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HTC Battery Drainage Bug (Possible Fix)

Hello,
This is my first attempt at .NET CF programming. It is in reference to this thread.
It attempts to cycle the power to the GPS hardware eight times (at 200ms intervals) by calling GPSOpenDevice() and GPSCloseDevice().
It also shows the raw information provided by GetSystemPowerStatusEx2() if you need to troubleshoot your battery.
I'm not sure that it works, but it attempts to do programmatically what is described in the thread link above.
Full source code is included. I think it is also a great tutorial VB.NET project for anyone wanting to learn how to read the power on their device.
Please let me know what you think, and if it even works towards being a workaround for the HTC/Qualcomm chip standby-power drain bug. If it does work, I'll improve it (add autorun/exit-after capability, systray, etc..)
To use this without dealing with VS2005/compiling/etc, just copy HQPowerFix.exe from the bin/Release folder (in the zip) to your device (anywhere) and run it from there.
Note: These images are from my development machine. They look different on the device:
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Regards,
--Weasel5i2

Nice idea! But it seems would be useful to cycle gps state not a fixed amount of times, but based on result of battery drainage (if it's below the certain level, the fix was succeed and no need to cycle gps anymore).
Also it would be useful to create a "command-line mode", when the program is starting and doing the fix without user interference. When done, it makes possible to launch iGo and this program from one script file, to implement the fix automatically after exit from iGo.

I found the MSDN documentation on the SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS_EX2 structure:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa926903.aspx.
It seems I didn't properly implement this structure's usage in my code, so I am planning to fix it tonight when I get home from the office.
@Vladimyr: That's a great idea, I do plan on doing that if this program turns out to be worthwhile and actually do the GPS power-drain fix as intended. Once I figure out how to more accurately read the mV/mA metrics, I will start working on that.
I'm also now working on a front-end/back-end for controlling a Car PC from a Pocket PC.. I think an older iPaq is cheaper than a Lilliput touchscreen
--W5i2

weasel5i2 said:
I found the MSDN documentation on the SYSTEM_POWER_STATUS_EX2 structure:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa926903.aspx.
It seems I didn't properly implement this structure's usage in my code, so I am planning to fix it tonight when I get home from the office.
@Vladimyr: That's a great idea, I do plan on doing that if this program turns out to be worthwhile and actually do the GPS power-drain fix as intended. Once I figure out how to more accurately read the mV/mA metrics, I will start working on that.
I'm also now working on a front-end/back-end for controlling a Car PC from a Pocket PC.. I think an older iPaq is cheaper than a Lilliput touchscreen
--W5i2
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Any updates to your program? Also, is it possible to edit the thread title and put GPS in it? I'd been meaning to reference back to this one and it took me a while to find it.

HAVE ANYONE TRIED THIS ALREADY?
DID IT FIX THE PROBLEM?
weasel5i2 said:
Hello,
This is my first attempt at .NET CF programming. It is in reference to this thread.
It attempts to cycle the power to the GPS hardware eight times (at 200ms intervals) by calling GPSOpenDevice() and GPSCloseDevice().
It also shows the raw information provided by GetSystemPowerStatusEx2() if you need to troubleshoot your battery.
I'm not sure that it works, but it attempts to do programmatically what is described in the thread link above.
Full source code is included. I think it is also a great tutorial VB.NET project for anyone wanting to learn how to read the power on their device.
Please let me know what you think, and if it even works towards being a workaround for the HTC/Qualcomm chip standby-power drain bug. If it does work, I'll improve it (add autorun/exit-after capability, systray, etc..)
To use this without dealing with VS2005/compiling/etc, just copy HQPowerFix.exe from the bin/Release folder (in the zip) to your device (anywhere) and run it from there.
Note: These images are from my development machine. They look different on the device:
Regards,
--Weasel5i2
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Doesnt work but nice idea

Notepad (Text Editor)

Updated development posted at this thread...
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Notepad Mobile
This is a "text editor" for Windows Mobile. It allows you to open text (.txt) files and other text based files (.xml, .bat, .log, etc.)
Updated v1.1: (28/10/2008)
Added Zoom Functionality
Reduced Executable Size!
Features:
Open/Create/Save text files
Supports cut/copy/paste by right click
Text input area resize as-per SIP (virtual keyboard) space
It is a standalone executable (no installation required)
Extremely light-weight and with minimum memory consumption
How to install:
Extract and copy Notepad.exe on your device and run it from there!
See: http://shamasis.net/projects/mobile/notepad/

Notepad for Windows Mobile - My First App!
Hello everybody,
It is really wonderful to see such a group of talented developers here. I am really amazed to see everyone's dedication. So much so that I felt like contributing. But there is a roadblock ahead of me.
I am a proficient developer. My domain is JavaScripting, PHP, ASP, C# .NET. I am very new to the world of Windows Mobile.
In fact, I found that I am wasting too much of time Googling even simplest of things! In fact, I am still stuck at how to work have transparent controls for Windows Mobile .NET Compact Framework!
What I would request is if someone could give me a headstart with links/tips upon simplest things for transition of C# Desktop development to C# Smartphone development (especially for Diamond as I own one!)
If I am reposting anything without searching or if I am repeating, kindly excuse me for this time and point me to proper threads!
Thanking you again!

Windows Mobile SDK
Install the Windows Mobile 6 SDK and use Visual Studio.

Already done.
cmilian said:
Install the Windows Mobile 6 SDK and use Visual Studio.
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Did that! And that is how I made my first app. And just as a note, I do develop C# apps for desktop and as you can see, have developed simple WM apps too!
I just found no good resource as to solve very specific issues like: Control's image background and transparency, etc!
I need to know few things... please help:
1. How do I create transparent controls or have background images of textboxes, labels, etc!
2. If I apply an icon to the application (in solution properties), I get a build error "CVTRES fatal error : cannot read file.", though the same icon file is loaded when I assign it to the main Form's Icon property!!

have you checked out:
www.msdn.microsoft.com

MSDN has some solutions.
idrisito said:
have you checked out:
www.msdn.microsoft.com
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MSDN has some solutions (regarding the transparency issues), but did not find anything concrete!

shamasis said:
MSDN has some solutions (regarding the transparency issues), but did not find anything concrete!
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Technically the CF does not support transparent controls, but as with anything, there are some tricks to simulate it. You might try searching Google Groups in the microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework group for some pointers. As for myself, although I did get some workable controls using those tips, I found it was more trouble than it was worth. "Roll your own" is my motto now. I hardly even use the standard label control anymore.
As for your icon issue, remove the 256x256 version from the ico file. That should do the trick.

Windows Mobile Icon Issue solved!
GeckoDev said:
... As for your icon issue, remove the 256x256 version from the ico file. That should do the trick.
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Yes right!!! It was stupid of me not to have verified the icon support for this platform.
With a lot of searching, I realized packing: 64x64, 43x43, 32x32, 21x21, 16x16 in 256 colours would be the best idea.
I used IconFX... Great tool See: http://icofx.ro/
The update exe is now way smaller. Do have a look.
BTW: Thanks a ton.

shamasis said:
I used IconFX... Great tool See: http://icofx.ro/
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I was going to suggest that to you as well ... best free icon editor I've found.
shamasis said:
With a lot of searching, I realized packing: 64x64, 43x43, 32x32, 21x21, 16x16 in 256 colours would be the best idea.
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You probably don't need all of them. From what I've been able to tell, the OS only uses the 16x16, 32x32, and 64x64 versions. I think I read that on MSDN somewhere, but I don't have a reference. Either way, those have worked fine for me. Remember that you need to take steps to reduce your footprint on mobile devices.

Useless Icon Sizes!
GeckoDev said:
... the OS only uses the 16x16, 32x32, and 64x64 versions...
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Is it so?? I mean... I read some MSDN blog that said for square devices you need 21x21 and 43x43! If you say that its pointless to include them, I will be more than happy to scrap those non-standard sizes!
From: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2007/03/02/320x320-revisited.aspx

Heh ... I was wondering where those weird sizes came from. OK, so if you're developing for square too, then maybe you do need them. I've only concerned myself with VGA/QVGA so far, so I probably misspoke.
As bloated as ico files are, I'm surprised they decided on two additional sizes for squares. I have an app with all kinds of cool graphics that are only 3-5 kb, but the icon with only a few sizes is 90-100kb, which is about 1/3 of the total exe size ... just for an icon!!! That might be why some apps have different installers for square screens, so the footprint for each stays lower.

Hi, i was testing ur notepad.exe on my HTC Touch found this problem the screen seen freeze at 1/3 of the file w/o wordwarp or with wordwarp same only little further. But when i scroll up to top no problem.
using file "HH_0409_WeatherCities.xml" size is 225kb
small problem with switching portrait to landscape while notepad running
(i did this before runnin notepad switch portrait to landscape or versa)
HOPING FEATURES
FIND option <--- this 1 most wanter
Replace option

Hi , if you are still looking for transparent control look at this :
The ability to draw bitmaps transparently though the usage of the ImageAttributes parameter still exists in the .NET Compact Framework, but it's a little bit more work than on the desktop.
ImageAttributes imageAttr = new ImageAttributes();
// Make a transparent key
imageAttr.SetColorKey(Color.White, Color.White);
//Use the key when drawing
gxOff.DrawImage(m_bmp, imgRect, 0, 0, img.Width, img.Height,
GraphicsUnit.Pixel, imageAttr);
source : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa446518.aspx

Screen Mode Bug Fixed.
OceanSpray said:
...small problem with switching portrait to landscape while notepad running
(i did this before runnin notepad switch portrait to landscape or versa)...
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I have solved this issue. Now you should have no problem while changing from portrait to landscape and vice versa. Do check out and let me know. Download updated file
Regarding the other bug: I have seen this issue on many devices. In my opinion, it is a problem (limitation) of DOTNET Framework. Try upgrading to latest DOTNET CF and do the testing.
Also, if this problem persists, I presume there will be a workaround for this. But the workaround may be at the cost of loading time and memory usage. Should I proceed in that direction?
PS:
I am planning all the existing Notepad features for this application. That Includes Find and Replace and Zoom.

Icon issue!
GeckoDev said:
...OK, so if you're developing for square too, then maybe you do need them. I've only concerned myself with VGA/QVGA so far, so I probably misspoke.
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Hey... I have removed the odd sizes as well! Lets dump Square devices as of now!!
Moderators: Well... ummmmm.... this software seems to be working on most ppc-s without breaking them!!! can/should this be copied/moved to the "softwares" section??

Development shifted to another thread.
Find updated information at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2853166#post2853166
I intend to follow-up this thread for a diamond specific notepad that I will make. Provided I can find a way to make good transparent controls!!

Thanks for this nifty app!
There's a bug however : I'm unable to externaly launch a non-known filetype with Notepad. I get : "The specified file cannot be opened. Path or format incorrect" I get the error with or without launching the file (a .ini file, just for the record) in double-quotes. However, I'm able to open the file just file from within notepad.
And do take a look at Notepad2 (Desktop). It's a great Notepad replacement but maintains the speed and style. Would be nice if you could implement some of its features like line numbers and syntax highlighting.

[deXter] said:
Thanks for this nifty app!
There's a bug however : I'm unable to externaly launch a non-known filetype with Notepad. I get : "The specified file cannot be opened. Path or format incorrect"...
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hello dexter. kindly check out the newer version of this app with many new features at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2853166

shamasis said:
Notepad Mobile
This is a "text editor" for Windows Mobile. It allows you to open text (.txt) files and other text based files (.xml, .bat, .log, etc.)
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Hi Shamasis,
I was looking for a Windows Mobile Notepad to edit .reg and .ini files on my PDA without having to copy the files to PC and back again. Your Notepad is a very cool start but has one problem for me: it only saves in ANSI format and not in UNICODE format.
I can use your Notepad to view the files but not edit them unfortunately. The *.ini for many of my applications needs to be in UNICODE and doesn't accept ANSI after opening and saving in Notepad.
Can I make a feature request for Save As... UNICODE? Or perhaps you can automatically resave in the same format the opened file was?

Great tool Shamasis - keep up the good work!
Mathew

Open Android Manager - Updated 9-6-9

Well that didn't last long. My whole point with starting this project was to create an open source PC side manager. It turns out there were more talented minds than mine already at work on the same thing. At this point I'm shutting this project down and throwing my hat in the ring to helping with Droid Explorer however I can.
MODS - Please feel free to lock/delete this thread as you see fit.
Open Android Manager
Right now it doesn't do much at all. This is only about one week's worth of work and most of that was spent getting it to auto-detect the phone and the command line interface wrapper. As a proof of concept I threw in the reboot commands and the beginnings of a file browser. It's written in VB.Net and I'm posting the entire project so far. If you just want to take a look at the finished product look at the “release” link.
I’m not a professional developer or even formally trained. I’m entirely self-taught so if you think there’s a better way to do something let me know, or just add it yourself. I hope to see this become a community developed tool.
There are probably a few bugs and more features to come soon. In the mean time how about we get a wish list going.
Update - 9/2/2009
I've rewritten the command line interface and it's much more efficient. The automatic phone detection is now spot on. I also corrected a bug that left an orphaned instance of ADB running in the background when the application exited (Sorry about that). I'll be posting an update soon with the changes and hopefully some added features. The new links will be up then.
Update - 9/6/2009
After spending this weekend retooling things I thought I should actually post the update. The file browser is just a "look" only at this point. I've started work on the drag and drop interface but it doesn't actually do anything with the files yet. The good news is that the file browser is FAST!
Oh and I'm off work this week so I'll actually have time to work on this.
Source Code 0.0.3

Change Log
0.0.2
Began work on file browser
Cleaned up orphaned ADB instances on application close
Rewrote command line interface for continuous asynchronous output retrieval
Improved automatic phone detection
0.0.1
Automatic device detection
Reboot commands

Screen Shots
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Hey man can I help develop? I am trying to make my own program right now called superg1 and I see that yours already has adb and everything built in. I am doing mine in C++ and I see your doing yours in vb.net but I would still love to help develop yours.

HA! I just posted on your thread
I just posted the updated source, the 0.0.3 is the most recent. I've made some more changes to the command line wrapper. Every time I think I've gotten it all worked out something throws an error or doesn't return the right values.

Haha that same thing has been happening to me. We are working on a way to automatically root there phone and flash the scary spl and the radio and we can do it through batch file just not through C++ project

Ok I am looking over your source and it seems like vb is way more user friendly then C++ with easier to remember commands. Did you know if you want to have it scan to see if the phone is there you can use the command : adb wait-for-device
if you have microsoft Visual C++ I can send you my project folder and you can look through my code and tell me what I am doing wrong ( cause I am sort of a noob)

kickfliprock13 said:
Ok I am looking over your source and it seems like vb is way more user friendly then C++ with easier to remember commands. Did you know if you want to have it scan to see if the phone is there you can use the command : adb wait-for-device
if you have microsoft Visual C++ I can send you my project folder and you can look through my code and tell me what I am doing wrong ( cause I am sort of a noob)
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I'd love to take a look, send it over. I'm not that familiar with C++ but I can pick my way through it. I'm curious to see how you're handling the cmd process.
I was looking at the "ADB Wait-for-device" but I didn't like the way the process would hang while it waited. With the check based on the usb arrival and removal events the application essentially just pings adb when the event occurs. Also the ADB devices will return "device" or "recovery" to indicate the state and the device serial. I don't use that info for anything yet. Theoretically it could support multiple handsets simultaneously by addressing the adb commands to a particular serial.

Good news! I finally got the output of the confirmation for file pushes and pulls. I ended up building a process wrapper around ADB itself rather than the CMD.exe and calling adb from there. This was the last piece I needed for the drag & drop file manager I'd been working on. It also means I can get full input and output control from ADB. It's still at just a proof of concept at this point, so I still have a bit of work to do to clean up the class module and swap it out for the command line module I'd built previously. I'll post the update in the thread once I get it all done. Possibly tonight, but probably tomorrow depending on how much I geek out on it tonight.
Everything else from here is working out the scripts, adding buttons, and UI stuff.

[App] RSS Central

Name: RSS Central v1.1
RSS Central is a powerful and easy to use application that can download and display RSS, Atom and RDF news feeds from web sites all over the internet. Its quick multi-download system will bring all the news feeds you want to your fingertips in no time, and will hold on to them so that they can be read even if you lose your internet connection.
RSS Central features an attractive and informative user interface, categorised news feeds, a feed search to discover new news sources, article summary and full web page displays, article search tools, read/unread article tracking, support for international characters, a useful "send to email" feature, portrait and landscape support, plus a whole lot more.
RSS Central's trial mode is fully featured, and just displays occasional "nag" screens while using the application. Please give it a try and see what you think.
Before getting my Windows Phone 7 device, I had an HTC Touch Pro2. One of the applications that came pre-loaded on it was Ilium software's RSS Hub. This rapidly became one of my most-used applications. When I moved to WP7 I tried a number of the RSS apps that were available, but none of them worked in the way I wanted or offered the features that I was looking for.
In true programmer style, instead of compromising with one of the available alternatives, I set about writing my own application. RSS Central is the result. It is functionally inspired by RSS Hub and uses a similar approach to displaying and organising its content. I also used the opportunity to clean up a few of the little annoyances that I found with RSS Hub. I hope you like the end result!.
I intend to continue developing and enhancing RSS Central, so if you have any comments, suggestions, complaints or bug reports, please let me know and I'll see if I can address them in a future version. As you will see from the version history below, I added lots of new things in version 1.1, and most of these were suggestions from people using the app. I have more enhancements lined up, if there's something you think should be added or changed then please let me know and I'll add it to my list.
RSS Central is available now from the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Key features:
Attractive and functional Windows Phone 7-style user interface.
Streamlined navigation to make using the app as quick and easy as possible.
Fast application startup to get you straight into your feeds without having to wait.
Create categories to group your news feeds together for easier browsing.
Feed search function to help you discover new feeds and news sources.
Quick display of article summaries, or show the full article content with just one touch.
Search for keywords within feeds to help you find articles of interest.
"Minimum refresh time" prevents unnecessary re-downloading of unchanged feeds.
Automatic tracking of read and unread articles. Choose to hide read articles and read subsciptions if you wish.
Full support for international character sets.
Quickly and easily send the details of interesting articles as an email message.
Full support for portrait and landscape orientation.
Reviews from the Marketplace
"Best RSS reader on the market, and I have tried most!" -- irdawood
"Best RSS reader I've seen so far. Worth the price." -- leongustavo
"Love it. I have tried many news and RSS apps and this is the best one." -- Tusker
"This app does exactly what's needed, making it easy to add feeds through searching, categorize feeds and HIDE items that have been read. I've tried about 10 other options in the Marketplace, but this is the one you want if you have a large number of feeds or have varied interests that don't correspond to some of the hard-coded readers." -- Mlizardi

Just tried it on my phone. And I'm impressed.
It's one of these apps which use nice animations all over (I like it )
Also the preinstalled RSS are quite informative. It's surely one of the most appealing RSS Reader out there.
It'll surely stay my RSSReader of choise!

Hi the_Crispy,
Thanks for your message and glad you like it.
I tried my best to get nice-looking animations throughout the app and I'm fairly happy with the result. Silverlight does do a very good job providing tools to get them up and running. It's difficult to decide whether to put the animations in or just get the app released though!

good app but i need a google reader support like in wonder reader. then i will buy it

Very nice app but it doesn't support "windows-1250" encoding. So I'll stick with SimpiReader for now.

Hi libor_m,
It should support whatever encoding the RSS feed specifies -- I spent a fair bit of time working with different encodings to ensure (in particular) that accented characters in non-English feeds displayed correctly.
Can you give me an example of a feed and article that isn't displaying correctly? Then I'll take a look at what's happening.
Thanks,

Hi Adam,
try this one - http://servis.idnes.cz/rss.asp?c=zpravodaj

Thanks for that -- that certainly didn't do what I had expected! Let me see what I can do...

No prob
Just let me know if you will fix it. After a new version will be out, I can test is with more Czech RSS feeds.

Well that was a bit more effort than I had expected: it seems (unless anyone knows different?) that .NET on WP7 doesn't have any support for decoding windows-1250, hence it falling over.
So I wrote my own decoder. Does this look OK?
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
This will be included in version 1.2. Not entirely sure when I'll be releasing that yet, probably in the next week or two. I'll post an update to this thread when it's available, so you can subscribe to the thread if you want to be notified.

Looks amazing, nice job adam...spanish support in a future would be nice.

are you planning to integrate a greader support

@BigwaveMx -- thanks, glad you like it! I've not really considered localisation at all at the moment, but it's certainly something I could give some thought to. Are you volunteering to provide the Spanish translations?
@yeahtyeaht -- not at the moment, I'm more interested in keeping this as a stand-alone RSS reader for the time being. Maybe at some stage in the future, but I can't promise. I do hope to offer a feature that would allow feed details to be imported from Google Reader, but that's as far as the integration would go.

AdamDawes said:
@BigwaveMx -- thanks, glad you like it! I've not really considered localisation at all at the moment, but it's certainly something I could give some thought to. Are you volunteering to provide the Spanish translations?
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I would be happy to provide you the German translation, if you're up to the task.
Until now I'm enjoying your Feed Reader in English...not much of a problem whilst most of my feeds are English too

Yes, let me know how may i help you to traslate in spanish.

AdamDawes said:
Well that was a bit more effort than I had expected: it seems (unless anyone knows different?) that .NET on WP7 doesn't have any support for decoding windows-1250, hence it falling over.
So I wrote my own decoder. Does this look OK?
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Great, this looks perfect!
And I am volunteering for possible Czech translation. I have done a couple of translations for apps in the past already.

Glad it looks good, libor_m
Version 1.2 was submitted to the Marketplace last night, but was rejected after a couple of hours. When I looked at the failure reason, it was completely blank. Nice. Usually it takes several days to even get looked at so I'm hoping this was just a glitch.
I deleted the submission and tried again, and it hasn't been rejected yet, so fingers crossed...
To all of you that have volunteered for translations, many thanks for doing so. I've put "localisation" on to my To Do list, and may well be in touch with you in the near future.

Version 1.2 has finally made it through certification, with the following new features:
* Added context menus for the subscription list. Press and hold one of the subscriptions to display the menu. The menu allows the subscription to be marked as read, marked as unread, refreshed, or edited.
* Added context menus for the article list. Press and hold one of the articles to display the menu. The menu allows articles to be marked as read, marked as unread, sent by email or sent by SMS.
* Added a further minimum update frequency that indicates that the subscription should only be updated manually. These subscriptions will never be included in the update when the Refresh button is pressed on the main subscription list, and are instead individually updated via their context menu.
* Added support for sending article links by SMS.
* Fixed a bug where the article list occasionally jumped back to the top when returning to it after reading an article.
* Added support for reading feeds encoded with Windows-1250 encoding.
* Clicking the "Read more online..." link on the article summary now changes the link text to highlight that it has been clicked. This provides some positive feedback for slow-loading pages.
* A new navigation setting is available to control the back button behaviour on the article page. This can be set to either navigate backwards through the browser history, or to return directly to the article list. If navigating back through the history, a new menu option is available to return directly to the article list to save navigating all the way back.
Hope you like it and as always please let me know if you have any feedback.

Adam, I gave your app a 5-star rating on the Marketplace. It is a shame I cannot buy the app from Marketplace as I am from Czech Republic.
I have found one more problem. I have problems with following feeds:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://google-cz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
These are giving me a following error: "An error ocurred when this subscription was last refreshed: NullReferenceException"
And one more feed:
http://skrz.cz/rss
This is giving me a following error: "An error ocurred when this subscription was last refreshed: NotSupportedException"

Hi libor_m,
Many thanks for the review, much appreciated! Sorry you can't actually get the full version at the moment.
Thanks too for continuing to spot problem feeds and send them over. I've fixed up the blogspot feeds now, they will all work correctly in the next version.
The skrz.cz feed is causing me more problems though. It's managing to download the content fine and it looks quite normal, but .NET is falling over trying to parse it. It's possibly because it says it's UTF-8 encoded but is actually Windows-1250 encoded, but even it I manually change this it still fails. I'll have to keep looking at this one, I'll keep you posted.
Thanks and regards,

[Soft] A Console CMD for Windows Phone 7 !! the first one on wp7 [1.5]

CONSOLE WP8
Hello people,
I proclaim to you, and share the newest update my console application for windows phone 8.
With a total overhaul of the entire GUI and order management with use of new api sdk windows phone 8.
[last update 1.7] :
- Complet new version for windows phone 8
- Adding the command [ping] with (-n,-w) options
- Adding the command [net view] with options (-i,-t,-p)
- New version of IpConfig command, list all interfaces currently connected to the phone
- command print , for send by email
- Total remake of the interface with multiple bug fixes
And more hack things ...
Description
Execute commands 'prompt windows' from your Windows phone. The only shell app on Windows phone !
Access to over 45 functions with the commands ("MS-DOS")
- Show the contents of a directory
- Read the contents of a file
- Edit a file
- Move a file
- Copy a file
- Rename a file
- Print a content file to a email
- Delete files / folders
- Retrieve user information or device
- Run application 'Silverlight' in command
- Write scripts .bat and execute file script
- Ping - Tracert - Ipconfig (network command socket)
- Start programm windows phone since the shell
- Etc. ..
New orders are coming in next update.
Improve the script .bat functionnality and save a script to the homescreen shortcut
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

Overall, I like this app. The following are suggestions for improvement.
Output text is too small.
Documentation is incomplete: What do the F1 & F2 keys do? And the arrow keys?
English is clearly not your first language. If you'd like help with it, PM me or tweet @piaqt.
"Maj." should be Caps Lock, or an arrow a la WP7 SIP.
btw: The Escape key is a very nice touch. Keep up the good work.

Ok thank you very much for your reply. Actually my first language is not English but the french ..
The keys "F1" "F2 " and the arrows to select the old Run command.
Thank you for your help to bring me a translation.
If you can give me any translation errors by private message I thank you ^ ^.
Otherwise I think well improve the documentation "help " for the next updated with new features.
Mehdi Bugnard

Hello I have just announced the updated 1.2 of WP7 Lite Console and updated Console 1.3 for WP7
Last Update
-Fixed bugs with the command "cd + space"
-Corrected translation in many places
-Editing multiple commands for better performance
-Crash problem "back" repaired
-Adding a new sample script
-Changing the help file
-Ability to run scripts properly since version 'demo'!
-Function edit 'now available for the proper trial version white.
1.2
-HotFix for white "Template"

With a next maj already being prepared with new orders and change the keyboard customize the keyboard's physical windows phone ^ ^ As requested by many users.

Interesting App
Hello,
I was checking out this app in marketplace. I thought this was very interesting. I have a question. Could this app be used to edit files for the DF router application that some HD7 owners have deleted before putting thier USB mode back into zune mode? I was reading alot of people have this problem and when i saw this app, it occured to me that this might be the tool to fix the problem if anyone capable of using this app without destroying thier phone with could manage to navigate to the right files and edit them somehow to enable zune mode again.
Just a thought......
Who ever can manage this would be a hero! =) It would definately make this app sell if a fix would come out of this app.

Hey thank you so much for your response and your comments!
Already I apologize in advance for my bad english !
Actually this program to be useful for your problem ...
However. Policy microsoft wants to block user access to the internal content of the mobile phone.
Normally you have access only to "Isolated Storage" of the application.
However it may be possible to access a known way with the [cd 'path']. But in my opinion it is impossible to access personal data and true system. But I look on my side if I rouve a way around this ....
In my opinion Microsoft is not daccord to pass an application that would change everything. Hoping a change in next update.
At your service for any info.
I'll keep you posted for future updating.
Little surprise coming for the 1.3

Greate app. It makes me feel like a linux enviroment.

Console WP7 1.3 new version is ready
Hello world! Adverts I want you out of the update 1.3 for the application "Console WP7" 1.3. With a lot of change
Thank you all for helping me to correct the various elements of my program "Dkp1977!"

hello my "Console Wp7" 2.0 is now avalaible on the market place !
With 7 news commands. I edited the description of "Console Wp7" on this thread

lite version of the marketplace does not work on htc titan or mozart (blocked), but works fine (all versions app) at the omnia w(windowbreak+root);why?thx

mikaelel said:
lite version of the marketplace does not work on htc titan or mozart (blocked), but works fine (all versions app) at the omnia w(windowbreak+root);why?thx
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Does not work on my Lumia 800, too. I am useing the default rom without any modifications.

Very interesting, a lot of potential
This is a very interesting app, with a lot of potential. It's depressingly rare to find an app for WP7 that really tries something new and innovative, but this is one of those. From a fellow Swiss (albeit German-speaking) to another I can only encourage you to continue to develop and improve the app.
But... the app (in its free, ad-supported version) as I downloaded it today, is barely usable. The scrolling is erratic, often I don't know which part of the output I see at a given moment. When typing a command, most of the time I have to type blind because the SIP covers the command that I am typing. The command history is certainly a good idea, but somehow I always fail to get back the last command typed just before the last enter. I try output redirection, with a single greater-than sign instead of two such signs: This either does not work without any error message or crashes the app. Finally I manage to produce a file, use the "edit" command: Black writing on black background, unreadable. So many errors, all encountered in a first 10 minute trial run.
IMHO, this is an early beta and should be treated as such, e.g. distributed with the help of the beta process that Microsoft offers or directly as a .XAP file.
And now some suggestions: As I see it, the app really needs many more functions supporting the typing / issuing of commands; such functions would greatly improve the tool, they might be even the key to real acceptance. Typing on a phone is hard, typing commands with special characters like greater-signs even more so.
Save commands from one run of the tool to the next. Implement a command to view the whole command history in a listbox instead of one at a time in strict order. You may try something like command-autocomplete. Maybe predefine one-letter or two-letter aliases for the commands, "d" for "dir", "e" for "edit", and so on. After an error with an incomplete command do not just ask me to type "command /?" myself, that almost feels like a punishment to me to have to type that myself, pre-fill the command input box with that command line, or insert it into the history, or any other super-easy way to issue the /? command. If technically possible, it also would be nice to be able to select any displayed text and use it as part of a command.

Little mistake
I tried lite version. This is not working on my unlocked phone. I debugged it. Result:
Console WP7 wants to make directories under isolated storage after every starting and want to copy all music + all picture collection from phone to this storage. When mp3 or jpg in collection is not placed in \MyDocuments\Zune\Content subdirectory, Console crashes.

works
mikaelel said:
lite version of the marketplace does not work on htc titan or mozart (blocked), but works fine (all versions app) at the omnia w(windowbreak+root);why?thx
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works on htc titan

Hi people , i come for tell you , the new update of the "Windows Phone Console Shell app" is arrive today !! After 2 years ^^

Is there a version for WP8? Please where is the .xap to download? Will it work on my ativ s?