Use this link for Gmail on the axim. Going to gmail.com gets the axim stuck in an endless loop. I had to get this page by loading gmail into avantgo and waiting to get redirected properly
What a nightmare restoring a pocketpc is. After my previous hard reset and reinstalling the apps on the pocketpc I realised I didn’t have access to the notes, contacts or diary in the pocketpc. This didn’t use to be a problem as all the data was synched up to my outlook account, but now that I am on my home pc I don’t use outlook – and therefore no computer based backup of the data. It would have been possible to restore the data from the pocketpc backup that I had taken but this would roll me back to the state where MediaPlayer would not launch so that wasn’t really what I wanted. It took about an hour of searching in google but eventually I came across Sunnysoft’s backup manager that enables you to backup your pocketpc and more importantly do a selective restore. I restored the full backup from the pocketpc backup, then used Sunnysoft to backup the data to the SD card and make the backup an executable (a VERY smart feature). I then hard reset the axim, installed the applications that I had previously installed with this computer (which is very easy as I just had to reselect the programs within activesync) and then double clicked on sunnysofts backup file. I then said No to restoring everything, selected the tasks, contacts, calendar and all of my documents and a minute or so later I was prompted to reboot and the pocketpc is back to a fully functioning state.
Backup manager is a free trial download (and saved my bacon) and is usable for 14 days after which you need to register. This application also has the ability to automatically copy the backups over to the pc for further offline backup.
I tried to use orb on the pocketpc last night and the pictures worked great but I had no video. This is due to the nasty bug that occurs when media player immediately closes when it is launched. This is apparently to do with a corrupt default skin or missing shortcut -both of which I checked and neither of these “solutions” fixed the problem. The only other solution was to hard reset the axim. So that is what I did about 10 minutes ago (after doing a backup which took a couple of hours). Now, I can watch movies in media player so I just have to reinstall all the apps again – ugh.
Yes I know it is a long time since I posted a theme for the pocketpc but I was debugging the output of this page and checked some of the links and the link to aximelated on pocketpcthemes no longer works as they changed servers, software and removed the capabilites to search for themes by name, user, description etc.
I knew I should have saved the themes locally. I think I do have them somewhere on one of my backups…..
In other news, hopefully all the divs and spans on this page should match up which should make debugging/designing css slightly easier for me.
STGViewer is a great utility for recovering individual files from the activesync backups that get created on your harddisk normally in the directory C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\ActiveSync\Profiles\pdaname
Activesync 3.8 is out. Not sure what changes have been made (although it does look like it may only work in xp it only says that in bold, but the next line details other os’s)
I decided to reinstall the pocketpc today with a factory reset and then a reinstall of the programs. I had found that Word, notes and contacts were hanging when I went to save them and Microsoft Media Player just wouldn’t start up.
Therefore I’ve reinstalled the following apps:-
MS Activation for reader ( to read the occasional ebook)
TomTom GPS + CityMaps (the maps were already saved to SD card so that cut down on backup/installation time)
MagiButton (allow proper close of applications)
Macromedia Flash player
Adobe Reader 7
MpegTV PocketTV
Pocketmind PocketMusic
GPX Sonar (old beta version as the newest only works on pocketpc2003)
kevtris (essential for those 10 minute breaks)
PocketWarrior – wifi checker
Pocket Streets & Trips 2005. Even though I got the USA version, there are uk maps to download!
total commander – file utility
Windows Theme Switch Today
Real Audio for PocketPC
Update After all that the pocketpc is still hanging – BUT I’ve found out that it only hangs if I have the SD card in the slot. If I power off the Axim, remove the sd card and then power it back on again, the axim resumes where it was and *instantly* saves the file. Now to work out why it does this in Word and notes (that I’ve discovered so far). The SD card is fine as the other apps seem to write to it ok (Thanks to treasure realm by deleting ignore_my_documents from the root of the SD card Word now works great! (So I’ve just wasted 4 hours restoring and wiping,reinstalling and wiping)
I needed to edit the file associations on the pocketpc so that a click on jpg files would load it into a graphic viewer. A quick search on google and I discovered that PocketTweak would do the job for me. Although its not a fully fledged registry editor (Rescoe’s one is trial ware and PHM’s registry editor wouldn’t load on the pocketpc)
I wondered why I had seen a post on Microsofts site for a new upload for Activesync, version 3.7.1 but when I checked my current version I saw this was the version I already had! The Pocket PC Thoughts descibes the bug fixes in this particulare version of ActiveSync 3.7.1, which includes a problem that I get – explorer shows an empty directory when you browse the Axim.
Why they didn’t release it as 3.7.2 or 3.7.1a but it would have been handy.
I had a problem with “There was no response from your mobile device while checking for out-of-date appointments” on the Dell this morning when trying to synch. It worked earlier today and suddenly stopped working. A quick google search turns up several results, but ActiveSync Troubleshooting Guide – Synchronization Errors has the answer and lots of other answers too which is why I’ve linked to this one.