[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] yamas:
Just things I have leaned since getting and working With the spv m500

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First of all I would like to say what a fantastic unit the SPV M500 is, totally underated by orange but I guess the hardware rather than the incarnation got the praise...

This is intended to be a very short list of things I have learned since getting it, some of them relevant some off the wall but bear with me, oh, and they are in no particular order.

MP3 playing and TT at the same time??

At first I thought this was not possible, i play mp3's all the time in the car and had used pocketmind pocketmusic which is great because it has huge buttons ideal for control while driving, using TT via BT with this app does not work on the M500, it breaks the music and the volume gets terribly out fo sync. I recently download TCPMP or BetaPlayer which i had ignired because of small controls but, after downloading i have to say it is very good, you can map the contacts and calender buttons to control playing while the player is active, ideal for the car and to my suprise after a bit of tweaking of volume controls, set TCPMP to use system volume, set TT to 1/3 and ignoring speed and you get your MP3's playing a treat with a quick break in the song for directions. Perfect..

Bigstorage

I read about this and umed and arred about it for ages, it gives you around 27mb extra working memory on the M500, before doing it i was trying to scrape together 2mb to increase performance but now i have 20mb free with all my apps installed. So, do it, it is quite simple if you follow the excellee nt guide on this board. One cautionary note though, at one point you have to copy off your phone ROM onto a spare card, the file created uses the whole of the card, this is fine but beware you have to edit the file that is created so if you have a 1gb card the file will be 1gb, make sure you have a system capable of editing a 1gb file in Hex, I had trouble with my 2 windows boxes and ended up doing it on a powerbook, just beware if you have a big card.

I just want to press a button and write the message!!

One thing that has annoyed me with PPC's is this. I wanted to have an icon on my today screen which i could click and have an open sms addressed and ready for the message, i send sms to my fiance all the time and hate having to find a message from her and click reply.

I searched and searched and in the end found it, or be it a bit backwards.

The secret is a program called Wisbar, it is not obvious when you download the trial how to do this but here it is. go into the settings and button mappings, select any button you like either a single press or hold. My choice was the start button held down, assign a program to that action, select other app. you will get a command line request, type in as if in HTML eg.

mailto:879887

879887 being the telephone number of your intended. There you go, now you just hold the stylus on start and you get an addressed sms message window appear.

MAC Users

I have had endless problems with Pocketmac (the demo) it made my mac crash and not reboot, i had to do a fresh install of OS X so beware.

browsing the web over bluetooth

If like me you have a media Centre or some other home System that is running a bluetooth Connection

If you have trouble getting It to Sync the Solutionis to go to br prefs in settings and press the button to Set up a Sync all you need to do then is pair the two arc [ it Should find it as long as you have Set up on incoming port on the host System and that porr is selected in the Connection prefs of activesync once connected and bt is working You will find that it Stays connected once for Sync is complete it is now that with the help or the fantastic opera browser that you can browse the Internet using your desktop broad band connection working over bluetooth. This is a great way to check your emails etc or write a Post as I am doing now.

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