I just found out the hard way that to align your screen, when the + crosshairs appear, you have to tap and REALLY hold on the + to complete the alignment at that point on the screen. If you just tap and let go, nothing will happen.
Minimum Screen Brightness: Saving Your Battery and Avoid Going Blind at Night
The Omnia screen can be made dimmer than the lowest backlight setting. On the lowest backlight setting the screen is still annoyingly bright if you're out taking a walk and want to read something.
If you go to the Power settings (Start, Settings, System tab, Power Applet, Battery power tab) and uncheck "Turn on backlight when a button is pressed or the screen is tapped," after you turn your Omnia off, then on, the backlight won't come on and the screen will be less bright, easier on the eyes if you are using the Omnia in the dark. Save battery life (and backlight life, too).
Except when I am outdoors, during the day I normally use the Omnia indoors on the lowest backlight setting with the "Turn on backlight when a button.." option checked. If anyone thinks they have a short battery life, they might want to uncheck the Auto Adjustment in the Screen Brightness System (Screen Applet in System settings). With Auto Adjustment, the Omnia normally cranks the screen brightness way up, which must be hard on battery life.
O.K. So I'm cheap. I'm still using the Samsung "screen protector" that came on my Omnia (for all I know, it was just a shipping film!). But it has been getting dirty.
Since it has the look and feel of the Boxwave screen protector that I have on my Lenovo X61T tablet PC and the instructions for that simply say carefully wash and dry, that's what I did. Ran tap water over the Omnia screen protector, dripped a little Dawn dishwashing detergent into the puddled water, smeared it around, rinsed, dried on a lint-free cotton dish towel, slapped it back on the Omnia. Freshened up the screen quite a bit. (our water is softened so it's largely free of calcium carbonate that might leave a residue).
Charging your Omnia from a Generic USB port with Samsung Charging/Sync Cable
If you have your USB Connection Mode (Start, Settings, Connections, USB Connection Mode applet) set to "Active Sync," your Omnia will probably only charge from a Windows computer on which the device driver for the hardware is installed.
If you switch the USB Connection Mode to "Mass Storage," the Omnia will charge from any generic computer USB port, even one on a Mac Mini or a Windows computer on which the Omnia device driver is not installed. Unfortunately the switch does not allow charging from a Palm USB car charging adapter (vintage 2005 or earlier).
EDIT: I have been switching back to "Active Sync" connection mode to "Eject" my Omnia before unplugging it from USB. Safely Removing the Omnia as a Mass Storage device with the SysTray option on your desktop PC is another way and it stops the Omnia charging.
EDIT2: Minor annoyance that might be fixed by a hack: the screen does not turn off in Mass Storage charging mode (can turn off backlight by unchecking option in Power settings on external power tab).
1. How do I stop that big fat OWNER INFO splash from popping up at start-up? It comes up and just hangs there until I tap on it. Only then will it go to the Today screen.
2. OK this one is about the keyboard and I see there is a thread on keyboards, so I'll post it there.
When you need help on a topic, as mrailing used to say in the i730 forum, SEARCH, SEARCH, SEARCH. There is probably already a thread close to your topic. When you join that thread, you will bump it up to the top. If there is no thread that goes with your question, start a new one. If you start a discussion in Tips and Tricks as to why SPRITE BACKUP is not working for you, you're just cluttering up the thread and not contributing a tip that's useful in general.
If on the other hand, in a topic-specific thread, you do come up with a great tip or trick, then by all means post it in the Tips & Tricks thread and create a hyperlink to the thread or point in the thread that's most relevant.
A forum is most useful if people try to contribute in an organized way rather than just barging in.
Just my $.02. Think I've said it before but I'll say it again.
P.S. I have been using Sprite Backup v6.5.2 from 11/01/08, first on the XV6800, on the Omnia since 11/26/08. It works fine with the Omnia, and I've asked Miata492 to split this discussion out of Tips & Tricks to an appropriate thread.
-Jim-
Last edited by Jim Lewis : 12-19-2008 at 09:18 PM.
When you need help on a topic, as mrailing used to say in the i730 forum, SEARCH, SEARCH, SEARCH. There is probably already a thread close to your topic. When you join that thread, you will bump it up to the top. If there is no thread that goes with your question, start a new one. If you start a discussion in Tips and Tricks as to why SPRITE BACKUP is not working for you, you're just cluttering up the thread and not contributing a tip that's useful in general.
If on the other hand, in a topic-specific thread, you do come up with a great tip or trick, then by all means post it in the Tips & Tricks thread and create a hyperlink to the thread or point in the thread that's most relevant.
A forum is most useful if people try to contribute in an organized way rather than just barging in.
Just my $.02. Think I've said it before but I'll say it again.
P.S. I have been using Sprite Backup v6.5.2 from 11/01/08, first on the XV6800, on the Omnia since 11/26/08. It works fine with the Omnia, and I've asked Miata492 to split this discussion out of Tips & Tricks to an appropriate thread.
-Jim-
Sorry about that, guys. Jim you are absolutely right. Sometimes I am just so frustrated I forget proper forum practice.
Sorry about that, guys. Jim you are absolutely right. Sometimes I am just so frustrated I forget proper forum practice.
No problem. We all like to help each other out. I created a thread for Backup and Restore. Maybe we can continue further discussion there and any real important things that come up someone can put in Tips & Tricks.
I've found it annoying that the official volume buttons in the Touch Player and the FM Radio only move up and down in 5 increments. A weird thing that I noticed when I had the FM radio antenna/3.5 mm headset adapter plugged in is that while the FM radio volume button serves to provide major steps in volume, you can adjust the volume in finer increments between those steps by using the hard volume keys on the side of the phone (which would control PDA volume if anywhere but in a phone call). The headset cord has to be plugged in for the FM radio to work. Seems to work for the Touch Player whether or not the FM radio cord is plugged in for a headset.
Tired of those tiny little menus & listings in pocket outlook email??
Go into your device and open the Windows folder. Scroll until you see a file: SilverInbox. Click it. It brings up a finger friendly email and messaging client. You might like it. You can now finger scroll thru your outlook inbox, mms, etc. , any account and easily screen press to read. A nice little reply icon as well.
Cons: Works better in landscape mode. Text is so big and readable that it's hard to comprehend the title of some of the emails. Optical d-pad does not appear to work with it.
Tired of those tiny little menus & listings in pocket outlook email??
Go into your device and open the Windows folder. Scroll until you see a file: SilverInbox. Click it. It brings up a finger friendly email and messaging client. You might like it. You can now finger scroll thru your outlook inbox, mms, etc. , any account and easily screen press to read. A nice little reply icon as well.
Cons: Works better in landscape mode. Text is so big and readable that it's hard to comprehend the title of some of the emails. Optical d-pad does not appear to work with it.
Give it a whirl, it grows on you!
Nice find. It's the same interface as the Connected Home program I've trying to figure out.
Back to SilverInbox I see that if I happen to use the Message box to change to a different account then click Inbox to change folder, it consistent dies with a Debug Assertion Failure. Does that happen to you too or just me? Maybe that's why it's not a real icon. Maybe work in progress not ready prime time? How do you happen to come across this "feature"?
Nice find. It's the same interface as the Connected Home program I've trying to figure out.
Back to SilverInbox I see that if I happen to use the Message box to change to a different account then click Inbox to change folder, it consistent dies with a Debug Assertion Failure. Does that happen to you too or just me? Maybe that's why it's not a real icon. Maybe work in progress not ready prime time? How do you happen to come across this "feature"?
Yeah - I have seen that - had to stop using because I don't use outlook and therefore have an additional message account. Blows up, each time. Oh well.
Tired of those tiny little menus & listings in pocket outlook email??
Go into your device and open the Windows folder. Scroll until you see a file: SilverInbox. ....
Interesting. I don't find the app in the Windows folder using the Browse function of Resco Explorer but I do find it using the Find. When I tap on SilverInBox in the Find window hit list, I'm taken to the \Windows folder but no SilverInBox to launch!?
Must be something else that make SilverInBox truly accessible...
Nice find. It's the same interface as the Connected Home program I've trying to figure out.
Back to SilverInbox I see that if I happen to use the Message box to change to a different account then click Inbox to change folder, it consistent dies with a Debug Assertion Failure. Does that happen to you too or just me? Maybe that's why it's not a real icon. Maybe work in progress not ready prime time? How do you happen to come across this "feature"?
Yeah, that blows it up everytime. It's a C++coding error in line 756 Expression: Vector subscript out of range. Then if you try to debug you find something wrong with line 757 as well. Can't get beyond those two lines. Can still use it to read the first selected Inbox. You are probably right. It's not ready for prime time apparently. Looks like the programming isn't secret though, so maybe someone will figure it out. I will look on some of the European or international sites to see if there may be a corrected version out there for i900. I also tried putting a link from menu screen and that bombed out as well. It couldn't launch the program with the path provided.
I stumbled across this by accident.
I have had a problem when I change Ringtones, the tones do not play in the settings player and I get an error message instead. So I have been looking around in the windows menu to find the tones. When I tap on the tone file in windows a player loads and plays the tones. So I just got curious about the windows folder and what all was in there. Scrolling down past "Serene Tone" I happened to see the SilverInbox file and its icon. Before tapping on it, I googled it to see what it was and became intrigued so I tried it out.
Interesting. I don't find the app in the Windows folder using the Browse function of Resco Explorer but I do find it using the Find. When I tap on SilverInBox in the Find window hit list, I'm taken to the \Windows folder but no SilverInBox to launch!?
Must be something else that make SilverInBox truly accessible...
-Jim-
in your File Explorer, did you do Menu Show all files? I had to do that
I searched and found latest version 1.16 online at Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire a file sharing service. I downloaded it and it does exactly the same thing as the version in the Windows file. I did see a SilverInbox enabler registry hack on another forum but the moderator there also said it was still buggy. So I guess the search goes on.
Never boring, is it?
in your File Explorer, did you do Menu Show all files? I had to do that
Thanks for the tip, dangerous~! Going along with JonV's idea that SilverInBox is an app there that's not ready for prime time, Resco Explorer shows that it's actually a hidden file, read-only, in ROM. In Resco Explorer to see it I had to go to Menu, Options, General, Browser tab, and uncheck "Hide hidden files" to see SilverInBox.exe.
-Jim-
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