How to make a 3 way call with the AT&T Tilt cellphone

How to make a 3 way call with the AT&T Tilt cellphone:

1. Dial the number of the third party, including area code, while the original party is on the phone.
2. Press the Send button, which dials the third party and puts your original call on hold. (The name of the Send button may vary from phone model to phone model. It may say Yes, Talk, or OK. It may also display a picture of a green handset. Details for your particular phone model are available in your User Guide.)
3. To establish the three-way call, press Send again either before or after the third party answers.
4. If the third party is busy or does not answer, press Send once to disconnect the third party.
5. An alternate third party can then be added by repeating the first two steps.

Installing Y! Go (Yahoo’s Mobile App) on the AT&T Tilt Cell Phone

I just installed Yahoo’s mobile app, called Y! Go, on my AT&T Tilt. It’s pretty handy. Yes, I could already get my Yahoo mail on my phone, but you get a much better interface with Y! Go. You also get access to all your other My Yahoo! account features, like weather, stocks, news, etc.

In order to install it, here’s what I did.

1. I went to yahoo.com and searched for yahoo mobile app. Then you are taken to this page http://mobile.yahoo.com/go.
   
2. You click the “get yahoo go” link in to top, and enter your cellphone number. Yahoo sends a you a text message with a link to complete downloading the app.
   
3. You click the link, and press accept.


4. You then are asked where to save the application (if you have a memory card installed)


5. You select where to install it and the applicatin is installed.

This is by far the easiest app I’ve installed on my AT&T Tilt cell phone. All other apps require you to download a file on your computer, hook your phone to the computer, and go through Active Synch to complete the installation. The Y! Go app does not require this type of installation, and the installation process itself is very user-friendly.

As I explorer more of the features of Y! Go, expect more blog posts regarding it!

I’ve pasted a couple of screenshots of the interface below, so you can get a idea of what the application looks like while it’s running on the phone.

How to install a CAB file on the AT&T Tilt Cellphone

Most programs or apps you choose to put on your phone will be either an .exe or a .cab. EXE can usually be installed by doubleclicking the icon on your computer desktop while the phone is connected through Active Synch, but Cab files are a little different.

Here are instructions to intall a CAB (.cab) file to a Smart Phone like the At&T Tilt:

1. The first step is to move the .CAB installation file you downloaded to your smartphone. First, sync the smartphone with your Windows PC. After synchronization, select the Explore feature from ActiveSync's main screen.
   
   The Explore feature allows you to browse your smartphone's internal storage like you would browse your computer's hard drive(s) in My Computer or Windows Explorer. Once the Mobile Device explorer window is open (see below), go to your Windows Desktop, or wherever the .CAB file is stored. Right-click it. When the menu drops down, select Copy. Return to the Mobile Device explorer window, right-click somewhere in the window, and select Paste:
   
   
2. The .CAB file will be copied to the smartphone. Allow this process to complete. Disconnect your smartphone's sync cable. On your smartphone, open File Manager in the Start Menu:
   
   
3. Find the .CAB file you copied to your device in File Manager. If you followed the instructions above, the file will be located in your \My Documents folder. When you find it, select it:
   
   The .CAB file will unpack and install itself on your smartphone and add an icon to the Start Menu:
   
   Once the software has been installed, feel free to delete the .CAB file from your smartphone's memory if you wish.

AT&T Tilt Cellphone - Free App Download

We found a great, totally free applicatin for the At&T Tilt cellphone. It is called "Live Search" and the link to it is http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-live-search-mobile.html.

Some of it's features are:

• Local information and navigationFind local businesses and restaurants, and click to call them
• Turn by turn driving directions
• Explore interactive maps with satellite imagery
• View current traffic information and find cheap gas1 stations
• See movie showtimes by theaters
• Web search from any Windows Mobile device with Internet access Search the full Web
• Find the latest news items
• Search images and photos
• Get instant answers for weather, stocks, maps, etc
• Speak your questions—no need to type
• Browse business listings by categories

If you need help installing a program on your At&T tilt cellphone, be sure to read our blog on that topic!

Also, one helpful note I will tel you - the program installed seamlessly and automatically launched, but did not work initially. I kept getting "can not connect to server errors". I fixed it by opening Internet Explorer, making sure a web page came up, and then launching the Live Search app. It worked just fine!

AT&T Tilt Cell Phone Freezes or Locks Up - How To Restart the AT&T Tilt Cellphone

Perhaps you're wondering what to do if your AT&T Tilt cell phone freezes or locks up. I’ve had my phone since October 2007, and it’s only happened to me a few times, so this is a pretty infrequent occurrence, but still a problem none-the-less.

When the AT&T Tilt cell phone becomes frozen, unresponsive, or appears to be locked up, it can usually be resolved by holding down the power button (located on the top right side of the phone and shown in the screenshot below) for about 3 seconds.

What normally happens next is a message displays on the screen, saying “Your are about to power off and you may lose data. Do you want to continue?” When you click yes, the AT&T Tilt cellphone will turn off.

This worked for me almost every time. One time it was completely un-responsive, and the only way I could restart the AT&T Tilt cell phone was to take the back casing off and remove the battery. See the image below of how to take the battery out of the AT&T Tilt Cellphone.

This is an alternative way to power off the phone if the power button on the AT&T Tilt cell phone doesn’t seem to work.

Removing Programs From the AT&T Tilt Cellphone

Recently, we installed the Opera Mobile browser, thinking it would allow us to see Macromedia Flash on the AT&T Tilt Cellphone. Since the current version does not let us view Flash, and is very similar to the Mobile Internet Explorer Browser on the phone, we are going to un-install (or remove) the program.

In order to remove a program that is installed on your phone, first connect the phone to your computer. Upon plugging the phone in, the Microsoft ActiveSynch window should appear. Choose "Tools" the "Add/Remove Programs" as shown in the screenshot below.

Now you will be shown a list of programs installed on the Tilt. Uncheck the box next to any program you want to remove. Since we are removing Opera, you will notice the Opera checkbox is unchecked in the screenshot below. Uncheck the program you wish to remove and then click "OK".

You will then see a message (shown below) that it is removing the program, and then the window will close by itself.

You will not get any more confirmation that the removal is complete, even though it has been removed.

Viewing Web Pages on the AT&T TILT Cellphone - Using Both Opera Mobile and Mobile Internet Explorer

Now that Opera Mobile is inatlled on the phone, I went to a few websites, just to see what it looked like on the AT&T Tilt cellphone. None of the sites I went to could be viewed on the phone without both vertical and horizontal scrolling. The viewing of the web pages in Opera Mobile (at least this version) seems to be very similar to Mobile Internet Explorer on the phone.

We were surprised that the Opera Mobile browser doesn’t handle to page scrolling the same way as an iPhone does. It could have shown me a shrunken down version of the page and then let me skrink it down or zoom in, like the iPhone my coworker has. (My coworker is jealous of the fact that the AT&T Tilt Cellphone has a keyboard, and the iPhone does not, so I can type URLs much easier than they can).

Having to scrolling around to view web pages in the browser is not very user-friendly, and it makes reading content very hard.

Another note about viewing web pages using the Opera Mobie browser is that ost websites detect Mobile Internet Explorer, but not all are detecting Opera Mobile, and we see the straight up site geared for a desktop computer as opposed to a cell phone sometimes when using Opera Mobile instead of being forwarded to the mobile version of the site, which we would have bene if we were using Mobile Internet Explorer instead.