June 19, 2008 by Andrew Block
I’m re-posting this because it appears a lot of folks have been looking for it.
Download the WM6RDP.cab file here.
Edit 6/23/08: Some folks have (understandably) expressed concern over where this download comes from. More information on that is available here.
Category Window Mobile Tips, Windows | Tags: Remote Desktop,Windows Mobile | 11 Comments
June 16, 2008 by Andrew Block
Want your Windows Mobile phone to look like sweet? Then download and install this to your Windows Mobile Phone. I believe it only works with Windows Mobile 6. To get it onto the phone, you’ll need to use a USB cable and Active Sync (in XP) or Windows Mobile Device Center (in Vista).
Category Window Mobile Tips, Windows | Tags: Windows Mobile | 2 Comments
April 15, 2008 by Andrew Block
More Windows Mobile 6 goodies! I’ve been annoyed that videos on the YouTube site for Windows Mobile (m.youtube.com) haven’t been working with my T-Mobile Wing. That’s because Windows Media Player for WM6 can’t seem to play streaming media (at least, it can’t play YouTube’s mobile format).
The answer is to download and install HTC’s streaming media player.
Unzip the file, and then simply copy the newly extracted .CAB file to your phone and install it. The installer will want you to reboot your phone…allow it to do so. Now, if you click on a video on YouTube, the HTC streaming media player will automatically play the video.
Note: In order to get mine to work properly, I had to go into Start -> Programs -> Streaming Media, tap Menu -> Options, and change ‘Connect Via’ to ‘T-Mobile Data.’ When it was set to ‘The Internet,’ it wouldn’t work—I kept getting ‘Unable to find network’ errors. Obviously this will vary depending on your provider and your setup. If it works with the default settings, great! If not, try my aforementioned steps.
Oh, and finally, if you don’t have a data plan, this is probably a bad idea; use a Wi-Fi hotspot instead.
Category Window Mobile Tips, Windows | Tags: Windows Mobile | 2 Comments
April 14, 2008 by Andrew Block
After some googling, it appears that Windows Mobile 6 does indeed include a Remote Desktop client. However, some manufaturers choose not to install this software onto their phones by default. Worse, there’s (seemingly) no way for the end user to install it. For example, I have a T-Mobile Wing with WM6, and I couldn’t find the remote desktop software on the phone. It appears that T-Mobile opted not to install it. Not cool.
So, after yet more googling, I found a .CAB file of an unofficial Remote Desktop client for WM6. I’ve tested it out and it seems to work great…I remote-controlled both a Vista & XP machine on my home network using my Wing.
To install, download this Windows Mobile 6 Remote Desktop client, unzip it somewhere, and then copy the WM6RDP.cab file to your phone (using ActiveSync in XP, or WM Device Center in Vista). Next, on your phone, simply click the ‘WM6RDP.cab’ file to install it. It will then appear in the ‘Start -> Programs’ menu as ‘WM6 Remote Desktop.’
More information on this download is available here.
Update 7/22/08: A couple updates on this. First, if you’re having trouble getting the keyboard to work with this RDP client, make sure that you installed the WM6RDP.cab file to your device’s main memory and not to the storage card! More info on that here.
Second, some people have asked me if there is a newer version available and—to my knowledge—there is no update available.
Category Window Mobile Tips, Windows | Tags: Remote Desktop,Windows Mobile | 54 Comments