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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] htckaiseruser:
Whats wrong with this site? http://burt.vndv.com

cant open it, wont load, time after time
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Do you apply appropriate skin for your device? If you have QVGA (240x320 screen), then install QVGA skins. For VGA (480x640) use _vga skins.

Font sizes can be changed in .skn file of the skin you use, inside the Themes folder.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wearefree:
Truburt, what do you think about this call history idea?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] coney718:
How and where do I get different skins? In my themes folder now all i have is default_vga file and thats it. My screen is 320x320. which one should i be using? Sorry for all the questions but im new at this
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iggy:
You can DL the correct version for your device here and the different Skins here http://burt.vndv.com/index.php?ind=downloads&op=section_view&idev=1

DL the cab or zip without VGA

Skins - look on the left hand bar about half way down for the link
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] coney718:
That worked. thanks alot
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Unfortunatelly, I still haven't detected the root cause of this problem. I get it myself on my HTC Touch. Any ideas are welcome.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Good enough to implement in one of the next releases. Though we should think of how to fit it into existing interface.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wearefree:
I'm glad you liked this idea... when I first presented it you probably overlooked :)

Well what I think the interface doesn't need to be changed; the current interface is good by having this:

Name (id) ______________ time

phone number ___________ number of repeats

Currently the number of repeats only counts when there are no other call activity between identical type of calls (in, out or missed) from the same caller id. What I would like to see is this counter set to whatever number of call activities associated with this id (in or out or missed) and group them in the details (similar to what outlook call history has). Since you have figured out the scrolling in the details screen it should look very nice.

If necessary the counter can be chosen to reflect all calls associated with this number in a day or in the entire call history.

The missed/incoming/outgoing call history section may utilize the same coding.

There are one caveat though: numbers from incoming call is generally 1-(###)-###-#### (in US) and outgoing are generally stored as (###)-###-####, and pointui was able to identify these two as the same caller but were given two categories.

Truburt, I do realize this is a lot of coding you need to write/rewrite, but it'll be great if this can be implemented. Thank you for your great work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rexysf:
I use a mogul, any way to make an option that when the phone is in landscape mode it will open the standard contact manager? That way I can still search for contacts using the hardware keyboard.

Let me know what you think of this idea.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wearefree:
It shouldn't be necessary. Once you're in landscape mode (with keyboard out), either at the call buttons screen or today screen you can start punching names and the correct id should come up.

I'm using tmobile wing, open touch v4 lite rom.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rexysf:
When I open it in landscape and start typing, it just skips to the first letter I type. It doesn't create a filter for the whole name like the standard contacts does. Any idea????
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
There is a bug with TouchFLO Cube: it freezes when Contacts button is pressed while iContact is bind to it.

To bind it anyway, you must set the following in registry:

Key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:MSCONTACTS

Param Name: 1

Param Value: "\Program Files\iContact\iContact.exe"

keep quotes for Value.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gregy1403:
Hi

I noticed one thing .. dunno, might be somewhere in config but i can't find it.

I have SIM contacts turned on and when i try to search for contact it always finds just first letter. I can't type further, because it uses second letter as first.

I have like 25 entries on SIM under letter Z, so it is not user friendly to scroll down all names on letter Z.

Why iContact BE doesn't follow letters and lists entries as you type letters?

That is the only thing that is stopping me now from using your wonderful modification!

P.s. one more .. when i click on Outlook button it takes me to old list of contacts? .. there i have to search again for contact and edit it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
1. Full search is not implemented yet. It will be available in BE6.3, though.

2. Yep, when you click on Outlook, it takes you to the old list for manual editing. SIM contacts support is limited, I do not provide any editing interface, and there is no way to call Outlook's SIM Contact Edit dialog from within the app.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gregy1403:
thank you verya much .. looking forward of full search .. any release date?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Can't say right now, maybe in two weeks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iTouch24:
SUGGESTION:

i think on the favorites tab u should remove the letter dividers.... i dont think people have thaaaaaaaaaaatttt many favorites that u need the letter dividers.. i have about 20 favs showing with pictures.. would make everything look smooth and together looking if there werent those letter dividers inbetween

great program otherwiseeeeeeee ....

Also needs to be an easy way to verify which version u are currently running
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -Arturo-:
You can do it yourself Icontacts config and then untick enable search in favourites.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sharknoir:
Hello, This Key is already set in the registry but TF3D already load Windows contacts and not iContact BE6, when you select "repertory" in the "contacts" folder !

Perhaps in the 6.3 ?

Thanks for your great work
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iTouch24:
:)

wow, thanks for pointing that out .. PERFECT !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwoodall:
I can't use the iContacts cOnfig as I'm on a smartphone. What are these settings in the settings.ini file? I can't see anything relating to this.

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Zenoran:
is there any way to get one of the earlier 6.2 versions??? I didn't see a lag in that version and wouldn't mind going back to it but I can't see the older versions on the site.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Here is a BE6.0.

Before you roll back to it, could you please check if lags are there when you have ShowPicturesInList=0, ShowPicturesInCallHistory=0 and ShowSIMContacts=0 in your settings.ini? Also try to set EnableScrollAcceleration=0. Many thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] joshrys:
is the burt site down. i'm getting an error when trying to connect...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] computerjunkie:
Anyone know where I can find themes for iContacts?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] opacityzero:
The QVGA version works and looks great on the Treo 800w (320x320 res) phone.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] polartik:
I use iContact v6.2-VGA (French parameters in the iContact config)

In the call history, when we delete a call, there is a confirmation box like this: “Voulez-vous effacer ce contact?” (Would you like to delet this contact ?).

It is very surprising because the correct sentence will be “Voulez-vous effacer cet appel ?” (Would you like to delete this call?)

This sentence can be modified in a future version ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] insomia:
i'm not sure if anybody got the same error when backing up their device using sprite back up. bcoz i just cant backup my xda atom exec when i installed the latest icontact BE. i need to revert for a while to the previous version. maybe its a bug or my mobile setting probs.

btw, this is the best icontact version!

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Can you reccomend a good freeware out there for to me to backup my phone with? I've got a lot of things installed and tweaked to my liking and I would be devasted if I lost everything. Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deCorvett:
Hi all,

I'm doing this for my Diamond, but maybe some of you would want it, don't you? :D

Of course, isn't finished yet.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
BE6.3 beta 3

New beta of BE6.3!

- T9 search is available instead of Jump-To keyboard!

T9 means that you should press a key containing the next desired letter once, search engine will do all the rest for you. E.g. if you need to find 'Jack', press once 'jkl' for j, then 'abc' for a, then 'abc' for c, and finally 'jkl' for k.

Should work for smartphones too, just press a key on dialpad (* or D-Pad Left goes for 'Backspace', # goes for 'Close', 0 goes for 'Toggle Layout')

Available in Call History too!

- New settings in .skn file:

KeyboardFontSize - changed from 40 to 20 and used for T9 keyboard now.

KeyboardSearchFont/KeyboardSearchFontSize - determines font for Search String (displayed above keyboard buttons).

KeyboardHeight - height of T9 keyboard, 160 (half of the screen) by default for QVGA.

- Added scrolling in Details screen, just like in contacts list

- Long Tap can now be aligned either at the right side or at the left side of the screen

Right align: LongTapAtRight=1, left align: LongTapAtLeft=0 in .skn file

Notes:

Update the KeyboardFontSize in your .skn file!

T9 keyboard layout can be toggled either by EN/.. key, or by long-tapping the keyboard.

'Back' and 'Erase' labels are not localized yet, since it is a beta. Probably they will be replaced with graphics later.

I need your help in finding bugs.

Could you also help me to prepare localized alphabets for T9 (German, French and Spanish), please? Take a look at english.lng to understand what 'searchAlphabet' parameter should look like.

Many thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iggy:
Truburt, can we make the T9/keyboard as a setting so the user can choose which they prefer, I really prefer the regular keyboard.

My bad, forgot to say excellent update and thanks you, keyboard is just a preference, otherwise T9 works great.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rwertz14:
Looks great, hope you will do a QVGA version as well.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
hehe, i think T9 is only for people who have contacts since they were 4... and are now 25...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rwertz14:
I too would like to see a setting for T9/Keyboard, as Iggy said that way the user can choose which type they prefer. T9 works great, but I prefer the regular Keyboard myself.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Starflake:
I love this theme already! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwoodall:
Sadly I have to agree. In it's current form the T9/Keyboard doesn't work terribly well. I have the twenty key (Blackberry style - used on Juno and Touch Duo) keyboards that use eT9 and this fails to work for me. If you can't get it working like the regular contact manager does, at least let it optionally work the way it used to with single letters. And support eT9 and other key layouts.

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ninja.rogue:
I have a new Diamond and would like to test your theme, which I believe is very nice!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] antihero11:
to Burt

new version's 'T9 search is available' is really good. :) but i think some more things are needed. :D

1. transparent keyboard background. for searching contacts more easily.

2. enable to choose default keyboard(current default is english) for choosing custom keyboard layout easily.

attatchment file is korean.lng file that i made. i hope it can help someone.

thank you for your great job.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] WatskeBart:
Great tool much much better than standard WM6.1 contact's.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
BE6.3 beta 4 :)

Here comes the update:

- T9 keyboard polished, now uses local layout by default, Back/Erase text changed to graphics, no skin png changes.

- Old-style Jump-To keyboard is default now, unless you set T9SearchByDefault=1 in your settings.ini. You can still access T9 search by long-tapping the Keyboard menu button (press and hold it for a second).

- T9 keyboard supports transparency now. If you find it too slow, set T9SearchTransparent=0 in settings.ini.

- Search using hardware keyboard have been rewritten from the scratch, now it uses default input method of a device instead of regular T9 search. Press a key and see what happens :)

- Red/Green/Back key handling changed! Now should work for Smartphones with no need to unlock or apply certificates.

- Some minor improvements

Thank you all for your comments on 3rd beta :)

I still need localization of T9 keys for German, Francias and Spanish languages. Please provide it if you can.

Korean and Hungarian translations included, many thanks to antihero11 and twingos!

P.S. http://burt.vndv.com is finally up and running, hope there would be no downs this time, so you can always grab the beta there :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Please try 4th beta: hardware key support has been rewritten.

Red/Green/Back keys are handled without hooks now, should work with other apps now. Do they work for your device?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] -Arturo-:
Well...I can only say...SWEET! Love the new implementation of T9 now I can easily use both search engines. Great work Burt!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Thanks :)

I would like to make sure that search is stable. Please report any bugs or issues if they will appear.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] antihero11:
Really fast!!!

Really fast update!!

Thank you for your fantastic program :)

thanks again
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rwertz14:
New Beta

Truburt... You have done a phenomenal job with this program and I don't know what more you can do to make this program any better, but I'm sure you'll suprise me. Excellent job in allowing the ability to choose keyboards. The T9 keyboard works great, I have not seen any issues with it. Again great job!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwoodall:
WUNDERBAR! Forget y'days comments - this version is wonderful! Yes, it plays nice with VitoCopyPaste now and I think the dialing from hitting the dial key is a nanosecond or three faster too!

The back key works properly too. Wow - I'm really excited all over again about iContact.

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwoodall:
I'm still trying to find out what the settings.ini item is to turn off the ABC... letters in the Contact List and such. Again, I can't use the iContactCfg program because I don't have a touchscreen phone.

My #1 request now -- allow us to move up to the picture in Details and select it to add/change the picture stored with the contact. Selected picture will be resized down before storing if larger than screen size.

I use iContact with Encallio (a replacement dialer/callerID for smartphones) and it's contact manager is unfortunately far too slow to use easily for this task. Besides, I'd much rather be able to do this interactively in iContact!!

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iggy:
Enablefavoritesearch=0 it can only be disabled in Favorites
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwoodall:
Oh... I thought someone earlier in here said that you could disable them in the Contact List as well. Well, shoot.

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iggy:
Truburt, just curious, I start iContact in Favorites and their is the normal 2-3 second lag on startup but when I switch to Contacts I get the 3 second lag again.

Is their a way to have all the contacts load at startup to avoid the second lag?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Lycox:
+1

I'd like to see that too.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Well, there was a thought to add CallerID functionality to iContact, though after some investigations I found that it will decrease the speed and require much more memory. Thus, I'm thinking of doing a separate CallerID application, called 'iCaller' or something :) Though I can't say when I'll start it.

Adding picture upload support to iContact is also a huge step, as it will require some GUI for selecting the picture and much work for storing it. For now I think that it is out of iContact's scope: I need to keep a balance between speed and features. Maybe this will be an option to iCaller :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Yep, first lag is to load skin, prepare drawing surfaces, load Favorites only (which is much faster than loading all the contacts) and draw the screen.

Second lag when you toggle to All Contacts is the load of all contacts, which is time consuming. Thus, loading All Contacts at startup will add 2-3 seconds to loading time and it will raise from 3 to 6 seconds in your case.

I'm not sure that it is really good. Maybe better solution is to keep iContact opened all the time (ExitOnMinimize=0), so you won't see any load lags at all while working with it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Okay, I'll add that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] chiekh:
IcallerID

Thanks for all your hard work and it's a good news about iCallerID prog. Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwoodall:
Understandable.

There's already a GUI in the system for selecting images. Images are stored with the contacts already - the only problem is that the built-in system stores them at something like 80x60 resolution. However it's been shown that you can store them in whatever resolution you'd like and the contact list and rest of the system will use them as stored. In fact I've stored most of my contacts at images sizes ranging from the tiny build-in size up to 240x320 with zero problems using Encallio.

The only problem is that you have to use Encallio's separate contact manager, which is slow, to add these.

In summation your honor, you don't have to roll another GUI for selecting images and you can already store them with the contacts. I rest my case.

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwoodall:
BUG - dialing network code (such as #225# and others) fail from within iContact but work with the regular Contact Manager and by direct entry.

WISH - I'd still like to be able to specify the height of the bottom taskbar so I can free up the space I'm not using in my BurtGreen skin. It simulates the regular taskbar which is fairly short compared to the regular iContact taskbar.

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nir36:
I'd like to see iContact make bread. can you have it make bread?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rwertz14:
Or at least a stiff drink at quitting time.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] antihero11:
i found a problem..

when i search contacts with t9 keyboard, and the search results have more than 4 contacts, i can't select 4th contacts and next contacts because of keyboard. it's okay when the search results have less than 3 contacts, or more than 20 contacts, but the rest cases, the t9 key board hide the contacts(contacts list cannot move because of the list below the keyboard is too short to move up)

sorry for my poor english :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jimcxt10:
You might want to try Pocket CM Imageviewer. Its a super image viewer that includes the function of setting photo to contacts. It also supports setting the contact image by a zoom feature. This lets you select just one person from a group photo for your contact photo.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Menubar height is adjusted in .skn file: see MenuButtonHeight parameter.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Thanks, I'll fix that.

Meanwhile, you can do one of the following:

1. Set T9SearchTransparent=0 in settings.ini

2. Use joystick to select the required contact (Action button to open it).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Falk:
I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but the thread is too long to go through all posts. The program complains about a missing component on startup and I am not sure what it might be that it is missing. I am using it on a WM6 Japanese no phone PDA... not exactly standard ;) I have the same problem with a select few other applications and really wonder if this is something that can be fixed. Maybe someone can shed some light on this problem?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] antihero11:
thank you for your rapid answer. :)

because of your advices, it's perfect for me now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Unfortunatelly, this program will not run on non-Phone devices. Only phones (both PDA phones and Smartphones) are supported.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwoodall:
I was so excited over the new T9 searching and how well it looked that I didn't try dialing from the search results. Which doesn't work without a touch screen! I can't scroll up and out of the search box in order to select a result to dial.

Kermit Woodall

Managing Editor

GadgetNutz.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Great, I totally missed that :)

Thanks for noting, will be fixed soon!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] t0k0m0k0:
it works... with PHONE.dll and sms.dll ;)

just have to copy in your folder...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] keines:
Hello

I tried installing iContact (Burts Edition) and PocketCM Contacts on my mobile with WM6.1 Classic (touchscreen and phone functionality), but both dont work. If I try to launch them after installing, I get an error message(something about "component not found" or "certificate reliability"). The iContacts Configurator app is working, though.

Can anyone help? Thanks!

Willcom03 (Sharp WS020SH)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] keines:
Exactly same problem here, but my device HAS phone capabilities!!! Help please :)

Edit: If anyone out here has a W-ZERO3 / Willcom03 / WS020SH, I found a dummy phone.dll which acts as an alias to the real one:

h**p://w03holic.seesaa.net/article/84863261.html
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
It seems that your device security settings are quite strong. It is possible that you need to unlock your device to install non-certified software. Here is an article describing it: http://www.mvdirona.com/jrh/SmartPhone/AppAndSimUnulock.htm
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
iContact BE 6.3 beta 5

Changes:

- Long entries in Details screen are now cropped with '...' suffix

- Text of Addresses and Notes in Details is now word-wrapped if it do not fit the screen

- Fixed bug with no ability to select a contact while T9 searching on Smartphones and non-touchscreen devices

- Minor changes in scroll bouncing

6.3 is quite close to release now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Falk:
Confirmed! Works like a charm with those two files in the iContact folder. Thanks you so much for solving this! Now all I need is a WVGA skin :D Any chances of seeing one in the standard package?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] keines:
Ok!

I can confirm t0k0m0k0 and Falk, the solution worked fine, just add phone.dll and sms.dll (It seems those were missing in my mobile cuz mobile company didnt use original one but custom ones -> different name and place, btw dont have sms functionality here in japan anyways ;) )

IContact works like a charm, PocketCM doesnt. It starts up, then shuts down.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sinoo:
Can't wait to get the final version! Will the old skins (v6.2) still be usable?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] truburt:
Yep, they will, graphics has not changed.

In order to make things perfect, a few new parameters should be added in .skn file.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iggy:
Hi Truburt, regarding the t9, now it is possible to use the dpad to scroll down to the contact (if the list is still more than 2) after the search but would it not be easier if when u click the exit button on T9 it keeps the search list then u can make a choice??

:-) easier for us to use of course not for you to program!