Windows Mobile 5/Cingular
Here is a list of things it’s useful to know when configuring a Windows Mobile 5 device, such as the QTek 8500, for use on the Cingular network.
- To get your IMEI, dial *#06#
- ActiveSync 4.2 available from MS here
- 2002 reference doc on homescreens
- Homescreen files need to be named foo.home.xml, not just foo.xml
- Opera Mobile settings
- Opera Mobile 8.6 assumes, badly, that \Storage is your storage card.
- In \Application Data\Opera edit:
- smartphone_keyboard.ini to add PgUp and PgDn (I deleted the 1 = Go to mapping, made 1 = Page up and 7 = Page down - use those exact spellings and capitalizations)
- opera.ini to change the cache and help file locations (change all instances of “\Storage\” to “\Storage Card\”)
- Create \Storage Card\Application Data\Opera, and move the contents of \Storage\Application Data\Opera into it, then delete \Storage\Application Data\Opera
- Internet Explorer: In the registry, HKeyCurrentUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders has values pointing to the location of the cache, history, and cookies; point these to the card
- Mail: Again, in the registry, change HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI by adding values called AttachPath and PropertyPath, pointed at the card. Documented here.
- Other useful software:
- Resco Explorer 2005 ($20: powerful, flexible file manager/registry editor for Windows Mobile 5)
- Agile Mobile Messenger (Free: Yahoo, AIM, ICQ…)
- Pocket Nester (Free: NES emulator that works on my 8500)
- Via Virtual Earth (Free: pretty awesome, quasi-Stephensonesque)
- SBSH Facade ($15: homescreen plugin with improved calendar, launcher)
- The Core Pocket Media Player (Free: does what it says)
- BreakSoft Mobile Registry Editor (Free: runs on desktop PC, thus much easier for typing in new values)
- Connectivity options for Cingular
- Dial-up
- No Entries
- GPRS
- Name: Cingular
- Connects to: The Internet
- Access points: wap.cingular
- User name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
- Password: CINGULAR1
- Primary DNS: 0.0.0.0 (or, optionally, OpenDNS at 208.67.222.222)
- Secondary DNS: 0.0.0.0 (or, optionally, OpenDNS at 208.67.220.220)
- IP Address: (blank)
- Proxy
- Name: MEdia Net
- Connects from: The Internet
- Connects to: WAP Network
- Proxy: wireless.cingular.com:80
- Type: HTTP
- User name: (leave blank)
- Password: (leave blank)
- MMS (to access these, start the messaging app, then select Menu, Options, Account Options, MMS, Menu, MMSC Settings)
- Name: Cingular MMS
- MMSC URL: http://mmsc.cingular.com
- WAP Gateway: wireless.cingular.com
- Port 80
- Connect Via: The Internet
- Max. Sending Size: (whatever you like)
- WAP Version: WAP 2.0
- Dial-up
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12 July 2006, 10:24 am