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Gmail + IMAP + Windows Mobile = Failure.

Samad — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:27:37 +0000

So Gmail recently rolled out with an IMAP service, and knowing some of the benefits of IMAP compared to POP I decided to switch over. I set everything up using Google’s guide for IMAP on WM6 to the word. However, I ran into issues as soon as the first Send/Receive action completed. For some reason, only the headers were downloading!! I didn’t think much of it, and since its a new service from Gmail I thought I might give it a few days for them to sort out the kinks and try again. Now I’m back on POP access.

But curiosity is never more than a hop, skip, and jump away.. and I wanted to see if I was the only one with these issues. Seems like I’m not. And here. Especially considering that the e-mail that was downloaded was all HTML based. So it definitely is a kink in Google’s system.. which will hopefully be sorted out soon (since they did state that they were “working on it”).

Hopefully it won’t be too long before I can finally use labels on my WM device!

Telephone Links

Samad — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:57:04 +0000

For those of you wondering how to create telephone links on web pages, the code is below. If someone with a mobile phone clicks this link on your web page, it will ask them to confirm the number and then proceed to call the number on the link. Note: I haven’t tested this with many cell phones, only Windows Mobile phones using PocketIE, and it works just fine.

Link Title

It needs to conform to your country’s dialing rules, and the example above uses US dialing rules (10 digit number). If its long distance, add the one before it.

Windows Mobile 6 Themes

Samad — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:50:33 +0000

Browsing around on the web, I found a great place to get Windows Mobile themes. Originally designed for the Motorola Q, these themes work on most other smart phones, including the T-Mobile Dash. Website address: http://www.kooldezine.com/Q.htm

I am currently using the Carbon Fiber Tabs theme with Facade and Fizz Weather… I have modified the background image and removed the Motorola Q text and it works great!

Removing Windows Live E-mail on WM6

Samad — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:50:51 +0000

With Windows Mobile 6, you have the option of using the built in MSN messenger to talk to your buddies. A lot of people, including myself, don’t use Hotmail based e-mail services, and an unfortunate side effect of even trying out the built in MSN messenger is the addition of “Windows Live E-mail” in the messaging application. On the T-Mobile Dash, when you use the right softkey to pull up options such as “Settings” and “Delete”, the “Delete” option is grayed out, so its almost as if you’re stuck with that.

Thankfully, deleting a registry key fixes the “issue” some of us face and removes the Windows Live E-mail option from the messaging application.

Using Total Commander (or any other registry editor), find the following key:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Inbox\Svc\Windows Live

Note: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE may show up as HKLM on some devices, like the Dash.

Delete the key, and restart the messaging application. The “Windows Live E-mail” option should now be gone. Note that it will return once you try using MSN Messenger again (or any other Windows Live service built in), so I recommend using something like Shape Services IM+ for an IM client instead.