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[General Topics] Menneisyys:
I’ve reviewed several phone recorder applications (please see the links in the last LivePVR article for more information).

A company pretty new to Windows Mobile development, MobileTimes, has just released a new call recorder application, “FoneWatch”. It’s available HERE for $10. (There’s a demo with restricted playback capabilities.)

I’ve pretty thoroughly tested it and found it to be seriously lacking. For example, it seems to use WinCE databases, instead of file system files, to store its call recordings. This means it’s impossible to play them back with another application or media player – you can only play your stuff back with FoneWatch. If you don’t want to archive (for for example [tens of] years) your phone calls or don’t want to listen to them on your, say, desktop, this won’t really be an issue; if you do, however, you won’t even want to bother installing this app – the alternatives are just far better in this respect (too).

Compatibility-wise, I’ve tested it on my HTC Wizard, Universal (two Pocket PC Phone Editions [a.k.a. Windows Mobile 6 Professional]) and a touchscreen-less HTC Vox / s710 (a MS Smartphone [a.k.a. Windows Mobile 6 Standard]). It worked on the former two but didn’t notice calls taking place on the third, the MS Smartphone. It might mean it’s incompatible with not only the HTC Vox, but also ALL the other MS Smartphones – I don’t know. (Not that it’d interested me much – this app is just not worth bothering about. There are much better and considerably superior alternatives out there.)

I could continue explaining the cons I’ve found; however, if you do read my past, audio/call recording-related articles, you’ll understand them all.

Two screenshots follow. The first shows the main dialog of the app with three recorded calls (for a given day). As can be seen, FoneWatch doesn’t have access to the Contacts database; this is why it only displays the caller’s / callee’s numbers (instead of their Contacts data):

The second screenshot shows the decompression when you initiate playing back a clip:

Compared to Resco Audio Recorder, VITO AudioNotes and PMRecorder:

Pros:

Hmmm… can’t really think of any.

Cons:

-	Not possible to directly convert / save recordings – they’re not even visible, let alone being in a standard format

-	Low audio quality; can’t switch to a better recording format

-	No goodies like auto-speakerphone to ease recording the other party on some phones

-	No autostart at system bootup

-	No access to names in Contacts

-	Doesn’t seem to work on some? all? MS Smartphones

-	It uses the built-in storage and can’t take advantage of the external one

-	While it’s really simple and pretty much incapable, it costs money ($10) (unlike the free PMRecorder and the somewhat cheaper VITO AudioNotes)

Verdict

For the time being, I just don’t see any point in preferring this application to Resco Audio Recorder, VITO AudioNotes and PMRecorder, the, currently, most recommended call recorder applications for Windows Mobile.
[General Topics] orb3000:
Thanks Menneisyys!

As always great and valuable info!

Cheers,
[General Topics] delawaresace:
recently i've become very interested in ICR and found myself spending money on programs (i currently use VITO). thanks for the review and saving me from spending money when i don't have to.
[General Topics] Menneisyys:
you're welcome :)
[General Topics] danny7837:
Thanks So Much for An Informative Review...:)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Scotty93:
I have a limited knowlege of computer coding with c++ and was thinkin of making some roms into a .exe file to see how it goes i was wondering whether any one has any help they can give me about doing this.

Thanks for any help in advance :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] champsk:
what would be the benefit of making it .exe ?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Scotty93:
well i was just thinking it would be something to do maybe it would be possible to put extra things in the uploader part, also i know that the proper roms from the suppliers of the phones are in exe form.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] champsk:
im sure it is posible to make the exe from ROM updates, but i think XDA-developers had put in a good hard work into making the HARD_SPL to prevent bricking the phone. Im not sure if you can offer the same pertection on exe method.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Scotty93:
well ive got some free time in a couple of weeks so ill have a look and see how well it turns out.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] champsk:
sounds like fun. Let me know how it goes. ill be waiting to test it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] boog:
Are you wanting it to be something like this?

http://www.4shared.com/file/107710780/ebca0f58/att_stripped_ruuwrapper1.html

That is the at&t stripped rom, it takes it a sec to get going because it's already compressed, and it has to extract the files.

And I did it without any (real) programing. Have I strung you along long enough?

I used bat to exe converter v1.5. I made a ruuwrapper.bat containing a line to run ruuwrapper.exe, and included RUU_signed.nbh and RUUWrapper.exe.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Scotty93:
thanks for your help boog321 ill have a look at what youve done when i get some time away from revising

ill put another post when i am starting to test how it goes to let you know champsk :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gehzumteufel:
This is great and all, but being the nerd I am, I hate binaries that aren't able to be uncompressed manually. And knowing that the people that come here are nerds somehow too, I assume they are probably of the same thought.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] boog:
Yeah, that's the only thing about bat to exe that I don't like.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gehzumteufel:
Yeah, but man, the rom isn't included in there, so that is what is awesome about it. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] boog:
I'm assuming that you meant it is included.

It is cool, unless someone wants to use the sd method to flash. You can set bat_to_exe to either use the current directory, or temp, the example I gave here uses the temp which makes it even harder to catch the nbh file. It will delete the files when it closes.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gehzumteufel:
It isn't included in the RUU flasher package. It is included as another file with it.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Scotty93:
hmm all i can say after reading your posts is that ill give it a go in a couple of weeks. see how it turns out, see what you guys think of it and maybe i can make it into something good.

thanks for the replies :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] boog:
Ahh, ok, we're on the same page. Just threw me off with my quote. I was actually using the bat_to_exe for a totally different project, but just had to try it for this instance.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gehzumteufel:
haha yeah. No worries. Made that mistake many times. :)
[General Questions and Answers] RedStar00:
Just wanted to know besides the ovbious Dream or G1 Phone support android, im running some dev and need another phone i had to return my G1 and need to get another test bed.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psfong:
Wonder if anyone encountered this on their TD2 before?

When chatting on the phone, I tend to hold the phone almost horizontally. This causes the phone to change to landscape mode. However, it seems that this landscape mode is not handled by TF3D for it shows the plain black WM6 interface.

I really like the portrait TF3D interface. How do i force the phone not to go landscape mode while chatting on the phone?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shuflie:
It doesn't on mine, what autorotation software have you used on your phone? Sounds like its one that either you have set up to rotate the phone application, in which case you should go into its configuration and remove the phone application (or dialogue window class if that shows up). If you use autorotation software that sets everything to rotate, apart from blacklisted applications, then add the phone application or dialogue window class to the blacklist.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psfong:
I used Gyrator but i have uninstalled it already.

Anyway, I just installed another one called ChangeScreen and force the phone application to work only in Protrait. It's been working fine for me now

Thanks for the advice :)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] stdu:
Hi, does someone know how to add the call history tab in manilla ?

I used it with my old D1 and wanted to have it on y d2

Thx

Stdu
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] HTC Touch Freak:
I don't see anything for it in the registry anywhere. I myself would like to add the google maps tab but it is not in the software. I do not know where to find it. You would have to loadt the files in yourself unless someone has a cab already made.

IDK. I'm just a newb.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] croisade:
??? I Don't understand why you need a special Tab?

The call history is accessible on the home page of manilla just under the time!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] TeDeV:
because it is much easier to have it in a tab. i miss that too
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] stdu:
Yes I found that when Icon in the tab easy that in the home (maybe depend of the background color used).

I tried by copying the 2 manilla png but doing this the SMS icon in the tab disapear so I thing there is something else to do on the D2.
[General Questions and Answers] jossgray:
i would like to start coding for windows mobile, i need to start pretty much from scratch, i know a bit about BASIC and thats about it

the best(and only) application i have written is one that tells the time and allows you to change the color :D

im willing to put quite a bit of time into it and i understand the dedication it takes,

basically im just asking for anyone to give me some tips for a noob, places to start, references, links etc.

heres a basic plan i have,

learn c# c++

learn about windows mobile api

play around with the sdk

have a look through some code samples

yeah so any feedback or tips from the pros would be great and hopefully i can contribute to this forum later on with some of my own goodies.

cheers joss
[General Questions and Answers] Rudegar:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=517293

some links to some of the threads about your questions
[General Topics] bugsykoosh:
NetFlix now streams through Windows Media Center (if you have Vista home premium or professional). I'm trying to get that stream from my PC to go to my Fuze. Orb doesn't seem to do it. I also used software that establishes WMC as a webcam but Orb can't push that either (they require a USB cam for some reason). I can obviously do remote desktop but that's generally not as optimized for video/sound as would be required to stream movies. Any thoughts?

I'd love to have 100,000+ movies available to stream on demand;)

Thanks
[General Topics] segadc:
Maybe get a webcam and point it at the pc stream. Start everything up with remote desktop then switch back to orb and watch the cam feed.:p
[P3600 General] PedroM:
Hi everyone.

I'm having a small problem with my HTC.

After flashing with various ROM's, updating radio, HARD-spl and searching with google, I don't know what's hapening.

When I receive a call, a SMS simply there's no sound.

I double check everything, and even when I try to play the ringtones I can't ear anything.

Does someone else have this problem?

Someone can help me?

Thanks

Pedro
[P3600 General] EclipseX:
I have the same probleme....and baterry increase, more, if I turn off the screen I don't have more GSM, I need turn off phone and turn on for Give me GSM

But I can send sms, I try to play the ringtones I can't ear anything
[P3600 General] ahlberti:
Same problem here...no one?!?!
[P3600 General] Hab1bi:
try to update your radio rom, radio rom htc trinity can you find on ftp://xda:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/Trinity/
[P3600 General] ahlberti:
Ive upgraded to every radios available from 1.38 to 1.56 and allot of roms...6.5,6.1 and the original in portuguese...and now mi wifi is gone too and its not hardware problem..i should stick to the original rom,really..the problem is the many bogus rom and radio put here wich damage the phones and the genius that cooked these faulty rom and radio are the last to give a solution...very sad..
[P3600 General] krisztian b:
This is why I NEVER use cooked ROMs... My Trinity is 5 ys old and still works perfect. My only advice is to set back to original state. If you don't like wm5, use SPB Mobile Shell 3.x.x...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] srimpo:
hi, just posting about the status of my MDA PRO, after xda helped me fix my MDA Touch ( =D )

it was on charge one day, i picked it up and the usb port was still stuck to the charger!!!!!

it has also ripped up some of the PCB on one of the contacts, will it be possible to solder, i tried but failed.......

if not are these alright?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DESKTOP-BATTERY-CHARGER-FOR-HTC-UNIVERSAL-O2-XDA-EXEC_W0QQitemZ350176962736QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MobilePhones_MobilePhoneAccessories_MobilePhoneChargers?hash=item350176962736&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A1|294%3A50

thanks

Tom
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] paulspiteri:
Damn.

Mine's going the same way :( When I wiggle the cable it disconnects, so, I'd imagine i'm a few weeks or months away from the same fate.

Good luck fixing it, if you intend to.

Wish HTC would make a successor!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] boxchevy:
yeah i have the same issue also. i purchased one of those type chargers and waiting for it to arrive. havent tried soldering mine as im waiting for the replacement connector to arrive also. whichever comes first. been 2 weeks already :(

is this considered a known issue with this model? meaning it will happen with any carrier branded universal. love the unit but dang.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] srimpo:
i still have my original connector, the main problem is the PCB board stuck to the solder. and that as well as 4 big contacts, there's about 5 little ones that my soldering iron is too big for.

My granddad has a smaller one, so ill have a crack with that

let me know how th eexternal charger is. because if its very slow at charging its not worth it... as you cant leave the phone on while charging it

(two batteries maybe?)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] boxchevy:
got charger. takes 3 to 4 hours to charge my original battery. battery runs out at 38% but was doing that prior. bought another battery hasnt arrived though.

you will need a 2nd battery to have Uni run all day as i do :( depending on how much battery life you get out of yours.

but Uni working again :) now to flash rom via sd slot. need to test 3G with last Tmobile rom as im not getting it currently.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Sleepy0905:
It is possible to resolder them i did it for a friend but it takes a steady hand and a fine soldering iron tip of about 1mm set on about 343 oC as you have to be very carefull not to overheat the socket or the plastic innards melt also there are a few surface mount components very close so you have to be carefull not to losen or remove those.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] akmaroc:
I bought a sim unlock code from www.unlock-htc.com and it worked fine. Then it asks me for a service provider unlock code. Can someone please tell me where i can get this from? Thanking you in advance.
[Touch 3G General] hrkh83:
1. I realized that oftentimes I can not receive phone calls!!! the phone was ringing on the other side but I couldn't see anything on my phone...

I also called myself from home...and my phone was definitely ringing!!! and I could hear it's noise on my home phone..!!!! but nothing on my Jade!!!

also people told me that they sent me sms ...and got the delivery report...but nothing on my phone!!!

After I removed my SPB SHELL 3.0...everything is back to normal...

then again .... I updated my ROM to the latest...and I again installed spb shell 3.0... and again i couldn't receive 50% of the calls!!!!!

2. nowadays that I don't have SPB SHELL 3.0 my battery life is very good...

with SPB SHELL I had to charge everyday... better to say every 16 hours!!!:-& ( if i was lucky )

but now I can have my device working for 3 to 4 days...!!!

my questions :

1. anybody has the same issue?

2. any other software like spb shell...because i really loved the way my phone looked with spb shell!!!

thank you in advance for your reply
[Touch 3G General] sas_sas:
The same here, although I lıke MS very much, I can not use due to excesive battery consuming.
[Touch 3G General] stu-k:
I had some issues of freezing as well, but I installed the beta upgrade and now alls good. Battery seems ok now to after few soft resets.
[Touch 3G General] hrkh83:
suspicious!

the battery problem with SPB SHELL really S...!

now I can use my device for 3 4 days ;) ( without SPB SHELL )

I am also suspicious that ESET NOD32 antivirus did the recieve call problem!!!!

Does anybody know a good antivirus for wm? ( free is better )
[Touch 3G General] stu-k:
I get about 2 days with shell, which doesnt seem alot different to what i was getting with out shell.
[Touch 3G General] interpleb:
Same here :)
[Touch 3G General] sharky48:
Just want you guys to know that with my SPB MS 3 (version 3.0.0 Build 6411) my battery last for 7 days. Sometimes 6 when I make a lot of calls or play a lot of games.
[Touch 3G General] stu-k:
7 days is pretty impressive!

I live in a fringe area where the phone is always searching for service, dont think that helps battery life. Also run bluetooth most of the time, to lazy to turn it on and off when i get in the car
[Touch 3G General] sharky48:
I've always got Wifi and BlueTooth turned OFF.

I guess I'v always got a great signal (4 bars and sometimes H (for HSDPA))

I.m running WM6.1 (5.2.20765 Build 20765.1.4.4) witch came with this dutch rom:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=496404

Also nice to know that I almost never use my GPS, this will chance when I install my Brodit holder in my car. But then I can always charge when driving.
[Touch 3G General] hrkh83:
bad news again...

I installed it for one of my friends....on HTC TOUCH HD....

and again he complained about battery usage....

I myself had full signal..... but couldn't receive...

the phone was ringing on the other side and my phone was receiving the signal...( because if it was near Monitor , speaker etc i could see or hear the vibration because of the interference ) but it didn't show me that somebody is calling me!!!

Isn't it ROM related??? I have Arabic Rom....

I don't like Arabic ROM! but I need it because I receive some Persian sms ( from bank and operator ) that I can not read them without Arabic ROM!
[Touch 3G General] stu-k:
Did a bit of a battery test.

Uninstalled spb and did a hard reset, used the phone as normal taking note of battery usage. Then reinstalled spb and its lasted the same amount of time give or take an hour either way!
[Touch 3G General] Qabooz:
i cant recieve sms from other countries anymore, now thinking of it it started around the time when i installed my spb... so an upgrade can fix this?
[Touch 3G General] stu-k:
Try the beta if your not already using it...other than that :confused:
[Touch 3G General] keshakilla:
SPB coling problem

My problem is that I somethimes calling or receiving call but person on other side dont hear me so I need to soft reset device and everithing is OK . Have somebody same problem or advice to solve this problem. thank
[Touch 3G General] hrkh83:
what is your rom version?!

what is you rom version?

are you using Arabic Rom?!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Smaniac:
This looks very promising: http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/21/microsd-to-usb-mobidapter-is-a-smartphones-best-friend/
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] edvavi:
How is that going to be usefull in a Fuze...
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Smaniac:
Well, some people, myself included, wish our phone had USB Host capability, like this thread shows: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=411905

The benefits are obvious: connecting hard drives, thumb drives, etc.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] kusbainian:
Just ranting .... so if you knew that thread existed why wouldn't just post the link there, why the need to create a new thread? It just makes it harder to find info on this forum.
[G1 General] cigar3tte:
Is there a method to retrieve all the .img files Nandroid makes manually? Nandroid no longer works for me for some odd reason (I've formatted my sdcard), only able to get splash1.img and splash2.img before erroring.

Like to get my phone backed up before Haykuro releases his newest ROM. Problem might have started after flashing the the SPL, I'm not positive.
[G1 General] I am M3:
MyBackup Pro ($3.99 in Market, I believe) works wonders. Well worth having it before flashing a new ROM.
[G1 General] cigar3tte:
This won't help if the flashing goes bad. Can't recover or reflash from the recovery console.

But as long as I can reflash an older working ROM, this should be handy.
[G1 General] I am M3:
Well you can always reflash the DREAIMG.nbh through the bootloader if something goes wrong. I thought I bricked my G1 yesterday after having an apps2sd problem. It would just hang on the black G1 screen, but I just did a wipe and reflashed the same ROM I had on there. MyBackup Pro also allows an online backup in case you lose the one on SD.
[G1 Apps and Games] fusioncue:
Does any one have this yet? Just wanted to know?

MAME_G1
[G1 Apps and Games] youuishype:
i thought u was just asking and i was doubting it but wow.. i want this! lol. looks pretty good.
[G1 Apps and Games] andonnguyen:
you can follow the developers blog here:

http://jrioni.blogspot.com/
[G1 Apps and Games] fusioncue:
interesting program as well

LoL any one have any ROMS for the emulator?

Android Video Game Emulator
[G1 Apps and Games] DaveShaw:
Dupe thread of : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=505926

Closed.

Dave
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] fabius88:
hi people,

I need an app that shows me the Stock Exchange updates,do you know any good ones? now i'm trying ticker tape 0.5.1

thanks

Fabio
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] onebyside:
http://www.pocketx.net/products/pocketstockmonitor_ppc/

works great here
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] cj-six:
Is there any way i can make iGO sound louder?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] giniman:
You can search for louder voices, if that's what you are looking for. I have some german voices, which are louder than the default ones.

greetz giniman
[General Questions and Answers] thebats:
Can some one please post any tutorials on chome editor and how to use it, i've been trying to find out how to use it, i want to make new panels, pages but don't know what i'm doing.

thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] RedruM:
Hmm wow... Yeah I'm usually pretty good with this stuff but I still have no idea even what the chome editor even does... Modify the home page is all I can gather, panels and such... I've been messing around with my cooked wm6.5 editor and I'm in the same boat, seems hard to find any good info on this program and how to use it. I'm sure I'm overlooking something.

As lame as it is, help appreciated :I
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
Have a look into Dev & Hack section and do a search for Chome, you´ll find several threads with great how to´s
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] feronovak:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeX6c4avYpo

and works on Tytn/Hermes?

Quite frankly I would be happy to have just this without any addional features.

Thanks all people who make custom WM6.5 keep up good work.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gregorysl:
No You can'. At least for now. This Touch Pro 2 is running TF3D, which don't exist for qvga devices