Epoc Digest Thursday, May 23 2002 Volume 01 : Number 5
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In today's Epoc Digest:
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- Note to all
- Phoneman Pro - an appreciation.
<- Re: EPOC DIGEST ARCHIVE- Re: CF / AppArcServerThread / Startup / Flashback
- NETBOOK ROM
- RE: EPOC DIGEST - Revo battery problem
- Removing CFs
- RE: EPOC DIGEST -- just when I needed help!
- Re: EPOC DIGEST
- New Psion
- IrDA access to a Siemens ME45
- Re: Email woes
- Re:EPOC DIGEST
- GPRS & phone,
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Note to all :
1/ Please don't forget to change the Subject field to the subject of your message
2/ I am truly amazed at the ease of running a digest on a 5MX <BG>. I suggest we will let it run for a month or so and if by than the up5digest has not returned, I'll post a message here opening the debate on how to proceed for the future.
Enjoy, Itamar
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Date: Wed, 8 May 2002
From: Charles Barraball
Subject: Phoneman Pro - an appreciation.
I had a problem in that my phone -Motorola T 250 - kept on sending the same old message. I thought this must be a fault with Phoneman Pro as I had just started using it.
However it turned out to be a fault with the phone, and Motorola have upgraded the phone's software - surely they mean firmware?- and it works OK.
I have made much use of Phoneman Pro on my Psion 5mx to manage my phone, and now have all my numbers stored in order of alphabet and phone location, have survived Motorola wiping the phone's memory, and have my text message correspondents specially flagged.
Motorola's helpdesk said that there was no way to clear the simm card memory all at once - you have to delete entries one by one. Do not despair - you can avoid doing this by clearing the sim entries stored in Phoneman Pro and copying the null entries onto your phone's sim card. Brilliant!
Using the Psion keyboard for text messaging is so much easier than a phone key pad.
I have yet to manage my contacts, but I am sure I will get there some how...
Perhaps Zenobyte and other developers will publicise the new digest, it has to be in their interest to do so.
Charles
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Date: Tue, 20 May 0102
From: ne
Subject: ne
Stavros wrote:
> 3. Use the Revo until the charge level falls below 3%. Then > connect it to the ac adaptor and let it charge for about 8
> hours (overnight), BUT DO NOT SWITCH THE MACHINE ON DURING > THIS PROCESS. In the morning switch it on, check the charging > current, and disconnect it from the adaptor only when the box > is full and the charging current is 7 mA. NOTE THAT THE
> CHARGE INDICATOR MIGHT INDICATE 100% LONG BEFORE THE CHARGING > CURRENT BECOMES 7mA. Nonetheless, one should continue
> charging. The above process should be repeated every time one > charges the Revo.
Hell, I'm glad I never bought one! Who has the time to
mess about like that every time the damn thing needs a recharge? I can imagine all these people getting up and
having breakfast, but being late for work as they are
waiting for the charging current to drop to 7ma... :)
The new digest seems to work just fine, but I think it's
a fairly extreme way to get rid
Bye,
Rick
http://www.gillyon.com/
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002
From: "Henri Spagnolo"
Subject: Re: EPOC DIGEST ARCHIVE
Hello Christopher, you wrote:
>One other thing,I think I saw that Henri Spagnolo is on this list - Henri was it you that made that brilliant >searchable digest archive? If it was, where is it?? I can't find it anywhere...
Thanks for the comment. At the beginning of year 2002, my site has moved to a new location. The new address is:
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/YetAnotherHomePage/
The direct link to the digest is:
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/YetAnotherHomePage/ups5gb.html
Regards.
Henri
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002
From: Julie Wills
Subject: Re: CF / AppArcServerThread / Startup / Flashback
At 12:01 am 20/5/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 16 May 2002
>From: Christopher Marwood
>Subject: Bravo; removing CFs; Email woes; Digest archive; GPRS >
>I have recently starting removing my CF card occasionally ... Each time I >do get this message: Programme Closed - AppArcServerThread - E32 User - >Cbase - Reason 21.
The 5mx seems to be more sensitive to removal of the CF card than the old Series 5 was.
I have started removing my CF card regularly too, since I finally gave up on PsiWin for backups. I have found that if I shut down all running programs and switch off the machine while the CF is removed, then I don't get this problem any more.
Once or twice I have removed the CF without shutting down everything and without getting the error message - but making sure that there are no programs or files open on the D drive, and also switching off the machine while the CF is out.
To make this easier, I use Startup (Freeware by Philipp Salvisberg at
http://salvis.com/) to shut down whatever's running and start up my usual 11 applications. Other people prefer JBStopGo. I started using Flashback (16GBP shareware by Peter Csutora from http://www.pocketiq.com/) from PocketIQ to back up to CF and a CF reader to copy the CF disk to the
PC. One of the things that originally appealed to me about Flashback was that if you leave it running in the background it can prompt you at user-defined intervals to do backups. Ironically, I've ended up not using this feature.
Both applications allow you to create multiple configuration / batch files that you can just tap on to start up / shut down / back up whatever files you want to, so I keep a small selection of these on my C disk for various scenarios.
Julie Wills
Twyford READING, UK
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002
From: Peter Keene
Subject: NETBOOK ROM
Hi Guys,
For Trygve re netBook ROM Build 158:
Have you also found that you cannot enable TLS and SSL in Opera Trgve? There have also been reports of IR issues, although I never got around to confirming these before reinstalling Build 156. I can confirm your impresssion of an apparent better performance from the battery. I get six hours in normal use with a brightness setting of 4, but it seemed that I would have exceeded that if I'd stayed with 158.
Other issues that I can mention:
- Original Build 154 Welcome to netBook file - still gives Psion Enterprise contact details!
- Original Build 154 Help file - still mentions Web in great detail!
- City codes for France in World/Time still incorrect! This app wouldn't read my 156 WLD_DATA.DBW file. Didn't check the UK codes.
- Still no Import Text File option in Sheet.
- Same tired old clip-art in Sketch.
- Same bug in Jotter that won't allow creation date for an entry.
- Couldn't install Web from the CD, so you would be stuck with a disfunctional Opera as your only browser.
- Once again, no change history provided.
Seems like a shoestring budget upgrade. Don't know what the beta-testers were doing for the last six months.
Regards,
Peter
Cape Town
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002
From: "Nicole Carbonara"
Subject: RE: EPOC DIGEST - Revo battery problem
Reply to
Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Revo battery problem
Firstly thank you for the trouble you take in putting this digest together.
Stavros' posting would interest Dennis who charges his Revo very differently indeed.
Here is my own experience:
I have had a Revo Plus for almost one year (10 June 01) [after two 3a and one 5mx] and my battery is in good shape. I charge the Revo switched off all night when the level reaches around 50%. But if necessary, I put it on and use it occasionally when charging, even if the red light is on.
In the morning after one night charge, the battery level is always 100%
This is not at all what is advised in Stavros' posting but it seems to work fine for me.
NicVal d'Isere, France
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002
From: Kevin Collins
Subject: Removing CFs
Hi folks,
Nice to be receiving Digests again; thanks, Itamar.
To Christopher Marwood:
Chris, I had a problem with changing CF disks in the past, and the problem in my case was a folder D:\System\recogs. The solution was to transfer the contents of this folder to C:\System\recogs, and to delete the folder in D. Maybe this may help?
Regards,
Kevin [Cork, Ireland]
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002
From: Trygve Henriksen
Subject: Re: EPOC DIGEST
Greetings!
Christopher Marwood wrote:
> I have recently starting removing my CF card occasionally in order to
> transfer photos from my new and very very cool Ixus 330 camera (big
> recommendation). Each time I do get this message: Programme Closed -
> AppArcServerThread - E32 User - Cbase - Reason 21. I am pretty sure
> there is nothing running that is using D so I am puzzled. It doesn't seem to
> matter too much, though I sometimes have to soft reset to get the Psion to
> read my card when I put it back in after using the camera card. Any
> thoughts?
I think I know this one....
I'm betting that you have one or more OPX files or something on the D: disk, and these are in use....
Copy the files over to C:, reset the machine, then delete them from D:
This should clear it up...
(May be other files too... )
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In the last digest I wrote this about ROM 158 for the netBook:
> 9. In the beginning, the machine was VERY confused about the clock,
> displaying a time about 7h 35min wrong. This didn't correct itself before I
> turned Summer time off then on again. (The time was set correctly, and
>would show the right time if you went into the control panel and called up
>the 'set time' dialog)
The problem persists!
The clock is absolutely FUBAR, and seems to affect even Chadis7, so I can't even trust the 'time since last recharge' there....
This is aboslutely the shittiest piece of software Psion has ever launched!
56 would be on its way back on board...)
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Psion pulling out of the modem business...
Well, I can understand them.
At the office we buy between 10 and 20 laptops every year, and the last two years ALL of them have come with a built-in modem.
(Which we don't use. Instead we stuff in a Nokia CardPhone II to give them mobile access)
For desktops that needs to dial in to the office RAS pool, we've ditched ordinary modems, and gone straight for ISDN routers.
(No crappy dialup dialogs, just the ordinary NT Network login, so that the users gets the same experience as in the office)
For once, Psion is actually looking ahead and pulling out of a market that's about to collapse.
:-)
Trygve
BTW: FUBAR = Fucked Up Beyond All Repair....
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002
From: "Suzanne"
Subject: RE: EPOC DIGEST -- just when I needed help!
Hi,
Thanks for the temporary solution. It comes just when I was getting desperate!
My PC has unexpectedly stopped recognizing the Psion when I have the two connected. So far I have:
1. Removed all the programs that I installed since the last time that the connection worked (and run Norton to clean out their remains)
2. Installed the updated PsiWin, removed it and reinstalled the earlier one
3. Checked the Com 1 box on the PsiWin properties form
4. Checked the Psion both for the Baud rate and that the link
is on "cable"
The PC is running Windows 98 and I am connecting with the Psion series cable that came with the PsiWin.
I need additional suggestions. Is there anyone who has had this problem and solved it?
Thanks,
Suzanne
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002
From: "Zander Tulloch"
Subject: New Psion
Well I've just purchased a new Psion device. Its a Wavefinder (digital USB radio), I'll give you a short review, if anyone is interested.
Zander
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002
From: peter
Subject: IrDA access to a Siemens ME45
Do you know where I might find how to setup the psion 5 modem settings for IrDA access to a Siemens ME45 ?
Peter Grayley
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002
From: Jason Garbutt
Subject: Re: Email woes
Hi Christopher,
I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, but there are a couple of things you could try:
i) I occassionally get an email that won't download. It stops while downloading the header and jams the other emails. Usually I can clear this by logging on via a different ISP (with my S5) and it seems to download OK this way. Don't ask me why !
ii) It could be that message suite has become corrupted somehow. In the past I have re-installed Message Suite over the top of the existing installation (ie. don't uninstall first) and this way all my inbox messages are preserved.
Not sure if these will help, but worth a try.
Regards,
Jason
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002
From: Jason Garbutt
Subject: Re:EPOC DIGEST
Hi Itamar and all digestives,
I've been in the U.S. and missed all the excitement !
I could only get low-speed data access, and at £1.10 a minute couldn't justify the cost. It took over 30 minutes to download all my emails over a 56k connection on my return. At 9.6k this would've been 3hrs assuming the connection never fell over (highly likely) which works out at about £200 !
Anyway, getting back on topic. A huge thank you is due to Itamar for devotion to the digest, without your commitment it would probably have disappeared long ago.
I've had a couple of thoughts about the digests future, and I guess it is looking less likely that it will resurface in its previous form.
It may be useful to break the link between the service provider and the email address, allowing us to change provider in future without changing the email address. As some of you will know I use a bigfoot address which redirects my email to any ISP (or ISPs) of my choosing. I believe Itamar uses a similar service (mail.com or post.com ?). I'd be happy to investigate these options.
There must be options out there to provide a similar service. Yahoo groups is the only one I've personally experienced and I do get a few viruses (not sure if they are connected, but timing suggests they may be). As time goes on, fewer and fewer services are available freely on the net, and we may need to find a way of paying for the service.
Alternatively, we could run it ourselves, as Itamar is currently doing. But using a bigfoot/mail etc. address would allow us to rotate administration between a number of volunteers, making it less onerous and covering holidays etc.
Any thoughts ?
Regards,
Jason
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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: GPRS & phone,
Answer to: Christopher Marwood
Re. GPRS & phone - I think you are wrong. There are new phones on the market that look very "sexy" like the Motorola V70 of the to be released shortly Nokia 8910. Is anyone using the V70 ?
Bye for now,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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