Copying, moving and/or deleting blocks of text on a Windows Mobile standard (non-touchscreen) phone may not be as convenient as it is on a Windows Mobile professional (touchscreen) phone, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy:

First move the cursor where you want to start selecting text you want to copy, cut or move.

Then Select Menu > Copy/Paste > Select Text (See 1st screenshot above)
Now when you move the Voice Messenger's optical navigation button right/left and up/down, the text will be highlighted.  Move the optical navigation button to select all the text you want to copy, cut, or move.

After you've selected all the text you want to copy/cut/move, select Menu > Copy/Paste (see 2nd screenshot above)

To MOVE text:

• select Cut from the menu
• move your cursor to the place in your document where you'd like the text to go
• select Menu > Copy/Paste > Paste

To DELETE text:

• select Cut from the menu.
• You're done.

To COPY text:

• select Copy from the menu
• move your cursor to the place in your document where you'd like the text to go
• select Menu > Copy/Paste > Paste

Here's a great video that demonstrates this procedure on a Windows Mobile standard phone and the last half of the video shows you how to do it on a Windows Mobile professional phone.

I haven't had many problems using GPS on the IPAQ Voice Messenger, but I've read lots of forum threads from users who have.  One thing that has been missing in Windows Mobile Standard phones (no touchscreen) is the GPS applet, which is readily available on windows mobile professional phones (touchscreen).

Today, after searching around the internet, I found a CAB file that reveals the GPSID applet on non-touch screen Windows Mobile (Standard) devices (sometimes referred to as Smartphones).  I installed the CAB file on the IPAQ Voice Messenger and it works great!

The Microsoft_Smartphone_GPSID Settings.CAB file can be downloaded from MoDaCo or if you do not want to register at MoDaCo, the file can be downloaded here.

To install the CAB file, just copy it to your Voice Messenger, then use File Explorer to navigate to it.  Select the file and a wizard will install the software to the device.  You can access the application by selecting Start > GPSID Settings icon.

HandyBits Voice Mail is a lightweight, easy-to-use application that is free to non-commercial users.



To send out audio email from your computer all you need to do is 1) open up HandyBits, 2) select the Record button, 3) record your message, and 4) then select the Send button.  HandyBits opens up your email software and attaches the recorded message (a WAV file) to a new email message.  You can add a written message and anything else you want to include with the audio message before you send it.

Check out www.textmemos.com - a free, ad-free, web-based text messaging service where you can send yourself or others scheduled reminders (or other text messages) at specific dates and times.

You can text messages from your computer and even from your internet connected mobile device.

I've got the website bookmarked in Opera mobile browser on my old Ipaq hx2410 Pocket PC, and I can send myself text reminders to be delivered at just the right day and time.

You won't be charged anything when you use textmemos.com to send text messages, but, of course, the recipient of your message may still have to pay to receive them (depending on the plan they subscribe to through their mobile operator).

If you run MyMobileR on multiple computers you may have received the error message below:

Please install MyMobileR on your mobile (Version Mismatch)
[Configure Mobile]-[Install]

The Version Mismatch error occurs when your computers and, by extension, your windows mobile devices are not running the exact same MyMobileR version and build number. You can check the version and build number by right clicking on the MyMobileR icon in the taskbar of the computer and then selecting "About."

Resolving the error is easy:

• First, reinstall the same version and build of MyMobileR to your computers, as needed.
• Then soft reset your Windows Mobile device.
• Next, navigate to the \windows folder on the Windows Mobile device and delete remote.exe
• Finally, connect the mobile device to your computer. MyMobileR will install the correct version and build to it.

If you ever upgrade My MobileR on a computer, make sure you install the upgrade to all your computers.

Yesterday this post by adamzea on Twitter got me thinking because most of the time I’m one of those silly people that carry a Smartphone and an MP3 player (specifically, a  Zune).  I used to wonder the same thing as Adam, but that changed last Fall when I was gifted with a Zune.  So the question then is, “Why carry both?”

My answer to Adam’s question is “I know my Smartphone can play music too, but I carry a Smartphone AND a Zune for the following reasons (in order of priority)”:

1.  Battery Life:  The battery life on the Zune is phenomenal compared to the battery life of my Smartphone.  If I’m going to be on the move during the day, I like to reserve the battery life of my Smartphone to primary functions (phone calls, checking email, light surfing, GPS navigation, maybe picture taking).  The Zune only needs to be charged every couple of days, but even if I wind up depleting the Zune during the day, I can manage a day without music.

2.  Syncing tunes to the Zune is probably 3 or 4 times faster than syncing tunes through ActiveSync to the Smartphone, so the Zune is usually ready to go most of the time and the Smartphone is not.  I don’t listen to DRM encrypted tunes, so I know I could use a USB card reader and just copy tunes directly to the memory card I use with my Smartphone, but the SD slot on the Smartphone I’ve been carrying lately is inside the casing.  So I have to remove the casing first to get to the SD card (call me lazy if you like).

3.  Media Management: The Zune handles podcasts and books much better than the mobile version of Windows Media Player.  If I turn off a podcast or book before finishing it, the Zune remembers my place, but Windows Media Player does not.  There is third party media software, like Pocket Player,  that provides the functionality that WMP lacks (like bookmarks), but lately, I’ve been trading out devices frequently, so I’m taking a more moderate approach to installing software to my winmo device and prefer to use the existing software.

So those are my reasons for carrying both a Smartphone and an MP3 player.  If you carry both, what are your reasons?

Lithium Ion batteries do not have a memory and so nothing can be gained from allowing the batteries to become fully depleted.  In fact, full depletion of Lithium Ion batteries can shorten their life and can even damage the battery.

The iPAQ has a battery sensor in it that may need to be recalibrated every now and then.  For example, when I first started using an extended battery in my iPAQ hx2415, the iPAQ did not recognize the extended life of the battery and kept responding to the battery as if it were the old battery.  After I ran the battery sensor calibration procedure on the device, the iPAQ properly recognized the extended battery.

This procedure was originally posted on HP’s website, but the page was removed some time ago and so the link I have for it no longer works.

For a Windows Mobile 2003 iPAQ

1. Charge the unit for 30 minutes (no more, no Less) only powered by AC Adapter and 22-pin connector and not connected to the PC/Cradle (make sure the unit is switched/powered off).
2. Remove the power and perform full 'Hardware Reset' and then 'Soft Reset'.
3. Charge the unit again for 4 hours connected to ac power only.

For a WM5.0 (or later OS) iPAQ

This recalibration procedure was posted long before WM5.0 devices were around, so I modified it to make it applicable to WM5.0 devices.  Success with this procedure with newer Windows Mobile units is mixed:

1. Charge the unit for 30 minutes (no more, no Less) only powered by AC Adapter and 22-pin connector and not connected to the PC/Cradle (make sure the unit is switched/powered off).
2. Remove the power and perform full 'Hardware Reset' (or clean reset) and then 'Soft Reset'.
3. Charge the unit again for 4 hours connected to ac power only.

Final Notes

All data, user settings, and user-installed software will be deleted from the unit when this procedure is performed, so be sure to sync your data to a computer beforehand.  Be prepared to spend some time afterwards reinstalling applications and setting up email accounts, wifi connections, etc.  Restoring from a backup file is not advisable since it could reset the unit’s battery sensor back to the way it was before the recalibration procedure was performed.

Make sure the unit remains switched/powered off during this charge period.  Following the procedure exactly as outlined in the steps above enables full calibration of the battery with the unit.

After a software reset the power Leds (Light Emitting Diodes) should now be on and the battery should be showing 100%. If the unit still fails on power do the following checks:

• Test the AC Adapter at another location/power source.
• Swap test The AC Adapter if possible.

If the recalibration procedure does not resolve your battery issue, you may need to purchase another battery

There are some great windows mobile twitter clients that can be installed to a WM5.0 or WM6.x device, but not many choices if you have an older windows mobile device.  About the only application I am aware of that supports older windows mobile devices is Tiny Twitter, which is limited and buggy. 

I still use an IPAQ hx2415, which runs windows mobile 2003se, so I searched around and found the following Twitter Mobile websites.  You can use these websites from any internet connected mobile device and you don’t need to install any software.  Since I post to multiple twitter accounts, I’ve assigned a twitter account to each of the listed websites and so I use all of these mobile websites regularly.  I’ve listed the websites in order of preference.

• dabr (http://dabr.co.uk/) allows me to reply, send direct messages, retweet, share pictures via twitpic.com [see: http://twitter.com/dabr]

• twitstat (http://www.twitstat.com) allows me to mute friends, mark favorites, reply, retweet, direct messages, search [see http://twitter.com/twitstat]

 

• tweete (http://m.tweete.net/) allows me to reply, send direct messages, flag favorites, share pictures via twitpic.com [see http://twitter.com/tweete]

 

• slandr (http://m.slandr.net) allows me to reply, send direct messages, apply geo tags, search, share images via twitpic.com or mobypictures.com, view the public timeline.  The only thing I don’t like about this website is that advertisements (albeit small ones) are sprinkled around the tweets. [see http://twitter.com/slandr]

 

• Twitter’s mobile website only gives limited access to my twitter account, so I don’t use this website much

  

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