lolz...shouldve just PMd me negsun...there's too much anti-windows fervour around here for many to have one I imagine ;)
anyway. First, do you have a security password on your wifi?? You need to plug that into your HTC, and male sure correct encryption protocol is selected according to whatever you used in your router setup...epg WEP, WPA-PSK etc Going through WLan properties setup, you can also designate that network eg "negsuns wifi" connects to "The Internet" rather than "Work"(internal WLan). Its usually the encryption settings but that mess people up though ;)
I've got the right WEP key, and I've checked it was indeed WEP...It connects me to the internet now, but it seems to lose connectivity quite often, even though my signal never drops below 60%
I was able to get onto lucasforums (yay!), and I even signed in, but after that it always gives me an error message either about DNS or connectivity lost or whatever...
Same with MSN Messenger, I was able to sign in and have a small convo with my better half, but every so often the connection drops out and then back on again.
Any ideas about that? Cause WLAN is a feature that really tipped this phone in my favor so I really want it to work properly...
as a heads up >> if you don't like the tiny keyboard built into WM6, you can always download HTCs upated software keypad... or there is also a cool app that is aimed to make entering text 'stylus free'. its called TouchPal...worth a try..and free too. Bit fiddly to start, but once you learn it, you can definitely use it without a stylus.. look it up on youtube for a demo.
I saw one of those on that 4WinMobile.com site you mentioned once, and it looks quite good, I'm still getting used to it though, so I'll see if I can stick with the default one or not.
If you rely on it for a diary, you will quickly discover that the touch interface is a load of bollocks....Some apps I really recommend are:
* SPB Mobile shell and SPB diary. They seriously c*ap all over any calendar/organising/skinning app that WM6 has...
*Memmaid or Pocket mechanic... like a file/registry cleaner for a pda, as WM6 has no such app in it. Importantly, you can designate your browser cache to a memory card.
*Core Media Player(FREE) > best media player for mpegs and such.
*Opera 8.5 > best mobile browser, but Ive found the HTCs screen is too small for long term browsing...I find small screens annoying for such prolonged use. FF even has a PDA equivalent(MiniMo), buit its bloated, and not worth the install IMO. Netfront is another popular browser.. Opera has flash built in, allowing access to youtube on a pda. The YT mobile interface is cool, and I often use it on my normal pc...
http://m.youtube.com)
Thanks for those dude, I'll check them out once I get more used to the phone and such...
Just in case you haven't had a PDA before....some tips
*Learn how to soft reset... quite often, like large scale PCs, a reboot is the best bet for dealing with performance glitches, especially after youev installed a few things...
Is that just pressing that wee button at the bottom with your stylus?
*Learn how to do a hard reset, in case things crash terribly, a hard reset is a factory image reinstall >> all data lost
How would you go about doing that?
*regular backup you contact either on your sim/memcard, or if you sybc with outlook, make a outlook html backup for all your detailed contact info, addresses, pics etc
I usually save my contacts on both SIM and Phone Card memory, but I've read there's some good backup proggies for the HTC as well.
*There are many sites that are PDA optimised, you can often get there by type "m." after the http:// or add "/mobile" to a web address.
Cool, cheers :)
Games: >> The HTC isnt a robust gaming machine, but there are some good time fillers on there..great for on a bus, in a line etc :)
*astraware games: bejeweled, bookworm, alchemy.... PDA ports of the games you get on google usually.
*scrabble :)
*pocket morphgear : believe it or not, someone has made a very good emulator for the PPC that can do anything from sega master system to SNES. SNES will work slow the single core Touch tho. But using this you can play all your gave gameboy, NES games via ROMS>> which is legal to do as long as you own the actual game itself.
Thanks for that as well dude...If that morphgear has Zelda: Link's Awakening for the GB available I will do a jig in your honor! Loved that game when I was wee.
Final tip: dont overload or overclock the HTC, its not really a high end PPC. Best used as a phone/diary. You can do mp3s on it > you can even get apps that ape an ipod interface to organise your albums/playlists etc. I just use the core media player app...nice lite footprint ;)
I like the audio manager that's in the Touch Cube, nice big buttons n stuff, very easy to sync loads of music to from WMP (one of the few, if not the only, app that Windows has got it spot on with ;) )
Before that I had to use Wavepad to re-encode audio files I had lying around on my PC to 128kbps because ages ago I decided to rip my whole CD collection, never realizing it was all done in 192kbps...I like to have more space, especially when it makes no difference in sound quality to me.
The only thing WMP doesn't do that Wavepad does is make files louder (unless I've just no looked hard enough)
Thanks for all the help dude!