Comments on: Palm Tungsten E functionality quest, part 2 http://khellekson.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/2009-01-03-2/ Res gestae—documentary and digital evidence of the trace Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:28:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: HdF http://khellekson.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/2009-01-03-2/#comment-857 HdF Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:28:12 +0000 http://khellekson.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-857 Hi, I came across your web site through, you guessed, Google, looking for somebody having experiences with playing videos on a TE. Thanks for all the tips and links. Very nice work. Few things I would like to add: - I believe, and this has been confirmed through various trials, that the frame rate is an important parameter to configure. The processor ship on the TE is weak by today's standards. The less frames per second to display, the easier for it. I came downn to 15 for a cartoon without visual artifacts visible. Obviously the lower the frame rate the lower the bits per second. The relationship is not a simple division as the codec compression work becomes harder (successive images are on average more different with a lower frame rate). - As for the SD, the TE supports very well 2 GB SD cards as long as they are not SDHC. The SD world is very confusing for us because almost all the technical standards are backward compatible. This is not the case for the SD cards. As long as you take care of that you should be fine. Wikipedia has a quite nice page on the topic (I let you Google it). Hi,

I came across your web site through, you guessed, Google, looking for somebody having experiences with playing videos on a TE. Thanks for all the tips and links. Very nice work. Few things I would like to add:

- I believe, and this has been confirmed through various trials, that the frame rate is an important parameter to configure. The processor ship on the TE is weak by today’s standards. The less frames per second to display, the easier for it. I came downn to 15 for a cartoon without visual artifacts visible. Obviously the lower the frame rate the lower the bits per second. The relationship is not a simple division as the codec compression work becomes harder (successive images are on average more different with a lower frame rate).
- As for the SD, the TE supports very well 2 GB SD cards as long as they are not SDHC. The SD world is very confusing for us because almost all the technical standards are backward compatible. This is not the case for the SD cards. As long as you take care of that you should be fine. Wikipedia has a quite nice page on the topic (I let you Google it).

]]> By: K Salguero http://khellekson.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/2009-01-03-2/#comment-607 K Salguero Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:44:49 +0000 http://khellekson.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-607 A note on the video bit rate for Any video Converter program, use 256 instead of 512. Much better video and you can get at least two 2 hour movies on one 1Gb chip. A note on the video bit rate for Any video Converter program, use 256 instead of 512. Much better video and you can get at least two 2 hour movies on one 1Gb chip.

]]> By: K Salguero http://khellekson.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/2009-01-03-2/#comment-605 K Salguero Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:53:26 +0000 http://khellekson.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-605 concerning putting vid files on the palm chips, assume you have a regular SD card reader that you can attach to your computer, you don't have to use the sync to get your files onto the chip. just copy the palm ready files directly to the chips main directory. For ebooks, if you use easypdb, you can copy the palm ready files directly to the chip. You have to put the files in a subdirectory on the chip \Palm\launcher. You should have no problem reading the books through ebook this way and you don't have to sync the TE. As for palm ready pdf files, you can go through the AdobeReader for Palm OS and sync the files over or after they are converted to palm ready files, you can go to your palm program files and again do a direct copy from your computer to the chips directory \palm\launcer. Since I used the default for the palm that would be directory \Program Files\Palm\sync name\PDFView. Don't remove the files from the Adobe sync list until you have transferred them to the chip or the program will remove the files. I suggest you copy the files to your personal storage directory as a way to keep them in ready for later use. concerning putting vid files on the palm chips, assume you have a regular SD card reader that you can attach to your computer, you don’t have to use the sync to get your files onto the chip. just copy the palm ready files directly to the chips main directory. For ebooks, if you use easypdb, you can copy the palm ready files directly to the chip. You have to put the files in a subdirectory on the chip \Palm\launcher. You should have no problem reading the books through ebook this way and you don’t have to sync the TE. As for palm ready pdf files, you can go through the AdobeReader for Palm OS and sync the files over or after they are converted to palm ready files, you can go to your palm program files and again do a direct copy from your computer to the chips directory \palm\launcer. Since I used the default for the palm that would be directory \Program Files\Palm\sync name\PDFView. Don’t remove the files from the Adobe sync list until you have transferred them to the chip or the program will remove the files. I suggest you copy the files to your personal storage directory as a way to keep them in ready for later use.

]]> By: khellekson http://khellekson.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/2009-01-03-2/#comment-603 khellekson Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:02:19 +0000 http://khellekson.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-603 @Leo, sorry, I don't know anything about the T2, just the TE. But my own personal experience with the TE indicates that to sync properly, you have to do the following: 1. Make sure Outlook is actually running before you initiate the hotsync. 2. Right-click on the HotSync Manager icon in your tray and click on Custom. Ensure that Address Book (Outlook) is set to Desktop Overwrites Handheld (click on Change to get to the menu to do that). If you don't do this, then you may end up with duplicates. 3. Before you hotsync, double-check your contacts in Outlook itself. I delete all contacts with an empty name field, because it means I don't actually know them, and they're basically unsearchable anyway. I've also been known to wipe my handheld and reinstall everything, just because I got so annoyed when my data would duplicate during a hotsync, especially in Contacts and Calendar. I'm more careful now about checking what overwrites what (Desktop or Handheld) before I initiate a hotsync, and that has helped a lot. (I prefer <em>not</em> to "Synchronize the files" for this reason.) Good luck! @Leo, sorry, I don’t know anything about the T2, just the TE. But my own personal experience with the TE indicates that to sync properly, you have to do the following:

1. Make sure Outlook is actually running before you initiate the hotsync.

2. Right-click on the HotSync Manager icon in your tray and click on Custom. Ensure that Address Book (Outlook) is set to Desktop Overwrites Handheld (click on Change to get to the menu to do that). If you don’t do this, then you may end up with duplicates.

3. Before you hotsync, double-check your contacts in Outlook itself. I delete all contacts with an empty name field, because it means I don’t actually know them, and they’re basically unsearchable anyway.

I’ve also been known to wipe my handheld and reinstall everything, just because I got so annoyed when my data would duplicate during a hotsync, especially in Contacts and Calendar. I’m more careful now about checking what overwrites what (Desktop or Handheld) before I initiate a hotsync, and that has helped a lot. (I prefer not to “Synchronize the files” for this reason.)

Good luck!

]]> By: Leo Klevens http://khellekson.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/2009-01-03-2/#comment-602 Leo Klevens Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:32:13 +0000 http://khellekson.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-602 I just have a question that you might be able to help me with. I use my T2 for a glorified phone book. I have 2,601 contacts on the data base. I am having trouble moving some contacts to the T2. Do you know of any fixes? I am using Microsoft outlook to sync. Thanks, Leo I just have a question that you might be able to help me with. I use my T2 for a glorified phone book. I have 2,601 contacts on the data base.
I am having trouble moving some contacts to the T2.
Do you know of any fixes? I am using Microsoft outlook to sync.
Thanks,
Leo

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