Hi gang.. wow, what a wealth of knowledge here at PPCGeeks.. I've come from another couple of message boards where people have been nothing short of rude and hateful with new people, so I sure hope that doesn't happen here as I'm thrilled to have found you all
I'm a long time Palm OS lover. Well, I'm embarr***** to say how long I've held on to my TREO's and now my Centro just to really and truly find out what I've been missing.. A friend of mine *you know who you are and thank you* has loaned me an HTC Diamond to play with and I love it! I'm so excited with all the possibilities and shocked about how much I can do with this unit. (I'm still forcing myself to adjust to the software keyboard. My nails tend to slip around on the keys so it's quite an adjustment) Anyway! I was hoping to post some of the things that I have questions about and the answers that I've found via search function (this I've learned from people being berated on other forums for seeminly NOT having searched for answers before hand) and I'd love if anyone could tell me if the scenarios are best case for the unit. I consider myself a heavy user of TEXT and EMAIL, so I'll start there.....
1.) Texting I have figured out. I found the settings once for the text size but I can't refind it. Which setting is it that sets the text size on text messages and the web pages you visit? Seems pretty basic but are there any apps (or whatever you WM'ers call your programs) to enhance text messaging? A note about keyboards: I'm flying with T9 but it makes me crazy when it pulls up the wrong word and I miss the mistake - I've loaded RESCO keyboard but it doesn't come up - there's probably a setting I've missed? I haven't tried any other keyboards yet.....
2.) Email. Ok, I don't have an Exchange server, and I don't [honestly] even know what it is, but I need/want PUSH mail. I've been using Chatteremail and Fastmail as a PUSH solution on the Centro, and am looking for something similar for the Diamond. What I've tried: HOTMAIL - yeah this is fine, but this isn't the address I use primarily; I'm looking to get Gmail to push to my phone. I'm also looking for an option for my Fastmail account. I have tried SEVEN, but since I installed it, I've gotten a couple of freezes for no reason. There's not much else on the device (gyrator and phone alarm) so I feel like that might be causing the problem (seven). That leads to another question,
do I have to launch SEVEN and then keep it open in the task manager for it to work properly? I have my Centro receiving the same mail account and my mail arrives on the Centro before it arrives on the Diamond so SEVEN is probably slower in this respect. I have a habit of checking the task manager often because I have read about poor battery life and running too many apps, so I'm a little obsessed with closing things to make sure the phone runs as efficiently as possible. I've seen Emansio (?), and Profimail (?) and mail2web. Can someone explain to me how mail2web works and what it's doing? Is someone able to read our mail in that situation?
3.) Ok, basic, everyday use....... gah! I'm struggling to learn and switch over, rather than just grab my Centro and walk away! I love the Diamond and desperately want to be able to keep it! (I need a solution to get my contacts from the palm to outlook because my contact sync fails everytime, so any advice on that would be super!)
4.) Gyrator......ok, I've seen the YouTube tutorials but my screen keeps turning when I don't mean for it to
5.) How do you remove programs that you've installed but don't want to keep? I thought I saw something that was similar to how you uninstall things on my PC, but I can't refind it
6.) If I do a "clear storage" (to send this back to my friend), what does that leave behind? I've put passwords in, etc, and although I completely trust him, I just don't want to leave any cooties behind
7.) I've checked the boxes in what to show on my home screen over and over and they don't seem to "stick". I wanted to put Live on the front screen and calendar and a few other things - everytime I did it, I'd check and they weren't on the home screen. That leads me to themes..... How fun. I have no idea how to get those, where to save them, and then how to find them once I save them!
8.) When you download something..... I see it listed with a down arrow next to it, but sometimes it just sits there on some files. I know they could be bigger files, etc.. but how do you know when it's done? Also, do you choose to OPEN or SAVE? I usually just say OPEN because I don't want to clog up the device with junk....is that ok? (I figured out all on my own that you use CAB files, which are the same as PRC for Palm, right? go me.) Once a file is done and asks you if you want to download it, do you choose Device or INTERNAL memory and how do you know which to put where? I know some programs need to be in the device to work properly on PALM, is the same true with WM?
These are a few q's to get me started.. after a couple of days of playing. I'm sure someone will be gracious enough to help a girl out.....then I'll have a ton more once I get it away from my husband long enough to remember the rest of my questions. LOL!