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MSN on Artemis?

As of today i'm the proud owner of an Artemis to...
Coming from an MDA 3 this thing is a huge leap forward
The only thing that kinda bugs me is that i havent been able to find any MSN like apps on it.
It seems that Pocket MSN only goes as far as Winmobile 2003, perhaps any of you have a solution here?

Mine has Pocket MSN on it. Original ROM with no mods to it bought from Expansys. Not sure why your's wouldn't. In a pinch, you could use: http://mobile.msn.com to use the web version of it. Gives you everything except MSN Messenger but you can search the forums here for the Live Messenger Beta.
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The Wonders of forums
once again forums come to the rescue. i got my MDA the other day, and have just spent the very good part of my VERY *cough cough* busy looking for msn solutions. searched hours on microsoft website ending up with nothing..
And then i had a PROPER look through XDA forum....and surprise surprise i found, installed and tested the soluotion.
i do hope everyone enjoys this find

snoop85 said:
once again forums come to the rescue. i got my MDA the other day, and have just spent the very good part of my VERY *cough cough* busy looking for msn solutions. searched hours on microsoft website ending up with nothing..
And then i had a PROPER look through XDA forum....and surprise surprise i found, installed and tested the soluotion.
i do hope everyone enjoys this find
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Thank you for sharing bro..

anytime...anything to makes things easier for the good forum ppl.
hey i noticed your artemis is modded. it what way have you modded it. also where did u get from?

snoop85 said:
anytime...anything to makes things easier for the good forum ppl.
hey i noticed your artemis is modded. it what way have you modded it. also where did u get from?
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It's a joke the modified rom ..
I use this expression because of Locked Sucked Rom from ACE Hellas

Contacts to Address Book
hey guyz,
has anyone tried that file i post the other day.
i installed it and used it for a good 1hr. the only thing i was not happy with was the first time you use it, it asks do u want to add contacts to device address book. the only options you have is OK for yes and Cancel. Do cancel and you cant login. So its forcing you add the contacts, which i dont really want. I was wondering if anyone knows how to get around this??
Snoop

Hi cheers for the app.
I am rather new to this pocket pc game and I was wondering where I should drag this (unpacked) file or where (and how) I should install this.
thanks again

hey will
you and me both. forums are great help.
just place anywhere either on device or memory. then just simply click and it will do the install. and then you should find it under programs.
get anymore problems holla back.

snoop85 said:
hey guyz,
has anyone tried that file i post the other day.
i installed it and used it for a good 1hr. the only thing i was not happy with was the first time you use it, it asks do u want to add contacts to device address book. the only options you have is OK for yes and Cancel. Do cancel and you cant login. So its forcing you add the contacts, which i dont really want. I was wondering if anyone knows how to get around this??
Snoop
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ok i thought would be smart and delete the contacts from the device...hmmm not the best idea. Seems that it deleted the contacts within msn messenger as well.
anyone know i dont know how to get them back. without typing each one of my 200 contacts
why do microsoft have to make things so difficult
UPDATE 15/12/06 22:00
hi guys just to update you on this issue with the contacts. got my normal msn contacts back, thank god i do backups.
i have synced my MDA with my Apple mac and its built-in address book. Something i noticed on the MDA contacts was that there was one contact whose number, email/msn, address i had. and in his details it had his msn email under a field called IM (instant messeging). So i went back to my Mac Address book to see if it had similer field... and yep it did. So i spent a good 1hr changing all my 200 contacts email field into IM field...
Re-Synced the MDA and computer.... *wants to rip hair out*.... thats right no luck. Now my mda address book doesnt reconise the IM field from the Mac Address book...so the mda has no EMAILS at all now.

Hi all.
My Orbit has MSN installed, but instead I use the free Agile Messenger. Here's from the developers:
"Agile Messenger is the most feature rich and versatile Instant Messenger for mobile phones on the market today. Agile Messenger is used daily by over 2,000,000 users and has been perfected based on feature requests and feedback from tens of thousands of users. No other mobile Instant Messenger is as mature and reliable as Agile Messenger. "
You can get it here: http://www.getjar.com/products/5317/AgileMessenger
only about 500k file. Oh yeah, did I mention it's free?
Damn, I had to edit this post...this WAS free, I can see now that there's only a free trial. Well as they grow, the greed grows with them I guess... Even when I installed the previous FREE version after starting the program they FORCED me to upgrade, and then the upgraded app informed me that it will expire in 7 days unless...well you know.

ok, so just to do a quick recap.
I installed the above posted file, all went well, my contacts were imported and are now in my device address book and they are still on my msn on my PC.
What should I not do (or do) to not lose all my contacts?
oh and can the good gentleman that helped me before please tell me how to make a back up of my MSN contacts. CHeers
Willy

Willy Wanka said:
ok, so just to do a quick recap.
I installed the above posted file, all went well, my contacts were imported and are now in my device address book and they are still on my msn on my PC.
What should I not do (or do) to not lose all my contacts?
oh and can the good gentleman that helped me before please tell me how to make a back up of my MSN contacts. CHeers
Willy
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hi will,
congrats installing it.
this is the problem everyone is facing with live messenger. theres a thread about this problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=282540
one thing you DEF DONT!!! want to do (speaking from experiance lol) is delete the contacts from your device - Do that and contacts from your contacts PC msn messenger will happly be removed also.
if you want to back-up your PC msn that should be very easy. My experinace is based on msn on Apple Mac. Shouldnt be too different on Windows. YOu simply go to File > Save Contact List ... And choose a location to want.
Hope that helps.

Syncing on a mac
how are you syncing your Artemis with a mac? are you using any software or does isync support the sync, maybe i haven't been looking properley but can't find anything on it
thanks
rawedge

rawedge said:
how are you syncing your Artemis with a mac? are you using any software or does isync support the sync, maybe i haven't been looking properley but can't find anything on it
thanks
rawedge
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hi rawedge,
the 2 ways i know of syncing is two apps
1) great app called Missing Sync can be found at here and is great syncs iCal, Address, Time, Photos, iTunes, etc see website for more details. Its one of the best app i have used for syncing.
2) the other one is called PocketMac i think this app doesnt have support for WM5 yet but should do soon.
http://www.pocketmac.net/
this is what there website says about WM5
"Windows Mobile 5:
We are currently testing cumulative updates for all of our Windows Mobile products (PocketMac Pro, PocketMac Lite and PocketMac Phone). We expect to have updates out shortly and will email all of our customers the moment they're available."
You can download both apps for a triel period, after which you have to pay for it. Altho i think Missing Sync is worth the money.
As far as i know of iSync doesnt sync with Windows Mobile platform. But i think missing sync uses some of the technology behind iSync for sync information.
Hoep this helps. Anything else just holla

thanks
I've just looked at missing sync however the artemis/02xda orbit isn't listed in their supported phones. has anyone got it to succesfully work? Don't want to fork out ££ if it's not going to work

rawedge said:
I've just looked at missing sync however the artemis/02xda orbit isn't listed in their supported phones. has anyone got it to succesfully work? Don't want to fork out ££ if it's not going to work
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hi rawedge,
when i said i thought it was worth the money. i ment that i have successful tested and used for the past 2weeks. without any major problems. i would def recommend it for mac to windows mobile syncing. worth the investment def.
hope it helps. if u need any more specfic info, will be happy to help

Isn't it possible to extract pocket msn from a other rom?

Notorious said:
Isn't it possible to extract pocket msn from a other rom?
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ye that would good idea. i think the o2 orbit seems to have pocket msn installed.
either its t-mobile really making life difficuly or its just me. lol

I use the method listed on this page http://www.coolsmartphone.com/news2266.html OK so its not the newest app but it works and its free (I was going to purchase the application but the stupid MS site thought I was under age) its what I have loadd on my MDA C-III - Mike

hotmail in wm6?

anyone know how to get hotmail in the mail app? such as pocketmsn.

kree said:
anyone know how to get hotmail in the mail app? such as pocketmsn.
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You could use Windows Live! Mobile. Please read the Wiki and search the forums next time before asking such a repetitive question .
You can get it from here (it's in the .zip file)

Ive just installed it on my phone, it really is the dogs danglies, far better than that £10.99 pocket msn rubbish Microsoft sell.

I used mobile live to get hotmail BUT this causes the wake up problem for me even after I remove it. I now use a fresh rom with GETMAIL program. I use the getmail freeware on my home desktop and forward all hotmail recieved to a pop3 capable account which I can use the built in outlook to check. Until a new version of live comes out I do not recommend it.

TaurusBullba said:
You could use Windows Live! Mobile. Please read the Wiki and search the forums next time before asking such a repetitive question .
You can get it from here (it's in the .zip file)
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thank you very much!
although not searching for wmxl, I did search for hotmail with just abig misunderstanding on my part with the results. I guess sometimes mobile versions don't quite look the same as when rendered on the desktop. Once again thak you very much.

Windows Live and Contacts.. did a soulution ever get found?

I have been searching the threads now for quite a while and I have tried several solutions so that messenger won't copy all of its contacts to my contacts/phonebook.
Has anyone ever found a good solution?

dude im waiting on that one too.

andyjs said:
dude im waiting on that one too.
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apparently an older build works... cant confirm that though... someone needs to merge all these Windows Live threads... (hint) (hint) taurusbullba

When you're finished browsing, just go to windows live and sign out (select sign in with a different account, and when prompted enter nothing/cancel). It should remove your msn contacts from your phone contacts.
It works for me

Taking little notes on S620

k, so we all agree that this phone does quite a lot,
but I often find myself wanting to take a few notes, just a line or 2 and I couldnt find a program in my phone that does it...
Is there some kind of notepad or sticky notes for this device on WM5?
Thanks for the help!

Install OneNote. You can install it if you have MS Office installed. Just open up OneNote on the desktop and go to its options and you will see the option to install OneNote Mobile.
Its great. It lets me attach recordings, pictures to notes, as well as jot down quick ones.

There's also PhatNotes for smartphone: http://www.phatware.com/phatnotes/index.html
It's $40, but I've heard it's not bad. I use OneNote Mobile, since I get it free with my work copy of Office 2007. OneNote 2007 costs quite a bit (over $100) to buy separately.

If you can wait for a 1 week, I will post a note application I am currently working on. It will synchronise notes from outlook using active sync. And it will be free

Nexus30 said:
If you can wait for a 1 week, I will post a note application I am currently working on. It will synchronise notes from outlook using active sync. And it will be free
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WHOO HOO!
If you get this working I will gladly donate for your time!
D.

Oh wow, I had no clue I had the program. Thank you so much!!!
Ive had office 2007 for quite some time now and never bothered to open the program directory in the folder!!!
That is amazing, guess I wont have to buy a program to do it!!!
Thank you so much! You have all been great...
Btw, I used phatnotes for the day, not bad at all, but there are a couple of glitches I found while using it...
Wont complain tho, still did the job!

Nexus30 said:
If you can wait for a 1 week, I will post a note application I am currently working on. It will synchronise notes from outlook using active sync. And it will be free
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Hello what about your program? have you some news? I would like to test it. THANKS

I am still working on the synchronization part. I have finished the mobile app part. I will make it available soon, just working on some final touch. Cheers

Nexus30 said:
I am still working on the synchronization part. I have finished the mobile app part. I will make it available soon, just working on some final touch. Cheers
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If you need a tester let me know.
Happy to help!
D.

Does One Note sync with Outlook?

OneNote & Outlook
edmondt said:
Does One Note sync with Outlook?
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No, it syncs with OneNote on the Desktop.
C.

Smartphones do not have Notes built-in and all the 3rd-party solutions (such as SmartpHoneNotes) suck because they cannot sync over the air.
My solutions are:
1) Do notes online. If you have a free Yahoo account, you can use its online Notepad, not bad at all, just it does not support SSL. If you have an ASP web hosting, you can install my XinNotes:
http://www.fixup.net/download/XinNotes.zip
2) Use PocketNotepad. If your phone does not have an Internet, then the best way to do notes is the free and great PocketNotepad from Tillanosoft. You don't need to sync it with your desktop as you can open the notes files directly via ActiveSync with Windows's Notepad. As it does not use a special file format but in plain text, it saves you all the troubles of sync and your dependance to a specific software. Peace of mind from now on.
http://tillanosoft.com/
PocketNotepad is also the best and only text edit tool for you to view/edit any text files on your phone. A must. Make sure you also install the tGetFile.dll which allows you to browse/open/save in all folders (without this dll PocketNotepad can only access My Documents folder which is enough for notes function). No need to mention its full features: copy/paste, search/replace, insert date/time... everything you've dreamed and beyond.

Notes App.
For my S620 I copied HTC Quick notes app. from the S710 and it works very well. It allows you to store notes on the storage card but it does not have the aibility to sync with Outlook.
Playing a bit with my SGH-i600, I noticed that they have an app. called Notepad and the i600 ships with an add-on to sync notes on Outlook called Notepadsync. I copied it on the S620 and installed the software on my computer but Activ Sync does not recognise the app. on the smartphone whereas it would detect it on the SGH.
I guess there must be some registry hacks to do to allow it to sync on the S620.
If someone the binaries I can send them, as I have very few spare time to dig on this.

I'm been using SmartphoneNotes from Syncdata and it works great (syncs wiith Outlook also).

Gmail for Mobile 2.0 on Excalibur?

http://m.google.com/mail
Finally we have a version of Gmail for Mobile that works for both "Google Apps" and the Excalibur... almost.
It launches and logs in correctly, but it doesn't quite fit the screen. It looks like it's formatting for a portrait screen instead of landscape, therefore the bottom 25% of the screen is cut off, making it very difficult to navigate.
I'm using Kavana's latest ROM with Esmertec Jbed Build 20071119.3.1. Is anyone else experiencing this?

MountainDrew said:
http://m.google.com/mail
Finally we have a version of Gmail for Mobile that works for both "Google Apps" and the Excalibur... almost.
It launches and logs in correctly, but it doesn't quite fit the screen. It looks like it's formatting for a portrait screen instead of landscape, therefore the bottom 25% of the screen is cut off, making it very difficult to navigate.
I'm using Kavana's latest ROM with Esmertec Jbed Build 20071119.3.1. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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I dont use the Gmail Java app because the Dash handles my Gmail quite nicely. Google does not officially support the Gmail application for Windows Mobile devices but I tried the the Generic Advanced MIDP2 version, it seems to work fine for me.

That version is a little better, the menus are on the screen now, but it still cuts off the bottom of the screen.

I aLso would like a solution to this, i currently use the built in email client, but then I get all my mail from all my labels and my spam folder all mixed together.

MountainDrew said:
That version is a little better, the menus are on the screen now, but it still cuts off the bottom of the screen.
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Odd, I run the same (Kavana's latest ROM with Esmertec Jbed Build 20071119.3.1) and it works flawlessly. Did you uninstall the previous version first? and make sure the old JAD file is not still on your device and try again. If not, I dont know, it should work if the enviroments are the same.

BruteSource said:
I aLso would like a solution to this, i currently use the built in email client, but then I get all my mail from all my labels and my spam folder all mixed together.
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You shouldnt. Are you using IMAP or POP to get your gmail?

Bupahs said:
Odd, I run the same (Kavana's latest ROM with Esmertec Jbed Build 20071119.3.1) and it works flawlessly. Did you uninstall the previous version first? and make sure the old JAD file is not still on your device and try again. If not, I dont know, it should work if the enviroments are the same.
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Very strange. I uninstalled the previous version, deleted all references to gmail from the device, rebooted, then installed the new one. Still have trouble with the bottom of the screen getting cut off.

yah with he gmail java app, it cuts off the bottom on my screen as well. and i uninstalled and reboot and install again. same problem. i just use the email built into the phone and that works just fine, but i receive the emails that i sent out too...

Bupahs said:
I dont use the Gmail Java app because the Dash handles my Gmail quite nicely. Google does not officially support the Gmail application for Windows Mobile devices but I tried the the Generic Advanced MIDP2 version, it seems to work fine for me.
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Gmail Java App is the way to go... I love it...

Actually I lied. My Java is version 20070312-116861.2.1 I forgot I installed this version cause the other gave me too many problems. So that might be it

Bupahs said:
I.... I tried the the Generic Advanced MIDP2 version, it seems to work fine for me.
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Works for me too... thanks for the link. I have been looking for working gmail APP for Kavana.

jhunkab said:
Works for me too... thanks for the link. I have been looking for working gmail APP for Kavana.
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How does it work? Do you like it?

Bupahs said:
I dont use the Gmail Java app because the Dash handles my Gmail quite nicely. Google does not officially support the Gmail application for Windows Mobile devices but I tried the the Generic Advanced MIDP2 version, it seems to work fine for me.
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Lush worked for me too, thankyou

stylez said:
Lush worked for me too, thankyou
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How does it work, is it better then the gmail java program?

jdoggraz said:
How does it work, is it better then the gmail java program?
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Just shows you your inbox the way you see it via gmail, can view all folders, does cut a little bit off bottom but generally thats an advert from peeps email provider
I imagine it takes less data than pop3 connect?

stylez said:
Just shows you your inbox the way you see it via gmail, can view all folders, does cut a little bit off bottom but generally thats an advert from peeps email provider
I imagine it takes less data than pop3 connect?
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Oh sweet I will give it a shoot and see how it works... thanks...

Bupahs said:
Actually I lied. My Java is version 20070312-116861.2.1 I forgot I installed this version cause the other gave me too many problems. So that might be it
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Where did you find that version? Got a link?

MountainDrew said:
Where did you find that version? Got a link?
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I got it off 4PDA, do a search for "Esmertec Jeodek 20070312-116861.2.1" and it should pop right up. There is also a 3D Java Engine that works pretty cool as well (I believe they are in the same archive).

Screen Size issue
Just found this helpful information on the google mobile blog:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/10/introducing-gmail-for-mobile-20.html
Hi all,
I've found a temporary but working solution to the full screen issue in gmail mobile 2.0
You need to install the application from a modified .jad file; three lines in the original jad has to be changed in the following way
* UseNativeTextButtons: false
* ReverseSoftkeys: true
* UseNativeCommands: false
Then install from the jad and voila', it works full screen!
The original jad file can be downloaded from:
http://m.google.com/app/gmail.jad?dc=gorganic&ver=v2.0.6
Hope it helped.

That's fantastic. Thanks!
If anyone has trouble with the link to the jad file (404 error), try this one:
http://www.gmail.com/app/gmail.jad?make=Generic&model=Advanced MIDP2&ver=v2.0.6