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Hi everyone.
OK. So, I've got an XDA Mini S and I've just got to the end of my O2 contract, so they've sent me a free phone (which is nice). It's a Walkman phone, which I'd like to use.
Therefore, I'll have to remove the SIM from my Mini S and put it in the new phone (I'm continuing with the same contract, so there's no new SIM). This actually suits me, because although I think the Mini S is a great PDA, I don't think much of it as a phone. Plus, my use of it is pretty heavy, so if I ALSO use it as a music player, the battery's dead in no time at all.
So what I'd like to do is be able to use the Mini S to still do text messages and email, but send and recieve them by connecting to GPRS via Bluetooth through the new mobile (with the SIM in it). Expect I can't figure out how to set up the Mini S to do this. Can anyone help?
Sorry if this is all a bit garbled
Thanks in advance.
I'd think doing the email would be easy... but as most sony phones are a little trashy (in my opinion) I doubt they will do the text message passthrough thingy some of the good phones have, mainly nokias.
To get the email working, you'll need to setup the GPRS connection on your sony one, then turn it's bluetooth on (make sure it's discoverable). Then search for the services supported on it, using the wizard. You're looking for "dial-up networking". Select this, and then try and dial the connection from the bluetooth config panel thingy. If I remember correctly (not done this since back in the WM2003 days), you need to dial *10# or summit from the wizard, then it will connect to the sony phone via bluetooth, and start the GPRS connection. Once it has dialed, just use the wizard as you would have done before.
I'm sorry if ti's a little vague, as I mentioned i've not had to do this for a couple of years. I'm someone will say if i've missed something out...
Hope it helps you
Well, an idea. Why don't you get the SIM into the miniS and use the Sony as walkman without the SIM? Else, sell the Sony and get yourself multiple (and larger capacity) battery for your miniS?
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Well, an idea. Why don't you get the SIM into the miniS and use the Sony as walkman without the SIM? Else, sell the Sony and get yourself multiple (and larger capacity) battery for your miniS?
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Well, I initially thought I'd have no use for the new phone, but I like the idea of the music player being the same system as that for answering calls - if I'm listening to music on the new phone, I'm not going to miss a call (and this is something I'm likely to do as it's my work mobile). I have a bigger battery for the Mini S, but it makes the phone into a bit of a lump and still only gets me a day and a half of normal use (which doesn't include listening to music). And swapping the battery means restarting the Pocket PC, which is a bind.
Thanks for your reply, Brins0 - I'll give it a try. I think you might be onto something with the code for the phone to dial into GPRS. I think it might also want a "standard" O2 username/passowrd, though I'm not sure what these are. If anyone else has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.
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Well, I initially thought I'd have no use for the new phone, but I like the idea of the music player being the same system as that for answering calls - if I'm listening to music on the new phone, I'm not going to miss a call (and this is something I'm likely to do as it's my work mobile). I have a bigger battery for the Mini S, but it makes the phone into a bit of a lump and still only gets me a day and a half of normal use (which doesn't include listening to music). And swapping the battery means restarting the Pocket PC, which is a bind.
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Yeah, I know it is good to have a music player with a phone function. However, for my case, its the vibration that alerted me on in coming calls most of the time. It is SMS vibration that I've missed.
Anyway, I'm impressed that you can get a miniS dead in a day and a half without music. You do talk a lot on the phone, huh? I talk on average 30 mins on the phone and it lasted me 3-4 days on a full charge, on a normal battery. Well, anyway, consider the size of the screen and power of the phone, you can't compete with a Sony phone, say W610, which has a rated talk time of 7 hours (gsmarena) and Wizard's 4 hours. Sony *is* pretty good in what they do.
ANYWAY, good news for you is that, I did manage to tried to sync my SE T630 (old one) with my PC before using IR connection using software found on (myt630.net) and I can send SMS (via the phone) using my PC. However, getting the SMS is another story, I think I'll have to do a check-mail thing (eg, pull) on the phone to get new SMSs, it doesn't seems to do a push (that's 3-4 years ago, my memory is failing me). So, I'm pretty sure that Sony's phone is able to get you to send SMSs without problems AND I've seen software for Palm that enables you to send SMS using phone connected via IR and BTooth and I'm sure you get that for PocketPC. So, for SMS you'll probably need to use other software that is meant for real pocket pc (eg without phone function) to send your SMS.
Anyway, let us know of your progress. Like, how good is the Sony phone in terms of battery life with and without the music
UPDATE: This is an example
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/12/13/sms_pocketpc.html
though I was looking for something that cost $0.
Your right about my heavy use of the Mini S. I don't actually make that many calls, but I do use the PDA functions a hell of a lot. I also rely heavily on email for work, so being able to leave the Mini S connect to ActiveSync via Bluetooth has given me a lot of freedom to move around the house - at the expense of flattening the battery pretty quickly. One thing I've noticed already is that the battery does a lot better when it's not connected to a phone network. I wouldn't have expected that to take much power, but there you go.
Anyway, I've figured out how to use the email function through the phone. I set up a new dail-up connection which connects to O2's mobileweb GPRS. The reason I struggled to begin with is that I was entering the APN (on the Mini S) as "mobile.o2.co.uk", which I think would work IF I was connecting directly from the Mini S. BUT, what I needed to do was enter the APN as *99# (found that on the web somewhere) which prompts the PHONE to connect to O2's mobileweb, and therefore allow the Mini S a GPRS data line. Hope that makes sense! Phew!
As for SMS, you're right: I need a third party program to allow that. I was hoping the Text Messages part of the Mini S's Messaging application could be reconfigured, but it doeesn't look likely. Can anyone recommend a good, third party SMS program for Windows Mobile 5?
Thanks everyone!
Help! My htc touch P3050 froze while booting and now the touch screen isn't responding. Buttons seem to work but somehow it became locked. Is there anyway to unlock it using hardware buttons alone? I haven't tried a hard reset because I need to get the contact data off first. It won't connect with active sync or my mobiler. It connects as a network but active sync can't connect to it. Any ideas how i can unlock or extract the contacts?
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Help! My htc touch P3050 froze while booting and now the touch screen isn't responding. Buttons seem to work but somehow it became locked. Is there anyway to unlock it using hardware buttons alone? I haven't tried a hard reset because I need to get the contact data off first. It won't connect with active sync or my mobiler. It connects as a network but active sync can't connect to it. Any ideas how i can unlock or extract the contacts?
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Wow Mobiler wont work either? do you connect to activesync regularly? I remember my phone wouldnt sync to activesync when i flashed over to windows mo 6.1
I had to turn off advanced networking in the connections tab. So i dunno how you would even do this without a program such as mobiler.
The only other option..though it may or may not work is if you go to sprint or verizon and you ask them to do a phone to phone transfer of contacts, but im not even sure how they would do this.
Sorry man i hope other people can respond to your issue.
Yeah I think the reason why active sync won't connect is because it is locked. When I'm in the Get Connected dialogue in Active sync it lists USB as connected but at the same time it says your device was not found. I was wondering If it might be possible to back the rom up from the bootloader to say the microsd card and extract the pim.vol file from there. But I have no idea how to do this.
This recently happened to my Vouge. Basically part of the touchscreen errored and it thought it was always being pushed in this one little area, so it wouldnt recognize any other push. Every now and then you could do something, but it would always pull to that one area.
It was a hardware failure and I had sprint fix it. I wasnt even on insurance. I just argued that it was under year warranty, and there should be no reason to pay because HTC would do it for free. At the time HTC's number wasnt working, so they didnt really have a big choice.
I just accepted that the data was gone and did a hard reset. This fixed the problem with the screen. Thanks for the help guys. Now to set up active sync immediately.
If you dont already use PIMbackup I would definatly give it a try so you dont lose your contacts and msg's next time
hi, Please help me i dropped my hd2 and broke the touch screen is there anyway i can backup my phone as i had security code enabled and it wont let me enter it?? insurance company have agreed to fix it just need to post it to them but would like a back up first,
Thanks in advance
Ben Ralph
I don't know if this will work, but try MyMobiler (http://www.mymobiler.com/) and see if you can get it running without unlocking your phone.
It needs to install something on your device, and I can't remember if it requires any user interaction, and I don't know if it will do it whilst the phone is locked.
It basically gives you control over your mobile from your PC, so you can use the mouse to enter the PIN.
Hope this helps!
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You'll need ActiveSync (or later windows equivalent) running on your PC.
when i insert usb i cant select active sync its on disk drive
I thought sometimes if you leave the phone once the usb cable is plugged in, it automatically goes to active sync?
(also what insturance plan are you on, just out of interest)
no on mine i think it selects disk drive
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when i insert usb i cant select active sync its on disk drive
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Ahh - don't know what you could do then. You'd need it on ActiveSync to control it from anything other than the screen! I guess you're gonna lose whatever's on there
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I thought sometimes if you leave the phone once the usb cable is plugged in, it automatically goes to active sync?
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Nah - it defaults to whatever you last used, which was obviously USB drive in this case.
thanks for your help guys just wanted to check before i sent it off hopefully most of its backed up on microsoft my phone
going to post at 550pm unless someone can help back up
john is right, the default is ActiveSync the FIRST time you connect, but after that it defaults to the last option used, but if last was USB Drive and you remove the SD Card it will default to ActiveSync again, this is a first step but I'm afraid you still won't be able to install Mobiler (a fantastic app I discovered 1 hour ago by the way!) as it has to install on the phone and you won't be able to click OK to install at the prompt. But you may be able to Backup files on your PC using activesync, so it worth a try!
Another bit of advice that won't help you immediately, but for future reference, I would highly recommend getting Microsoft MyPhone installed. I've got it backing up contacts, emails, text, photos etc. every night whilst I sleep. It really does help when starting from scratch, after flashing ROMs or hard resets.
right removed sim card,
removed mem card,
soft reset
phone said to many incorect pin entered enter a1b2c3 or emergency number
inserted usb
conected to active sync
easywan remote support let me use my phone!!
Well Happpy
Thanks guys
benralph said:
right removed sim card,
removed mem card,
soft reset
phone said to many incorect pin entered enter a1b2c3 or emergency number
inserted usb
conected to active sync
easywan remote support let me use my phone!!
Well Happpy
Thanks guys
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Nice one mate.
Good to know there's a way round that problem. I'm sure you won't be the last
Hello,,,
I recently broke my Galaxy S4 screen and its not responsive anymore. It doesn't work and doesnt show anything. Blank screen.
I bought a new Oneplus One and I want to transfer all my data from my old phone. Contacts were 30% saved to the device and 20% were to my sim card and the rest were on my Samsung account. I dont have an SD card so everything is on the internal storage for my phone.
I also would like to transfer my apps cache data.. like whatsapp's groups and contact's chat history.
I never hooked my phone up to my PC so my PC doesnt recognize it when I connect it. I dont really want to fix my screen for 100$ in order to transfer all my stuff to my new phone I also cannot unlock my screen cause It doesnt work, I do know the pattern though. just saying
pls help
Only way is to connect to pc
Look in the android section, there's a thread for controlling phones with broken screens via PC
DSA said:
Only way is to connect to pc
Look in the android section, there's a thread for controlling phones with broken screens via PC
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Could you please link me the section or the thread? I don't really know my way around here in this website..
Thanks for the response!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android
Hello everyone. I'm on vacation right now and yesterday I found an LG G Watch in the sea. I'm really surprised it's still working, because the fitness app shows no data for the past week, and it's an IP67 device. But anyway:
I wanted to get the phone number of the owner so I could call him and give him back the device. But there's a problem: I don't have a compatible charging cable to pair it to my phone without resetting (through ADB), the Contacts app doesn't allow me to see phone numbers, just contact names, and if I try to start a call or send an SMS the watch says I can't because of course I'm disconnected from any device.
What can I do?
I don't want to give it to the local police, cause last time I returned a smartphone, and two days later the policeman was using it as if it was his own.
P.S.: I wanted to post this on the dedicated LG G Watch subforum, but since there's not much activity and since this is a completely normal Android Wear (1.5) phone, I thought I could reach more people posting here. Thanks for the help!
up... nobody can help?
So there's no way to find the owner huh?
I'd say that you are the new owner. Unless the prior owner put a special app on the watch, given that it is not an LTE device, there is no way to determine who the owner is, even if you charge it up.
You could ask LG if the owner registered it and if they would return it to them ?
or...
Settings - Personalisation - Accounts
does it show an email address ?
Here in Ireland there's a popular radio (FM) show that people call in with unusual little requests and issues with wide coverage. Usually somebody who knows the other person tells them about it within 5-10 mins. Maybe theres something similar in Italy?
If it's got no data for over a week, keep it. Congrats on the find.
Thanks to anyone for the given advice. I tried hardwiring a cut USB cable and pushing a Contacts APK with no success (app instantly crashed). Sent an eMail to LG some days ago and still no response. Also my holiday ended so I'm back to my far away city.. I feel really sorry, but I can't find any other way. Unfortunately there's no radio like that.
I have seen more people get better results on Reddit. Try r/helpmefind subreddit.
you could try this:
go to settings -> known networks
look for a wifi and create at home a new one with no password and the same name. The watch should connect to it and you are able to send a sms or something else.
hi bro
Evolutios said:
you could try this:
go to settings -> known networks
look for a wifi and create at home a new one with no password and the same name. The watch should connect to it and you are able to send a sms or something else.
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bla bla. good luck for you