Random Stuff About Software

Windows Mobile phones from AT&T come with GPRS enabled and there is no way to turn it off. Having it set up this way is fine if you pay for AT&T’s unlimited data plan. But since I have Wifi at both home and work it is not worth it for me to pay for a monthly data plan. I just use my 8525’s built in Wifi to get Internet access.

AT&T doesn’t want you to use Wifi exclusively so they force GPRS to be enabled even if you don’t plan on using it. This is really annoying because the phone pops up messages all the time telling you that it can’t connect via GPRS. The only way that I found to disable these messages is to use the Modaco Nodata program available here:

http://www.modaco.com/content/Pocket-PC-Software/246171/New-FREE-Utility/

Just install the program and run it. Select the GPRS connection and disable it. It is really simple to use and solves the problem. Plus you can always go turn it back on if you want to use GPRS later on.

I use my HTC 8525 running Windows Mobile 6 to listen to music that I’ve saved on a 2gb storage card. Yesterday I loaded up Media Player on the phone and discovered that all of the music had disappeared! Nothing I could do in Media Player would bring the music back, it was all missing except for a few music files that I had stored in the phone itself. I tried re-inserting the card and Media Player detected it but still the music did not show up.

After trying a bunch of things unsuccessfully I finally found out that using the file explorer on the phone I could browse to the storage card and delete the folder called MSMETADATA. This is a hidden folder so in order to see it in File Explorer select Menu and then check the “Show All Files” menu item. Once you delete that folder, reload Media Player, and rescan the card by selecting “Update Library” from the menu. All of your music should reappear in Media Player.