How to set your universal to perform best

[khaledelfeki]

Hi all,

I'm having my Universal for the last month, I suffered alot from the low speed of it, I read many threads in the forums, and tried many settings by myself and ended up with the following settings to be made to make your Universal works fast:


1) Un-install the anti virus program.

2) Diactivate the error reporting.

3) Set the power settings as follows: "Start / Settings / System / Power / Advance / Un-check turn off device if not used for ".

4) To avoid ending up with a flat battery do the following settings: " Start / Settings / System / Power / Tap backlight at the bottom of the screen / Check "Turn off backlight if device is not used for 30 seconds."

5)In the same menu "backlight" tap brightness and adjust the brightness to the minimum level .

6) If your device is I-mate tap Settings / Today / use any other theme other than I-mate grass , and I-mate swoosh because their size is too big, if you use any other theme you will save more than 1 MB of memory.

Please note that the change No. (3) is the only way to avoid the freeze happens to the universal in each time you press the light button to turn on your device, if you keep your device always on you will not only avoid this freezing, but also you will allow the voice dial to work properly even if your device is closed and the screen is inside because the device will never be turned off.

In addition to the above changes, you have to get a software which really close the applications such as spb pocket plus 3.0.4 which is compatible with WM 5 , or GSPMagic., or MagicButton , then you can try your device to see the difference.

Please note that if you use spb pocket plus do not include any SD card on your today screen otherwize it will slow down your device again.., and it's much better to reduce your program shortcuts to the minimum, there is no need either for the battery indicatior on the today screen since we have a battery indicator by default on the bottom right side of the screen, and battery line "spb" on the top of the screen.

I made the above changes and my device works fine.

Try it, I hope you all will find a lot of improvement.

Need feedback on this issue please.

Regards,

[khaledelfeki]

Hello all,

Will you please give me a feed back after making the suggested changes?

Regards,

[psteel]

Hey,,

Good advice. I've just made the power and screen changes and will see how it goes. I'm hoping that the battery life won't be worse and that I don't get to anoyed having to tap a key to swith the screen back on...

The important thing is that the bluetooth headset carries on working..It's a real bugger when it rings and I can't pick it up on the headset.. Do you think they tested this thing with headsets?

I also assume that when you switch the device off using the button, it never really switches off, just pretends to... I was thinking that there are times, on a long flight, where you'd like it to be really switched off to reserve battery. What think you?

[khaledelfeki]

Don't worry about the battery, battery life will not be worse, but as my experience with PDAs, "More than one year experience now" I can tell you that you have to charge your PDA at least once a day "every night".

Regarding the Blue tooth Headset issue, I'm using Jabra BT 800 and it's working like a charm even with voice dial, it never misses a voice tag.

Regarding the Turn off issue, PDAs are not designed to be completely switched off, you can only swich the power off "Pretending to be completely switched off" because if you turn it completely off by removing the battery for example you will lose all data on your PDA.

[khaledelfeki]

Still waiting for feedback.

Regards,

[findus]

I have already turned off error reporting and turned off receive all incoming beams. I am a bit confuesd by Point 3 as my XDA Exec does not freeze at all when i press the backlight button- maybe it is a jasjar issue, like the antivirus? Have you noticedf any difference in battery life by just swtiching the screen off instead of putting the phone into standby?

Fin

[khaledelfeki]

Fin,
If you have no freezing issue when you press the light button to turn the phone on, and you don't have any problem in voice dialing while the phone is on standby mode there is no need to set the phone to never switch off.

I'm using Jasjar and I'm facing the above two problems, and I can't avoid them without making these settings.

Regarding the battery issue, there is no much difference between the two modes.

Regards,

[craigiecraigie4]

carefuly folks, this is not entirely accurate:

- what freeze? Not heard many complaints on this matter
- what voice command issue; mine works perfectly WITH the BT headset fix of course
- battery life WILL & does reduce significantly with "always on"
- spb PP 3.0.4 is latest version, and there are a few alternatives that are just as good. Principle of task closing is right tho.
- There are several other truly useful hacks that would add a lot more value to this issue, incl GPRS always on, Buzz's BT headset fix, selecting working plugins only, etc etc - browse this forum from the start if u r just starting out

[dojohansen]

Not to play the devil :twisted: but WM5 devices do NOT hard-reset if (when?!) they run out of power, since internally all programs and data are now stored in Flash memory instead of DRAM.

As a side effect, you should also experience some improvement in battery life, since the smaller amount of DRAM on a WM5 device leads to a significant reduction in power consumption when the device is "doing nothing" - i.e. using very little CPU/Network, but standing by for incoming calls or user input.

[khaledelfeki]

craigiecraigie4,
- Regarding the freeze issue, I'm using Jasjar and it does freezes for 6-7 seconds whenever the power button or light button is pressed to switch the power on.
Also whenever I'm using the voice dial, this freezing causes the voice dial to delay and sometimes not responding.
But after setting the device to always on, I'm not experiencing any of those two problems.

- Battery life is not significantly reduced as you think, I tried both settings and any how I have to charge my phone once every day in both cases.

- spb pocket plus 3.0.4 is the latest version, and I did a typing mistake by saying it's 3.1.4..... sorry for that.

-Regarding the BT fix can you please post it here so that I can download it if possible... and can you please let me know what exactly does it fix?

Regards,

Khaled.

[khaledelfeki]

Not to play the devil :twisted: but WM5 devices do NOT hard-reset if (when?!) they run out of power, since internally all programs and data are now stored in Flash memory instead of DRAM.

As a side effect, you should also experience some improvement in battery life, since the smaller amount of DRAM on a WM5 device leads to a significant reduction in power consumption when the device is "doing nothing" - i.e. using very little CPU/Network, but standing by for incoming calls or user input.

dojohansen,

Thanks for the valuble information, I thought it's the same like PDA2K which I was using till the last month.

I'm so happy to know this information.


Regards,

[herpi]

Still waiting for feedback.

Regards,

I hardly have problems with memory or speed.
I installed Listpro, Ewallet, some GPS software and NR de Luxe .
I use Excel, Word, and IE explorer frequently.
I use Agile in stead of MSN, but I never have problems with performance.
I do not often fully close ( settings/system/memory) programs used.

Can you give an example on which moments your really run into speed/memory problems?

Huib

[khaledelfeki]

Still waiting for feedback.

Regards,

I hardly have problems with memory or speed.
I installed Listpro, Ewallet, some GPS software and NR de Luxe .
I use Excel, Word, and IE explorer frequently.
I use Agile in stead of MSN, but I never have problems with performance.
I do not often fully close ( settings/system/memory) programs used.

Can you give an example on which moments your really run into speed/memory problems?

Huib

Huib,
I'm using Jasjar, I don't know the differences between Jasjar and the other universal devices, and I'm having problem always when I open the device cover and pressing the power "light" button to turn the device on, it freezes for 6-7 seconds before I can use it for any purpose.
This also affects the voice dialling when the device is on standby mode as it freezes for long time until it recognizes that there is a voice dial and them gives me the beep to start voice dialling and sometimes it does not even gives me the beep.

May be there are some differences between Jasjar and the other Universal devices but these are the problems which I'm facing and this is how I resolved it.

Regards,

[herpi]

Huib,
I'm using Jasjar, I don't know the differences between Jasjar and the other universal devices, and I'm having problem always when I open the device cover and pressing the power "light" button to turn the device on, it freezes for 6-7 seconds before I can use it for any purpose.
This also affects the voice dialling when the device is on standby mode as it freezes for long time until it recognizes that there is a voice dial and them gives me the beep to start voice dialling and sometimes it does not even gives me the beep.

May be there are some differences between Jasjar and the other Universal devices but these are the problems which I'm facing and this is how I resolved it.

Regards,

I have a Jasjar too. ( don't know how to get it into my profile, other then a comment)


You seem much further in know how than where I have arrived till now.

I can't say the machine is without bugs, but speed and memory never have been a problem so far.
Maybe a list of you software would give us a clue?
How big are your Outlook files?

Huib

[khaledelfeki]

spb pocket plus
spb diary
Resco Picture Viewer

That's all.

Regards,

[herpi]

spb pocket plus
spb diary
Resco Picture Viewer

That's all.

Regards,

That's not much. Spb pocket plus is suspect?

Huib

[craigiecraigie4]

craigiecraigie4,
- Regarding the freeze issue, I'm using Jasjar and it does freezes for 6-7 seconds whenever the power button or light button is pressed to switch the power on.
Also whenever I'm using the voice dial, this freezing causes the voice dial to delay and sometimes not responding.
But after setting the device to always on, I'm not experiencing any of those two problems.

- Battery life is not significantly reduced as you think, I tried both settings and any how I have to charge my phone once every day in both cases.

- spb pocket plus 3.0.4 is the latest version, and I did a typing mistake by saying it's 3.1.4..... sorry for that.

-Regarding the BT fix can you please post it here so that I can download it if possible... and can you please let me know what exactly does it fix?

Regards,

Khaled.

Dude, your JJ is F***ed! It should NEVER do this! I've not heard of anyone else complain of such a totally unacceptable delay, and I've not experienced anything like it myself, despite setting my device up from scratch about 10 times now to test various configurations. I stroingly suggest a hard reset, install spbPP (or whatever you prefer), and use for a bit to get used to it. Apply the "BT headset fix" (search for it here, it prevents BT from turning off over night), and "Always on GPRS" if u like that which most of us do, and pocket mechanic (search for "notification queue") to maintain your notifications as per another post I wrote yesterday. You should NOT have this issue at all. 7s would make me throw the JJ away right away! If this does not work for you - take it back. Good luck!

[apap]

I have the exact same problem of a delay on opening when it has been turned off for a while. Also, a friend of mine has the same problem. Your above mentioned fix of keeping it on appears to have saved the day for us, thanx.

[khaledelfeki]

apap,

Thanks for your feedback, It seems it's only me and you who are having this problem, and it's very strange too that I had never faced any problem with blue tooth and I don't need any fix for it.
It seems that not all devices are similar.

Any how, I'm so happy with my device now after making the changes which I suggested on the top of this post, and I'm so happy too that it had solved your problem as well.

All the best.

Regards,

[Soft]

Me too, same problen with freeze, but I newer waited for 6 7 secs, just done a soft reset, and this happends all the time.
Just changed to power of thing, will report back..

[Soft]

BTW anyone know how to AS with WiFi ??

[rilot]

I used to have the freezing problem too and I put it down to pocket plus and other today plugins that have memory meters.

It seems to be that when you hit the power button the universal it polls the SD card for a short while which causes the delay. Once I turned off the SD card meter on the today screen in either pocket plus or resco today the freezing went away.

[Soft]

I used to have the freezing problem too and I put it down to pocket plus and other today plugins that have memory meters.

It seems to be that when you hit the power button the universal it polls the SD card for a short while which causes the delay. Once I turned off the SD card meter on the today screen in either pocket plus or resco today the freezing went away.

Add good idea :-)

Stil noone with AS wifi sync ?

[simon_darley]

Given the conversation started with speeding up steps, I also found that the JJ was slow under particular conditions, which I could not put my finger on specifically, but have tried various configurations, tweaks and changes, and spend days and days on this forum picking up hints and tips, so answer the original post questions out of courtesy which I have generally also done:


1) Un-install the anti virus program.

CORRECT, AND RIGHTLY HELPED, I ALSO TOOK OFF SKYPE AND BACKGAMMON AS DIDNT NEED THEM.


2) Diactivate the error reporting.

DONE, CORRECT AND AGAIN HELPED, THIS HAS BEEN REPORTED ELSEWHERE.

3) Set the power settings as follows: "Start / Settings / System / Power / Advance / Un-check turn off device if not used for ".

ALSO DONE, I FOUND THIS IMMEDIATELY A BIG HELP AS IT MEANS THE DEVICE IMMEDIATELY SWITCHES ON WHEN I OPEN THE DEVICE WITHOUT THE NEED FOR ANY BUTTONS. I DONT GET ANY REAL POWER DRAINS. I ALSO NEED TO CHARGE NIGHTLY NO MATTER WHAT, AND HAVE GENERALLY GOT IT PLUGGED INTO MY COMPUTER REGULARLY ANYWAY.

4) To avoid ending up with a flat battery do the following settings: " Start / Settings / System / Power / Tap backlight at the bottom of the screen / Check "Turn off backlight if device is not used for 30 seconds."

ALSO DONE, AND FEEL THIS IS HIGHLY BENEFICIAL, BUT I USE 5 MINUTES AS IT AUTOMATICALLY TURNS OFF WHEN I CLOSE THE DEVICE ANYWAY.

5)In the same menu "backlight" tap brightness and adjust the brightness to the minimum level .

DONT GO MINIMUM, I WIND DOWN TO ABOUT 40% - 50%. THIS IS QUITE A BIG HELP, YOU DONT REALLY NEED IT THAT BRIGHT.

6) If your device is I-mate tap Settings / Today / use any other theme other than I-mate grass , and I-mate swoosh because their size is too big, if you use any other theme you will save more than 1 MB of memory.

I ALWAYS USE THE WINDOWS DEFAULT, THEN APPLY A LIGHT WEIGHT PICTURE OF KIDS. GIVES ME AN EMOTIONAL BOOST DURING THE DAY WHEN THE STAFF AND CLIENTS ARE REALLY SH...ING ME OFF.

Please note that the change No. (3) is the only way to avoid the freeze happens to the universal in each time you press the light button to turn on your device, if you keep your device always on you will not only avoid this freezing, but also you will allow the voice dial to work properly even if your device is closed and the screen is inside because the device will never be turned off.

I NEVER REALLY NOTED THE FREEZE, BUT NEVER USED THIS METHOD TO SWITCH ON THE LIGHT CAUSE I HAVE ALWAYS LEFT THE DEVICE ON AND SIMPLY CLOSED THIS LID. IT ALSO THEN HELPS WITH THE WIFI CONNECTION ON. I DONT USE GPRS, TO EXPENSIVE.

In addition to the above changes, you have to get a software which really close the applications such as spb pocket plus 3.1.4 which is compatible with WM 5 , or GSPMagic., then you can try your device to see the difference.

I ALSO USED THE SPB, AND YOU CAN GET QUITE NOTABLE SPEED IMPROVEMENTS IF YOU DISABLE THE FACILITIES YOU DONT ACTUALLY NEED. I HAVE NOTED IN OTHER FORUMS WHICH I CONCUR WITH THAT RESETS ARE QUICKER IF YOU DISABLE SAFE MODE.

I made the above changes and my device works fine.

Try it, I hope you all will find a lot of improvement.

Need feedback on this issue please.

PLEASE, note, i sincerely apologise, i started typing in uppercase to delineate my comments above from the original writer, but then continued and so, please do not take my next typing as SHOUTING.... i just couldnt be bothered retyping it when realising my error......

SO IN ESSENCE, I DO AGREE THAT YOUR CHANGES ARE HIGHLY BENEFICIAL, AND WITH THE "OUT OF BOX" UPGRADE THAT WAS AN UPGRADE AND WASNT OUT OF BOX RELEASE, COMBINED WITH THESE CHANGES ABOVE, YOU DO GET SPEED IMPROVEMENTS.

SOME FURTHER ENHANCEMENTS OR TWEAKS I HAVE ALSO FOUND, AND HAVE BEEN STATED LATER IN THE FORUM, BUT PRIOR TO THIS ONE:

1. REMOVE THE MEMORY READER AND BATTERY MONITOR OF EVERYTHING, I ONLY NOW USE THE SPB 3.0.4 RAM MEMORY MONITOR CAUSE THATS ALL I REALLY CARE ABOUT, AND INSTALL AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO THE 1 GIG SD CARD.

2. STOPPED USING A LOT OF THE SPB PLUG INS, BUT RETAINED THE USE OF THE SPB MEDIA PLAYER AND SPB WEATHER. BOTH OF WHICH ARE MEMORY HUNGRY, BUT DONT APPEAR TO SIGNIFICANTLY SLOW IT DOWN.

3. I DID FIND SPB DIARY SLOWED THE DEVICE DOWN, CLUTTERED THE SCREEN AND TENDED TO CREATE SCROLL BARS ALL THE TIME. I HAVE IT, BUT STOPPED USING IT DUE TO CLUTTER AND BARS. I ALSO FOUND ITS RESPONSE TIME SLOW.

4. MINIMISE THE AMOUNT OF TODAY SCREEN CLUTTER, KEEP ONLY YOUR MINIMUMS.

5. DISABLE THE AUTO RECEIVE BEAMS, SAVES POWER.

6. ON RESET, FLICK THROUGH ALL OF YOUR PRIMARY SCREENS, THEY ALWAYS LAUNCH QUICKER ON REOPEN, THEY ARE ONLY SLOW THE FIRST TIME, EG SETTINGS SCREENS ETC ARE IMMEDIATE THE NEXT TIME.

7. ONLY USE THE SPB EXTRAS THAT YOU ABSOLOUTELY NEED.

8. SHORTENED MY START MENU

9. INSTALL ABSOLOUTELY MINIMUM TO STORAGE MEMORY. MY ONLY MEMORY INSTALLS ARE SPB PP, SPB WEATHER AND SPB PLAY, THATS IT, ALL ELSE TO SD CARD.

SO WITH ONLY THE 3 SPB UTILS, NO EMAIL SYNCHRONISED, ABOUT 60 CONTACTS, AND ALL OF MY DIARY ENTRIES FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS SYNCHRONISED AND ALL FORWARD CALENDAR ENTRIES (THERE IS LITERALY ABOUT 1500 DIARY ENTRIES), THUS MY "PIM" FILE IS ABOUT 5 MEG AND IS LOADED AT BOOTUP, I STILL HAVE 27MEG AT IMMEDIATE STARTUP.

OVER A DAY OR 3, DEPENDING ON VOLUME OF USE, THIS MEMORY WILL GRADUALLY DWINDLE DOWN TO ABOUT 13MEG, BEFORE I FINALLY, RESET IT.

EVEN AT 13 MEG MEMORY, I DONT NOTICE ANY REAL SLOW DOWNS AND ONLY RESET CAUSE IT FRUSTRATES ME PERSONALLY TO SEE 13 MEG WHEN I PAID FOR 64, STARTUP AT 27 MEG. I THINK THE GRADUAL DEGRADATION IS THE WAY THE RAM APPEARS TO REMEMBER THE SCREEN VIEWS, WHICH IS WHY PARTICULAR SCREENS OPEN IMMEDIATELY THE SECOND TIME NOT THE FIRST.

MY SCREEN ROTATION TO PORTRAIT IS SUB 2 SECONDS, MY SCREEN ROTATION BACK TO LANDSCAPE IS SUB 1 SECOND.

SWITCHING POWER OFF THEN ON IS SUB 1 SECOND. CLOSING THE LID AND REOPEN IS SUB 0.1SEC.


anyway....

this has to be the longest text that i have ever written as i am usually more of a lurker, but felt that nobody actually answered the original question of the original write of the original opening text of this forum.

so i hope khaledelfeki that this has answered your question, and given the feedback you have requested.

Cheers

Simon

Happy Jasjar owner, could be better, but happy, and believe i got what i bought, and simply manage my device as effectively as i can by reading and utilising the knowledge that has been contributed by all members of the XDA-DEVELOPERS forum, my thanks to you all.

[khaledelfeki]

I used to have the freezing problem too and I put it down to pocket plus and other today plugins that have memory meters.

It seems to be that when you hit the power button the universal it polls the SD card for a short while which causes the delay. Once I turned off the SD card meter on the today screen in either pocket plus or resco today the freezing went away.

Rilot,

You got it, it solved the freezing issue, you know, I many times un-installed the spb pocket plus because I recognized that it is behind the freezing issue but I did not know that the SD card meter is responsible alone for it.

Thanks,

[findus]

BTW anyone know how to AS with WiFi ??

Apparently this feature has been removed in AS4

[khaledelfeki]

Simon,

Thank you very much for your detailed feedback which I believe will help much in improving the performance of Jasjar / Universal devices.

I made all your additional settings and they seem to really improve the speed of the device.

I think we are on the right direction, let's continue trying and posting, I'm sure this will help.

Regards,

[khaledelfeki]

Still we need some feedback here.

[universaldoc]

@khaled,

Thanks for the great tips. I had notice these myself and pretty much did what you did but do notice that after changing step 3, my battery still drains quicker than before making the change. Wish there was something i could do about this.

Good work on the whole.

[khaledelfeki]

@ universaldoc,

Thank you very much for your comments.

I agree with you that the battery drains "a bit" quicker than allowing the device to go on standby mode, but I think the performance of the whole device still better in general.

We have also to notice one important thing, this device is designed to be used as a mini lap top, and it's written in the mannual guide that we should attach it to the power supply whenever possible to avoid ending up with a flat battery. So, I always attach it to the power supply at home, in my office so that I don't suffer from any problems with my battery.

I do deal with this device as a lap top and I consider the phone as a software installed in my mini lap top, and I can say that this device in general inspite of needing some improvements to be done in the new ROM "soon I hope" but it still makes life more accurate, professional, and easier.

Regards,

[illwil]

removing this has sped up my device a lot. I have however chosen to keep my device turning off after 3 minutes as the battery drain was unacceptable.

[universaldoc]

I agree Khaled. I feel that with the upcoming ROM upgrade the battery drain problem will be solved and things will start looking up for us then.

[khaledelfeki]

removing this has sped up my device a lot. I have however chosen to keep my device turning off after 3 minutes as the battery drain was unacceptable.

Good to know that.

Khaled.

[idovas]

Are there any news about an upgraded ROM?

[khaledelfeki]

Are there any news about an upgraded ROM?

All of us are waiting for it.

We hope it will be developed soon.

Khaled.

[taurus_bull2005]

Hi all,

I'm having my Universal for the last month, I suffered alot from the low speed of it, I read many threads in the forums, and tried many settings by myself and ended up with the following settings to be made to make your Universal works fast:


1) Un-install the anti virus program.

2) Diactivate the error reporting.

3) Set the power settings as follows: "Start / Settings / System / Power / Advance / Un-check turn off device if not used for ".

4) To avoid ending up with a flat battery do the following settings: " Start / Settings / System / Power / Tap backlight at the bottom of the screen / Check "Turn off backlight if device is not used for 30 seconds."

5)In the same menu "backlight" tap brightness and adjust the brightness to the minimum level .

6) If your device is I-mate tap Settings / Today / use any other theme other than I-mate grass , and I-mate swoosh because their size is too big, if you use any other theme you will save more than 1 MB of memory.

Please note that the change No. (3) is the only way to avoid the freeze happens to the universal in each time you press the light button to turn on your device, if you keep your device always on you will not only avoid this freezing, but also you will allow the voice dial to work properly even if your device is closed and the screen is inside because the device will never be turned off.

In addition to the above changes, you have to get a software which really close the applications such as spb pocket plus 3.0.4 which is compatible with WM 5 , or GSPMagic., or MagicButton , then you can try your device to see the difference.

Please note that if you use spb pocket plus do not include any SD card on your today screen otherwize it will slow down your device again.., and it's much better to reduce your program shortcuts to the minimum, there is no need either for the battery indicatior on the today screen since we have a battery indicator by default on the bottom right side of the screen, and battery line "spb" on the top of the screen.

I made the above changes and my device works fine.

Try it, I hope you all will find a lot of improvement.

Need feedback on this issue please.



Awesome one, In the process of following the above tips.

On my DOPOD 900 it solved other issues like in Today Screen the soft key was changing to "Notification" Any no of clicks it was not vanishing.

Some of the tips while i was playing around i found the memory leak issue with iLauncher also got solved.

Three cheers to This particular section.

Regards,
Taurus.

[isythica]

When I upgraded my ROM to the latest O2 rom on my jasjar I did not let the extended rom programs install...when it said your device is going to be cusotmized and displayed counter I soft reset...so now I just have the basic Windows Mobile setup and no operator added stuff. it runs FAST!

[vijay555]

I can certainly agree. I was forced to install the extended rom for vjbigphone, but the ext rom dialer really slows things down. skip it if you can live without bubbly buttons and video calls.

v

[khaledelfeki]

In addition to the original post, I have to say that the SPB Pocket plus slows down the device much.

I'm using resco today plugins for the last two months and working much much faster than SPB, but also avoid the SD card indicator on the today plugins to keep the speed of the device to the maximum.

Regards,

[stickeresq]

remove Pocket Plus, use Resco Explorer if you need the today screen and Magic Button for the program management.

Pocket plus was the root of all evil with regard to my first Universal freezing.

[jlingo]

3) Set the power settings as follows: "Start / Settings / System / Power / Advance / Un-check turn off device if not used for ".

I was wondering if you choose Un-check turn off device,
won't this mean that your device will be on all the time and you may end up with flat battery? I'm confused!
Thanks.

[jlingo]

Also I always have the screen on the top, so my HTC is in open situation(like open tablet configuration). I'm afraid that opening and closing my HTC too often would loosen the hinges? I'm having that problem with my Nokia communicator since I'm receiving a lot of sms everyday.
It's just a concern.

[khaledelfeki]

Hi Jilingo,

Of course there will be more draining in battery if you set your device not to switch off as the device will be always on.

I think in your case there is no need to set your device to stay always on and it will not affect the speed of your device too much.

I'm now doing the same, setting my device to swich off after three minutes, it really saves battery life, no doubt there is a little affect on the device speed, but compaired with the battery draining I would prefer to bear a little slowness in my device rather than ending up with a flat battery in a short time.

Regards,

[herpi]

remove Pocket Plus, use Resco Explorer if you need the today screen and Magic Button for the program management.

Pocket plus was the root of all evil with regard to my first Universal freezing.
That's the solution I use now for several weeks. With succes! I even do not use my Pocketbreeze anymore. Above combination with the free Calendar+ app on the bottom of my Today screen. What else would I need? This is near perfect. Resco is really the stabilizing factor I think.
Huib

[khaledelfeki]

remove Pocket Plus, use Resco Explorer if you need the today screen and Magic Button for the program management.

Pocket plus was the root of all evil with regard to my first Universal freezing.
That's the solution I use now for several weeks. With succes! I even do not use my Pocketbreeze anymore. Above combination with the free Calendar+ app on the bottom of my Today screen. What else would I need? This is near perfect. Resco is really the stabilizing factor I think.
Huib
I do agree with what stickeresq is suggesting, I'm using also Magic Button for the last two months and it's fantastic, it not only closes the applications, but also allows you to switch between the opened applications with one click only.

Resco today plugins + Magic Button is a perfect combination.

[cktlcmd]

I'm using also Magic Button for the last two months and it's fantastic, it not only closes the applications, but also allows you to switch between the opened applications with one click only.

Resco today plugins + Magic Button is a perfect combination.

I just installed Magic Button, is it normal to have a small blank screen when you are at the today screen on the upper right hand corner of the screen where the close button usually appears?

[cktlcmd]

I just discovered a bug in Magic Button aside from the blank screen on the right upper hand corner. If you open up the phone application by pressing the call button or receiving a call, a notification icon shows it is open but even if you close it by tapping or using OK button or using the (X), IT DOES NOT remove the icon. I do understand that the phone is still active, maybe that is why it still shows the phone icon. Any of you guys out there noticed these?

[cktlcmd]

Another thing I noticed with Magic Button, the battery indicator option causes severe battery drain. I unplugged my fully charged EXEC and after 5 minutes of idle time it is down to 97% doing nothing. I did not notice any slow downs though as compared to other applications with battery meters. I am not happy with it, so I am uninstalling it now.

[khaledelfeki]

I'm using also Magic Button for the last two months and it's fantastic, it not only closes the applications, but also allows you to switch between the opened applications with one click only.

Resco today plugins + Magic Button is a perfect combination.

I just installed Magic Button, is it normal to have a small blank screen when you are at the today screen on the upper right hand corner of the screen where the close button usually appears?
Hi cktlcmd,
Yes it's normal to have a small blank screen when you are at the today screen on the upper right hand corner where the close button usually appers, actually I don't like the way it looks, but after two or three days you will get used to it.

Regards,

[khaledelfeki]

I just discovered a bug in Magic Button aside from the blank screen on the right upper hand corner. If you open up the phone application by pressing the call button or receiving a call, a notification icon shows it is open but even if you close it by tapping or using OK button or using the (X), IT DOES NOT remove the icon. I do understand that the phone is still active, maybe that is why it still shows the phone icon. Any of you guys out there noticed these?
Hi cktcmd,
Magic Button only shows the running applications but it does not cause them to open and it does not fail to close them.
So, if the phone is always active this means that the activity of the phone is not caused by Magic Button, but might be cased by windows.
Just do the following test:
open the phone application, and then tap start/ settings/ system/ memory/ running program....... inspite of the phone application is opened, it does not appear in the running programs menu which means that not having the phone application appearing in running programs list does not mean that it's not working, but the fact is that the phone application is running but hidden.... what Magic Button does is only making it appear on the task bar, but it does not force it to open, and it does try to close it but it can't because windows does not allow it to close as it has to remain working in the back ground.

Regards,

[iosub]

Hello..

I made a normal (full) install of last ROM 1.30.76. I didnt stop instaling, extended rom..

How do I uninstall the antivirus?? I can't see it on Programs. Settings.. Where is the antivirus??

Thanks!!

[simon_darley]

go to settings, add/remove programs. you will find skype, backgammon and antivirus listed for removal.

i took them all out, and reinstalled skype to sd card. not that i have ever used it, but i love having tools n stuff that i never use....!!!

[iosub]

go to settings, add/remove programs. you will find skype, backgammon and antivirus listed for removal.

i took them all out, and reinstalled skype to sd card. not that i have ever used it, but i love having tools n stuff that i never use....!!!


I can't find it... Are you sure is always instaled??

Thanks!!

[cktlcmd]

go to settings, add/remove programs. you will find skype, backgammon and antivirus listed for removal.

i took them all out, and reinstalled skype to sd card. not that i have ever used it, but i love having tools n stuff that i never use....!!!


I can't find it... Are you sure is always instaled??

Thanks!!

Question: Did you let the ExtROM install? If your answer is YES, it should have been there. If your answer is NO, then you need not worry about them because they were not installed.

I personally deleted the ExtROM on mine, and just like Simon, I manually installed only 3 CAB files. I installed Backgamon and Skype to my SD Card, and installed SIM Manager to the main memory.

[thehustler]

Wont uninstalling the antivirus expose the decive to the viruses floating out there on the internet. I browse the net quite a lot on my device. Pls advice.

[jgv]

craigiecraigie4,
- Regarding the freeze issue, I'm using Jasjar and it does freezes for 6-7 seconds whenever the power button or light button is pressed to switch the power on.
Also whenever I'm using the voice dial, this freezing causes the voice dial to delay and sometimes not responding.
But after setting the device to always on, I'm not experiencing any of those two problems.

- Battery life is not significantly reduced as you think, I tried both settings and any how I have to charge my phone once every day in both cases.

- spb pocket plus 3.0.4 is the latest version, and I did a typing mistake by saying it's 3.1.4..... sorry for that.

-Regarding the BT fix can you please post it here so that I can download it if possible... and can you please let me know what exactly does it fix?

Regards,

Khaled.

Hi Khaled thanks for these suggestions which I've put into effect. I will let you know how it goes. jgv