Updating twenty RSS feeds takes a lot of data; moreover I have my rss program (newsbreak) on the minisd with nothing in main memory, which means it won't automatically update (but also means I don't have to re-install it when I rebuild after a hard reset). I wanted to create a program to update it and my weather program when I connect by activesync. This program does that.
#r(#yesno) #p(Update Weather and RSS? silence=no) #rmr(1) #rmt(10000)
#r(#ifunknown) #p(stop)
#r(#iffalse) #p(stop)
#r(\Storage Card\Program Files\HandyWeather\HandyWeather.exe) #sleep(300)
#r(#tap) #p(197;309) #sleep(6000)
#r(#sendkey) #p(U) #sleep(300)
#r(\Storage Card\Program Files\NewsBreak\NewsBreak.exe) #sleep(5000)
#r(#tap) #p(197;309) #sleep(7000)
#r(#sendkey) #p(R) #sleep(300)
#r(#kill) #p(HandyWeather.exe) #sleep(180000)
#r(#kill) #p(NewsBreak.exe) #sleep(1000)
#r(#gototoday) #sleep(1000)
#r(#label) #p(stop)
I create a program (update.sksc) with this code and then use Memmaid to create a notification, which runs the program whenever activesync completes a synchronization (notification tab, Add, AppRunAfterSync). (for some reason, creating a notification when an rs232 connection is made is not working on my MDA).
The first three lines asks whether you want to update and stops the program if you do not say yes; this is because I've set it to run after every synch, and that happens pretty frequently if you leave it connected to the pc; it fails nicely. You have ten seconds to say yes if you want to sync. The second three lines update the weather program (handyweather, in my case) and the next group update my rss feed. I give it three minutes to update (more than enough) and then kill both programs and return to the today screen.
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I tried the RSS Hub (included in some shipped roms I believe; I got it with Dutty's latest rom). It is a lite (and free / OEM) version of Newsbreak, which is one of the top RSS readers.
Unfortunately, I ran into two problems -- one minor, and one serious. I wanted to warn everyone about this.
1. Small problem. Upon installation, I told RSS Hub to store articles on the storage card (through a menu option). It let me choose the amount of storage to use, but the smallest amount is 10% of the card size, which comes to 383 MB in my case -- way too much for my taste.
2. Big problem. Upon installation and first refresh, I told RSS Hub to mark everything as read. This caused the RSS Hub and Windows to freeze for more than 20 minutes, until I gave up and rebooted. During the freeze time, I could still interact with the phone, but each button press took about 5 minutes to register. After about 10 min, I managed to close RSS Hub, but the freeze didn't end -- maybe RSS Hub continued doing something after it's GUI shut down.
I don't think these two problems are related, since the amount of storage *actually* used up on the storage card at the time of my failed "mark as read" operation was just 2 MB. But the number of news stories marked unread was about 800.
I moved everything from storage card to main memory, and this problem didn't re-occur.
P.S. Iliumsoft confirmed that HSS Hub is actually identical to Newsbreak, and not a "lite" version.
Can I just ask, can RSS Hub download the full article for me to read later? Been trying to get it to do that but it only gets the headlines plus a couple of lines
Nosedive_ said:
Can I just ask, can RSS Hub download the full article for me to read later? Been trying to get it to do that but it only gets the headlines plus a couple of lines
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I haven't found a way, but i recommend SPB Online. It'll download the whole article with pictures and everything.
http://beta.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/online/
Good luck.
i have RSS hub built into my ROM as well (PDACorner rom) and I'm having issues, I cant tell it to save anything to storage card, i get an error saying "Cannot create file when that file already exists"
anybody have a clue how to get it to save to my storage card
(btw yea 10% is equal to 1.4GB for me.. WAY to much for RSS)
Thanks bro, will check it out. I like the RSS Hub interface, just wish I can get the full article
Run in background?
This might well be a dumb question, but I've just looked at RSS Hub - and set it to automtaically download some podcasts, but only when connect to the PC.... anyway, does the program launch at start up and always run in the background? or will it only check for updates when I physically start the program?
higherbeing said:
i have RSS hub built into my ROM as well (PDACorner rom) and I'm having issues, I cant tell it to save anything to storage card, i get an error saying "Cannot create file when that file already exists"
anybody have a clue how to get it to save to my storage card
(btw yea 10% is equal to 1.4GB for me.. WAY to much for RSS)
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me too.
The storage space is only a maxium amount allowed - not a minimum. You don't save 400MB or 1.4 GB of space unless you download that much content. Deleting the article from the reader also clears that space again.
My question is, when running in 'today'mode, the RSS hub runs quietly in the background and would download my headlines every 15 minutes. Now, with the 6.5 update on Verizon, the RSS Hub only works when I start it and refresh the articles?
Anyone have the same issue?
I experienced freezes quite often with this app. I finally figured out that it happened when I opened a headline and tried to close it before all associated images were downloaded/displayed for that story. As long as everything is given time to download, all works fine. If I close the story before an image is displayed, it freezes and I can only tap on 'X' to minimize. Trying to open ANY task manager when RSS freezes will not work either. The wait cursor will spin indefinitely until I press 'end call.' I used to soft reset each time this happened, but I've found in the last few days (from being lazy and not wanting to SR), that if you give the device (Rhodium for me) several hours to sort itself out, RSS will open again and function normally. I don't understand why this happens. What if Opera or PIE locked up when closed before an entire page was downloaded? -Matt
I have goodlink installed on my Kaiser and can't remove it since it is required by the company.
Well, the bad things are:
1. The goodlink main program "GoodApp.exe" can somehow start itself automatically. It really eat a lot of battery and can cause extra GPRS traffic.
I've remove the .lnk file from \Windows\Startup directory so that GoodApp can't start during system startup.
But, it will still run after several minutes and can't be correcly stopped.
Generally, there're two Good applications displayed in the TaskMgr: GoodApp.exe and GmdMoniterApp.exe, it's easy to kill the GmdMonitorApp.exe but when you want to kill GoodApp.exe, it will always prompt an error, though after that it seems the GoodApp.exe disappears in the TaskMgr. However it will start again after several minutes. CRAZY!
Anyone knows how to kill the GoodApp.exe so that I can run it on my will?
2. The Good software modifies the shortcut to the "Contact" menu (on the bottom-right corner of the screen). Normally when you hit the "Contact" menu it should display the contact list of your SIM card or so. But after installing Good, this menu points to the Good contact list. It's really annoying!
Where could I get the "Contact" menu back?
Thanks a lot!
I'm in the same boat, hate what Good Mail hijacks! Found a couple of ini's but since Good's support site is garbage, it didn't help much.
Have tried a whole mess of things, all to no avail....
If anyone else comes up with any suggestions, I'm all ears.
MBN
Just as a follow up, I've reflashed my phone umpteen times trying various "fixes" with no luck. Thought I'd found the registry entries (HKLM\Sofware\Microsoft\Shell\RAI) and tried tweaking those.... no help, DOH!
Tried to overwrite the various exe's with empty "fabricated" ones (renamed empty text docs and overwrote the Good mail ones), still nothing.
A couple of weeks ago I had a version of Good that at least left the contacts in my dialpad intact...latest version hijacked that one as well.
I have my IT dept contacting Good to see if they will offer any insight (not holding my breath). I fear I am left only with trying a third party PIM.... but the way things are going, Good will hijack that too!!!
If I hear or find anything, I'll update.
MBN
I have to say that GoodLink is the most dirty PDA software I've ever seen.
It uses a lot of dirty method to protect it from being disabled.
There are 3 main programs related with the protection(I can't remembet all the names):
1. GmdLockApp.exe: to protect your cellphone with a password. it will force you to set a password and you'll have to input the password every time the phone come back from standby mode (or so...).
2. GmdProtector.exe: to protect GoodLink components. With this program running, you'll never get a chance to modify any configuration of GoodLink (such as renaming a GoodLink program, or change a Reg key of it...).
3. GmdLaunchGuard.exe: this is the most dirty program, it hijacks almost all other application's shortcuts. Try to search "GmdLaunchGuard" in the Reg table you will find there's many results indicating the original windows configuration was changed by it.
For problem 1 & 2, I got a workaround so that you can at least modify some Reg key to do furthur test and can kill the GmdMonitorApp.exe & GoodApp.exe at last:
Steps:
1. Use GoodLink backup tool to backup it on to the storge card;
2. On the root of storage card there's a directory "GoodLink Backup", enter that dir and just delete the GmdLockApp.exe;
3. Also in that dir, rename the GmdProtector.exe to GmdProtectorBak.exe or something like that;
4. Soft reset you cellphone (by pressing both function keys then press reset) to let it return to the original state;
5. After restart, in the storage card root dir, there's a Restore GoodLink short cut, excute it will restore GoodLink to the memory;
6. Enter Windows\Startup dir, delete the short cut which points to GoodLink;
After above steps at least GoodLink will not start immediately after system startup, but it can start at anytime (I'm not sure).
However you can kill the GmdMonitorApp.exe and GoodApp.exe in the TaskMgr. You'd better stop GPRS before you kill GoodApp.exe, or it will prompt you an error.
For problem 3 (actually it relates with displaying the contacts), I still didn't find a good way to resolve it (simply rename the GmdLaunchGuard.exe will not work, and perhaps will make you can't load any program).
However you can see your SIM card contact by pressing "Send" key, it will bring out the contact list though it's very inconvenient and lossing some functionality such as smart searching...
You can rename the GoodApp.exe so it will never be started.
I could probably live with the constant presence of Good, I just hate that it hijacked my contacts....
It links contacts to only one of our company's address books, and it happens to be the employee addy book.... doesn't exactly help me much.
Oh, and have I mentioned that it's pushing Lotus Notes...another favorite of mine!
Resurrecting an old thread here... I hate how Good hijacks the Calendar and Contacts softkeys and I want to work on that issue again. Has anyone made progress with that?
As far as the GPRS activity and battery life, if you launch GoodMail and then goto the options menu you can set it to "Work Offline" which prevents it from auto-checking for new mail. You can then go to that same options menu whenever you want and select "Send/Receive" to manually pull your mail.
Hi, I'm really in need of some help.
I want to be able to sync a few podcasts and videopodcasts to my HTC diamond, so when i'm out and about I can view them offline.
Ideally I want:
-to be able to choose where they are stored.
-to make sure old ones are deleted when new ones downloaded.
-to be notified when I have new ones, either by windows or by entering a program.
and...
-To make sure they only get downloaded through my home broadband, either by the device through wifi, or through the PC and then transferred across.
Currently I have doppler grabbing podcasts and adding them to windows media playlists which are set up to be synced with my diamond.
Problem is, I have no idea when a new one arrives, since a new randomly named file replaces an old randomly named file in a folder on the 4gb memory. More importantly than that, it seems really hit and miss on what gets synced over, lots of stuff doesn't get added to the playlists and its just really messy and unreliable.
The ideal solution would be a program for the diamond that is setup to auto-sync during the night, only using WiFi. Then when i'm bored I can enter the program, see a new episode of whatever, and launch it.
Does such a program exist, or is there another way to set that up?
i can't help but keep trying new roms all the time but its getting annoying having to set everything up like facebook links, windows live, panels etc. is there kind of back up thingy to deal with this???
thanks
i don't know about an easy way, but i made myself a cab that sets up the base configurations that i need always.
What my cab does is:
1- import registry settings for the program registration that are kept in the registry, main settings of TF3D (tab order, shortcuts, weather and time settings), settings for galarm and gprofile, and some other software
2- put some shortcuts in the start menu for programs installed on the SD.
and this cab gets called with the autorun method (mort script autorun in the 2577 folder) which can install cabs silently and import registry file.
like this upon second boot (first boot is to call main rom script) i get my everyday use apps installed and configured.
i didn't do the autosetup for some settings that require passwords (wifi keys, facebook password), first i can't find all of them, second for security reasons
So I've been diligently managing a pretty pristine outlook contact list that im pretty satisfied with. I've been syncing back and forth via bluetooth (usb port went bad about a year ago).
Recently i reformatted and reinstalled windows 7 on my computer. I did not back up my contacts on the computer because they are on the phone and figuring i'd get them on the re-sync (which I've done before). Unfortunately In that short time period I managed to smash my phone touch screen up pretty good, making things more difficult (and a lack of tap and hold). I cannot for the life of me get the two to sync up to each other via active sync. They pair together fine and send files back and forth to each other, but cannot get them to sync to each other. In the past i've just gone on the phone active sync > connect via bluetooth and then it starts doing its thing in windows mobile device center... Whenever I do it now I get the message
"cannot connect using bluetooth to a pc that supports active sync. you may be out of range. it then asks if i would like to create a different partnership with a pc."
I've obviously created a new pair, turned on visibility and discovery on both pc and phone. Each time it gives me that error message about creating a new pair.
A couple of side notes.
-I have some thoughts that it might be a conflict with the new and old bluetooth pairing but i cannot delete the old one due to the lack of touch screen for the tap and hold. (perhaps there is a way to do this on the hard keyboard)
-I could give a crap about the phone, I've already got a new one. I just want to preserve my contacts.
-I've made a pim backup and a sprite backup of pertinent info but its my understanding that both of these only work with my phone and not outlook, not to mention only my specific rom version.
What is the easiest way to proceed to salvage my contacts?
Sorry for the rather long post on a familiar and oft rehashed question but I couldn't find the answering in any other posts and wanted to be pretty clear with my post.
first of all, since you have made a pimbackup of contacts, your data is SAFE no matter what ROM or which windows mobile device you have! the sprite backup, on the other hand, CAN be specific to your ROM/device depending on exactly what you chose to back up.
so you can always restore the pimbackup archive to a good working windows mobile device (borrow a friends?) and sync up that device with your desktop.
with that out of the way...lets see...you've got a bad screen? i would suggest using a "remoting" tool (like mymobiler)...but i think mymobiler requires a working activesync over usb...but you say your usb port is screwed?
if you can use the screen just enough to install "wifi remote access 1.7" and configure it and enable WIFI, then you can remote control your device using the relevant functionality of "wifi remote access 1.7" from the browser on your desktop, assuming you have a WIFI network at home.
with the screen hurdle out of the way, i suppose it would make your ability to configure things on the device a bit more possible. for starters, even though you have used pimbackup, also install microsoft myphone and upload your contacts there as well. while you're at it, you can mess around with activesync on your device some more to try to get it to sync.
BUT! i think the problem might be on your recently refreshed desktop. i hear windows mobile device center should be upgraded because an update is available.
if all else fails, you can use pimbackup to create a "non-binary" archive (the style is configurable during the backup wizard use case). this non-binary archive is actually a zip file containing a csv file (comma separated values). so you can rename the archive to "something.zip", extract the zip on your desktop and use microsoft excel to open the extracted csv file. here, you will get an easy to edit file with your contacts laid out over rows/columns.