[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] number16:
Hi all,

Just got my I-mate JAM last week ... and absolutely love it. I know the JAM isn't the latest and greatest anymore, but I wanted a small PPC phone and JAM's the perfect size. The JAMin is too expensive for me, and I also think its improvements (wifi, EDGE, WM5 to name a few) are over-rated.

I had a separate PPC (toshiba e330 ... yeah it's about time it retires) and a smartphone (MPx220) before so it's great I only get to carry 1 device instead of 2.

Anyways, got a few newbie questions I hope you guys can help me with ...

1- Storage memory??

I realize the JAM has limited memory so I've been installing as many programs as possible on the 1G SD memory card.

I still found that ~ 60% of 'storage memory' is used though, so I started moving some more programs to the memory card (and had to relink them one by one).

Afterwards I found the 'storage memory' has actually gone UP even more ... from 60% to 68%??!

What is storage memory? I thought storage memory is the stuff (program / database) stored on the RAM, so by moving some of the programs to the flash card I should see the storage memory go DOWN, not UP?!

When I run something like a 'space detective' I find that all of my big files are on the memory card anyways, so I really don't know how my storage memory got so high, and don't know how to get it back down neither.

2. Repeated resetting

Everytime I do a soft-reset, the PPC has a tendency to do repeated resetting before I finally get it back ... the first time it freaked me out. I thought it's gone into an endless loop and I'd have to do a hard-reset ... good thing I got it back after 4-5 soft-resets. Once I get it back it actually runs stable, and wouldn't reset itself.

Is that normal? Has anybody else experienced this? Usually it'd reset itself again once it gets to loading the phone alarm today plug-in, or when it connects to the phone network.

I currently have the following plugin's installed on the today screen:

-phone alarm

- ADB Weather

- Calendar

And I also run WisBar Advanced 2 ... but I have disabled WA2 to reload itself automatically on soft-resets.

I put phone alarm, ADB weather and WA2 on the main storage instead of memory, because I don't want to increase the chance of crashing.

Does anybody else has this problem? Do I have a software conflict here?

3. Photo contact?

I use photo contact that comes with the phone ... now that software is a piece of crap to begin with, keeps freezing the PPC even for the smallest thing.

And, 5 times out of 10 when someone who's been assigned a photo ID calls, the photo doesn't show up. This is despite I've put the resized photo contacts on the main memory, not the memory card.

Anybody experienced the same problem? And what's a good photo contact ID program to recommend?

4. Good dialer program?

I can also use a good replacement dialer program ... the dialer program that comes with the phone works, but it's pretty slow in suggesting contacts as I dial, and the buttons a tad small as well for 1 hand operation.

I tried D9, but for whatever reason it doesn't install for me ... plus, I also need the DTMF tones to check voicemail and what not.

5. Must have appz?

Any other must have appz you guys would highly recommend? Since getting the phone I've installed:

- phonealarm (great appz for changing profiles and displaying sms / vmail / email / missed calls)

- Wisbar Advanced 2 (great launcher)

- Cyberon BT voice dialer (not sure how it's not included with the phone)

- Resco File Explorer

- Resco Picture Viewer

- Mapopolis

- Intelligolf

- Sprite backup (works well, but extremely slow if launched from the PPC)

- eWallet

Thanks! Any comment / suggestions is appreciated!