yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] incredulous:
djdennis didn't ask for warez.

He only asked if anybody had installed it yet.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] benko286:
diference between PNA & PDA???
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Aafjes:
PNA = Personal Navigation Assistant

PNA = Personal Digital Assistant
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
Download. Simply decompress it and copy it on your Windows Mobile 6 device and run it. (Works on my Polaris.)

Details

Source code

Description

Use your PDA to acquire your GPS position and send it through an SMS.

The GPS position is update every 5 seconds (in order to conserve energy).

SMSs can be sent automatically at regular time intervals.

Do you like hiking?

What if you go out in the wilderness and have an accident? How do you direct a rescue team to your location?

You can use Astrolabe on your PDA to acquire your GPS position and send it through an SMS to your friends / parents / children / rescue team.

Privacy

SMSs are not encrypted, so anyone who tracks your phone number can tell your precise position by reading the SMSs with your GPS position.

However, it's debatable whether this is relevant because if someone tracks your phone number, they may already know the position of your phone in the communication grid.

Power saving modes explained

The following power saving modes are available: none, manual, auto.

None

In this mode there is no power saving. The application and the GPS are running even if the PDA is in standby.

GPS positions are retrieved as soon as they are available and are automatically sent through SMSs as soon as it is mandated.

Warning: In this mode, the battery is drained quickly (because keeping the GPS active requires a lot of power). Therefore, the "Auto" power saving mode is active by default.

Use this mode only when GPS position availability is critical.

Manual

In this mode the power consumption is the same as if the application (including the GPS) is not running.

However, you must keep your PDA on in order for GPS positions to be retrieved and automatically sent through SMSs.

Use this mode only when power consumption must be at minimum.

Auto

In this mode the application is running all the time, but the GPS is sleeping most of the time.

Once every 30 minutes, the GPS is awoken for maximum 5 minutes in order to get a GPS position and automatically send it through SMS. When a GPS position is available, this timer is reset.

In this mode, since the PDA sleeps most of the time, it may miss the narrowest chance it may have to get a GPS signal. In order to be sure that GPS positions are retrieved and automatically sent through SMSs, you must keep your PDA on.

Warning: Do not rely on the ability of a PDA in standby mode to automatically acquire a GPS position in (maximum) 5 minutes. Check this yourself!

Use this mode in most cases.

Tests showed that in this mode the battery (of a HTC Polaris, 1350 mAh) would be depleted in about 16 hours, if no GPS signal is available; if there is a GPS signal, the autonomy should be greatly increased (an informal test indicates more than twice the autonomy). Without power saving, the battery would be depleted in about 6 hours.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ather:
what if there isent any signal? :p

(joking..)

Nice app btw :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
If there is no signal, the program waits until it acquires a new GPS position. Then, a new SMS is sent within (generally) 5 seconds.

(Of course, if the repeat time is X, the SMS is sent only if more time than X has passed since the last sent SMS.)

Note: Keeping the GPS active drains the battery quickly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tahdor:
I hace seen many programs like yours, almost all drains battery when there is no GPS signal (inside buildings). Only one programs deals it better, but that has many other issues. One way to stop draining the battery is to read 'N' (say 50) number of NMEA messages from GPS and then turn off GPS for about 'M' (5 - 15) minutes. Then try again. This will save lot of battery. May be you can try implementing it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
You can download a new version which has 2 new features.

You can see the trail of GPS locations where you were. The trail is updated once per minute.

A power save mode is available. If this mode is active, the PDA's power consumption is the same as if the application is not running; however, you must have your PDA on in order for GPS locations to be retrieved and automatically sent through SMSs.

Warning: Keeping the GPS active drains the battery quickly. Therefore, the power save mode is active by default.

Download

Details.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
As you can see, I've implemented a manual power save mode.

In theory, an automated power save mode can be implemented, where the GPS is woke up every 30 minutes to get a location and then sent back to sleep. However, I have no idea what that would do to the device, that is, waking it up every half hour and then shutting it down.

But most importantly, if a GPS location can't be retrieved, what would the device do? The user could be sleeping in a motel for the night (or move through caves or canyons) and the walls could block the GPS signal. Should the device keep trying and thusly consume energy (for how long?), or go back to sleep and miss even the smallest chance of getting a GPS location in those 30 minutes?

An automated power save mode is in conflict with the criticality of having a GPS location any time it is available. Of course, if the device has no power this becomes irrelevant, so a power save mode is necessary. But it's important for the user to understand what's going on.

The current manual mode allows the user to understand that and allows the settings (especially the trail) to remain active all the time. For the moment I consider this to be the best solution.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] doco76:
Accelerometer

Hi,

Your program i very interesting, it will be great to manage the accelerometer

and send a SMS when the phone do not move or when it goes from vertical to

horizontal position.

What do you think of that?

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
In what context would someone use such a feature? I mean, what does an accelerometer provide that the GPS's altitude does not?

I guess an SMS could be sent as soon as a significant change in altitude occurs (because this could indicate a fall).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sinancetinkaya:
Very good idea, thank you

I know you're still developing this program,

Can you add customizable SMS feature? I might need to send an sms in my native language.

And

The program will send SMS automaticaly to Predefined Numbers feature would be great

May it be easy
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
The development is actually frozen. I am just implementing critical stuff, like power saving, and doing bug fixing.

You can simply send a normal SMS. I'll add a "copy GPS position to clipboard" feature to go with that.

SMSs are sent to a predefined agenda contact. Someone who wants to send SMSs with his GPS location should normally do so to a regular agenda contact, so he'll already have an agenda contact or can setup one anytime. What particular usage would there be for an SMS sent to a phone number instead of an agenda contact?

I'll have a new version by tomorrow (if tests are okay) with multiple power saving modes: none, manual (as is now), automatic (where the GPS is automatically woken up to get a location - 5 every 30 minutes). I'll include the "copy GPS position to clipboard" in there.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
In automatic power saving mode, tests showed that the battery (of my Polaris, 1350 mAh) would be depleted in about 16 hours (if no GPS signal is available; if it is and reception is good, the autonomy should be greatly increased). Without power saving, the battery would be depleted in about 6 hours.

Although the new version is already up, I'll make a small change later today.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
Version 1.3.1 is up. See the first post.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Fergus278:
I am going for a hike up the cobbler and Ben Ime in the Arrochar Alps on friday so i will take my polaris and see how things go.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Fergus278:
Well that hike went well and i have taken my polaris on a few other hikes.

To be honest you have almost developed a GPS application for your phone. The sms ability is great, but what i really liked was the trail plotting ability.

A standalone GPS will provide you with a line route against gradient maps. I don't expect there to be gradient maps but just a route line sampled at regular intervals would be great. It would be a good aid to plotting your route with a paper map.

Can i ask if the trail samples can be increased?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6ITdtvFQqY:
The current default power saving mode is "Auto", which means that Astrolabe can only take a GPS location once every 30 minutes. As such, the trail can't be updated more often. Moreover, if the 5 minutes window when Astrolabe attempts to get a GPS location is missed (because the GPS reception is poor), the next one is 30 minutes later, which mean that the trail accuracy is getting worse.

You can change the power saving mode is "None", in which case the trail is updated once per minute... but the battery dies out fast.

Instead of changing the power saving mode, you could manually start your PDA every time you think it's necessary to get a GPS location (and trail location). (Just look in Astrolabe to make sure that the time of the last GPS location is the current time.)

(As I said, the power saving modes will cause confusion.)

I added the trail feature after a bunch of us got lost in the woods. After some 2 hours of being off course we were debating whether to return or go further. Fortunately someone went 200 meters further and saw the road (from where we started). With this feature I could have seen that we were going in the right direction.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] jahangirg:
Hello friends!!!

i am very much new in this field. i have Orange SPV M3100. i updated its Rom to K's Rom. My WIFI was dead. i read the thread "dead wlan due to erased EEPROM" which helped me out to solve my problem. but during this process, i dont know when, my Herm100 converted to Herm200.

now the problems i am facing are that i cant SOFT RESET my herm using stylus. i want to update Rom using SD card, but as i cant soft reset, so i cant.

i will be very thankful to all u guys for helping me to solve my problem. i am alreadt thankful to XDA_DEVELOPERS.

plz explain in detail.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] JR_de:
you can use the power button or take out the battery to reset.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] jahangirg:
thanks brother, but i thought taking out battery might cause some problem to my Hermes. anyways, i am already using the same method. but the question is

"why my hermes doesnot soft reset when i put the stylus in the reset hole"

what might be the problem?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] moontger2:
if your presing and not soft or reset , maybe your reset button its broken or need a resoldering this (internal) for check you need open the htc and check the pins conectors its correctly soldering to pcb, it is in warranty go to your SAT:)
[G1 General] sepulcrio:
I mean, i installed splashid and i'm not able to find the related vid file that usually create the app.

Thank a lot.
[G1 General] maubig:
Not familiar with splashid but most app created data (such as sound recordings, videos, pics, downloads, etc..) are placed on your SD card.
[G1 General] voxluna:
I would try it out myself, but it costs $9.95. So I can only offer two possible scenarios:

1) If you're asking where an application might save a media file: normally this is on the SDcard, in a subdirectory relating to the app's name, So it could be /sdcard/splashid/myfile.3gp.

2) If you're asking where an app keeps its internal data, such as where SplashID stores passwords, it could be the phone's internal memory. I'm guessing here, but it might be somewhere like /data/data/com.splashdata.pro. Unfortunately, you won't be able to access this folder or its files unless you have root.

Hope this helps!
[Touch HD General] yasser70:
How can i edit in contact fileds to add another mobile no. Or any defined filed

I tried it with microsoft outlook office 2007 but it does not appear in my htc contact

Can any body give asolution
[XV6700, PPC-6700 ROM Development] chuckknight:
I have an old Apache which is in great shape, and I want to use it on that new Boost service.

While I freely admit I haven't read *every* message on this board, I've got to confess that I don't now how to do the upgrade. My GSM phones are so simple to upgrade...precooked ROMs are downloaded using a customized bootloader. For the Apache, this does not seem to be the case.

Could anyone *please* post a quick primer on how to perform an upgrade on this phone?

Thank you.

Chuck
[XV6700, PPC-6700 ROM Development] mr4r4n:
all you have to do is put it in bootloader mode and whith the bootloader version that you have load the appropriate rom, if you want i have my collection that i made for the community and if any of those doesnt cover your version/prefs i can make another one
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] kandjar:
MS Embedded Visual Studios use to be free...

Now it seems to be costing a lot (more than $900)...

I was wondering, which tools are you using to develop on the D2?

(I m interested in C# or C/C++ compilers)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] a_bertrand:
Visual Studio Explorer edition is free. And you can produce c# code. Not sure if you can compile for Windows Mobile with it.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] pauloke:
I dont believe the free editions of visual studio allows for the installation of the windows mobile sdk which I believe is required.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] mrmckeb:
If you are a student, you can download Visual Studio for free (look up the Microsoft DreamSpark program). I develop in C#, with the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and using the WM6.5 DTK.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] littlescott:
That's correct, infact even the bottom tier pay version (standard) doesn't do it, you need at least the professional edition.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] elypsar:
Anybody know if there is a cab or reg tweak I can apply to disable zooming in messaging when I hit the scroll wheel? I keep doing it by accident and it's really getting on my nerves.

Thanks!

Edit: Solved, see post #12 http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4594396&postcount=12
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] thealienelite:
I have this problem as well...really sucks.

Someone help? lol
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] bonelafide:
haha, yah same here.

it gets annoying after a while...

I too would like a cab for that.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] antoniouslj:
yeah i'm game for a solution...

maybe a quick reg hack or something. sometimes it goes haywire and i can't fix it unless i soft-reset.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] elypsar:
omg this is driving me crazy!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] benzo:
is there a known fix for this f** functionality??
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] t0mmyr:
in for 1 too
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] sho0z:
i honestly don't see how this hasn't been addressed before?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] elypsar:
I'm not sure if there is a better solution yet, but for now I have simply disabled SmartTouch entirely.

Grab a copy of FdcSoft TaskMgr, go to the Services tab and find the SmartTouch(SMT0) entry. Tap and hold, select Stop, then Set Manual, then Disable.

I don't use the scroll or zoom functionality for anything at all so this works for me. I found this info here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=462662
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] The Jack of Clubs:
i dont think you would want to kill smarttouch all together. maybe just find and delete the registry entry for text messages. i think it is hklm\sofware\htc\smarttouch\outlook email. i dunno if thats really it but who knows.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] sho0z:
dude...i dont care what anyone says about you. you are about the coolest person i know right now. this actually still allows me to use my zoom function in opera?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] elypsar:
No, from what I can tell, it doesn't. I'm not going to test though because I finally did find a good solution. :D

After digging around the registry for a couple hours to no avail, I decided to start playing with programs that use SmartTouch. Lucky me I found one that disables zooming in SMS, is customizable, and doesn't mess up any other zooming functionality (ie: Opera). Yay!

My thanks to demosten for creating SensorScroll which can be found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=466377

Just install and soft reset. I had to play around with turning the service on/off (can be done from the start menu shortcut) and testing the zoom in SMS until I had the right size and zoom was disabled.

Hope this works for you!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Shanghai.Knight:
After updatng to the new rom, half of my ringtones stop working.

After a 1 hour conversation on the phone with HTC... I figured out that the ringtones that were working were under 300K. I then took the ringtones that were not working, and decreased their file size to under 300K and they started working again... ( I think the agent is taking credit for my discovery... :P - but who cares)

Anyway, looks like ATT decreased the 600 K limit to 300 K for custom ringtones...

Now to find a fix for it... :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] AssassinsLament:
If you know how to edit the registry, here is the thing to edit.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sounds]
FileSizeLimit"="300000"

As you can see, it's set to 300k. Just change the "300000" to your desired limit.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] SinnerChrono:
http://mikefordmustang.com/downloads/NoRingtoneLimit.cab

enjoy.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Shanghai.Knight:
Awesome! Thanks

300K, What are they thinking? Locking people into buying their ringtones, I guess.

Started the thread in case some others run into this, Issues can get lost in the longer threads.

The guys over at HTC were like, Wow, 300K.
[HTC Excalibur] dr_milodog:
Hi all, I just wanted to show you what my wife's dash looks like after i installed miniweather, her homescreen just happened to turn out that way, with a beach background. She was quite happy with it. :) I tried to embed the pic but it didnt work. Here is the link for it (sorry for the extra step to see it)

http://picasaweb.google.com/milodog/Dash#5344277605837463010

take care
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
If you had ventured past first page you would have found Post Your Today Screens

Can't see your picture anyway.

Oh it looks like this:

But no need for new thread..............
[HTC Excalibur] dr_milodog:
Your right, my bad
[HTC Excalibur] phatmanxxl:
you need a night wallpaper to go with the moon!
[HTC Excalibur] dr_milodog:
This thread was more of an appreciation thread to everyone who kicked butt making our phones better. I always had mini weather and a random nice wallpaper and didnt realise how much better a home screen can look when they compliment each other. A cityscape with the moon would look nice too, i'll play around with that and make sure I post in the right thread this time.

take care

Milodog
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] porridge:
Hi all I am new here due to first time with such an advanced function phone.

I have done a search in this forum ( Topaz only ) and came up nothing with quite the same problem I am having

I have a TD2/Topaz

I have lock unlock problem which I can seem to work out.

In Start/Settings/All Settings/Personal-Tab/lock

I utilised it to lock using a password, the phone is asking for the password every 30 seconds ( if unused ) even after entering the password.

Dose any body know how I can turn lock off ??

cheers in advance
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rexton270:
The same way as it was locked. But don't have phone in hands right now,but try to go to the power settings and there should be an option "ask code on wake up" or something simmilar...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sIiiS:
go to same place that you set lock, remove the tick of "Prompt if device unused for" and click "ok"
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] porridge:
When i went back to Lock, I could not find my way back to that screen where you tick and make your password, ounce I had made the password I could not find my way back to this screen what do I press to get back to that screen.

Sorry for newbie type ??

cheers
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bambony:
Just to confirm that prridge is right... access to lock settings are curiously removed once lock is set. I think a hard reset is the way to go or you could also try 3rd party software.

Naughty WinMo 6.1

EDIT Ok this is weird: I pulled the stylus out as I was unlocking immediately after setting "lock" in "personal settings" and suddenly the settings appeared for the first time allowing changes... bizarre but true

Tony
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spoks:
Sorry folks, but seems lot of people do not even try to read out device manual.

http://www.htc.com/europe/faq_detail.aspx?p_id=249&act=um

According this thread, there are no problem to turn off Lock option or to change Lock time.

Take Start > Settings > All settings ... Personal tab ... Lock

:cool:
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timsah:
Has anyone maybe created a nice looking bootscreen (instead of the green windows bootscreen) out of an animated sparkling Diamond for TD2?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peter van lis:
Take a look here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=516013
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timsah:
Thanks a lot
[Touch HD General] jammieeeee:
I went on windows folder on file explorer. It took ages to load so quit file explorer. Now whenever i load file explorer on my phone i just get the rotaing windows logo timer thing.

How can i get back to a different page on explorer? This is driving me mad!

I'm running duttys rom if that makes a difference.
[Touch HD General] leper04:
Same thing happened to me. I waited about 3-4 minutes and as the explorer was finally (you just have to wait) showing the content of the windows folder, I switched to a higher level. That was it. And remember - never ever try to go inside the windows folder on winMo :)
[Touch HD General] heliosdev:
yes, the /windows directory has a lot of files and it takes a while for loading. Just wait until it's loaded and then change the directory (e.g. to /) because the explorer will always open at the last visited directory!

duttys rom has maybe another file explorer installed (look in the programs directory)

if not, then install another explorer. I'm using Total Commander

click here for the cab!
[Touch HD General] Georgeous2008:
Yup, that even happens if you access your Windows folder via your PC (ActiveSync). Use TotalCommander for any operations in your Windows folder, that's the fastest free alternative.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] chester-lad-2009:
Hi all

Is it worth upgrading from wm 6.1 to WM6.5 Pro v4.1?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] xda2_haseeb:
I guess yes :) WM6.5 is more thumb frndly and eye catching :)... secondly there is no WM6.5 Pro v4.1, in my ROMs versions are of ROMs not WM6.5 so WM6.5 is recognized by builds and is still BETA :p
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] chester-lad-2009:
ok thank you mite have a look at it but im trying to get tomtom 7 to work first
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] xda2_haseeb:
okies gr8... you can try my ROMs :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] chester-lad-2009:
ive got loads of software and games and when i try your rom will i need to get all my software again or is there a way to save it?

if i had them installed on my memory card will that work?