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Many people now use Google Apps to host their email servers and handle all their email requirements, we do the same at Simplypalmpre. It started off as a let us see how it goes experiment, that has provided a great user experience.
But how do you get it onto your Palm Pre is the question, and the answer to our surprise is a lot easier then you would think.
It is a simple case of adding a new Gmail account to the Pre:
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I have had this unfortunate experience once or twice with my Palm Pre, for me I think it is the screen protector I am using that makes the sensors go all funny when finishing a call. The first time it happened I had no choice but to pull out the battery from the back. The first thing you need to do if your Pre screen locks is reset it, just as with a PC restarting it sometimes solves all problems.
So how do you do that if you either you can’t see the screen (mine was totally blacked out) or the touch screen isn’t responding, luckily with the Pre this is where the keyboard comes in handy.
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One of the first things you come across when you look at Palm Pre websites out there are the number of screen grabs they all have. Without prior knowledge this seems like it must be difficult to do or require an app to grab the screen shot.
It is neither difficult or requires an app the Palm Pre has a built in feature which grabs the screen and saves it off to your photos , under the “screen captures” section. To do this you need both hands and some nimble fingers.
You can screen grab by pressing the following keys together: “Orange key + sym + p”
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Maybe not one of the best known features on the Palm Pre is the ability to test your device with automated tests carried out by webOS. These tests are a great diagnostics tool giving you a clear idea if there is anything wrong with your device. It can also be very useful if you have any kind of dispute with the mobile phone company in case of a faulty unit. The tests are meant to help Palm or the phone company as much as you with an easy method of diagnosing a fault remotely.
There a number of different tests this post will deal with the simple “Quick Tests” a set of 4 automated tests.
To get access to the tests menu , you need to:
1. Select “device info” from the Launcher
2. Scroll right to the bottom of the device info screen and select “More Info”
3. Select “Prefernces” from the top left hand corner of the screen
4. Select “Quick Tests”
If you want to test your Wi-fi connection you will have to turn it on, tap top right hand corner of screen and turn it on there.
The tests will take a few minutes and will present you with some results, all this is a quick easy way of testing your Pre if you think there is something wrong with memory, Wi-Fi etc. The other kind of tests are “Interactive Tests” more on these at a later date. The sceenshots below will give you some idea of where to find the options.
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Many moons ago before Hotmail and Yahoo were big email sites there was R, a company which Yahoo eventually bought. This meant that all Rocketmail users (like myself) would have to use the Yahoo infrastructure and mail front end to access emails. So in essence you have a Yahoo account without the Yahoo label.
Try telling your Palm Pre that it for some reason doesn’t recognise Rocketmail as a part of yahoo, whereas with a normal Yahoo account all you have to do to get email is.
1. Enter full Yahoo email address
2. Enter password
Then your Pre will synch with this email address and hey presto all done.
With a Rocketmail account you must manually set up the email server details, this took me quite a while to figure out as I was using the details given in the Yahoo Mail Plus information. However a quick search on google soon reveled that Palm have their own sub domain of mail servers at Yahoo and it is these details you need.
The steps setting up quite simple the key one is making sure you are connecting to an Imap account and not Pop as this won’t work, also with O2 how it is I had to try and do it a few times before it worked.
The server settings in case you cant get them from the images above are:
Incoming server settings:
palm.imap.mail.yahoo.com
username = e-mail address
password = input password
Port = 993
Encrytption = SSL
Outgoing server settings:
palm.smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Use Authentication = ON
username = e-mail address
password = input password
Port = 465
Encryption = SSL
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