Random "BUSY" icon

[amraamin]

Hey everyone. I got rid of my Jasjar and bought a hw6945 which I'm much happier with. Even though it has a smaller keyboard and smaller resolution screen, it still does exactly what I need it to do in a much smaller and less complicated package than the Jasjar. I was also getting sick of the battery issue. Alas, this section is for the "Sable" and so I'll stick to talking about that and not bashing the Universal.

A lot of times as I'm writing text messages or e-mails, it'll pop up a random "BUSY" icon even though there's no other program running in the background - not even any connections using any of the radios. Why does it do that? The jasjar didn't. Anybody?

[vapourit]

In ActiveSync, set the PPC to sync every 30 minutes and every hour during off hours. If you leave it set at "when items arrive" it will maintain a gprs or edge data connection all the time and that kills the battery.

I get 4 days of standby and light use now. I used to get 24 hours.

If you are using microsoft push to deliver messages then I think you have to leave the setting as "when items arrive".

We are using push at work, but I find I certainly don't need my new messages faster then 30 minute intervals.

[amraamin]

Hey, thanks for the post. I actually just figured it out myself last night as I was playing with activesync. : )

Since I'm not a push user, I really have no need for automatic sync. By default, it keeps trying to sync when there isn't even a server there. What I had to do was open up activeysnc from the HP, create a fake server and fill in the fields with dummy info, go to the schedule options which are only available when you have a push server (hence the creation of a fake one), pick manual for everything, and then delete the dummy server. That's it. I have't gotten my initial problem since. I also think this might be a common issue for ALL WM5 devices?

Anyway, thanks for the reply. : )

[vapourit]

Ya, I read that about the fake dummy account so you can access the manual activesync settings.

The battery life is now "livable" which it was not before. I am going to get the 25% larger capacity battery for it.

Wish someone would do some development on this model. It is actually very nice and if someone would create/modify some of the software for it and make it better, it would be amazing!