A few questions...

[Guest madhatter2k]

hello again! I posted here a while ago, when I had my trusty Orange SPV that simply gave up the ghost after a while, and couldnt read my sim card any more. tried cleaning the pins, tried all sorts, to no avail.

anyway, I stuck with a Sony Erricsson phone for about 5 months, but couldnt take it any longer - it came to me - once you've had smartphone, you never go back!

Anyway, now that I am back (with a QTek 8080) I have a few questions that I swear i had figured out last time, but can't for the life of me remember...

1) What can you all tell me about plugins? i want handy little utilities that can either be used to prettify my homescreen (i study computer science, and we all know us computer geeks love stats, smartphone temp, smartphone fan speed, network traffic, etc....(if only..) hehe)

2) how on earth do you install programs that are not .cab, or .exe or come with an installer? i had a program (battery monitor i think it was) that was just an XML file, and a .001 file, tried running the xml file on the phone (just in case) but nothing happened. am I an idiot?

Thanks! there were more questions, but I forgot - i'll post when i remember! thanks in advance!

[Guest sSword]

2) i had a program (battery monitor i think it was) that was just an XML file, and a .001 file, tried running the xml file on the phone (just in case) but nothing happened. am I an idiot?

That sounds like the contents of a cab file, keep it in the cab and open that with your phone using file explorer or sommink

[Guest ZSX]

That sounds like the contents of a cab file, keep it in the cab and open that with your phone using file explorer or sommink

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Once you've run the cab file these programs are installed and you should just leave them. You can't actually see anything until you have programmed your home.xml file to access them.

For other such plug-ins have a look at Modaco's plug-in forum page or check out the Quick Downloads Plugins of airfagev.

[Guest madhatter2k]

thanks! yeah, turns out I was being a fool and opened a .cab thinking it was another archive containing stuff to be copied over to the phone.

i remembered another question i had. i used to use this interface on my PC to "upload" and "download" send files to my smartphone. I say upload because it acted like an FTP interface. could anybody tell me the name of this program? i can't for the life of me remember it...