- 9300 (and mobile phone) position updating

- Re: The Digest V1 # 826 Psion Travel modem

- New UID allocation scheme

- Re: Reported corruption / insufficient memory

Date: 21 Oct 2005 10:47:02 +0100
From: Chris Malcolm <address truncated>
Subject: 9300 (and mobile phone) position updating

> Date: 20 Oct 2005 11:28:27 +0100
> From: James Woolley <address truncated>
> Subject: 9300 Time auto-update
>
> Daniele Squarci wrote:
> -------------------------------------------
> I am wondering on what basis the auto update function works. The 9300 of > course does not have a GPS, so presumably it cannot tell my precise
> location. The time is in all cases correct, so presumably when auto update > does its job, it gets the system time from the network and then makes a stab > at guessing the location??

The phone system knows which local cell transceiver the mobile phone
is currently using. In cities this can locate you to within a mile or
less, but it varies a lot since it's a function of cell density. In
the country it could be within a dozen or two miles. Certain
shore-based cells have resticted bandwidth and extended range in order
to be able to reach up to 40 miles out to sea to reach ships and
islands.  In phones equipped with appropriate software the phone can
request this information and get updated as to roughly where it is,
i.e. where its cell station is. The mobile phone system provider uses
the cell address in such functions as "where's my nearest [cash
point/petrol station/railway station/hotel/etc.]".

Incidentally, Orange have a useful facility, which costs up to 50p
depending on how you use it, which guess your location, allows you to
refine it by giving you menus of street names, landmarks, etc., and
will then send you a map image of your surroundings which you can pan
around. You can also do the same for a destination, which you can
either quote the address or post-code of, or search for using a yellow
pages database like a phone directory. It will then construct a route
of how to get there by vcar or by foot, and show you a series of
little maps along the route as you request them. Pretty much the same
kind of facility as you get out of a mapping and routeing GPS in the
car, but not using GPS. Its a GPRS facility.

Probably other phone service providers have the same kind of facility.

--
Chris Malcolm  <address truncated>p; +44 (0)131 651 3445  Room 2107B
IPAB, Informatics, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings
Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.      [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

Date: 21 Oct 2005 11:08:25 +0100
From: Tony Napier <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 826 Psion Travel modem

Hello Keith
re IR modem settings
I never understood what these entries mean but these are the settings 
I use with a netbook and I think I have used them with S5s and Revos. My settings are not exactly the same as  Itamar Engelsmans but here 
they are.

>
> MODEM  Psion travel modem
> =======
>
> Speed = 57600
> Connect via Infrared
Fax class auto
>
> Options
> --------
> Until call answered
> medium
> 4 seconds
>
> Initialisation
> ------------
> Init (reset)string = AT&F
other lines not completed
>
> Advanced
> -----------Flow control none
terminal detect....left blank
carrier detect left blank
> Carrier detect   not ticked
> Modem type = fixed line
>
>
> INTERNET
> ========
>
> Service
> --------
> Dial-up
>
> Account
> ---------
> Username and password
>
> Addresses
> ------------
> Both ticked to get from the server
>
> Login
> ------
> empty
>
> Advanced
> -----------
> allow plain text authentication = ticked

On another subject, the pen is now stuck in my netbook, can anyone 
advise about curing the problem. I can( just) get it out but it 
sticks again.

Best wishes
Tony

Date: 21 Oct 2005 12:25:13 +0100
From: Marcus von Cube <address truncated>
Subject: New UID allocation scheme

Hi all developers,

I just read this in a Symbian newsletter:

>Automated UID request system - Symbian has introduced an automated web-based >UID request system to replace the legacy email-based system. Please use this >new system as email request will not being handled anymore.
>
>http://www.symbian.exvn.com/page.cfm?article=0xc43d3566440ca5936a4b48751d79cbd7.39.8372

The URL will be redirected to https://www.symbiansigned.com/app/page/uidfaq

The main purpose seems to be the support for signed SymbianOS V9 applications. If you need an UID for an EPOC application, go for "Class 1 | 0x10000000 - 0x1FFFFFFF | Legacy UID allocations". You need to register with Symbian to use the system.

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

Date: 21 Oct 2005 13:55:53 +0100
From: Cathy Roberts <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Reported corruption / insufficient memory

Greeting to all from a frequent reader but rare poster!

I am perfectly sure that one - or many - of you will be able to advise me on the problem currently plaguing my Psion 5mx

I use a 128Mb CF card for the majority of my data and for some of the accessory programs. Most of the time this arrangement seems to work fine, programs happily start up, wherever they actually are, when the file I want to open is tapped - whether both file and program are on the same disk as each other or not. The C disk is 63% full, the D (CF card) is only 47% used. I do not usually have more than one or two programs running at the same time and almost always close all of them down before switching off - a legacy of early Windows training!

However, more and more often now the Psion reports that it cannot complete a "write" as the D card is corrupt or there is insufficient memory. This is usually when using either Data or Agenda files on the D card, when the programs themselves are on the C drive. Turning the machine off for a few moments seems to reset it and allow me to continue what I was doing - but it happens more and more frequently and is becoming a real pain.

I read the recent saga of the huge Agenda file with interest but, apart from the Old Testament, the largest file I have is 512K, hardly excessive, I would have thought.

Interestingly, I never have any problem with that particular file, perhaps because it and its program reside on the C drive?

So my question (after that lengthy intro!) is - am I using a duff CF card, is my Psion itself miserable for some reason, have I inadvertently damaged the little connecting pins inside or is this a known problem with Psions & cards?

Cathy