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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DvTonder:
Tene,

Thank you for v0.8 - the app is getting along nicely and almost ready to completely replace the standard contacts app.

thank you for adding the <new contact ...> option, much appriated. One suggestion though - I had to search for it and finally found it at the very end of the list. It would be more useful to have it as the first item, thus no need to scroll through the list to add a new contact.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Olioaglio:
Just donated....!!! Very, very, very nice and useful app

and performance is awesome!!

Go on with your great work, dude!!

Olioaglio
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gnam:
When I send a sms with PocketCM I receive a notification of delivery, while this not happens when I use the normal feature with windows. How can I disable this? My mobile operator take € 0,12 cent each delivery notification!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
Hi Tene

Any idea whether this is a bug with v0.8? Going to be resolved soon?:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] samy.3660:
Tene, i want to use my original contact application for some purpose but i cannot use it all shortcuts are taken over by pocketcm so could you please tell me how to get it.

And i have lots of message so when i use sms manager i t takes lots of time to download the message to the application if you can remove this feature it would be helpful.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BoelShit:
Dont know if the question/suggestion hasnt been made already (dont want to read 38 pages and searching the thread didnt come up with something) but:

Isnt it better to use the picture info from the original contacts instead of adding your own? I mainly say this cause almost all employees where i work have their pic in my outlook contacts which are fully synchronized with my device.

Also a lot of windows live contacts have pics which could be shown in the PocketCM list.

EDIT: I found a problem where I cant see my contacts which are merged with WLM anymore in the list, second look: some are showing in the list, others arent.... lol those are most important!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
you're not seeing your pictures? are they visible in the classic contact app?

for you live contact, that's because they don't have a phone number, search for hide_contact_without_phone on pocketcm.com

Regarding SMS bugs, that's strange, it works for me, however,I'll publish a 0.8b soon, to fix some of the main issue. It would be useful to retest.

And for info, I'm reading the bugs and try to fix them, I just try to avoid to reply every post... this thread is already long!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AJerman:
I find that the easiest way to solve this problem once and for all, and not have to worry about customizing settings or anything, is to edit your contacts to "File as..." and then choose first name first, last name last.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
or add a settings.ini file containing, for instance:

contact_header_formatting=%title %firstname %lastname

contact_sort_expression=%firstname %lastname

in the pocketcm folder.

more info: http://pocketcm.com/phorum/read.php?8,174,174#msg-174
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jamesus:
Thanks callmemoe for pointing this out!

@ tene - Would it make sense to flip the functionality of these? It seems somewhat counter intuitive to me (but what do I know in the grand scheme of life? ;) ) Wonderful app btw. This is what MS should include in the next release of WM...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AJerman:
Yeah, that's how you can avoid it in PocketCM, but I find it better to just take a little time and change all my contacts so I don't have to deal with it every time I reinstall or whatever.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AJerman:
Hey tene... I just had a really great idea (I think), but part of me thinks it's a little past your application, and more at the phone's contact editing level.

Anyway, I think it's be really cool to be able to have a contact in your phone, but not display it. I mean... we all know those numbers we don't want to delete, just so we know it's them if they call haha. Or if you're a secret agent and need people not to know you have a number in your phone, ya know, that kind of every day stuff.

Or maybe it is at your program's level. Sort of leaving the main contact program as the master list, and your contact program being the display list. I just don't know where you could set a setting for this without wasting more space on the contact drop down, which I wouldn't say it's important enough for. Either way, maybe it's something to think about.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] knyque:
Great Job

I really like this contact manager, it's one of the best one's I've used, and I like it better than the others that do similar things. I do have a couple of suggestions, bugs, etc.

1. There is an odd word wrap with the home address when looking at a user. I'm getting something like

123 main

st.

somewhere

AB

as the address next to the picture.

2. When going from portrait to landscape then back, the menu doesn't go back to landscape view

3. The informational wording on the "Favorites" page has no word wrap, so you can't read everything. I see "by tapping on a contact picture and se".

4. I like the scrolling, could you put a desceleration on it? I saw a contact manager that goes fast, then slows down, it's a cool effect. Perhaps an option?

5. Have options available with no settings.ini. It's too much to open that up and change things, it would be nice to have a form that you could fill out. Also, it's an interesting idea to put the theme in a renamed zip file, but it makes changing that way to annoying. Could they go in their own directory instead?

6. It seems like just the Home address gets put on with the picture, not the Work address. I don't think both could fit (maybe they could?), but it would be nice to see work if it exists.

Like I said, I really like this contact manager. Keep up the great work, you'll put Apple out of business :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delude:
Damn this is good!

The only thing that could possibly be improved is the scrolling, so it is more natural. It actually speeds up at the minute as you scroll. When the scrolling is sorted and we can create themes it will be perfect!

EDIT: Also, when I go to favourites on my Wizard the text goes off screen. It would also be nice to have the option to add another contact. (I may have missed this somewhere)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pangmy3:
I can't access to the website that you've suggested, even by trying many times on different pcs. Do you have another link which I can gain access? Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delude:
Which browser are you using?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Note: please avoid quoting long post for nothing.

What means "can't access"?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pangmy3:
Thanks....delude..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pangmy3:
Sorry... Each..:p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
Hi

You can add contact to 'Favourites' by going into the detail page of the contact, click on the photo and the drop down list will have the feature of 'add to favourite' (or something like that).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
That's a bug, add

contact_description_box=83,31,234,101

in a settings.ini file that you put in the program folder, it should make it ok, if not, tell me

I'll look into it... however, does anyone know a program that put it self in the top bar (start menu bar) that allow to switch between portrait and landscape? For now I have to switch to today screen and click, and that force my app to repaint itself, so it looks always good for me.

fixed in next version.

I've changed a bit the scrolling algo, it should look more like ContactManager. Next step would be to make it a setting.

Actually that's more complex than that:

The order is as follow:

- PocketCM load the theme (a zip file containing a settings.ini)

- PocketCM load the lang.ini

- PocketCM load the settings.ini

So image the theme define a custom index, the lang.ini define an index for the language (with russian letter) and you want a specific index. This way, it will just "work".

The objective would be to make great theme so non-advanced user can get the look other are sharing... and theme designer can simply use the settings.ini to tweak their theme, once they got something good, they package it as a cmt file (zip file) and can share it. A user than want to test a theme can just download a copy one file.

That's also a new thing with PocketCM: position of photo, detail, header text and button can be customized. You can put them where you want, for so make a bigger space if required. or make the picture at the bottom, the phone list at the top, etc...

However one missing thing is a "available address field" that would use business if present or home if present. Like there is already for %phone, %phone is the first available phone number.

Well, just a reminder: I'm not apple user, I don't know iPhone (it's not available in Europe yet), I've never touched one.... and I'm not trying to copy iPhone. I'm just trying to make a decent contact application with lot of customization. From my understanding Apple is more trying to make a very good phone with great app that you can't customize.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paalkr:
Hi!

Would you consider implementing support for language dependent characters such as øæåØÆÅ in the SIP in a future release?

Regards,

PK
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boyfriendinacoma:
tryed it loads great love the sms

cant wait for the final version

will it take over your windows sms?

i hope so and will you be able to use your own keyboard?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
You can customize the layout already (read the first post). Doesn't it work for language dependant letter?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pprakash:
Its a very neat and nice app. Good speed imporvement when compared to CM.

1.I couldnt find any settings.ini file by default. Should I create one?

2.Is there any setting to adjust the length of the selection Text which is displayed with blue background. When using with left hand I couldnt see the texts. So just wanted to reduce the length of the bar
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
in short: yes and yes.

More info and docs on www.pocketcm.com/beta.php
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Mr Groch:
Default theme for VGA devices
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] charmer:
Makes things better for me by changing this line, but it's still not quite right. Only the first part of UK postcodes is displayed, and if an address has more lines than average, the postcode is not displayed at all.

I'm also finding that the 'code' for business addresses is being displayed rather than the addresses themselves.

Other than that, this is a wonderful tool which is quick and easy to use

Cheers!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spinedoc:
Great program! I am a diehard user of versin 0.11. This is on a Sprint Mogul PPC6800 with WM6.

Some concerns though, and reasons why I will still use version 0.11.

.5 does not seem faster loading, in fact it takes a good second to load, and I see the "loading contacts" for half a second before it loads making it seem sloppy. In 0.11 the first load took a second or 2, but then after that it loaded instantly. In .5 every single time it takes a second to load. I'd rather have 0.11.

No option to change settings. I'm sure you are working on this, but it would be nice to increase the font size to be the same as 0.11, MUCH easier on the eyes. Also it seems like the pictures get cropped more in .5.

The letter separator is horrible, it breaks up the screen and is unnecessary in my opinion. Others may like it, so is it possible to turn this off in settings?

I haven't played with it so may have more suggestions. So far I am definitely going to stick with version 0.11 as it serves my needs best.

I did want to post a big THANK YOU for this program in general, I have been asking about something like this for YEARS. It is awesome overall and I am very appreciative of the hard work you put into this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
So use 0.11 ;)

On most device, it's more 20 seconds for .NET version, 2 to 3 for native version. However, if you hit the hide button, it actually close the app, with the .NET version, it just hide the app.

So make the change, there is a forum dedicated to theme on pocketcm.com.

The sad part: most people will make one change for them, and won't share it with other... I was dreaming about getting 2 or 3 good theme for ContactManager, only a few, working on some very specific device... I'll probably stop freeware.

Go read the setting information. There is of course a setting for it. Please note that *you* find it horrible, hopefully not everybody.

So stick with it ;) As long as you're happy, I'm happy ;) Technically it's stupid, but hey, you're the user ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] msm903:
Blank Summary Page

Lovely work on the new application. For me it works better than the 0.11.

The only few issues that I have at this moment are these:

1) I'm not sure the proper installation process to link the PocketCM to my phone so i just installed 0.11 and then replaced the contents in ContactManger with the 0.5 thus renaming NativeContactManger.exe to ContactManger.exe and that has solved that problem.

2) When I click on View Contact I just get a Blank Page with the Back and Hide buttons still showing. I currently have no means of deleting a Contact because of that. The problem may be specific to my machine not sure.

I'm using AT&T 8525
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
AJerman, I'm not sure I understand, you want to have the contact but not see it? maybe what you simply need is a specific category?

Anyway 0.8b released, bug fixes for the critical issues reported: crash, sms sending, sms threading, ...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sbp:
Dear Tene, thanks for your great work.

I just tried 0.8b, unfortunately I still have the SMS threading bug. All my SMS are shown in every contact.

I didn't have this problem in version 0.7b

Thanks

Steen

WM5, Danish, HTC p3600
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iNiels:
This version solved the sms issu on my touch Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iggy:
hi tene, I am still unable to view contact, just get blank screen even after v8b. See screenshot.

As can be seen from the screenshot in the summary window it still shows the Back/Hide softkeys but if I click on Notes then you see the regular softkeys for the built in contact viewing but still a blank screen.

Edit: SMS also not working for me. SORRY, false alarm, problem is the box to enter your message is the same color as the background and I did not notice it (can we make it inverted)?

WM2005 Apache PPC 6700
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] spinedoc:
Very nice improvements in speed!! I stuck to the old version .11 since it was faster for me, but I just tried the new 0.8b and notice it stays in memory, only uses about 500k and opens instantly.

I changed some stuff around, like the font sizes, colors and backgrounds to make them easier to read in sunlight.

I had a couple of questions on this great program.

I resized the font on the contacts name and number (lines 1 and 2), and the text is now too large for the contact slot. Is there a way to increase the height of the slot itself where the contact name/number is in? I really like having very large fonts as this helps with visibility. I also would love to have the contacts slot larger to help with my fat fingers!

Also I notice the change where instead of just having an option for favorites and back to all contacts, now there is an extra step involved with the filter screen. Is this something I can turn off and go back to only having favorites? It's an extra step that I dont need.

I saw you post on the forums that future versions would have theme pickers. Just wanted to say thats an awesome idea that I would appreciate.

Thanks much for the time and effort. 0.8b is great.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CreativeBR:
I have tried the 0.8b and i think its more fast than all the early versions until now .

Unfortunally i have one SMS from one contact that appears to every others.

Great software by the way.

{}s

CreativeBR
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] m0nti13:
Love the App...

Having trouble getting it to actually dial the number of the contact I'm trying to call. When I press the number, I get a blank screen and then it returns to the contacts list.

It's probably something I'm doing (hopefully)... Just curious if anyone has any ideas? Are there any programs this is incompatable with? I'm thinking it might be the S2U or Grumps' Iphone dialer skin causing incompatabilities... anyone ever see any issues working together with other software?

I'm asking this question on a few forums... I hope that's not taboo.. I'm just really anxious to get this great program working correctly...

thanks...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zoopido:
Unfortunately, I'm still having the SMS threading problem with all my SMS visible on all my contacts. If you need any information to help with this problem, please let me know!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AJerman:
Sort of, but... well, to explain it better, sometimes I go through cleaning up my phone and I find people that I either never talk to anymore, or don't want to talk to, but in both cases, I still want to keep them saved in case they ever call again, I'll know who it is. I suppose you could create a broad category of "Contacts I Talk To", but it would be pretty cool if you could just not show them on any contact list, or maybe they are in a category that, while in that category, they don't show up in any other lists like "All Contacts".

I dunno, just thinking out loud. Like I said, I don't really think this is as much a feature for you as it would be for the phone itself. If you could add a flag to the contacts themselves that you could set when you edited them, then it would be perfect.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] simontee:
Thanks

Thanks for the info.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dragon_76:
Sounds like the SMS threading bug is ROM related and not related to the application because I don't have the problem on my Mogul. I also love the default view, goes great with the Touch Makeover.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
Same here.

One small issue i have though is that new SMS messages dont pop up in the thread until I go out, than go back in to the thread (Refresh it).

Also, can you tell the system that a SMS is read if the thread that your in is open and your seeing the message already?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DaVince:
This is an excellent program. Everything works like they should, including the SMS threading that other people seem to have problems with. The animations are excellent, I wish everything in my phone is like this, not just the contacts.

I love:

The animations, transitions and scrolling.. truly awesome.

SMS threading... damn its cool. (The time stamp is partly covered on VGA devices though)

It resizes the contact picture when I select one.

Only problem I see on this app:

Huge memory consumption, I don't care though, the amount of RAM it uses is worth it.

The Filter menu does not change to portrait <-> landscape properly. It only remembers the first mode when it first opened. If I opened PocketCM in Landscape and opened Filter, it's ok. But after I switch to Portrait, the Filter menu is still showing on Landscape.

You might want to try using "fade-to-white" instead of black. Since the WM interface background for editing the contacts is white.

The contact list is lost when I plug in my PPC via Activesync (if PocketCM is running).

Small letters on the left. (Probably because I have a VGA device?)

I will of course consider a donation for every improvement done. :D

Keep it up!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zoopido:
To others having SMS threader problem, what ROM are you using?

I'm running 1.11.70.1B.WWE with 4mb pagepool and big storage on the Touch.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gnam:
Up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Yarie:
Little bug on .8B version

hello Tene,

First off great work , i really like PM and it works fine with me

There are little bugs that i've just noticed, since i don't really use these fonctions, although i tought it would be nice to tell :

1. In the filter zone, when you want to show your contacts by category (friends...)

if i pick up the "friends" category: it shows all my contacts labelled as "friends"; however, when i want to see the "no category" category: it shows all category (weird), is there a way for you to fix it?

2. When i set the phone on landscape and go to my contacts; if i use the filter mode, it doesn't show properly: i can still see a bit part onf my contacts images and the side (sorry i don't know how to put a screenshot on the thread); i think that on the landscape mode the filter doesn't upload properly. Also, the capital letters to use to scrolling are "hugely" small :p

3. the sim contact doesn't show, not really a pb but i think this issue is being reccurent (don't know if i spell it right:p )

Voila. I hope those little bugs will help you fix / consider your application.

Have a good day

Again: great app!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Promaster:
back to contact menu?

hi,

i can´t find the old contact program. when i start the contact manager, only pcocketcm opens.

need help

thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
No it's not, and it's fixed for 0.9

It was developer related issue ;) It should happen to people having international number in their address list (like I do) and provider that use international name. It should work correctly in 0.9 for all (I hope ;).

Nice catch, will be fixed in 0.9

For landscape mode, I'll have a look.

For SIM contact, unlikely to happen.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Yarie:
Happy to help :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoachForLife:
I apologize for being off topic but how do you setup the lower left soft button to be SMS? I think I am retarded because I cant seem to find on my WM6 8525. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] umirza85:
Is it possible in vo.8b to get the filter button to go directly to the favourites instead of the filter menu? I prefered it that way. thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Slide your finger on the contact list from left to right or right to left.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] akarnik:
awesome job!

i just came across this package, and tried it out. Terrific application...very well done indeed. Scrolling is perfect and the look and feel is very nice..very "Touch" like.

The only change i would request is to make the alphabet bar on the left, a little wider (double the current width) and allow us to place it on the right, (for left handed people)...i find it a little hard to use with my left thumb (holding the phone with the left hand, one handed use only)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kintestyle:
Doesn't work for me, I can see the "animation" it makes but it still stay on the all contacts list, not favorites. Any suggestions to solve that ??
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
you're probably using 0.8 not 0.8b. Try to upgrade, or be patient...