Pocket PC Tips / Tricks

Contributed by seamonkey420 August 1, 2004  
Tagged: Pocket PC

This recipe is incomplete but will always be. Here are some good pocket pc tips for avid users of pdas!

Seamonkey420’s Pocket PC Tips:

1. If you have a memory card and use it a lot, be sure to defrag it once a month or more to help with performance.

2. Setup your hotkeys, especially if you use your pda as an mp3 player. Makes life much easier!

3. Get into the habit of putting your pda on the charger/sync when your at your desk so your pda is fully charged and sync when you do need to go.

4. Make backups of your pda regularly (just like any data, if its important, back it up!). Also, I owned an Compaq Ipaq 3630 and did the full backup. Then after i did that, i would let my battery run all the way out and then clear the RAM and then reload my backup. This also does a power cycle and can help with battery life (by draining completely and recharging full). This seems to help with performance issues. Just like any pc, the memory in the pda gets defragged too and doing a restore usually solves that.

5. If you have a cell phone, get a data cable. For Sprint users, get the unlimited data plan for $10 and you will have unlimited internet anywhere on the sprint network for $10! no bandwidth restrictions or use of voice minutes.

6. Protect your screen! Use the screen protectors, you’ll be glad you did when you decide to upgrade and want to sell it. And it lets you use your finger to touch the screen without worries..

Thats about all for now!