220 Using Other Applications

The GPRS Monitor icon and pop-up window

Another way of displaying status information visually is by enabling the GPRS Monitor icon to be shown on the title bar. This icon shows the GPRS/ dial-up connection speed, data traffic, and battery status.

To show the GPRS Monitor icon on the title bar

1.Tap Start > Programs > Spb GPRS Monitor.

2.Tap Tools > Options > Icon tab.

3.Select the Show taskbar icon check box.

By default, the GPRS Monitor icon shows three bars that represent the following status information:

Icon Bar 1: Speed (Full bar corresponds

to 19KB/sec.)

Icon Bar 2: Traffic

(Full bar corresponds to 100%. Each bar is 20%.)

Icon Bar 3: Battery (Each bar corresponds to 20% of the total charge.)

When you tap the GPRS Monitor icon on the title bar, a pop-up window opens and shows you detailed statistics about your data transfers, such as the data size you have just transferred and its cost, the allowable amount of data that you can transfer, and more.

Set up monitoring and notification

To select the connection to be monitored

1.On the GPRS Monitor screen, tap Tools > Options > Connection tab.

2.Select the Enable connection monitoring check box.

3.In the Connection list, select the connection you want to monitor.

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