----------------------------------------------------------------- ### The header/title ----------------------------------------------------------------- SMan (aka "Symbian Manager") v1.4 Coding by Yip Je Sum (Droll) and Design by Adrian Chiang (AudioJack) Released: 4-May-2005 URL http://renegade.w3xs.com mailto:ajack@w3xs.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- ### Forward ----------------------------------------------------------------- This manual refers to v1.4 of the SMan program. Anything that has been updated from v1.3 will be marked with "[Update]." Any new feature will have "[New]" in front of it. Due to the various flavors of UIQ devices in the market, some options in SMan will be grayed out on specific UIQ implementations because a function or module is not needed or does not work correctly with that manufacturer's implementation of UIQ. If you are upgrading from SMan v1.2c or have trouble uninstalling SMan v1.2c from your UIQ device, please see the "Upgrading" section of this manual. If you have been using SMan for more than a month and appreciate the time and effort put into it's development, please contribute to it's further development by "buying" as many copies as you thing SMan is worth. We strongly suggest you "buy" a copy of SMan every time we release a new version that you think has changed the way you use your device for the better. The URL to "buy" SMan is at: http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&productId=117105 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ### About SMan ----------------------------------------------------------------- SMan is a system utility that manages your UIQ device. It provides functionality which manufacturers did not provide or which are difficult or impossible to do manually. SMan helps keep your UIQ device running in a "healthy" state and, to a certain degree, allows you to customize the system behaviour of your device. Changes since SMan v1.3 - [New] SMan can now process ZIP files. You can now ZIP/unZIP files and SMan's ZIP module also supports password encryption. - [New] SMan can now decode Nokia's Smart Messaging encoded SMS messages. - [Updated] SMan now sports a new icon! - [Updated] The DTMF Dialer can now read numbers from your Contacts. - [Updated] Network Info has been enhanced to allow you to display a message on the screen or SMS as an event trigger. Also, you can now configure SMan to allow others to query your location. - [Updated] Task Manager now can now query the OS for information about a running process. - [Updated] File Manager has also been enhanced to display the icons of files. The File Manager also integrates with the ZIP Manager so that you can quickly (de)compress files from the File Manager directly. The search option has also been enhanced to search for hidden files if you choose to do so. - [Updated] The Bluejack module now allows you to send any file you want instead of a vCard only in earlier versions. - [Updated] Today View now works in flipclose mode. - [Updated] The "P900 to P800" option has been renamed "Old skool" - [Updated] SysInfo now also shows how long your UIQ device has been running since the last reboot. - [Updated] The Autostart feature is now unlimited and allows you to control the order of applications running and a delay before the next application is loaded. There are some quirks of the program you should know of: Sometimes, compressing the heap leaves you with less memory than you started with. This can happen for many reasons. One of the most common ones is there are background processes that are working and allocating memory. The Free RAM status at the bottom of SMan only shows you a snapshot of free RAM at a point in time. By the time you click on "Compress Heap," the free RAM reported may be less. The workaround is to hit the "Refresh" button until you see the free RAM stabilize before using the "Compress Heap" button. Sometimes compressing RAM does not reclaim all possible empty space. This is due to heap trashing. Sometimes, an application can use more RAM than is reported in SMan. An application can setup communication buffers with various system servers that run in the background. The shortfall in RAM could be due to server-side buffers that are being held on behalf of the application. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ### The "Fn" menu ----------------------------------------------------------------- All of SMan's functions and capabilities begin with the "Fn" menu. That is the central point of SMan. If you want to use a module or utility not visible in the current SMan screen, just tap the "Fn" menu. The "Fn" menu consist of the following sub-menus: 1. Start Allows you to launch (the "Run" option) any application installed on your UIQ device. It also gives you the option to configure seven (7) shortcuts of your favorite applications which can be managed with the "Assign" menu. After the seven (7) shortcuts, SMan will also "remember" the last three (3) applications you have launched so that they are also easily accessible on consecutive runs. If you launch an application from the seven (7) shortcuts, it will not be "remembered" in the list of last three (3) applications you have launched. 2. Modules The modules section contain the additional capabilities that SMan has to offer users. By default, the Task Manager is shown when you first launch SMan, the other modules can be activated by going to this "Modules" menu and selecting the modules you would like to use. The current modules are: a. Task Manager b. File Manager c. SysInfo d. Bluejack e. InfoStore f. Today View g. DTMF Dialer h. Network Info i. ZIP Each module is explained in detail in the "Modules Explained" section of this manual. 3. Utilities The Utilities section contains the system utilities that help you manage your UIQ device. They consist of: a. Fix applist b. Compress contacts c. Fix synch timezone d. Set system font e. Old Skool f. View picture SMS g. Notifications h. Fix app order i. Autostart Each utility is explained in detail in the "Utilities Explained" section of this manual. 4. Control Panel This section gives you quick access to the following sections of the control panel found in the UIQ device: a. Bluetooth b. IrDA c. Phone d. Others 5. Options The Options section allows you to choose what modules you would like to see in the modules section. This can be done by going into the "Navigation" menu. This menu also allows you to choose which module will be activated by default when you run SMan. The Hotkey sub-menu allows you to select one of the buttons on your UIQ device to call up SMan while it is running in the background. The hotkey behaves differently when pressed in the various modes of the UIQ device. You can configure the hotkey to activate differently when the hotkey is pressed quickly or when a long press is done. Also, the behavior is further configurable to behave differently when SMan is in-focus or not in-focus ("ex-focus") and again when your UIQ device is in flip close or flip open mode. On some devices, this gives you eight (8) configurable behaviors to your UIQ device from one hotkey. The "Disable Hotkey" option disables the hotkey that SMan uses temporarily. This is usually used when you would like to launch another application that also uses the same hotkey. The Ignore "harakiri" option when checked, will ignore any request by the OS to ask SMan to quit from memory. Note, "Harakiri" is a Japanese word to describe an act of suicide much like what the Symbian OS "asks" of applications. 6. Reboot This option allows you to reboot your UIQ device. 7. About The About menu tells you a bit about the authors of SMan. It also has a Credits screen with the list of people / organizations which we would like to thank for helping us directly or indirectly in making SMan the great product that it is today. It also gives you the name of the translator for SMan if you are using a non-English version of this program and manual. 8. Quit This quits the program. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ### Modules Explained ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Task Manager ------------------------------------------------------------- The Task Manager helps you manage all the running processes that are in memory. Some background information. The Symbian OS was designed in such a way that when a program is launched, the current program should be pushed into the background and left in a suspended state until it is once again called by the user after which the OS will again put the program in focus and push the current program into the background. This reduces the starting up time for an application if it is already residing in memory. Should the OS find that it is running low on memory, the least used application will be "asked" by the OS to terminate itself from ...
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