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Ed Hansberry
08-04-2006, 11:00 PM
Now here is an interesting picture of Windows Mobile that came from a fellow MVP. This particular shot came from a Verizon XV6700 Pocket PC running Windows Mobile 5.1.1700 (Build 14354.0.1.1). How many things can you find wrong with it?<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2006/20060804-crazywmpic.jpg" /><br /><br />Let's have some fun. What strange things have you seen on your Windows Mobile device? Screenshots are a plus. I actually have another Windows Mobile oddity that I'll post in this thread a bit later this weekend.
mscdex
08-04-2006, 11:06 PM
Well for starters, there's a duplicate 2 of clubs :lol:
bkerrins
08-04-2006, 11:15 PM
The two of clubs. Two stacks for spades, and a duplicate 10 of hearts. So there are at least 3 duplicate suits...I didn't see extra diamonds though.
WorksForTurkeys
08-04-2006, 11:50 PM
so what you're implying is that in WM the deck is stacked?
:wink:
Kevin Jackson
08-04-2006, 11:51 PM
...I didn't see extra diamonds though.
Actually, the 4 of diamonds is already at the top, meaning there must be a 2 of diamonds there and there is another 2 of diamonds in the tableau.
Actually, the 4 of diamonds is already at the top, meaning there must be a 2 of diamonds there and there is another 2 of diamonds in the tableau.
Also true of the Ace of Spades.
takotchi
08-05-2006, 12:43 AM
The graphics are all from the old version of Solitaire, not the pretty and smooth new ones in WM5.
Ed Hansberry
08-05-2006, 12:45 AM
The graphics are all from the old version of Solitaire, not the pretty and smooth new ones in WM5.
No, this is genuine. You are looking at VGA graphics, which are much smoother. The QVGA WM5 version looks exactly like this. No fakery here.
KTamas
08-05-2006, 12:55 AM
Wow...that's a nasty Solitaire bug.
zoomie
08-05-2006, 01:59 AM
Boy am I bored, look at the pattern on the back of the cards, most are the pyramids, one on the far left top is just a design.
Darius Wey
08-05-2006, 03:17 AM
Let's have some fun. What strange things have you seen on your Windows Mobile device?
Solitaire in 30 seconds. ;)
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20060805-solitaire.gif
Darius Wey
08-05-2006, 03:19 AM
I actually have another Windows Mobile oddity that I'll post in this thread a bit later this weekend.
Is it the "Close" button? 8O
egarayblas
08-05-2006, 04:15 AM
I knew it! They should've just bundled our games in these devices. :wink:
PPCRules
08-05-2006, 04:20 AM
What strange things have you seen on your Windows Mobile device?
Not so strange, except that no one caught it in testing, but on the A01 ROM of my X51v, when WiFi is turned on, the status is "scaning" network. Fixed on the A12 ROM.
sixftunda
08-05-2006, 05:37 AM
Today I had not one, not two, but three 1X icons across the top of my i730 screen. soft reset fixed it but it sure looked weird
this happened to me with the 7 of spades on my orange SPV M5000
ctmagnus
08-05-2006, 08:17 AM
iirc there's a keyboard combo you can do to get into a "cheat mode" in WM Solitaire. Not the ctrl-deal thing, which produces Darius' result, but another combo, which produces the result Ed posted.
Blackbeard
08-05-2006, 10:28 AM
I knew it! They should've just bundled our games in these devices. :wink:
Agreed. I've never understood why Microsoft continues to bundle such a lame version of Solitaire with their devices when there are so many superior versions they could license or buy. I assume it's a question of storage space however their one game of Klondike still takes up more than 38K. My game for example, Tabby Cat Solitaire, packs 150 games into only 95K. In my opinion that's a much better ratio of games versus storage space.
ppcsurfr
08-05-2006, 10:51 AM
The 30 second solitaire is done with the <Ctl><Shift> Menu>New Game procedure using the SIP keyboard... An old trick really...
What I'm curious about is how to duplicate the multiple deck results...
As for something weird... The HTC Universal shows the memory slider switch when it runs low on memory... That I've seen happen several times...
Darius Wey
08-05-2006, 11:03 AM
The 30 second solitaire is done with the <Ctl><Shift> Menu>New Game procedure using the SIP keyboard... An old trick really...
Right. And keeping Ctrl and Shift down while playing will only bring up one card (not three) when tapping the deck - unless, of course, it has already been pre-configured to show one card.
KTamas
08-05-2006, 12:37 PM
Aaaaaah can't belive I forgot to post this:
http://ktamas.com/ppc/overkill.png
Hint: the device was a HTC Wallaby and it is partly a WM bug and partly a bug in Resco Explorer that was fixed later.
Ed Hansberry
08-05-2006, 02:32 PM
Apparently, the new MSFP push email feature is sooooooo fast, it gets email before it has been sent!
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2006/20060805-timewarp.gif
:lol:
It seems to be a case where the clock in the task bar (when enabled) doesn't refresh in real time.
Paragon
08-05-2006, 03:31 PM
The 30 second solitaire is done with the <Ctl><Shift> Menu>New Game procedure using the SIP keyboard... An old trick really...
I wonder if this will work on line with Party Poker?! 8O
Paragon
08-05-2006, 03:36 PM
Apparently, the new MSFP push email feature is sooooooo fast, it gets email before it has been sent!
:lol:
It seems to be a case where the clock in the task bar (when enabled) doesn't refresh in real time.
If memory serves me, Ed, I seem to remember that the clock refeshes every six seconds, which is/was part of the problem with alarms not working. You could set an appointment, then turn off the device immediately, before the clock refreshed and picked up the appointment and it was lost.
Dave
I've never understood why Microsoft continues to bundle such a lame version of Solitaire with their devices when there are so many superior versions they could license or buy.
It's become somewhat of an inside joke at Microsoft. In fact, when Bill Gates introduced the first version of Windows CE at Comdex years ago, he even said that a requirement for all versions of Windows was Solitaire.
Actually, up until recently, they never changed the fact that the speed at which the cards fell after winning a game was completely dependant on the speed of your processor. It was standard procedure when getting a new computer to play solitaire to completion to see how much faster the cards fell. By the time they modified that behavior, you couldn't see the cascade at all with some of the really fast graphics. Now it's just as boring as the rest of the game.
I'll stick to Sokoban. :wink:
ctmagnus
08-05-2006, 11:03 PM
Re: ctrl + shift:
Shift is not necessary. Ctrl + deal will accomplish the same thing in this case. ;)
pocketpcadmirer
08-06-2006, 07:45 AM
see this..
this is from my O2 Exec
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8517/huhld2.png
KTamas
08-06-2006, 10:22 AM
see this..
this is from my O2 Exec
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8517/huhld2.png
You're one busy person! :lol:
I posted about this over a year ago in relation to the Solitare in Windows Mobile 2003 SE... people found it amusing, but not crediable even though I have many photos and two movies (my camera has a pathetic movie mode... what can I say? :)). Mainly at the time it seemed like nobody else was having "bugs" with their devices, especially with Solitare.
My bug happened when I moved the 4 of clubs from the storage deck. My PDA decided to do something else at that moment, froze for a hair of a second, and ended up dragging the 4 down and then the 3 afterwards (yet didn't get as far as to actually clear the 3 from the top). I figured that Solitare works if it has sufficient processor power and if it is deprived for a bit then a race condition problem sets in (due to lousy programming) that allows for this sort of mess. I don't know if Windows Mobile 5 would make this worse or not due to the strange way it handles memory.
http://imageigloo.com/images/6867errorWMSol.jpg
robert_biggs
08-07-2006, 04:01 AM
Yeah I noticed this bug with Solitaire shortly after acquiring my X51v. I've seen it happen at least 3 times with my own device. One time I had over 5 duplicate cards on the screen at one time! 8O
ppcsurfr
08-08-2006, 08:18 PM
Re: ctrl + shift:
Shift is not necessary. Ctrl + deal will accomplish the same thing in this case. ;)
Yup! Now I ended up asking myself... where did I learn that <Ctrl>+<Shift> thing... then I tried it on my Philips Nino 391 which still works... and there it was... <Ctrl> + deal doesn't work on it though which I think got implemented in WM2003SE... Having no unit older than WM2003SE at hand except for my Windows CE 2.01 device... I couldn't test it on PPC2000, PPC2002, and WM2003. :cry:
well another wm5 bug is the installation thing. I have no screenshot right now, but you'll all know what I talk about.
If you install any CAB that's larger than the currently free ram, it fails to install, weither you try to install to the device's storage or to a storage card. it still copies the CAB-file to the device and you just have to execute it by hand using the FileExplorer. And you need to delete it afterwards, too, as it doesn't for some unknown reason.
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