agile messenger WM5 SP

[Guest flodis79]

Has anyone heard anything about when the upcoming alpha or beta of Agile Messenger for Smartphone with Win Mobile 5 is due to be released?

[Guest swivel]

Has anyone heard anything about when the upcoming alpha or beta of Agile Messenger for Smartphone with Win Mobile 5 is due to be released?

Nope. But I'm basically dying for it.

COME ON AGILE!

[Guest G35C]

I got tired of waiting for the smartphone version so I asked my friend who has a K-jam to install the WM5 PPC beta version, zip up his AgileMessenger folder and email me a copy of it. I unzipped and installed it in \Storage Card\Program Files\ and ran Messenger.exe and Voila! It works very very well even without the stylus. However, for the few times a stylus is needed, FakeCursor or sphelper come in really handy (i.e., invoking a URL).

PS, I would attach the zip file, but I'm not sure if it's allowed here.

Kash

Edited April 17, 2006 by G35C

[Guest Lobojpm]

Hi G35C,

I had thought of doing similar things with this and/or other software... I don't have a friend with a WM5 PPC, however.

Do any of you think that you could use a WM5 emulator to do this type of thing?? Basically install PPC apps, then copy the files to the WM5 smartphone?

Thanks,

Lobojpm

[Guest kam_]

Or you can use WINCE cab manager (10 day trial or something i think it has) to extract the cab and copy it directly over to your smartphone.

[Guest SpDamage]

Actually it is quite possible to use wm2003se agile msngr.

The only thing is that it comes in 176x220pix resolution pretty funny covering only part of a screen ;)

[Guest flodis79]

Actually it is quite possible to use wm2003se agile msngr.

The only thing is that it comes in 176x220pix resolution pretty funny covering only part of a screen ;)

Yes, and that's the most annoying thing..... Both WinCE 2002 and WinCE 2003 works just fine, but the problem is you get a very small chat window..

[Guest Slavic]

Hello,

maybe my experience could help somebody... I'm also waiting for release of Agile Messenger for Smartphone, but I have recently installed AM beta for Pocket PC on my HTC Tornado (SP5). If you also wish to test this beta, make the installer for Smartphone (it's not so hard), I attached here 2 files in ZIP.

First of all, get the file cabarc.exe from Microsoft. Unpack the original cab to empty directory, add the file _setup.xml from archive (it's the XML-installer for Smartphone) and pack all back to, for example, agilesp.cab using command:

cabarc n agilesp.cab *.*

Then copy the CAB to Smartphone and run it. After end of installation please replace the file registration.xml with the file in archive, I have increased there the height of name/password fields, otherwise they would be difficult to check at input.

However, this version for Pocket PC has two major issues, which cannot be fixed via XML configs: in the edit fields the key "back" closes the program's screen instead of delete last character, and the font for messages on the talk screen is extremely small and hard to read. So it's a temporary solution, I really hope that beta version of AM for Smartphone will be ready soon...

agile.zip

Edited April 18, 2006 by Slavic

[Guest swivel]

I'm sure it won't be ready soon. It should have been ready at the same time as the PPC version was released. The amount of changes needed to port the PPC version to Smartphone are SO SMALL that the only reason I can think of that Agile hasn't made the changes yet is because they're lazy and want to put off making profits for as long as possible. They're afraid of money.

[Guest flodis79]

I'm sure it won't be ready soon. It should have been ready at the same time as the PPC version was released. The amount of changes needed to port the PPC version to Smartphone are SO SMALL that the only reason I can think of that Agile hasn't made the changes yet is because they're lazy and want to put off making profits for as long as possible. They're afraid of money.

Yes, highly possible, seeing that they now charge for the usage of other versions than the betas. And they have to make the SP WM5 a beta first, so another version not serving as that much of a cash-cow ;)

[Guest sti3]

Hello,

Ok I'm a noob, but I'm just wondering how I get the .cab out of the original .exe from agile's site?

[Guest sti3]

Ok I'm a noob, but I'm just wondering how I get the .cab out of the original .exe from agile's site?

I tried with the alpha .cab, extracted and created a new .cab with the following files on it:

00000p2t.022

00000red.046

00000red.047

0000blue.024

0000blue.025

0000gray.040

0000gray.041

000green.042

000green.043

00purple.044

00purple.045

00splash.006

00splash.016

00yellow.050

00yellow.051

0buttons.038

0buttons.039

0smileys.048

0smileys.049

ADD_CO~1.004

ADD_GR~1.003

am_setup.002

am_setup.999

AM_WAT~1.052

BACKGR~2.005

CHAT_I~1.026

CHAT_I~1.027

CONNEC~1.007

CONNEC~1.030

CONNEC~1.031

CONTAC~1.008

CONTAC~1.032

CONTAC~1.033

CON_IN~1.028

CON_IN~1.029

darkblue.034

darkblue.035

DOWNLO~1.009

FILE_B~1.010

FILE_I~1.036

FILE_I~1.037

GENERI~1.020

IMAGE_~1.011

list.txt

list2.txt

MESSEN~1.000

MESSEN~1.001

NEW_ME~1.023

OPTION~1.012

PREFER~1.013

REGIST~1.014

SELECT~1.015

tab_back.018

TAB_BU~1.017

TAB_FR~1.019

TRAFFI~1.021

_setup.xml

When I tried to install this on my 2125 it said I couldn't install, no matter where I tried to put it (Device or Storage Card). Am I doing something wrong?

[Guest flodis79]

When I tried to install this on my 2125 it said I couldn't install, no matter where I tried to put it (Device or Storage Card). Am I doing something wrong?

You have to extract the .cab file with WinCE Cab Manager 2.0 - you can get it from here:

http://www.ocpsoftware.com/products.php?nm=cecabmgr

Then choose the .cab file and "open with..." the app. Then copy all the files you got extracted to the same dir on the storage card or internal mem, wherever you want it.. ;) Works fine here.

[Guest flodis79]

You have to extract the .cab file with WinCE Cab Manager 2.0 - you can get it from here:

http://www.ocpsoftware.com/products.php?nm=cecabmgr

Then choose the .cab file and "open with..." the app. Then copy all the files you got extracted to the same dir on the storage card or internal mem, wherever you want it.. ;) Works fine here.

Have to correct myself here - it seems as if Agile has put an .exe file on the homepage, before it was a .zip archive with an installer.exe file and one .cab file.. I don't think I'm allowed to put that file on the forum, sorry.

[Guest Slavic]

Ok I'm a noob, but I'm just wondering how I get the .cab out of the original .exe from agile's site?

It's not difficult, indeed. Simply run the AgileMessengerWMPPC.exe file and then check the directory in ActiveSync, on my computer it was C:\Program Files\Microsoft ActiveSync\AgileMessenger. No matter that the installation was unsuccessful, only thing that you have to do is take the file messenger.cab. After that you can uninstall the AM using Uninstall.exe.

P.S. The worst is, Agile seems stops the development of Smartphone version and still doesn't release almost ready AM for PPC.

[Guest sti3]

It's not difficult, indeed. Simply run the AgileMessengerWMPPC.exe file and then check the directory in ActiveSync, on my computer it was C:\Program Files\Microsoft ActiveSync\AgileMessenger. No matter that the installation was unsuccessful, only thing that you have to do is take the file messenger.cab. After that you can uninstall the AM using Uninstall.exe.

P.S. The worst is, Agile seems stops the development of Smartphone version and still doesn't release almost ready AM for PPC.

I tried it, tried recompressing with the setup file you created, didn't work black screen on application start. Thanks for trying to help.

[Guest swivel]

I tried it, tried recompressing with the setup file you created, didn't work black screen on application start. Thanks for trying to help.

Don't worry about it. It's not worth installing anyway. It's a mess on the Smartphone.

[Guest Slavic]

I tried it, tried recompressing with the setup file you created, didn't work black screen on application start. Thanks for trying to help.

At least it works on my SP5. Well, I have attached here the fixed installer, it includes the modified registration screen. (To moderators: please count this program as the part of Agile beta test, which is carrying out now.)

Though the worth of this version is relatively low for Smartphone because of number of issues, however, you can connect to server, see whether your friends are online and even write them the couple of words ;)

messenger.cab

[Guest sti3]

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I got it to work. I got my hands on the installed AgileMessenger directory. The problem was I misread someone's instructions and decompressed all the files to one directory, whereas the program is looking for subdirectories. Of course I had to use the backspace button to correct a typo in my MSN account information so I got kicked out immediately and haven't had time to mess with it again. Thanks everyone for helping out a smartphone noob! I really love this device and hope there'll be more progs out there for it.