(Happy) Easter Eggs in WM6

[lewcamino]

WM6 Easter Eggs - WM6 Features (search terms)

This is a list of new and little known features in WM6.
Please add any I miss to this thread and I will try to put them in this post (with credit of course)

1. Typing on the keyboard on the today screen will automatically bring up the phone with matching contacts. Certain phone skins do not support this and you will just get a text box with scroll bars covering half the screen but nothing in it. If this happens switch your phone app with the Tweak app (varies depending on who’s WM6 you are running)

2. From Messaging (Outlook, SMS, MMS, [POP/IMAP? not tested] ) if you start typing it will search through your messages for whatever you type. Hold “H” for a list of shortcuts. I think the shortcut keys mean hold that letter.

3. Under calendar; If you create a new appointment and decide you don’t want it, you can now pres menu and cancel (cancel was not in wm5)

4. When typing in WiFi keys (WPA, WEP, whatever) you can actually see what you are typing instead of just ******.

5. The new feature I found that I love is if you go into the options for the calendar you can now set it to start in Month view (or whatever view you prefer). I couldn't stand the fact that WM5 kept reverting back to agenda!
(Thanks chymmylt!)

6. The camera finally keeps adjustments like contrast and sharpness saved.
Previously if you soft reset or power off and on the phone, these settings would always revert back to the defaults.
(Thanks abubasim!)

7. In Contacts, when you edit a contact you now have 'File As' useful if you want Forename Surname instead of the default Surname, Forename
(Thanks nbedford! [I installed the "File As" plugin and never noticed that it the ability to change it was built in =)] )

8. In Outlook, if you [Reply All] by default it copies your own email address into the recipient list, so you receive your own mails, even if you auto-save them already in Sent Folder. I found that extremely annoying because with every [Reply All] I had to manually remove my email address before sending.

You can avoid this easily:

1. Programs -> ActiveSync
2. Menu -> Options
3. Select the E-mail information type and tap Settings
4. Tap Advanced
5. Enter the e-mail address you want to remove when replying to all senders in My e-mail addresses
(Thanks aublumberg, This applys to WM5 also but not to many people know this one.)


Let me know if this is a waste of space, and if not, lets keep this thread on topic and point out all the fun reasons to use WM6.

Later, Lew

[thefunkygibbon]

thanks. couple those i didnt know about.

not quite "easter eggs" though are they

[chaos42]

thanks for sharing this information ;)
i found the firts two points very usefull, and (correct me if i'am wrong) due to the lack of a propper wm6 manual i think this thread comes quite handy ;)

[chymmylt]

The new feature I found that I love is if you go into the options for the calendar you can now set it to start in Month view (or whatever view you prefer). I couldn't stand the fact that WM5 kept reverting back to agenda!

[abubasim]

The camera finally keeps adjustments like contrast and sharpness saved.
Previously if you soft reset or power off and on the phone, these settings would always revert back to the defaults.

[nbedford]

In Contacts, when you edit a contact you now have 'File As' useful if you want Forename Surname instead of the default Surname, Forename

[lewcamino]

Bump for added Features.

[tadzio]

Not new, but little known and well hidden:

- press and hold the action button
- tap and hold the clock in the title bar until the dots stop moving
- when you release both the stylus and the action button, you get a small menu with an "execute" (or "run") entry. Tap that to get sort of a command line prompt.

Cheers
Daniel

[pello]

Very nice thread. thnx for the little hints

[Pisquee]

Are there any real easter eggs in win mobile?

[pello]

Are there any real easter eggs in win mobile?

I hope that is a joke. i wouldnt be surprised if it's not :confused:

[VivaErBetis]

Not new, but little known and well hidden:

- press and hold the action button
- tap and hold the clock in the title bar until the dots stop moving
- when you release both the stylus and the action button, you get a small menu with an "execute" (or "run") entry. Tap that to get sort of a command line prompt.
This is a real easter egg!

[simon_darley]

In the interest of WIKI and promoting the use of knowledge being written once and used many times, there is already a knowledgebase for this with lots of stuff, if you can add yours and close this, everybody will know where to go for their easter eggs...

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Buttons

[paulrockliffe]

Tap and hold the clock on the title bar lets you switch between digital and analog disply - no idea that happened until now!

[pello]

I guess, you already know this...
Pressing the "power button" for 3 seconds turns off (not just standby) the device (with WM2003 it wasn't possible...)

[abubasim]

This is probably an old one but I didn't know it myself until Googling for it:
In Solitaire, open the on-screen keyboard, tap Ctl and Shift and then Deal. It gives you the perfect hand.
Source: The Easter Egg Archive (http://www.eeggs.com/items/6448.html). The site has a few more . . . of which this one is the only one that seems to be working.

[abubasim]

This is a real easter egg!
. . . but an old one. I could do this one on my old JAMin (WM5 AKU2.0).

[panzer]

I guess, you already know this...
Pressing the "power button" for 3 seconds turns off (not just standby) the device (with WM2003 it wasn't possible...)

it's in the manual :D

[pello]

it's in the manual :D
Yes i know but...i have never touched a manual for mobile devices:)

BTW: i don't need this function

[trevortang]

Good and handy tips!!! Thank you.

[tadzio]

Yes i know but...i have never touched a manual for mobile devices:)

BTW: i don't need this function

You do need it, you just didn't know yet. :D Shutting down the PocketPC like this is the proper way to make registry changes "stick". I read literally hundreds of posts saying "I changed xxx in the registry, but when I do a soft reset, the change is gone!". All of these people should simply have shut down their device instead of just doing a soft reset. :-)

Cheers
Daniel

[pello]

You do need it, you just didn't know yet. :D Shutting down the PocketPC like this is the proper way to make registry changes "stick". I read literally hundreds of posts saying "I changed xxx in the registry, but when I do a soft reset, the change is gone!". All of these people should simply have shut down their device instead of just doing a soft reset. :-)

Cheers
Daniel
you are right...thnx

[aublumberg]

OK this one's also in the manual (the online help in ActiveSync to be precise), but I only found it today, and didn't find it here in the forum using the Search. So maybe this is just too obvious but here it goes anyway: :rolleyes:

In Outlook, if you [Reply All] by default it copies your own email address into the recipient list, so you receive your own mails, even if you auto-save them already in Sent Folder. I found that extremely annoying because with every [Reply All] I had to manually remove my email address before sending.

You can avoid this easily:

1. Programs -> ActiveSync
2. Menu -> Options
3. Select the E-mail information type and tap Settings
4. Tap Advanced
5. Enter the e-mail address you want to remove when replying to all senders in My e-mail addresses

[abubasim]

The camera finally keeps adjustments like contrast and sharpness saved.
Previously if you soft reset or power off and on the phone, these settings would always revert back to the defaults.

Hmm... looks like this one is not so new. I just loaded my JASJAM with the AKU 3.3.1 ROM from HTC. The above works in this ROM as well. The problem is specific only to the old AKU2.3 ROMs.

[lewcamino]

Bump for update.

I don't think this belongs in the WiKi under that buttons page. Since this is primarily for WM6 and not device specific.

If someone wants to make a wiki page for it that would be cool though.

Later, Lew

[Arktronic]

These are all cool features, but not really easter eggs. Microsoft has been discouraging people from writing "pointless" code. There is a blurb about this in Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition from MS Press. Excellent book, by the way.

[lewcamino]

okay okay, I know that these are not Easter eggs in the usual sense. However, they are in the spirit of Easter eggs.

As in, you had to find these features because they are not really documented. Lets lay the Easter egg debate to rest because it was Easter time when I posted this and I thought it was a clever name.

Later, Lew

P.S. Microsoft went so far as claiming that anyone found responsible for any Easter Eggs in Vista (and all software there after I would assume) would be fired.

[simon_darley]

this does belong in wiki. u might say they are such n such specific... but most are os specific and are additions to previous releases.

most work on most devices and most work in wm5.

in 2 weeks this post will be buried and the knowledge gleaned is lost until somebody else creates same and the circle begins.

u can commet only tested on x and y but they are then followed and updated added and detracted over time rather than lost forever.

simon.

[padma]

You can get a perfect hand in WM6's Solitaire game if you press CTL+Shift and tap New Game. Not sure if it works in older versions of WiMo.

[xit]

1.Open keyboard and hold down shift-tab
2.Press the power button 3 times, holding down the last time for 10 seconds
3.Rotate the screen while keyboard is open
4.Tap .-alt-send on the screen keyboard
5.Throw hard against a wall 4 times

you now have a spare battery. :D

[boog]

1.Open keyboard and hold down shift-tab
2.Press the power button 3 times, holding down the last time for 10 seconds
3.Rotate the screen while keyboard is open
4.Tap .-alt-send on the screen keyboard
5.Throw hard against a wall 4 times

you now have a spare battery. :D

alt send doesn't pop up on my screen, should I go ahead and throw it anyway?

Will I still have a spare battery?

:D

[xit]

alt send doesn't pop up on my screen, should I go ahead and throw it anyway?

Will I still have a spare battery?

:D

Yes, you can click ALT-ALT instead.

i am now looking for a magic way to get a spare stylus! Anyone got any clues? ;)