Dashwire - The Future is Here

[lukybandit]

DASHWIRE - A PORTAL TO YOUR CELL PHONE ON THE WEB

Dashwire's FREE service takes your mobile phone contacts, SMS, calls, photos, videos, voicemail, and settings to the Web, making it easy for you to set-up your phone, backup your stuff, and share your experiences with sites like Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed & Twitter.



Full contact sync between your phone & the Web
Read, reply, and create new text messages from your computer - threaded by conversation
Instantly upload photos & videos to the Web where you can view, edit, organize & share
Single click media upload to Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Twitter & Bebo
Update your status on Facebook & Twitter
Visual voicemail on your computer
Set Web favorites, ringtones & speed dials from your computer
Transfer contacts & settings from your old phone to your new one


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Your phone is constantly connected to the web, helping you access & share your stuff whether you're on the go or in front of your computer. No cables or effort required. It's easy and FREE!


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Backup & Sync Your Contacts



Your phone address book is automatically uploaded and backed-up on Dashwire. You can add, edit, or delete contacts - with all changes instantly updated on your phone (and vice versa).


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Text Messaging From the Web - Like You're On IM



Every SMS sent and received is available online in an instant messaging like experience. You can read, reply, and create new messages from the web - it literally sends from your phone using your SMS plan.


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[lukybandit]

Upload & Share Your Photos & Videos

Snap a photo. Capture a video. Dashwire instantly uploads all of your media from your phone to the web where you can view, edit, organize into albums, and share with friends and the social sites you use to stay connected to them.


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Single Click Phone Set Up

Who wants to read the owner's guide? With Dashwire, your ringtones, bookmarks, and speed dials can be easily set from your web account and instantly updated on your phone.


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Automatic Phone Configuration

Firmware upgrade? New phone? Turn it on. Add Dashwire. Watch as the contacts and several of the settings from your old phone automatically appear.


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And So Much More…

Visual voicemail, call log backup, photo slideshow, customizable shared pages, status updates to social networking sites, Skype integration, catalogue of mobile optimized websites…

[lukybandit]

WOW!!! So far this is sickkk..I love it. I'm still checking it out, once I'm done - I'll post some feedback.

Check it out guys, It's worth it. :D

[iamanalog]

WOW!!! So far this is sickkk..I love it. I'm still checking it out, once I'm done - I'll post some feedback.

Check it out guys, It's worth it. :D

I used it for a day or so, and then promptly uninstalled it.
I found that it killed my battery twice as fast, overall made the phone really sluggish and never properly uploaded my contacts..

But hey that's just me :D

[lukybandit]

Oh Yeah? I've been using it for the past 30 mins, so far so good. hmm, wierd. Actually, the first time I did the sync, it didn't sync it properly, mean it did but some of my messages were missing, i resynced it 30 mins ago i.e. once again and now it's perfect so far. Well, I hope it's something I can use and not let go because so far I really like it.

Everyone else, whoever has used it or is going to use it, please post some feedback.

P.S: I've figured out everything except visual voicemail. How does that work?

[gixxum]

Oh Yeah? I've been using it for the past 30 mins, so far so good. hmm, wierd. Actually, the first time I did the sync, it didn't sync it properly, mean it did but some of my messages were missing, i resynced it 30 mins ago i.e. once again and now it's perfect so far. Well, I hope it's something I can use and not let go because so far I really like it.

Everyone else, whoever has used it or is going to use it, please post some feedback.

P.S: I've figured out everything except visual voicemail. How does that work?

ive been using it for a few months..good stuff.

[pfunkside]

I use it. I'll admit it's a startup hog but worth it. It can be a life saver. Only problem I have had is one. Now I'm eventually going to get around to fixing it lol. Here is the only problem.

All of us have at least one time or another had problems with Active Sync. I had to re-sync it and Outlook also saves my contacts. What occurred for me is if you have to reinstall Active sync it will add a double amount of contacts. I'm my case 4 of each...LOL. Basically when first installing Dashwire it will give you the options to overwrite some or leave them alone.

Either way I'm going to have to stop dashwire from syncing. Then exit it. Then thru active sync uncheck outlook contacts. Then delete All of my contacts. The thing that champs my @ss is I set up voice command on some of my contacts which is a pain.

I also can't figure out the custom way to save via contacts---sim manager---backup contacts. It tells you that you need to delete them first wtf?

Put it this way I always backup my stuff. I don't want to not be prepared for a crash.

[jdoggraz]

Looks good, but it seems to drain the battery a lot faster. Good stuff but I will give it another shot once my extended battery comes in.

[dashwire]

Appreciate the write-up and the feedback!

Battery drain is an issue that we've been working on for the past couple of weeks. We're still not done, but we've added some things that should make a difference. We do really suggest our users set Dashwire to automatic sync because with manual the sync technology isn't optimized.

And sorry to hear about the contact dupes. As you've discovered, contacts added to a new or reset phone using Dashwire will be duplicated if a user attempts to synchronize with Outlook via ActiveSync after the fact. You first have to add your contacts to your phone via ActiveSync before adding Dashwire to your phone. If you start with ActiveSync first, then you won't see any problems with contact duplicates. After that there shouldn't be any issues.

Visual Voicemail works through a 3rd party application called CallWave. You have to sign-up for it first, input your credentials, and then it should work straight from the dashboard.

Any more questions or feature requests feel free to let us know. We take what user's say and suggest pretty seriously.

[lukybandit]

Appreciate the write-up and the feedback!

Battery drain is an issue that we've been working on for the past couple of weeks. We're still not done, but we've added some things that should make a difference. We do really suggest our users set Dashwire to automatic sync because with manual the sync technology isn't optimized.

And sorry to hear about the contact dupes. As you've discovered, contacts added to a new or reset phone using Dashwire will be duplicated if a user attempts to synchronize with Outlook via ActiveSync after the fact. You first have to add your contacts to your phone via ActiveSync before adding Dashwire to your phone. If you start with ActiveSync first, then you won't see any problems with contact duplicates. After that there shouldn't be any issues.

Visual Voicemail works through a 3rd party application called CallWave. You have to sign-up for it first, input your credentials, and then it should work straight from the dashboard.

Any more questions or feature requests feel free to let us know. We take what user's say and suggest pretty seriously.


First off, I would like to Congratulate you and your team for making this happen. Very beautiful concept! Your team has done a great job! Keep up the good work.

Battery Drain:

I don't know if I've experienced battery drain but if other users are, that should be your #1 concern because you want people to use Dashwire and when it comes to the battery, people will prefer a ever ready battery over battery drain. I've set my account to automatic sync as I have an unlimited data plan. If I do experience battery drain, I will post feedback here. I'm glad to know your working on it, though.

Automatic Startup:

I got rid of the Automatic startup as my bootup process was taking longer then it should. I personally noticed a slow bootup so, I'd appreciate if you could work on that. However, from nowonwards I will manually start the program so it syncs when I choose to until you can work on a fix.

Duplicate Contacts:

No comments as I didn't experience this.

Visual Voicemail:

This is a great service but it sucks to know CallWave charges for their services. Could you not offer a free service for voicemail? I'm aware of youmail but youmail does not work for International users right now. If you can look into this, that'd be great. I'd be definitely interested and I'm sure others will be too.

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Personal Issues:

Contacts

So far, everythings work as it should but my contacts are out of order.

Page 1 starts with I, J, K, L, M, N, O, H, P, R, S.
Page 2 continues with S, T, U, V, W, Y, Z, A
Page 3 ends with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H

Any idea how I could fix this? Please let me know, Thanks.

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Suggestions

1) Ringtones: Right now, they are only accessed from the phone storage. Any way to access the ring tones on storage card?

2) Real-time Home Screen: Maybe you could use this to control your phone, for screen shots etc

3) Transfer ringtones: Transfer directly from websites to dashwire which will sync to the phone directly. For example, you come across a ringtone site, you right click it and it says transfer to dashwire which automatically syncs it with the phone into the right folder and you can change your ringtone from the website. This could help when you don't have wires and you want to upload a new ring tone etc.

4) Change Wallpaper: Using the above idea, you can do the same with wallpapers.

5) Backup Text messages to PC: Download textmessages as a .txt file to PC

6) Download Pictures or Videos to PC: Using this option, you can download pictures or videos to PC.

Those are some suggestions for now. Let me know what you think. Finally, Thanks for making this FREE. Looking forward to more updates in the future.

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Should you need my help in anything, please let me know.

Good Luck!

Best Regards,
lukybandit

[lukybandit]

Anyone try this? If so, post some feedback.

[jacknmary]

tried it...hate it. only backed up 1/2 of my contacts..... slow as molasses below freezing...

[kingtaco11]

I just registered on the site, and went to m.dashwire.com on my phone to get the app.



I got the app and tried to install the cab but right when it finished downloaded it said. "instalation of dashwire-wm-2.0.0.354.cab was unsuccesful"



Whats the deal?

Im running on windows 6.1 kavana

[dhumil]

i'm experiencing the same problem....can anyone upload a working .cab file?

[mjpuczko]

i'm on kavana 6.1 and had no issues at all. been running it for about 20 hours now.

[kingtaco11]

mjp, you think you could post your cab file plz?

[dashwire]

I just registered on the site, and went to m.dashwire.com on my phone to get the app.
I got the app and tried to install the cab but right when it finished downloaded it said. "instalation of dashwire-wm-2.0.0.354.cab was unsuccesful"
Whats the deal?
Im running on windows 6.1 kavana

Sorry about that... looks like in preparation for the release of some new features we made some changes to the server. In the process something broke down on our end and users are unable to install the mobile client at the moment. We are working on it right now, and I'll report here the moment we get everything working again.

[lukybandit]

Dashwire - I posted suggestions, comments and personal issues I was going through. Please look into it when you get a chance, Thanks.

[dashwire]

You should now be able to download the Mobile Client.

@lukybandit: Looks like a great response that you posted that addressed a lot of key issues. I'll respond to it when I get a chance. Thanks for all the help and the feedback.

[serialtoon]

I just started using it right now and its syncing everything up. Seems pretty cool so far...lets see if it lags my phone.

[mjpuczko]

mjp, you think you could post your cab file plz?

i just dl'd it on my phone straight from the site, no cab. sorry!

i had to do manual updates after two days. it really started to slow my phone down & this was pretty much all i had running (active sync too)

[sphinx780]

Running on Ricky's 6.1

Love the idea of it but the battery drain is ridiculous. After a few days, I'm just killing it off and using a manual sync for backup but I feel that takes away some of the functionality that would be great to have. Everything worked as promised after the initial sync.

[RussianSolja]

when i had the sidekick 3 all my information used to get stored on the DANGER servers so there was a way to keep track of all my information and now with DASHWIRE i can pretty much do the same thing and save my contacts,photos,videos, and more on this site i love it thanks for the find guys you are great.:D

[mhoyt77]

lovin it so far. but, after syncing with dashwire, i resynced w/ activsync and unchecked conyacts from list. it removed all from my phone, then with dashwire they were removed from there too. any way to remove contact sync w/ outlook and not losing them in dashwire?