several smartphone features questions

Bill · Joined: 16 Jan 2008 Posts: 4

Hi. I've been using a PPC (version 3) for a few years and now a friend wants
to sell me a Samsung i320 with Smartphone (version 5.1.195). There are a few
things that I find hard to believe can't be done but I can't find how to do
them.

1. Tasks. I can create a task by typing its title. But I can't enter the due
date or any notes for the task. I also can't edit the task title. If I edit
the task on the PC and it syncs back, then I can view the due date and the
notes, but i still can't edit them. Is this a limitation of Smartphone or
should I be able to edit and how? I can edit detials inside contacts and
appointments. Also, when I open the task list, there seems to be no quick
way to get to the task I want to find. They are all listed in alphabetical
order and if I press a letter to jump to that range, it starts to enter a
new task. So instead I have to scroll down through the entire list (of about
200 items) to find the item I want. When I set a filter and sort by it
helps, but if I leave Tasks and return the filter setting is not remembered.
Any way for it to be remembered?

2. Notes. There are Voice Notes and Memo Pad on this phone but neither seems
to sync up with Outlook Notes on my PC and also not in the other direction.
Anyway to have this work? I know Smartphone comes without Excel and Word but
I thought I could at least copy Excel dat on my PC to a note so I could
carry it and view it on the Smartphone.

3. Quick List. There is a button on the right that pops up a Quick List. Any
way to edit the Quick List items?

4. I notice that sometimes I have to press the left soft key to get More
items on a given menu (like the Start menu) and sometimes I have to press
the 5 key (like the Settigns menu) because the soft key is now Done. Why the
inconsistency? Is this partly MS and partly Samsung software on there?

5. Regional Settings. This phone only has UK English (although it has US
English locale). Can I change to US English in some way?

6. Ringtones. The phone only seems to be able to recognize a ring tone if it
is in My Documents or on the Storage Card. I would like to keep them in a
folder to reduce clutter in the top directories. Any way?

7. Sounds. For the keyboard, both the Tone and Click setting give an
annoying falling tone. A click wouldn't be bad. Can these be customized?

8. Sound Theme. Any way to add a new one?

9. Picsel Viewer. Oh I just saw that this program can associate Word and
Excel files. I'll have to try that. If so, is there a way to sync files
between the PC and Smartphone?

10. I found I can set and use a Speed Dial for just about anything. How do I
delete a Speed Dial or assign nothing to it?

Sorry for the long list of questions. I didn't get a manual and my friend
never really used the phone to be able to explain to me. If I shuold have
broken this up into multiple posts let me know.

Thanks!

Bill

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Todd Allcock · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 1029

At 16 Jan 2008 16:10:16 +0800 wrote:

> 1. Tasks. I can create a task by typing its title. But I can't
> enter the due date or any notes for the task. I also can't edit
> the task title. If I edit the task on the PC and it syncs back,
> then I can view the due date and the notes, but i still can't edit
> them. Is this a limitation of Smartphone...

One of the many, yes. Third-party replacement PIM solutions may help.

> 2. Notes. There are Voice Notes and Memo Pad on this phone but
> neither seems to sync up with Outlook Notes on my PC and also not
> in the other direction.
> Anyway to have this work?...

Again, via 3rd party solutions (PhatNotes, IIRC.)

> I know Smartphone comes without Excel and Word but
> I thought I could at least copy Excel dat on my PC to a note so
> I could carry it and view it on the Smartphone.

WM6 phones include Word and Excel, older ones sometimes include a viewer,
but that's up to the device manufacturer. At the risk of repeating myself,
3rd-party... Wink

> 3. Quick List. There is a button on the right that pops up a Quick
> List. Any way to edit the Quick List items?

I don't know. I use a Pocket PC-based phone. I rarely use my wife's
smartphone, so on that note, I'll leave your more esoteric questions for
those with more experience...

r_z_aret · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 2774

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:10:16 +0800, "Bill" >
wrote:

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>3. Quick List. There is a button on the right that pops up a Quick List. Any
>way to edit the Quick List items?

I just used google (http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search) to
look up
quick list
in this newsgroup and got 52 hits. I looked through the first half,
saw one thread that is very discouraging (1 Nov 2004, "C500 Quicklist
(not profile menu), and no encouraging threads.

>
>4. I notice that sometimes I have to press the left soft key to get More
>items on a given menu (like the Start menu) and sometimes I have to press
>the 5 key (like the Settigns menu) because the soft key is now Done. Why the
>inconsistency? Is this partly MS and partly Samsung software on there?

I've seen the left soft key used for "More" only on the Start
(Program) and Settings menus. On most other menus, each item can be
activated by pressing the key corresponding to its position, and if
the menu is longer than one page, the last item is commonly "more".
I'm a developer and haven't seen anything enforcing this convention,
so developers, including those at Microsoft, may well use other
schemes.

>
>5. Regional Settings. This phone only has UK English (although it has US
>English locale). Can I change to US English in some way?

I just used google to look up
regional settings
in this newsgroup and got 54 hits. Most were irrelevant, but a 4 April
2005 thread called "MPX220 Spanish" says your carrier determines the
list. Nowadays, several non-phone companies (HTC, iMate) are selling
phones, and I think _they_ determine which locales are available on
their phones.

>
>6. Ringtones. The phone only seems to be able to recognize a ring tone if it
>is in My Documents or on the Storage Card. I would like to keep them in a
>folder to reduce clutter in the top directories. Any way?

On my cell phone, my added ringtones are in \Application Data\Sounds
in main memory. They were not recognized when in \My Documents\My
Ringtones in main memory. I haven't tried anywhere else.

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>Thanks!
>
>Bill
>

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