A few words about installing java apps on Razr V3

Right after you enjoy sleek design of Razr V3, you wonder whether the software is as good as the design. One of the weak points about the phone is that by default it does not allow installing java application using the associated usb cable or bluetooth connection. Well, the only way you can install a java application is that you have to download it over the air (OTA) which means that you should point the URL of the application internet by using, say, the mini browser on the phone, and then download the associated files for the application.

On the other hand, this approach can be costly if you want to install applications so often for design purposes (which is my first intention, I really like to program those small applications and see that they are working in my phone). Normally, I am planning to write a blog in details that gives the step by step instructions. Indeed, I came across this link that gives a fair guide that can be very helpful. You can reach it from here:
http://viciousglitch.tripod.com/motorola.htm

Well, according to the author, some people even tried to sell the instructions on Ebay. Well, it is free and is worth trying.

By the way, there is an another way that you can activate the java application loader but it needs some kind of concept called "seem editing" and it can be very dangerous if you are not careful enough or do not know what you are doing. Still, it is tempting to do so after the moment you see that there is no limit for you to change the software on the phone by seem editing. :)

Syncronization with Motorola Razr V3

One of the key functions of Motorola Razr V3 is that it comes up with a calendar that can be easily synchronized with Microsoft Outlook. After installing the latest version of Motorola Phone Tools and having a proper connection with the phone, you can easily synchronize the calendars. Here rather than explaining how you can manage synchronization, I will try to give some tricks that solve the problems that I face while synchronizations:

• One of the bad points of the calendar that comes with Motorola Razr V3 is that it does not support the reoccurrences of events that last before specific date or specific amounts of occurrences. Therefore in order to avoid such cases, you should set those events reoccurred in every week, month or years than delete those occurrences that you do not want to have.
• It is always a good practice not to determine the priority between the cell phone and the computer. Let the program to ask you what to do in those kinds of situations those conflicts occur. Otherwise, you might lose some valuable data (such as contacts, information about where an event occurs, etc).
• Before going into synchronization, you should always make backup of your data. Of course, it does not mean that every time you should make backups of your data. But you should periodically especially before some significant changes occur.
  
  That’s all for now. I am planning to add more if I have time for that.
  

Email Settings for Razr V3

Motorola RAZR V3 comes with a small application that is a simple e-mail client. It supports POP3 / IMAP and SMTP. After couple of tries, I could not be able to set up a simple account for this simple client for Motorola Razr V3. I was pretty sure that the settings of my GMAIL account are ok but still I could not connect to the server.

After several hours of working on it (though I do not count the bill I incurred), I finally managed to get the decent method of reaching the server by using the email client in Motorola Razr V3. By the way, I have to say that that customer representative in Turkcell was very angry on the phone that I called with a phone that I would like to set. She insisted too much to call her with another phone and then get the parameters. I think someone should make it clear for them that customer can take notes.

Well, here are the secret settings that you can not find over the web site of Turkcell. This is for Motorola Razr V3 but similar settings can be used in Motorola V series.

ISP Settings

Connection Type: GPRS

APN address: internet

User name: leave empty

Password: leave empty

DNS IP: leave empty, if not able to do so, leave as 0.0.0.0

Email Provider: Custom

Protocol: POP3

User ID: username@gmail.com

Password: your password

Sending Host: smtp.gmail.com

Sending port: 587 (Here is the key for sending mail with GMAIL, it is odd but other ports cannot be reached!)

Receiving host: pop.gmail.com

Receiving port: 995

Return address: username@gmail.com

Name: Your Name

Cleanup: None (is used for cleaning mails from the server after the days you specify)

Save on server: Yes (well, I could not figure out the differences between this one and the previous one)

Notification: On

Check new msgs: No (If you want to check your mail periodically, choose other options)

Hide fields: leave empty (though it is up to you)

Auto Signature: leave empty (thoug it is up to you)

Security

Use SSL for sending: Yes (GMAIL supports SSL)

Use SSL for receiving: Yes (GMAIL supports SSL)

Warnings in Background: Proceed

Size restriction: 65535 (messages that are bigger than this amount of byte are not downloaded).

Well, that is basically it. Here though I showed here setting of POP3 account, it is always good to use an IMAP mail account for cellular phones (Indeed, I moved to an IMAP client). However, it is a different story :)