Alarms, Text's and Networks

[jeremy_elman]

As a recent Atom owner (using the new test rom) I was wondering if anyone might be able to help with a couple of questions.

Firstly, I was just wondering what people were using for their alarm's. At the moment I'm using the standard one which comes with the Atom and like the way you can choose multiple alarms for different days (seems a better idea than just the one setting using O2 media plus) but wouldn't mind being able to select a different alarm tones etc.

Similarly for text message alerts, is there any way/program to customize this away from the pre-set one.

Finally (sorry for so many questions) although I can seem to connect to my wireless router fine (for internet), I can't seem to access my desktop (to browse files, use stored media etc.). Is there a program I need to do this, or should I be able to browse to it from the file explorer ?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.

[Sooz]

go to start, settings, sounds and notifications, Notifications

Use the pull down menu to choose different sounds etc.

For the alarm you go to where you set alarm and click the speaker it will give you choice of tones.

You can upload to your phone wav files to use as tones, search the net for what u want and upload to the windows/ring directory

[jeremy_elman]

Sooz ... thanks again, just trying to decide what sound will wake me up now.

Any ideas on the wireless network access thing ?

[Sooz]

you need to have activesync installed on your pc download the latest one from Microsoft.com

once installed it will prompt you to connect the phone etc and away you go

there is an explore in active sync or just use windows file manager to get there, but you need to copy and paste items to phone not drag them
Cheers

[jeremy_elman]

Thanks for your reply, however I was looking for someway to browse the host computer from the Atom (to access shared media etc.) or alternativly see and control the desktop's screen (much like the old remote control tools).

Also how are you using activesync over Wifi ... I thought microsoft disabled this due to some sort of security concerns ?

[Experimenter]

If you want to directly connect to a PC share from the Atom, use Resco Explorer. It allows you to "map" to network shares and browse them directly from the Atom.

[jeremy_elman]

Thanks for that ... looks like quite a nifty little program (which has now replaced my standard file browser).

Don't suppose there's been any luck on being able to sync via wifi. Not so sure I understand why Microsoft had this removed but left in the ability to sync over bluetooth. Always thought wifi was more secure ? Odd.