Installing applications on phone...and T9 input .

[David333]

I'm struggling... . I have my XDA hooked up to my Vista laptop and everything connects perfectly. Whilst browsing this site I found an iphone skin thing which looks quite impressive. I thought that I'd like to turn my XDA into an iphone so I'd download and install it... . Well, to be honest, I don't really know how to. Are there any idiot-proof guides out there for installing appliations...? I've downloaded the file to my desktop, tried copying it to my program files on my XDA (which works), but when I click on it, it just won't install. Is there some sort of file I need to click on specifically...? Is there a better way of getting this to work...?

Secondly I've been trying to find a T9 input thing. I hate having to use my stylus to send a quick SMS, and would love just to find something which replicates my phone's keypad on the screen, something I could use my fingers on, something on which I could type quickly. Does anyone have any suggestions...?

Thanks very much.

[Rudegar]

installing pocketpc applications can be don in many ways

2 most common is

1 a cab file which the user click on after transfering it to the pda

2 an exe file which requires to be run of the pc and it use the sync software to copy the cab file to the pda and run it



for t9 try doing a search for phonepad in the forum
not sure if it's compatible with old 2003 but you can give it a go

[David333]

Thank you for your help! I downloaded this phone pad thing, extracted it from WinRAR to a folder on my desktop and had a look inside. There are no .exe files which I can run from my computer, and no .cab files which I could transfer to my PDA and run.

The first file is setup.xml and then it's a whole series of numbered files which Windows calls 001 file, 002 file, etc... . Any ideas about what I should be doing...? Thank you!

[Holy Bear]

Thank you for your help! I downloaded this phone pad thing, extracted it from WinRAR to a folder on my desktop and had a look inside. There are no .exe files which I can run from my computer, and no .cab files which I could transfer to my PDA and run.

The first file is setup.xml and then it's a whole series of numbered files which Windows calls 001 file, 002 file, etc... . Any ideas about what I should be doing...? Thank you!Rather than extract it, you might just want to check whether the phone pad thing itself isn't a .cab

[Rudegar]

i suspect it is think winrar can assi cabs with it iso files too so dont just look at the icon

[tooper12]

installing pocketpc applications can be don in many ways

2 most common is

1 a cab file which the user click on after transfering it to the pda

2 an exe file which requires to be run of the pc and it use the sync software to copy the cab file to the pda and run it



for t9 try doing a search for phonepad in the forum
not sure if it's compatible with old 2003 but you can give it a go

Thank you friend :0 It helped me also, I was facing the same kinda situation :)