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Must Haves For BlueAngel

Hi guys
I just wondered what you're must haves for the BlueAngel are (software,hardware, games ans so on).
I thought this could be usefull for new users of a BlueAngel like I am.
I hope to get lots of replies.... :wink:
Don't forget a short description...
All new users are going to be very thankfull (or at least I'm going to be...)

you could for first install sprite backup and sprite monitor. very useful for monitoring battery usage and memory usage. This also helps backup issues.
also, mine did not have a microsoft reader installed when I bought it so I installed one. useful if you're for ebooks.
cheers!

MUST SOFTWARES
I have installed in my IIs the following MUST Softwaresall of which are freewares and WHICH I BELIEVE SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE FIRST PLACE):
1.) AgileMobile Messenger --- Instant Messenging
2.) Skype ---VOIP
3.) PPCSoft psShutXP --- Shutdown Program
4.) AvantGo
5.) PocketTV --- Mpeg Player
6.) Pocket RAR --- Unzip Program
7.) KBattery --- Battery Meter
8.)GS Player --- Streaming Audio Player
Many more softwares installed in my IIs but I dont deemed anymore a must so I didnt include.

i got the following installed:
Avant Go
PocketX Photocontacts
Spb Weather - Weather News
Spb Diary - Calender, Tasks, Contacts on Todayscreen (anyone a better one?)
WebIS Pocket Informant - Better PIM
Skype
Fifa 2002
Cherry Soft StripPocker
Pocket Mind Music Player
Sim City 2000
Bubble Master - Very addicting!
Hexacto Casino
Monopoly
Mini Jetfight (just because of the amazing graphx
Microsoft Reader
Resco Explorer 2003
Spb Imageer - way better photoalbum
Spb GPRS monitor
Sprite Backup - Absolute MUST HAVE
SlovoEd - Dictionary for various languages
spb Pocket Plus - adds some more options on todayscreen

my must-have list
CABInstl
TranCreative Magic Button
nakka TdLaunch
Mort's MortSaver
Mort's MortPlayer with iPod skin
RARLAB Pocket RAR
David Andrs Birthdays
Southway Corporation, MultiIE
ftxPBrowser
PHM Registry Editor
Macromedia Flash Player for PocketPC
Adobe reader for pocket pc
ClearVUE PDF
ClearVUE PPT
Agile Mobile, Agile Messenger
Birdsoft BatteryWatch
Sprite Software, Sprite Backup
SJ Labs, SJphone
Xten Networks, X-PRO
Cambridge, vxUtil
SmartDialling & PhonePad
bass&treble
Vmobile Network Browser
Resco Explorer
WiFiFoFum
Streethawk
Kasuei, WiFi Graph
MyIpConfig
PocketPutty

I agree with most the above mentioned and would add...
HP Mobile printing (Allows printing over IR)
ACCESS NetFront3 (great browser that has tabs & supports most Java functions)
PDAmill Snails (okay not a must but great game)
qdCAS (it's like a pocket version of the Maple calculator)
and finaly...
Pocket Putty

Lakeridge WisBar Advance 2 (latest beta, cos the stable version don't support -and is old- phone edition pocketpcs)
SBSH PocketBreeze
SBSH ContactBreeze
SBSH iLauncher
GreenSoftware (GS) Player for Audio
Beta Player for Video
Jamdat Worms World Party

awesome
Kudos to pof for taking the time to link to every program! Cheers. 8)

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I have calculator on mine
Tom

Talking about must-haves for the Blue Angel on the hardware side, I've got a Krusell leather case which is more convinient to use than the supplied one. It's a flip open one, like the one supplied with the XDA 2i. I've got a Brando screen protector, and got one spare too, to protect the screen. Further, I bought a sync + charge cable from sfplanet.com, which I can carry to office etc., rather than the cradle which I keep docked to my home PC.

Must haves
I like PocketNav. Free, smaller, faster than other Today screen "closer" programs.
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=59

apaprt from the standard apps already in: quite some
ii. Doublelauncher
iii. Gigatask
iv. RSS reader HappyJackRod
v. GPRS Monitor
vi. Claunch
vii. Yeti
viii. GPS Assist
ix. TomTom
x. Journalbar
xi. Battery Pro
xii. ProgramBar
xiii. PocketZen
xiv. PocketInformant
xv. EZOS EzWAP
xvii. I-Explore enhancement
xix. HP mobile Printing Sys
xx. PHM Keys
xxi. PHM Powertoys
xxii. PHM Registry Editor
xxiii. PHM Task Manager
xxiv. Bass & Treble
xxv. Finger Clix
xxvii. Memmaid
xxviii. PocketWinc
xxix. MS RemoteDisplayctrl
xxx. Reval TTLite
xxxi. Skype
xxxii. SPB Time
xxxiii. Tascalsoft TPE
xxxiv. MBRO Treesize
xxxv. Pocket PC-Club TV Gids
xxxvi. Total Commander Ghisler
xxxvii. Chess
xxxviii. Memory In Ce
xxxix. ftxPBrowser
xl. VMNethood
xli. WinZip
xlii. XDA Dev. Ext.ROM Tools
xliii. CAB Install

..... and you'll need a decent memory card to store all those lovely programs etc. I currently have a 512MB Adata mini SD card - with SD adapter. Sufficient room at the moment - but I'm keeping my eyes peeled for something bigger!
J

Instant Messaging Program
Do y'all know if anything in particular conflicts with Agile Messenger on a Blue Angel? I have an O2 version, with the active stuff turned off, and Agile Messenger keeps crashing it!!!
If it is Agile Messenger and not the cause of some other program, could you please suggest another multi-IM client?
Thanks!

WM5 Upgrading experiences... and some questions...

OK, after finally getting my BA perfect with 2003SE, I decided to take the plunge last night and upgrade to TuMa's 1.4 WM5 ROM...
All went well until this morning when I couldn't get the phone app to work, at all!
So I did a HR and all was fine, I added all my trusty apps, including TomTom, Vito SmartMap and Vito Navigator II and they all worked... I even got my i.Tech BT Stereo Headset to work in both handsree and stereo headset mode... while connected to my Fortuna ClipOn GPS with both TomTom and Navigator II!!!!
I realised this afternoon that I hadn't installed Pocket Informant so I tried... and tried... and tried...
Then I realised that I was missing something... I didn't resize my Ext_ROM on my initial upgrade and it was unlocked using the XDA tool on this site, so I had 43 Meg Storage Memory, 96 Meg Program Memory and the 16 Meg Ext_ROM... or at least I did when I first flashed it! After this mornings flash there was no Ext_ROM to be seen!!
I am now in the process of Downgrading back to 2003SE as I understand the Unlock tools only work in that OS... I think I'm going to take the plunge now, resize my storage to 60 Meg, and reinstall TuMa's ROM, in my opinion it is awesome!!
In short I had:
Working Wi-Fi
Working BT (Including Voice Dialling) (No Unrequested Powerups either!)
Working A2DP
Working MMS
Working GPRS
And a much nicer interface, and to be honest once all the apps were loaded, I didn't really see it as any slower than 2003SE with the same burden of software, I run:
Wisbar Advance 2
SBSH Pocket Breeze
SBSH Contact Breeze
Spb Pocket Plus
Spb Weather
Spb GPRS Monitor
Spb Time
Resco File Explorer
Resco Audio Recorder
Pocket Informant 2005
Photo Contacts Pro
Skype
IM+
TomTom 5.21
SmartMap 3.51
Navigator II 1.31
and various games, and the only app which dragged at all was TomTom, but that was only on startup, once it was running it was fine...
My only dilemma now is are any of the other ROMS cleaner or faster? I tend to use Resco File Explorer rather than Total Commander, and Wisbar as opposed to VBar... so really the apps TuMa has supplies are a waste of space for me (even though they are in the ROM, I know!)... I've heard that Ivan R4.3 is speedy, but do any of them have the WiFi/BT stuff working as well as TuMa's?
Loads of info, and loads of questions I know, but I'm just so goddam excited!! I really wasn't expecting much from WM5, and I have so been pleasantly surprised!!
Slainté,
tekno

Wifi and bluetooth working nice in ivans version, i have no problems since using it

Cool, I've just got that one from the ftp site... off to flash now, I've heard it's faster, do I need to increase my storage to 60MB or can this one support Ext_ROM? I notice an older one of Ivan's did...
Slainté,
spkr4thdd

All ivans releases have a working Extrom, so get togehter the cabs on your PC, check how much space they take up then flash the Extrom to slightly larger (eg i have 19mb of cabs and 20mb of extrom) that way you will get the most storage space and still fit all your cabs in the extrom.

IE on Kaiser keeps locking up device

Hi,
I have a Kaiser which keeps locking up whenever I try to use IE. Very rarely will it actually load a complte page and allow youto click on a link. More often that not, the device hangs whilst trying to load a page, the little circle in the bottom right stops 'spinning', and everything freezes. The soft keys onscreen and even the hard keys stop working and you have to do a soft reset.
Is anyone else having this problem?

I had this on mine... wasn't sure what was causing it so did a hard reset and re-installed apps and its fine now. What apps/tweaks you got? Maybe there is something common that caused it?

I still have the problem on mine. I am using Opera now don't want to re-install all the apps.
My installed apps:
htc audio home plug
sktools
resco explorer
TT 6.032
iGo
Live Search
Google Maps
Opera
Palringo
BT Audio Toggle
Real One
Skype
Spb Backup
TCPMP
Sprite Backup
WM6 Remote Desktop
Yahoo Go 2.0

I have the following installed:
TomTom Navigator 6
SBP GPRS Monitor
OneNote Mobile
Fizz Traveller
Sprite Backup
Skype
HTC X- Button
I did have fit4Cat Hermes Tweaker installed, but as I was not using any of it I have just uninstalled it and tried IE and this time it is working.
Not sure ifthis really made the difference as Fit4Cat wasn't even running when I was having the problems. Weird.

I had the same issue but I had the patch installed that used the SD card for the IE cache. I removed that and did a warm reset.
I haven't had IE lock up on me in a day now on either Edge or 3g

That seems to have solved it!
The removal of Fit4Cat Hermes Tweaker was not the problem, it was a previous registry hack, that had worked on the Hermes, that I used to store the Cache on the Storage Card to save space.
I edited the registry to put the cache back on the device and IE loaded pages without locking up and it was much quicker too.
Thanks for this one.

Hmm I have that problem too ... and yes, I moved the cache to the card. I think that is the root cause.
Anyway, I use Opera Mini now which is way much faster. IE is just no contest against Opera Mini in terms of speed !

laakness said:
I had the same issue but I had the patch installed that used the SD card for the IE cache. I removed that and did a warm reset.
I haven't had IE lock up on me in a day now on either Edge or 3g
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Same here, I changed the chache lokation to SD using Memmaid and IE was locking up randomly. But after reverting the settings back to original (use device memory) I didn't have a single hang.

Freeing up program memory

Ok here is the deal. I am no complete noob. I googled. I searched the entire forum. What I found was Memmaid and SK Tools. Both do not seem to work properly on my device. I have M-Diamond 1.4.
My problem is, that program memory is filled quite quickly. After a soft reset I have about 45 megs. Device works good. After a day, it is only 40 megs. After 2 days 35. When I reach 32 megs, the device is not usable anymore. Messaging is ultraslow. My homescreen gets messed up. HS++ disappears and the skin gets changed.
After a soft-reset everything is ok again. But I do not want to do a soft-reset again and again after 3 days.
Here are the current services sorted by usage of memory:
filesys.exe 9.42M
device.exe 6.90M
gwes.exe 3.40M
shell32.exe 2.46M
cprog.exe 1.92M
services.exe 1.23M
tmail.exe 1.14M
s2u2.exe 1.09M
+ 11 other services with lower that 1meg of usage
Currently free memory is exactly 35 Megs.
Please spare me with comments like "use forum search" or stuff like that. I did that already.
To anyone who gives me useful advices and perhaps helps me solve this:
Thanks in advance!!!

Hi there. It is important to know what all the other 11 processes are in order to see what is eating up your ram. I use FreeupRam which comes with SK Tools quite effectively. I also use TaskMgr to check what apps and processes are running and close unnecessary ones. You can close tmail for example.
I am not sure what device you are running etc what rom, WM6 or 6.1, you need to give us a bit more info. I am not sure what you mean by M-Diamond 1.4?
What other apps do you have installed? Eg. HTC Home Customiser and PhoneAlalrm were playing havoc on my today screen after resets etc and certain plugins would not display properly or not at all. After uninstalling these and replacing everything with Spb Mobile Shell, I now have a device that works as it should and it suits my requirements 99%.
It seems like it is something else causing the slowdown. I am running Task Facade, S2U2 v1.52, Spb Moble Shell, a couple of Mortscripts, etc and have between 39mb and 45mb free ram and my device is pretty snappy, even when using hardware keyboard and switching to landscape and back.
I suspect it is a plugin or similar app slowing your device down.

Ok here is the full list:
Filesys.exe
Device.exe
Gwes.exe
Shell32.exe
Cprog.exe
Services.exe
S2u2.exe
Remote.exe
Rapiclnt
Quickgps.exe
Tmail.exe
Connmgr.exe
Repllog.exe
Taskmgr.exe
Udp2tcp.exe
Ilock2.exe
Sddaemon.exe
Rnaapp.exe
Nk.exe
The M-Diamond Rom is WM6.1
I have a lot of stuff installed, though I do not use it regularly. Regular use is:
S2U2
S2P
G-Alarm
MyMobiler
File Explorer
Soltair
Opera (not very regularly, but sometimes)
PPCPimBackup
TomTom7
Mobile Navigator 7
MoBlog
Apptodate
As home screen I have a combination of HS++ and UltimateLaunch.

Balrog82 said:
Ok here is the full list:
Filesys.exe
Device.exe
Gwes.exe
Shell32.exe
Cprog.exe
Services.exe
S2u2.exe
Remote.exe
Rapiclnt
Quickgps.exe
Tmail.exe
Connmgr.exe
Repllog.exe
Taskmgr.exe
Udp2tcp.exe
Ilock2.exe
Sddaemon.exe
Rnaapp.exe
Nk.exe
The M-Diamond Rom is WM6.1
I have a lot of stuff installed, though I do not use it regularly. Regular use is:
S2U2
S2P
G-Alarm
MyMobiler
File Explorer
Soltair
Opera (not very regularly, but sometimes)
PPCPimBackup
TomTom7
Mobile Navigator 7
MoBlog
Apptodate
As home screen I have a combination of HS++ and UltimateLaunch.
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Ok, now I can guess which the culprit is... and the winner is........*drum roll*...
ULTIMATE LAUNCH!!!! and HS++ do not good bedfellows make.
I use HS++, b ut only as a one-liner to see battery temp, battery drain etc etc.
Just try running your device without UltimateLaunch and you will see the difference. I tried it out for a very short while and that was my experience.

Hm ok, I will try without UL. Is there a better launcher you can reccomend?

I had UL deactivated for a while. And I had no real measurable loss in memory. Just a little bit. I believe that if you have multiple tabs in UL and they get loaded they take memory (for icons and such). I have no today plugins integrated into UL, so this is not the reason for huge memory loss.
But now comes the clue. I reactivated UL and just some minutes later I suddenly had 50megs of free memory instead of the 44 megs I had before.
Have to monitor this for a while...

I use Spb Mobile Shell which is commercial, but I am very happy in general and I can highly recommend it. I hardly ever use my today screen anymore. It is fast, snappy, reasonably low on resources, there are many themes available and I like my current setup.

Decent Registry Cleaner/ Optimizer

My X1i seems to be running a lot slower than it used to. I'd expect some slowdown, but not this much. Switching programs is often jerky and when typing text messages the text will not display for a while as it has to catch up with itself.
I was wondering if there were any good free registry cleaners or system optimizers that are avaialble for Windows Mobile. Ideally a 'free' one.
I have tried Mobile Registry Cleaner 1.0 but it wont install with Vista Sync Centre.
ANy help would be appreciated.

try this,
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-cleanram.html
its not a reg cleaner but will free up ram to make your X1 work quicker.
Scroll down to the Mobi download tab and install without activesync its a cab file.

SKTools ftw.

Fast Cleanup and ClearTemp.
They rule. My X1 is always fast.

doministry said:
Fast Cleanup and ClearTemp.
They rule. My X1 is always fast.
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Seconded.

ClearTemp alone is enough? I can't find a working link for fast cleanup and only a version from 2004