This was just asked in the Hack thread, but this is available in the OS.

If you don't want the #777 bubble to show up each time the phone dials, you can make it not show up.

Just go to:

Start->
Settings->
Sound and Notifications->
Notifications Tab->
Choose Connection Established and UNCHECK "Display message on Screen". This will keep the bubble from popping up.

This information was available in WM5, so when looking for this type of information please search all the other Pocket PC forums since this type of stuff normally carriers over to the next OS...

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Sometimes its nice to see when your getting into data....
Does the data connection disconnect automatically after a certain amount of time of not using it?

THANKS

It's personal preference if you want to see the data bubble or not... I prefer not to see it, since I know it's going to connect quite often.

Data on WM devices goes dormant after a period of inactivity and that is a low power mode and that easily and quickly reconnect to move data again.

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I believe that it will disconect if:

1. You place a call or a call comes in to you.
2. You hit the red button like three time.

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It pretty much stays connected 100% of the time. (At least in the case when you are wirelessly syncing with ActiveSync Exchange.)

It will just go dormant. (The EV signal icon will grey out). It will keep the IP address assigned to it by Verizon. Test it by making a call then hanging up and pulling up IE. It'll load right up.

Although no expert, I can only assume it is because once the device connects, it has an IP address and has to stay connected for your company's exchange server to talk to it. That whole heartbeat thing...

This is kinda scary, but when we were first going to ActiveSync Exchange last year, we did some internal network sniffing to get a network trace of a PDA talking to our ISA/Exchange servers. From that I got the IP address that Verizon had assigned to my device.

Here is what is funny/scary. I could simply ping the IP address assigned to my device and if the damn thing was "dormant" the screen would light up and the thing would go active and return my pings. Anybody got a good pda firewall?

EDIT: Here is another way to "test" that. go to whatismyipaddress.com with your device, get your i760 IP and ping it. It will reply. Wait for it to go dormant, then ping it again. It will time out a time or two, but then it will wake up and reply. Creepy.

That's the beauty of the Microsoft WM OS, the dormant data connection. When I had MOU (Minutes Only Used) data, I would disconnect the data as soon as I was finished, to quit using minutes, but when I finally paid for the data plan, I don't worry about it, especially when syncing with Exchange this last year. This is the reason your Exchange server is able to reach back to the device to push the mail. The technology behind it is quite cool, especially with Exchange 2003, since Exchange 2000 used txt messages to sync, and Exchange 2003 does it directly. Quite cool indeed...

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