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Re: Sample code for C# .NET

khyati — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:52:27 +0200

Hi sagar,

Did you got any information...

It would be greatfull if you please mail all the details on bluetooth.

Re: Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

tunelabguy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:24:03 +0200

Actually this may be good news to me. One of the problems with Windows Mobile with my application (professional piano tuning) is that you only get about 5 hours of running time out of the battery. If a slower CPU speed can translate into longer battery life, and if I can get my application to work under the slower speed, then maybe a piano tuner can use the program all day long on a single charge. That would be good.

Robert Scott
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Re: Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

rbrunner — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:20:36 +0200

I got the impression that on average the clock speeds of the ARM processors in Symbian phones are a little lower than for the Windows machines, but for various reasons the CPU speed advantage (sometimes double the speed) often does not translate into a comparable overall speed-up.

Even tasks that just calculate things without any I/O might be influenced by the speed of the memory interface as strongly as by the CPU speed itself.

I read more than once that some versions of Nokia's Communicators are a little sluggish, with CPU speeds of only 150 MHz, but other models seem to be ok in general.

Re: Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

tunelabguy — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:51:32 +0200

Quote from: Bobbee Tec

...Generally speaking, you'll quickly discover that Windows Mobile is *FAR* slower compared to Symbian.

What about the phones themselves? I have a Windows Mobile app that I would like to port to Symbian phones. It is CPU bound by extensive signal analysis code that has nothing to do with the operating system. Most Windows Mobile devices are 200 MHz to 500 MHz ARM processors. What about the phones that run Symbian?

Robert Scott
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Re: launching media player for smartphone

mesweetie — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:55:40 +0200

Hi All,

Now I can activate the running instance of the media player to foreground.
But now the problem is :
How can I grab a pointer to the COM object instance of a running Windows
Media Player.
As I want to control standard/inbuilt smartphone media player application
from my application.
Currently I am activating and setting media player application to foreground
by FindWindow.
I am getting its handle even.
But how to get a pointer to that instance so that i can perfrom
play/pause/stop activities.
Any light on this.
Thanks & Regards
Kavita

Re: C# bluetooth programming

N_A — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:38:26 +0100

Search MSDN for whatever OBEX file transfer APIs Microsoft provides/supports.

For Nokia phones with PC Suite, see also the file transfer capabilities of the Nokia PC Suite API (on http://forum.nokia.com/).

Re: .NET Mobile

anjanesh — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:41:56 +0200

Actually I came across this in W3Schools' .NET Mobile Tutorial - thats why I asked.

Re: .NET Mobile

N_A — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:03:05 +0200

I don't know what you mean with ".NET Mobile", exactly, but ".NET" means many things (run-time, specific Microsoft products with ".NET" in their name, etc.)

Primarily on Windows XP and later, it means the "full" .NET run-time environment (Framework), related APIs & services, intermediate language, etc.

For Windows CE (Windows Mobile in either the later "Smartphone" or "Pocket PC" variants) ".NET" means the .NET Compact Framework (CF) as a subset of the "full" framework.

Re: Sample code for C# .NET

N_A — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:00:21 +0200

Maybe you could search on http://msdn.microsoft.com for documentation for Microsoft's Windows Bluetooth APIs? This site and forums are more about phone-side software development rather than doing it on a PC.

However, you could also take a look at, e.g., Bemused source code (the PC side piece of it). It is not C#, but C++, though.

Re: Read and Send SMS at windows mobile with Delphi

steven.tan — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:28:31 +0200

thx a lot, but how about Nokia 6100 but still using Delphi, is it possible for me to ask for help here? thx

Re: Read and Send SMS at windows mobile with Delphi

N_A — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:16:10 +0200

Probably not here; this is a site about Symbian operating system based mobiles, not Microsoft Windows based. You'll probably have better luck on, e.g., http://www.modaco.com or related newsgroups on news://msnews.microsoft.com

MIME Recognizar

chitransh_chetan — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:34:27 +0200

HI Smrani,

Well i know how to do this but i have never tried it out, so here it is.
Now lets say suppose u want to create a MIME type for .txt extention text file.

Create in registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt
add (Default)=txtfile
where 'txtfile' is any unique identifier

Optional:
Content Type=text/plain
where 'text/plain' is the mime type

then add
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\Shell\Open\Command
(Default) = "\Storage\Program Files\MyApp\NOTEPAD.EXE" "%1"

where Notepad.exe is your App.

(Optional) for the icon:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\DefaultIcon
(Default) = "\Storage\Program Files\MyApp\NOTEPAD.EXE","-999"
where -999 is the icon index in the app

So when ever system recognise .txt MIME type, it will search for the corresponding application for it and if found it will launch that .txt file in ur app.

BR
CK

Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

chitransh_chetan — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 05:35:56 +0200

I don't know about the real device, but ya, the emulator is really slow one. The event handling is very slow, we have to wait till the first event get finish, unless it will just negelect that event.

Currently i am testing my application on emulator. As i found that there is some speed issue with the Windows Smartphone Emulator.

BR
Chetan

Are windows mobiles are slower than Symbian mobiles?

Bobbee Tec — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:09:14 +0200

Are you using an emulator, or real phones when you're trying those things?

You need to compare real phones, and then look at the speed of the processors on those phones, how much memory they have, etc. etc.

Generally speaking, you'll quickly discover that Windows Mobile is *FAR* slower compared to Symbian.

capturing voice via the phone Line

eric — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 11:40:43 +0100

Actually it really depends on the phone hardware. I have seen smartphones architectures where the speech codec and the in-call voice did not go through the processor which runs the applicative operating system (remember that most today's smartphones runs two CPU / two OSes and at least one DSP).

In that case, it may be perfectly possible that you won't be able to capture it... it depends on your phone and I don't know about the i-mate 2003 (one of the many "clones" of HTC Blue Angel ?).