Orneta Tester 1.08 - now CODE SIGNED, runs in locked SPVs

[Guest Orneta]

This program is code signed and runs in all smartphones, including locked SPV phones.

The program is a freeware and can be downloaded here (with setup program for PC) or directly to your smartphone here: http://mobile.orneta.com.

Features of the program:

- code signed ( 1.08 )

- keeping backlight of the display ON (new in version 1.07)

- soft reset (new in version 1.06)

- switching power off slowly (new in version 1.06) (no need to use power button to do it!)

- switching power off fast (new in version 1.05) (no need to use power button to do it!)

- showing supported sound formats (new in version 1.05)

- testing vibration (switch the vibration on and off)

- testing display by drawing various patterns

- testing keypad (to check if all keys work fine)

- showing various information: device info, phone number, owner information

- testing sound

If you need more features for Orneta Tester - then let us know - we will add them sooner or later.

Visit also www.orneta.com for more software for MS Smartphone, both commercial and freeware. Coming soon: yet more smartphone software from Orneta.

[Guest fozzie]

Nice ;) All works fine except 'Show IMEI number' - Result of the quesry is "failed to fetch IMEI - acces rights not sufficient".

As an aside, I've just seen on the website that Orneta Reader is coming soon. Care to tempt us with a few more details ? :)

[Guest Orneta]

Nice ;) All works fine except 'Show IMEI number' - Result of the quesry is "failed to fetch IMEI - acces rights not sufficient".

This is limitation of the smartphone - we are just calling proper method.

As an aside, I've just seen on the website that Orneta Reader is coming soon.  Care to tempt us with a few more details ? :)

Orneta Reader is a tool for reading text files (like eBooks) of any size (even of size of several MBs; no size limits whatsoever) - page by page - without scrollbars. Trial (freeware) version will be fully functional in reading of text and HTML files but if you buy registration code (4.44 USD) then it will read also other formats (we cannot say at this moment which). At first we will release initial basic version with just text file reading but it will be extended with many many features and more file formats.

[Guest fozzie]

Great, sounds promising. It'll be interesting to see what formats you support compared to ClearVue, when that is released. I look forward to trying both ;)

[Guest Orneta]

Great, sounds promising.  It'll be interesting to see what formats you support compared to ClearVue, when that is released.  I look forward to trying both ;)

Orneta Reader is being developed just to make reading eBooks on the smartphone maximally easy, not to view documents. It is not a viewer, but a reader.

[Guest fozzie]

Ok, in a similar vein to RepliGo then?

[Guest Orneta]

Ok, in a similar vein to RepliGo then?

No, RepliGo requires format convertions to RepliGo format. Orneta Reader will read native formats (text and HTML for free; other not) without convertions.

[Guest fozzie]

So this is another piece of software I'm going to find permanently residing on my SPV ;) Are you able to say what formats, other than .txt & .html, Orneta Reader will natively read? Thanks.

[Guest Orneta]

So this is another piece of software I'm going to find permanently residing on my SPV ;) Are you able to say what formats, other than .txt & .html, Orneta Reader will natively read?  Thanks.

Sorry, I prefer not to say what formats. We will try to concentrate on various e-Book reading features first and then we will be adding formats with time.

[Guest caio1]

PDF it's a must.... ;)

Caio

[Guest NederSoren]

In next version you could ad:

A LED tester

A Background light tester

A Button Light tester...

That would be cool.. not very usefull thoug.. but again.. mention one thing in Orneta Tester that is usefull... ;)

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Thanks for the update ;)

another great app improved.

What about adding battery status? I know we already have it with

Task Manager but it's still something that could be classed as "testing"

[Guest Orneta]

New features of the program:

- switching power off (new in version 1.05) (no need to use power button to do it!)

  - showing supported sound formats (new in version 1.05)

The program is a freeware and can be downloaded here (with setup program for PC) or directly to your smartphone here: http://mobile.orneta.com.

[Guest Orneta]

What about adding battery status? I know we already have it with

Task Manager but it's still something that could be classed as "testing"

We are working on it - it is coming in one of next versions.

[Guest Orneta]

New features of the program:

- soft reset (new in version 1.06)

- switching power off slowly (new in version 1.06) (no need to use power button to do it!)

The program is a freeware and can be downloaded here (with setup program for PC) or directly to your smartphone here: http://mobile.orneta.com.

[Guest Simon Desser]

Excellent! Thanks :)

One question, can the "Power off fast" do any harm, like pulling off the battery could? It's just, if the phone is capable of turning off so fast, why does it actually take so long?

The soft reset is brilliant, I'm wondering if it might be useful as a seperate app on it's own, that runs in the background all the time, then might it be possible to activate it with a combination of key presses, rather like "CTRL, ALT, DEL" ?

EDIT:- Oops! Just seen earlier thread about soft reset program :oops:

[Guest Orneta]

Excellent! Thanks :)  

One question, can the "Power off fast" do any harm, like pulling off the battery could? It's just, if the phone is capable of turning off so fast, why does it actually take so long?

"Fast" means that system has no time to send closing messages to running applications so if you have applications running in backgroud, then "Power off fast" can theoretically do some harm in the sense, that data will not be saved or something like that. But hey, the same happens when you pull off the battery ! So it should not be a problem in general.

[Guest Soyale]

Soft reset: I believe the system also flushes certain registry entries to the IPSM during the power down. The fast reset may prevent this from happening and cause registry corruption. The only evidence I have to support this is from a similar prog we wrote that seemed to make some of my apps uninstallable from time to time.

Get IMEI : You need to be signed with priveleged rights to be able to call the APIs to use the various exTAPI functions to get the IMEI. You'll find if you sign the app with your dev cert and push your dev cert to the device it will start to work!

HTH

jp

[Guest NederSoren]

I would still like it to test all the different kids of ligt in the phone (LEDs, Keypad, backlitghts..) :)

[Guest idavid]

looking forward to reader, one thing i miss from pocketpc is all my ebooks! now we only need avantgo!

[Guest Orneta]

New feature of the program:

- keeping backlight of display ON (new in version 1.07)

The program is a freeware and can be downloaded here (with setup program for PC) or directly to your smartphone here: http://mobile.orneta.com.

[Guest dinoalbert]

Soft reset question: will my personal/customized settings (Themes, Ringtones, System Sounds, non-standard skin tweaks eg. Incoming call, alert, Information, Exclamation, etc) be preserved when I do a soft reset using this app? Or will everything return to default setting and lost all your customized settings?

I am asking this because this is what happend when I used the Reset app discussed in this thread http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php...=58254&start=15

thanks...

[Guest Orneta]

Soft reset question: will my personal/customized settings (Themes, Ringtones, System Sounds, non-standard skin tweaks eg. Incoming call, alert, Information, Exclamation, etc) be preserved when I do a soft reset using this app? Or will everything return to default setting and lost all your customized settings?

I don't know. Maybe somebody could check and let us know here on MoDaCo?

[Guest mlkanapi]

Thanks for such a useful program. The only thing not functional is the show IMEI number.

Gret work! :)

[Guest Orneta]

Now: Orneta Tester is code signed and runs in all smartphones, including locked SPV phones.