Next: Backlight Settings Backlight Settings

Adjust the brightness of the backlight

If your device supports it, you can increase or decrease the brightness of the backlight.

1. Tap Start > Settings > System tab > Backlight > Brightness tab.
2. Move the sliders up to increase and down to decrease the brightness.

Set the backlight to dim after a time delay

If your device supports it, you can set the backlight to dim after a specific amount of time has elapsed.

1. Tap Start> Settings > System tab > Backlight.
2. Tap the Battery power tab or the External power tab.
3. Select the Turn off backlight if device is not used for check box, and specify the time delay.

Tip: Windows Mobile – Trouble Sending E-Mail? Change Outgoing Mail Server

After setting your Windows Mobile device to send and receive e-mail you may find your smartphone can receive messages just fine, but sending e-mail is another matter entirely.

Sometimes this happens because, for one reason or another, your ISP's (Internet Server Provider) send-mail server won't work over your carrier's network. So one thing you can try to circumvent this problem is to replace the server listed in your on-device Outgoing Mail preference area with your mobile operator's send-mail server.

So, for example, if your EarthLink outgoing e-mail server (smtpauth.earthlink.net) isn't doing it for you, then try replacing it with your operator’s: If your carrier is Cingular (AT&T), for instance, then with cwmx.com. I've tried this out with a Treo 750 and the solution worked fine.

For convenience sake, Palm provides a compressive list of ISP incoming and outgoing e-mail servers and details about some operator send-mail servers here. If your carrier isn't listed contact it directly for this information.

Here's how we changed the Outgoing Mail preferences on the Windows Mobile-based Treo 750 (the directions should be - if not the same - then similar with other Windows Mobile handsets):

1-From the Start menu select Inbox

2-Select Menu on bottom right of screen

3-From the dropdown menu that appears select tools

4-Then select options from the next menu that comes up

5-The options screen shows all the e-mail accounts you have setup with your device. It is also where you can add a new account.

6-Select the account you're having trouble with and want to change the outgoing server

7-Click next 3x until you get to the Server Information Screen

8-Delete the server listed under Outgoing Mail: and replace it with the send-mail server of your carrier.

9-Hit Finnish

Here Microsoft offers directions on how to setup wireless e-mail on your Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone. An e-mail setup wizard walks you through a series of steps that will lead to customized directions for your specific Windows Mobile Pocket PC or smartphone.

You input your e-mail address, country of mobile operator, specific wireless carrier, operating system (e.g. Pocket PC Windows Mobile 5.0, 2003 Second Edition and 2003 or Smartphone Windows Mobile 5.0, 2003 Second Edition and 2003.

Here's a simple way to tell if your Windows Mobile device is a Pocket PC or Smamrtphone: If it has a touch screen its a Pocket PC, if not then a Smartphone.

Windows Mobile Smartphones and Pocket PC Phones, like most advanced wireless platforms nowadays, allows you to send and receive personal e-mail from a Internet Service Provider (ISP), IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), or POP e-mail account on your mobile device. While the instructions below are geared towards the Motorola Q, as they come from Motorola support site, they should work just fine with most other Windows Mobile for Smartphone-run handsets, such as the T-Mobile Dash, Samsung BlackJack and Cingular 3125.

Before you begin, collect the following information from your e-mail provider: account type (POP3 or IMAP), mail server name for receiving messages, mail server name for sending messages (if different), username, password and domain name, as well as any special security requirements. Motorola provides a list of common POP3/IMAP settings here.

Once the above information has been gathered follow the list of steps below.

1. Press Start
2. Scroll to and Select Messaging
3. Select any existing account
4. Press Menu
5. Scroll to and Select Options
6. Scroll to and Select New Account
7. Enter your name in the Your Name: field
8. Scroll down to enter the e-mail address of the POP/IMAP account in the e-mail address field
9. By leaving the Automatic Setup box checked the Q will attempt to obtain the e-mail settings from the internet. Press the Next key
10. If it is unsuccessful, (or the previous box was unchecked) settings must be entered manually. Press the Next key.
11. Enter the account User name: (typically everything before the @ symbol), Password: and Domain: (often not required) and Press the Next key.
Tip: Check the Save password box to eliminate the need to enter your password every time the account is accessed.
12. Select POP3 or IMAP from the Server type: field
13. Scroll down to change the Account name: if desired
14. Scroll down to select the Network: to be used to access the mail server:
15. Press the Next key
16. Enter the POP/IMAP server address in the Incoming Server: field
17. Scroll down to check Require SSL connection if necessary
18. Scroll down to enter the SMTP address in the Outgoing Server: field
19. Scroll down to select Outgoing server requires authentication, if necessary
20. Press Next key
21. Select the message download options: Set how often to download messages & Set how much of the messages to download (i.e. Header only, Entire Message, etc.).
22. Press Next key
23. Set how often to automatically check for messages. Options range from Never, to Once a day
24. Press the Next key
25. Press the Finish key

Note: Immediately following the setup wizard the user is asked to download messages. Select either the Yes or No key. The newly configured Inbox will then be displayed. And if you plan to sync another e-mail account via ActiveSync using a scheduled sync, the POP3/IMAP4 account should not be set to sync on a schedule. If the POP3 account is set to sync on a schedule, it will disrupt the ActiveSync scheduled sync.

On the Treo 700w/wx and 750 keyboards, you can enter symbols and accented characters that don't appear on the keys using the alternate characters list.

Here's a table (taken from the Treo 700wx user guide) that shows all the characters and their corresponding keys.

This tip, from Palm, Inc.'s Support Knowledge Library, should prove helpful to those with a lot of files on their device or memory card. Follow the instructions below to browse the contents of your smartphone from your desktop computer.

- Connect your smartphone to your desktop PC.

- In the Windows taskbar, click on the green ActiveSync icon. Select Open Microsoft ActiveSync.

- In the Microsoft ActiveSync window, click Explore.

- The Mobile Device window for your smartphone will open. Now you can browse the files on your device as you would any desktop PC files.

Note: When you double-click a folder in the Mobile Device folder, it may take a few seconds for it to open.

Alert: BlackBerry, Windows Mobile Patches Address Time Changes

Changes to the dates when Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts and ends could cause problems for your Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone or BlackBerry, causing these devices to display incorrect times from when DST begins to when it ends. Both Research In Motion (RIM) and Microsoft address this with downloads and instructions on their respective Web sites.

From 2007 onward, DST will start three weeks earlier (2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, the 11th this year) and ends one week later (2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday in November, the 4th this year) than in the past. Previously, it began the first Sunday in April, which happens to be the 1st this year (no joke to those whose appointments become mixed up, however) and ended on the last Sunday in October.

Microsoft and RIM have posted patches and instructions to address this situation; so when DST comes around your handheld or smartphone will alter the time correctly on the proper dates. That when you set an appointment, for example, it will reflect the correct hour you set it to occur.

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