- Re: 9300 clock and calendar mess

- End of EU summer time soon.

- Re: 9300 clock and calendar mess

- Success connecting via GPRS with 5mx and SE K300i

- Re: 9300 - homwe city, clock and calendar

- Re: Psion hell

- Re: 9300 clock and calendar mess (now OT)

Date: 17 Oct 2005 18:43:22 +0000
From: Chris Kantarjiev <address truncated>
Subject: Re: 9300 clock and calendar mess

There seem to be arguments for both ways of doing this - storing the date/time internally in UCT and changing it as you change the home city (that is, changing the conversion of both times coming in and times going out or being used for alarms) and keeping everything without a master time zone.

I prefer the way Agenda on my 3c does it - there is no time zone. This way when I'm planning travel, I can enter meetings and such in the local time zone and it 'just works' when I switch the
home city. This seems to be at odds with the way most programs work today.

An alternative is to make the time zone selectable at entry -
and make it really obvious what time zone is being used. I use
a calendar at work that neither allows me to choose the
time zone on the entry nor shows me which - the time zone is
a 'user profile' item that many people don't ever know to set, leading to amusing disaster.

Date: 17 Oct 2005 22:56:56 +0000
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: End of EU summer time soon.

Joe Fell <address truncated> wrote :-

> Now, what I do, is to change the time in the control panel home section to time at destination without changing geographic location. 

Which reminds me to warn about long PsiWin backup times after the clocks go back.

EPOC's date/time stamping is better than M$'s version, so when you change between summer and winter time, the checking for changes to files within PsiWin gets damaged; causing a full backup of every file.

I've reported this before, but a repeat for all.

Don't change your summertime settings on your Psions, just change the time by one hour.  This will stop the long backup times.

Alan Morris.

Date: 17 Oct 2005 23:57:32 +0000
From: Daniele Squarci <address truncated>
Subject: Re: 9300 clock and calendar mess

Thanks for your suggestions Armin and Franco! It seems then that the solution to the 9300 calendar entry problem is FIRST to switch with Clock to the destination city and SECOND enter the appointment in local time. Now that I understand the concept, it seems logical: Nokia must have borrowed the idea from Palm, whilst I was thinking it would work as a Psion.

A friend suggested that I activate the auto time update function (Tools>Control Panel>Date and Time). I did this, and 
when I switched on the phone in Chicago this afternoon, Clock automatically changed to the new Home City and all times were adjusted in Calendar. Of course, all times were "off" as they had been entered with my home city time, but now I know how this is adjusted, and the auto time update would be very useful!

I wonder about three things of this calendar entry concept: First - I enter most appointments in Outlook that are then synced to the 9300. AFAIK there is no way of selecting a different time zone in Outlook. OK, I'll get used to entering appointments on the 9300!

Second, what happens to auto update if I travel to a city not listed in Clock? I'll find soon enough: I'll be in Las Vegas later this week and this is not listed.

Thirdly, I guess that calendar entries spanning multiple time zones (like airline flights!) cannot be handled? Maybe this is asking too much!

Ciao,
Daniele Squarci - currently touring US

Date: 18 Oct 2005 06:52:19 +0000
From: Rick Mitchell <address truncated>
Subject: Success connecting via GPRS with 5mx and SE K300i

A few weeks ago Francisco Pardo posted a solution to the K300i, K700i connection problem. I think his message may have gone missed because of its subject line. I've seen others still posting with the same problem. I tried Francisco's settings and they work! Here they are again, and thanks again, Francisco.

Rick

Original message:

I use the K700i together with a REVO and A 5MX.
I use the options according to these page:
http://www.psionwelt.net/phorum31/read.php3?f=2&i=10422&t=10422

It is in German but with some fantasy you can see how
you

have to set
the options.

Another typ: Put the Phone VERY near to the Psion.
Otherwise

it does
not
work !!!

I hope it helps.
Regards Francisco.

Date: 18 Oct 2005 10:46:06 +0000
From: Lord Kimberley <address truncated>
Subject: Re: 9300 - homwe city, clock and calendar

amd the bad news is - it is the same on the 9500 - not surprosing, but a real pain in the .... - admit the feature to me is not the way I would work

--
Yours John.

Tel:       +44 1763 289 732  e-mail:  mailto:<address truncated>

Date: 18 Oct 2005 19:17:05 +0000
From: Keith Clarke <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Psion hell

Thanks, Itamar. And no, I'm not trying to reach my hotmail account by the Psion. I have a Compuserve Classic account which in the past I have been able to reach with little trouble. If using Compuserve as ISP proved problematic, I could always dial into the Compuserve POP3 email address using a free UK ISP, ConnectFree. Now I can't even do that, I just can?t get online at all.

I tried another free provider, 12freeukisp, but with no better result. Both will happily dial up a connection on my PC. The odd thing is that with both, when used on the Psion, I can hear the modem dial in, then the second of two beeps is cut short and the whole thing just hangs in silence until the 'timed out' message.

I have downloaded The Dialer and Psion TCPIP update, to no avail. I have put fresh Duracells in the modem (I remember that being a problem in the past).

My travelling is too infrequent to warrant spending much on getting online, and I only have a basic, non IR mobile phone. I have broadband at home and
it would be bonkers to pay a monthly fee to an ISP just to get online when the rare occasion demands.

In my frustration with the 5mx, I have taken a look at alternatives, a process which has only made me all the more determined to stick with the 5MX if at all possible. Nothing else offers its facilities in such a compact space with such a good keyboard. I am a journalist who writes quite a bit on the Psion, but if I can't get online and file the copy it is a bit useless really.

What I need is some advice from those 5MX faithfuls who are successfully getting online without the use of an IR mobile. Are people still using the Psion IR Travel Modem successfully? Would a Psion card plus adaptor be a solution? Are people getting online via free ISPs?

A final thing: when one of my 5MXs died recently, I got an MC218 as a replacement. In the list of modems on this, the Psion IR modem does not feature, only the old Psion Travel Modem. Does this suggest that any attempt to reach cyberspace with the MC218 and the IR modem would be doomed anyway? Either way, I still have a 5MX that I want to get online.

Apologies for the length of this, but I imagine there are others out there with a similar struggle.


Itamar Engelsman wrote: Re.: Psion hell - I note you use a hotmail account which you surely understand you cannot use with a Psion. Have a good and
safe trip and when you will be back contact the digest again and we will try and sort it out.

Date: 18 Oct 2005 23:48:03 +0000
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: 9300 clock and calendar mess (now OT)

Armin Podtschaske <address truncated> wrote:-

> I would love to have such a function in the 5mx. Switch time zones and not only the alarms come off at the correct time

I'm just back from a 3 week trip to Germany, where I bought a new digital clock.  Got back to UK and set it back one hour.

Next time I looked it was back to CET!  Yes, it's receiving the German radio signal.

Next thing, someone will want a GPSr in their Psion to change time zones - only joking.

--
Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook.