09-17-2002, 05:01 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
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A Great Way To Keep Track Of Your GPRS Usage
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&platformId=2&productType=2&catalog=0&sectionId=0&productId=43793
If you're looking for a way to monitor how much data you send and receive with your wireless Pocket PC, the new GPRS Monitor from Spb Software House is just the tool for you.
"Spb GPRS Monitor is a complete solution for measuring the amounts of data transfers via your GPRS, WiFi, CDMA or GSM network connection and calculating network usage costs. Spb GPRS Monitor watches all data transfers you perform and calculates the cost of your GPRS usage taking into account your service plan details such as inclusive data amount, data block size. etc."
The information displayed includes:
� Amount of data transferred today and its cost
� Current GPRS data block usage
� Current data connection speed
� Suggested daily inclusive
� This month's inclusive left
A bunch of us Microsoft MVPs have had the opportunity to try out this software, and the overwhelming response is that it is one piece of very useful, very well-written software. It can be used with all types of Pocket PC 2002 devices, but if you happen to have a Pocket PC Phone Edition, this is a must-have application.
If you'd like to read a bit more about it, Arne Hess has written a detailed description at his PPCW.net site.
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09-17-2002, 05:11 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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Very very cool software. You do communication with your PPC Phone or PPC and cell phone combo, this is must have software.
Question though - what is a GPRS BLOCK?
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09-17-2002, 05:25 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 96
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backlight
does this software allow you to adjust the tmobiles backlight settings, cause I thought that was a complaint to alot of people had that that wasn't accessable?
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09-17-2002, 05:51 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 156
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does this software allow you to adjust the tmobiles backlight settings?
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Nope, it's still either "off" or "on" - there's nothing in between.
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09-17-2002, 06:11 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 91
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Question though - what is a GPRS BLOCK?
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A block is a certain number of MB or KB. You might have a subscription where the first 5 MB block is 'free'. If you pass that limit additional (often higher) charges apply for every block of 10 KB, 100 KB, 1 MB etc. depending on your telecom provider.
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09-17-2002, 07:09 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 25
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Some small bugs for the ipaq 3970 inside (taping battery opens the audio settings) but in general it works great and is a huge help. Must Have ! 8)
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09-17-2002, 07:35 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 226
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Please forgive a stupid question, but this utility is useless if I am using a CDMA connection rather than GPRS, correct? Does anyone know of a comperable product for CDMA connection monitoring?
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09-17-2002, 08:14 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 72
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Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know of any equivalent that would run on Windows XP? I recently upgraded my phone to the Samsung a310, and signed up for Verizon's 1xRTT network, with a per-MB usage plan, and would love to have detailed stats like that for the PC. The Verizon utility has a session log with totals, but I'd need some Excel importing/scripting/charting things done, and I am a little too lazy for that as of now :wink:
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09-17-2002, 08:17 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 183
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I'm thinking that you should be able to use this with CDMA too. It shouldn't matter what underlying network is being used, because it is keeping track of the data which is IP traffic that runs across GPRS or CDMA data connections.
You can configure this monitoring program to monitor any connection created in Connection Manager. That could be a analog dial-up connection, or a CDMA. Where you might run in to problems is its translation of costs, but if it reports your real data usage you can probably do the cost calculations yourself.
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09-17-2002, 08:19 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 91
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Originally Posted by avoglio
Some small bugs for the ipaq 3970 inside (taping battery opens the audio settings)...
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I'm not convinced it's a bug in the application: Battery Bar has the exact same problem on my 3970. Probably a 39xx issue.
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