mobile

handling persistent storage and cold boots with ce 4.2

Hello, I have spent all Friday and Saturday on this and I am running out of ideas; I have a project where I need to run sql ce and .net2.0 on a symbol 8146 device running windows ce4.2 (windows mobile 2003) along with the symbol libraries that are needed for my application. When the device is cold-booted everything in the user partiti...

PPC question

Hi i buield PPC (mobile) program that use sql CE and FrameWork 3.5 (on VS2008) which file's I need to run or install before I'll run my program ? thank's in advance ...

Performance tracing in c#

Hi, I would like to trace performance inside a c# mobile application, in order to know the amount of time needed by some long-running methods. The goal is to know the performance at the level of methods. This tracing would be decided at runtime. First idea that came is to maintain a global variable "doWeHaveToTrace", to check it each t...

Would Drupal be a viable CMS for a mobile web application?

I am evaluating open-source CMS systems to see which one(s) would be the best option to deliver rich mobile web based applications for mobile handhelds. So far I am leaning towards Drupal because it seems to be the most extensible, flexible, best performance (cache & compression, etc) and has a good user management system. The CMS mu...

Blackberry Development Platforms

Hi There, I was wondering about the pros and cons on the different Blackberry development environments. I am trying to decide whether to use Visual Studio or Eclipse. Your thoughts are appreciated Tony ...

Connect to digital camera from cellphone?

A customer (photographer) asked me, if it was possible to write some kind of software for cellphones, so he could physically connect it to his professional digital camera (Canon or Nikon) and transfer the pictures (or a subset) to the cellphone. I am trying not to put constraints on cellphone platform (Symbian, Windows Mobile etc) from ...

Is there a way to raise the backlight on an Android device through the official API?

What I've read seems to indicate that the only way to do it is to use unofficial APIs that are being locked down in Cupcake (1.5). Is this true? ...

How to use an M.domain.com address for mobiles with ASP.Net MVC

Say I have an ASP.Net MVC webiste hosted at www.somedomain.com. Now I am interested in providing a mobile version at m.somedomain.com. Do I need to completely rewrite the site or can MVC detect the browser type and route through to mobile optimised pages automatically? ...

How can I write apps for the latest Sony Ericsson phones?

For me in particular it's about Sony Ericsson W715. What languages can I use and what environment do I need? A tutorial recommendation would also be nice. ...

OTA midlet question/issue

Hi. After installing my midlet to a phone over the air, I'm getting a blank page from browser which need to be closed manually. 1) Any idea how to prevent it? 2) I read that JAD files are no longer required, as the all info located in JAR. I tried to use the JAR files instead of JAD's, but with them the browser first downloads and onl...

AJAX support in smart phones

How mature is AJAX support for mobile phones? Are there mobile versions of some famous AJAX frameworks? I would live even with a limited support for some ajax lib. ...

How to programmatically get cellID from IPAQ pocket PC

I'm trying to get CellID and Lac on HP IPAQ 614c. I've tried using RIL interface with no luck RIL_GetCellTowerInfo returns E_NOTIMPL. Any ideas? ...

Synchronizing sql mobile data with mysql server

Hi, We can synchronize the data from SQL mobile with SQL Server. But i need to synchronize the mobile data with mysql server. Is there any way to accomplish my requirement...? ...

J2ME backlight

Hi. Is there any reliable way to support back-light in J2ME on multitude of models, other then pre-processing? Is there any library available that may handle the back-light for various phones out there? Regards. ...

Decent J2ME developer communities for China, Japan, Taiwan, HK?

We're evaluating a potential investment opportunity to port our J2ME applications from English/UK to Far Eastern markets. We're having trouble finding ANY information about things such as handsets, platforms, etc., and in particular, operator/carrier policies regarding supported network functionality and policies. We have reams of quest...

j2me network connection

I have read in many places that network connection in a j2me app should be done in a separate thread. Is this a necessity or a good to have? I am asking this because I could not find anywhere written that this must be done in a separate thread. Also, when I wrote a simple app to fetch an image over a network and display it on screen (w...

j2me networking, threads and deadlocks

The simple piece of midlet code (class Moo) below (after the excerpts) deadlocks (At least I assume it deadlocks after reading this post on threads here). I have reproduced the relevant excerpts from the post : String url = ... Connection conn = null; try { conn = Connector.open( url ); // do something here ...

chinese mobile software development?

Hi, As per my assumption () there are hundreds of millions of Chinese mobile phones (or clones of brand phones) out there. And it seems firmware and OS of those mobile phones are same. Those phones only differ in their design and may be hardware. I was wondering if there is any development kit or software development support for those m...

How to get Cell Tower Info on a Windows Mobile CDMA Phone

Tools/Env.: C++, VS2008, WM6.1 I currently only have the HTC Diamond Windows Mobile phone available for testing and try as I may, with all of my hacking prowess, I still cannot accomplish the task of acquiring the remaining details of Cell ID and LAC, to complete my cellular location based program. I have managed to get the MCC and MN...

How does mobile messenger work?

Hi, As far I am concern, ebuddy manages all users accounts and when users connect to messenger service (both from websites and mobile phones), they in fact connect through ebuddy server (not directly). Does EQO mobile messenger work in same way? Or we get connected directly from mobile to messenger server (yahoo,gtalk etc)? Doesn't the...