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Posted by nmarrion on 01-24-2001 01:06 AM:

I have seen a number of people refer to Avantgo as being a color app. However, when I switched from a VDX to a Prism, Avantgo has remained in B&W despite downloading a new copy from the Avantgo site.

Anyone got any ideas?

Posted by dpdamour on 01-24-2001 01:56 AM:

While AvantGo is "color capable" the interface is, for the most part, text and color is of no great use.

It is up to the content providers to use color in their offerings. If they don't use color there's little AvantGo can do about it.

An area where you can see color is AvantGo's Web browser. When on the main AvantGo screen tap the "Menu" icon then "Channel" and "Open Page...". You will be able to enter the URL of Web page. Of course you must have a (wireless) modem to use this feature.

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Posted by JHromadka on 01-24-2001 04:36 AM:

Do a search in the Software forum for Avantgo in color if the VisorCentral channel still isn't in color for you.

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Posted by nmarrion on 01-24-2001 03:45 PM:

Well I got it to work by following the instructions below provided by another Visor user, Josh. Thanks alot Josh!

This is the message:

I've just gotten mine to work. Here's what you need to do.

1. On your PC desktop- disable the hotsync manager.

2. Uninstall Avantgo and MobileLink from your PC.

3. In your Palm backup folder, delete all avantgo files, mobilelink, and libmal.

4. On your handheld delete Avantgo, Libmal, and Mobilelink.

5. Hotsync your handheld.

6. Download and install the latest version of Avantgo and follow their installation steps.

It should work after this. My Avantgo Icon still looks greyscale, but my channels like Foxnews and Yahoo are now in color.

Hope this helps.

-Josh

Posted by alanf on 01-24-2001 03:49 PM:

nmarrion - my experience has been pretty good, although at first I was asking the same question. When I checked through my desktop, it turned out that many of the sites I was using through AvantGo simply don't use color. I think most of the AvantGo "partner" and "optimized" sites are not using much if any color, since few Palm users have color units. But in general, if I can see colors on my desktop when I go to that site, I can see it on my Prism.

Posted by johnstad on 01-24-2001 04:35 PM:

color can be inconsistent

Has anybody else experienced this?

-You're able to get color working with avantgo...yahoo, fox news and fox sports work great...

-THEN, it all goes back to b & w when syncing with avantgo

-To fix this, I then clear out all content on the handheld via the channel manager within avantgo (select all channels then select to clear all).

-Re-sync via modem sync...color is back.

Posted by Jon Etkins on 01-25-2001 11:20 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by nmarrion
I have seen a number of people refer to Avantgo as being a color app. However, when I switched from a VDX to a Prism, Avantgo has remained in B&W despite downloading a new copy from the Avantgo site.

Anyone got any ideas?

I had exactly the same problem after migrating from a IIIx to my new Prism. I eventually fixed it by uninstalling both AvantGo and MobileLink, and manually ensuring that the hidden MBln... databases were removed from the Prism, then reinstalling AvantGo (which includes MobileLink).

I suspect that there must have been a flag in one of the databases - probably MBlnDeviceInfo - that was indicating that I had a greyscale device. I have suggested to AvantGo that perhaps their development team might like to look at adding some sort of selection dialog to the MobileLink application, so folks can manually select whether they want color, greyscale or b&w content without having to go through this sort of trauma.

Posted by darton on 01-26-2001 02:25 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by dpdamour

It is up to the content providers to use color in their offerings. If they don't use color there's little AvantGo can do about it.

It also appears that none of the content providers use images in their offerings. What a waste!

Posted by Jon Etkins on 01-26-2001 04:36 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by darton
It also appears that none of the content providers use images in their offerings. What a waste!

While it's true that many of the channels could make better use of the medium, there are some that provide not only images, but color images. Check out Gale Force F1, for example - Formula One news with color images in every article.
http://avantgo.com/channels/detail.html?cha_id=1771
They're only 256-color, but it's a start.

[Edited by Jon Etkins on 01-26-2001 at 10:02 AM]

Posted by Winchell on 01-26-2001 02:57 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by dpdamour
It also appears that none of the content providers use images in their offerings. What a waste!

Well, I wouldn't say none, but you are correct that they are rare.
There are color images occasionally in Space.com, all the time in Waiting for Bob, and lurking in the "Babe of the Day" link of Joke of the Day.

Posted by darton on 01-27-2001 01:01 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Winchell
quote:
Originally posted by dpdamour
It also appears that none of the content providers use images in their offerings. What a waste!

Well, I wouldn't say none, but you are correct that they are rare.
There are color images occasionally in Space.com, all the time in Waiting for Bob, and lurking in the "Babe of the Day" link of Joke of the Day.

I am corrected. I haven't tried them all, but all the ones I have tried, have not had images. I'll check out your suggestions. They could certainly make better use of the medium. It's like the WWW circa 1992.

Posted by recre8r on 01-28-2001 07:46 AM:

IT WORKED

I was really bummed after getting my prism and discovered that nothing in Avantgo was in color. But now, after that hellish process the color has appeared. It's so cool. BTW the Rolling Stone Channel has color images. Thanks Josh!!!

Posted by melpich on 01-28-2001 10:25 AM:

The BBC news has a lot of color photos, in their news events every day, and these show up well on Avantgo - no scrollimg around needed. It will impress your friends who don't have color.

Posted by Jon Etkins on 01-28-2001 07:22 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by melpich
The BBC news has a lot of color photos, in their news events every day, and these show up well on Avantgo - no scrollimg around needed. It will impress your friends who don't have color.

What BBC News channel are you getting? I've been reading the BBC News through AvantGo (channel id 1854) for ages but I see no images except the BBC logo. And yes, I do have images enabled.

Posted by melpich on 01-29-2001 01:57 AM:

The Channel I sync to is BBC News Online - Front Page at http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.htm
In spite of the title this comes up in color for me

Posted by Jon Etkins on 01-29-2001 03:57 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by melpich
The Channel I sync to is BBC News Online - Front Page at http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.htm

I take it you added that as a custom channel, since the "BBC News" channel that AvantGo offers is text-only.

Unfortunately, AvantGo only alows a maximum of 2MB of channel content, and I'm already maxed, but I might consider a more graphical Beeb if I decide to ditch one of my other channels.

Thanks for the lead.

Posted by alanf on 01-29-2001 04:38 PM:

Jon - you can get more than 2MB of AvantGo docs if you set up multiple AvantGo accounts. Go to the AvantGo site where you would begin downloading the software, but instead click on the option that says you already have the software and want to configure a new account. Follow that procedure, select your web pages under the new account name, and then follow the steps to sync your device. You can switch between accounts on your handheld by clicking Menu-Go-Choose Server. You'll find the web pages for each account under that account name. (Now you're going to be saying that 8 megs isn't enough!)

Posted by Jon Etkins on 01-29-2001 05:59 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by alanf
Jon - you can get more than 2MB of AvantGo docs if you set up multiple AvantGo accounts. (Now you're going to be saying that 8 megs isn't enough!)

Now why didn't I think of that? Neat idea, thanks. Though you're right - if I did that I'd probably totally exhaust the available memory. Hmm, perhaps after I get the 8MB flash card for my birthday...

Posted by David Vitale on 01-30-2001 04:05 PM:

Avont Go Does Support Color

I've got the latest version and it does support color -- assuming the web site sends their info out in color. As an example, the Arizona Republic page will show color icons on their daily weather summary for Phoenix.

Posted by dpdamour on 01-31-2001 04:31 AM:

If you subscribe to the VisorCentral channel, you'll find that the reviews have color photos and graphics.

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