Comments on: Life With Windows Mobile 6

By: adrina

adrina — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:11:50 +0000

I am sooo thankful for you for putting all this info on this dang phone!!! i could not figure out for the longest how to turn that stupid predictive text off, i was like i know this is not a set feature bc i have the whole dang key board on here so i dont need this predictive text. but thanks!!!!!!

By: Selwyn

Selwyn — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:33:03 +0000

Thanks so much… I have predictive text on my HTC touch pro which was ridiculous since it also has a four row keyboard and thumb typing was easy. Anyway thanks to your help I found out how to turn it off. I used the FN key which must be the same as the ALT key.

By: trentf

trentf — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:51:14 +0000

The alarm is strange indeed. I use it a few times a week. After you dismiss the alarm, it will continue to sound. What I have to do is a 2 step process:
Go into Settings> Sounds> Alarm Clock, and set to None.

Then go into Setting> Clock and Alarm> Alarm, and set to off.

This is the only way I have been able to turn it off.

Thanks!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:31:51 +0000

GREAT and helpful info. You should dig up more of these gems with maybe screenshots…your traffic would rocket!

Thank you. You do good work.

By: Shaine Mata

Shaine Mata — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:08:54 +0000

I’m glad I could help, Melonie. I’ve done more stuff to my Dash in case you have other issues with it.

By: melonie

melonie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:03:33 +0000

thanks for the predictive text turn off. This was killing me!

By: zany

zany — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:02:35 +0000

Thanks for that great write up.

I’m using a dash running wm6 in Singapore and it works great.

I love the alarm on the dash because its damn loud and clear. Need that for waking up. Cheers.

By: Shaine Mata

Shaine Mata — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:35:19 +0000

I’m glad I could help. You also confirm for me that the alarm on the Dash is insane.

By: Tod Madderra

Tod Madderra — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:59:51 +0000

Thanks a ton for the post and threads. Even if you don’t have the fix, you confirm that in fact you are not losing your mind with some of the extremely odd behavior such as the alarm. Just bought dash’s for my wife and I and we love them. This info just makes it better. Thanks again.

By: Shaine Mata

Shaine Mata — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:15:32 +0000

There are a couple different memory problems. One is if your browser cache is not cleared, it will eat up all your memory. At that point, you will have to do a hard reset.

The memory leak that I was addressing gets resolved as soon as you reboot the phone. I guess that the difference is that one is storage memory and the other is working memory. I realize that on this phone it’s the same memory, but they get treated differently.

I still don’t know what causes the memory leak. I reboot the phone once every day or two anyway, so it doesn’t become a big problem for me. I do also routinely empty the browser cache so that the phone doesn’t lock up on me.