- Re: The Digest V1 # 840

- OPL

- For Sale: Palmtop/TomTom GPS Unit for Psion + RoutePlanner + CityMaps + POD UK Car Holder for Series 5

- C2F

- Re: Problem with my mBook (+ Netbook charging + MP3 player)

- Re: Leap seconds (again)

- Re: OPL reference on 9500

- Re: OPL reference on 9500

- RE: Windows problems with timestamps

- Re: datacontact

- Re: The Digest V1 # 828

- The Digest V1 # 826 Psion Travel modem

- New UID allocation scheme

- Reported corruption / insufficient memory

- GPS on Psion, battery life, routeplanner with GPS,

- Psion browsers

- OPL dev on 9500

Date: 13 Nov 2005 05:04:56 +0000
From: Vlad A <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 840

> Rolf Brunsting wrote on 13.11.2005 3:26:

> Apple's iSync 2 (MacOS X 10.4) is much. much better

Could you elaborate a bit? I'm in the process of switching definitively to X and one of the problems is finally being able to keep my adresses synched.

best,

vlad a

Date: 13 Nov 2005 07:30:08 +0000
From: Steve Litchfield <address truncated>
Subject: OPL

For Simon:

http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/pocketinfo/business_psiongeneral.html has the OPL stuff in 9500 form. Plenty of OPXes at both http://opl-dev.sourceforge.net/ and http://opldev.broeze.com/

Have fun!

..........................
Steve Litchfield, 3-Lib, http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/, software and features for Psion/Symbian handhelds and smartphones. Journalism: sub-editor and/or senior contributor to: Palmtop User - http://www.palmtop.co.uk/ and PDA Essentials magazine in the UK. Also reviews editor for AllAboutSymbian - http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/

Date: 13 Nov 2005 08:36:31 +0000
From: Gary Jenkinson <address truncated>
Subject: For Sale: Palmtop/TomTom GPS Unit for Psion + RoutePlanner + CityMaps + POD UK Car Holder for Series 5

If anyone is interested I have the following items for sale:

Palmtop (TomTom) GPS Unit for Psion Series 5, 5mx, MC218, Series 7, netBook, includes integral charger for Psion & GPS - Mint condition and fully boxed, complete with manuals

TomTom RoutePlanner software - Version (from CD) 70802.713 - Mint condition and fully boxed

TomTom CityMaps software - Comprises Europe Map CDs 1 & 2 - Version (from
CD) 70911.715 - Mint condition and fully boxed

POD UK Ltd In-car Holder for Series 5 - Mint (unused) condition - With spare in-car bracket for installing holder in a 2nd car

+ All updates, patches, additional overlay files + downloaded help guides from various sources on CD for the above hardware & software

I bought this all about a year and half ago, but shortly afterwards I started using my Win XP laptop with a GPS in my car, so never got around to installing the Psion set up. Everything is in mint condition and fully boxed. I'd prefer to sell everything in one job lot, so if you're interested in this total Psion/GPS solution, please bear this in mind when making me your offer. I'll happily post these items to anywhere in the world by whatever shipping method the buyer prefers, and is prepared to pay for, or you can pick it all up in person. I'm based in Coventry, UK.

Kind regards,

Gary Jenkinson
email: garyjenkinson AT email DOT com
Tel/Fax/Ansaphone: +44 (0) 2476 361242
Mobile: +44 (0) 7771 635764

Date: 13 Nov 2005 12:07:06 +0000
From: Charles Davies <address truncated>
Subject: C2F

After many dud links found it on following site:
http://www.pdastreet.com/cgi-bin/download-sw.cgi
Charles Davies

Date: 13 Nov 2005 21:26:53 +0000
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: Problem with my mBook (+ Netbook charging + MP3 player)

Hi Itamar,

Your wrote in reply to Tony Napier:
> Thanks for the answer but it is not _the*/_ answer. > I tried for some days to switch the mBook of before closing it > and it did not help either. I suppose it is a matter of patiently > eliminating each possibility until I will find the answer.

Actually, Tony was pretty much correct, as I suffered from exactly the problem which you described.  The problem is with the microswitch, but rather than failing to switch the Netbook off, it is wrongly switching the Netbook *on*!  (Perhaps when the Netbook is moved?)

Therefore, no matter how carefully you ensure your Netbook is switched-off, you can find it's battery drained, because it switched-on again.  The only (software) answer is to disable switching-on when the Netbook is opened. Yes, a pain I know, but I've got used to it.  Apart from that, my Netbook (well, 7book) is working 100 percent.


Even my original battery is working well.  Rolf Brunsting (sp?) seems to have been right that you should keep the Lithium battery topped-up, but occasionally fully discharge-recharge it.  Before he mentioned that (ages
ago) I was having problems with the battery not lasting so long.  So I blame Rolf for not being able to justify buying a 9500 yet ;-)


BTW, if anyone is interested in a better MP3 player for their Netbook (or
5mx I suppose), they might like to read this thread on Psion Place:
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60904

Regards,
Chris Handley

Date: 13 Nov 2005 22:32:47 +0000
From: Rolf Brunsting <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Leap seconds (again)

Dear Phil,

<< Well, it’s not often Chris. (Mr Handley) gets it wrong - but only 
slightly in this case. Apparently it’s not astronomers who want leap 
seconds done away with but some US people (probably politicians) who 
believe it’s OK to have midday at midnight! >>

Well ... last Friday (November 11th) was the last day of a scientific 
convention that was held in Geneva, Switzerland. One of the topics 
discussed at the convention was whether to continue with the practice 
of adjusting our atomic clocks using leap seconds. As it was 
suggested to use a larger correction - a leap minute or leap hour - 
which would have to be applied less frequently. The convention 
decided to keep using the leap second for the time being. But, as 
there was sufficient interest in the leap hour, a working group was 
formed to investigate all the repercussions of introducing the leap 
hour correction. The working group is to report its finding during 
the next convention.

---
Kind Regards,
Rolf Brunsting - Beilen - Netherlands

Date: 13 Nov 2005 23:52:13 +0000
From: "Arjen Broeze" <address truncated>
Subject: Re: OPL reference on 9500

Hi Simon

I've sent you a PRF file of the OPL command reference (Mobipocket format). I use this for quickly looking up command syntax etc. It has been created from a HTML file which is also included.

As to documentation on the OPX's for Communicators: you're right. There isn't any. But, the example DemoOPL that comes with the OPL development kit gives a good idea of how to use AppFrame.opx for example. The
devkit also contains a document written by Phil Spencer (OPL porting guide) which is a good reference to find out what has been changed between ER5 OPL and ER6 OPL.

There are some new OPX's (and very shortly there will also some new OPM's available like Listbox, Scrollbar and ColorDialog) for Communicators (check out my website for details,
http://opldev.broeze.com). (Another shameless plug) There's also a forum dedicated to OPL programming at
http://www.freeboards.net/index.php?mforum=opldevelopment.

If you need any help, don't hesitate to drop me a line.

Cheers, Arjen

Date: 14 Nov 2005 00:06:53 +0000
From: Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
Subject: Re: OPL reference on 9500

"Simon Jeffree" <address truncated> wrote at 12 Nov 2005 12:43:46 (>)

> Does anyone know if there's any good OPL reference
> material for Symbian - especially a command reference
> list  - out there, that I can view directly on my 9500

> Or indeed in any regular format, that I could, with some
> conversion & perhaps careful bulk editing, get into a
> fomat suitable for loading onto the device.

Hi Simon,
at www.allaboutopl.com/downloads/OPLCommands.rtf you will find the OPL commands. If you can convert the pdf file in a doc file and than in a csv file, you will have you want. I think, many OPL developers would you say "thank you".
Let's know, when you finish create the file.

> I can't find any documentation for the various OPXs
> which are included

see for example http://opldev.broeze.com

As you are starting the OPL developing, I would recommend you also to check the helpfull program EventCore by Ewan Spence (www.freepoc.org/viewapp.php?id=10

--
BR
Rolf

Date: 14 Nov 2005 01:14:30 +0000
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Windows problems with timestamps

Prar <address truncated> wrote:-

||> Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 836_15

I've added a subject!

||> I think one of the many
||> Windows updates has fixed a windows bug which meant that ||> Psiwin thought the files were different when they were ||> identical. I'm guessing Windows reported the timestamps ||> incorrectly and this caused Psiwin to think the files were ||> different.
||>
||> What have other people's experiences been?


I've often reported the timestamp problem that Windows have, but am not aware of a bug fix.

Alan Morris

Date: 14 Nov 2005 02:13:28 +0000
From: Melvin Woody <address truncated>
Subject: Re: datacontact

That site is now no longer available.  But you can get datacontact from freepoc at: www.freepoc.org/viewapp.php?id=66



> DataContact is a small utility to import Data files into Contacts.
> Pascal NICOLAS, http://pnicolas.epocboulevard.com seems to be outdated.

Date: 14 Nov 2005 03:09:39 +0000
From: Moshe Nahir <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 828

[cash
point/petrol station/railway station/hotel/etc.]".

Incidentally, Orange have a useful facility, which costs up to 50p
depending on how you use it, which guess your location, allows you to
refine it by giving you menus of street names, landmarks, etc., and
will then send you a map image of your surroundings which you can pan
around. You can also do the same for a destination, which you can
either quote the address or post-code of, or search for using a yellow
pages database like a phone directory. It will then construct a route
of how to get there by vcar or by foot, and show you a series of
little maps along the route as you request them. Pretty much the same
kind of facility as you get out of a mapping and routeing GPS in the
car, but not using GPS. Its a GPRS facility.

Probably other phone service providers have the same kind of facility.

--
Chris Malcolm  <address truncated>p; +44 (0)131 651 3445  Room 2107B
IPAB, Informatics, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings
Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.      [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

Date: 21 Oct 2005 11:08:25 +0100
From: Tony Napier <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 826 Psion Travel modem

Hello Keith
re IR modem settings
I never understood what these entries mean but these are the settings 
I use with a netbook and I think I have used them with S5s and Revos. My settings are not exactly the same as  Itamar Engelsmans but here 
they are.

>
> MODEM  Psion travel modem
> =======
>
> Speed = 57600
> Connect via Infrared
Fax class auto
>
> Options
> --------
> Until call answered
> medium
> 4 seconds
>
> Initialisation
> ------------
> Init (reset)string = AT&F
other lines not completed
>
> Advanced
> -----------Flow control none
terminal detect....left blank
carrier detect left blank
> Carrier detect   not ticked
> Modem type = fixed line
>
>
> INTERNET
> ========
>
> Service
> --------
> Dial-up
>
> Account
> ---------
> Username and password
>
> Addresses
> ------------
> Both ticked to get from the server
>
> Login
> ------
> empty
>
> Advanced
> -----------
> allow plain text authentication = ticked

On another subject, the pen is now stuck in my netbook, can anyone 
advise about curing the problem. I can( just) get it out but it 
sticks again.

Best wishes
Tony

Date: 21 Oct 2005 12:25:13 +0100
From: Marcus von Cube <address truncated>
Subject: New UID allocation scheme

Hi all developers,

I just read this in a Symbian newsletter:

>Automated UID request system - Symbian has introduced an automated web-based >UID request system to replace the legacy email-based system. Please use this >new system as email request will not being handled anymore.
>
>http://www.symbian.exvn.com/page.cfm?article=0xc43d3566440ca5936a4b48751d79cbd7.39.8372

The URL will be redirected to https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page/uidfaq

The main purpose seems to be the support for signed SymbianOS V9 applications. If you need an UID for an EPOC application, go for "Class 1 | 0x10000000 - 0x1FFFFFFF | Legacy UID allocations". You need to register with Symbian to use the system.

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

Date: 21 Oct 2005 13:55:53 +0100
From: Cathy Roberts <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Reported corruption / insufficient memory

Greeting to all from a frequent reader but rare poster!

I am perfectly sure that one - or many - of you will be able to advise me on the problem currently plaguing my Psion 5mx

I use a 128Mb CF card for the majority of my data and for some of the accessory programs. Most of the time this arrangement seems to work fine, programs happily start up, wherever they actually are, when the file I want to open is tapped - whether both file and program are on the same disk as each other or not. The C disk is 63% full, the D (CF card) is only 47% used. I do not usually have more than one or two programs running at the same time and almost always close all of them down before switching off - a legacy of early Windows training!

However, more and more often now the Psion reports that it cannot complete a "write" as the D card is corrupt or there is insufficient memory. This is usually when using either Data or Agenda files on the D card, when the programs themselves are on the C drive. Turning the machine off for a few moments seems to reset it and allow me to continue what I was doing - but it happens more and more frequently and is becoming a real pain.

I read the recent saga of the huge Agenda file with interest but, apart from the Old Testament, the largest file I have is 512K, hardly excessive, I would have thought.

Interestingly, I never have any problem with that particular file, perhaps because it and its program reside on the C drive?

So my question (after that lengthy intro!) is - am I using a duff CF card, is my Psion itself miserable for some reason, have I inadvertently damaged the little connecting pins inside or is this a known problem with Psions & cards?

Cathy

Date: 14 Nov 2005 13:05:48 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: GPS on Psion, battery life, routeplanner with GPS,

Answer to: Kevin Bewley

Re.: GPS on Psion - A garmin eTrex will do just fine, you don't need anything more elaborate with it's own maps incorporated or something like that. The cables you can order at the addresses mentioned in digest 840.

Answer to: Ian Chapple

Re.: battery life - Thanks for the answer. In general I do try and keep track on what is open and not but it could be I did not realise as you wrote. I do have Handy Day installed which gives a list of all open applications with the possibility to close them which I use quite frequently. And of course, when watching a movie with Smartmovie on my way up and down to Hamburg this Thursday I will take my spare battery <G>.

Answer to: Rolf Brunsting on the same subject, thanks for your answer too. It could be the battery life was shortened by using email several times via GPRS. Also, it happened while I was in The Netherlands so could it be that whenever I am not in the UK battery life will be less due to the roaming and not being on your own network ?

Answer to: Ed Kaneen

Re.: routeplanner with GPS - Glad you got it working. I drove many km's with my 5MX connected to a GPS and the lack of colours was not such a problem at all. I think it works very well but for when the sun catches the screen. One of the main missing features is that if you go wrong it does not automatically recalculates the route. Nowadays I use my mBook which of course does give me the colour screen as well as a much larger screen than any other device, but you do need a flat dashboard to install it securely. I am also looking at other more modern devices but think that over 500 pounds for a unit with GPS and European wide maps is overpriced.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 14 Nov 2005 15:21:16 +0000
From: Peter Rand <address truncated>
Subject: Psion browsers

>> ... is it possible to run Opera 3.62 and 5.14 on same machine

> yes x Lutz's Dualopera at:
> http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37920
> Tell us back
> Jack

Thanks, that was a good tip. With Dualopera, I can now select which version of Opera to use, although it unfortunately does not give me the ability to run both apps simultaneously.

To get on to a wireless hotspot, I need Opera 3.62, but to access a Yahoo email account, I need Opera 5.14. For general browsing, reading news articles, etc., I still use Web, since I can quickly download selected links via 'Cntl+Shift+D" without having to open them first in the browser.

It's a shame there's not a good all-purpose Psion browser that could combine these various abilities in a single browser.

Regards,

Peter

Date: 14 Nov 2005 22:10:44 +0000
From: Simon Jeffree <address truncated>
Subject: OPL dev on 9500

To: Arjen Broeze & Rolf Vonau

Thanks for both your quick responses.

Arjen said: << Attached is a PRF file of the OPL command reference. I use this for
quickyl looking up command syntax etc. It has been created from a HTML
file which I've also attached. >>

I'm not sure what this PRF file is or what app is required to use it (I'll investigate) but thanks for that.  The .HTML file is certainly usable in 'Web'.

Arjen said: <<...The example DemoOPL that comes with the OPL development kit
gives a good idea of how to use AppFrame.opx for example. The devkit
also contains a document written by Phil Spencer (OPL porting guide)...>>

Thanks for those tips.  I'll definitely study them.

Arjen said: <<...(and very shortly there will also some new
OPM's available like Listbox, Scrollbar and ColorDialog) for
Communicators (check out my website for details,
http://opldev.broeze.com)...>>

Thanks for the heads-up.  I look forward to these, particularly the Listbox one, as that's exactly what I need!

Rolf said: << at www.allaboutopl.com/downloads/OPLCommands.rtf you will find the OPL commands. If you can convert the pdf file in a doc file and than in a csv file, you will have you want. I think, many OPL developers would you say "thank you".
Let's know, when you finish create the file. >>

Thanks, Rolf.  I'll feed any useful resources I come up with back to the OPL community.

Regards,
Simon Jeffree