Took the WiMo5.0 plunge after 10yrs of PalmOS, questions...

[Guest Will Stevenson]

So,

After everything from a USR Palm 1000 to a Treo650, I finally bailed on PalmOS and went for Windows Mobile 5.0.

I have the HTC 4350.

I have a few questions I was hoping the Windows Mobile gods can point me where to find answers to some of my issues:

1. I can't sync my whole Calendar... With pretty much every Palm device I have ever had, I had my whole 10 years worth of Calendar items, both on the PDA and on the Desktop. Windows Mobile doesn't seem to let me move the calendar data to the 2gb card I bought, and when I sync'ed "All" calendar items (to ram evidently) it ran the device out of memory.

Is this seriously how WiMo5 works? I can only keep up to the last 6 months of Calendar items?

Also,

2. Where did my Categories for notes/memos go on the device? I have a metric sh*t-ton of memos from recipes to poetry to LAN settings to whatever stored on it. Apparently notes sits on the root of whatever device is selected ie. Ram or Card (which is better than the calendars immobility at least) and won't let me 'filter' or choose categories.

The default apps can't seriously have these limitations, can they?

Is there a specific replacement suite that addresses these PARTICULAR issues?

Kind of disappointing.

Is there a really good power-user guide for people transitioning from Palm to WiMo5, FAQ, etc?

I am new to the board and just need a little direction...

Thanks!

-Will

Beijing, China

[Guest Alex (nedge2k)]

Unfortunately, WinMo's standard apps do tend to have some unbelievable limitations (at times) but then you have to remember you are running WM for Smartphone not for PPC so it is unfair to compare it to Palm :)

For notes/memos etc., you can try this: http://www.syncdata.it/sphnotes.html

as for the calendar issue, you might wanna try google calendar as it can be sync'd with WM. Not sure how you'd import the last two years of your life into it though :D

Edit: Ignore that, you've posted in the wrong section and I didnt read what you wrote properly :D You are, infact, running WM5 for PPC as the P4350 is the HTC Herald. Anyway, for notes try this: http://www.phatware.com/phatnotes/hpcnotes3pro.html

and for calendar, I have no idea :D Never needed to store more than 6mths of calendar info and never really come across any calendar alternatives to the standard client. Try having a look for some software on Handango :D

Oh and welcome to MoDaCo! :)

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[Guest Alex (nedge2k)]

Here are some Palm to WM links...

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/editorials/Palm_to_PPC_1.htm

http://modernnomads.info/blogs/view.php?blog_id=5

Oh and you might want to check out this too:

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/awards/nominees_wandf_2006.asp

and this:

http://www.webis.net/products.php?dir=wm

Looks like there is a some software out there that does exactly what you want :)

Enjoy! :D

[Guest Will Stevenson]

I'm going to check that out right now, thanks...

Sorry about the incorrect posting section, nooooob.

Will do on handango, is that THE place for ppc apps?

I'm sure somebody has a list of 'essentials' for these things.

Thanks again,

-w

Unfortunately, WinMo's standard apps do tend to have some unbelievable limitations (at times) but then you have to remember you are running WM for Smartphone not for PPC so it is unfair to compare it to Palm :)

For notes/memos etc., you can try this: http://www.syncdata.it/sphnotes.html

as for the calendar issue, you might wanna try google calendar as it can be sync'd with WM. Not sure how you'd import the last two years of your life into it though :D

Edit: Ignore that, you've posted in the wrong section and I didnt read what you wrote properly :D You are, infact, running WM5 for PPC as the P4350 is the HTC Herald. Anyway, for notes try this: http://www.phatware.com/phatnotes/hpcnotes3pro.html

and for calendar, I have no idea :D Never needed to store more than 6mths of calendar info and never really come across any calendar alternatives to the standard client. Try having a look for some software on Handango :D

Oh and welcome to MoDaCo! :)

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[Guest Will Stevenson]

Anyone else have suggestions for notes with categories that store in real directories (not the friggin' root) and outlook integration?

Plus the calendar issue?

[Guest Alex (nedge2k)]

hehe, sorry, see above. (i have a habbit of editing my posts over and over with information i forgot to add :))

[Guest Will Stevenson]

Oh SNAP!

Thanks for all the links...

Holy busy IE tabs.

:)

I am thinking I can make this WiMo work, but this hardware has to go.

I am going to go get a TyTn I think, NES emulation is pig slow.

Is this OMAP processor old-skool?

Anyone else experience performance issues with this hardware?

-Will

[Guest Alex (nedge2k)]

TIOMAP CPUs generally favour battery life over performance but they're not strictly old skool. Most Smartphones are still packing them now, as are a few PPCs. Best CPUs for WM device these days seem to be the Samsung units (performance-wise) so yeh, you'd prolly be better off with a Hermes...although it is an older device than your Herald :) Go for the Dopod variant if possible. They are said to have superior ROMs (i.e. Dopod make better versions of the OS than Orange/T-Mobile/HTC etc.) Although you can flash any Hermes ROM to any Hermes variant but, depending on the variant, it may be a little advanced for one so new to the scene (on offence :D)

That being said, it's also down to the type of TIOMAP and dependent on the applications you are running. When I had a Wizard (predecessor to the Herald with TIOMAP), I found it pig-slow at Terminal Services (RDP). However, in my experience, the higher clocked Intel CPUs and Samsung CPUs fair much better.

[Guest bennish]

I have a feeling your calendar problem may be an activesync setting. by default it's set to only sync the last two weeks. you can set it to 'all'.