Hi all. Just wanted to let you all know about something a friend, Kelsey, from this list, has shown me. This sounds totally weird, but it works. I've tried this. If a download is going to take you more time than you're willing to sit there and
wait, all you have to do is get to the options menu, then go to the main menu. On a bt keyboard, that's space with o, then space with all dots.
The bn will lag a little while the download is in progress, and you won't see a percentage during this download, but you will know when it finishes because you'll hear that error tone, and your mPower will stop lagging. The only thing bad about
this method is that you lose your browser session, meaning if you go back to the web browser with the shortcut command (backspace with enter with i on a bt keyboard) you will only get the address prompt instead of being where you were on your
webpage.
Speaking of getting to keyweb this way, I've noticed something about keyweb,
and have known it for a while now, but I couldn't figure out how to explain it
until now.
If you're on a webpage, and want to come back to it later without truly exitting keyweb, use one of the other app shortcuts, like the media player. Then go to the main menu and do what you want from there. So long as you don't hit i for the
internet, keyweb will still be open in the background. To get back to your current session without restarting keyweb, you MUST MUST MUST use the quick app switch shortcut to get to it. If you hit i from the main menu, there will be a pause, after
which you'll get the address prompt. If you switch to it as mentioned, though, you'll be back where you left off before switching to the other part of keysoft earlier.
You can switch back and forth between keyweb and other apps this way as many
times as you want, and so long as you don't have to perform a reset before you
get back to keyweb, the page will still be there waiting for you to come back
to it.
Perhaps I'm saying the obvious here, but those others of you on the BNU Dev list, we should post these discoveries to the site somewhere. They're useful little workarounds that allow us to make full use of our web browser. I'm not sure if the
switching trick works on the apex as well, but if someone could test this for the bn user community, it could be yet another victory for us over the workings of Windows CE and Keysoft.
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