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Setting up Calendar/Today to show multiple days of appointments

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my 8525 to WM6 with the official AT&T ROM. During this process I remember setting up the Today screen to show three days of appointments and also what the format should be (I set it up for each appointment to say Today, Tomorrow, etc. I think the other option(s) was to display the date in various ways). My phone
now shows appointments for the following three days and says Today, Tomorrow, Sunday, etc. for the day.
I wanted to play with these settings but I can't seem to find any menu that will let me change what is set up. I'm pretty sure I did this during the initil setup right after loading the new AT&T WM6 ROM. Does anyone know where these settings can be changed? I don't want to do a hard reset and lose everything else I have loaded on the phone. I'm wiilling to hack the registry if needed.

Are you using TodayAgenda plugin? The configurator is in \Program Files\TodayAgenda\TAOptions.exe, or alternatively tap and hold anywhere on the today plugin until the options menu comes up, and then goto options.

Thanks for the pointer, but I am using the stock AT&T ROM, no extra plug-ins. If I click on an appointment and go into the Calendar, Tools -> Options doesn't have any settings for appearance or how many days to display. Start -> Settings -> Today -> Items doesn't provide many options for Calendar either.
I looked at the registry under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Today\Items\"Calendar" and just ...Microsoft\Calendar but I didn't find anything obvious that I could change. Maybe some of the other flags there determine how this works but I didn't want to risk ruining my setup so that's why I'm asking here.
Thanks!

go to Settings > Today > Items, click on the calendar plugin, then click on the options button. Can you adjust it from here?
Alternatively, you can try Calendar+, its a free today plugin with more display options than the default calendar plugin
http://www.mohairsofa.com/Default.aspx/document/10

The settings for the Calendar item under the Today Plug-In don't include anything to change the number of days displayed.
I'm trying to keep the number of add-ins to a minimum. I had Calendar+ with WM5, but it didn't seem to work right with WM6. I can't remember exactly what issue I had, but I ended up doing a hard reset. The last update to this software was over a year ago.
I know the functionality is there in the stock software. If only I could figure out how to control it!

Removing a CAB file?

Hey all,
I'm very new to winmo phones and decided to try and get rid of that annoying SMS sent box. I installed a ROM I found on another website that many people were having success with. It didn't stop the SMS box, but now the box seems to randomly pop up when I receive messages and whatnot. Stupidly, I didn't backup my phone before doing it. Is there anyway I can just uninstall it?
Thanks

The CAB should show up under Remove Programs (Settings -> All Settings -> System)
Download Total Commander, it can remove the SMS Sent notice

How to delete old deleted text messages on TP2

Hi all, XDA has been such a great help in improving my enjoyment with my phone!
Here is my question - using TouchFlo, if I select Messages, then click on All Messages, then change the folder to Deleted Items, I have a ton of old deleted text messages I would like to clear out. I can't seem to find a way to do it other than 1 at a time, which would take forever. Are there any other more expedient ways to clear this folder out? Even just a "Delete all" would be fine, I don't really want anything in there.
Also, is there a way for it to clear this folder upon exit or something?
I am wondering if I need a hack to enable some feature to delete these messages, as I don't see it. Otherwise the deleted messages just pile up forever!
Thanks for the help!

You can delete them by going to Menu>Tools>Empty DeletedItems (in the Windows Mobile messaging program).

awalt said:
Hi all, XDA has been such a great help in improving my enjoyment with my phone!
Here is my question - using TouchFlo, if I select Messages, then click on All Messages, then change the folder to Deleted Items, I have a ton of old deleted text messages I would like to clear out. I can't seem to find a way to do it other than 1 at a time, which would take forever. Are there any other more expedient ways to clear this folder out? Even just a "Delete all" would be fine, I don't really want anything in there.
Also, is there a way for it to clear this folder upon exit or something?
I am wondering if I need a hack to enable some feature to delete these messages, as I don't see it. Otherwise the deleted messages just pile up forever!
Thanks for the help!
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Go to all messages then go to menu\tools\options\ then go to the storage tab then in the deleted items drop down menu select immediately. This will delete them for good when you delete them from the inbox.

Questions now that I installed 6.5

I like WM 6.5 but it leaves me confused.
1. Txt msgs... before, If I got a new msg notification, the new msg would open if I clicked on the notification. Now if I click on the new msg notification I have to hunt through all my msgs to find the new msg. Is there away to set things so that the msgs are displayed in the reverse order that they come in.
2. Second, for the life of me I can't figure out how to display all my installed programs. I have a screen where most of them show up, all the pre installed programs, but not all of the ones that I have installed.

You should be able to view it from your Installed programs in start > settings > system > installed programs.
If that does not do the trick, download SK Tools it should work. If not TMS uninstaller is another one.
IN regards to your txt messages, I remember reading about another user who had the same issue. I don't know if it ever got solved, but check about 2 weeks back on these forums.

Hi guys, I have a TP2. I have a quick question. I'm not sure if before I did the update to the 6.5 the accelerometer would work when i put the phone on landscape with out taking out the keyboard. Also wasn't there an option on 6.1 that let you set it to auto? it no where to be found. is there a fix for this? please help/advise thanks
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Deleted sms text hidden away in ipm.root

When I delete a text, it should really be deleted and not hidden away for somebody to find later. That is what's happening on my Tilt 2 phone (stock rom, wm6.5).
When using the "search phone" feature, it found every text I have ever deleted. I click on a message and it opens up. Afterwards, I can go to touch-flo messaging, click on all messages, and the initial screeen will be ipm.root with all my messages that were supposedly deleted months ago. If I click on ipm.root drop down tree at the top, the screen shows the normal email accounts and folders (inbox, draft, outbox, etc). The only way to get the ipm.root to display again is to do another "search phone" and open a message that was supposedly deleted, then go back to the touch-flo ->all messages screen. From there, I can truly select and delete all of them.
I've searched and can't find anything on this issue. Is there a fix to make sure that sms messages delete when you tell it to instead of hiding them. They can build up over time and take up memory space. It's annoying that delete really means hide on this phone.

I'm watching this thread with interest

same here! i supposedly deleted a bunch of sms text messages and through sktools search message files i found them and was able to read them!

I too would like to find a solution to this. One of the tweaking tools (I think it is Advanced Config Tools) has an option to set the max number of texts saved in the deleted folder. I set this to 0 so now I don't have to manually delete the files from that folder too (although the deleted files still go to the deleted folder and for some reason it irritatingly sometimes takes a while for the files to actually disappear from there). Now I find that the files are still taking up space somewhere else.
Anyone know how to stop this behavior?

Hummm...I just did a search using Search Phone and the only thing that came up were messages that had not yet been deleted.
I'm using a Verizon TP2 with MightyROM's latest official ROM (released 5-24-10).
Maybe this is just an issue on T-Mobile?
ps. I think I figured out why the texts sometimes don't disapear from the deleted folder right away with max allowed set to 0. I think you have to close out WinMo text (not just minimize it or close the Sense message screen) for them to go away.

The problem is not going to fix itself
Well, I was hoping that someone may have a fix for this by now. It's just not right for these messages to pile up in a hidden place, when I tell it to delete.
I guess it's not bothersome to most people.... since it's hidden.

Tracini said:
When I delete a text, it should really be deleted and not hidden away for somebody to find later. That is what's happening on my Tilt 2 phone (stock rom, wm6.5).
When using the "search phone" feature, it found every text I have ever deleted. I click on a message and it opens up. Afterwards, I can go to touch-flo messaging, click on all messages, and the initial screeen will be ipm.root with all my messages that were supposedly deleted months ago. If I click on ipm.root drop down tree at the top, the screen shows the normal email accounts and folders (inbox, draft, outbox, etc). The only way to get the ipm.root to display again is to do another "search phone" and open a message that was supposedly deleted, then go back to the touch-flo ->all messages screen. From there, I can truly select and delete all of them.
I've searched and can't find anything on this issue. Is there a fix to make sure that sms messages delete when you tell it to instead of hiding them. They can build up over time and take up memory space. It's annoying that delete really means hide on this phone.
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they are not actually deleted because of the patriot act george w. bush passed...it is very sad...

After deleting from the inbox I will go to tools and empty the deleted folder. I've done searches and haven't been able to find them after that. I also Run Memmaid and that might purge them as well.

* first, install sms backup & restore.
* next, open app, select preferences, select Backup Folder then select External Storage.
* next, in preferences go to Backup Preferences, check Selected Conversations Only, then select “Select Conversations" to select whose text messages you want to save.
* The text messages backup pretty fast but if your phone does not give you enough time to backup all the messages you want, you can backup certain people's texts in one backup, then backup other people's texts in the next backup. It will save the backups to different folders (rather than over-write previous backup).
* on your phone, install sms backup & restore, your sd card and you are set to restore your text messages.