Pocket PC Can we have this ?

Like many people I know, I love my PocketPC, but a big annoyance is the battery.

If you let your precious machine unattended for few days, without checking the battery level you can lost everything.
OK for the data, you can save them on a memory card.

But what's about the applications,the network settings, the GPRS settings, etc...

Serious flaw in PocketPC design. I know a lot of people who complains a lot about this.

So I have an idea (It's happens some time :-)). Well more like a suggestion to Microsoft. I believe that 99% of people using a PDA have a mobile phone.

Why not including a small utility in the OS to tell the PocketPC to send an SMS to my mobile to alert me on the dangerous low battery level ?

OK I know I can get up my sleeves and doing it myself, but maybe it could be a good small improvement.

Or this exist already ?

 

5 Comments

  • What I would prefer is when the battery is (dangerously) low, it will create a complete image (à la Ghost) and store this on the memorycard. After powering on, it would ask to restore this image. I believe my Asus A620 has this feature, although I haven't tried it yet.

  • Well yes and no. Yes it's always a good idea to have a backup. But no because of the time wasted to reinstall everything and the usual annoyances coming with a reinstallation.

  • This solution eliminates the need to reinstall everything. Is not a backup of data, it's an image of the complete OS, including installed software, settings, etc. Have you never used something like Norton Ghost?

  • Yes I use Ghost regularly, but my point is more about being warned that my battery is at 5% or 10% capacity. So up to me to recharge or not, but at least I have a choice.

    I don't really have the time to reinstall or ghost!

  • What PocketPc do you have?

    I have an Ipaq 3850 and I never had this problem.



    One time I was playing a full screen game and I ignored all the alerts.

    At a time the device stopped working, and it wasn't possible to turn on.

    When I charged it, it retained all the settings.



    A friend of mine with a Toshiba have the same problem that you have.

    Perhaps it depends on the hardware.

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