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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Skiddy:
If you use Newsbreak you have to modify the registry - search this thread for instructions, they were first posted when RSS first appeared for the SWM. There is however one caveat. If you only have one news channel selected it will not show on the watch. The RSS feed then will be transmitted at random. An interesting gag but not very useful.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ice_coffee:
cool I have tried just connecting it without my headset, but unfortunately I think it will die at the 14 hour mark again !

I don't think the headset was the issue !

let me know how you get on with the factory rom ! I am waiting for AP4.0 which might be out on monday !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poeria:
hi Im new here,

Ok first of all let me start with saying that this ROCKS :p even though i dont have the watch yet, I want to get a Windows mobile phone and a MBW-150 watch but I want to ask a few questions first. ok so here I go:

is there any diffrents between the 3 mbw150 models? (expect looks)

im searching for a windows mobile phone with a 3+ megapixel camera, wifi, descent music and video support, around 8GB or memory slot, everything else that is normal for a phone and ofcours good looks and I want it to work with the watch specially the music control. can anyone help me with this? has anyone got something like this? if you do please tell me:)

any tips and etc would also be nice, I would appreciate it

thanks

if this is offtopic please send me a mail: poeria_deeerste@hotmail.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NRGZ28:
I'll answer your watch question, but questions about what type of phone you should get aren't really necessary in this thread. It's big enough as it is.

The watches are no different from a functionality point of view. They just look different and of course.... the classic and music editions are cheaper than the executive edition.

As far as the phone.... Look at the HTC TyTn or TyTnII (Tilt).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bieza:
I don't know if there was a post like mine but i found i little problem with my sgh-i780 and my MBW-150:

I use the latest version of smwatch (0211) and every time i push a button on the watch, the display on my sgh goes on.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
Well, this is a "feature" of Samsung/Asus devices. (Even when you close sWM and delete the COM port, the display backlight will still be turning on.) Samsung Blackjack has the same problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poeria:
ok great thanks

and moneytoo I had a question for you: does your watch works perfect with your phone? if it does can you please tell me which phone you have?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
The list of phones is in smartWatchM wiki. I develop this primary for HTC Wings (works flawlessly) but I often test on HTC Kaiser (and other devices) as well.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poeria:
ah ok I see, thanks for the info. You think its gonna work with Sony Ericsson X1? you gonna test it out when it comes out?:p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GuardianZX9:
Well, tried the Factory HTC rom last night and this morning,

and no luck, same results, it is draining very quickly with any ROM on the HTC X7500(Athena).

So, not sure what I can test next, I have the same results with BTWatch, although it seems to be a slower drain rate than with SmartWatch.

I have no issues with my TytnII, it seems to last much longer.

Could it be an issue with the BT Stack on the Athena?

G
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pernod99:
NO !!

Every two Days new Features, but e.g. elementary "Appointment Notify" did not Work :mad:

Also, my NEW HTC S730 & MBW-150 Ex.:

1. Did NOT notify/remind me (MBW-150), if an Appointment is present (S730 remind with Sound correct)

2. Did NOT Show any RSS Feed on MBW-150

3. sWM usage a lot of RAM & CPU Speed

4. sWM did NOT work with SBSH PocketWeather 2.xx (Smartphone Edition)

@moneytoo

Please

fix this elementary "Bugs/Features

before

you add new Features !!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bremair:
4.1 add also Spb Weather klick (Pocket PC)

5. fix the autostart problem.

How can I test the unknown callerlogo? What should be the name of the nol-file?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
I wont fix this your problem since appointment notifications work for me on all devices I have tried.

Does btWatch appointment notify work for you?

Is the rss path correctly set?

This could be an issue of the test versions. Not a problem of stable releases.

Tell me exactly where in the registry are the temperature data (today/tomorrow) are stored and I will add it.

This was problem in 0.2.1.0. It was fixed in 0.2.1.1

unknown.nol

I thought I fixed it but it still doesnt work yet. Sorry. (Will be fixed in next release. I added the fixed code somewhere else :))
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bremair:
Now after a restart I got this error:

Error: System.IO.IOExection: Es kann keine Fehlermeldung angezeigt werden, da die optionale Ressource der Assembly, die die Fehlermeldung enthält, nicht gefunden wurde.
bei System.IO.Ports.SerialStream.WinIOError()
bei System.IO.Ports.SerialStream..ctor()
bei System.IO.Ports.SerialPort.Open()
at a.b()
at a..ctor()
at c.a()

After I select start from Menu the watch connected again.

Maybe the app starts too early?

You will find the Spb weather data in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Spb Software House\Spb Weather\Settings\Cities\

I got three further folder (0, 1 and 2) because I have three different cities displayed on homescreen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
I've just got the same error after restart on HTC Kaiser (WM 6.1, .NET CF 3.5).

Go to \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\smartmadsoft\smartwatchm

and set startdelay to number of seconds before sWM tries to open the port.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] poeria:
so where does the software works better on, HTC TyTN II or AT&T Tilt
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bremair:
Thanks, now it works perfect. I set it to 20, as my ppc has to start a full hs :D

At the AT&T Tilt you have a QWERTY keyboard instead of a QWERTZ
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] axle7517:
hello moneytoo

for me i think it is here:

my device/program files/spb weather/data

here there is a file called "cities DB"

i think that there will be some kind of probleme when there is more than on cities

i don't know anything about programing, but if it is that file , i think that it should be only one city

i told you that it doen't work, but i have a doubt : shoud we copy un smartwatch path a logo called "unknow.nol" to see if it works

or is that logo part of smatwatch ?

seriuously, using smartwatch with latest version i don't see this probleme

But... today i left my watch home and all i can say is :

less bateri drain

better audio connextion with bt carkit

kaiser is a little little more responsive

for appointment i still have the same probleme , it would certainly be great if it could be fix

so... what to say or do ???

smartwatch is free, moneytoo did this for free (lot of work), sony watch souldn't work with window mobil, and smartwatch does much more with WM device than any SE device !

so even if there is some problemes, each one have the choice

mine has been made : usefull enought for me so i accept little bugs (but i 'd love it perfect certainly!)

nobody should blame moneytoo

if sonyericson gives moneytoo 20000€ i think moneytoo would have reseons to make smartwatch perfect

so i think it will be a good idea to make a petition and send it to Sonyericson for ask them to support moneytoo (with material and money)

Moneytoo what about my check liste ?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=362218&page=74

nothing possible or interresting enought ?

Thanks

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NRGZ28:
Hey why don't you calm the hell down ?!? Moneytoo is not obligated to make sure his app works perfectly on YOUR phone. He's not obligated to do ANYTHING. Be grateful that you have something... Sony didn't release anything to make their watch compatible with ANY other phones. Chill, agravating moneytoo isn't going to help you or anybody else. Let him do his work, add new features or whatever the hell he pleases. We're just along for the FREE ride, remember that! :rolleyes::D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
monetoo@

your soft are great.

all programs have bugs, including microsoft windows, linux, etc

please, continue with it

agree
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] delboydell:
I will 2nd that, Try making a donation to help moneytoo along rather than sounding off to someone devoting so much time to a FREE application.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Skiddy:
moneytoo

the recent small but steady improvements have made this program already a joy to use. There are a few items though, which I would like to see changed/added or updated:

a) Appointments: I have a number of repeating appointments, which do not show up. That by the way may be the crux of some of the other comments.

b) Email: Currently it is based on pOutlook. Of course it works but pOutlook is somewhat limited. Can you change it such, that we can use Flexmail as well?

c) RSS: Currently this is just a demonstration of the capability. Can it be improved, that only one chosen feed will be shown, whenever it is refreshed?

d) Selection: Would it be possible instead of volume bars to show menu choices?

e) Notification: Can you add a feature to show the WM notification? That could certainly solve "a" plus possibly some others.

Again great work and thanks for all hours of work you have put in.:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] aswaddington:
MoneyToo

Great program, thanks !

A couple of quick questions,

How can I get two line caller info on incoming call?

What is "sound" option in "setup" for ?

Thanks,

Aswaddington
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zaki67:
I am unable to download the program ! I get an error message when I press the link on the first page!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NRGZ28:
That's because his server is down.... chill and wait...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] onedutch:
Hello Pernod, please read my posting (9 posting prior to this one) it's a procedure to use other com ports besides com5 and com6. Perhaps it will help you as well!

Let is know how you are doing!

Cheers Tom
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pernod99:
Thanks for your help, but my School English is soooo bad ..... I could not understand anything of these posting, sorry :-((
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rvashi:
Okay....does anyone have a MBW-100 that they've tried to get this to work with?? I mean, I wanna' buy that watch but I don't wanna' take a big risk by using a watch other than MBW-150 along with WinMo6.1 Professional (because are we even sure that it works with WinMo 6 Pro??)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
I like the design of MBW-100 but MBW-150 has a few more features you can take adventage of. Why do you want to buy MBW-100? Althrough all the basic features (vibrating, displaying caller, envelope) should work because it uses the same commands. (But I've never tested it)

onedutch:

I have made some small change in v0.1.4.3 so maybe this is what helps (it may not appear immediately, just wait few seconds after the watch starts vibrate).

Added messaging info screen (press stop button) and WMP info displaying current playing track (no WMP control, yet).

Few questions for everyone: :)

1) What feature do you miss most? What would you like to do with your watch?

2) Do you use Notification repeat?

3) Does everything works?

4) What's the lamest thing/feature of smartWatchM? What's needed to focus on and improve?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schaggo:
More control over the device. More control over other features. Media player control wouldn't really be that bad. I just discovered that I can use my device as a portable video player in the car when mounted in the GPS crade :) And not having to operate it using the touch screen would rock. But get the important stuff done first before fiddling around with multimedia stuff... Maybe you could make use of MortScript to get some decent stuff done...

Yes, 10 times all 3 minutes. Should do... :)

More or less. Sometimes the connection breaks and you just can't get it back doing a clean initialisation. You have to disconnect, turn off/on bluetooth etc etc to get it back working. But it's coming along nicely, very very nicely.

Eventually you could implement some sort of volume control. So if I'm driving and using the hands free function, it would be great to regulate the volume "blindly" from your wrist watch. You'd have to think about the battery meter then of course. But since the watch supports "long press" of each button, could you do something out of that? Batterymeter is a long press and volume a short press. I don't know, just an idea.

There isnt really anything lame about your program, but what I discovered today: if you have unread emails and unread SMS and you query the phone using the stop button, there is no delay after showing "New E-Mail", the "New SMS" gets sent immediately afterwards. When there are different unread/missed elements and/or calls, smartWatchM should wait a bit after sending one notification before sending out the next one.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
v0.1.5.0

Set volume (on watch volume bar) to value 0-7 and press Stop button display selected info screen.

0 - Messaging info

1 - Appointment

2 - Tasks info

3 - Weather

4 - Last call info

5 - Battery, Signal

6 - Profile, Operator (Profile - Smartphone/WM Standard only)

7 - Time, Date

Weather requires HTC Home (with weather plugin).

Appointment notification - Displays two minutes after the appointment start (:confused: not sure why, have to improve it :))
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iruja:
Hmm, HTC home is bad news for me, won't work on vga screens such as my E-ten x800.

Let's just hope HTC comes with a proper VGA version, but we won't know till they actually release a cga device other than the universal and athena.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
Works on Universal so maybe on E-ten as well http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=351553
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iruja:
Well it does work, that's not the problem.

The screen size of the E-ten is a VGA screen fit in a qVGA size screen.

Effectively it works but is unusable due to the small text and buttons, that's why I'm not using it.

I can provide you a photo to make it clear.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
iruja:

In that case you can look for some other weather software that has easy to read weather forecas data (when the data is stored in registry or some text file). If you find something I can take a closer look and make it to read the forecast from both sources.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schaggo:
Excellent news. This is getting away from being a toy to a serious utility. And judging the ppl gatherin in this thread, there are quite some which "suffered" the MBW-Windows Mobile combination...

As usual, I'll upgrade and report any findings.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schaggo:
Excellent release, once again! I'm staggered...!

What I found: If no upcoming appointment the watch shows "Appointment: 00:00, 1.01.01". And you have to read *really* fast to get all the information on the Tasks screen before it scrolls away :p A change of order of items might not be wrong, but I can't come up with anything better... I'll keep thinking.

But overall, I love it!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] flaviopac:
Wow........:eek:

A connection between a pocket pc and a watch....

:D:D:D

Where we could arrive????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iruja:
Well if I may recommend, it would be spb weather.

You can get weather from multiple sources, so you're not bound to the cities the htc home plugin offers.

This app has an option too so it's not to difficult: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=353008

Just add/take a look at it whenever you got the basic function working perfectly and stable, those are way more important.

Besides I still got to find a place selling them over here, want to know whether they're not to big for my polse.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Azimuth21:
this watch actually looks extremely useful. no need to pull out my phone to check who's calling, a quick look at my watch is all i need. you may have convinced me to buy one, lol. btw, you made engadget mobile
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
Do you have WiFi turned on? I have just experienced the same out of the blue disconnections when the WiFi was on. The COM port is still open but can't send/recieve anything to the watch. Then the connections stoped working at all and I had to master reset the watch again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
v0.1.5.1

Small fixes (E-mail notification detail, No upcoming appointment - no date/time...)

Set volume (on watch volume bar) to value 0-8 and press Stop button display selected info screen.

...

8 - Windows Media Player - request current song & artist name

Stopwatch - set volume to 1 or higher and press Play button (hold middle left button) to start/stop the stopwatch

New feature "Check for update"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] schaggo:
Yes, at home I usually have WiFi on, all the time actually...

Excellent update. And reading the news at engadget, congratulations mate, you did it, ppl are buying the watch because of the handy dandy tool you are writing...!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JimSmith94:
Speaking of buying the watch, you've got me wanting one. :) Where is the best (cheapest) place to buy them?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] NRGZ28:
Exactly! I was lucky enough to get my requested feature in (the one where you can modify the registry NOT to show the email address when you get an email notification). For that, I made a donation to him! That's the way to get him motivated, not yelling at him for not tending to your needs! LOL :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] moneytoo:
Thank you guys for your support :)

@axle7517, Skiddy...

I keep in mind your list. I hope I will implement at least some of the features but it's long run...

Anyway, the logo for private calls has been fixed (name the logo unknown.nol) in the latest version (0.2.1.2, as always, link in the first post).

More importantly, I have implemented new way for getting appointment and alarm (the default windows alarm clock) notifications. Unfortunately for some of you, it's available on smartphones only (yet ;)). Download smartwatchm_sp.cab

So if you have a smartphone, feel free to test it if you need these notifications and let me know if this is the right way.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pernod99:
HTC S730 & MBW- 150 Ex. Test Works.

Mostly it work for only one time/Appointment after first Install/Start !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paultnl:
EFL (English as a Forign Language)

Pernod99

I realise from your profile that English is probably not your first language but you realy should learn to moderate your posts so as not to appear so rude and demanding. As has been pointed out, Moneytoo has put a lot of time and effort in producing a killer application which I, and others, have happily donated to for his efforts so far. If a particular function does not work for you, a simple respectful statement of the facts should be enough to get the issue put on the bug list. Use of the explanation mark and other "demanding" phrases or punctuation should be avoided so as not to cause offense.

Hoping you understand this post in the good natured spirit that it is writen.

Paul
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] beginner:
hi GuardianZX9, I haven't a sony watch and cannot replicate your issues. But I use a BT8010 headset and my expertise is it drains really fast the battery. Maybe we have an issue on how the athena use the bluetooth communication.

And about sony watch/Athena, is your expertise correct using together? I am thinking to purchase the watch in order to have vibration when mail incomes.

I was trying to find some way to connect-disconnect automatically bluetooth. Any idea should be appreciated.

thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GuardianZX9:
Beginner,

I also have the BT8010 and I am able to use it all day without major drain, I have 2-3 bars on the BT headset after a full day of calls.

The MBW-100 is the only device I have that drains quickly when connected to the Athena.

I have tried 0.2.1.1 with the same results on drain.

BTWatch also drains the watch in a day, but it seems like its not quite as quick.

I do not have these issues with the MBW-100 paired to my sony phone or if I use it with my TytnII.

Beginner, you could always switch off the BT8010 when ont in use, also what firmware are you using on the headset?

1.4.0 is current.

G
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] beginner:
Hi GuardianZX9,

sorry, my post was unclear. My battery drain is not in the BT8010. I have the problem with the Athena battery. Now, if i have bt activated for calls reception and independent of the number of calls I have, the pda dies in no more 4 hours...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GuardianZX9:
Beginner, I get it now, I think you probably have a bad battery in your Athena, I normally get 10+ hours of regular use, I can use my X7500 all day without recharging and I have 20-40% left at the end of the day.

My battery issue is with the Watch itself, the watch is fully drained after just a few hours conected to the Athena.

G
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JimSmith94:
I love this app and contributed early on, but now I'm having serious issues with both smartWatchM and btWatch when talking on my Bluetooth headset. Whenever I'm using the phone, the watch vibrates and loses its signal about once every minute. Eventually, after 4-8 minutes, the headset beeps and loses its signal and I have to scramble to grab the phone to talk directly. I also notice more "crackling" in my ear piece when the headset does work.

This only seemed to start after upgrading to the official Sprint 6.0 GPS ROM and later to the DCD 6.1 GPS kitchen on my Sprint Mogul (PPC-6800). This has been happening with many versions of both apps since the OS upgrades, so I suspect its something different with Bluetooth in the newer OS versions.

Does anyone else have this issue and/or can suggest a solution? I can't imagine that this is a known issue when using two Bluetooth devices at the same time.

Note: When I switched apps, I uninstalled one and rebooted before installing the other. I've even reflashed a few times to be sure all traces of the other app were gone.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pcfixitman:
I just installed the latest Sprint ROM for my Mogul 3 or 4 days ago (GPS - Sweet!) but also found some drawbacks. The new rom uses an advanced power management scheme to maximize battery when using bluetooth devices. Basically it seems to queue commands and transmit them in batches. So far I have had no luck in finding a way around the issues it causes with btWatch. For me it causes an extreme delay between button presses on the watch and the corresponding responses from the phone. I also now have the problem with the watch disconnecting shortly after accepting a phone call and audio quality degrading, but my earpiece never disconnects.

On the bright side, it has greatly increased battery life of my MBW-100! With the old rom it would last 18+ hours with heavy use and development testing, now it has not needed a charge for 4 days of use and development (still shows 50% remaining).

I am currently working on a new connection scheme to work around the issues caused by the latest ROM releases (I'm sure MoneyToo is doing the same) and will update you if I find a solution.

As a side note, I have also noticed that the A2DP connection for my headset also disconnects entirely when in a call and reconnects after hanging up (did not do this on any previous rom) even without btWatch or SWM installed.