 3rd party apps available (Sorry can't remember the names) that will allow you to Sync anything to anywhere. One is commercial and the other is a Japenglish conversion. Try searching these forums for links.

I am all for searching, but if anyone comes up with a name for those two apps, please post =)

As another user recently posted in this forum, Pocket Controller has a Sync Manager that can be used to synchronize files and folders to any location, including storage cards.

Pocket Controller sounds very nice but $35 is quite a lot just to enable me to sync a folder to my storage card.
I had assumed there must be a registry setting somewhere on the PC that would change the default path?

Try these
http://www.mydocsunlimited.com/html/mightysync.html (Commercial)
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=985 (Freeware)
YMMV, but have a nice day...

Cheers Daniel, Mobsync looks like it might do the trick.

Acid Sync - Sync Computer Folder to SD Card\Folder
A guy I know is working on a program to do this with a much easier configuration since it just syncs Desktop folder to Storage Card folder. Pretty simple really, copy mp3 or whatever to desktop folder and it will sync to PPC folder and viceversa. Still in beta though
http://www.razer7.com/download.html

Screen burnt, Almost dead XDA EXEC - help required obtaining phone contacts.

Right where do we start with this tragedy of a phone...
I basically need to retrieve my contacts from the phone, but unfortunately my screen has busted, and I can see very little of anything on the screen, I can just about decipher some words, and I basically need a way to "blindly" transfer contact details from the phone to a PC or another phone.
The methods I can think of are: Synching
I have tried an Active Synch connection but it hangs on the "Synchronising" stage. Another issue with the phone is the radio stopped working, so it was just a glorified personal organiser...So not sure if I need to enter anything on the PDA - as I can't see much of the screen.
Transfer each contact one by one:
My right hand hard key is "contacts" so I can enter my contacts screen. and therefore I know I am ON my contacts page, and I know clicking the right hand menu also gives me the context sensitive menu - but I CAN'T SEE IT, or very little, I can just about make out SOME options. So could someone go through what all the key presses would be required to either send via bluetooth - no doubt bluetooth is not on, and need to be able to "blindly" turn bluetooth on?
Or create a "Vcard"/business card? I think this is saved somewhere, which I can then access from synching and using my PC Window XP "explorer" to view the vcard from my PC. I am able to "sync" to view the folders from my PC, but not use the "Sync" to synchronise contacts, etc.
Can someone PLEASE PLEASE have a look at their XDA EXEC and figure out what key presses are required to save one contact person's details. I should be able to repeat the process for the rest.
Your patience and time is most appreciated.
Cheers,
Kasam

Edit 2: Is there a way to copy all contacts to a SIM card? I'm trying SIM Manager now, but I only seem to be able to go from SIM to phone. :/

Any ideas guys?
Another idea I had was if someone had a screen print software? And could send some print screens of the contacts menu with the options available?
Can't see how else to do this
If someone could be kind enough to contact me on abulkasam AT hotmail DOT com. most appreciated.

Can you install soft?
http://www.pocketvnc.com/projects/pocketvnc/index.php
Install that, and then try connecting to it from a VNC client on your pc...
Theoretically it should provide you full access to your pda desktop... using a window on your pc.
No guarantees here as i haven't actually tested it, just googled for Windows Mobile VNC Server

I managed to copy the PIM.VOL file over from the phone via Windows Explorer (on windows XP). So now that I have that file, can I copy it to a replacement XDA EXEC? Or does anyone know if I can open the file in any other way?
Many thanks.
Also unlikely I can "see anything" to install, unless someone can provide key presses for installation...
I can place files on to the pda through Windows pocket pc synch etc.

abulkasam said:
I managed to copy the PIM.VOL file over from the phone via Windows Explorer (on windows XP). So now that I have that file, can I copy it to a replacement XDA EXEC? Or does anyone know if I can open the file in any other way?
Many thanks.
Also unlikely I can "see anything" to install, unless someone can provide key presses for installation...
I can place files on to the pda through Windows pocket pc synch etc.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You will hit problems if you copy the file to another PDA. You can use an emulator to read the PIM file using XP - you will need to install some stuff though - see here:
Mobile Emulator for XP: (Or use visual studio 2005)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
Related threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1285640
Mike

That emulator is pretty cool. Managed to view my contacts on the emulator, but you can't send across contacts. So found some freeware to install on to emulator that saves contacts as CSV files, html etc. However does anyone know of a way of saving all the contacts in the business card format that keeps things like the "picture" associated with contacts? It stays when you beam a file, or send it as business card in any other form. It's not available on the emulator, so any program that replicates this?
I had issues synchronising the contacts with the emulator to activesynch. I used the "cradle" which lets Activesynch see it, but then it fails on the synchronization. Does anyone have any solution?
Many thanks for all your help.

USB to PC

I'm new to all of this technical stuff, so please bear with me. I've read the Wikis and searched the forums, but can't find an answer to a simple question. Maybe it's too simple. I purchased a Cingular/ATT 8525 about 6 weeks ago. Since that time I've upgraded the rom and applied some of the tweaks I've found in here. No problems. However, I can't get active sync 4.5 to let me move programs and data from my PC to my 8525. I read somewhere that a few devices won't let you do that. Is the 8525 one of them. I'm sure this can be fixed, but how? Right now I've resorted to emailing myself with whatever I want moved over as an attachment, checking the email with the 8525, and saving the attachment to my storage card. Help, Please.

Right-click on the ActiveSync icon in the system tray, select connection settings and make sure that the Allow USB connections check box is checked.

Just need a little more info. Are you using the explore function of Active Sync on the PC to drag and drop the files?
Mike

Thanks for the quick replies. The "allow usb connections" box is checked, and everything sync's fine. And, yes, I'm using the explore function of active sync.

Mmm.. do you get any error message?
Are they very large files?
Are you waiting long enough for the copy - can take a while?
It's quicker anyway to pop the card into a PC card reader to do the copy across.
It is certainly possible to do this - I do it regularly.

I don't get any error messages because I never get that far. I'll right click / copy on my PC file, go to the 8525 folder, right click and PASTE is greyed out. won't even let me try to paste. If I try to left click the file and drag, when I get to the 8525 the circle with the line thru it shows up and won't let me drop. I've tried files from 25kb to as large as 15Mb. As far as moving the MicroSD card over to the PC, That was the first thing I tried. For some reason the HP Pavilion laptop I have doesn't want to reconize the SD card. Explorer shows the card in the slot, but the lights keep flashing like its trying to read it or format it or something and nothing ever happens. It's a ScanDisk 2gig micro that I have to stick in an adaptor for the PC. It works fine in the 8525, I've installed some programs on it, saved several email attachments and pictures on it also.

At the moment there are only two more things I can think of and they are to ensure that
Start>Settings>Connections>USB to PC (ensure Advanced option is UNChecked)
and what about your firewall?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=230587
Mike

HTC HD2 File Encryption problem

I have connected my phone to a Exchange 2007 when I got it a few months ago and it has been fine. Found the registry key to disable the "Simple Pin" option as I found it a nuisance, but I couldn't find the registry to disable the "Encrypt the memory card" option.
Today my phone asked me for my Exchange password, which I typed in. I then took a picture and tried to send it but it wouldn't send. When I browsed my pictures folder on my memory card I couldn't open anything. Any videos or pictures or programs, when trying to open a picture it says "Unable to open this type of JPG file."
When I try to copy it off using ActiveSync it fails saying it cannot read it. Anything!!
I haven't updated the Firmware or installed any patches, in fact I haven't done anything do it for a while. It just happened out of the Blue.
How can I recover my documents?
Thanks

If you use Active Sync you can normally transfer the files to your desktop.