Andrew Ma's WebLog : Windows Mobile

Pocket PC Phone Edition Ringtone scripting

ajma — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 03:43:00 GMT

So the other day, I got myself HP iPaq 6315. In the past, I had a Motorola Mpx200 and it was great, but to have a my e-mail, calendar info and other things at my fingertips. I also really liked how it provided me with the ability to sync with my mail at anytime.

Because I used it more as pda than a phone, my only complaint was that the functionality and input methods were a little limiting. This was the main factor behind me switching to a Pocket PC phone edition pda.

After I got this ipaq, I immediately noticed that the ring intervals were really long and quiet. After doing some research, I managed to find out how to change this.

There is a registry key which can be used to script how the ringing is. The key on the pocket pc is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sounds\RingTone0

I had it set to increasing ring, but since there was a fairly long gap (about 3 seconds) between rings, I wouldn't really hear it ring. I edited the script string so that it would have a much shorter gap in between and now I'm happy!

Here's a table of various ring scripts pulled from MSDN.

Value	Description
apw3r	Ring
p	Ring once
s2apw3c150r	Increasing ring
av3w3r	Vibrate
v3w3apw3r	Vibrate then ring
a	Silent

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/SP_AMO/html/registry_ahuw.asp

Media Centers and .Text Skins

ajma — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:19:00 GMT

Portable Media Centers
I've been holding out buying an iPod because most of my music is in WMA and I really don't want to rip all my CDs again. I also have a Windows Media Center and the integration with the portable media centers seems really interesting. I will be able to record TV (a la Tivo), but also multiple shows at the same time! (I think Tivo might do this too now). Then I will be able to sync the portable media center to the windows media center and have the shows sync to the device. I'll be able to watch Futurama anywhere now! Too bad they aren't making any new episodes.
Two devices are listed on amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/portablemediacenters). Out of the two, the Samsung one looks nicer to me (pictured on the right side). But what I'm holding out for is this: http://www.iriveramerica.com/products/pmp-120.aspx Which doesn't say it's going to run media center, but while googling, I found people saying a PMP-100 model will support media center.

Skins
Finally, how does the new skin on this blog look? I like it much more than the old ones. The CSS is interesting too. It looks like it uses DirectX to draw the gradient (which, I'm told, doesn't show up in Firefox... I'm not surprised).

AUTD - Always up to date

ajma — Fri, 28 May 2004 20:20:00 GMT

Windows Mobile devices are great! Maybe because love gagets, but Windows Mobile has some really neat features. One of them that I've recently been able to use is “Always up to date“ (AUTD). Basically, an SMS gets sent to my phone and then it tells my phone to synchronize with the server. This was the only link I could find on the public Microsoft site: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003.asp