Break the Rules – Receive Files Anywhere on Your Device

[Anton D. Nagy]

Preface: Some of you might not be familiar with the concept of “beaming”.
Beam = v. tr. To emit or transmit (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition).

Windows Mobile Operating Systems use the term of “beam” or “beaming” to describe every file communication between two or more devices based on Infrared (IrDa) or Bluetooth (BT). Being so, beaming a file would mean sending it via IrDa or BT (beam) to another device. When you receive a file by IrDa or BT to your device, you actually receive a beam. Beam works between all IrDa and Bluetooth enabled devices, so you can send t and receive beams from devices that are not actually Windows Mobile powered (like desktops, notebooks, regular cell phones).

Ever been in a situation where a co-worker or friend wanted to beam (=sending information through either Infrared or Bluetooth) you a file and you received an error simply because the file’s size exceeded the available space on the device? I’m sure I’ve been!

By default, Windows Mobile saves any beam-received files to DEVICE (My Documents folder, to be more specific).

hc4’s OBEX Inbox addresses this huge annoyance with Windows Mobile environments by allowing the user to select a place, anywhere on device really, and this includes Internal Storage or Storage Card, where any incoming beamed files will be stored. Very useful for large documents, pictures, music or videos. Most of you probably moved beam-received files anyway to another location right after receiving them. Thanks to OBEX Inbox, you don’t have to do this again.

After installation, it will place an icon in Settings and by firing that up, you can set the default (from there on) storage path for incoming beam files. An additional great feature that fixes another annoyance with Windows Mobile is that, when you actually beam-receive a file through Bluetooth, it will show you valuable information regarding Speed of transfer, Percentage done and ETA time.

Current version 0.945 also added Multilanguage support. More languages and features are added continuously!

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Anton D. Nagy

After installation, it will place an icon in Settings[...]

That makes it sound like it only works on the Pocket PC version of Windows Mobile (Settings on WM Standard doesn't have icons). Is that correct?

Steve

[Anton D. Nagy]

Originally Posted by Pony99CA

That makes it sound like it only works on the Pocket PC version of Windows Mobile (Settings on WM Standard doesn't have icons). Is that correct?

Steve

Could not test it since I own a Pro device and the author too so you might have a point there.

It could also place the reference in Standard Control Panel, since the CAB file contains only two files really, a .cpl and a .dll, both going to \Windows.
The .dll is regitered via HKLM Services registry and the .cpl should show up as a standard Control Panel item.

[Pony99CA]

Originally Posted by Anton D. Nagy

Could not test it since I own a Pro device and the author too so you might have a point there.

It could also place the reference in Standard Control Panel, since the CAB file contains only two files really, a .cpl and a .dll, both going to \Windows.
The .dll is regitered via HKLM Services registry and the .cpl should show up as a standard Control Panel item.

It probably won't work then. As far as I can tell, WM Standard settings require a <prog>.cpl.xml file to get into the Settings list and are linked to via either rootcdma.cpl.xml or rootgsm.cpl.xml.

But I could be wrong.

Steve