In attempt to play Tiger Woods '09 golf online today, I had to change some configurations on my router. It wasn't that difficult, but I'm sure the average user won't be playing online, unless they have a 'tech' friend to open ports on their router.

Hardware:

• Wii
• Netopia router(Type: 0x69, Model 3347.02)

Configuration steps:

1. Click on Configure in the upper Menu bar.
2. Click on Advanced.
3. Under the NAT heading in the Network Configuration box, click on the Pinhole selection.
4. Click on the Add button.
5. In the Pinhole Entry box, enter the parameters for your pinhole. For example, to add your Wii:
   1. In the Pinhole Entries table, in the first line, type the name you would like associated with the pinhole. For this example you might call it Wii EA Sports for the EA server. PLEASE NOTE: Each pinhole you configure must have a unique name associated with it. If you should duplicate the pinhole name in a subsequent entry, it will overwrite the first entry.
   2. Protocol Select is TCP by default. Different protocols can be selected from the drop-down menu when appropriate. Select UDP.
   3. External Port Start is 100 for this example.
   4. External Port End is also 3700 for this example.
   5. Enter the Internal IP Address of your Wii. ex. 192.168.1.4
   6. The Internal Port is 3678.  From the nintendo website.
   7. Click on Submit to save the changes.
6. Save and Restart router.

 There's more info on the ninendo website regarding firewalls:  www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/onlineFirewall.jsp

I had this problem on my Blackjack, and I was ready to return it!  I went to my Cingular store, and the rep told me that the issue is with the stability of the 3G network, not the Blackjack per se. 

The fix is to force the phone into GSM mode.  There is a *# code you can use for this - it's the same one used to help with power savings. 

1. Dial *#1546792*#
2. Hit 3
3. Then 5
4. Select GSM
5. Hit Done
6. Then end

As an alternative create a shortcut in \windows\start menu to \windows\adminsettings.exe. adminsettings.exe give the same menu as the number above.

You can also create a shortcut to bandsel.exe the same way, and select GSM850.

Prior to this trick, I was dropping over 50% of my calls.  Since forcing GSM mode, I have not dropped a single call.  As an added bonus, the battery life is much better.  Even web surfing works fine in GSM Edge mode.  The only time I would switch to 3G (WCDMA) is if I were tethered to a laptop.

OK, I did it. Not sure why...still not sure, anyway I did it. I followed the instructions on the Samsung website and resources from myblackjack2.com. Thought I'd put the steps here in case I need to do it again for some strange reason.

Steps

• Step 1: Backed up my stuff on dashwire.com. Thanks Dashwire!
• Step 2: Downloaded the Windows 6.1 updater from Samsung's website. Thanks Samsung!
• Step 3: Removed my SIM card and microSD card(why? just in case) from my BJ2.
• Step 4: Powered up BJ2 and ran the updater, followed all the prompts, clicked were needed.
• Step 5: Rebooted BJ2
• Step 6: Reinstalled everything

Issues

• Had to modify registry to allow ICS:
  • * Find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\ConnMgr\Providers
  • * Under one of the GUIDs you'll find a Connections folder that will have an entry for each of your connections
  • * Under each connection, find the ReadOnly key and set its value to 0 (zero).
  • edit my AT&T ISP connection, changing the Access point to wap.cingular

Benefits of Windows Mobile 6.1

• Really cool sliding home page
• Voice Command, not bad...might prove useful
• Threaded SMS, I guess...but I don't 'text' much.

That's it, not sure it was worth the time involved, but it's done.

This article will cover some of the changes we are able to make to our Windows mobile devices, through our devices registry.
Disable menu animations

To disable menu animations (sliding in/out) and speed up performance of the UI a bit:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\AniType = 0 (DWORD decimal)
To change it back to the default:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\AniType = 6 (DWORD decimal)

Disable window animations

To disable window animations (minimizing/maximizing) and speed up performance of the UI a bit:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GWE\Animate = 0 (DWORD decimal)
And to switch them back on:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GWE\Animate = 1 (DWORD decimal)

Increase font cache

To increase the font cache, speeding up font rendering at the cost of a bit of memory:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\limit = 16384 (DWORD decimal)
To change it back to the default:
HKLM\SYSTEM\GDI\GLYPHCACHE\limit = 8192 (DWORD decimal)
You can set the value to pretty much anything you like

Enable FileSystem cache

To enable the FileSystem cache, speeding up overall performance at the risk of the cache not being written on a sudden reset:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache = 1 (DWORD decimal)
To disable again:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\EnableCache = 0 (DWORD decimal)

Note that by default, the cache size is zero, and you will see no effect. See "Increase FileSystem cache" to incease the cache size

Increase FileSystem cache

To increase the file system cache:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize = 4096 (DWORD decimal)
To return the file system cache to zero:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize = 0 (DWORD decimal)
You can set the value to pretty much anything you like

Increase FileSystem filter cache

To enable the file system filter cache, speeding up overall performance with file mangement:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize = 4096 (DWORD decimal)
To return the file system filter cache to zero:
HKLM\System\StorageManager\Filters\fsreplxfilt\ReplStoreCacheSize = 0 (DWORD decimal)
You can set the value to pretty much anything you like

Change the thickness of scrollbars

To change the thickness of the scrollbars at the right/bottom of documents larger than the screen, adjust...
For the horizontal (bottom) scrollbar:
HKLM\System\GWE\cyHScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)
For the vertical (right) scrollbar:
HKLM\System\GWE\cxVScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)
The default thickness is 13. You can set the value to pretty much anything you like

Change the length of scrollbar arrow buttons

To go with changing the thickness of the scrollbars, you may wish to change the length of the scrollbar arrow buttons...
For the horizontal (bottom) scrollbar arrows:
HKLM\System\GWE\cyVScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)
For the vertical (right) scrollbar:
HKLM\System\GWE\cxHScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)
The default length is 13. You can set the value to pretty much anything you like

Enable ClearType in Landscape mode

To enable ClearType in Landscape mode:
HKLM\System\GDI\ClearTypeSettings\OffOnRotation = 0 (DWORD decimal)
To disable:
HKLM\System\GDI\ClearTypeSettings\OffOnRotation = 1 (DWORD decimal)

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