TimesToCome Mobile

The easiest way to load new *.midi ring-tones onto your phone is to email them to yourself, get the email on your phone and save the attached files.

When you go into the sound preferences section of your phone they will be there.

To find out what application last crashed your Treo get to the phone pad. You do not need to be on the network to do this. Type ##377# then hit send and a message box will appear with the offender.

##786# will give you your Treo’s mileage.

##HWTST# ( ##49878# ) will run a hardware test on your phone.

TraceCrash is a software program you install on your Treo and it will give you detailed crash information.

Go to Preferences->Power and in the bottom right draw a small clockwise circle. An Easter Egg will appear. Then a yellow taxi will randomly cross your screen.

It may take you a few tries to coax the Easter Egg to appear. Try re-drawing the circle slower if you don’t succeed at first.

The Treo 680 also has a worm Easter Egg.  Go to Home->Prefs->Power and press the option button, then the # button.  Let go and wait a few seconds.  Changing to another application makes the worm go away.

If you need a map go to Yahoo Maps. Set your browser Options to ‘Wide Page’ and you’ll even be able to read the map.

Google maps does work in your smart phone browser despite the error message it gives you. Put your location in the box and hit ’search’ and your map will show up. Dragging does not work so get as close to your location as you can, it is slow using the n/s/e/w buttons.

But of course now you can just download the
google map application directly to your phone.

The Weather Channel’s mobile site now has traffic reports along with the weather report for most locations. It looks good.

Do you need to send a text message to your phone but only have email?

Sprint users can email the message to phonenumber@sprintpcs.com.
Verizon use phonenumber@vtext.com.
TMobile use phonenumber@tmomail.com
Cingular use phonenumber@cingularme.com or try phonenumber@mobile.mycingular.com
Nextel use phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
ATT use phonenumber@attwireless.net

Send the text to the phone number of the person you wish to text plus the @… for his or her phone carrier. If you want them sent to you use your phone number @ your carrier.

You can listen to streaming internet radio on your treo. Just put the url for the streaming radio in the address box of your browser. ( example http://www.cnn.com/audio/radio/liveaudio.asx ). Need help finding stations? Try Shoutcast (* You need Pocket-tunes which comes with the 700 or can be purchased for the 650 )

If you need indepth information try: The Radio Stream Transcoding Bible

If you need help setting up Sirius Radio try Listening to Sirius Radio on your handset

If you need help with XM Radio try Listening to XM Radio on mobile devices

To delete a song from pTunes: Highlight the song; tap the musical note ( middle left next to play button ); you will then get the option of deleting the song. This also removes deleted songs from your playlist -> just ‘choose songs’->’all’->’select all’. Now the song list on the main screen will only show existing songs.