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Qtek S100 Internal Memory Upgrade

Does anyone did a internal memory upgrade to 128mb in the Qtek S100? Where? Is it worth the price?
Thanks!!!

It's awesome ... 57Mb internal RAM is simply not enough. After the 128Mb upgrade, I did not have to select what to install in RAM anymore, and everything runs more smoothly than it did in 64Mb (I have an upgraded i-Mate Jam)

Wiz said:
It's awesome ... 57Mb internal RAM is simply not enough. After the 128Mb upgrade, I did not have to select what to install in RAM anymore, and everything runs more smoothly than it did in 64Mb (I have an upgraded i-Mate Jam)
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where did you upgrade your i-Mate? Just curious.. 8)

What exactly are you using all that RAM for? I've installed all I need, and I have plenty of space left.

Hi,
How can I upgrade my ram? Is it possible to use parts of other pocket pc's? I have a Qtek2020 which I could use for parts... (it's screen is broken)...
Thanks,
JeDa

Mine was upgraded by www.ppctechs.com. I have a requirement for the following programs to reside in RAM, since about 3 hours of my working day are spent connecting to the corporate Lan with a wireless SD card. One look at the list should indicate that I mostly use my PPC professionally.
TimeTTracker
Tekstmaker
Planmaker
KSE Truefax
PocketPlan
Citrix Client
VNC Client
Terminal Services client
TomTom
Adobe Acrobat
PocketLauncher
Peacemaker
Commontime mNotes
PIToday
Hudson Phonedashboard
PocketZenPhone
Tube PRO London and Paris
Pocket InformantSprite Backup
SPB PocketPlus
SPB GPRS Monitor

TimeTTracker
Looks really powerful! I might check this out!
Tekstmaker
Planmaker
Looks good, really good. But if you're at your own premises (like you said) you might as well use the real thing on a full size computer with a full size keyboard to save some time.
KSE Truefax
Why? You must have fax machines at your company?
PocketPlan
Useful if you have project plans allocating your time on an hourly basis, if not - why do you need it in your pocket?
Citrix Client
VNC Client
Terminal Services client
All three of them? You should have your company selecting a standard environment. And WTS client is in ROM so that does not really count as something requireing space on your device.
TomTom
For navigating the corridors?
Adobe Acrobat
Reader or writer? At least on the QtekS100 there is an acrobat reader included in the ROM.
PocketLauncher
With SPB PocketPlus, why do you need this?
Peacemaker
Why exactly do you need this if you're connected to the WLAN?
Commontime mNotes
I guess if you're stuck with Notes you're stuck with this.
PIToday
Something like this should really be standard, but I personally prefer tAgenda. And does PIToday work with mNotes?
Hudson Phonedashboard
You have a company phone, right? So why bother?
PocketZenPhone
Nice one. But not really useful until I can use the volume slider to pick between different profiles.
Tube PRO London and Paris
Beutiful!
Pocket Informant
Does this work with mNotes or is it just a "nice to have"?
Sprite Backup
Is this really necessary? If you syncronize with your server using mNotes it seems a bit overdoing it.
SPB PocketPlus
This should be on every PPC!
SPB GPRS Monitor
Again, why? I used it for the trial period to find out roughly how much I was spending, but now I just don't bother. If I don't need to know I don't want to know.

bamse said:
TimeTTracker
Looks really powerful! I might check this out!
Indeed
Tekstmaker
Planmaker
Looks good, really good. But if you're at your own premises (like you said) you might as well use the real thing on a full size computer with a full size keyboard to save some time.
It's mainly for reference purposes during meetings. The sheets I work with sometimes lose formulas in the translation to Pocket Excel
KSE Truefax
Why? You must have fax machines at your company?
Yes, but some faxes I receive are confidential
PocketPlan
Useful if you have project plans allocating your time on an hourly basis, if not - why do you need it in your pocket?
I have project managers in my staff, and need to able to see impact of changes in resource allocation, time frame changes, delivery delays during meetings in which we discuss these
Citrix Client
VNC Client
Terminal Services client
All three of them? You should have your company selecting a standard environment. And WTS client is in ROM so that does not really count as something requireing space on your device.
My company has a standard environment. Our customers usually do not.
TomTom
For navigating the corridors?
For getting to my office Actually I travel a lot by car, both for work and private.
Adobe Acrobat
Reader or writer? At least on the QtekS100 there is an acrobat reader included in the ROM.
Reader, and it's better than the westtek one, period.
PocketLauncher
With SPB PocketPlus, why do you need this?
I like tabbed menus better full screen than on the today screen. I do use pocketPlus, but only one single line for the key programs. The rest are organized in Pocket Launcher
Peacemaker
Why exactly do you need this if you're connected to the WLAN?
Peacemaker helps me exchange appoinments with people who have PalmOS (quite a few among my customers do)
Commontime mNotes
I guess if you're stuck with Notes you're stuck with this.
Yep
PIToday
Something like this should really be standard, but I personally prefer tAgenda. And does PIToday work with mNotes?
That's the fun of it. Regardles of what you use, all appointments go into the pocketpc underlying database. All PIMs are nothing but frontends in front of that same database. PIToday provides the list on the today screen, pocket informant gives me a more complete and detailed view when actually planning, and mNotes synchronizes that same underlying database with Lotus Notes.
Hudson Phonedashboard
You have a company phone, right? So why bother?
No, the PDA is private but I use it for work. The phone part contains my private number. I also have a company phone, but that is a phone only.
PocketZenPhone
Nice one. But not really useful until I can use the volume slider to pick between different profiles.
useful enough for me though
Tube PRO London and Paris
Beutiful!
No comment
Pocket Informant
Does this work with mNotes or is it just a "nice to have"?
As with PIToday above. PIToday is only a today plugin, Pocket Informant is the real PIM, and yes, Pocket Informant Rocks!! (and mNotes synchronizes my data from Lotus Notes to the PPC Database, so yes, for use with Pocket Informant.
Sprite Backup
Is this really necessary? If you syncronize with your server using mNotes it seems a bit overdoing it.
Yes, it is neccessary. A PPC usulaly not only contains data that can be synchronized with the desktop, but also license files, configuration files, favourite settings etc. Besides, PPCs do crash, and having a self extracting backup handy on a memory card gets you up and runnign in 30 seconds, back to the state your machine was in before the crash.
SPB PocketPlus
This should be on every PPC!
Indeed.
SPB GPRS Monitor
Again, why? I used it for the trial period to find out roughly how much I was spending, but now I just don't bother. If I don't need to know I don't want to know.
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I need to know, since it's my private subscription. Aside from this, quite a few companies allow you to use a company phone, but with a quota above which one has to prove the calls are buisiness related, so yes, tracking calls may actually be of importance for more people than you would imagine.

Of course, the reply above was mine. Forgot to log in ...

Wiz said:
Of course, the reply above was mine. Forgot to log in ...
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Ok, I wont quote the long text :wink:
Although I would have chosen to carry a small laptop for some of the tasks I agree that if you don't you probably need most of the software you listed.

To Wiz:
With all those application running, How is the battery life on 128MB ?
thank you

As far as I can tell, battery life is roughly the same with 128Mb installed, maybe slightly better even since I do not have to start programs from SD anymore.

how much memory now is free after a hard reset?

Best PIM software?

I have lots of appointments/tasks which has long description. In the built-in Pocket Outlook, it cannot "wrap" the line so it cannot show anything longer than 1 screen width.
To solve it, I tried Agenda Fusion and Pocket Informant.
Both AF and PI loads quite slow and worst of all, takes up quite a lot of memory.
Any advice please?

Calander and Tasks combined

Simple request
Does anybody know of a simple utility that can incorporate Tasks into Pocket Outlook. Tasks then will be intergrated into the calander and will use the appointment screen to set a task. Also this utility should manage to display a full weeks appointments and task in sequence - not seperated.
Thanks in anticipation

calli said:
Simple request
Does anybody know of a simple utility that can incorporate Tasks into Pocket Outlook. Tasks then will be intergrated into the calander and will use the appointment screen to set a task. Also this utility should manage to display a full weeks appointments and task in sequence - not seperated.
Thanks in anticipation
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There's a free today screen plugin that shows combined tasks and appointments...
http://tiews.info/index.php?show=software/todayagenda
I've given up on it for now but it seemed to work ok. Not as advanced as other plugins like PocketBreeze but much lower overhead associated with using it.
Have reverted back to standard plugins even though they are pretty pathetic since the plugin didn't seem to cope with orientation switching too well - an annoyance when using it with a device with a slide out landscape keyboard.

PocketBreeze for Me!!
I can't comment on TodayAgenda, as I've never tried it. I found it on these forums after purchasing PocketBreeze. But, from everything I've read about it on that thread, it's a very good program.
However, I WILL say that I LOVE PocketBreeze, and it would be virtually impossible (IMO) to find anything that even comes close. It does exactly what the OP wanted, plus more. It's the only plugin I use on my Today Screen, and it allows for Custom tabs to be set for other plugins, as well. So, I have iLauncher, Pocket Weather and Spb Time integrated into PB as custom tabs and from that can access virtually everything on my Wizard from the Today Screen through Pocket Breeze.
There's a 14 day free trial period, but I was sold on it after only 3 days and bought it. Others may have different views, but for me -- it's the BEST!!

I've use both todayAgenda and pocketbreeze. For the price of todayAgenda, there isnt really much to 'complain' about, other than the fact that, it doesn't display tomorrow as 'Tomorrow', which is quite annoying (that it lowered the importances of the task/schedule).
Anyway, I'm using pBreeze now and no complain so far. It is highly customizable which others may find annoying, but if you want to have full control on your display, go for it. I so wish I get commission for selling this software

Check new todayAgenda 0.95 beta and check spbDiary with better phone contacts handling (hardware keyboard) than pocketBreeze.

Thanks everybody.
TodayAgenda works well for me. Exactly what I wanted.
Calli

[REQ] Improve SENSE Calender functionality?

Hi All.
Can any of the clever members mod the HTC SENSE Calender to allow 'tap and hold' of an entry to bring up the menu (eg. edit, delete) directly.... this will save a couple of clicks.
Cheers.

heh, that's EXACTLY what I would need to free myself form the old pocketoutlook calendar, and reactivate the calendar tab of manila.
If it stays like it is now, it's just useless eyecandy, not to mention how clicking on any empty day in week view doesn't bring you anywhere, while I would expect it to open the relevant day, even if empty.
Not to talk about day selection dialogue, if you are unlucky enough to need selecting a day, say, 10 years in the future or in the past (don't ask me why, it could happen) you need to pass throught 120 animations of scrolling months,pressing 120 times on the up/down arrows, instead of being able to directly select the year.
But I seriously doubt anyone will be able to change that part of manila..

even if its not the manila calendar, you may have a look at mvcal or download it from here

Obelix_A said:
even if its not the manila calendar, you may have a look at mvcal or download it from here
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there's 2 problems with that... it's pay software and it has a initially complex interface. WHat I'm looking for is not really anything special, it should have been in the device already, and could be defined as either one of the following:
1) a vanilla pocket outlook retaining its current functions, but with a way more finger friendly interface
or
2) a manila calendar keeping the current interface, but with all the functions that the vanilla pocket outlook calendar has
Now, as I hear WM 6.5.5 has a finger friendlier interface (my custom rom is 6.5.2 based), I don't know if 6.5.5's pocket outlook has a different interface closer to what I need, I would like to have confirmations

PM
Gionee p8m
android version 7.0

Best mobile OS for staying organized?

I just wanted to know what are people's thoughts about what they think is the most effective OS for mobile phones in terms of staying organized (task manager, agendas, etc.)...
Would this go to Blackberry OS?
I used to have a Nokia phone running Symbian S60, and I thought that the list of upcoming calendar entries on the homescreen, along with recent emails was really convenient.
As much as I love Android, I just find it a little underwhelming in terms of staying organized... and I can't quite put my finger on it, but the standard calendar app just seems really difficult to use.

No idea about RIM, but I would go with older versions of winmo, or palm os

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No idea about RIM, but I would go with older versions of winmo, or palm os
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By Palm OS, does that also mean Web OS on the Pre?

WinMo 6.1 or 6.5
I'm using both WinMo & Android.
In my opinion, WinMo 6.1 or 6.5 help me stay organized better. I like apps like Notes & Tasks from WinMo, & those are default apps out of the box.

Plain old WinMo today screen (no Sense or Titanium) might fit with what you are looking for well.
Just a simple list of upcomming appointments and tasks on your home screen. I've always found the default WinMo calander app to be powerful and easy enough to use even if it is not the most finger friendly thing in the world. And there are many today screen plugins out there to help you customize it exactly to your needs.

I prefer Android and a calendar widget from the market...

You could also consider using Pocket Informant on iPhone. No jailbreaking needed. If you want all critical information at one glacé on the lockscreen, then jailbreak and use lockinfo, or intelliscreen.
Surprised that you don't like Android. I would expect it to be quite good due to it's wizards and notifications features. The stock calendar and todo feature might be lacking but surely there are 3rd party software to make up for the deficiencies.
It's not the OS but the applications that you be conceremed eith IMHO.

Windows mobile 6.5.X all the time!

I will have to say the tp2 imo

Thanks for all the suggestions. I took these few days to check out some of the phones running on Windows Mobile, but many of them are very... bulky (compared to something like the Nexus One or even the Nokia that I had before).

Android Agenda Widget keeps a list of upcoming tasks on your homescreen.

I tried BlackBerry and I'm back on Windows Mobile due to the lack of capability for my needs on the BB platform. Certain things that I expected coming from WM and Palm long ago, just do not exist on the BB platform. The default task app on WM is not up to the size of my task list, but PocketInformant fills the PIM function nicely and has been developed for so long there is just nothing close that I have found. I was able to find a good task application (good functionality, but terrible aesthetics). On the BB calendar there isn't even a category field, so there is no way to differentiate your various appointment (icons, color, etc.) like you can easily do in WM. There are alternative calendar application, but they are not as feature rich as you will find on WM and many lack the ability to sync the extra features (icons, colors, categories, etc) to Outlook due to their reliance on standard BlackBerry sync. Also realize that the capability of the BlackBerry on BIS is very different than on BES. BIS just lacks way to much in my opinion and I was never able to try on BES. My wife is using Android and it works well for her, but the lack of tasks was a deal breaker for me. I have high hopes for Android and hope it improves quickly.