FJ Software

Hi,

I'd like to see a frontend for MPE (possibly a skin) that would allow it to be easily used on my in car pc which has a 7inc touch screen. There has in the bast been development on an app called phonecontrol but that was expensive and bnever quite worked for me.

It would not necessarily need all of the featurs of MPE to be present for in car use... I would really like the functionality of SMS and HandsFree...

It would need some form of on screen jeyboard for touch screen users like myself.

If you would like more idea of the types of software us car pc users use please have a look on www.digital-car.co.uk and www.freedrive.co.uk

The owner of the freedrive site develops a great car pc front end called FreeIce that supports embedding other apps. It would be great to be able to embed MPE but the interface of it as is is just not usable on a 7" touch screen...

If you don't have space in your development for this sort of idea... would it be possible to obtain the 'engine' of the app so that a complete touch scren front end could be written for it my myself or someone else in the cr pc community?

Thanks.. sorry for rambling!
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I think a great feature would be to route all outgoing text messages through and online SMS service when the phone is connected. I get a ton of texts at work and this would really cut down on the cost of the bill at the end of the month.

Thanks,

Which version you use ?

Hello.

Thanks again for this wonderful program!

I use the new archive function a lot. I like not having to decide which messages to keep and which to delete - I just archive them all, like in Gmail. And it is quite easy!

I wish the archiving could be made even simpler, though. Right now I have to go through these six steps every time:
1. Go to the Inbox.
2. Press Ctrl+A.
3. Press the Move to archive button.
4. Go to the Sent items.
5. Press Ctrl+A.
6. Press the Move to archive button.

I wish I could just select a menu item or so (like Tools|Archive all messages), and then all this would be done automatically by the program. Preferably also without asking me if I want duplicates of messages in my archive - I never want duplicates.

The drafts should not be archived. If someone wants the drafts to be archived too, it could be an option which folders the user wants archived in the "Archive all messages" function.

Best regards,
Jesper Hertel

What about reading call timers from phone, showing them in the "monitor" window

@blutarsky: The call-timers cannot be read from the phone

@Jesper: I know what you mean and i agree it would be useful for some users. But the sms-archive in MPE gets problems if the size grows up. The serach for duplicates need much time, the archiving-action need much more time...
I optimized in the last versions many things for the sms-archive so it works very fast now, but a feature you wish whould copy every useless sms into the archive. Its more s strategic decition to keep this feature away from MyPhoneExplorer.

By the way: After 32.000 messages is the archive full

@FJ:

Okay... Actually, the most important reason I use MyPhoneExplorer is to be able to archive my messages. I agree that 9 out of 10 sms'es are useless to keep, and in time also 99 out of 100, but I don't want to take the time reading every message again and deciding which ones are the useless ones and which to keep. That's why I just want to save all of them. And it feels a bit strange that you kind of want to make it hard for the user to archive the messages... Shouldn't MyPhoneExplorer make things easier for the user? I do understand your concerns, but there are solutions to them.

Is there any way to make the archive limited only by the amount of free disk space? Could you use a simple indexed database engine? Like a Microsoft Jet database (Access)? Then the speed, indexing and housekeeping is all taken care of by the database engine. (And you don't have to have Access installed to use the Access/Jet database format).

And couldn't the easy archive function I suggested be off by default, and when the user turns it on deep inside the user options, he or she is warned that there is only room for 32.000 messages in the archive, and that a large archive makes archive actions slower? Only those of us that find it useful would turn it on then. And if it shows to be popular, well, then it's because others, like me, also wants an easy archive possibility. And then we can manually export the archive and clean it up, when it grows too big.

Actually, when you told me now there is a limit to the archive, I tried exporting the messages in HTML and Word (because then I can do that once in a while and then clean up the archive). But then I noticed that some information is not exported: Whether the message is sent *to* or *from* the given person. This is an important information. Right now, you will have to read the message and guess, but you definitely cannot be sure. Would it be possible to add a column containing either the word "From" or "To" for each record of the export? Then that information is not lost in the export, and I can safely archive my messages and delete the MyPhoneExplorer archive, when it grows to be too large.

The phone number could also be nice to have in the export. Right now, only the name is there.

Best regards,
Jesper Hertel

Shouldn't MyPhoneExplorer make things easier for the user?

You are right, but it doesn't help me if i create features where i know that they will make problems.

Access-Databases are no option. MPE should be so independend as possible.

The function Extras-Current list-Open with... is not for exporting data. Its a general function to "print" the data in Word or Excel. You cannot import those files back !! If you want to export or import data check the contextmenu.

Jesper Hertel hat geschrieben:And then we can manually export the archive and clean it up, when it grows too big.

I'll tell you that it would be better to sort the useless messages immediatly out! If you do it before moving to archive, it will take you a few minutes but if you have 32.000 messages in archive and you want to sort them out, it will take you hours!

weinbi hat geschrieben:I'll tell you that it would be better to sort the useless messages immediatly out! If you do it before moving to archive, it will take you a few minutes but if you have 32.000 messages in archive and you want to sort them out, it will take you hours!

Ah, I don't think you understand. I want to keep the messages to avoid sorting them out at all. I don't want to spend any time reading all messages twice and sorting the useful from the useless messages. That's the whole point. I just keep all of them forever and don't have to worry about whether I will need them or not. That's why I have a Sony Ericsson phone - because I can use MyPhoneExplorer to archive my messages to avoid having to spend any time finding out which messages to delete and which not to delete. I simply want a program that can help me archive all my messages as easy as possible for me.

FJ hat geschrieben:

Shouldn't MyPhoneExplorer make things easier for the user?

You are right, but it doesn't help me if i create features where i know that they will make problems.

Hm, but it won't make any problems for me as the user. I already archive all my messages, have done it since the summer of 2007, and it works fine, no problems here, with more than 5000 messages in the archive. I just want it to be a little easier to me to do what I already do. And now that I know how to export and delete messages to avoid an archive that is too big, I can't see any problems with it.

I think users are used to limits - a hard disk has a storage limit, an mp3 player has a storage limit, a tv recorder has a storage limit... You could even implement a simple function that on the click of a button exports the entire archive to a file (xml, html, or so, with the current date as suggested file name) and then empties the archive. Then it would be very easy for the user to keep the archive small and effective.

FJ hat geschrieben:Access-Databases are no option. MPE should be so independend as possible.

Okay, I understand. And I don't know of any completely free cross-platform file database engines. (The open source ones are not completely free - they typically require that the software that use them is also made open source.)

FJ hat geschrieben:The function Extras-Current list-Open with... is not for exporting data. Its a general function to "print" the data in Word or Excel. You cannot import those files back !! If you want to export or import data check the contextmenu.

Thanks, I hadn't noticed that!

I use Lotus Notes and Google Calendar but there is no good way to sync the two calendars with each other. It would be great if you allowed for MyPhoneExplorer to support syncing of 2 calendars.

New button on Sync Options Dialog- Add Another Calendar

Once setup, during multi-sync MPE would do the following:
1) Sync with 1st calendar
2) Sync with 2nd calendar
3) Sync differences back to 1st calendar

Hi,

MyPhoneExplorer seems to be a very good tool. However, I could not make it works with my new SE z250i. Do you know if there is a way to setup communication with this device?

It woul be interesting to provied in your website a list of compatible models.

Regards,

HB

Hi

Some low-budgets-phones have not a pc-software connection.
Look on the SE-homepage, if it is possible, to download the orginal se-suite for your phone-modell.
If so, the phone have a software-connection and MPE should also work with your phone.
If not, .......

lg mani

Hi!
An option to schedule multisynchronization would be very handy
Thanks

You can just activate such options as "sync when connected" or "sync on close".
But however you can create a shortcut for multisync, e.g. ctrl+m or whatever you want.

Hello

I read a post in the FAQs and my query was exactly the same!

http://www.fjsoft.at/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42

It's not possible to get the "send date and time" from phone if the message wasn't send directly from MyPhoneExplorer. Off course, the timestamp of sending is shown in the phone, but there's no way of getting that out from it. At incoming SMS there are timestamps from SMS Service-Center, at outgoing SMS this timestamps are missing.
This is also a problem with other phones and software and isn't a problem of this software.

While it explained that it is not possible to get the timestamps of the sent messages and suggested the way of editing it but it is a tiresome job when we have to do it for all the messages!

May I suggest you a feature?

What I basically wanted with the messages is to save them in computer to have a contact specific conversation archive and history!
It is possible to do using MPE by saving the messages into the computer archive and moving them into contact specific folders! Good!

But there can be a feature in which you can select a sequence of the messages (of the conversation) and then move them into the specific folder. (First move/copy the required set of messages from the inbox and sent items to the computer archive.)

This will not set the exact sent time of the sent messages but can set the time in relation to the related inbox messages, at least. And this will help building a conversation.

I hope this will help improving the already great software!

Thanks!

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Rahul

In Contacts section, enable a keyboard shortcut to Dial the current contact

@blutarsky: Use CTRL+D
@rahul: I know what you mean but i don't think that it can be implemented in this way that every user understand its sense. MyPhoneExplorer is designed for easy-to-use.