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crispeto
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I want that too. Their PPC backup program is great too. I'd like a smartphone version please. Spb are you listening?
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Jerry Raia
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xdalaw
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A lot of these PPC only software houses need to wake up. The asteroid has come! The species you have chosen will soon be extinct!  |
SBSH has SafeMode built into iLauncher 3.x.
And, I don't think my PPC-Phone brethren (I have an amazing Treo 700Wx) are too worried about extinction. But, those still walking on all fours and using Axims, etcs--well, they'll have to learn to fend for themselves. 
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Jerry Raia
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| xdalaw wrote: |
| And, I don't think my PPC-Phone brethren (I have an amazing Treo 700Wx) are too worried about extinction. |
I had a 700w for about 6 hours, I returned it the same day.
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xdalaw
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Jerry Raia wrote: |
| I had a 700w for about 6 hours, I returned it the same day. |
I wasn't going to buy a W, but I waited for a good SERO plan on Sprint and got the Wx, with double the RAM. That was the sweet-spot for converged-devices for me. I like to be able to use a lot of the PPC software I already had--especially my iGuidance GPS, without having to reinvest in Smartphone apps. 
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Kris Kumar
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Wow, I have been out of the Pocket PC world for such a long time that I didn't know safe mode utilities are a common thing. 
Even though I would like third-parties to enable the functionality on the Smartphones. I would prefer if Microsoft provided it out of the box. I think it is more of an OS functionality, it has to be tackled at a low level or OS level for it to really do the job.
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Ed Hansberry
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The HP Jornada 560 series did have a safe mode boot. Press soft reset and shortly after the BIOS screen showed up, hold down the applicatoin button. It would disable all \Startup folder items, and I think Today plugins, but not positive on that.
Saved me after a bad software install. Without that feature, which allowed me to uninstall the new app, a hard reset would have been the only way out.
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Kris Kumar
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Here is a tip that might work out when you are in a mess like I was yesterday:
Associate the Task Manager application or similar utility with a shortcut key. Like in case of Dash, the pink t-zones button can be used.
While I was desperately trying to figure out a way out of the mess, I noticed that when I pressed the t-zones button, it would launch IE, which is what I had configured for that button. If only I had associated Task Manager, I might have been saved.  I am not going to make that mistake again.  |
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Kris Kumar
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| Ed Hansberry wrote: |
| The HP Jornada 560 series did have a safe mode... |
Why are you Pocket PC guys torturing us Smartphone folks.
Come on HTC, if Microsoft cannot do it, how about you help us out? 
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Mike Temporale
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I always put the task manager on Speed Dial #9. So I know where and how to get to it quickly. Not sure how it would help if the device hangs before it finishes booting.
I like the idea of a safe boot on the Smartphone. It's a great way to make sure that you're device isn't going to require a hard reset just because you installed a poorly written application.
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