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?
hanmin said:
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!
I'm getting an LG G Watch (btw, that's a seriously terrible name, its not too google-able) in a few days. Unfortunately my first major use for this watch will be whilst travelling out of country. So, here is my question:
What can Android Wear do offline? It will always be connected to my phone, but my phone will *Not* be connected to the internet most of the time. What about voice recognition? I know on my phone no matter what i do, offline I can only get it to accept the "call..." intent not even stuff like "open app" which doesn't need internet anyway.
Good morning to all,
I have bought this smartwathc, my idea was to use it as a phone when I was on call, but some apps don't work.
Every time that I try to open an app like facebook or whatsapp on the watch it says, check version and after that download failed.
Does any one has this smartwach or know how to fix it?
https://youtu.be/QQZKJxY1psE
thanks
I'm not sure but I think you need a SIM-card with mobile data
Now that Verizon has discontinued integrated calling support for Wear24, I am not able to send/receive phone calls directly on my watch anymore. I used to be able to send/receive phone calls using my Phones number via their "integrated calling" platform. Was a pretty decent concept for people who didn't want an iPhone/Apple Watch combination.
I have a Wear24 with Wear 2.0, but I think that's besides the point. Generally speaking, are there any options out there that will allow you to send/receive phone calls from a WearOS device using your phones number? Is it simple, and I'm missing the big picture?
It would be nuts how Google hasn't done some type of integration themselves. Even a Pixel device with a WearOS combination seems like a mild effort.
Even if I don't hook up a WearOS smart watch to cellular. Even if I'm connected to Bluetooth or something, there's still no solution to make and receive phone calls on the watch?
With an iPhone / Apple Watch, everything seems to integrate so seamlessly making and receiving calls on a watch. and cellular's not even needed!
Thoughts? Ideas?
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