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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] tufyuma:
I started using Microsoft Reader with my Sprint Mogul, but when i got a Diamond, it would not work with win mobile 6.2 (i think thats what it was) anyway, microsoft said it would not work with anything higher than 6.0 (don't they make both of them??)

Now i use Mobipocket, and i love it, it will convert most types of files, except .lit files for that i use abclit converter (free, i think :rolleyes:)

I have changed the push to talk button to <scroll right> and that turns to the next page. works well for me with either hand!

And get rid of the win mobile 5.0 buttons at the bottom of the screen and pick the ones you want!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] msgadget:
I use eReader and LOVE it. I buy tons of books. I haven't bought a paper book in eight years give or take, since my first iPAQ.

The Tilt 2 is perfect. I still tap to turn the pages. I assigned the PTT button to start eReader.

MsGadget
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] fortunz:
That's rough. ebook selection back then was very sparse. It was basically Star Trek and Romance novels. I still come across a couple of books a year that have no ebook version, but I'm hoping with so many big players now really dedicated to ebooks, that will change. But old books, like some of Timothy Zahn's and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens might never get converted -- where never really just means a really really long time.

What really blows is how limited etextbook selection is these days. By the time that situation is fixed, I'll be done with my graduate work and I'll just have to imagine how much better shape my back would be in if it had happened earlier.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] fortunz:
As to Freda, I haven't had any issues with reading epubs, converted from pdbs. For others who haven't settled on something else yet, there is a new version being tested as we speak.

I'm glad it's working for you. :) Keep us up to date as you do more; someone is bound to benefit from your experience.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] sk8mdw:
I use MobiPocket on my Tilt2, and on a couple of devices before the Tilt2, but I cannot get the toolbar to show up, no matter what settings I play with. I only get the progress bar at the bottom. Very frustrating, but it does not keep me from using it. Thanks for the tips on syncing to the desktop, I've never tried that either.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] sk8mdw:
Ahhh nevermind, I found it. I had "Use Windows Softkeys" checked. Unchecked that, toolbar appeared. :p
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] khaytsus:
I guess I'm old school, but I've always read in .txt format, or ztxt format.. Any book I want to read I get it in .txt or convert it to .txt and I read it in allReader. allReader has tones of options and is really easy to control via screen taps which is good on the Tilt 2/TP.

Honestly I have not tried any other readers though, perhaps I should look around.. I tend to read a book at a time, I don't have dozens/hundreds of books on my memory cards.

In case anyone is wondering, I typically buy the book after previewing it a bit in the store, then primarily read it on the phone.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] stunno:
I use mobi and find the screen tap to be the best/easiest way of navigating through a book. The right half of the screen goes forward a page and the left half backwards
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Jim Chapman:
Please can you send me some more details on this - if there's a problem, I'd be keen to fix it before my version 1.1 goes into general release. Certainly it isn't a general problem with Calibre-converted books (plenty of users are managing to read those OK) or large books (Freda is fine opening such files as 'War and Peace' and 'The King James Bible'). It could be that v1.0 is getting confused by some of the tag-names used in the Calibre-converted files (I've made some fixes for that already in v1.1).

If you could send me a sample EPUB that's giving you troubles, I will debug and report back. You can email me at home@jim-chapman.net.

Thanks

Jim
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Hamsteriel:
Wouldn't that be micro-book :P

After reading the first post here, I got hooked on Freda, and now have a small collection of Orson Scott Card e-books. Thank you for that awesome program recommendation.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] randy.andrade:
Hmm, would it be micro-book? I'm thinking back to my electrical power courses, and I thought the Mu denominated pico-sizes in resistors & capacitors (that'd be 1 / 1000th of a micro-farad, etc)

I could easily be wrong, though, as that was a good 4 years ago, at least. ;)

x.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] davidgee:
Can anyone help my situation? I need to read texts which are mainly in English but contain some Sanskrit words (text with some diacritics - i.e. accented characters and some dots below some letters). I have the books in pdf format but just don't hate Adobe reader. Mobipocket looks great but if I convert the tests using Mobipocket, it wrongly converts some characters. If I convert using Calibre, I can't read the texts on Mobipocket because I can't get Mobipocket to see the files on my SD card and so don't know if they've been correctly converted. I've used Repligo and their conversion works fine, but Repligo itself is boring with no colour options, no autoscroll and is now discontinued for Windows. Any ideas?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Dirk:
Foxit Reader v2.0 build 0701 for .pdf and allreader+ for everything else. I just wish there were a .pdf to .whatever converter that was at least half way decent!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Xandegar:
Another site is here...

http://www.epubbooks.com/
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] mknollman:
I still rock the MS reader as well. I have a ridiculous collection of .lit books as well. I am not going to lie - they are mostly from a bay where pirates go sometimes - but alot of them are public domain titles anyway.

MS reader is still very nice - great library - able to highlight and leave notes. All it needs is a better way to change pages w/out a dpad.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] mknollman:
PS - regardless of the software - the best way to read on any mobile device for me is always going to be audio books. I love them and mortplayer handles them with all the options you would want - bookmarking, etc. Just a thought.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] fortunz:
Excellent contribution. :) I honestly know nothing about audio books. Where do you get audiobooks and what's the selection like? What are the common formats? What kind of stuff do you listen to?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] captobie:
I don't really have anything new to add here, but here's my $0.02. I have three readers on my phone. Mobipocket, eReader, and Microsoft Reader. There's a bit of history here.

I first began reading e-books years ago on a PDA (HP Jornada 525). At the time, Microsoft Reader was one of the few readers available for Pocket PC so naturally that was what I gravitated to. Like others I created a huge library of .lit books. Then I discovered Mobipocket. The amazing thing, at the time, was that you could use your PC to manage books on your device. It also can read a larger number of formats that MS Reader (then again, MS Reader only reads one format - .lit - so just about any program reads more than Microsoft's).

I recently got a Barnes & Noble nook. I discovered that even though eReader isn't advertised as being able to read content from bn.com it does work.

Calibre is essential if you have a large library. All those .lit books? Mostly converted to epub now.

I suspect once Barnes & Noble releases eReader for WM (soon maybe since it will be on the HD2?) I will switch to that since it promises the ability to synch my reading between my nook and phone.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] davidgee:
Calibre seems quite complicated but I would like to try it. The TP2 is not in its list of recognised devices. Does anyone know how to get it recognised?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Jim Chapman:
I think this may prove complicated - I had this discussion with Kovid (the developer of Calibre) a month or two back because I was interested in getting Calibre to sync with Freda's library. And basically it can't be done, because Calibre expects that, when connected to the PC, the 'ebook reader device' will appear as a removable drive - and ActiveSync doesn't work like that.

Files generated using Calibre's default epub settings should work fine (at least they do with Freda ... with other readers YMMV ;) ) but you have to manually copy book files from the PC to the library folder on your TP2.

Jim
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] fortunz:
You can opt in settings (connections -> USB) to have your TP2 behave like a usb drive when plugged in or to offer you the choice between active sync and drive mode upon being plugged in.

It doesn't turn TP2 into a specific recognized device exactly, but it will certainly let you save your library to it.

Do you have some particular task you're interested in doing?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Jim Chapman:
Another ploy that does seem to work is:

Tell Activesync that you want to sync files between your TP2 and your PC

Activesync will create a subfolder on your PC, within your My Documents folder, called something like "TouchPro2_My Documents".

When you sync, everything in your "\My Documents" folder on the TP2 will be synched with the corresponding files/folders on your PC. That includes everything in the TP2 folder "\My Documents\Freda ebooks", which is where Freda looks for its library.

So all you need to do is to tell Calibre that, rather than its default, it should use a library folder called "TouchPro2_My Documents\Freda ebooks" under your My Documents location

With that setup, every time you plug your TP2 into the PC, the Calibre library and the Freda library automatically get synched up.

I admit it is an ugly hack, but it does the job. Directory names can be adjusted by messing with registry settings - which would be good, as it would allow you to keep Freda's library on the storage card.

As an alternative, you could try using something like EasySync , which uses the ActiveSync conduit, but gives you complete control of what file types/locations get synched up.

Jim
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] davidgee:
Actually I'm trying to read some texts which contain the ancient Sanskrit language which uses "diacritics" (accents and dots above and below the characters). When I use Calibre to convert the pdf documents for reading on Mobireader, these characters are wrongly produced (for example "Krsna"- with dots below the s,n and a- becomes Kåñëa). I can use Adobe but it's ugly. Repligo works but is no longer supported. Can anyone tell me if I can use Calibre to correctly convert these pdf texts?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] fortunz:
That's beyond my expertise. I can only refer you to the calibre forums on mobileread where they might be able to give you more information.

Edit: Maybe this post by Jim would be helpful to you.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] roccobass:
Auto scroll

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned auto scroll, that's my favorite feature of all! uBook had the best one imho in that it overwrites the page from the top down instead of scrolling the text which is how mobi does (that is still very usable)

I've been using version 0.9d for ever and just noticed that there is a new free version out there, I'm going to download and try that now.

Thanks for starting this thread ...

Rocco

TouchPro 2

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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] Jim Chapman:
I'm thinking of adding RSVP and autoscroll for the next version of Freda ... but that will be some weeks/months in the future. And it is actually going to depend on Microsoft's roadmap for the 'Windows Phone' platform (since it looks like Windows Phone 7 is going to be substantially incompatible with WinForms/.NetCF - so Freda may need a major re-write ... ).

Jim
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] frozenbutt:
I have tried them all over the years since my ipaq days. ms reader, mobi, ubook, etc. I am now using AllReader +. Best one and very easy to use. Easy on the eyes and handles all kinds of files. If I am not playing with my phones settings driving my wife nuts I am reading another book :-)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] jtodvm:
eReader for Kindle books?

Just wondering if there is an ereader that will read Kindle format books and sync with Kindle? I know there is one for the iphone (whine) but how about for us? Many thanks!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] fortunz:
Negative. Amazon is unlikely to start developing (or even finish dev'ing) such a program for a dead platform either, so unless they've already finished it, I wouldn't hold my breath on ever seeing one. If WinPho7 had been backwards compatible, Kindleware probably would have made it to us eventually (their android app is supposed to debut on Dell's tablet, they've already got BB, by my count, WinMo would have been next), but now there's one unproven platform (winpho7), and one that most users are looking to migrate away from (6.5). Adobe, Mozilla and skype have already pulled out of active development projects for 6.5, and it would be tough to imagine another major entity starting a project at this point, unless "WinPho Classic" turns into a viable platform.

While Whispernet sync is out of the question, you could potentially get your books into a readable format on your TP2 by de-DRMing the books.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] fortunz:
eReading on Android flavored TP2

I've installed Froyo on my TP2 and am a little disappointed. So far as I have found, only the Kindle app allows for book form reading (Keyboard open, screen in portrait, page turns with arrow keys). Neither FBReader nor Aldiko will let you turn pages with the arrow keys, and Overdrive (for library checkouts) doesn't seem to allow locking the screen in portrait with the keyboard open.

Most of the applications I've found that handle screen orientation outside of a reader only toggle the autorotate option, and that doesn't seem to affect screen rotation on the keyboard sliding out. Since Aldiko will let you turn pages with the volume rocker, I thought about remapping the arrow keys to behave like volup and voldown, but it seems like most android remapping options focus on remapping face buttons rather than keyboard keys.

Aldiko would be my preferred reader, as everything is in place, so I've asked them to add arrow keys as a page turning option. I also keep my eyes open for remap hacks.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] acdcking12345:
is there any updated news on this?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] fortunz:
If by "this" you mean my new XDAndroid experiment, yes. Moon+ reader solves my book form issue. The screen can lock in portrait mode, and you can set up the arrow keys to turn pages. The only way it's really inferior to aldiko that I can tell is that you can't read adobe DRM'd books, (like overdrive library stuff, for example). In terms of the ability to customize text and interface, it's really fantastic.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] fortunz:
I've been really missing my Rhodium's many buttons since I upgraded to Nexus 4. The keyboard made reading so much more comfortable. A few days ago, I contributed towards Dimple (nfc buttons) on indiegogo. I'm hopeful they'll ease the reading experience a little. It hit 100% of funding today, so I figure I'm not the only one who misses buttons.

DIMPLE.IO - Your custom Android NFC buttons!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] berger34:
hey everyone, troubles.....

went from a modaco custom rom 3.1 to kagudroid 1.1. it didn't take for some reason and it shows the "kagudroid" boot logo, then the lock screen, then kagudroid, and repeat. like an infinite loop. I used NANDroid and wiped it before I applied kagudroid. what did i do wrong ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] nprussell:
Just try it again?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] berger34:
should i shut down, wipe, and reapply update ?

or shut down, reapply update ?

or ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] e.japonica:
do a full wipe & re-flash custom rom
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] berger34:
is there a difference between a "full wipe" and the "wipe" function on the boot screen ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mixmaven:
Wipe ext on your sd and reflash.

-mix
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] e.japonica:
Full wipe:

Not just those wipe data/dalvik cache.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] berger34:
Tried wiping dalvik cache. Wouldn't let me. Told me to use ad b
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] berger34:
wouldn't let me wipe ext /SD either. told me to use adb.

what is adb >?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] saar73:
try "normal" wipe (the first option) and then reinstall the rom.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] e.japonica:
if the above method unable to solve your problem, backup all your wanted data to your pc. re create a new ext & do a fresh install.
[G1 General] BoomBoomPOW:
Need some feedback and advice.

Item #1: Transcend 4 GB Class 6 microSDHC Flash Memory Card

OR

Item #2: Sandisk 4GB Mobile Ultra microSDHC Card Class 6

Nevermind! I got trigger happy and bought the SanDisk.
[G1 General] hiddengopher:
I just bought the same one! Tell me your results when you get it :cool:
[G1 General] jndd333:
I have used both, and I haven't experienced any difference performance wise between them :) Go Transcend, they are cheaper!!
[G1 General] BoomBoomPOW:
@hidden most definitely, im planning on testing it to the extreme:)

@jndd true that, but thanks to amazon, i was able to snag the SanDisk for the same low price as the transcend. :D

To be perfectly honest, i chose the SanDisk because it had "Ultra" in the name:p
[G1 General] hiddengopher:
and you know they're a company normal people have heard of...
[G1 General] hiddengopher:
ph and what're you going to do to switch cards?
[G1 General] BoomBoomPOW:
Duh, SanDisk is the most popular memory brand in the world. Who hasn't heard of them!? I just stated that I chose SanDisk over Transcend item because of the "Ultra" title.

I will save all important files to my pc, then format and partition the new sdcard.
[G1 General] pjcforpres:
I have one of the UltraMobile series cards, very nice! As hard as it is to explain, compared to other SDHC cards it just looks/feels like a better built item.

Anyways, IIRC SanDisk is the pioneer for most of the stuff too, and other brands are just copying their designs/technology.
[G1 General] hiddengopher:
ok, and how will you format the card? I'm wondering because I'm on mlign 3.2B hero rom and I can't unmount and format the card because of apps2sd, etc. :confused:
[G1 General] stooby:
That's not always a good thing!
[G1 General] legend221:
Good choice BBP, I believe I would have done the same thing.

Who knows maybe its faster than the Transcend one people say they have.

Personally I think half the problems people face on the G1 threads are for using the 1 GB microSD that came with the phone. LOL.

Much respect for upgrading your external storage and realizing your phone is only as good as your microSD in regards to speed/stability/satisfaction.

I sure wish more people would do this more often.
[General Topics] Tautvydas:
Hello,

Been looking for proper comparement of these phones for long time, but got, well, pretty unprofessional.

So I would like to ask differences of these phones:

1) RAM - G1 has 192mb, Magic - 288mb.

Does this difference really feels when using phone, I mean, interface response, video playback, programs running speed, etc.?

2)Internal memory - Magic has twice the G1. Im asking specific question about this - will this pay off in long run of rom development? I mean, both g1 and magic got 2.1 android running, and its fine, but g1 may suffer as the new version come in,in the long run for not having enough internal memory (newier versions of android OS requires more storage, so my question: will magic be more developable over g1 because of internal storage capabilities?)

3) Camera - well, on paper these phones cameras are same, but I read, that Magic produces a bit better images ( speaking of quality ).

Thanks for the answers. :)
[General Topics] bunu:
Isn't the 32A magic has 288 mb of ram? Do you know the amount of ram on the 32B magic?
[General Topics] orb3000:
No need to go out from XDA to get a good comparison:

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdacomparer&id1=1908&id2=1708
[Touch HD General] hanskl:
Hi. I have spent most of the night searching for a better Start menu for wm 6.1 than the original, without much luck. So I was hoping some people can post screenshots of various start menu's, and provice cabs for them. What i'm looking for is a bigger, more fingerfriendly and nicer looking start menu.

Thanks :)
[Touch HD General] Rudegar:
it's not something a normal cab can do it's the shell and the icon and size are hardcoded

you can however use shell replacements such as wizbar

http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/products/pocketpc/WisBarAdvance/
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] dreaddan:
Hi, does WM6.5 come with voice commands or does it need another bit of software like 6?

Thanks

Dan
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] cyron_at:
..6.5 has no voice command software on board; you'll need a third party one...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] chikoo:
The HTC Pure WinMo6.5 comes stock with voice command.

That is one thing I lost by "upgrading" to a cooked ROM :(
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] chikoo:
and by the way, the Voice Command is useless. My Sanyo in year 2001 was about just as good. In other words, don't sweat it.

Now if somebody can get the iphone 3gs voice control dump into a cab that can be used with Win Mo 6.5, that would be cool.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] dreaddan:
Thanks i thought so but some news articles said otherwise.

I better see if ms voice commander works on 6.5 before upgrading.

i know it may be poor but it allows me to call ppl on the handfree.

Dan
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Bruce Inman:
I've got it runnig on 6.5, I assigned it to long press send and it works great.

Better clarity than on my Fuze.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] chikoo:
4 out of 5 times, the voice command would come back "Please repeat"...wtf!

In other words, handsfree soon turned into unwanted frustration.

On the 3gs, 5 out of 5 times it picked the right contact to dial.

Ways to go before I recommend voice command to anybody.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] dreaddan:
I've not had that problem - maybe 1 in 20 but then ive not got many names that are similar.

Only home and moe get confused..

Did you run the us or uk version of vc?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] chikoo:
US version...that was part of wi mo on ATT PURE.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] dreaddan:
doh - didnt notice your from the us..
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] civicvx94:
Well i'm very new to the android world..i started out with WinMo on a Fuze and installed programs was as easy as clicking the .cab in a file explorer, i then moved to the iPhone where apps could not be easier to install, even cracked one from other sources....well now i have a hero and not pleased so far..

I'm running the Modaco v3.1 with Android 2.1 on it, it seems relatively stable and maybe stable enough for everyday usage, but i'm having some trouble with Google Maps! First, its not in the market place period...nonexistent. So i found a GoogleMaps_3.3.1_update.zip...I renamed it "update.zip" rebooted the phone in bootloader, chose apply sd update.zip and success!....but still no google maps on my phone or market place..

I then unzipped the file, took the maps.apk and moved that on my mem card and attempted to install it using a file explorer..well the file wont even show up..

Can anyone please help me out here...i'm so frustrated that i have a google phone and one my favorite apps wont work..I'm very tech savvy, but very new to this OS so lamens terms would help..
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] gu1dry:
MoDaCo 3.1 is Android 1.5 based & this is why GMaps 3.3.1 will not show up.