Now that you have complete the Backup, SafeStore format, and Hard Reset, you are looking at a Blank phone with the Windows Mobile "Tap this screen to setup your Pocket PC." So let's get it setup and ready to go.

1. Click the scree, you will now be presented with the Align Screen, so take your stylus, not your finger, and click in the middle of the aligning tool, just as the instructions say, and repeat this for the middle, top left, bottom left, bottom right, and top right. You MIGHT have to press a little hard to get it to register, but this is normal.

2. Now we learn about the Single Tap and the Tap and Hold. Read the screen and then click Next. Follow the Tap and Hold Tutorial, then click Next.

3. You now select your time zone. So drop the list down and select which time zone you are currently in (and that your computer is in. This is important to make sure the computer and the phone are on the same time zones, so make sure they match, if not appointments might not show up correctly on the i730, or it might change appointment times in Outlook). Click next after selecting the time zone.

4. Congrats you completed the first stage, so click the screen to go to your partially setup i730. Now we need to get the rest of the initial settings setup to make the i730 more yours. The next few steps are for personal preference, these are my settings, but you might like some different settings, so feel free to skip some, change some, or choose different settings.

5. Now you probably just saw that the i730 installed Wireless Sync on the i730. This is ok, because if you want to use it, you need it, and if not, we remove it in the next step.

6. If you want to use Wireless Sync, then skip this step, but if you are like me, remove it. You can always reinstall it later, and those steps are listed in the FAQ. So click the Start Button, then Settings, Go to the System tab and click the Memory Icon. At the bottom you will see a Running Programs tab, click that and then click on Wireless Sync and choose Stop. A Warning message will appear telling you that you won't receive updates, choose YES, then click "End Task" to stop Wireless Sync. Close the Memory settings page by clicking the OK in the corner, now scroll down until you see, "Remove Programs" and click that. The only thing that should be listed is "Sync Client". Click that and click "Remove". It will warn you that you are permanently removing the software, so Click "YES". The i730 will now remove the Sync Client, and now click OK in the corner to close the Remove Programs setting page. Now you should still be in the Settings area, so click the "Personal Tab" and we will continue to setup the i730.

7. If you didn't follow my previous step of removing the Wireless Sync client, click the start button and choose Settings. You will be on the Personal Tab. We are going to setup the i730 the rest of the way, and if you did follow my step above, we are all in the same area.

8. Setup Owner Information. So let's get this thing ours, click the "Owner Information" icon, and fill out fields, Name (this should be the same it was before, and identical to what you have your software registered with.), Company, Address, Telephone, and E-Mail. Go ahead, I will wait why you do it. You can now click the Notes tab and add any notes that you feel you need (I don't add any), and then go to the Options tab. You can choose whether you want your Owner Information and Notes displayed when the i730 is turned on. This is good to check in case your i730 is lost and someone finds it. They have your information displayed as soon as they turn it on and can see it. I personally have insurance on my phone, and I HATE having to clear it when the using my i730, so I don't check either of them, so now click the OK in the corner to save those options.

9. We are back on the personal tab in the settings area, so click Buttons. I change the Record button on the i730 to be < NONE > because I always hit it and have a ton of recorded messages. Very poor design by Samsung for making it stick out so much. So select Button 1, and then in the list at the bottom, scroll all the way to the top and select < None >. Right now I leave all the rest of the buttons alone, so click the OK in the corner.

10. Input options. We are back at the Personal Tab in the Settings Area, so click the Input icon. I don't change anything on the first tab "Input Method", so I click the second tab "Word Completion" and I change the suggest 1 word to 4 words. This will show you four words when you type after you enter 2 letters instead of just 1 word. This is again personal preference and makes for quicker typing as you can use the direction pad to go down and then click the center d-pad button to select the word. I don't make any other changes, so click the OK to return to the Personal Tab in the Settings area.

11. Menus. Click the Menus icon and then click the New Menu tab. I turn this on with the check box at the top and I unselect Word Document and Excel Document. This creates a NEW button on the bottom of the Today Screen that you can quickly add a new entry in to any of the programs listed on this screeen. Since I RARELY use Excel and Word as "new" documents, I uncheck them to make the list shorter. Click OK to return to the Personal tab in the Settings Area.

12. Phone Settings. Now click the Phone Icon. It could take 10 seconds or so for it to pop up. Now I change the Voicemail number to include my password so I don't have to enter it every time. The only problem with doing this is your password is displayed here, and displayed when you make the call, so it's not that secure, but since I am the only one using my phone, I don't care. So click in the Voicemail Box and after the *86 add two "p" and then your password (remember you wrote this down during the backup steps above.). So now the Voicemail box reads:

*86pp******* (where the ****** is your password)

Also as I mentioned above, I really hope you changed your password from the default last four digits of your number, if not go up and repeat the steps I mentioned in the backup area...)

Now that voicemail is changed, I change the Ring type to Vibrate and Ring as the default. Later we will setup different settings in phoneAlarm, but by default, this is what I like. I also leave the Windows Default as my standard ringtone because I change this later. I now click the Option tab on the bottom of the screen and click to have the "Call Answer by the slider open." I leave the rest of the settings alone. I don't hang up the phone by closing the slider because I have hung up on too many people with this setting by accidently closing the phone. I now go to the Alert tab on the bottom of the screen. I leave the defaults of Minute beep off, Connect and Disconnect tones on, and then I click the Service tab on the bottom. I leave Data Mode to Data Off, Roaming Automatic, GPS to 911 Only, and Voice Privacy to Standard. This setting seems to make calls a little clearer. I now click the OK in the corner as there are no other settings I adjust.

13. I skip over Password, because I don't enter one, but you can if you want, this will prompt you for a password each time your phone is not in use for a certain time, but my phone never leaves my side, so I don't have the need for a password. I also don't setup Sounds and Notifications yet. I do it later after I get my ringtones and notification sounds on my phone.

14. I do however click and setup the Today screen, so click it, and then click the Items Tab on the bottom. I uncheck Date, as I hack this in a bit to make the date appear in the top bar with the clock. I uncheck Owner information, because I know my own name and don't need it taking up space or displaying my phone number. I leave the rest of the items on the Today Screen, but I select Wireless, and move it to the top, and then select Owner Info, and move it to the bottom, still unselected. I then click on Calendar and click Options, and change it to show "upcoming appointments" instead of Next Appointment, then select OK in the corner to get back to the Items list, and then click OK again to get back to the Personal Tab in the Settings Area.

15. Now I click the System Tab and we start adjusting settings here. Click the About Icon, then click the "Device ID" tab, and we are chaning the name of our device. (we wrote this down earlier as well, mine was Railing_IT). You can't have any spaces, so if you want one, put an _ instead of the space. I leave the description tab black, and click OK in the corner to return to the System tab in the Settings Area.

16. Backlight Options. Click Backlight to adjust the backlight options. On the Battery Power tab, I change the Turn off backlight if device is not used for:" to 1 min, instead of 30 secs. I then click the External Power Tab. I change the "Turn off backlight if device is not used for:" ON, and then adjust to 10 mins. I like this because I don't want the device to stay on, as many times when I travel I plug it in to charge and after 10 minutes I would prefer for the backlight to go off and not be on all night keeping me awake. I then select the Brightness tab and leave it at medium brightness to conserve some battery life. Click OK in the corner to get back to the System tab of the Settings Area.

17. Car Kit. I have the Hands Free Car Kit made by Samsung, so I adjust these settings, so open it, and move all to LOUD, then Click OK to get back to the System tab.

18. Power Settings. Now click the Power icon. This shows your battery life, and I click the Advanced tab and turn on the external power option to turn the device off and change that setting to 10 minutes. I do this because I want the phone to go to sleep when on external power. If connected to ActiveSync, ActiveSync will keep the phone awake in the cradle and constantly syncing, and in the HFCK (Car kit) it will also stay on, so this works great for me when it's hooked up to just power it turns off. Now click the Misc Tab. There is a bug in the phone that as SOON as you connect in a phone call the screen turns off. Hopefully this will be fixed in WM5, but I still change the setting to 30 seconds, so where Device says Phone, I turn the bottom choice to 30 seconds. Now click the device at the top and choose Keyboard Backlight. Uncheck the Turn off in daytime, this will make the keyboard backlight ALWAYS come on when you open the slider (right now between 8 AM and 8 PM it is off with the setting on). I also adjust the keyboard backlight to 8 seconds. Now click the OK in the corner to close the Power settings and we are back to the System Tab in the Settings Area

19. Screen Settings. Click the Screen Icon. I leave the first tab alone, and click the ClearType tab. Check it and uncheck it and see which you prefer, I like mine on as it smooths the edges, but some people like it off. Now click the Text Size tab. I change mine to be the second from the smallest. So when you find the one you like, click the OK in the corner to get back to the system tab in the Settings area.

20. I now close the System Area and am back at the Today Screen. Take your stylus and click the Reset button on the bottom of the phone to reset it. I do this just to make sure the memory is empty and be fresh for the rest of the setttings.

21. The i730 has an Audio App that loads at startup (notice the SRS in the corner?). I don't use it, so why have it take up memory. Let's get rid of it from startup, but still make it accessible "incase" we want to use it in the future. So click the start button, and the click Programs. Click the File Explorer Icon, at the top you will see "My Documents", click that to drop down the list and click "My Device". You will see the Root of the device, and now click "Windows" (this might take a few seconds to display, but this is normal). Scroll down the list until you find "Startup" and click it. You will see a list of files and you want to CLICK and HOLD on the WOWTray file and choose "CUT". Now click the Startup dropdown on the top bar and click "Windows", scroll down that list until you see the folder that says "Start Menu". Click that, then Click "Programs". Once this list populates, click the Edit button in the bottom left hand corner, then click "Paste". You will see WOWTray appear at the bottom of the list. Click and Hold on WOWTray, Then Click Rename, I change mine to "SRS Audio". This let's you still start the audio program if you want it, but removes it from startup. Now close File Explorer, and close the Programs list by clicking the X's in the right corner. Now soft reset your i730 with the stylus in the reset hole on the bottom of the i730. When it reboots you should NOT have the SRS icon in the corner and your phone should be pretty blank.

22. Now we are going to get your Outlook information set back up on the i730. So take your phone and put it in the cradle. ActiveSync will pop up and ask what type of connection would would like to create. If you haven't done so, you need ActiveSync 3.8 and Outlook on your computer. We are going to choose "Standard Partnership", then Click next. Now choose "Synchronize with this desktop computer", or the Exchange/desktop computer option depending on what you have setup, then click next. Now you are shown a list of options on what you want to sync. Uncheck EVERYTHING except (Calendar, Contacts, Favorites, Inbox, Notes, and tasks) provided you want all of those. Now click on Calendar, then click settings. Change the 2 weeks of past appointments to 26 weeks. This gives you the previous 6 months of appointments, click ok. I change no other settings, so click next, and then Finish to complete the Partnership setup and to start syncing your PDA with Outlook. This will copy all of the files from Outlook on to your i730 and everything should say "Synchronized". Take you i730 out of the cradle, click the reset button on the bottom of the phone to soft reset, then when it restarts, sync again, and everything should be the same. I do this just to make sure...

23. Now we need to restore our call log and speed dials from the backup file, so grab your SD card from it's safe place and put it in your i730 and click Start, then Programs. Scroll down the list and click Sprite Backup, click the Options in the bottom left corner and click "switch to advanced mode". Now click the Restore tab on the bottom. Click the {...} button, and you should see the backup that you made of the i730's call log and speed dials. Select it and it should only show you Personal Databases, now click the Restore button on the bottom. Click Start to start the restore. It stops the processes and starts the restore. When finished press the OK button on the bottom and the screen should say Operation completed. Your i730 should soft reset itself. If you click the Phone app, you should see your call history and if you check your speed dials, they should all be in place as well.

24. Sync your phone again, just to make sure everything is working like it should, and you might be prompted by ActiveSync that you need to replace the items on your device or to sync them. Choose "Replace the Items on my device with the items on this computer". This happens because you restored the image from Sprite and it modified the Activesync Partnership on the phone. It will remove all the items on the i730 and then re-add them to the i730. This is fine, but this is why we synced it again. Now soft reset again, and then resync again, everything should sync like normal this time.

25. Now since we have the MRailing Tools pack on the SD card, we should copy them to SafeStore, and we should run the CleanMail utility JUST to make sure Sprite didn't screw up the Mail Store on the i730. So grab the phone from the cradle, and open File Explorer from the Programs list. Drop the list at the top down and choose "My Device". Click Storage Card and you should see your Backup Folder and your MRailing Tools Pack 1.0 Folder (although some of the name might be cut off). Click & Hold on the MRailing Tools Pack 1.0 Folder and then click COPY. Click the drop down at the top and click My Device, click SafeStore. Click Edit in the bottom left, and click Paste. You should see the folder apprear.

Now we have the Tools Pack in SafeStore. We will need it there in the next section as we will use a few of the tools and setup a few tweaks and hacks. So like I just mentioned we want to run CleanMail to make sure the Mail Store is completely cleaned, so click on the MRailing Tools Pack 1.0 folder and you will see a list of folder, click the CleanMail folder and then click on CleanMail. The Sprite CleanMail utility will appear. Click Clean, and the Click Go. It will act likes it locked up, but then will say Reboot. Click Reboot.

Once the i730 restarts, we need to do something to keep the i730 from deleting all the messages in the Outlook inbox that were on the i730, so DON'T put the i730 back in the cradle. Open ActiveSync on the computer and click File then Delete Partnership. Do this until no partnerships are left. Now place the phone back in the cradle and we are going to repeat the steps in #22 and then come back down HERE after you have completed step #22 again, and there will be two changes. You will be prompted to ONLY sync with this computer, choose that option, and then right when it syncs it will prompt you as to what you want to do, choose "Replace the Items on my device with the items on this computer". Then let it sync. Take it out of the cradle, and soft reset. Once restarted, place back in the cradle and it should sync again without any problems or pop ups.


26. Your phone is now setup and in a GREAT working order without any software, hacks, or changes. It has all of your data on it, your Call Log and Speed Dials are restored, your Mail Store is clean. You have a copy of the MRailing Tools Pack 1.0 in SafeStore ready to start hacking and modifying your i730 more to your own liking.